CTD#170 - Santa

Hello there! It's time for this week's Color Throwdown (CTD170)!   I'm this week's hostess over at the CTD blog and I've chosen some semi-traditional Christmas colors for all of us to create with this week.  I hope you'll find time to play along.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Tremendous Treats Holiday along with some My Mind's Eye designer paper.  I started out by stamping the fun Santa image from the TTH set, colored him using Copic markers, added some glitter to his cuffs, pom pom on his hat and the stars (see close up photo below)and then die cut him out using a circle Nestie die.  I kept the design of the card clean and bold using these colors, some large green rick-rack, scallop border and large yellow star with button and twine.

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

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Keva Brown - How Now Brown Kow

Kristin Eberline - Mindless Creativity

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations
Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Lydia Fiedler - Understand Blue - Our Guest Designer for November/December

Thanks for stopping by!

SSSSC145 - Hohoho

It's Tuesday and yes I'm finally posting the card I have for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #145 (SSSC145).  Better late than never I suppose.  Saturday night when I was trying to work on my card I had a headache that would leave me alone so that's why I'm late.

For my card I used the There She Goes new stamp set Hohoho and chose the Santa image from the set.  After coloring the Santa using Copic markers I mixed white flock with glitter and added it to the trim of his suite and hat.  If you look close at the image (see photo below) you can see how adding the flock with glitter adds a fun touch to this cute image. 

Supplies: Hohoho - TSG, Tremendous Treats Holiday (sentiment) - PTI, MME dp, Ribbon, Martha Stewart snowflake punch, Button, Banner die - PTI, Copics, Nesties, Glitter, Flock.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation! 

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse 

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards
Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

TSG132 Inspiration Challenge - Lighten Up

Hello everyone!  Today is my turn to host the There She Goes Challenge (TSG132) this week over at the TSG blog and I've chosen an inspiration photo to get our creative mojo going. 

I loved this photo with it's gorgeous bedroom, there were so many elements that drew my eye.  From the cool colors, different patterns and texture in the fabrics and walls to the mirrored nightstand and table.

photo credit

For my card I went with the teal and white colors and used the There She Goes stamp set Lighten Up!  I started with a taken with teal card base, then added a panel of white card stock that I scored lines into to repeat the pattern of the walls and curtains in the photo.  Then I stamped my sentiment onto a piece of cool caribbean cardstock and embossed it with a pattern that I thought was similar to the blue satin coverlet from the photo and added it to the bottom of my card.  I added a piece of Cosmo Cricket designer paper which has a modern circle pattern to it and stamped and colored my lamp image and die cut it out using a circle Nesties.  I added some Spica glitter pen to my lamp image to give it some shimmer, some white satin ribbon, a row of scallop border and three white roses with pearls to finish my card.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you'll find time to play along with this week's TSG Challenge!

PTI November Blog Hop

Hello friends I hope those of you that celebrated Thanksgiving had a wonderful day with family and friends.  Today I'm sharing a card that I created for the November Papertrey Ink Blog Hop.  The inspiration for this month's PTI blog hop is the pretty Christmas photo below.

For my card I used the PTI stamp sets Wreath for all Season and Bitty Bird and kept it clean and simple.  I used the Deconstructed Sketch Challenge #28 for my layout along with some gingham nameless designer paper I had in my stash.  I started out by stamping the wreath image, then stamped the little bird inside the wreath.  Next I die cut the birds body using the coordinating die to the Bitty Bird set and stamped and added him to my image.  For my background I ended up inking up the wreath image from the Wreath for all Season set and randomly stamped it on the red cardstock.  I added a border of white scallop and a red satin ribbon with bow to finish off my card.

Thank you for your visit!