Monday, August 8, 2011

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
We hope that you will join the Picture Perfect Creations Challenge this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations! 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
Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Paper Players Theme Challenge #58- School Daze Theme Challenge


This week at the Paper Players, Ann has a fun theme challenge for us!  She is challenging us to create a project based on "School Daze".  As a teacher, I know that school will be starting soon and I wanted to make a special card for the staff I worked with last year, to help them celebrate the start of the new school year! I thought this sentiment from "Pursuit of Happiness" was the perfect sentiment for a group of teachers.


I also inked up another new set called "Fruit and Flowers".  As soon as I saw this set in the catalogue I knew I had to have it! I love the apple image and inked it up in "Poppy Parade" (you must know by now that I LOVE this colour) and "Lucky Limeade" which is a new In Colour for 2011-2012.  I highlighted the entire card with Chocolate Chip for contrast.  I also used the School Lines single stamp to create the lines for my sentiment and to stamp the background of the card. 


I also finished off the inside of the card with the School Lines stamp and another apple that I coloured with markers and huffed.  The apple on the front is nested in the 1 3/4" Circle Punch and the 2 3/8" Circle Punch. Can you see the school lines on the front of the card too?


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

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If you have any question about this card or any of my cards, please email me!  I would love to hear from you!

Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Saturday, August 6, 2011

CCMC #161 and Creative Sketches CS42S


I have had such a great week, stamping and playing along with some challenges that I don't always get to play!  Tonight I could not resist playing along with Create wth Connie and Mary, I love their colour combo this week!!!!  SO pretty!

I also found a new to me challenege called "Creative Sketches".  I love working with sketches and this one really inspired me.  I have been looking at it since yesterday and when I saw the CCMC colours, I had an idea!

So I ceate this card with my Daisy #2 Die for my Big Shot and with my trusty Ribbon Punch!  I used the black as an accent and really tried to hightlight the Daffodil Delight.  The centre white panel is embossed with the new "Stripes" embossing folder (becoming a FAST favourite) and the background is stamped with En Francais in Old Olive on Old Olive cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Friday, August 5, 2011

Friday Mashup #18-True Love Sparkles and Shines and Our Creative Corner

The wonderful and fun Lisa has chosen an awesome challenge for us all this week!!!  This week at the Friday Mashup, we are celebrating True Love!  I just love the sweet photo attached to this week's graphic! 

So, here's the "Mash Up!" challenge:
1. Create a project using "Glitter". (No glitter for me this week!)
2. Create a project for an "Anniversary" .
3. Or "Mash it Up!" and create an "Anniversary project using Glitter" ! 

I also created this card using the fun colours over at Our Creative Corner.  Here is the inspiration graphic for their challenge.  I went for a clean and simple card!



I decided to create an Anniversary card for my Hubby!  Our Anniversary is not until March!  I hope I don't lose it or forget about it!!!  LOL!  I inked up my new set called "Up, Up and Away" which is a darling set that I need to play with a little more!  I went with the polka dot balloons to match my polka dot DSP.  I used Real Red and the new In Colour called "Pool Party".


Please stop on by the Friday Mashup and join us this week for our challenge!  And don't forget to check out the OCC challenge too!
Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Thursday, August 4, 2011


All week I have been looking at the awesome colour challenge over at Inkspirations.  It seemed like a Halloween combo to me but for some reason, I do not own any Halloween stamps except for sentiments!  So I went back to the drawing board!


My friend Jaydee is a Clean and Simple designer, I just love her cards and I have been trying the "Less is More" approach too.  So today I created a CAS using the Inkspirations Colour Combo!!!


I finished the inside too...I love this new "Petite Pairs" stamp set!  That is where the sentiment on the front of the card and the sentiment on the inside come from, they actually match eachother and fit in the large Oval Punches!!!  Yippee!


Thanks for stopping by!!!

Smiles,
Lesley

JAI 78 and CCMC 160

Conmarsum11winner



**Edited to add**
Oh my goodness! This card won at both Just Add Ink and Create with Connie And Mary this week!  I am so thrilled!  It has been a long time since I have won a challenge!  Thank you so much ladies!!!!


I have not had the chance or even the drive to make some cards for challenges in quite a while.  I think I was on burn out mode but after two weeks away from the computer, I do feel refreshed and I was inspired by the great sketch at Create with Connie and Mary and with the awesome colours at Just Add Ink.
I'll admit, I was really challenged by the sketch but I decided to go for it!  I inked up a new stamp called "School Lines" for my sentiment.  The sentiment is also from a new stamp set called "Pursuit of Happiness".  I love the sentiments in the set!

The weather is not cooperating with me today for photos, sorry they are so dark but it was worse in my craftroom!  Sometimes photos just don't work!  I actually used the new embossing folder for the background, it is all straight, chunky lines and the piece of Chocolate Chip paper is crimped.  The flower is from the set called "Growing Green" and is stamped in Black Stazon and watercoloured on watercolour paper with Not Quite Navy Ink.
Thanks for stopping by!!!

Smiles,
Lesley

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

CR84FN and Splitcoast Stampers Sketch Challenge



I have never played along with the CR84FN Challenge before.  I just LOVED the awesome colour combo and decided that I wanted to give it a try!  The Design Team inspiration is amazing!  Then I went in search of a sketch, and found an awesome one for the SCS Sketch Challenge this week!  The samples over there were inspiring too!!!


I decided to ink up another new stamp set (no, I didn't buy EVERYTHING from the new catalogue!! LOL!).  This set is called "Summer Solstice" and it was the number one set I wanted when I saw the new cattie!  I LOVE how it stamps and it is really affordable!  


I used the new In Colour called "Wisteria Wonder" and used Celery and Basic Gray as the colour challenge suggested!!!  The sentiment is from " Pursuit of Happiness" again, I just LURVE that set!!!  Once again, I used my favourite French Script background stamp!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Colour Q Challenge #96



Arielle has a pretty colour combo on right now at the Colour Q.  I love the new In Colour "Lucky Limeade" and Basic Gray is also one of my fav colours as are blues, so I decided to give this combo a whirl! 


I used some more new goodies!  Another sentiment from "Pursuit of Happiness" and I also used a new set called "My Friend" for the floral image which I inked up with my new In Colour Markers.  I also embossed the Bashful Blue background with the new "Stripes" embossing folder.

 Thanks for stopping by!!!
Smiles,
Lesley