The Color Dare #35

Hi Everyone! Welcome to another week of The Color Dare challenge. This week we DARE you to use Green Galore, Lavender Lace & Very Vanilla on your project. Other than vanilla, these colors have not seen the outside of the file cabinet for a very long time, making it a fun challenge for me! This week I chose to make a shaped card for some extra interest. I used my new nestabilities, Labels 9. How cute are these nesties? I chose the Biggest Wishes Stamp set, designed by the very talented Shawne, because these colors are so stinkin fun, reminds me of a birthday party! I hope you all can play along with us and I cant WAIT to see what you come up with!

The Details:

STAMPS: Biggest Wishes (CDStamps)

PAPER: Green Galore, Lavender Lace & Very Vanilla

INK: Stazon JetBlack

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Labels 9 Nesties, Lavender Lace & Green Galore markers,

swiss dots embossing folder

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It's Sketch Time at PaperBlooms!

Hi Everyone! It is time once again for another great challenge at PaperBlooms! Where have these last two weeks gone? For that matter where has this year gone? It seems like my little boy just turned 5, and today, (Sept 23) is his 6th birthday already! {sniff} its a big day here at the Bryant household, Grammy and Bob are here from Washington for a visit and Daddy sent (way too many) birthday presents from Iraq. This is the first year that my husband has missed our son's birthday, which is a pretty amazing when you consider he has been deployed for about 4 years of Connor's 6 years on this earth!

Ok, so I am easily sidetracked ...

Before getting on to the challenge at hand, I want to thank each and every one of you who participated in our last challenge, "Bling it up" ! I was personally inspired by all the awesome creations you all came up with! I love how we can come up with so many different interpretations from one idea! Be sure to check the PaperBlooms blog to see if YOU are the Featured Artist! If not, dont give up, this challenge could be yours to shine with!

For the next two weeks we have this sketch challenge for you to be inspired by:

Nice one, right? There are SO many possibilities with this one! I cant WAIT to see what you all come up with!

And remember, you do not have to use Leah's paperblooms on your project to play along! If you would like to find out more about these amazing hand made embellishments, check out Leah's Esty Shop! They are beautiful and she even takes custom orders! What more can you ask for? ;)

Here are the details on my card:

STAMPS: Beautiful Butterflies (CDStamps)

PAPER: Tempting Turquoise, Pink Passion, Whisper White, Kalidescope dsp

INK: Tempting Turquoise, Only Orange

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Modern Label Punch, Top Note die, sponge,

circle & labels 2 nesties

tempting turquoise brads, butterfly bloomies from Leah's shop
Thank you for stopping by my blog, and for saying HI! It really does make my day!

Clear Dollar Weekend Color Challenge #37 Let's Chat

Happy Friday Everyone! As I say every week, THIS is my favorite part of the weekend's arrival, the Clear Dollar Stamps Weekend Color Challenge over at PaperCraft Planet. It is even favorite over turning off the alarm clock for the weekend! Our hostess this weekend is the lovely and talented Lisa and she chose some delicious colors for us! The colors are: Tempting Turquoise, Chocolate Chip, Gable Green with an optional Pumpkin Pie and a neutral of White or Vanilla. Cheerful, right? I chose to use this super fun stamp set designed by the gifted Laurie Wilson, called Hanging out. I had been saving this bird dp from Basic Grey Lime Rickey to use with these birds from the Hanging Out stamp set. I tried to sponge clouds in the "window" but failed miserably so I just sponged in the one color. I also see now that I forgot to emboss the "window"! Ugh.. owell.. its done now, right? lol
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for saying HI! Comments really do make me smile! {smile}

Details:

STAMPS: Hanging Out (CDStamps)

PAPER: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, basic grey Lime Rickey, Kalidescope dsp

INK: Chocolate Chip, Stazon JetBlack

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Large curved rectangle & labels 2 nesties

gable green square buttons, watercolor pencils & aqua painter, sponge

The Color Dare # 34

Well, it is week #2 of my tenor on The Color Dare's design team, and I am loving it! Color challenges have always been my favorite! I find color to be so inspiring! So this week we dare you to create a project using: Chocolate Chip, Blush Blossom & Certainly Celery. I ended up adding whisper white as my neutral. The stamp set I chose to use this week is Season of Friendship from Stampin Up. This has been a fav of mine for awhile since I love nature inspired stamping. The flowers are from I dont remember where, and I pressed them into the blush blossom ink pad to give them the color. I also popped up the tree to give it some dimention.

More details:

Stamps: Season of Friendship (su)

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Certianly Celery, Blush Blossom, whisper white

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Blush Blossom & Certianly Celery

Tools/Accessories: Ribbon Tag Trio & Dahlia nesties, D'vine swirls embossing folder

Chocolate chip taffeta ribbon, sponge, dimentionals

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! I cant wait to see what you create with these awesome colors! Now go forth and inspire! (I know I am a dork :p )

Retro Coffee Lounge / Taylored Expressions Sketch

My second card of the day! After this I really need to work on chores.. or just have relax with a snack... we will just have to see!
Well, this weekend I stumbled upon the Taylored Expressions challenge blog, well, basically I just follow my bff, Cassie, around the internet and see what she is doing in blog land and I go there too! So, that lead me to this awesome sketch challenge and I just love how this turned out!
I L O V E this dsp, it is called Holiday Lounge (su) and it is one that was on and off my wish list since this new catalog came out. And I am SO glad it finally made it home. It is fun and retro and not necessarily for the "holidays" some pages definately are, but the flip side can just be retro fun! This stamp set just went perfect with the retro feel, Sip by Sip (su), and I love the retro percolator. I think percolators just might make the best coffee too :0)

Details:

STAMPS: Sip by Sip (su)

PAPER: Sahara Sand, Taken with Teal, Holiday Lounge dsp

INK: Taken with Teal, Stazon JetBlack

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Labels 9 nesties, modern lable punch, dimentionals

Thank you for stopping by and visiting my blog! I hope you have a great day! {{smiles}}

Pile it on #15 - Color Pop! + Card Patterns + Ways To Use It

Happy Monday Everyone! Supposed to be that Mondays are intended as a chore catch up day, but today, the laundry & the dishes still need to be put away, the vacuum remains in the closet and the kitchen remains unmopped. I just wanted to play along with a couple challenges this morning. One if the "good" things about my dh being a ddh, (dear deployed husband) is that he wont notice if I skip a day of chores..and I get to watch HGTV anytime I want. LOL.
Anyway, I made this card with inspiration from three challenges. 1) Pile it on where the challenge is "Color Pop", use black & white & one more color. 2) The ways to use it challenge at splitcoast where the challenge is to use RED and 3) Card Patterns for the sketch.
As a sidenote, yes, you do see some yellow but that is just to highlight the windows/lights so I dont really consider it a "color" in my card.
I chose this super cool 1969 Camaro designed by Laurie Wilson at Clear Dollar Stamps, as my focal point, highlighted by dahlia nesties and night and day (su) dsp. Although this is not officially one of my Guest Designer stamp sets from Clear Dollar, I, along with Lori G, am a guest designer for the month of September! There are so many great stamp sets that came out Sept 1, click HERE to check them out! Thank you for visiting my blog! I hope you have a great day!

The Details:

STAMPS: 1969 Camaro, Cool Ride (CDStamps)

PAPER: Basic Black, Real Red, Night & Day dsp, Watercolor paper

INK: Stazon JetBlack

ACCESSORIES/TOOLS: Dahlia nesties, watercolor pencils & aqua painter

playground & button latte buttons

Get Off Your Tuffet and Celebrate!

Yes its me again! This is the last one I have to share with you tonight! This one is not for a particular challenge at all, other than creating as a guest designer for Clear Dollar Stamps! In my hopes and dreams, I hope to be able to drop the "guest" and just be a designer for Clear Dollar! {sigh} Ok, on to the card at hand. Yesterday, a box full of happiness arrived at my door. After a stressful day, looking thru my new dsp was a great way to end the day. This dsp, Tea Party, is one I had thought about for a long time, always putting it aside in favor of something else, and finally it made it onto my craft table! It is so pretty! When I saw how perfect this dsp coordinates with my new nestie, blossom two, my layout was pretty much set. The stamp set, Get off your Tuffet, designed by the talented Shawne, followed right along with my paper and nestie choices. I just think Little Miss looks adorable in her paper pieced dress. Hope you like her too!

Here are the details:

STAMPS: Get off Your Tuffet (CDStamps)

PAPER: Tea Party dsp, Almost Amethyst, So Saffron,

Pretty in Pink, Whisper White

INK: Stazon JetBlack

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Watercolor pencils & aqua painter,

Blossom Two nesties, Modern Label punch, rhinestone brads, Almost Amethyst marker

Thank you for stopping by my blog and for sharing your thoughts!

Color Throwdown #59 EspreSSo Yourself

Hi Again! I know! I have alot to share tonight! This one has all kinds of new goodies to go with it! First of all, I got my new SU order yesterday which included some sweet new dsp! This one is called Holiday Lounge, it is one that I put on and off my list a few times and finally ordered it, and I'm SO happy I did!
This card is for The Color Throwdown where the challenge is to use Ruby Red, Close to Cocoa and Pumpkin Pie. I knew I wanted to showcase my new dsp but could not figure out how until the pattern on this sheet of dsp clicked with my new nestie, Labels 9.. Once I saw how similar the two shapes are I was off and running! I wanted to use one of my clear dollar guest designer sets, The Grind as well. For me, the coffee images worked perfectly with the colors and the retro pattern of the dsp and nesties. I hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!!

Details:

STAMPS: The Grind (CDStamps)

PAPER: Holiday Lounge dsp, Ruby Red, Pumpkin Pie & Close to Cocoa cs

INK: Ruby Red, Stazon Jetblack, Pumpkin Pie

TOOLS/ACCESSORIES: Labels 9 nesties, sponge, aqua pen, sponge

Clear Dollar Guest Designer & PaperTake Weekly sketch #23

Hello! Greetings from West Texas! We are approaching our first "fall" here in El Paso and I am not sure what to expect! It has been staying pretty warm and there arent many leaves to actually change colors and fall off the trees... well there arent many trees out here in the desert, but still, the calender reveals that we fast approaching the first day of autumn, so I was inspired to create a card with an autumn feel. The sketch is from the papertake weekly challenge and I felt it just worked with the door from I a-door you. This dsp was suprise RAK from my BFF, called Autumn Meadows, something that I probably would not have chosen for myself, but, Cassie knows me so well, she knew I would love it, and she was right! I knew I wanted to use this stamp set, I A-Door You, designed by the talented Lori M. at Clear Dollar Stamps, the dutch door makes me think of both spring and autumn, when you can leave the door open to enjoy the fresh air of a transition season.
Also, this set is part of the ones I received as part of the privilidge of being a guest designer for Clear Dollar Stamps for the month of September. I have loved loved (guest) designing for Clear Dollar Stamps! It has been amazing! And thankfully, we are only less than half way thru September so I have a couple more weeks to soak up all that guest designing has in store for me!
{grin ear to ear} Ok, enough chatter, here are the details:

STAMPS: I A-Door You

PAPER: Tempting Turquoise, Really Rust, Autumn Meadows dsp

INK: Stazon JetBlack, Really Rust

ACCESSORIES/TOOLS: Watercolor pencils & aqua painter, dimentionals,

mustard brads, swiss dots embossing folder

Clear Dollar Weekend Color Challenge #36 Hot Rod

Hi Everyone! Yeah! Happy Friday! Happy because I can turn off my alarm clock and sleep a few extra minutes tomorrow morning, yeah because there is no school tomorrow and yeah because its time for the Clear Dollar Stamps Weekend Color Challenge over at PaperCraft Planet! I really do look forward to it every week! This week our hostess is the lovely and talented Alex and she has challenged us to use the colors Black, Red, White and Yellow, which funny enough is the same challenge at The Pink Elephant! ha ha now that makes combining challenges easy peasy right? :0) I chose to use this awesome stamp designed by the gifted Laurie Wilson. I have always loved the Mustang, except for during its ugly years (mid 70's into the 80's). My mom had a yellow mustang like this one when she graduated from high school, and my son's favorite car is the red mustang, of course he likes the new models, lol.. So this stamp was one that I was really excited about when the sneak peeks came out! I am also getting to show you some RAK on this card, the dsp called Night & Day was a suprise gift from my BFF she included in my last SU order! Awesome, right?!? Nothing like enableing the paper-a-holic! Enable away my friend!

Details:

STAMPS: 65' Mustang & Cool Ride (CDStamps)

PAPER: Real Red, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Night & Day dsp, Whisper White

INK: Real Red, Stazon JetBlack

ACCESSORIES/TOOLS: Octagon nesties, sponge, black stitched ribbon,

aqua painter, watercolor pencils, corner ticket punch

Thank you for stopping by! And for sharing your thoughts! {smiles!}