MOJO Monday Cards

I have been playing along with MOJO Monday the past two weeks and here are my cards! My first card uses the pretty Verve set called Lean on Me. Love colouring the flowers in this set and the sentiments stamp so well. 

Then I made a card using this week's sketch! I used the set called Bloom & Grow.  It's another favourite set of mine. I just love the flowers and the fun stamping you can do with this set. I used score lines to create the diagonal piece in the background.

Inspired by All the Little Things & MOJO Monday

Today we have a brand new inspiration challlenge over at Inspired by All the Little Things and I decided to pair the inspired with the sketch at the MOJO Monday Contest! I saw that sketch and fell in love with it! I inked up the large blooms again from Great Friend (Verve) and the sentiment is from Poppy Birthday (Verve). I used Calypso Coral and paired it with a Baja Breeze card stock card base. 

I stamped the sentiment and the foliage in Basic Gray ink...and tried to think outside the box with the sketch. My colour choices come from the inspiration I chose for Inspired by All the Little Things. I could have gone with an airplane themed but I LOVED the colours and decided they would work perfectly for the idea I had using the MOJO Sketch. 

I found an older scallop edge die in my stash of dies and added a white scallop ruffle, to tie in the white in the flowers. Don't look too closely...I fussy cut all the flowers...the flower die for this set is on my wishlist!

Come and play along at MOJO Monday! 

Julee picks a winner for every 50 entries, up to a max of 7 winners. This is how I first won a stamp set from Verve! And be sure to stop by at Inspired By All the Little Things, we have a wonderful Creative Guest with us this week!

Beautiful {MOJO, CTD & SSS}

A simple card for the current MOJO Sketch, the Color Throwdown and the Simon Says Stamp Challenges! Except, I remembered the sketch incorrectly and put the layout backward on my card! Ha! Oh well!!! I was totally inspired to play along and I could not wait to use this pretty script paper! But I played with the correct colours! Whew!

  

I had so much fun making this card!!! I am going back to make more cards tonight! I hope you are enjoying your evening of fun!

The Card Concept {Just Because}

Today I am so excited to be Guest Designing for The Card Concept. I am filling in for the Shabby Chic category and I must admit...shabby chic does not come easily to me! Ha! I decided to start with a sketch and went to the MOJO Monday blog to pick up a fabby sketch that totally inspired me!

The trick with Shabby Chic is to use vintage items such as lace and found things...and I did use lace but it is hard to see. I used a Verve set called Floral Notes and stamped the images with Ranger waterproof ink onto watercolour paper. Then I coloured them with a water pen and some distress inks. I mixed an orange and brown ink together to make the orange more "rusty" feeling...it was fun! Then I stamp some french script and using a stencil, added some ink spots on the card. Everything was sponged with distress ink...I tried my best and I hope you like my card!

Later, I decided to remake it with just ivory for the background and got rid of the brown papers...is it better?

 

I wanted to capture the texture on the cake...I hope you can see how I was inspired. 

Stop by the Card Concept and play along with us! 

MOJO Monday {Peace on Earth}

Happy Thanlsgiving weekend to my Canadian pals! Today I am crafting up a storm!! I wanted to play along with the MOJO Monday Sketch! 

I used my snowflake embossing folder from SU! and some new Verve goodies! Fun!

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Stained Glass Technique {Verve, MOJO & CTD}

Happy Friday! It's me again, back with another card! The weekend is my time to craft and I have been saving up all week! I have been challenging myself to use techniques! Tonight I tried the "Stain Glass" technique. I was inspired to use the MOJO Sketch, the Verve Inspiration Challenge and the colours at The Colour Throwdown.

 

To achieve the stain glass look:

1. Choose a stamp with lots of "space" to colour.
2. Heat emboss the stamp on vellum with white embossing powder.
3. Turn the vellum over and colour on the BACK of the image. It is very important to NOT colour on the actual white embossing as it will hurt your Copic marker.
4. Fussy cut the images out and add to your card.

MOJO Monday, The Paper Players, CASOLOGY &The Color Throwdown

Got my "CRAFT" on tonight! Yay! I made a quick and simple group of matching cards. Tomorrow is the start of my Spring Break and although I will miss my kiddos, I am tired and need a break! I will hopefully be crafting much more next week!

The first card I made is simple and for no challenges...it was a warm up card and for my stash!

I was inspired to play along with CASOLOGY and their "Blossom" Challenge. I inked up a fun new-to-me set from Verve called Poppy Birthday! I decided just to play with this new set and used the colours from The Color Throwdown. I just stamped the poppies up along the side of the card...and stamped the sentiment on the opposite side. I used Navy as my accent colour.

Then I decided to play along with Mojo Monday! Yay! I never get the chance to play during the week. I kept my design simple and clean. I stamped the bigger poppies and then popped them up on dimensionals. I kept the design simple. I used the The Color Throwdown colours again.

 

I am also linking this to the current Paper Players Challenge too. They are looking for CAS flowers.

Purple Onion Designs Sale, MOJO Monday, Just Us Girls & The Challenge

Wow! SO many good deals on this weekend and one of them is at Purple Onion Designs! If you have not checked out the adorable stamps, you really should! 25% off ALL the stamps! Woot!

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Icicle (Polar Bear)

Inks: Memento & Copics

Papers: Doodlebug Paper 6x6, Razzleberry, Gray, White

Extras: Darice Embossing Folder (Snowflakes), Doily (Recollections)

  

I wanted to play along with the current MOJO Monday Sketch, Anything Goes at Just Us Girls and the colours at The Challenge! I inked up Icicle with some Memento black ink and colour him with my Copics. This card measures 3.5" x 5".

March 15: Paper Sweeties March Release Party!

Are you having fun with the Paper Sweeties blog hop this week! Yes, the new release is almost at hand!!!

I used the MOJO Monday Sketch and went to work using this sweet little lamb! I love that she comes with a die too! Easy peasy to cut out! And see those sweet orange sequins! SO cute! Like little cups!

Come hop along to see what the design team created!

Amber Kroening
Annette Allen

Annette Witherspoon

Debbie Marcinkiewicz – Paper Sweeties

Kerin Sylvester

Kristi Schurr

Lesley Croghan<<<you are here

Lisa Elton

Maria Patrick

Michelle Bala

Nancy Penir

Tammy Hobbs

Fresh Squeezed Stamps Design Team Creation (MOJO & CCC)

Good morning stamping friends! 

Today I am sharing a card I made using the sweetest Fresh Squeezed stamp set called "Hootie Who?" (Be sure to click the name of the set to order it.)

This owl themed set was one I had on my wishlist for a LONG time! I adore owls, they are throughout my classroom decor and I own about 10 different owl mugs! 

 "Hootie Who?" 

The small flags were created with some strips of red card stock scraps and then using a square punch to create the little v's in the strip....making small flags.

I am playing along with these current challenges:

MOJO Monday-Sketch

Curtain Call 

  

PS - Still looking for the perfect stamp set for your Valentines cards?  Don't forget about our fabulous 30% discount on A Punny Valentine and We Go Together.  Prices are marked on the website and are available until February 14, 2014 or as supplies last.