The Colour Q #110 and Card Patterns Sketch 140

Well Thursday is here and I have a card to share with you today! I really loved the colours at the Colour Q and I have wanted to play along with the Card Patterns Sketch for a while now, so I saw the chance and went for it!  I had to use non-SU colours to play along, but I tried to match them as best as I could. I also added black as a neutral, to highlight the warm, rich colours.

Once again I inked up the Agapanthus stamp from Stampendous. I coloured it with Copics. The script background comes from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from Amuse.

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Freshly Made Sketches {Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year}

This week at Freshly Made Sketches, we have a great sketch from the lovely Rita Wright!  I was so excited to cut into some new pattern paper I picked up at my local crafting store!  It is from Jillibean Soup, I believe that is what it is called!  Both the red side of the paper and the yellow side come from the same sheet of paper.  I thought the paper had a primitive country feel to it and decided to make a poinsettia in Kraft paper from my Poinsettia nestabilities. 

I also added a black matte around the entire main panel and the smaller panel to accent the red and yellow colours.  The sentiment comes from a stamp set that I got last year from Stampin' Up but is now retired called "Seasonal Sentiments". The ribbon is black satin and the twine is called True Hemp made by Hemptique.  It has a really pretty chocolate sheen to it. I couldn't resist adding a button too!

We hope that you will join Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!

Freshly Made Sketches Design Team

Linda Callahan
Cindy Hall
Tui Nathan
Jennifer Timko
Rita Wright
Jen Mitchell
Lauri Ingram
Christy Q

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Clean and Simple Challenge CAS143 at Splitcoast Stampers

The Clean and Simple Team at Splitcoast Stampers has a great sketch challenge for today. I decided to use my Stampendous Agapanthus Stamp (one of my favs) and inked it up in Memento Ink, colouring it with Copics.

The card base is Naturals Ivory and then the White Cardstock is matted with black cardstock. The script is from Hero Arts and is stamped in Going Gray (stamping off three times)  Can you see the twine on the side with the little bow? 

Off to bed!  Have a great week!

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Paper Players #71-Anne Marie's Recipe Challenge

Slow down weekend!  Sunday is here already and I would love one more day to rest! The weeks are counting down to Christmas much too quickly and my list is way too long this year! So much to do and so very little time!  So with all that said, today at the Paper Players, "Chef AM" has a recipe challenge ready for us!  And boy, did her recipe cook up a fun Christmas card for me to make!  Thanks AM...I have one less Christmas card on my list to make!

1. I decided to ink up this adorable digital stamp made by Arielle Gordon of Wax Fruit Company, I loved the image as soon as I saw it and knew I had to have it because I love to colour!!! 
2. The image just screamed fun bright colours to me and so I paired the image with some scraps of designer papers I had in my stash...a piece of Real Red, Pool Party and Old Olive striped papers. I layered them over each other and matted the "panel" I created with them out of black cardstock.
3. Do you see the glitter on those pretty ornaments?  Check!  So far I have 3 pattern papers, and a sprinkling of glitter.  I needed to add two different ribbons and a punch! 
4. I remembered this Tags Christmas stamp set from SU that was out a few years ago and stamped the sentiment on Poppy Parade paper and then punched it out with my Wide Oval Punch.  Punch Check! 
5. The ribbbon is some Doodlebug Doodle Twine that I have in my stash. I went with the blue and red colours.  Two different ribbons...check!
6. The ornaments are coloured with Copics.

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 creation and to give a warm welcome to Susan Joyce, our November Guest Designer at the Paper Players.

The Paper Players Design Team

Ann Schach

Anne Marie Hile

Jaydee

Julie Marshall

LeAnne Pugliese

Lesley Croghan

Nance Leedy

Tara Bilbao
Susan Joyce (November GD)

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BLOG CANDY WINNERS!

Hello stampers and crafters!  First of all let me say thank you SO much for all of your supportive comments on my touch of Fall card from last week at the Paper Players!  They were wonderful to read! I tried to reply to them all but could not keep up! So please know I loved reading them all and appreciate that you stopped by!

The winners of my NATURE WALK TUTORIAL are: (according to random.org generator)

#65 Kathy Mc said...
Lesley, your card is classy and soft with a touch of vintage. Love how your cherry cobbler mum pops, and the different textures you've incorporated here. Would be thrilled to win your tutorial blog candy!


#69 Colleen said...
Great card design
ColleenB.


#75 Elsa L said...
Nature Walk stamp set is so beautiful. I would love to win you tutorial.
I really enjoy your blog. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us.

Congratulations ladies!  Please leave me a comment on this post with your email address, and I wil email the tutorial to you!

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Oh What a Week and Blog Candy Reminder!!!

Hello dear stamping friends! Thank you for all of your wonderfully supportive comments on my blog! I have been run off my feet this week and I will admit, my commenting time has been eaten up by work and life.  I am off to comment on the Paper Players Anything Goes submissions right now, cannot wait to see who played along with us! You still have until midnight (PST) to join us!

There is still time to enter for my blog candy...to see the candy and to add your name, please click HERE.  I will be drawing three names tomorrow morning at 8am (PST). The deadline for my candy is tonight at midnight (PST).

Today is Friday Mashup Day and I was not able to join my lovely Design Team this week! Ack!  I am telling you, this week was nuts! The team has a wonderful "embossing/thank you" theme happening over there, so please check them out at the Friday Mashup Challenge !!

Thanks for stopping by!!! I hope to get some crafting in tonight! I have some new goodies coming and I cannot wait to ink 'em up!

Freshly Made Sketches #9-A Sketch from Tui Nathan

Welcome to November Guest Designers Lauri Ingram and Christy Q!!!

Happy Wednesday! Today Freshly Made Sketches Design Team Member, Tui Nathan has designed an awesome sketch for us to use!  I chose to use a stamp from "Essential Stamps" which is a new stamping company in Canada! 

This set comes in little stamping pieces so you can create the "scene" yourself!  That is what I did, placing the seagull at the front of the card and the ocean and clouds at the back.  The grass was stamped separately and the gulls in the distance were too.  I stamped everything in Tuxedo Black Memento Ink and coloured everything with my Copic markers.  The sentiment is Penny Black.

We hope that you will join Freshly Made Sketches this week!  Please be sure to visit the other DT Members to see their wonderful creations!  Sorry for the short post but I have been battling a headache and am off to bed. Happy crafting.

Freshly Made Sketches Design Team

Lesley Croghan
Linda Callahan
Cindy Hall
Tui Nathan
Jennifer Timko
Rita Wright
Lauri Ingram
Christy Q

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Ribbon Carousel Anything Goes #27- {Peace On Earth}

This week at the Ribbon Carousel, they have an Anything Goes Challenge...of course, you need to use some ribbon or anything that comes from a spool on your project!  So I went to work, creating a christmas card for my stash, I wanted to create something red and green, more traditional, with some ribbon and a button accent.

I inked up one of my most favourite sets from Stampin' Up called "Peaceful Season", it was a hostess set from last year.  I inked it in Early Espresso and then I coloured the holly leaf and berries with my SU markers.  I used some brown 5/8" Grosgrain ribbon. This is a clean and simple card. It is hard to see but I embossed the bottom of the card with a christmas embossing folder.

I hope you get the chance to play along with the Ribbon Carousel...

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