Aug 30, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Flight of the Butterfly, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Happy Tuesday and welcome to a new color challenge for the week. It’s the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge and we are on week #51. Here is the inspiration picture for this week –
This week we are starting to see some of our new In-Colors – Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo along with Pacific Point and Always Artichoke. Some pretty glass beads are in this week’s inspiration picture. I was looking at trying to make some paper beads but didn’t have papers in the right colors so I’ll have to do that another time.
Instead I went with a card and wanted to use a stamp set that I haven’t used before.
This is what I came up with. It is a long card 6×3 that fits in the long open-end envelopes. The base is Lucky Limeade, then a layer of Always Artichoke with scallops at one end. The Whisper White panel is stamped with the mushrooms from the stamp set Funky Four. It is hard to tell in the picture but I inked the stamp in Lucky Limeade and then took the Always Artichoke Stampin’ Write Marker and went around the outline of each mushroom. I had in my mind that the mushrooms needed a little butterfly sitting on top so I pulled out the set Flight of the Butterfly and my Beautiful Wings Embosslet. The stamped butterfly is done the same as the mushrooms – inked in Pacific Point and then outlined with the Stampin’ Write marker in Island Indigo before I stamped it on my card stock. The words are Pacific Point. I added two little die cut butterflies and some Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon. Then at the very end I decided to pull out the new Dazzling Details that will be in the new Holiday Mini Catalog and add little touches of it on the dots on the butterfly and mushrooms and also on the tiny die-cut butterfly. Here is a close up picture of that.
Oh yeah one more final thing – the mushrooms looked like they were just floating around and so i used the marker to add some scribbles underneath to ground them. Here on this close up picture you can see the two colors on the mushrooms better. Hope you like it.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Pacific Point
- Ink: Lucky Limeade, Always Artichoke, Pacific Point, island Indigo, Stampin’ Write Markers – Always Artichoke, Island Indigo
- Stamp sets: Funky Four, Flight of the Butterfly
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit, Island Indigo Ruffled Ribbon, Scallop edge punch, Dazzling Details.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Aug 29, 2011 | Cards, Create with Connie & Mary, family, Holiday Mini catalog 2011, Masculine |
Today my Tyler is 18 years old! Happy Birthday Tyler! Everyone was home this weekend and we ate dinner at the Kani house Sunday night and then came home for cake (we didn’t eat much of it though because we were stuffed from dinner). Afterwards Greg took Kyle back to GT and Tyler went back to KSU.
Today I wanted to share the card I made for Tyler for his birthday. I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do exactly. I decided to look for some sketch ideas and ended up with the sketch at Create with Connie & Mary. I pulled some scraps that were sitting on my craft table from a card I made last week for my KSU class and created this:
And here is the CCMC164 sketch –
My card is turned. The base is Cajun Craze and then I have a Not Quite Navy panel. A strip of Designer Series Paper from the Well Worn collection (works great for boys), and a piece of River Rock card stock punched with the Scallop Ribbon Border punch. Then I wrapped Linen Thread around.
I used the Bring on the Cake stamp set for the happy birthday.Then did you notice the “eighteen” on the side. That comes from a new stamp set called 
25 and Counting – it is a Christmas set that will be out in the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Mini catalog on Sept. 1st. It is stamped in Cajun Craze ink on River Rock card stock and then cut out by hand.
Finally I added two Cajun Craze brads on the side.
I thought it made a nice teen boy card. I hope you like it. Thanks for stopping by today.
Aug 23, 2011 | Baroque Motifs, Big Shot, Cards, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge this week. I wasn’t sure exactly what to do with these colors except flowers – but I didn’t want to do flowers – that was the obvious choice. So I went way outside my comfort zone and created a card that is so not my style. Here is the inspiration picture for this week –
These are some really bright colors – Concord Crush, Perfect Plum, Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Very Vanilla. Here is my funky card….
How do you like that lady with the bright pink hair? She is really bright wearing that Concord Crush dress. But this isn’t just an ordinary card. I saw this idea in a magazine and wanted to try it – see that little tab on the side – well you give that a little tug and look what happens –
The scallop circle rotates to reveal a secret message underneath. I think this idea is really fun and I want to try it again on a different style of card.
Click on this link to go to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge blog. There you can see the creations from the entire design team and add a link to your creation if you decide to play along.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Concord Crush, Melon Mambo, Perfect Plum, Crumb cake (just a touch for the skin color), Stampin’ Write Markers – Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Concord Crush
- Stamp sets: Not So Seriously, Baroque Motifs, Got Treats
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut Machine, 3″ Circle Die, Scallop Circle #2 Die, Mini Silver Brad, Round Tab Punch, Very Vanilla Seam Binding, Cheerful Treat Designer Series paper
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
One more thing –
I have to tell you that Monday’s news was very unsettling. They are reporting a KSU student named Tyler Davis died after eating at the Commons (the campus dining hall). While this is very sad news the unsettling part is that my son is Tyler Davis and my son goes to KSU and eats at the dining hall too. So it is very strange to listen to the news and hear them say his name. I was very glad that I saw him this morning. Tyler says he has been getting phone calls and text messages all day.
Aug 22, 2011 | Cards, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Thank You |
Last week we made another visit to the Ronald McDonald House. When we go there we always meet someone new. And not only are we there to stamp and provide some distraction. But sometimes we are there to listen to their stories. This month a grandmother was their with her granddaughter and she talked to us for a long time, she had a lot to get off her chest and even though she didn’t want to stamp we finally talked her into making one of the cards for the scrapbook she was making her granddaughter. They had traveled here from Tennessee.
I designed the card this month – we (the demonstrators) take turns designing the card and bringing the supplies.
The card featured the Owl punch – I made up all the owl ahead of time. The card is Poppy Parade and So Saffron. The Designer Paper is retired, and so are the stamp sets – the Sanded background and the Family Phrases. The branch is from the Bird Punch. Here is the card in the other direction –
And some pictures I took while everyone was stamping –
This little boy was so cute! And so excited to make a card. He even wrote a note inside and then was so sweet to take it to his mom – hiding it behind his back. He came back and made another one – I think it was for his grandma. He was 10 years old with a big smile – he didn’t say much but was happy to be there with us.
Have a great week!
Aug 19, 2011 | Cards, sympathy, Watercoloring |
I really enjoying stamping each month the the girls at KSU. Once a month I go down to campus and hold a card making class. Next week will be my August class and we will be making some fall themed cards and a stamped candle. Hi girls – see you soon!
Here is one of the cards we made a couple of months ago –
This one was a sympathy card, but for those that didn’t need sympathy it was easy enough to change the sentiment to something else. The stamp set is Elements of Style and the sentiment is from Thoughts and Prayers. Stamp the large floral image with Black StazOn ink and then lightly watercolor the flowers with Marina Mist ink. It has been so long I don’t remember where this idea came from.
Here are some picture of the girls – this was our June meeting –
Thanks for stopping by today!
Aug 18, 2011 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Summer Mini 2011 |
As we near the end of the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini catalog – another stamp set that is leaving us is the On The Grow set. I love the flowers in the jar and have used that image a lot but I also like the little scooter. This card idea came from a swap that I received at convention in 2010 – last year – one of my favorite swap cards was similar to this but used a different stamp set that I didn’t have. So when I saw this little scooter I knew it would work instead.
This is a long card – 3″ x 6″ and fits in the open-ended envelopes. I used Textured Soft Suede card stock for the base. On top is a layer of Soft Suede that has been embossed with the Vintage Wallpaper folder – before gluing it down add the scallop border trim – it is Daffodil Delight. There are some gel pen high-lights in between each of the scallops.
The scooter is stamped on Whisper White and then also on Poppy Parade Patterns Designer Series Paper. Cut out the main body of the scooter from the patterned paper and glue it on top of the image on the white card stock. Color the rest of the image with Stampin’ Write markers. The final touch was a Basic Rhinestone added for the scooter headlight. Everyone loved that part!
Little details always make cards fun.
Thanks for stopping in today.
This week we are starting to see some of our new In-Colors – Lucky Limeade and Island Indigo along with Pacific Point and Always Artichoke. Some pretty glass beads are in this week’s inspiration picture. I was looking at trying to make some paper beads but didn’t have papers in the right colors so I’ll have to do that another time.
Oh yeah one more final thing – the mushrooms looked like they were just floating around and so i used the marker to add some scribbles underneath to ground them. Here on this close up picture you can see the two colors on the mushrooms better. Hope you like it.
