Spinning Wishes

SPIES: 
STAMPS: Compass - Glitz It Now. Birthday Wishes - Inkadinkadoo.
PAPER:  Cardstock from stash. Basketweave DP from stock.
INK:   Staz On Jet Black
EXTRAS: Kraft ribbon.  Metal cogwheels and spinner.

CHALLENGES:

Color Throwdown: Color Challenge #101

Repeat Impressions: Sketch Challenge J1410

Silver Nostalgia

FTL #86

I haven't done a Color Throwdown in a while and I so wanted to this week.  I love these colors together.  However, when I started looking through my paper, I found I was very limited on all of those colors.  I did have some leftover grey shiny paper from another project and some saffron.  Then, I started looking through my embellies and found all those wonderful flowers and shiny silver buttons, thanks to a box of old buttons my mother gave me when she downsized homes! And, they all combined well with the FTL 86 from Clean and Simple.

SPIES:

Stamps:  Sentiment
Paper:  Grey, Mandarin, So Saffron
Ink:  Versamark and silver emboss powder
Extras:  Flowers, silver buttons, silver brads.

CHALLENGES:
Color Throwdown:  Color Challenge #88
Bee-Crafty:  Engagement, Wedding or Wedding Anniversary Card



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Live Life

What a gorgeous weekend we had!  This card is truly a testament for the first weekend of spring to get outside and enjoy!  I thoroughly enjoyed a warm spring Saturday evening with my sons at the soccer park watching the Carolina Railhawks play the MLS New England Revolution in a friendly preseason match.  Seeing as how the Revolution are my favorite MLS team, not even my cold would have kept me away.  I even got to meet one of my favorite players on the team, Shalrie Joseph and got a picture with him.  And, the evening culminated with the Revolution winning 2-1.  I probably should be more supportive of the Railhawks seeing as how we live down the street from their stadium.  Yet, I must confess, it is cheaper to stay home and watch MLS and Premier League on TV.  And, I can craft at the same time!

Color Throwdown #84

Sketches By Tamara

Dazzling Challenges:
ColorThrowdown - #84 Color Challenge
Sketches By Tamara  - #111 Sketch Challenge

Stamps:  Digital stamp - Paper Lanterns by Squigglefly.  Live Life by Inkadinkadoo (I think).
Paper:  Sky blue and black cardstock.  Tangerine vellum.  Aqua Mulberry textured paper.
Ink:  Staz On Black.  Gel pens for lanterns to make them shine.
Extras:  Black rick rack ribbon.  Teal brads. Mosaic cuttlebug emboss folder.  Decorative scissors for black bottom border.


Enjoy!



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Birthday Bouquet-Easel Card

 

Photo Inspiration

Color Throwdown #81

  

 

  

This has to be my favorite card I have made!  I had so much fun putting it together and the easel card wound up being easier than I thought.  A special card for a very special birthday this year for my sis-in-law (brother's wife). The photo inspiration is the bouquet that I carried in their wedding almost 16 years ago.  It has made a beautiful flower arrangement in my guest room since then.  Trying a new technique is sometimes out of my comfort zone, but when my other sis-in-law, Twinklestamper, posted a tutorial on her blog for easel cards, I decided to try one.  I hope this becomes more than just a card and that my sis-in-law may enjoy keeping it up in her office.  ColorThrowdown #81 challenge this week had the perfect colors that matched the silk flowers and beaded leaves that I had found at a local fabric store in the wedding supplies aisle.  

Stamps:  Birthday sentiment.

Paper:  Olive and brown cardstock; DP- Ivory Floral by The Gift Line and Paper Adventures;  Pink DP -Anna Griffin, Inc.

Ink:  Coffee Bean

Extras:  Silk flowers, beaded leaves, doilie, pink ribbon, pink flower button, heart corner punch, scallop border punch, pink and olive gem stickies.

Good evening!

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Irish Love

Bonus Sketch

Color Throwdown 76

Two Cards for 2S4Y #44.

LUCK O' THE IRISH --

Well, I think I got in just under the wire.  One of these days I will get things done earlier.  However, I am early for the Color Throwdown challenge.  I'm not completely satisfied with the Irish card.  Now that I look at it I did forget one element for the sketch on the bottom.  I was going for something a little quick and started out by making the colors of the Irish flag. I also wanted to use the shamrock stamp alongside my sentiment, but it was too large and since I was running out of time, I chose shamrock gems instead.  Still, it was a fun card to make. 

Stamps:  Shamrock stamp and sentiment.
Paper:  green, orange and white cardstock.
Ink:  Pine.
Extras:  Nestability die, green brads, shamrock gems, green and orange ribbon.


LOVE --

The Love card I like a litlte better.  It is for the bonus challenge.  Although now you cannot see the image on the patterned paper as well, the heart columns I made with a heart punch and gell pen mirror the image of the pink hearts hanging off of green vines.  The color scheme is from Color Throwdown 76.  Again, I had to improvise a little on the colors and get them as close as I could.

Stamps:  NONE!
Paper:  Patterned paper, olive, pale yellow and raspberry cardstock.
Ink:  NONE!
Extras:  heart punch, olive gel pen; Sizzis skittle dee doo alpha die, rapsberry patterned ribbon.

Well, it's late and I'm up as usual, but not for much longer.

Blessings!


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Chamomile

 

 

I got my  mojo on today for Mojo Monday #121 and even added some Color Throwdown to it for their challenge #75.  And it just may take me til deadline to get it posted since the Golden Globes are on.  I tried my best to get as close to the color combo as possible but am afraid the 'garden green' gave me some struggle.

Stamps:  Chamomile - My Favorite Things Stamps.  ornamental stamp- Hampton Art.

Paper:   Bazzill Basics

 Ink:  Versamark Dazzle, emboss powder.

Extras:  Rope border punch;  Sizzix circle die; Sizzix Skittle Dee Doo Alpha; Cuddlebug Vintage Dies; large brad, Making Memories.

 

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Holiday Palooza of Cards and Challenges

Challenges:  Paper Cutz Challenge #18, Caardvarks Challenge, PPA 17 (Pals Paper Arts), and Color Throwdown #69 (CTD)


A Pumpkin Thanksgiving 

 Paper Cutz Challenge #18  (Thanksgiving Theme) and Caardvarks challenge  (Color It!)

 

Happy Holidays Everyone!  Happy news --- I won my first card challenge over the weekend at CPS, CPS142!  Thank you so much to everyone at CPS for choosing my card, 'Thankful', posted on November 21, 2009.

Seeing as how it is a busy holiday week for everyone, I have been busy finishing up some cards to get posted online for a few challenges and with the post office! The first one, A Pumpkin Thanksgiving, is a completely stamped and colored card save for the stamped sentiment, ribbon and brad embellishments.

Season of Joy  -- PPA 17 and CTD #69

It took me a while to finally decide what to do with this sketch for PPA 17.  I had various ideas and finally wound up with this one.  I am pretty satisfied with the final product.  I used the color combination from this past week's challenge at Color Throwdown #69.  However, as I said, it took me a bit to finally decide how I wanted to do it and so I missed the deadline to submit for CTD.  I loved this color combo and will use it again sometime.  CTD always has wonderful color combos!

Cardstock: Chocolate, Deep red, Cream, Olive.

Stamps:  Daisy and 'season of joy' sentiment, embossed.

Punch: Square

Embellishments:  Brown organdy ribbon, cream silk ribbon, brown flowers, red poinsetta flowers, crystal gems.

Check back later for I may have more postings for today.  Hope everyone has a safe and happy, FULL-filling Thanksgiving!

Thankful For You

Color Throwdown #68

Thankful For You 

The holidays are fast approaching and I have sooooo much to do!  Making this card has put me more in the spirit of things and ready to go.  Cards, cooking, painting, cards, cleaning, raking, cards, shopping, eating, cards!  Is there a pattern progressing? After Ida blew through last week leaving us soggy and a blanket of leaves to clean up, playing with these colors and this card makes fall much more enjoyable.  I loved the colors this week at Color Throwdown and just had to play.  I mixed it up a bit and instead of colorful leaves, I made colorful fall flowers with a dash of leaves in the patterned paper behind the smaller flowers.  I chose brown for the dark neutral because I loved the embossed pattern of it.

Color Throwdown #67/Mojo 111

Thinking of You

Ok, another hectic weekend.....indoor soccer, professional soccer on TV, beautiful weather to boot!  There were too many things to do and not enough time.  So here I am once again, scurrying to get my cards done for challenges I've chosen to do to push me to get the cards done in the first place!  LOL!  What a vicious circle!  This card was a double challenge, Mojo111 sketch challenge and Color Throwdown #67, only I may have missed the first one.  I had a little trouble getting all the colors together on this.  Definitely a color challenge!  I wanted to make a card for my uncle who is battling cancer and I thought the color challenge from CTD would be perfect for a masculine card.  Didn't have any patterned paper in any of the right colors, so I embossed a few and stamped another.  The stamp on the orange is actually a Celtic stamp but I felt it had a nice nautical feel to it.  Originally I had tried a shell with the same stamp background but I felt it was too busy and took away from the sentiment I wanted to add to the shell.  I had to compromise on the embellishments a bit.  The shell die I had to cut myself from another die cut in my stash and then I  embellished it with dry ink and then the sentiment.  After doing it, I feel like I shouldl have added some glitter of more 'umph' to it, but I do like the card.  And, now after publishing and looking at the card again, the shell reminds me totally of a crescent roll!  Don't know what is up with my card elements reminding me of food.  So bizarre.