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CHA-CHA flowers! EIC123 and PLAY2

 

 
I'm playing along today with two challenges - Etsy Inspired Challenge #123 and a little challenge on Facebook for those of us not going to CHA (The Craft and Hobby Association trade show).

For Etsy Inspired: I headed over to Nanny's Room this week for my inspiration. You are going to LOVE these original artwork pieces and handmade items. Nanny's Room creations are made with watercolor and colored pencils, and they are miniature in size [2 1/2" x 3 1/2"]. You are going to love all these vibrant colors, I sure did - these are STUNNING!  I am in love with the incredible colors in her artwork and pendants. 

For the FAcebook Challenge (see my Facebook page for me info) Play 2 - this uses the colors of CHA - Candy Apple Red, Honey and Aqua. 

 

I embossed on water color paper with a Papertrey Ink's stamp set (black ep) and then watercolored using my reinkers in Riding Hood Red, So Saffron and Pacific Point.   I used Golden's GEL medium over the top of the watercolored piece - its a great product you can get it in gloss, semi or matte and it adds texture while sealing in your project.  And what I really love about it - it dries!  It really dries!   Modge Podge always stays tacky here in Florida - I assume that there is just to much humidity.

Stamps:  Friends Til the End (Papertrey Ink) 
Paper:   Lemon Tart (PTI) CS, Basic Black CS and watercolor paper
Reinkers:  Riding Hood Red, So Saffron, Pacific Point & Bliss Blue (all SU)
Other:  Images were stamped with Versamark and embossed in fine black embossing powder

 

 

And so the day came ....

And so the day came, the day that Friends Having Fun closes down, and let me just say:  it was an absolute blast!

I used the final sketch from Friends Having Fun, and this pendant from the Etsy Inspired 100th challenge (below).  The flower is made from punching 8 of the scallop circle punch (EK Success/SU) from an old book, sponging the edges, misting them and crumpling into the flower form.

The details:
Ink:   Purely Pomegranate from SU
Cardstock:  Kraft from PTI
Paper:  K & Co, and Little Yellow Bicycle
Stamp:  Verve
Other:  rayon crinkle ribbon/seam binding, grey pearls
 
 

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, Shell-a-brate!

This month's theme: "Christmas in July" at Friends Having Fun.  The challenge for this month is to:

- make a holiday card (it can be Christmas, Hanukah, Festivus, Kwanzaa, Winter Solstice, etc) or scrapbook page
- make your card long and narrow to fit a business sized envelope (4 1/8 in x 9 ½ in). An easy dimension is to cut your 8.5 x 11 cardstock to 8 in by 9 in and score the long way down the middle (yields a folded card size of 4 x 9). If you are scrabooking, one of the elements in your layout should be this size.
- incorporate your favorite technique.

As an optional element / ingredient - create something "holiday"  representative of your home state.   So, I crafted this beach theme Christmas tree. 

My favorite techniques (I used three all together for this card):  watercoloring, embossed foil, and sanding. 

The cardstock is Baja Blue - it is embossed and then I ran the ink pad over top, let it dry, then sanded it.  The seashell Christmas tree from the retired set "Shellebrate the Season", white satin ribbon completes it (all supplies from Stampin' Up! except for the stickles).  I used distress stickles in antique linen for the sand.  Here's a little ornament I made wiht this stamp set, too  <----- click

 
The card colors was Etsy inspired by the Mermaid Tears store and this fabulous sea glass necklace:

Dusty Curry Bay CC277

Sometimes I find myself in a rut with colors so I decide to try something "new" and I always look for color challenges, like for Friends Having Fun and on Splitcoast Stampers.  So this week  I decided to try the color challenge on SCS and it wasn't that far off from some of my past creations - the colors are Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango and Bermuda Bay - I think Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry colors retired from SU but I had 'em in my collection. 

I got to break out my new Spellbinder's Impressabilities die and try it for myself.  I embossed a sheet of white cardstock and then smeared the ink pads Crushed Curry and Dusty Durango over top.

All the deets:

Cardstock:  Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry and White (SU)
Ink:  Bermuda Bay, Crushed Curry, Dusty Durango
Stamp:  Inky Antics
Ribbon:  stitched wide grosgrain (believe it or not I got it at Michael's and its a dead ringer match for B,  Bay), rhinestone.
 

Spread your wings!

Here's a card featuring the color challenge from Friends Having Fun and and the sentiment is a digital stamp from StampInsanity (also available as a traditional stamp).  I colored the ribbon with copic markers to match my project.

June's recipe for Friends Having Fun

I've been having an absolute blast with the Friends Having Fun challenges! Having fun is what its all about, isn't it?

Our challenge was to make a birthday card and incorporate the following elements:

• brads or eyelets to make a shape (I made the heart shape)
• use numbers (paper from Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6 x 6 stack)
• use a tag
• have a bow on it  (I did a knot in the button twine)

The details:  Stamps used are from Unity, the paper is Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6 x 6 stack), the ink colors are black, Not Quite Navy, So Saffron and Ruby Red (SU), the brads are Ruby Red from SU.  The button is from PTI Ocean Tides color family.  The size ... it fits a business size envelope its 4 inches by 9 inches.

Please take some time to check out  the other "Chefs" in the kitchen cookin' up some fun, and don't miss out on our Design Team (DT) call :   http://friendshavingfun.com/2010/06/562/

Our Fearless Team Leaders:
Sara  www.scraphappie.blogspot.com
Margie www.ohbumbleismemargie.blogspot.com

And the Recipe Design Team:
Juanita  www.stampintwilghtmom.blogspot.com
(me) Rebecca www.bellacarta.typepad.com
Jeri www.craftyjsplace.blogspot.com
Piali www.touchofcreation.blogspot.com

I've been having an absolute blast with the Friends Having Fun challenges! Having fun is what its all about, isn't it?

Our challenge was to make a birthday card and incorporate the following elements:

• brads or eyelets to make a shape (I made the heart shape)
• use numbers (paper from Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6 x 6 stack)
• use a tag
• have a bow on it  (I did a knot in the button twine)

Cuter than most {inlinkz first card challenge}

InLinkz (a wonderful little linking widget) is having their first card challenge!  This card features stamps from Unity Stamp Co (Cuter Than Most} and paper from K &  Co. 

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Here are all the deets:

Fly ... sweet sparrow

 
Its time for another Friends Having Fun color challenge!   Allison picked for us the colors of a desert sunset .... turquoise, terra cotta and lemon yellow.  I had several great paper packs to choose from  in these colors Cosmo Cricket Halway Cafe, Wanted and Crate Paper Crush and I went with Cosmo Cricket's Halfway Cafe.  I sanded the paper edges just to make it a bit softer.   The textured background is made by using an embossing machine, and then inking the raised portions.    This card is also from Unity Stamp Co's second anniversary challenge - Unity Takes Flight.   The bird and sentiment are stamped on oak veneer (very, very thin wood).  I had a card posted yesterday that used these colors, too! 

Stamps:  Sweet Sparrow from Unity Stamp Co.
Cardstock:  Aqua Mist and Lemon Tart from Papertrey Ink, Halfway Cafe paper from Cosmo Cricket
Ink:  Terracotta from Papertrey Ink, Cocoa Bean from Memento, and Broken China from Tim Holtz distress inks.
Accessories:  a little brass key that I dipped in versamark and heat embossed to a copper patina, wood veneer, ribbon.  

 

TTIC Farewell Blog Hop

Hey everyone!

I am very excited to bring you something special for our last Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge {and I've got Blog Candy, so keep reading!}.  For this event, we're doing a DT blog hop in reverse alphabetical order.  Our challenge theme????  "Love of books, the printed words on a page"  since that is what brought us all together.  Even though this is our last time the design time will officially be together and I'm sad about that, I have loved every minute of my time with the design team! 

Create a project that uses printed text: a page from a magazine, book, dictionary, etc. within your project, as the background or focal point.

Comment portion: I love to read the newspaper online but nothing beats a printed newspaper on Sunday mornings. And no matter how hard I try, I can't abandon books (hardcover, softcover, or paperback) to a digital reader. Are you totally digital or do you prefer a good old fashioned printed page in your hands?"

The hop trail will be in a backwards alpha order... starting at the Twilight Tuesday blog and ... ending at the Twilight Tuesday Blog.  If you arrived here from Tonya's post, you're on the right path!

So after leaving me some comment love, please go visit MARGIE!

Here's my project, I used an old book to make a large focal flower.  I used my "pinked circles" dies from nestabilities. there are six layers, I sponged them together, then crumpled to distress and give some dimension.  The button is actually sewn onto the flower so the two elements are securely together.

I also have BLOG CANDY!!!!  Just leave me a comment by 11:59 PM Thursday to be entered to win!  Let me know what you've enjoyed most over the past year of Twilight posts .... to take a walk down memory lane and see all my Twilight themed projects <------ click

 

My blog candy is donated by Artful Inkables:  Vampire Romance themed charms.

Remember there are several great ways to win blog candy:

1. Post your challenge theme project using InLinkz on the Twilight Tuesday website by Thursday midnight
2. Check out the entire Design Team, there are quite a stops that we are offering blog candy. Leave your comnent on that blog to be entered for that candy.

*blog candy limited to participants in the US only.

Peace, love and Twilight!

 

 

 

 

a special TT color challenge for Jake! TTCC4

This is our fourth and final color challenge for Twilight Tuesday:  Jacob's colors.  

 
  If I haven't told y'all already, I have LOVED every minute of Twilight Tuesday - its been such a fun JOY filled endeavor.  When I first started this - I really had no idea how I was going to create a card or project EACH week around Twilight but soon found myself filtering life through "twilight colored" glasses.    And here it is a year and half later!  Its been a great JOURNEY!  A huge shout out to Beth, Jen, Julie, Dani, Margie, Eve, Donna, Jodi, Erica, Allison and Jacquie for being so great to work with.  A special thank you to Tonya - the creator and owner of Twilight Tuesday.   

Next week will be our last week of challenges and I still haven't figured out how I will fill my Tuesdays afterwards.    Dani has a wonderful sketch for next week and I choose the final challenge theme so please come back for our final week :-) and then come back and visit me often! 

After tuesday's project that was sponged and smudged, I went with "clean and simple" I thought it suited Jake well.  This is a postcard that is mailng to Bella with the simple advice to :

"Enjoy everyday, enjoy life"

Stamps:   Postcard (Unity), sentiment is from Handwritten Notes (PTI)

Cardstock:  Kraft (PTI),  Kiwi Kiss textured (SU) and Very Vanilla (SU)

Ink:   Dark Chocolate and True Black (PTI), Chamomille tea distress ink (PTI)

Accessories:  Spring Moss (PTI) with russet grosgrain ribbon (unknown)