The Color Dare #51

Hello all! Welcome to another week of The Color Dare! This week, we DARE you to get crazy creative with the following color combination : Garden Green, Melon Mambo, Barely Banana. Great colors, right? I had alot of fun with them, and I hope you to too! I cant wait to see what you guys come up with!

Details:

Stamps: Critter Tales (CDStamps)

Paper: Razzleberry Lemonade dsp, Garden Green, Watercolor paper

Ink: Melon Mambo, Barely Banana, Garden Green, Stazon JetBlack

Tools/Accessories: Word Window, White brads, Melon Mambo ribbon,

Labels 3 Nestabilites, Mosaic Tile embossing folder, Aqua Painter, Sponge

My first attempt at Prismacolor & Gamsol

Ok here it is, my first stab at using the Prismacolor pencils my BFF, Cassie, gave me for Christmas. I have a hard time learning a new technique by just reading an instruction sheet as if that isnt terribly obvious, haha.. I am neither in love or disgusted with this card, but I am posting to hopefully get some tips and ideas from all you talented ladies out there. So please Help!

Details:

Stamps: Monkey Love (Clear Dollar Stamps)

Paper: Chocolate Chip & Sugar Rush (Basic Grey)

Ink: Stazon JetBlack, Chocolate Chip

Accessories/Tools: Labels 3 & Large Circle Nestabilities, floral embossing folder,

red epoxy Sugar rush brads, Prismacolor pencils, Gamsol

Just can't help but smile ...

Hello everyone! You just cant help but smile when you look at the adorable faces on these eskimo cuties! Well, it feels like its been forever since I have posted! Thanks to scheduled posts, it doesnt appear that I have been absent for a couple weeks! I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season, I sure did! My husband got to come home for his 15 day R&R after being away for 7 1/2 months on Dec 21 and we really did have a wonderful time together. It was so very hard to have to take him back to the airport on Jan. 6th. (sigh..)
After a couple days I am now back to the me and my son routine, and thankful that it will only be another 3-4 months until we are a complete family again.

Enough about sad stuff, on to the fun stuff! This card, is the only one I made while my husband was home. As much as he just doesnt "get" the paper crafting world, he truly supports me in it. And while he and our son were playing wii, he insisted I go do some crafting .. and this card actually took me a long time to make, like a week or so. I started with watercoloring these adorable eskimos and then several days later I stole away a few minutes to finish up while the boys were off exploring the open desert that we live across the street from.

Thanks for stopping by my blog and thanks for saying HI! I love comments!!

The Details:

Stamps: Winter Eskimo (Clear Dollar Stamps)

Paper: Baja Breeze, Nutmeg Cosmo Cricket

Ink: Baja Breeze, Dusty Durango

Accessories/Tools: Chocolate Chip Ribbon, Word Window, Modern Label punch

Baja Breeze brads, aqua painter

Jason and Connor having fun around the fire

Hello Everyone! I just wanted to give you all an update with what's been going on with me the last couple weeks. ... My husband came home for R&R on Dec 21st after being deployed for a long 7 1/2 months. And since then, we have been enjoying our family time so very much. I cannot even express how very wonderful it has been to have him home over the holidays, heck, to just to have him home! Needless to say, my craft table has been feeling very neglected and lonely, but I am sure there is some understanding there.
Unfortunately, R&R is only a short 15 days, and my husband has to go back to Iraq this Wednesday morning. This being our fourth combat tour, I should be used to sending my husband to Iraq - again - but, honestly, my heart is breaking that he has to leave again. I am trying to focus on the fact that once he gets back, we only have 3-4 months until this deployment is over.
I know after I take my husband back to the airport, I will once again, find comfort in my stamps, designer paper and my new prismacolor pencils (thank you my BFF Cassie!) and I will be back in the swing of things getting back to my favorite challenges like the Clearly Inspired Challenge and designing for The Color Dare.
Until then, Happy Crafting! I will see you all soon!

The Color Dare #49

Hi There! Welcome to another great week of The Color Dare! I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and is still enjoying the holiday season! Can you believe we are about to welcome 2010 in just a couple days? I cant believe how quick this last year has gone.
So, between your New Year's celebrations and hitting the after Christmas sales, I hope you will have time to create with the following colors:

Bashful Blue, Cameo Coral, Soft Suede

So, you may wonder, but this week, my card was inspired by the hispanic grocery store near our house. It is our favorite grocery store in El Paso. They have the most amazing bakery, delicious goodies, and colorful ones too! They always have brightly colored doughnuts, in fact today, my son got a "bashful" blue one with pink stripes. He said it was ok for a boy because it was mostly blue. lol..

DONUT BE SAD about 2009 coming to an end, be happy and get in your craft room! I cant wait to see what you guys come up with!!

The Details:

Stamps: Comfort Food (SU)

Paper: Bashful Blue, Cameo Coral, Watercolor paper, Throughly Modern dso

Ink: Stazon JetBlack, Soft Suede, Cameo Coral, Bashful Blue

Tools/Accessories: Aqua pen, Soft Suede ribbon, Large Curvy Rectangle nesties,

ticket corner punch, dimentionals, sponge

The Color Dare #48

Hello Everyone! Welcome to another week of The Color Dare! This week we dare you to use the following colors in your project:

Old Olive, Soft Suede & Pretty in Pink

Gorgeous colors, right? The Color Dare's DT leader, Riley, does such a great job choosing the colors for the challenge! For this one, I dusted off one of my favorite stamp sets, In Full Bloom. I just love to watercolor these gorgeous flowers. Also, it seems that lately, I have been doing alot of CAS cards! I guess I go in spurts, CAS, Going overboard, Cas, overboard ... haha

The Details:

Stamps: In Full Bloom & Small Script (SU)

Paper: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Soft Suede textured, Watercolor paper

Ink: Pretty in Pink (marker) Soft suede, Stazon JetBlack

Accessories/Tools: Old Olive brads, aqua marker, swiss dots embossing folder

Some stuff I made today ..

Hi Everyone! Today, I am a bit stircrazy .. trying to keep busy. Ya see, tomorrow, my husband is supposed to be boarding a plane and coming home for a 2 week visit. He probably wont arrive until Monday, and since it has been 7 1/2 months since we have seen my husband, we need to keep ourselves busy so this weekend doesnt creep by any slower than it already has....

So, today, I decided to break out my new Cosmo Cricket and Basic Grey dps along with these neat chipboard adhesivables (is that a real word?) and make some fun cards.

The top card was inspired by the sketch at Card Patterns, although, I did not end up following the sketch very well, and for the bottom card, I used the sketch from the Thursday Our Creative Corner sketch challenge SASSC45 . Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today!

Top Details:

Stamps: Cheep Talk (su)

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg dp

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Tools/Accessories: Spiral edge punch, chocolate chip taffeta ribbon

Nutmeg adheshive chipboard

Bottom Details:

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes (su)

Paper: Basic Grey Nook & Pantry dp, Chocolate chip

Ink: chocolate chip

Tools/Accessories: ticket corner punch, chocolate chip ribbon

nook & pantry adheshive chipboard cupcake

The Color Dare #47

Aaah, can you smell it? It is the holiday season floating through the air. I love this time of year!And, I love the colors for this week's Color Dare, and although I did not go with a Christmas theme, I seriously thought about it!! :0) So go on, get creative with these colors:

Chocolate Chip, Real Red & Green Galore

Details:

Stamps: Trendy Trees (SU)

Paper: Pink Flamingo dsp, Chocolate Chip, Green Galore

Ink: Real Red, Green Galore, Chocolate Chip

Accessories/Tools: Chocolate Chip ribbon, sponge, Chocolate Chip corduroy brad

Green Galore square buttons, word window

The Pink Elephant #45 Theme Challenge

Two posts in one day, I know... I just couldnt wait to share this with you all! Last week my son got to have his picture taken with Santa at school, and it turned out SO CUTE! So cute that I had to do something special with it! So, with the Pink Elephant Theme challenge in mind, I made a Christmas wall hanging. Wont this be fun to decorate with Christmas after Christmas ... Thank you for stopping by my blog today! I hope you have a Merry Christmas!

The Details:

Stamps: Small Script (SU)

Paper: Merry Moments dsp, Real Red

Ink: Real Red

Tools/Accessories: Button Bouquet Buttons, Old Olive Ribbon,

Lg Eyelets, 5x7 chipboard, ticket corner punch, real red brads, small chipboard rectangle

Get Sketchy #18 & CC249

{Sigh} I just love this little eskimo! I had been eyeing this adorable stamp set from Clear Dollar for months and months now, I put it in my shopping cart and then saved it for later so many times I cant keep track. Finally, I mean FINALLY, I put a little birthday money to good use and ordered this super cute stamp set, Winter Eskimo from Clear Dollar Stamps.
This card was created to satisfy two challenges, the sketch challenge at Get Sketchy and the color challenge at Splitcoast. I love to combine a color challenge with a sketch! The talented gals at splitcoast challenge us to use Mellow Moss, So Saffron and Melon Mambo (or Rose Red) with a neutral. I just love how happy little Miss Eskimo is. Just look at those rosey cheeks and happy grin. Cant help but smile when I look at her. I hope you find her just as pleasing!

The Details:

Stamps: Winter Eskimo (CDStamps)

Paper: Mellow Moss, Razzleberry Lemonade dsp, Watercolor, Melon Mambo

Ink: Stazon JetBlack, Melon Mambo, Mellow Moss, So Saffron

Tools/Accessories: Labels 4 & lg Circle Nestabilities, sponge, dimentionals

Melon Mambo ribbon, swiss dots embossing folder, aqua painter

Techniques: Paper Piecing, Sponging