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Give Your Heart Wings

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Last week the Passion for Papertrey blog issued a challenge to spring clean – use something you had to have, but haven’t used yet. I chose to use these Heidi Swap chipboard pieces – they are pre-embossed with designs so all you have to do is ink them up (they are even sticky-backed).

I found a couple other challenges to help me out with the design. The colors are from a Color Cue challenge (#2). The layout is a sketch challenge from Card Positioning System (cps158).

Dreams Take Flight
Stamps: Butterfly Dreams (PTI);
Ink: Berry Sorbet, Ocean Tides (PTI);
Paper: Berry Sorbet, White, Lemon Tart (PTI);
Other: Lemon ribbon (PTI); Chipboard (Heidi Swapp); die cut (Cuttlebug); Impression Plate (Perfect Details – SU);

A Little Blue

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When I saw this alien set from Stampin Up I had to have it. Of course, until now I hadn’t used it. Yesterday I decided I would use some rubber that I purchased but hadn’t inked yet. This is a set my mom would never own, so I chose to work with this set – and then send her the card to share with her customers.

I found a couple challenges to help me out. I chose a sketch from Card Patterns (sketch 55) and a color scheme from Color Dare (cd59).

One thing to note, the alien’s helmet was cut out from a window sheet. I didn’t want the alien’s head to be part of the overlay, so I ended up using a thin sharpie to trace the helmet while the sheet was over the image (does that make sense??). I like the effect!

I’m not sure why but the first thing that popped into my mind was a “support” type card with the sentiment “Not feeling like yourself?”. Originally I was thinking because of PMS, but then I realized that the dude was blue and thus it could be for a broken heart too. So for the inside I opted for the cure-all CHOCOLATE 🙂

Thanks for stopping by!

Not Feeling Like Yourself?
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Greetings Earthling, Oh So Sweet;
Ink: Black, (inside: Turquoise, Close to Cocoa);
Paper: Soft Suede, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, White, Kraft Patterns DSP, Celery Prints DSP;
Other: Window Sheet, dimensionals; font (CK); brads;

Turtle Day

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I made this cute little cas card for a couple challenges. The first challenge was from CAS on SCS (cas58) which was a color challenge (and of course keep it CAS). The theme I got from the ResQ blog (resq36) which was to make a boy’s birthday card.

Happy Birthday
All supplies Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Pond Life, Birthday Basics;
Ink: New Leaf, Spring Moss, Chocolate, White;
Paper: New Leaf, White;
Other: dimensionals;

Suppah Stah

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This card was created for the Fall to Layout at the CAS blog (ftl82). I loved the sketch and as soon as I saw it I knew what I wanted to do. Well, I knew I wanted a flourish with stars, but it took a couple days to really figure out how to do it. Sad but true.

I chose upbeat colors because I wanted the card to say super star and I didn’t think that would go with pastels. I do like orange and blue together – the combo could be for a guy or a gal…of course I added too many embellishments for it to be masculine (at least what I consider masculine).

Did y’all notice that the star has the same dot pattern that the new Dot Spot set uses? Maybe you did…I know I’m slow to make connections. Makes me wonder how long ago they designed Dot Spot – Star Prints is almost a year old! I gotta figure out how to work the two sets into one card!

For anyone who cares, I’m wondering how you feel about the size of the images on my blog? If you click them you get a slightly larger version, but I know many folks don’t like to click. Would you rather see bigger images directly in the post?

Super Star
All supplies PaperTrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Star Prints; Fancy Flourishes;
Ink: Orange Crush, Enchanted Evening;
Paper: Orange Crush, White, Enchanted Evening;
Other: Orange Crush buttons; Gems (plain dots, not rhinestones from HA);

Hi Ya

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This is spring break week for us, so I’m hoping to get in some good stamping time (though there are things I *should* do instead, lol).

I found this sketch at Karen Giron’s website (sssc60).

I recently got the PTI Dot Spot set and wanted to break it in. I don’t have any circle punches with me, but I did bring my Coluzzle, which is good because I had to hand-cut the smallest circle and if I had had to do the larger ones they wouldn’t have been as clean!

Hi Ya
All supplies PaperTrey Ink unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Dot Spot, Say it With Style;
Ink: Raspberry Fizz;
Paper: White, Summer Sunrise, Bitty Dot;
Other: Sunrise ribbon, Raspberry buttons, twine; Dot embossing folder (SU);

Thankful for Mojo

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I loved this week’s Mojo sketch (mojo 129). I haven’t used this Verve set in ages, so I thought it would be a good time to break it open again. Picking paper was difficult, but I settled on these old SU papers that have beautiful colors in it. I really like how this turned out.

Many Thanks
Stamps: Fancy Florals (Verve);
Ink: So Saffron, Always Artichoke (SU);
Paper: River Rock, Always Artichoke, Bordering Blue, So Saffron, Vanilla, LeJardin DSP (SU);
Other: blue ribbon (SU); brad (PinkHedgehog); Labels 2 die (Spellbinders); Scallop punch (SU);

Kindly Quail

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Some of you know my mom had hip replacement surgery this week. She is doing fabulous, but it has been hard not being able to be there myself (I used to live 20 min away, now I’m 2 plane rides away). My Aunt Karen (mom’s sister) graciously agreed to come down this weekend and stay with mom while she recuperated! This card will hopefully be waiting at home for her. Thanks Aunt Karen!! xoxox

You know me, I don’t make a card right out of my head, I have to have a start. This one started with a challenge, and added a couple more 😉 First up, the CAS challenge at SCS (cas57) which was to use two different die-cut shapes on a card – and keep it CAS (ack, not easy!). I used the Top Note die and the Tag punches all from StampinUp. (Since my Aunt does a lot of Stampin Up work for my mom, I wanted a card she could show folks – so it had to be all current SU.)

The next challenge I used was yesterday’s 365 challenge to make a landscape (day 11). Since she posts a challenge every day I try to keep to the current day’s challenge, but this one was too inviting! The paper I used is old Prints, but you can easily substitute current paper and get the same look.

Finally, the colors. I had my landscape colors already picked and wasn’t sure what to do for the rest…so I went hunting! I found this super fun color combo at ColorQueen (cqc23). I did change the Tangerine for Dusty Durango, but I think it keeps close enough otherwise.

Thanks for stopping by!

you’re too kind
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Whimsical Words, Happy Together;
Ink: Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry;
Paper: White, Crushed Curry, Tempting Turquoise Prints DSP, Old Olive Prints DSP;
Other: Curry dotted ribbon, Top Note die, Small & Large Tag punches;

Birthday Rose

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I made this card for a few different challenges. First, the colors came from Color Dare (cd58). Next the layout came from Just Us Girls (jugs23). Finally, the piercing touch was from a challenge over at Crazy 4 Challenges (c4c27).

For some reason circles scare me! I don’t have a problem using stamps in the shape of circles, but I shy away from using circle layers. I’ve done two sketches in the past two days that had circles as their focals – ack! talk about pushing one’s self! Both times I ended up not using an actual circle mat but using stamps with circular shapes (though I’m sure yesterday’s tree pushed that boundary, lol). I find it much easier to handle that way!

Happy Birthday
All supplies Stampin’Up! unless otherwise noted.
Stamps: Fifth Avenue, Warmest Regards;
Ink: Rose Red, Tempting Turquoise; Dazzle (Versamark – not visible in photo but used on flower);
Paper: Tempting Turquoise, Regal Rose, Flowers For You DSP;
Other: Celery Satin ribbon; piercing template (Ornare);

Tree of Life

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This card was started for a challenge, but I already know it will be a perfect card to send to my brother come July.

The card started with the inking challenge at 365 Cards (day 6). I bought the tree stamp when it came out but hadn’t inked it up yet. Since I was using the tree, I thought about making a card for my bro, so I wanted a masculine color scheme. I found the perfect scheme at ColorQ (cqc22). The images are huge (which is good), so I wasn’t sure how to finish up the card. That was when Jen del Muro’s Saturday sketch came to help (sfytt31).

I am really really happy with this card. The picture just doesn’t do it (maybe I’ll try again in the daytime) – the colors and the texture work so well together.

happy birthday
Stamps: Through the Trees, Birthday Basics (PTI);
Ink: Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, Garden Green, Close to Cocoa, Not Quite Navy (SU);
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Baja Breeze, Close to Cocoa (SU); White (PTI);
Other: Enchanted twill (PTI); floss (DMC); texture plate (Sizzix); label die (Spellbinders);

In Every Language

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I need to get my gifties out to my DSS players this weekend – but as usual, I don’t have cards ready. (I’m a coordinator in the Divine Secret Sibling group over at SCS.) Instead of just doing something, I checked out the latest challenges and came up with this combo.

This week’s challenge from Denise, at Res-Q Challenge blog, was to use text as a main component to a card (resq35). I thought about making the entire background be text, but I needed to stamp 4 of these babies and I just did not have that much time (kiddos *insisted* on a trip to the pool). So when I spotted the sketch at Clean & Simple (ftl81) I knew that would be an easy way to achieve my goal.

I tried hard to get a color challenge in this too, but it was NOT working, so I kept it to the two colors I had already stamped. This is a very simple card and it isn’t executed the best, but I do like the idea.

Thank You
Stamps: multi-lingual Thank Yous (Rainy City Rubber Stamps); Classic Cursive Alpha (CTMH – for “mahalo”);
Ink: Green Galore, Tempting Turquoise (SU);
Paper: White (PTI); Turquoise (SU);
Other: green Rhinestones (MAMBI); flower punch (SU);