September Challenge Cards

Happy Fall!  I'm looking forward to the leaves turning soon.  It's making me want to create some Fall cards...

But for now, let's see the cards Michelle and I made for September's challenge :)

Here was the challenge:

First up is Michelle's card that inspired the design and colors of the challenge.  I love the double bow on this card - it is so beautiful!  I also love the color placement - simply beautiful, Michelle!

Next up is my card.  See?  I told you I was feeling Fall!  I used this stamp that I got last year and have been wanting to use for a while.  I used my markers to color the stamp and then put it to paper.  I then used my new Brother Scan n Cut to cut out the image and mats for the image.  I love how it turned out.

Great challenge, Michelle!  I'm looking forward to next month.  It sure will be a challenge since I haven't scrapbooked in about a decade!!! 

I wish you all a wonderful weekend and thanks for looking!

SU Little Debbie Challenge!

As I said, I do love a challenge :)

My sister's SU! group started up a monthly color challenge.  I want to participate and join in the fun.  So, I created this card for these colors.  I love the colors together, but when trying to figure out what to do, I had a really hard time.  Thus, the many layers.  Feels a bit like cheating, but that's okay!  I did it anyway ;)

Check out the colors that our resident color expert (Gaylyn) picked for September:

 And here is my card.  I love this little bird set and thought I could use all of the colors in this one image.  There was just too much blank space for my taste, so I added the clear buttons with some Island Indigo twine.  Love those buttons!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

My Curvy Keepsakes Box

My sister and upline challenged her team to make a Curvy Keepsakes Box recently.  She holds monthly meetings and for those of us that cannot attend, she mailed the pieces to us! 

I love challenges :)

I was thinking of making mine into a rabbit, but time didn't allow for me to spend all of the time figuring it out, so instead I grabbed a stamp set I haven't had a chance to use yet and the new tree set and punch.  I even sponged the top to give the top of the box a little more color and contrast.

This is what I ended up making:

Thanks, Debbie!  This sure was fun :)  Check out what Debbie and some of my stamping sisters created on Debbie's blog here!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

September Challenge

Happy September!  Michelle got really creative with the new In Colors and the card she made determined the colors and sketch!  Join us this month as we celebrate with the new In Colors:

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

August Challenge Cards

Happy Saturday!

Here are the challenge cards for August :)

First, the challenge:

Unfortunately, when Regina created this sketch design and challenge, we didn't know Stampin' Up! would be retiring the wheels.  But, since we've been at this for a long time, we all have a bunch of them to use :)  So, I'm glad we had a challenge using them.

First up is Michelle's card.  Isn't this cute?  I love the clean lines of this card.  It would be a really cute card for grade school teacher, no?  It's just beautiful!

Next is my card.  I really love the tea stamp sets and for some reason, I felt I needed to use this stamp!  So, I started digging through my wheels and thought this one would be a good match for the stamped image.  I decided to use Pear Pizzazz in addition to the other colors since the images would be lost if I stamped them in Sahara Sand.  They wouldn't look right if I stamped them in Early Espresso.  So, that's why there is an extra color added :)

We have another card to show you!  Debbie did this beautiful card using all stamps.  She made the "wheeled" piece with a stamp - looks great!  I love the sweet bird image - makes me think of birds waking up with the sun :)  To read more about this card, please visit Debbie's awesome blog here.

Unfortunately, Regina was not able to join us this month.  But, I'm sure she'll be back with us next month!  I'm looking forward to another challenge :)  Please join us!

Have a wonderful day and weekend!  Thanks for looking :)

August Challenge

Happy August!

Please join us this month as we create cards using this design.  Regina is once again challenging us!  Break out your stamping wheel and get rolling!

My Shoebox Swap Card

Every year, my sister and SU! upline hosts a shoebox swap for her downline.  I love this event.  It's so great to see my stamping friends, get great ideas and cards, and just have a really fun time!

This year, I wanted to use all of the SU! gold items:  sparkly paper, metallic paper, and vellum.  However, when I was trying to decide on a design, the silver items ended up working better!  Plus, there is some silver ribbon that is current!

I decided to use my Happy Hour stamp set for the glasses and then stamped them out again on the back side of the silver glitter paper.  If you do this, use your StazOn ink for this.  The Memento doesn't dry on the back of the glitter paper.  Also, I used the StazOn ink to stamp the sentiment on the vellum.  Again, the Memento didn't seem to dry on the vellum either!  So, it is nice to have both types of ink!

Wow, vellum is a stinker to try to adhere!  I found that nothing worked - I tried about three types of tape and three different glues.  I read to use a glue dot, but that didn't work either.  So, I finally got smart and decided to use a brad to hold the vellum in place.  I love these candy dot brads from SU!  I didn't realize that the little pearls fit in them too - what a great discovery!  

Here is the finished product!

We also do a gift exchange.  The gifts have to be handmade.  I love that!  I used a gift bag I received from a recent store purchase and embellished it with really old SU! DSP.  The paper is so old that it only has a design on one side!  Guess I've been with SU! for a long time!

I love these paint cans.  I pulled some beloved chocolate DSP and decorated it with some chocolate stamped images.  I then put the paper on the inside of the can.  I somehow didn't center the image on the paper so ran the ribbon through the plastic (cut with Xacto) and tied a big ribbon on the side that was uneven :)  I was very happy with myself for thinking for thinking of this.  Yes, it is those little things in life!

 I filled the can with chocolates, hot chocolate, and a Target gift card :)  What girl wouldn't like that???  Here is the lid of the can.

Well, another year's meeting done! 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!