Masculine Valentine Challenge Card

This card isn't the most traditional coloured Valentine card but I wanted to try to make it more masculine and incorporate several SCS challenges into it.

It uses the colour challenge CC308 (river rock, basic gray and whisper white), the sketch challenge SC318 and the ways to use it challenge WT308 (hearts).

I used my large heart punch to create a mask and sponged river rock inside of the mask to create the heart. Before removing the mask, I stamped the flourish in basic gray.

Stamps: SU teeny tiny wishes, flourish (not sure what company)
Ink: SU river rock, basic gray
Paper: SU ww, river rock, basic gray, ginger blossom dp (retired)
Ribbon: SU 3/8" basic gray taffeta
Misc: SU heart punch, sponge daubers, dimensionals

Colour Challenge Indeed

Well, I had intended to make this card for colour challenge CC210 on SCS, however it challenged me so much I entirely forgot about one of the colours (Kraft) so now it doesn't qualify! But I still consider it a part of the challenge because I was inspired by the other colours. Oh well, I took inspiration from my card yesterday and wanted to give it another look using different colours. So I swapped yesterdays colours for riding hood red, summer sun and basic black. It turned out ok, but not great. I definitely like yesterdays card MUCH better.

I also don't own brads in any of those colours (well I do black but they are not SU and I wanted to create and SU only card) so I subsituted the brads for 1/2" circles instead.

Supplies

Stamps: SU fifth avenue floral, pocket silhouettes
Ink: StazOn jet black, riding hood red, summer sun
Paper: SU ww, basic black, summer sun, riding hood red
Punches: SU 1/2" circle punch

Multi-Inspired Card

This card is definitely not a combination of colours that I would typically use but I absolutely love the way it turned out. I was looking around the SCS colour challenges for inspiration and ways to actually use purple (since I never do) and came across colour challengeCC207, and thought it was stunning (I realize there is no purple but it also uses colours I never use).

When I was looking in the gallery for this particular colour challenge I saw this card that Jodi created (whose blog you HAVE to check out - it is AMAZING). If I could make myself stamp like anyone it would be her! SO I took this card and ran with it as inspiration changing a few of the details to make it my own, but maintaining the general sketch therefore qualifying for Mojo75.I just love the way the flower turned out on this card. It's even better than I had planned. I stamped the image in StazOn jet black so that when I coloured it with my markers the colours wouldn't run. Then, I coloured the flower petals with my SU Summer sun marker and then added some shading with my pumpking pie marker. Finally, the center of the flower was coloured using my blender pens and kiwi kiss ink.

Supplies

Stamps: SU Fifth Avenue Floral, Pocket Silhouettes
Ink: StazOn jet black, SU summer sun, pumpkin pie, kiwi kiss
Paper: SU basic black, ww, summer sun, pumpkin pie, hawaii papaya dp
Brads: SU pumpkin pie brads
Punches: SU scallop edge punch

OCCC Mojo69 Dream Preview

It's been a long time since I last posted due to a combination of being busy with other things and a lack of creativity. It's starting to come back though so we'll see if I can get to posting a little more regularly again.

This is a card I created for a couple of challenges. The sketch is from Mojo Monday 69 and the colours are from Our Creative Corner colour challenge to use two or more shades of blue and a neutral.

This is a new stamp set from Stampin' Up! that will be a hostess set in the new catalogue coming out later this month.

Supplies

Stamps: SU Dream a Little
Ink: SU bashful blue, not quite navy
Paper: SU bashful blue, not quite navy, ww, maine blueberry
Misc: SU 1/2" circle

RDOA, SC201 Christmas

I'm back to posting randomly after having last week off and having tons of time to stamp. Plus to top it off, I'm on night shifts so my photos aren't great because the sun is already gone by the time I wake up!

Here is a card using the colour challenge here as part of RDOA. I also combined this weeks sketch challenge, SC201, on SCS for inspiration for the layout. I had this card in my mind for a while but it didn't turn out quite like I hoped - I think because I didn't want to cut down the main image but I had pictured it smaller than it is. Oh well. Here is another card I used just to see how it looked with the other stamp from this organic outlines set. I know lots of people don't really like this set, but as soon as I saw it I had to have it (even though I've hardly used it)! I like the first card better. If only I didn't see this cards in real life, I could blame not liking them on the poor photograph. Unless you have a stamping blog as well, you wouldn't believe how much of a difference it really makes having natural light!

Supplies

Card 1
Stamps: SU Organic Outlines, Short & Sweet
Ink: SU mellow moss, chocolate chip
Paper: SU ww, mellow moss, ridinghood red, chocolate chip, Kraft
Flower: Making Memories pointsetta and brad (which conveniently is the same colour as ridinghood red!)

Card 2:
Stamps: SU Organic Outlines
Ink: SU mellow moss
Paper: SU ww, mellow moss, ridinghood red, chocolate chip
Flower: Making Memories pointsetta and brad

3 More Anni-verve-sary Cards

Well, I'm still super sick. Went back to the walk in today ('cause I was supposed to be able to go back to work) and my throat is not much improved at all he said. So more days off! Sounds good to most, but I'm going stir crazy in the house.

This is my card for today's sketch, AVS11. Because of the jewels and colours, this card also applies to WT178 and CC178. I love this card. I did, however, eliminate the bow from the left hand side just because I thought it would look too busy with it.

This is my card for AVS02 I like the way this card turned out but I'm still not too sure about the bow. I had tried a new kind of bow, the tiered bow, but ended up cutting the bottom ribbon so you can't see it because it looked too big.

Finally, here is my card for AVS03. It too is based on CC178. It didn't turn out quite as I had imagined, but I'm sure my Mommy will still like it anyway because she loves penguins!

Supplies:

AVS11
Stamp: SU Full of Life
Ink: SU groovy guava
Paper: SU going gray, groovy guava, ww, blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava
Jewels: Heidi Swapp bling
Misc: SU dimensionals

AVS02
Stamp: SU Full of Life
Ink: SU ruby red
Paper: SU river rock, groovy guava, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava

AVS03
Stamp: SU Lots of Thoughts, Wild About You
Ink: SU soft sky, wild wasabi
Paper: SU wild wasabi, ww, soft sky, fall flowers dp
Ribbon: Spool O'ribbon

CC178 Goodbye In Colours

There's only one more week of the 2007-2008 In Colours from SU so the Colour Challenge (CC178) at SCS was to use any number of them in a card with a neutral and no other colours. I edited it a little and decided to use only the In colours not even a neutral - using blue bayou, river rock and soft sky - and I quite like the way that it turned out!

I am going to miss these In Colours. Although I like the new in colours, they can't top these outgoing ones in my opinion! The Prima flower and brad match much better in person too!

Stamps: SU Garden Silhouettes, Short & Sweet
Ink: SU Blue Bayou
Paper: SU blue bayou, soft sky, river rock
Ribbon: SU river rock
Flower: Prima
Brad: Making Memories (I think)

SC187, CC177 Groovy White Sands

This is my card for two SCS challenges: SC187 and CC177 (colours: groovy guava, whisper white and sahara sand).

I love the way that this card turned out! What a great colour combo!
Sorry the colour is so bad - I don't know why.

Stamps: SU Define Your Life
Ink: SU groovy guava
Papers: SU ww, groovy guava, sahara sand, ginger blossom dp
Ribbon: SU groovy guava double stitched

CC172, SC73 Baby Boy Card

This card was inspired by CC172 and the an older sketch challenge, SC73. At first, I thought this colour combination seemed like a bad idea, but after looking at a few cards in the SCS gallery for this challenge I really liked it. The only cards that came to mind for me with this challenge was a baby card...

This card was a tad difficult as I still am trying to just ink up stamps using the stamping spots as I haven't yet invested in the markers, but I think it worked out ok!
Paper: SU whisper white, wild wasabi, taken with teal cardstock
Stamps: SU Full of Life, Inkadinkadoo for baby feet/hands
Inks: SU taken with teal, wild wasabi
Accessories: SU dimensionals to raise center square

Garden Friendship Set

These are 4 cards I made today to fulfill a few things I've been wanting to do while I was away.

1) I wanted to use the SU Garden Silhouettes set that I won from Robin over at About a Girl. I love this set but it arrived the day I was leaving to go to Mexico. You should go wish her congrats as she just had a baby girl!
2) I wanted to do the Colour Challenge 168 (CC168) over at SCS because I loved what everyone was creating with this combo. It's not one I would have thought on my own but again I was leaving right after its posting.
3) I wanted to use my SU Circle of Friendship stamp set since it will be retiring, which makes me very sad because I love this set!


These four cards are all made using SU chocolate chip, very vanilla and sage shadow cardstock and inks. They are quite simple just layered a fair amount and punched with 1/2", 1 1/4", and 1 1/2" circle punches.

Here are closer versions of each of the cards. Not too different between them just used two of the Circle of Friendship stamps with each of the two different stamps I chose from Garden Silhouettes.

Card 1:

Card 2:

Card 3:

Card 4:

Thanks for stopping by! Hope my readers stuck around during my weeks away!

SC177, CC167 Thank you

I finally had time to do this weeks Sketch and Colour Challenges over at SCS. I combined both SC177 and CC167 into one card. I love this colour combination and I never would have thought of it on my own. I actually thought it even sounded like a bad combo until I checked out the gallery for the challenge!


The cardstock used is SU blue bayou and soft sky. The dp used is in certainly celery from the Spring Fling paper series. The stamped images are SU Embrace Life stamped in certainly celery and the flower from the SU Short & Sweet set stamped in soft sky and the thank you from the same set stamped in blue bayou.

I've never combined the different stamp sets as I did in this one and I like the way it turned out. I'll be trying to do this more often.