CTD#207/MOJO256 - Hello Friend

 It's time for another Color Throwdown Challenge (CTD207).  Our hostess for this week is Lori who has chosen some yummy looking colors and inspiration photo for all of us to create with this week.

For my card I not only used this week's colors for the CTD challenge but also used the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge #256 for my layout.  I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Think Big Favorites #3 for my sentiment and Turning a New Leaf with the coordinating dies for around my flower.

 Supplies: Think Big Favorites #3, Turning a New Leaf + dies, MME dp, Oval Nesties, Flower die, Simple Stripes Impressions Plate, Button, Bakers twine, Foam tape.   Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!  

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper

  Vickie Zimmer - For the Love of all Things Stampin - as our August Guest Designer

Hope you'll join the fun and play along in this week's challenge!

 

SSSC166 - HELLO

 It's time for another fun Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC166)!  Karen has a great sketch for all of us to create with for the next two week's and we all hope you'll play along.

 Supplies: Heart 2 Heart + die, Nesties circle dies, Banner dies, MME dp, Circle punches, Ribbon, Button, Polka dot embossing folder, Bakers twine, Foam tape.  Colors: Chocolate Chip, Ruby Red, So Saffron.   Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using the SSS sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse 

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell 

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards

Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

Dawn Easton: Treasure Oiler Designz 

Jackie Pedro: The Scalloped Edge
Lori Tecler: Inking Aloud
Melissa Hubert: My Paper Obsession
Tracy Clemente: Eat Sleep Stamp
Becca Whitham - Becca Expressions - Our Sweet Sunday Guest Stamper

 

RS#26 - Happy Haunting

Happy Saturday!  This is my second post for today, so if you're looking for my Our Creative Corner/ Papertrey Ink Blog Hop post please see below.  It's time for a new Retro Sketches Challenge (RS26)!  I'm sad to write that this is the last Saturday of the month and that my time as a Retro Sketches Headliner has come to an end.  I've really enjoyed working with the talented women on the team and designing cards using the fun sketches each week. The sketch for this week's challenge was created by this week's Retro Sketches guest designer Danielle Daws.

Yes, this is a Halloween card the first one for this year, I couldn't resist since I just received my PTI order and this adorable Happy Haunting set was part of it. 

Supplies: Happy Haunting + die, Mat Stack 5, Oval dies, Chevron Stripes border die, Button, Bakers twine, Embossing folder, Corner rounder, Foam tape.  Colors: Basic Black, Only Orange, Kiwi Kiss.

 Be sure to stop over at the Retro Sketches blog to see Arielle, Kasia, Laurie and Danielle's creations using this fun sketch.

Exciting News - Nut'n Better Gift Set

Hello everyone!  Yep I've got some exciting news, I'm this week's guest designer over at the Our Creative Corner blog!  The hostess for this week is Kim Price and the theme for her challenge is Recycle, along with using something resalvaged/recycled on your card or project she asks that you also use the color green.

The projects I have for today, I'm also entering in for this month's Papertrey Ink August Blog Hop.  As you can see from the PTI inspiration photos below, the challenge was to create a project with texture, something with either herringbone, tweed, burlap, felt, corduroy, houndstooth or argyle which I attempted to do with my gift set. 

For my card and jar full of nuts I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Autumn Acorns and Modern Wood Mats.  For the recycled material on my two projects I used cardboard, the corrugated banner and die cut border on my card and the corrugated cardboard tag for my gift jar.  I've incorporated the color green into my projects with the designer paper and acorns and I've also embossed a herringbone pattern into my background panel and used an Autumn color palette.

Supplies:  Autumn Acorn + dies, Modern Wood Mats, Mat Stack die, Banner die, Chevron die, Ribbon, Herringbone embossing folder, Button, Twine, Cardboard, Nestie dies, We R Memory Keepers designer paper, Jar, Foam tape.  Colors: Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Really Rust, Old Olive.   Well that's it in a nut shell for me (pardon the pun), I hope you'll join in for this week's OCC challenge! Thanks for stopping by!  

CTD#206 - The Sweet Life

Where has this summer gone?  It seems like only yesterday my kids were getting out of school for summer break and now in two weeks they'll be going back.  I've been busy getting all three of them ready for school and can't believe that all of them will be gone all day this year, wow.    It's Wednesday and time for the Color Throwdown, this week Kerri is our hostess and she's chosen some wonderful colors for us to play with.

 Supplies: The Sweet Life + dies, Friendship Jar Summer Fillers, Friendship Jar Fillers, Little Labels, Doily, Filigree border die, MME dp, Seam binding, Button, Copic markers, Foam Tape.   Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!  

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper

  Vickie Zimmer - For the Love of all Things Stampin - as our August Guest Designer

  

RS#25 - Strawberry Wishes

Hi there friends!  It's Saturday and my turn over at the Retro Sketches Challenge blog to share my sketch which was taken from this card I created for a card order.  I really hope you like the sketch and that you'll take the time to play along this week!  I'd love to see what everyone comes up with using this layout.

For my re-designed card using the sketch, I used the Papertrey Ink stamp sets Strawberry Patch and Think Big Favorites #16.  I also jumped in on the Colour Queen Challenge #150 because I loved these bright colors.  I'm a little rusty on using my Copic markers since I haven't used them in months but I did add a bit of shading to this strawberry image after stamping in the colors for the leaves and strawberries.

Supplies: Strawberry Patch, Think Big Favorites #16, Copic markers, Ribbon, Button, Bakers twine, Scallop border die, Foam tape.    Be sure to stop over at the Retro Sketches blog to see Arielle, Kasia and Laurie's creations using this fun sketch.

CTD205 - Smiles

It's Wednesday and time for another Color Throwdown Challenge.  This week the talented Joan is our hostess and she's chosen some lovely colors along with a pretty inspiration photo.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Natural Beauties and stamped the floral images from the set onto my background panel, then used a woodgrain impressions plate to give it some texture.  On top of that I added my lavender Mat Stack 4 die cut and stamped piece, ribbon and oval sentiment with buttons.  The butterfly from the Beautiful Butterflies stamp set was die cut, stamped and adhered with glue dots to the lower right corner.

Supplies: Natural Beauties, Mat Stack 4 +die, Beautiful Butterflies + die, Oval dies, Woodgrain Impression plate, Ribbon, Buttons, Foam tape.   Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge!  

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Denise Marzec - The Paper Landscaper

  Vickie Zimmer - For the Love of all Things Stampin - as our August Guest Designer

 Hope someone makes you smile today!  

SSSC165 - Celebrate Today!

It's Sunday and time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Cupcake Collection along with the coordinating dies and some My Mind's Eye Dwell designer paper.  I ended up elongating the main image panel a bit to allow for three cupcakes but over all kept to the sketch.

Supplies: Cupcake Collection + dies, Flower dies, MME dp, Bakers twine, Button, Heart pin, Foam tape.  Colors: Cool Caribbean, Pink Pirouette, So Saffron, Certainly Celery, Pixie Pink.   Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using the SSS sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse 

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards

Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

Dawn Easton: Treasure Oiler Designz 

Jackie Pedro: The Scalloped Edge
Lori Tecler: Inking Aloud
Melissa Hubert: My Paper Obsession
Tracy Clemente: Eat Sleep Stamp
Amy White: White House Stamping - Our Sweet Sunday Guest Stamper

RS#24/CQC#149 - Hello Buttercup!

Hi there!  It's time for this week's Retro Sketches Challenge #24.  The sketch for this week was based on Laurie's pretty card which you can see here.

For my card I not only used the Retro Sketch for my layout but also used the colors from the Colour Queen Challenge #149.  I kept my card clean and simple, I started out with a garden green (didn't have gumball green), then added a panel of night of navy (no midnight muse either), then added an embossed panel of white.  To get the circular shape from the sketch I used a doily and then layered the two shades of green die cut leaves and "buttercup" yellow flower with button.

Supplies: Signature Greetings II, Turning a New Leaf + dies, Flower die, Grid Impressions Plate, Doily, Button.   Be sure to stop over at the Retro Sketches blog to see Arielle, Kasia and Laurie's creations using this fun sketch.   Have a great day!