Antiqued Purple Flowers- SCIC03

I can't even believe it's week 3 already for the Stampin' Celebration blog Inspiration Challenge! And look at this inspiration picture! The yellow, brown, purple.....very fun colors to work with!! Go give it a try and while you are there check out the other design team members fabulous samples this week...you do not want to miss them!!

Here is my card for this week. I used the Messages for Mom stamp set just like I did for my Mom's mothers day card here. I also did a little something different with this card, I used the Cracked Glass Technique. (This is where you rub Versa Mark all over your image and then sprinkle Glossy Glaze embossing power all over it, use the heat gun on it to emboss and them repeat two more times. This creates a thick shiny layer over your image. When that is done, stick your glossy images in the freezer for about 5 minutes. When you take it out immediately start to crack it by bending the paper a bit. Then you take a sponge with darker ink on it and rub it over the cracks to make the crack more pronounced and rub off any extra ink that did not get in the cracks with a dry cloth.)

Here is close up of the technique.

I finished off the card by tying a piece of Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon around the card and added a sentiment on a Medium Jewelery Tag and called it good!

Thanks for looking!

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Mothers Day Freesia and Card

Happy Mothers Day! I hope all you mothers had a great day!

Here is what my Mom got today! A potted Freesia flower with a few hand made accessories! I do not think I have ever seen or smelt a Freesia before and they are so pretty and smell so good!

I picked up the flower at a store and then came home and re-potted it into a bigger pit and added a few accessories to make it cute! First I added the 5/8" Black Grosgrain ribbon around the pot and tied it in a bow.
Then I die cut a few butterflies from the Beautiful Butterfly Bigz die and the Beautiful Wings Embosslit die using my Big Shot and Basic Black and Vellum card stocks. I also ran the Vellum through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing folder. I put a few butterflies together using mini glue dots ans adhered then to green "sticks" and stuck them into the pot.

Here is a close up of one of the butterflies. Nothing fancy, just a little something to give it a home made touch!

Here is the card I made for my Mom. I knew she liked this stamp set, so I used it on her card!

The stamp set if the the Occasions Mini catalog and is called Messages for Mom. I took the flower image and stamped it multiple time onto Watercolor paper using Black StazOn. I took the Rose Red, Apricot Appeal and Old Olive Stampin' Write markers and highlighted the image using the appropriate colors.

Then I took the Aqua Painter Pen and painted over the places I had colored to give it a softer look. I didn't color perfectly so that way the color would flow out of the line a little bit to fill the white spaces on the Watercolor paper.

I added a piece of Very Vanilla ribbon, a bow and a sentiment from the same stamp set to finish it off.

Thanks for looking!

p.s. Remember to stop by the Stampin' Celebration Blog to play along with us in the very first inspiration challenge!!

Gray Bird Card Kit- CCCCact26

It's time for another Curtain Call Color Challenge! This week Stacey has some more fun colors to work with! They are Whisper White, Basic Gray, Going Gray and Crushed Curry. I was worried when I saw Crushed Curry, because it is not a color I have found easy to use. But to my surprise, it works very well with both the gray's and the white!

Here is what I came up with! A cute little card kit ready to be used. I decorated the thin tin using the colors for this week and a few punches from the Occasions Mini catalog. I used my Big Shot and the Naturally Serif Sizzlit alphabet die to create the letters on the tin.

Once you untie the white Satin ribbon bow that is tied around the thin tin you will find all the supplies you need to make six sets of 3"x3" cards. You can choose to make them exactly like I did or choose to design your own cards!

I think this would be a great little gift to give someone for any occasion!

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Chocolate Bird with Sweet Pea Accents

Here is a card that I made for my club to make last month for club. It uses a lot of new products that are in the Occasions Mini catalog.

I embossed a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock using my Big Shot and the Stampin' Up! Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder and put it on top pf the Chocolate Chip card base. I then clustered three circles that I had die cut using the Big Shot and the Sweet Pea DSP into the bottom right corner of the card.

Next I used the new Extra Large Two-Step Bird punch and punched out a Chocolate Chip bird and two Old Olive branches. I then placed a few pieces of the Sweet Pea Felt around the bird and then added a clear rhinestone brad to give the card a little bling. The sentiment "friends" is from the Tiny Tags stamp set and is stamped and then punched out using the Medium Jewlery Tag punch.

Here is a close up of the details.

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Pumpkin Fox- PPA29

Pals Paper Arts has a sketch challenge this week. What a great clean sketch to make a card with.

Here is my card. The fox comes from the new Fox and Friends clear mount stamp set. I stamped him in Pumpkin Pie classic ink onto watercolor paper and then used a blender pen to color/blend him. The DSP comes from the Welcome Neighbor Designer Series Paper Pad in the Sale-A-Bration catalog.

Panel 4, the Kraft card stock, was made using the Big Shot and one of the tags from the Two Tags Bigz die with part of it cut off to fit the sketch challenge.

I used the same DSP, but changed the direction of the pattern to follow the sketch challenge (panel 1 and 2 in the sketch). Here is a close up photo to show that.

To finish off the card I tied a piece of 5/8" Chocolate Chip grosgrain ribbon in a knot and put it in the appropriate spot on the card.

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Love Buttons- CCCCAct16

What great warm/home-y colors Stacey has this week for her Curtain Call Act 16! They are Real Red, Kraft and Very Vanilla. I needed to make a Valentine to send to a friend, so I used theses colors to come up with one.

Here is what I came up with! I had fun putting this card together. I die cut the big heart with my Big Shot and the Stampin' Up! Hearts and Bracket die using textured Real Red card stock. The small heart that is tied to the big heart using Linen Thread came from the Heart to Heart punch. I used the new Pinking Hearts Border punch on the Kraft card stock. I also sponged the Kraft and the Real Red card stocks to give them more texture.

The little banner was stamped with the "happy Valentines day" stamp from the Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp set.


There are buttons from the Buttons #5 Sizzlits die making up a background on the Very Vanilla card base. Here is a close up picture of them. I thought this gave the card a little more detail, but was subtle enough to not distract away from the main heart image.

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Elegant Egg-let Flower- Color Throwdown #77

This week the Color Throwdown team has a refreshing color combo with Elegant Eggplant, Baja Breeze and Certainly Celery. What great colors to work with!

Here is what I came up with. The Elegant Eggplant flower was made using the Eyelet Border Punch, what a fun and easy way to make paper flowers in any color you want!

I added a Clear Rhinestone brad to the center of the flower and a piece of the new Certainly Celery Satin Ribbon as the leaves to complete the flower. I mounted the flower onto a Kiss from the Occasions Mini catalog.

I covered the Baja Breeze card stock with a piece of Vellum card stock I sent through my Big Shot with the Stampin' Up! Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder and then sewed them together and mounted it onto the Whisper White card base. The sentiment on the banner is from the new stamp set Messages for Mom.

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Cute Heart Stealer

Look at this cute Valentines card! I saw mjw over at splitcoast did a card like this and I thought it was so cute, I had to give it a try!

I ran the Melon Mambo card stock through my Big Shot with the SU! Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder and put it on the Chocolate Chip card stock card base.

I stamped the cute images from the clear mount Love Bandit stamp set using Staz-On onto watercolor paper and then water colored them in using SU! markers and my Aqua painter pen. I mounted it onto a piece of Chocolate Chip card stock and then folded a piece of Chocolate Chip 5/8" grosgrain ribbon under it and mounted it to the card. Simple layout, but super cute stamp set!

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Soft Elegant Birds- CCCCact14

It's Sunday and that mean's Stacey has another Curtain Call Color Challenge for us! This week Stacey was inspired by these sachets and sweaters. The colors for Act 14 are Bashful Blue, Orchid Opulence and Whisper White.

Here is what I came up with. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to use with these soft colors, but when I saw the new Extra Large Two-Step Bird Punch, I knew that I was going to be using that! I also thought the SU! Perfect Polka Dots impressions folder would go well.

The birds wings are attached using a dimentional and the white blocks the birds are on are also on dimentionals on the card.

I added the half pearl from the Pretties Kit as a little more elegance to go with the White Satin ribbon.

What fun different colors for me to work with! If you want to give it a try head over to Stacey's blog!

Thanks for looking!

Love -Ball Machine- cQc#13

I have had my eye on Arielle's Colour Q Color Challenge for a while and decided to do it this week at the last minute!

What fun colors she has this week! They are Melon Mambo, Pretty in Pink, Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Ship and Whisper White.

When I saw these colors and knew I had to use my new clear-mount stamp from Stampin' Up! called Something Sweet that is in the Occasions Mini catalog.

Here is what I came up with, a love filled gumball machine! I kept this card pretty clean and simple, but had fun using my new stamp set!

(I will be doing Arielle's color challenge again soon!!)

Thanks for looking!