Hosting @ Just Us Girls and More…

Apr26

I am thrilled to be your HOSTESS this week for my first hosting job as part

of the Design team at Just Us Girls.

When I realized my first challenge was going to be a photo challenge,

I immediately thought of pink and black (my favs) and hopped on over to google images.

After just a couple of seconds, I found these two photos that I knew would be perfect!

I picked two images so that you might have a few choices.

You may either get inspirations from the color pallet and take that route,

reproduce some flowers like I have done,

or you may be intrigued by the damask pattern on the purse.

You decide!

Now the details: I used my spectrum Noir pens and colored the BACK of my flowers

after I heat embossed them on Vellum with white embossing powder.

LOVE this look!

I first saw this technique over at Driven to Ink blog….a few years ago.

Over at the Pink Elephant that is the challenge this week… to “Lift” or “Case” a card or technique.

So I chose the Technique of Embossing and Coloring on Vellum!

So, I will also be linking this card to their challenge as well as

over at Addicted to CAS.

My second entry!

They asked us to use flowers.

The sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

I’m THRILLED to have hosted the fun with Just Us Girls, this week…

PLEASE WON’T YOU JOIN THE GIRLS AND I !!

Can’t wait to see what you link up!

10 Minute & One layer

Apr25

The other day as I was going around to my favorite blogs that I love to follow and I came across this new challenge site called 10 Minute Craft Dash.

As I was looking at the DT’s wonderful examples, I thought there is no way this girl can make a card in 10 minutes…10 hours yes….but not 10 minutes! LOL….

Well, all week I have been going back an revisiting this site and figured…how you going to know unless you try. So try I did!

I DID IT!!!

9 minutes and 46 seconds!

I would have to say that having a timer sitting next to you is a little nerve racking, and I hope I didn’t cheat because I had everything laid out ready to go ahead of time.

I don’t think I would call this a complete success, as I am not sure yet what I think of the card. Yes, I made it in under 10 minutes but, not with out some major bumps along the way.

The sentiment got rocked and has a shadow,(hate that) the chalk was suppose to just go on the embossed image and not on the background but, that didn’t work so well.

So at the last minute I decided to chalk up the background very lightly to cover my mistakes.

I was going for a softer feel!

So what do you think?

Sometimes I look at it and think it’s kinda cool and then other times I think it looks like a card I made in 10 minutes.

I must say though…it was fun using my chalks again!

I forgot how much I enjoy that art medium.

You can’t tell in the photo, but I also used my scor-pal

and put a dividing line between the image and the sentiment.

I am also linking this card up to the Paper Players…One Layer Challenge!

I think I have only made a total of 3 One layer cards before….it is a big challenge for me!

Now, have I inspired you to see if you can meet either of these challenges?

Good Luck!

Thanks for stopping in!

Chase the clouds away….

Apr23

Hello Crafty Friends,

It’s my turn to post a project for April’s Stamp Challenge over at the

Crafty Card Gallery and this is what I have in store!

For this challenge we we’re asked to either use a stamp set that’s been sitting on our desk a while,

something you bought and forgot about, or your most recent purchase.

Well, My card today has a mixture of all 3.

First, The Umbrella stamp I decided I have had for at least 8 years.

The Washi tape under the green paper is something that was sitting on my desk and

I had yet to put it away.

Finally, The sentiment on this card is new! It is from Close To My Heart…..and I love it.

The stamp set is called Card Chatter- Sympathy Occasions… and I highly recommend it.

The inside of the card reads…..”and chase the clouds away!”

Made the clouds myself and the scallop is a Die cut from MFT.

The green umbrella was paper pieced.

Have a great day!

Black / Gray and Flowers

Apr22

Hello Friends,

Hope you had a great Monday!

Today’s card didn’t take long to whip up and it’s for this week’s

Dynamic Duos Black and Gray challenge along with the

Code-Word Flower over at Addicted to CAS.

I am not sure you can tell in the photo, but the DP has a gray pattern mixed with creme.

Creme, white, or kraft are the approved colors you may add to the

Dynamic Duos color pairs for the week.

Recipe:

The Cardstock is Stampin up.

The DP is from DCWV.

The stamp is from a stamp store in St. Augustine,

that I have had for years!

The sentiment is CTMH.

Add a ribbon and Gems and you are all set!

So glad you stopped by for a bit!

Make sure you stop by both the Dynamic Duos and Addicted to CAS if

you are looking for great challenges!

Happy Craftin,

You Are In My Prayers

Apr21

I have a very simple card for you today that is for

this week’s Fusion Challenge.

If you have never heard of this site it is very new and very unique!

You have your choice…we all love choices right!

You can either follow the sketch or the photo inspiration separately,

Or you can create FUSION by combining BOTH challenges into one card.

I elected to Fuse them together this week!

This is what I came up with!

The colors in the photo didn’t come out as deep as they actually are.

The ribbon is more of a dark pink and not maroon as it appears.

The stem of the Flower is from Stampin’ UP ( one of the first stamp sets I ever purchased).

The flower is from Verve!

The sentiment is from Close To My Heart.

The DP is from Colorbok.

Hope you have a great start to your work week!

Happy Creating,

JUGS Color Challenge and a Birthday Shout Out!

Apr20

Jugs Challenge and A Special Happy Birthday

Good Day Crafty Friends!

This week’s Color Challenge over at JUGS is

hosted by the talented Marisa.

She has picked out a great color palette for us to work with!

It seems like when Spring rolls around I am always in need of Baby Shower gifts.

Most of the time I like to give my expectant mothers a gift card,

so that they may purchase what they want and

the dad can be a part of picking out something for his new baby as well.

Don’t you think those poor dads get left out sometimes?

So that is how this Gift-card holder came to be.

It is on it’s way to Michigan for my nephew’s wife’s baby shower!

I left out the Walmart Gift-card itself for the photo because it

was blue and didn’t match my card.

I couldn’t believe they had no pink gift cards!

Here is a peek at the inside of the card.

My Birthday Shout Out goes to a fellow JUGS Design Team member Lisa!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LISA!!!

Hope it’s one of the best one’s ever!!!

Here is a card I made in honor of your birthday!

This card really needs no explanation….the sentiment is from Close to My Heart and the balloons were

made using either a circle punch or my Creative Memories circle cutter… adhered with some pop dots!

They look like they are floating…don’t they?

So…..

The rest of the JUGS team has some wonderful samples to get your inspiration going,

so just hop on over to the Just Us Girls blog, and check out what the Design Team has created.

Then put your creative genes to work and add your card/project to the challenge post on the

JUGS blog for the chance to be selected as Chic of the Week.

See you there!

Here is the Supplies for the Baby Card

*Cardstock: Stampin Up- So Saffron,Certainly Celery,

Pretty in Pink and Regal Rose

*Paper: Stampin Up- Gingham Paper- Heidi Grace

*Stamps: Verve-Elephant, Gina K- Lovely Labels, Letters-A-Z

* Ink: Memento Rose Bud and SU- Certainly Celery

*Tools: Cricut-George and Basic Shapes Cartridge-Tags

Cuttlebug: Stampin Up-Dots folder, My Favorite Things- Double

Scallop Border Dienamics, Fiskars Cutter-Victorian Blade

Stampin Up- slotted punch

*Accessories: Pop dots and pearls

Muse Challenge #13 and Anything Goes

Apr17

Gotta quick post for you today!

As you can see by my title I had a chance today

to go in my studio and whip up this card for

Muse Challenge #13 and

Anything goes over at Addicted to Stamps and More.

As soon as I saw the inspiration card, combined with the Anything Goes challenge

I knew I wanted to go get inky!

This card is very similar to my last card

and was so very quick to put together!

I think I may have broken a record!

Also, I am still messing around with my camera settings, card placement

and light bulb type in my new light box so…

What do you think of my photo? I appreciate the input!

Here is my card followed by the Muse’s inspiration masterpiece!

Supplies:

Cardstock: SU

Ink: All SU

Stamps: SU, CTMH, and Cloud9

Tools: Heat gun

Acc: ribbon, pop dots, embossing powder,pearls and glitter

Have an awesome day!

Happy Thoughts!

Apr15

Hello friends,

I couldn’t wait to make a new card and to

take a quick photo with my new photo box! YooHoo!

So I looked at my favorite challenge sites and came up with

this great sketch @ CAS(E) this Sketch and vibrant color

challenge over @ Dynamic Duos. I am not sure I

have ever made a card with orange and blue

before because it reminds this Noles girl of the

Gators…but I sucked it up and forged ahead! LOL

Here is what I came up with!

I hope it’s okay that my scroll lines mimic the diagonal panel

on the sketch! Trying to think outside the box!

Still think I need to get brighter light bulbs….think I will make a Walmart run tomorrow!

Hope you are having a terrific day!

So glad you stopped by!

Recipe:

Cardstock:Stampin Up

Stamps: Stampin Up and Close to my Heart

Ink: Spectrum Noir (blue) and Calypso Coral

Tools: Scor-pal

Acc: pop dots

Make your own light box

Apr14

If you are looking for CAS on Sunday please scroll down!

I have been wanting to make my very own light box for quite sometime

and today seemed like as good a time as any.

So yesterday afternoon I let my fingers do the walking

on the computer and found a

vast amounts of do it yourself light boxes.

This is the one I decided to use!

Here are a couple photos of hubby helping me make mine.

Supplies:

Cardboard box,Poster board,Tissue, and tape

Tools: T-square, exacto knife, scissors

I didn’t have any NEW tissue paper so we made do. Hubby is trying to make it as tight as possible without ripping it.

Here is a side view of the tissue taped.

Here is the final product. It’s not the prettiest thing in the world,

but hey, I am the only one that will have to look at it!

Inside they suggest you take a piece of poster board and lay it carefully…almost

like a slide, so that there are no creases in the photo. I do have it taped on the top of the box

so that it doesn’t slide down.

Here it is ready to go in my son’s bedroom!

I think I need a light on top!

If you have any questions at all let me know!

I sure hope this improves my photos!!!

I still need to get special light bulbs.

Here are the first two photos I took today to see how they would look.

Considering I still need to figure out; placement of the

lights, whether the card needs to be near the front or farther back,

the right light bulbs, and camera settings…!

I think they look ten times better!

If you scroll down to the previous post you can compare….a before and after.

What do you think?

Round and Round

Apr14

It’s time for our next CAS on Sunday Challenge! Woohoo!

We are on to Challenge # 6 already…It’s hard to believe it!

When I first saw this challenge I thought we were going to have to

make a round card….which is not my forte!

Then I read the details and was thrilled to see that all you

have to do is use circles on your card or project.

Whew! I can do that!!!

I have two photos for you!

The first one is the Clean and Simple version for CAS on Sunday,

and then I decided to make another card and

step it up a notch and add some embellishments.

I don’t think there is a need for card details..

except the sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

Sorry for the variations of photos….still messing with the new camera!

also….I had to make do with other brown paper….I ran out!

I sure hope you are able to join us @ CAS on Sunday and

I can’t wait to see what you all come up with!

This week our challenge is being sponsored by

which is part of Stampin Up !

The prize is Some yummy Baker’s Twine

along with a pack of Rhinestones!!

Have a wonderful day!

Scrapper@heART

Color my world with family, friends and some time to be creative!

Hosting @ Just Us Girls and More…

10 Minute & One layer

Chase the clouds away….

Black / Gray and Flowers

You Are In My Prayers

JUGS Color Challenge and a Birthday Shout Out!

Muse Challenge #13 and Anything Goes

Happy Thoughts!

Make your own light box

Round and Round

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