Friday Mashup #24 and Hand Stamped Sentiments #84

This week is a FALL challenge for the Friday Mashup team!  Lisa is asking for a card with yellows and oranges and wow did I have fun creating it!!!  Handstamped Sentiments is also asking for a Fall card!  Their design team has lots of wonderful inspiration this week!

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Create a project with an "Autumn" theme.
2. Or Create a project using shades of "Yellow & Orange".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a "Autumn project using shades of Yellow & Orange".

I am on an embossing kick!  Love the new Leaves of a Tree stamp and I inked it up in clear embossing powder and then sponged Tangerine Tango and So Saffron around it to make an emboss resist card! I also inked up the sentiment from Hand-penned Sentiments in Versamark ink and then inked it with Tangerine Tango ink...then I applied clear embossing powder to it, so the sentiment would be bold.  The designer paper is from the "Bold Brights" collection designer paper pack and is Pumpkin Pie.

We hope that you will join the Friday Mashup Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

Friday Mashup Design Team

Holly

Kasey

Lisa

Kim

Heidi

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Paper Players Challenge #63-Joy and HSS #83

Sunday is here and although this is usually a happy day because it is the new Paper Players Challenge for the week, this day also marks 10 years since 9/11.  Lest we forget.  Even though I was on the other side of the continent and a Canadian, I still mourned with the world over this devastating day...and I still do.

This week at the Paper Players, Nance has offered up a wonderful colour challenge that encouraged me to make two cards.  One that was very clean and simple and one that was more elaborate. Both cards are for Christmas. I think this is a very pretty colour combo for Christmas.

The clean and simple card took no time to make at all!  I love using the Snowflake Punch for an easy accent. I also inked up the Hand-Penned Sentiments set, which is my most favourite set right now! Love it SO much and I have been embossing the sentiments too!  I also used the scallop trim border punch for a quick accent and voila, a CAS card was born.  Hand-Stamped Sentiments is having a Clean and Simple Challenge this week, so this card qualifies!!! 

Tonight I went out for dinner with good friends.  I had a lovely time and when I got home, I was suddenly inspired to make another card.  My friend Jane does that to me...she gets me laughing and being silly and I always feel so happy after a visit with her. Tonight we dragged our hubbies along with us and we all had a fun time, laughing and enjoying good food. It was grand! (As Jane would say!!)

Using the same colours I made a card with more detail. The sentiment is embossed with White Craft Ink and White Embossing Powder.  I also inked up the bird and the leaves with my Stampin' Up Markers. Used some Crumb Cake as a neutral on the bird.  The berries are all sparkling with the new Dazzling Details...I love this stuff!  And I am so happy with how this card turned out.  Thanks Jane!

We hope that you will join the Paper Players Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Rita Wright (for Jaydee)

Julie Marshall

LeAnne Pugliese

Lesley Croghan

Nance Leedy

Tara Bilbao

Sandra Conner (September GD)

 

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Picture Perfect Creations and Hand Stamped Sentiments

This week has been fabulous for me!  On Spring Break, creating furiously, trying so hard to play with all the challenges I love to visit and sometimes just do not get the chance to play!!  I noticed as I was setting up this post, that this is post 500 for me!  WOW!  I cannot believe that in 2 years I have posted 500 times...does that seem incredible?  Maybe it is just me! :D

Tonight...or should I say- this morning, I made a card for the current colour challenge at the Picture Perfect Creations.  I suspect a goodly portion of my 500 posts have been given over to colour challenges...I do LOVE them!!

The colours for the PPC Challenge this week are:

I wanted to create something springy and was also inspired by the Handstamped Sentiments Challenge...they are all about Easter and Spring this week with their Inspiration Challenge.  My pal Anne-Marie is one of their designers, so I just had to play along!!!

Inspired by the photos on the HSS site, I created a card with a window sill and flower box...in the flower box are some spring flowers, punched out with my Itty Bitty Punch Pack...they are really blooming! LOL!  Oh, and I added some major bling to each blossom...each flower has a little gemstone in it...I used the For All You Do set for the Artichoke Stems.

I hope you enjoyed my creation and get some time to play along with both of these great challenges!  Okay...I am off to bed now!!! LOL!

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Handstamped Sentiments Colour Splash

The gals over at Handstamped Sentiments have a terrific colour challenge happening this week!  They are looking for projects that use Cajun Craze, More Mustard and Pear Pizzazz.  I LURVE this colour combo!  I got out my favourite stamp set called "Elements of Style" and inked it up! 

Like to Colour?  This stamp set inks up beautifully and it a cinch to colour!  A little trick is to rub a versamark ink pad over the image after it is coloured...this gives the image a smooth, sleek finish.  Then I used the Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz to really make the flowers sparkle and heat set the shimmer with my heat gun.

I wanted to make a set of 4 matching cards and a box to hold them!  Christmas is all about handmade gifts and this would be a lovely gift for a friend or co-worker! 

A little note...

I used the Naturals Ivory Cardstock (101849) for my card base and the box.  It is a heavier cardstock than Very Vanilla and would make beautiful Paper for Wedding Invitations!

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Smiles,

Hand Stamped Sentiments and the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge

I had a wonderful birthday today.  My husband and I went to my parent's house and celebrated with them and my sister and her fella.  My mom made my favourite meal...soft tacos...yummy!!  She also made a fabulous homemade chocolate cake with white icing...also my favourite...it was such a nice day!  Thank you mom and dad!  We just got home, but all day I had been thinking about the sketch at the Sweet Stop and the colours at Hand Stamped Sentiments. 

This is what I came up with...

I should have paid more attention to the sketch at the Sweet Stop and not relied on my 35 year old brain for memory...so I guess the sketch was more of an inspiration...and I loved it!!  The colours at HSS just said "Birthday" to me...so I went with it...my mom told me today she needed more birthday cards for her stash.  So I am putting together a bundle of cards for her...this one will be on the top!

These are different colours to use with this stamp set "Charming" but I think it kinda works...what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Lesley :)

Supplies

Stamps: On Your Birthday, Charming

Inks: Melon Mambo, Tempting Turquoise (Markers and Ink Pads)

Paper: Melon Mambo DSP, So Saffron Paper, Tempting Turquoise Paper, Whisper White Paper

Tools: Big Shot, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Tempting Turquoise 1/4" Grosgrain Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch, Dimensionals