BC314: Black, White and Splash of Color

Today over at Blogger's Challenge is always a fun one.  Black, White and a Splash of color.  I always enjoying seeing what splashes are used.

I decided to do some distressing this past weekend (or should I say de-stressing?).  I love how this card came out and my sentiment is something I will be doing this weekend-I'm attending the CKC Manchester with friends and plan on enjoying some girl time.

I picked these Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge from last week to play with and broke out some supplies I've had in my stash for awhile (the Webster's Pages trim).

So while I'm enjoying some retail therapy, I hope I'll come back refreshed with some mojo and ready to check out your black, white, and splashes of color over at Blogger's Challenge.

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Card details:

Stamps: Enjoy from Verve Stamps, Medallion from Stampin'Up!, Dots2Love from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Aqua Mist, Whisper White

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, Copic BG15

Embellishments: Distresser, Carribean Twine, Webster's Page Trim

Learn to FLY

I am honored this week to have been asked by the Color Throwdown team to be their guest designer for March.  I love being able to combine color challenges with some sketches, or just use the color challenges as my starting point.  It definitely takes some guess work out of my stamping when I'm in a slump or wanting to get a quick card made.

I also used the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge which worked great with these little birds.

Sam is our hostess over at Stampotique Designer's Challenge this week and here is what she has challenged us with:

"I have often been inspired by songs to create something, it could be the song title, the message behind the song or just a line of the song that resonates with me. So I'm excited to be inviting you to create anything that makes you smile using a song for your inspiration. There is no right there is no wrong it's just the way you sing your song!"

I picked a song related to a show I had watched the other day on Palladia TV featuring the Foo Fighters.  I love their music and this biography of the band was very interesting.  I love Dave Grohl!!  The song I chose was Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters, but I have another favorite from Tom Petty called Learning to Fly.  I'm a huge fan of Tom Petty, he's awesome in concert!

So, where does the flying come in?  Well, don't these little birdies look like they are wanting to take off and flap those wings or maybe Jailhouse Rock would have been more appropriate for this line-up?

Hope you will join us over at Color Throwdown today and why not hop on over and combine it with the Stampotique Designer's Challenge, we'd love to see your creations!

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Card details:

Stamps: Birdy Up 4021 and FLY word 3049 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Barely Banana, Cameo Coral, Trensetter Blue, Whisper White, My Mind's Eye Be Amazing

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: seam binding, dimensionals, button, cream twine

UR A QT & a few others

Love how this card came together!  I'm already thinking of Valentine's Day isn't that sad???  Actually this next year we'll have some big birthday's to celebrate so it'll be a fun year.

I love the new label set, Labels4Cutting from The {Stamps} of Life and it coordinates well with the Labels Fancy #4 Sizzix die set.

I used the The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge for this card and lots of hearts.

Do you have some Valentine's Day ideas in mind for kids, hubby, significant other, friends?  I'm hoping to do a few things this next year...we'll see.

Card details:

Stamps: Labels4Cutting and Love2Hug from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Whisper White, Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose and Basic Grey Basics White

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Strawberry and Regal Rose from SU

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft Silly Season Jewels, Fancy Labels #4 for Stephanie Barnard from Sizzix
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Here's one with more of a fall feel to it.  I created the strip using the Type4Background set and layered the sentiment on several of the Fancy Labels #4 dies.

Card details:

Stamps: Type4Background and Labels4Cutting from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Creamsicle Cardigan, Basic Black ad Crumb Cake

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice and Creamsicle Cardigan

Embellishments: Seam Binding, Labels Fancy #4 for Stephanie Barnard from Sizzix

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Here's one last quick card using the label set.  I created the background with the Dots2Love set.

Card details:
Stamps: Dots2Love and Labels4Cutting from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Dark Chocolate from Paper Trey Ink, Certainly Celery from Stampin'Up! and Kraft Like a Rockstar Ivory from Clear & Simple Stamps
Inks: Color Box for Stephanie Barnard- Chocolate, Certainly Celery from Stampin'Up! Embellishments: Dimensionals from Stampin'Up! ,KaiserCraft Silly Season Jewels

GGSC129: Humor

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations our theme is "humor".  I hope I don't offend too many, but I love this sentiment from River City Rubber Works, cracks me up every time I see it and I love using it for birthday card.

This card I have in mind for a friend at work as I know she'll get a good laugh out of it.  I started off being inspired by the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge and I went for a very CAS looking card.  The background is a paint sample which I cut down a little and layered on some chocolate card stock.

Hope you all will show us your humorous side over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations-we'd love to get a good laugh out of your creation.

Thanks for stopping by!

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Card details:

Stamps: Rat's Ass by River City Rubber Works

Cardstock: Kraft Like a Rockstar, Chocolate Chip, paint sample, Neenah White

Inks: Chocolate Chip

Embellishments: Kaiser Craft Silly Season Jewels, Spellbinders Nestabilities oval and scalloped oval dies

Hi & Hello

Today is the next installment of the die set release for The {Stamps} of Life, the Wavy Border Die.  I loved playing with this die and was feeling so creative that I think I made about 4 cards with it this past weekend.

For my first card I went with a real Clean & Simple card using the Crayons2Stamp set.  I based the colors off the Dynamic Duos challenge (River Rock, Black + dessert option: brads) and the The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge (sketch with a spin-die cuts or punches).

I used the Wavy Border die set to accent my strip of River Rock across the card.

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Card details:

Stamps: Crayons2Stamp from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: River Rock, Basic Black and Authentique Gathering

Inks: Colorbox by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice

Embellishments: Wavy Border Die from The {Stamps} of Life, circle dies from Spellbinders, black brad from Designer Mix (Clear & Simple Stamps)

Since I haven't been able to play much with the Retro Sketches I sat down as soon as I saw it this week and went to work on creating my card.  For this card, I again used the larger of the wavy dies to create a strip across the card.  I randomly stamped my large panel using the Back2Basics set.

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Card details:

Stamps: Back2Basics from The {Stamps} of Life

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Gina K. Luxury White, Bordering Blue, Authentique Fresh

Inks: Such a Gray-cious Host, Red Couture and Bordering Blue

Embellishments: Wavy Border die set  and from The {Stamps} of Life, rhinestone brad, Sizzix flower embossing folder from The {Stamps} of Life

Congratulations little chick-a-dee

Had some fun stamping (for fun) this weekend and pulled out a few sketches and challenges I wanted to play with.

The CAS-ual Friday challenge this week is to "Strip"-Use strips of color or pattern in your Clean and Simple creation and I combined it with The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.

I pulled out a few of my neglected images, the little Starbird with chick and used one of the coffee filter flowers I had made-I had a large circle of it left over.  It went perfectly with the Indie Chic Hanging Out Tape I wanted to use as my strips.  Really hard to tell in this photo but I used some tiny pearls on either side of my sentiment.

Happy Hump Day!  Hope you have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by.

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Card details:

Stamps: Congratulations 9008 and Starbird with Chick 3059 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Trendsetter Blue, Kraft Like a Rockstar and Gina K. Luxury White 

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Stampin' Up! pearls, My Mind's Eye Indie Chic Hanging Out Tape, Coffee Filter flower

BC2360: Black, White, Splash of Color

Blogger's Challenge today is one of my favorites- Black, White with a Splash of Color.  I think I went a little overboard on the splash this week, but it still works.

I used a new set from The {Stamps} of Life, Pattern2love along with the Butterfly2build set.  This card uses the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch 149 from March which is an unusual one for me as I'm a pretty straight and narrow stamper and the off kilter piece usually throws me for a loop.

I added some Liquid Pearls in Petal Pink on the grid pattern and some Black Soot Distress Stickles on the butterfly.  I created some doodling around my edges as it just looked kind of blah without it.

Hope you will join us at blogger's challenge this week, you can link directly to your newly created item over at the Blogger's Challenge site.

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Card details:

Stamps: Pattern2Love and Butterfly2Build from The {Stamps}of Life

Cardstock: Basic Black, Neenah White, Pretty in Pink

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice

Embellishments: Liquid Pearls in Petal Pink, Black Soot Distress Stickles, Circle and Scalloped Punch

Mums & Humor...New Set Release

Today is Wednesday and for those that are club members over at The{Stamps}of Life, an exciting day with the release of 3 new sets (moremums2stamp, Easter4him and humor4women).  I hope you will stick with me as I share a few of the cards I made for this release.  *if you are not a club member, you will have to wait a few more days to see the full reveal*

I loved working with these sets, I know I saw that every month, but this month the mums really spoke to me as I love flowers and the humor4women set just had me cracking up with every stamp I used.

This first card is me every day-state of confusion!  I used a new to me sketch site for this one, Retro Sketches.

Card details: Sketch from Retro Sketches

Stamps: humor4women from The{Stamps}of Life

Papers: Basic Black, Georgia Pacific White, Mauved by the Paparazzi, Teresa Collins Carolina Breeze

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice

Embellishments: Kaiser Scrapbook Pearls, Rounded Tags from Sizzix

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This card is one of my favorites, very masculine but I loved this sentiment with the train from the paper pack I used.  Just seemed to fit "going into your own little world".  This was inspired by the current Sweet Stop Sketch.

Card details: Sketch from Sweet Stop Sketches

Stamps: humor4women from The{Stamps}of Life

Papers: Old Olive, Georgia Pacific White, Not Quite Navy, Confetti Cream, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found-Breeze

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Not Quite Navy

Embellishments: Doodlebug jewels, twine, sponge

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I kept this card fairly clean & simple using the Lawnscaping Sketch #29 for this.  I used the little coffee cups from coffee4two on this and paper pieced the cup holders on it.

Card details: Sketch from Lawnscaping Challenges #29

Stamps: humor4women and coffee4two from The{Stamps}of Life

Papers: Chocolate Chip, Confetti Cream, My Mind's Eye Lost & Found-Breeze

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown

Embellishments: circle punch, dimensionals

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I love the mums in this set, you can use all different colors with them and they really POP on your cards.  

Card details: 

Stamps: moremums2stamps from The{Stamps}of Life

Papers: confetti cream, Basic Black, Tempting Turquoise

Inks: Tempting Turquoise and Lavender Lace, Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice, Certainly Celery, Old Olive

Embellishments: Doodlebug jewels

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The last card I'm sharing today is a Viva la Verve sketch in which I embossed the mums with clear embossing powder and added a dollup of Viva Pearl Pen in cream for the centers.

Card details: Sketch from Viva la Verve

Stamps: moremums2stamp from The{Stamps}of Life

Papers: Sage Shadow, Blush Blossom, Crumb Cake, Georgia Pacific White

Inks: Sage Shadow, Blush Blossom

Embellishments: Viva Pearl Pen-Cream, Fancy Labels from Sizzix, dimensionals

Birdy Shoes

Ahhh, just a quick little card for you today.  I'm going to begin enjoying my day off by baking some cakes to get together some cake balls for hubby's work for the holiday's.  I did this last year and they have been asking about them again this year.

I've bought 5 boxes of cake mix and frostings, many melting candies and I know it will be some tedious work, but figure while the cakes are baking I can stamp a little.

This card was created a few weeks ago using a color and sketch challenge and one of the new Stampotique images.  This little bird with her/his sneakers just cracks me up!

This is one sentiment I find myself using OVER and OVER again.  It goes with so many of Stampotique's images.

Hope you are having a good HUMP day!  Think of me as I'm baking the day away (and tomorrow too).

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Card details:

Stamps: Happy Bird-Day 8962, Birdy Shoes 4009 from Stampotique Originals

Cardstock: Perfect Little Black Dress, I'm a Princess Pink, Neenah White, My Mind's Eye Blush

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copics

Embellishments: Perfect Little Black Dress twill ribbon, Memory Box Jewel Stickers

GGSC93: Merry Christmas with Presents

Today at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations we are continuing our celebration of Christmas with 'presents'.  I chose this adorable image from Prairie Fairy Designs with some gifts under the Christmas tree.

What are some of your Christmas traditions?  We generally eat a nice dinner on Christmas Eve, followed by church service and then back home for a few family pictures, change into jammies, and distribution of gifts.  We take turns opening, although the adults usually skip quite a few so that the kiddos can catch up with us.  Last year we left our family gifts at home to open Christmas Day instead of doing them all on Christmas Eve.

This card was created for a card contest Echo Park is doing along with the sketch from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #137.

We hope you will join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations this week by creating either a present or something with gifts on it.

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Card details:

Stamps: Digital Image from Prairie Fairy Designs- Decorating the Tree, Month-to-Month Extras from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Perfect Little Black Dress, Neenah White, Echo Park Season's Greetings

Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice, copic markers

Embellishments: oval and scalloped oval Spellbinder's Nestabilities, Scattered Straw Distress Stickles, Sparkly Fluff Sugar, A Clean Slate Ribbon

From our Family to Yours

 Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations our theme is a Christmas theme.  I pulled out some new stamps for me from Our Craft Lounge, Happy Holly-days and Merry Wishes.

I'm loving this layout from Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge, but I changed it up a bit from the original sketch.  I've created a few cards with this layout though-I love all the layers of it.

I apologize that I have such a small card today, I'm playing with my new MacBook and uploading to iPhoto and it's been challenging for me so if anyone has any tips on how to download pics off the camera at a larger size into iPhoto before I google it that would be great.

Join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations, we'd love to see your Christmas creations!
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Card details:

Stamps: Happy Holly-days and Merry Wishes from Our Craft Lounge 

Cardstock: Dare to be a Diva Red, Perfect Little Black Dress, Confetti Cream, Bo Bunny Blitzen

Inks: Perfect Little Black Dress, copics

Embellishments: card candy unknown, Dare to be a Diva Red ribbon, dimensionals, scalloped oval nestabilities

Country Maisy Going Grey

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations our theme is Friendship or Love.  We have a wonderful sponsor this week, Di's Digital Downloads.  I had a fun time coloring this image and chose to leave it sentiment free until I decide who I want to give it to.

I used Country Maisy with Cookie for my card as I immediately thought of what a great friend a dog can be. 

I created a rolled flower to go inside the prima and added some Pearl Pen to her headband and inside the rolled flowers.  Pearl pens are my favorite new embellishments.  EASY to use!

This card was created with a few challenges in mind.  I used the current Play Date Cafe Challenge to use black/white with a splash of lilac.  I may have used more than a splash, but I still wanted to play along.  The sketch is one from The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge this week.

Come join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations with your friendship or love creation for a chance to win some goodies from Di's Digital Downloads.

Don't forget to check out the design team creations to see what they created:

 

• Jackie Randolph
• Kristen Catalano
• Kristine Breach (permanent guest DT)
• Marie Bridgeman
• Mary Castonquay
• Peggy Regan

Card details:

Stamps: Country Maisy with Cookie from Di's Digital Downloads

Cardstock: Basic Grey Wisteria, Lovely Lilac, Basic Black, A Blanc Check

Inks: Copic markers

Accessories: Pearl Pen, Rolled Flower die from MFT, prima