You Add Color to my Life

Today is a fun day for me!  My friend Sue asked a few blogger's if we'd like to play along with her for a monthly challenge.  Of course, I love a good challenge and the chance to use a variety of supplies.

Sue was our hostess this first time and she sent us everything we needed to compile our card, cardstock, ribbon, patterned paper and the image.  We all received the same supplies to create with.  Can't wait to see what everyone did with theirs.

I'm finding by looking back through all my creations that I've a very straight edged type gal.  I tend to always use squares and rectangles, but am trying to branch out and use other shapes (obviously not on this creation).

The basket of lemons image from Lockhart was a lot of fun to color with my Copic markers but of course now that I'm looking at it I'm thinking I would've had like to add some spotlighting to the image.

Check out what the other players blogs to see what they created using these same supplies:

Sue Berker- hostess

Sue Kment

Nicki Jackson

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Card details:

Stamps: Basket of Lemons from Lockart Stamps and sentiment from Kind Words from Hero Arts

Cardstock: You're such a gray-cious host, Say Yellow to all your Fans, Kraft Like a Rockstar Green, Copic Express Blending Cardstock-White and Basic Grey Urban Prairie
Inks: copic markers

Embellishments: You're Such a Gracious Host ribbon, dimensionals

Mystery Image Swap: Kristen Catalano

For one of the yahoo groups I belong to we do a mystery swap where the hostess sends everyone the same image and we swap with a partner. This month our hostess with the mostess was Kristen. I know she's a HUGE High Hopes fan so I figured we'd be getting some type of HH image and I was dead on, just thought it would be something so much different than Luigi.

I had this image colored to match this paper but the first layout I was aiming for didn't work too well. This layout is loosely based on Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #20. My image is a bit bigger than show on the layout but I think it works.

As I was staring at Luigi and trying to think of the perfect sentiment to go with him, I remembered my Lockhart stamp ....hot stuff... and thought "hmmm, that would fit perfectly on the chef's hat" so that's where it went. What do you think?

Hope my partner likes it and hope she has received it by now since it was travelling to CA.

Card details:
Stamps: Luigi from High Hopes, Lochart #10041, Canvas BG by Stampin' Up
Cardstock: Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, Chatterbox patterned paper
Inks: Copic markers
Accessories: Ribbon Punch, silk ribbon unknown

Don't forget I have blog candy to offer here.

From Courtney's Closet Challenge Celebration

Just getting in in the knick of time, I finally threw together a card for this challenge. I love participating in Libby's challenges but haven't in quite awhile. This card came together in literally minutes and I could have added much more to it, but I just wanted a little gift card.

Join us to win some birthday celebration candy!

Happy Belated Birthday Courtney!

Card details:
Stamps: Lockhart stamp #2082, Itty Bitty Backgrounds by Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Real Red, Only Orange, Green Galore, Pink Passion, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
Inks: Same as above
Accessories: Ribbon unknown, scallop punch

Sue's Mystery Image Swap

Sue challenged us this month with her image- Boxer Penguin from Memory Box and she also sent us a cardfront of patterned paper to use on our card this month. I was definitely STUMPED with both the image and the patterned paper. I had come up with an idea and once I started with my card AND mounted my patterned paper down I decided it wasn't looking very good.

I improvised and tried a different approach with is okay. I'm not overly thrilled with the final outcome of it, but it will have to do. I colored the trunks of Boxer Penguin with my copic markers and layered him on my square nestabilities. I chose the coordinating colors of Not Quite Navy, Summer Sun, Garden Green and Real Red. I tried to jazz up my card a bit decorating the strip of Garden Green which I ran through the cuttlebug (tiny bubbles folder) with stickles. I also added some of the fire rhinestone brads to the flowers. I added a sentiment by Lockhart that I picked up on one of my trips to Maryland. Cracks me up every time I see it and will have to use it more.

I hope that my partner will like this card, it's not one of my best ones in my opinion, but it's not horrible either...is it???