Just Add Ink and CAS-ual Fridays

Today at Just Add Ink, they are hosting a wonderful sketch challenge!  The CAS-ual Friday Challenge blog is asking us to Just Add Colour. I loved the simple layout and decided to play with a Pink Cat digital stamp from my stash. 

I love this little Dino.  So I inked him up with my Copics and cut him out carefully.  Then, using my deckled rectangle nestabilities, I framed him for the centre of the card and popped him up on dimensionals. I used the Rectangle shape instead of the Oval

This little Dino is having a yummy “bite” of cake! I love it, this is how I want to eat cake but I try to restrain myself! LOL!  I wanted the sentiment to reflect that a person SHOULD eat cake and have some fun on their birthday too.  So I stamped this…”It’s YOUR day…ENJOY!” 

Be sure to visit the gals at the Just Add Ink and CAS-ual Friday Challenge blogs to play along this week! I am so happy you stopped by!

PPC #57 and Hand Stamped Sentiments-For Mom

This week at Picture Perfect Creations is the most marvelous colour challenge! I love Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi, so I was pretty excited to ink up my new Fabulous Florets set again for this card!!!  As you might have noticed, I used Whisper White instead of Very Vanilla...I should have confirmed the colours first instead of going from memory!!! 

I stamped the flowers in Pretty in Pink and Melon Mambo, I don't own Pink Pirouette...yet!  I hope to get it soon, I love how soft and pretty it is! 

I also made this card for the current Hand Stamped Sentiments challenge which is a Mother's Day Theme. 

I wanted the card to be fairly clean and simple and so I used the Tulip Frame Embossing Folder to add some detail to my card.  I made it for my mother-in-law, she loves bright pinks and I thought this would be a special card for her!!

Come on by and join us at Picture Perfect Creations!  This colour combo is so springy and fun, I know you will love working with it!

Smiles,

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All supplies are Stampin' Up:
Stamps: Fabulous Florets, Celebrate Something
Inks: Pretty in Pink, Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
Tools: Big Shot, Embossing Folder, Paper Snips, Dimensionals

PPC Specialty Challenge #6- Easter

Hello Stampin' Friends!!!  It is my second week as a DT member over at Picture Perfect Creations!  I am enjoying designing ahead for the many colour challenges that are coming up and this week is a Specialty Challenge!  The theme is Easter.

I have lots of different Easter Stamps but I wanted to use a new one I got with my last Stampin' Up Order called "Something to Celebrate".  I married it with the "Bold Blossom" stamp set from the current mini-catalogue. 

The colours I chose this week are Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzaz and Whisper White.  I actually designed this card for a workshop I held a couple of weeks ago!!!  I love Peach Parfait, it is such a nice alternative to orange!  The little flowers are punched out with my 3/4" circle punch and I had to add some bling to each one.

Come on over to Picture Perfect Creations and join us for a little Easter card making challenge.  I am looking forward to visiting your blog!

Smiles,

Lesley

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Paper Players Challenge #40-Sketch by Nance and Blog Candy Winner

What a terrific week!  As you probably noticed, I have been playing with My Digital Studio and designed a brand new blog banner and created the new background too!  It is SO much fun!!!!  And I am very excited to post my first Card Tutorial for sale!  It has been well received!  Thank you to Cathy, Trudy, LeAnne, AM and Sandi for encouraging me to make my tutorial available to others!

This week at the Paper Players, Nance has provided us with a terrific sketch that can be dressed up or kept simple!  I decided to land somewhere in the middle of those two choices, coming up with a card that was easy to make and has some "extras" on it.

Here is the sketch!

And here is the card I created for it!  I always need more birthday cards!! Can you see that I embossed the top of the cupcake...so fun!!! And I just love the colour Melon Mambo!

Now, to announce my Blog Candy Winner!  A big thank you to everyone who shared their favourite type of challenge with me!  The randomly selected winner is...Tania!

Tania said:

I like sketches. It can be nice to have a theme, as Jan says, to help with stamp decisions, but sometimes I want the freedom to just choose a set on my own based on my personal card making needs.

Congratulations Tania!  Please send me your mailing address and I will get your candy out to you right away.  My email is located at the top of my blog. :D

Thank you for stopping by!  Be sure to visit the Paper Players Blog to see the design inspiration and to upload your own creation!

Smiles,

Lesley

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All supplies are Stampin' Up:
Stamps: Something to Celebrate
Inks: Melon Mambo
Paper: Bright Collection DSP Pack, Basic Black, Melon Mambo, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette
Tools: Big Shot, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Copcake Punch, Modern Label Punch, Word Window Punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch

Card Club Projects and new Club starting in April

I just had my card club this week!  I meet once a month with a fabulous group of ladies...we have fun and usually make two projects that they get to keep!  This month I was showing them the "Growing Green" stamp set which I LOVE!!!

We made two simple cards, showing how easy it is to make a Clean and Simple card quickly, if you need one for a special occasion but are short on time!  Birthdays are always a popular card to have on hand!  We also did the technique of stamping colour on colour...so we used Certainly Celery Ink on Certainly Celery Paper.  I love that look!!  It is hard to see in my bright photo but we stamped the smaller flowers from ths set right over the large flower.  The colours we used were: Melon Mambo, Pretty In Pink and Certainly Celery.  We also completed the inside the same way.

For our second card, we used "Mr. Big" aka the Big Shot and embossed the whole front panel of the card front with the Finial Press Embossing Folder.  Then we stamped the main flower in Melon Mambo onto Pink Pirouette Paper! I love that look too!

Thanks ladies for another fun club!  I have a new Card Club starting in April.  We have room for 3 more ladies.  We will meet April, May and June.  Then take the summer off!  Then we will meet up again for September, October and November.  If you are interested in joining our Crafty Croghan Card Club or if you have any questions about the Club, please email me by clicking HERE and then leaving me a message. 

Thanks for stopping by!

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All supplies are Stampin' Up:
Stamps: Growing Green, On Your Birthday, Something to Celebrate
Inks: Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery
Paper: Melon Mambo, Certainly Celery, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White
Tools: Big Shot, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Scallop Trim Border Punch

Playing with Sale-A-Bration Stamp Sets

Don't forget to enter your name into my Blog Candy draw!  All info can be found by clicking HERE!

I wanted to make a couple of cards using three different Sale-A-Bration sets....I decided to ink up the "Funky Four" set, "Thank You Kindly" set and the "So Happy for You" set.  The Funky Four set has this cute little flower image in it that I inked up with my markers and I love that it fits in my scallop circle punch!

This card was a quick and fun card I created with the "So Happy for You" set! I love that little Shamrock!  I punched them out with my 3/4" circle punch!  The Designer Paper is from the "Jolly Holiday" Paper Pack again! I just love that Polka Dot Paper!  The sentiment is from the Hostess Level 2 set called "Something to Celebrate".

Thanks for stopping by today! 

I hope you enjoy your day and get the chance to get inky!!

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All supplies are Stampin' Up:

Stamps: Funky Four, So Happy for You, Something to Celebrate, Thank You Kindly

Inks: Concord Crush, Poppy Parade, Old Olive, Whisper White

Paper: Jolly Holiday DSP, Poppy Parade, Concord Crush

Tools: 3/4" Circle Punch, 1 3/8" Circle Punch. Scallop Circle Punch

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!

Thanks for stopping by!

Paper Players Challenge #38 and Blog Candy!!!

This week at the Paper Players Jaydee has created a simple and sophisticated sketch for us to try!  This is for our new Clean and Simple Challenge that will happen every third week in a month!  We are really excited about this new challenge at the Paper Players!!

Paper Player Tips for creating a Clean and Simple card:

• Focus on the design
• Look for Clean lines
• Few embellishments
• Few layers

Here is the card I created!  My only stamping was the sentiment which is from the Hostess Level 2 set in the current Mini Catalogue called "Something to Celebrate".

I hope you get the chance to join us this week at the Paper Players and show us your Clean and Simple card! 

Don't forget I am offering Blog Candy this week...please click HERE to see the post and to enter!  Good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!

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All supplies are Stampin' Up:

Stamps: Something to Celebrate Hostess Level 2 Set

Inks: Basic Black

Paper: Hostess Level One Pattern Paper In Colour Pack, Black and Whisper White

Tools: Embosslit Beautiful Wings Die, Ribbon Punch, Dazzling Diamonds