PPA6 Challenge

This was a tough challenge for me - these are not colors that I would normally combine together. Thanks to this challenge, I jumped a bit out of my comfort zone.
The color challenge was for Brocade Blue, Crushed Curry, and Ruby Red. I started out with the Gallery stamp set in Ruby Red on Whisper White cardstock, and then trimming around the edge. In the center, I framed an image from the Pocket Silhouettes stamp set, stamped in Crushed Curry. I cut photo corners out for the upper left corner. On the bottom of the card, I pulled my sewing machine out and stitched a couple lines. On each end, I put buttons from the Playground Designer Buttons, tied with hemp twine.

Fun and Cute Challenge

This is a card created for Moxie Fab Worlds Fun and Cute Challenge:
I tried a few new things on this card, and I love how they came out. This hat is from the Sock Monkey Accessories stamp set. I stamped the hat in black ink, and colored the center part of the hat with a Ruby Red Marker. For the bottom part of the hat and the pom pom, I used Tombow adhesive in between the black lines, and then used Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder. The glue combined with the embossing powder created a puffy iridescent look that highlighted the hat, and gave it a fun look.

The hat was backed a piece of Ruby Red cardstock cut with the scallop punch. I rubbed the cardstock with VersaMark, and then used a combination of Iridescent Ice and Glassy Glaze Enamel Embossing Powder to give the sparkle look, but also to subdue the red color.

I used DSP from the holiday lounge set, and finished the card with a piece of red ribbon.

Classy and Elegant Challenge

This is a card that I made for the Classy and Elegant Challenge for Moxi Fab World.
I used Brushed Silver cardstock as my base. The snowflakes were created with a Jumbo Snowflake wheel. The wheel was inked first with VersaMark, and then with white craft ink. The wheel was rolled onto the cardstock, and then sprinkled with Iridescent Ice Emboss Powder, and finally the image was heated with the Heat Tool.

I did the same with the sentiment that came from the Christmas Punch set (minus the oval around the sentiment).

I had some wired white ribbon that I used on this card. To complete the card, I created a tag using the wheel above, and stamped and emobssed the image. The snowflake was cut out using a 1 1/2" punch, and then I used the scallop punch and Whisper White cardstock to create the frame around the snowflake.

Fall is soon coming

I'm starting to get into my fall/winter mode. I'm about done with summer, and ready to move on to halloween, the fall colors of thanksgiving, and the fun colors of christmas. This was a color challenge that I participated in, that really got me into the fall color mood.

I used Kraft, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, and More Mustard Cardstock. My circle cutter came in handy on this card, and I cut a 5" circle out of Chocolate Chip cardstock and a 4 3/4" circle out of the More Mustard cardstock. I adhered these to the card, and then cut off the edge of the circles to line up with the card.

For the stamped images, I used the Paradise stamp set, and used Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, and Sahara Sand ink to stamp each image. I cut out each image to a 1 1/2" circle, and then used Kraft cardstock to cut a circle that was 1 3/4" to place behind each image. The three circle's were adhered to the card using Stampin Dimensionals.

The 'thank you' sentiment came from the All Holidays stamp set. The thank you was stamped on very vanilla card stock, and then cut out with the oval punch. The same oval punch was used to cut out an oval in Chocolate Chip and More Mustard cardstock, and then the ovals were layered. I toped the card off with a mini library clip with hemp twine tied to it. The sentiment was also adhered to the card with Stampin Dimensionals.

Cinderella's Pink Shoes

This is part of the new shipment that I just got in. I've been dying to play with all of my new sets and paper, but I have such a limited amount of time. This is based on a sketch challenge, and it was such a simple sketch, but so much fun to use.I used Melon Mambo, Bermuda Bay, and Very Vanilla cardstock. The DSP used is from Thouroughly Modern.

The stamped image is from the Humor in High Heels stamp set. I stamped the shoe image in black, and the sentiment in Bermuda Bay. To color in the shoes, I used the Melon Mambo marker to color in the dark part of the shoes. To better blend the ink, I then used my Aquapainter to blend the marker ink a bit (my melon mambo ink pad is backordered and has yet to arrive - otherwise the ink pad would have been a good option as well to ink your aquapainter). The inside of the shoes and bow were painted with the Watercolor Wonder Crayons and Aquapainter in Cameo Coral.

I wanted to use the clear button, but couldn't figure out how. I decided to use my Big Shot to cut a flower out of the DSP, made holes for the hemp twine that lined up with the clear button, and tied the flower to the Very Vanilla ribbon.

I'm not a corner rounder person, but I like how it came out on this card. To add a little variation, I left one corner pointed on the piece of background paper.

Sock Monkey Christmas

I made this card as part of a technique swap. I just received the stamp set this week and couldn't wait to sit down and play with it. The technique was the spotlighting technique, and I immediately jumped to the circle idea for the card.


The card was made with Ruby Red, Soft Suede, and Whisper White cardstock. I used Holiday Lounge DSP on the background.

Here's a tutorial for this card:

1) Cut a piece of Ruby Red cardstock 11" x 4 1/4". Score the paper in half at the 5 1/2" mark.
2) Cut a piece of DSP 5 1/4" x 4". Take care with directional paper that you cut it the right way.
3) Stamp an image of the hat using any ink color. Cut the hat out (you don't need to worry about the ball at the top of the hat - you can cut that off). Put the image aside.
4) Stamp two hat images on a piece of Whisper White cardstock using black ink. Leave alot of space between the images - you will be stamping the monkey as well and then cutting them out in a circle.
5) Place the cut out hat image over one of the stamped hat images. This will mask your hat image. Ink your monkey image on the paper, aligning the head to give the image that the monkey is wearing the hat. Do the same with the second hat.
6) If not using Stazon black ink, let your images dry well, to avoid smudging.
7) Use a 1 1/2" circle cutter to cut a circle out of one of your monkey images.
8) Use a coordinating color (I used soft suede) and cut a circle 1 3/4" wide (I used my circle cutter to cut this second circle).
9) Color the small circle image in as you desire - I used Ruby Red, Soft Suede, and Creamy Caramel markers to color the monkey in. Set the small circle aside.
10) Use your circle cutter to cut a circle around the monkey. Make sure to not cut off any of the image.
11) Using the same coordinating color cardstock as above (I used soft suede), but a circle about 1/4" larger than the circle above. Adhere the monkey image to this circle.
12) Time to assemble the card - adhere the monkey image to your card. Then use dimensionals to adhere the small circle monkey image to your card. Line up the image to create the 'spotlighting' technique.
13) To make the gift box, ink a gift box with black ink and cut the box out. I used a Ruby Red marker to color in the dots, and to make the ribbon dotted. Adhere the box to the card using dimensionals.
14) Use a piece of ribbon (I used soft suede polka dot grosgrain ribbon) and tie it around the card and knot the ribbon.

Mojo Monday Week 102 Card

This is my Mojo Monday submission. I saw the large circle on the sketch, and immediately thought of this stamp set. I've traditionally done brighter colors with this set, but I really like how the muted colors ended up looking. Here is the sketch that I was working off of:
This is my take on the sketch:I used the Good Friends stamp set on this one. Again, the stamp-a-ma-jig came in very helpful to place the beak and legs of the bird. I used Always Artichoke and Sage Shadow ink on the bird image, and Always Artichoke ink on the other two images. For paper, I used Sage Shadow, Sahara Sand, and Always Artichoke cardstock and To the Nines DSP. My favorite part of the card was the flower on the left. I used brads in place of the starts that were on the stamped image. The picture doesn't show this card as well as I had hoped - the brads really add a punch to this card.

I used the circle cutter to cut the larger circles - worked like a charm!!