Color Throwdown - 100th Combo Celebration

The fabulous gals at Color Throwdown have thrown down 100 color challenges and to celebrate they are having a HUGE prize give away.  All the details can be found here.   Given all the fun going on over at Color Throwdown I just had to play along.   This week's celebratory color combo included these lovely colors:  Certain Celery, Baja Breeze, Regal Rose & Real Red.   What yummy colors!   Almost the entire card is comprised of Stampin Up! products (except the white cardstock and the rhinestones!).   The stamp set I used is a fairly new set called Vintage Vogue.    I also pulled out my SU! Top Note die for the card. 

Thanks for taking a peek and I hope that you take some time to check out the Color Throwdown and play along!

Supplies:   Cardstock:  PTI White; SU! Regal Rose, Certain Celery; Ink:  SU! Baja Breeze, Real Red & Certain Celery; Ribbon:  SU! Regal Rose; Cuttlebug; Die:  SU! Top Note; KaiserCraft Rhinestones

Getting My Kraft On - CWC011

The new challenge at CAS-tactic is to use kraft cardstock.  No problem here, I love to use kraft cardstock!  Like most good neutral cardstocks, kraft goes with pretty much EVERYTHING!   So today I used some PTI kraft cs (the best stuff!), along with PTI's Lemon Tart cs & the Lemon Tart pp from the Dotty Biscotti collection.   The stamp is a Hero Arts bicycle stamp that I bought awhile ago and finally decided to ink up.  Boy, was it a pain taking a picture of this card!  Took three separate photo shoots before I finally got one that I was satisfied with!

Thanks for taking a peek!  Hope you are having a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Kraft & Lemon Tart; PP:  PTI - Dotty Biscotti; Ink:  Close to My Heart White Daisy; Stamp:  Hero Arts Bicycle, Stamps of Life Banners4All; Ribbon:  PTI Lemon Tart; SU! Scalloped Border punch

A DeLovely Day...

in the state of Washington and a DeLovely day for a JUGs challenge featuring JustRite Stampers!  I have a few JustRite Stampers (and would love to get some more) so I pulled them out and used one of the centers & borders from the 10 Designer Centers & Borders set (using 1 5/8" stamper).  The papers are, as I hinted from the fabulous Cosmo Cricket line:  DeLovely.   So bright and cheerful and perfect for this bright, cheerful day!  Cardstock is, of course, from PTI:  Stampers Select white & Raspberry Fizz.  To jazz up the main RF panel I stamped it with the Climbing Leaves backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms.  (Sadly, CHF will be closing its doors in early August.  Hopefully, the owners will find a buyer.)  

The sketch is courtesy of the swell gals at JUGs since this week is their sketch challenge week.  One of the fun things about JUGs is that each week they have a different challenge (sketch, color, techinque, template & if there is a 5th Saturday in the month, its "wild card" time!).    I used a couple of EKSuccess scalloped circle punches and the SU! 1 3/4" circle punch for the image.  Ribbon is some yummy PTI Lemon Tart.  I added a bit of bling to the green buttons. 

Thanks for taking a peek.... hope your day is sunny, too!



Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI white; raspberry fizz; Ink:  Memento Pear Tart; PP:  Cosmo Cricket DeLovely; Ribbon:  PTI Lemon Tart; Buttons:  DeNami Design; Rhinestones:   Kaiser Craft; Punches:  EKSuccess & SU!

CAS-tastic Monday, So Let's Have Some Cake!

Today I have a card for two CAS challenges:   CAS-tastic challenge CWC010 (a sketch this week) and the CAS challenge at Splitcoaststampers (an inspiration challenge).    The SCS challenge was to find inspiration from a gallery of beautiful weddings cakes from the website, Carries Cakes.   The cake I chose was a little black & white number. 

Putting the card together was super easy since I used the sketch for the current CAS-tastic challenge.  I got this stamp from DeNami Design about a month ago called Filigree Centerpiece and have been wanting to ink it up, so I used it for the card.   DeNami just release several new lines of stamps and they are having a giveaway to celebrate.  If you get a chance, check them out... they have lots of great stamp lines. 

I love that Stampin Up! now has this yummy double-sided satin ribbon and I used some of the grey for the card, as well as one of my favorite punches:  EKSucces bracket punch.  I added a bit of pearls and bling to the card.  The sentiment is from PTI's anniversary set:   Round & Round.

Thanks for taking a peek!  Hope you have the day off and are having a fabulous Monday!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI White & True Black; SU! Grey; Ink:  CTMH black; Stamps:  DeNami Design Filigree Centerpiece; PTI  Round & Round; Ribbon:  SU! Grey Satin; CTMH little rhinestones; BG gray pearls;  Punch:  EKSuccess Bracket

It Was One of Those Weekends

Where pretty much nothing went the way I wanted to it.  On Saturday I had hoped to make a card for one of my favorite color challenges, ColourQ, but instead I was literally flat on my back for most of the day with one of the worst migraines I have EVER had!   It sucked!!  So, I got nothing done.... a big fat NOTHING!!  Thank goodness I had waiting in the wings a card already made for another one of my favorite color challenges from the lovely and talent Dawn of WPlus9Design Studio, which is oddly enough is also called Color Cue!!  I just realized that!  Anyway, both color challenges are fantastic whichever one you decide to go with.  In fact, try both!!!   If you have not had a chance to purchase any of Dawn's wonderful stamp sets, please head to her store pronto (click either link above) and check thenm out.   For my card I used a set that Dawn debut last month called the Birds & the Bees.  What an adorable set!!!   And she just reveal two new sets for July... again, both super cute!

I hope that everyone in the US had a wonderful 4th of July weekend!  Heres to a better week, no migraines and lots of cardmaking.   Thanks for taking a peek!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  White & Hawaiin Shores; SU! Tangrine Tango & Kiwi Kiss; Ink: SU! Kiwi Kiss; Choc. Chip, Palette Cote Azure; Ribbon:  PTI Dark Choc. grosgrain; Buttons:  DeNami Design - Tutti Frutti pack; Punch:  SU! Word Window Punch & Scalloped edge punch; Stamps:   WPlus9Design Studio - The Birds & The Bees

CTD99 & 2S4Y

Boy, those gals at Color Throwdown have been throwing down some really challenging color combos and this week was no exception!  Combo #99 is vanilla (cream), chocolate & turquoise.  Next week Color Throwdown will be celebrating their 100th combo with a huge party of sorts, featuring prizes from lots of sponsors.  It looks to be loads of fun and if you haven't throwdown color with the Color Throwdown next week would be the perfect time to give them a try.

My card layout is based on the current sketch from 2S4Y.  While the card looks pretty simple, it wasn't so easy to put together.  Is that how it works?   The "simple" card actually turns out to be the "not so simple" card!  lol!   After all that work I am pretty happy with how it turned out, though.

Thanks for taking a peek!  

Supplies:  Cardstock: PTI Vintage Cream; SU! Tempting Turquoise; Ink:  SU! Choc. Chip, Palette Cote Azure; Ribbon:  SU!;  SU! Choc. Chip cord button; twine;  Stamps:  PTI Turning a New Leaf