RI What If Wednesday--Color Challenge

Hello friends :)

This week on The House That Stamps Built blog Wendy has challenged us to use the following colors:

Well, you can help but think of Valentine's Day when you see these colors.  I often plot and plan cards out in my head and most of the time they end up nothing like I thought it would.  This card is the exception, it turned out just as I thought it would :)

I started with a red card base and added a white and pink print layer.  Next, I cut a 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 piece of white cardstock and stamped the Repeat Impressions Hugs and Kisses Stencil image #1215-H in 3 colors of pigment ink (a light pink, medium pink and red) and embossed them with sparkle embossing powder.  I added some Diamond Stickles to the medium pink XO and the little heart just to make it pop a bit more.

Please head on over to my fellow Rock Star teamies blogs and check out their amazing creations using this color combo.

Cheri 

Joy 

Deonna 

Karen  

Patti J

Kathy

Debbie

Melissa (you are here)

We would love to have you play along with the challenge as well, head on over to The House That Stamps Built for all of the details.  Wendy will be giving away an awesome prize to one lucky person who plays along :)

Don't forget, if you are itching to do a little Repeat Impressions' shopping, you will find a 10% off discount code in my right sidebar.  Don't forget to use it! You will be glad that you did!

Bamboo Love

Hey there, I am back with the second card in my Valentine card series.  This one uses the adorable Party Paws-Love from Bamboo Cling stamp set.

I really like that you can color Bamboo as a Panda or and adorable Teddy bear just by switching up the colors used.  I went the Panda route on this card, but will do a Teddy soon. :)

Crafter's Companion Product Used:

Party Paws-Love from Bamboo

SN Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock
SN Markers:  BP1, BP2, BP6, IB1, IG2,IG4, IG5, IG6, IG8, TN2, TN6
CC Die’sire Elegance Stamping Frame
Memento Tuxedo Black Ink

I will be back soon with card #3 in my Valentine series.

With All My Heart

Well, well...one holiday passes by and we immediately start creating for the next one.  Here in the US, the next major holiday (for card giving) is Valentine's Day.

Here is the first in my Crafter's Companion Valentine series for this month.

Here are the Crafter's Companion products used:

Crafter's Companion Party Paws—Love from Bamboo

SN Marker: DR6

SN Ultra Smooth Premium White Cardstock

CC Die’sire Circle Doilies

I love, love the Circle Doilies die set and I will be using it often :)

I wish you all a wonderful weekend!

Repeat Impressions Project of the Week-Monochromatic

Hi there!  This week it is my turn to share a Project of the Week with you.

One of my favorite things to do is Monochromatic cards.

Here is a simple definition of Monochromatic:

Monochromatic colors are all the colors (tints, tones, and shades) of a single hue.

Monochromatic color schemes are derived from a single base hue and extended using its shades, tones and tints. Tints are achieved by adding white and shades and tones are achieved by adding a darker color, gray or black.

First, you need to pick your color scheme and go through your stash and gather some supplies:

Now, for my first card:

I stamped the Repeat Impressions Thanks A Bunch #1307E and the Repeat Impressions Posies 632-H in black ink and colored with markers.  For the sentiment, I  masked off the "A Bunch" and stamped the "Thanks" and then I repeated the process in reverse to get the sentiment stacked on the small white panel.  I stamped the floral posies randomly on the squares and then matted them with the darker purple cardstock.  I did add a tiny bit of green ink, but I think it really needed it.

Next, I wanted to create a cute Valentine card and this is what I came up with using my "pink" stash.

I stamped the sweet, sweet Hogs and Kisses #2812-G in black ink and colored them with some pink markers.  I thought I would "ham" it up a bit and add some googly eyes and red glitter lips :)

I hope you will give Monochromatic card making a try.  It really is fun and it is a great way to use up some scraps from your stash.

Wishing you a wonderful, creative week.

Happy Valentine's Day hop with Avery Elle

Happy, happy Valentine's Day everyone!

Rose are Red. Violets are blue. Sugar is sweet and this hop is too!

·         We hope you are ready for some Lovely Ideas and Great Prizes this week from Tombow and Avery Elle.  This Sweet Treats Hop is the perfect way to celebrate Valentine’s Day!! If you're here from Heather Campbell's awesome blog,then you’re in the right place,  if not then you may want to start at Tombow Blog so you don't miss a thing.

 For the hop, my sweet treats are two cards.  One with a masculine flair and another for the girls.  For both cards I used the Avery Elle, Love Notes Clear Stamp set.

For this card, I stamped the feather in light blue, aqua, navy and gold inks.  I added some little die cut hearts to the navy feathers and then stamped the first part of the sentiment on the outside of the card and the rest one the inside.  I added another die cut heart next to the sentiment on both the outside and the inside.  I used Tombow Xtreme Adhesive to adhere the layers together.  I am loving this stamp set and this new adhesive from Tombow, together they rock the planet!

For this card, I was drawn to the little hearts that come in the Love Notes set and created a simple card that would allow the hearts to be the center of the show.  I added some Glossy Accents to each of the pink hearts and Christmas Red Stickles to the larger red heart.  I used Tombow Xtreme Adhesive to hold each of the layers together.  

Now for the extra fun part!

Comment on all the Designers’ projects for your chance to win prize you are guaranteed to fall in love with! One lucky winner will get BOTH a $50 Gift certificate from Avery Elle and $50 worth of Tombow Adhesive! 

Here is the complete lineup just in case you hit a bump in the road.

Tombow Blog
Chunyuan Wu

Yainea (Cristina Núñez Regueiro)
Debbie Fisher

Nina Yang

Heather Campbell

Melissa Cash

JJ Bolton

Kasia Curry

Jennie Garcia

Maska Vanacker 

Marie Browning
Avery Elle / Jamie Gracz

Blog Prizes

To be eligible to win, please comment on each of the designers projects  and don't forget to "Like" the Avery Elle Facebook Page and "Like" the Tombow Facebook Page. If you don’t have a Facebook, still comment on the projects and Tombow will select someone to win a prize just for playing! 

All Heart

Happy middle of the week to each and every one of you.  It is What If Wednesday again on The House That Stamps Built blog and it is a Designers Choice Challenge this week.  Joyce has challenged us to use hearts somewhere on on card/project.

I think I managed to do just that!

I created the heart box using this Silhouette cut file called 3D Heart Box #53783 and then I stamped the RI Scruffy Puppy #8120-K in Memento Rich Cocoa ink and colored with markers.  Next, I cut a white banner from some scrap cardstock and  stamped the RI Happy Valentine's Day #1203-F in Rich Cocoa ink.  I layered the white banner to a pink banner layer.  I added a little die cut heart to the banner and gave it a little shimmer with a clear Wink of Stella brush pen.  To add a little dimension to the heart, I added some Glossy Accents.  

 Top View

Side View

After I colored the puppy, I added some gold glitter pen to her fur.  She has the prettiest shimmer!

Be sure to stop by each of the Rock Star's blogs and check out their Heart projects.

Cheri 
Deonna 
Joy 
Joyce  
Karen  
Geri
Brenda

Melissa (you are here)

Want to play along and have a chance to win?  Click here to be taken to The House That Stamps Built blog where you will find all of the details.

Love is in the Air

Hi there!  Today I am sharing a fun Valentine card with you.  

I have been wanting to try the Chalkboard technique for quite a while now and finally took the time.  I think this Taylored Expressions, Graphic Greetings-Valentine was the perfect stamp to use.  I inked the stamp with Colorbox Frost White ink and stamped it onto some black cardstock.  I diecut the image with the Spellbinders Labels 29 die and swiped some of the white ink around the edges and lightly accross the image to create the chalkboard effect.  Next I diecut 2 larger pieces with the same die set and adhered them together with Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to create the card base.  Next, I added a piece of pink paper (the B side) from the American Crafts XOXO Hugs and Kisses paper with Mono Adhesive Dots and then popped up the image panel using Tombow Foam Tabs.  I colored a wooden heart with an Irojiten Dictionery Color Pencil and then added a little more colored pencil to the arrow and some of the hearts.

Thanks for visiting and I hope you stop back by real soon!

Be My Valentine

Hi there! 

 It's the 10th of the month and that means it is time for the GRS February Sketch Challenge.  

It has been quite awhile since I created anything with a vintage feel but this pretty Truffles Elegant Valentine set from Gourmet Rubber Stamps just screamed vintage to me so I had a little fun using some pretty vintage print papers and rich cranberry cardstock and ink.  A little crochet trim and some pearls finished it off.

Be sure to stop by the blogs of my fellow teamies and check out their awesome sketch inspired creations.

• Deb Felts

• Jeni Allen

• Kendra Wietstock 

Kelli Palmer

• Jennifer Ingle 

• Stepanie Lee

• Melissa Cash - you are here

Be sure to play along and share your creation on the GRS Facebook page, we would love to see what you create and share the love with a comment or two.

Love Bird

Hi there!  This week my fellow Tombow teamies are teaming up with Fancy Pants and have been sharing some amazing projects created with supplies from the Fancy Pants Love Note collection.  Today I am sharing a little Love Bird with you.  

I pulled this little wooden bird out of my stash of "to be altered" items and coated both sides with Tombow Mono Multi and then added some of the pretty print papers from the collection.  I used SWAK for the front and Devotion for the back.

I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere the floral trimmed ribbon and then added some Tombow Mono Multi to hold the braid and then behind each of the buttons I used 1/4 of a Tombow Power Tab.  

The sentiment is from the Sticker Fundamentals sheet and was mounted onto a banner from the Banners sheet.

I used a combination of Tombow Foam Tabs and Power Tabs to adhere each of the floral/ribbon elements.

BLD Tuesday-Lollipop Ella Valentine

Hello and happy Tuesday.  I have finally come down from all of the CHA trip hoopla and am getting back into the swing of things.

Today I am sharing a card I created using the Lollipop Ella Valentine image from By LORi Designs.

I have been trying to use up some of my scrap stash so I pulled out these pretty pink and green scraps and built my card around them.  I colored this sweet Ella Valentine with Copic markers.  The dots on her bow and the heart are pretty and sparkly with the help of some Diamond Stickles.  I finished off the card with some buttons and twine.

Be sure to head on over to By LORi Designs and check out the amazing creations by the rest of the team.  

There is still time to play with the latest BLD Challenge, you will find it HERE.

Lollipop Gracie Valentine

Happy, happy Friday.  Whew, I started off the week with a bit of a cold and must say I was glad to see it go!  I can't believe we are nearing mid January already, before we know it February will be here and it will be time to remember the sweeties in our lives on Valentine's Day.  

Today I am sharing a sweet Valentine I created using the Lollipop Gracie Framed digi image from By LORi Designs.

I printed the image onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored the image using Tombow Dual Brush Pens in the following colors:  #800 Baby Pink, #850 Flesh, #991 Light Ochre, #835 Persimmon, #885 Warm Red, #856 Chinese Red, #N00 Black and the Colorless Blender.  I used Tombow Mono Adhesive Dots to adhere each of the flat layers of cardstock together.  The image panel is popped up using Tombow Foam Tabs.  For her sweet bow, I cut a Tombow Power Tab into fourths and used one piece behind the bow.  I used the remaining pieces behind the button to hold it firmly in place.   For the heart, I filled it in with Tombow Mono Aqua Glue and then covered it liberally with red glitter. 

TTFN,

BLD Tuesday Valentine Peyton

Happy Tuesday to you all!  I am home today with a cold and hoping that it is gone soon as I leave on Saturday for CHA in Anaheim.  I am so hoping for some warmer weather in So Cal, cause it has been cold, cold here in the Central Valley.

Today I am sharing this adorable Bug and Roo Peyton Valentine image from By LORi Designs.

I printed the digi image onto some Neenah Solar White cardstock and colored it in with a variety of Copic markers.  The oval panels were cut with my Spellbinders Petite Oval/Scallop dies (I think this is my favorite die set ever).  The image panel and smaller red scallop piece are popped up with some Tombow Foam Tabs. For a finishing touch I added some bright red glitter to the heart.  

You can check out the whole Valentine collection HERE or just click on the By LORi Designs banner above.  

Pin-spired Love Bird

Hi there!  I am playing along with my friend Kendra's Pin-spired Christmas Celebration again this week.  

This week I was inspired by the following card that was created by Mary Brown.  Isn't it pretty?

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I decided to make my card a Valentine, so I used a pink/red color combo.

Just to change things up a bit, I moved the embossed panels to the right side of the card and added the LOVE sentiment from the Paper Smooches Word Salad set.   I colored the LOVE in with some pink marker and then gave it a coat of glossy accents to make it shine. I embossed the wing of the bird with a pine branch embossing folder and I swear, it looks just like feathers!  I punched out the heart and added to the little birds chest and gave it a coat of glossy accents too!

Be sure to head on over to Kendra's blog and check out what Pin-spired her today.

Love Notes

Hi!  This week the team has been sharing their "Love Notes" with you.

I created a little box with three small cards that would be great for popping into your sweetheart's pocket or lunch bag.  

I used this pattern to create this sweet little 3 x 3 notecard box.  I used Tombow's Mono Adhesive Dots, Roller on the tabs of the box to create a strong hold and solid box.  Mono Adhesive Dots, Roller was also used to apply some Basic Grey Bittersweet paper to the box top.  For each of the notes I used a variety of hearts that were cut from Lifestyle Crafts Hearts dies.  I embossed the hearts with a variety of folders with a Cuttlebug. I used some Tombow Mono Multi Adhesive to adhere each of the hearts to one another and the box top/card fronts.  The ribbon was attached with a Tombow Power Tab.  I used Tombow's Foam Tabs (the small ones) to attach each of the flowers and the sentiment flags  to the top of the box or notecards.  

It is a bit difficult to see, but one of my favorite things to do to paper flowers is to apply Tombow Mono Aqua around the petals and then sprinkle with Glitter Ritz Warm Highlight Microfine Glitter from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Happy Valentine's Day

Hi there!  This week on the Our Craft Lounge blog challenge #101 is to create a card/project using the oh so popular chevrons (aka: zig zags)

I was inspired by the little card in the middle left of the graphic below.  I started with a pretty carnation pink base card that measures 4 1/4" square.  Next I cut some charcoal gray, red and white panels.  I stamped the chevron pattern from the OCL Every Heartbeat set in pink ink repeatedly across the white cardstock to create a fun background print.  It is difficult to see in the pic, but I lined each side of the wide stripes with a Stardust pen to give the stripes a little pop and then I rounded a couple of the corners to match the base card.  Next, I wrapped some gray/white striped twine around the card and panels.  I stamped the heart in red ink, cut it out and attached it to charcoal and red scallop circles.  

There is still time to play along with this challenge, head on over the the Our Craft Lounge blog and play along.  You could win a prize and some awesome bragging rights!

February Calendar

Hello and happy Monday Y'all!  Did you know that Our Craft Lounge announced it's 100th challenge last Friday?  The theme for this challenge was to use numbers.  I have to admit, I was stumped at first and didn't know what I was going to do.  I e-mailed my OCL partner in crime, Debbie Fisher, and she came up with a boatload of suggestions for me.  All of a sudden, the light came on and I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I decided to make a 5 x 7 calendar page for February.  Yeah, I am ahead of the game!  I printed the calendar and then cut it down to the size I wanted.  I stamped the adorable hot air balloon from the OCL Spilling Over Cling Set onto some white cardstock with black ink and then stamped it again onto this adorable light blue paper from Pebbles.  There are the cutest itsy bitzy white stars all over the light blue background.  LOVE!  I paper pieced the balloon, basket and the little heart.  I used a piece of Cranberry Distress Dots cardstock from Memory Box for the little hearts.  The hearts that are spilling out of the basket are pink and sparkly!  I attached the calendar panel to a red layer that was diecut with a Spellbinders die.  The calendar panel is attached to the base with foam tape to give just enough lift to allow the ribbon to slide underneath.

There is still time to play along with this challenge, head on over the the Our Craft Lounge blog and play along.  You could win a prize and some awesome bragging rights!

THUD!

Did you hear that?  That is the sound it made when I smacked myself on the forehead this morning when I saw THIS adorable card created by the ever so talented Laurie Schmidlin!  You should have seen me, running down the hallway in my jammies and slippers....coffee in one hand and laptop in the other heading for my studio.  You see, my hubby is what I like to call a rough, tough cream puff.  You know the kind, a little crusty on the outside and sweet as can be on the inside and it is always hard for me to come up with the perfect valentine card for him.  He is not the kind I would make a sugary sweet, foofy card for at all.  So when I saw Laurie's card, I knew exactly what I was going to do.  His favorite color is blue, so that was my starting point.  Here is what I came up with:

I started out with a base of light blue cardstock from my stash (sorry, I don't know where it is from), then I rummaged through my scraps (yeah!) and found the white piece that I had ran through the Cuttlebug who knows when, so I rounded the corners of both of those and then stamped the cute little heart from the Verve Text Objects set onto several scraps of cardstock (all from the blue family) and cut them out and hung them from some blue/white twine. I added Glossy Accents to each of the hearts to give them some shine. I then  added the strips of white and light blue across the bottom and stamped the word LOVE from the same set and added a glittery chipboard "U" (also from my stash).  The "U" was white and I colored it with Copic markers so it would match perfectly.  I don't recommend coloring over glittery letters with Copics as it could ruin your nibs if the glitter gets in them, but heck what was I to do, I really wanted it to be blue.  LOL  I added some stitch lines around the "U"  and the light blue strip so that it would tie in with the hearts and called it done.  Pretty easy peasy (especially when someone else already had the layout all figured out!)  Thanks Laurie!

Recipe:
Stamps:  Text Objects-Verve
Paper: All from my stash...a little of this and a little of that!
Ink:  Adirondack Denim Blue
Extras:  Twine, Glossy Accents, CB EF, Copics

Hugs,