Feb 9, 2010 | Cards, Create with Connie & Julie, Sale-A-Bration 2010 |
This is my second attempt at the Color Challenge this week on Create with Connie & Julie. The colors are Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie. A tough one for me and I wasn’t thrilled with my first card so I had to try again.
This is my attempt at creating Rainbow Row. If you have ever been to Charleston, South Carolina that is where you find Rainbow Row. A row of brightly colored houses along the water front. Combine the bright colors from this color challenge with the Good Neighbors stamp set and you think of Rainbow Row.
The houses and trees are stamped with Black StazOn ink on Watercolor paper and then watercolored with an Aquapainter and classic ink. Each was cut out – the roof tops are separate from the houses. I attached all the pieces with Stampin’ Dimensionals to the front of a piece of Kraft card stock.
I based my card on a painting of Rainbow Row that I found online. So I tried to add the stars and the moon and the shadows like they had in the painting – let just say I need to stick to stamping and not painting.
If you are a member of the Create with Connie & Julie class you can play along with the Color Challenge this week. Good Luck to everyone that participates. Prizes this week include Well-Scripted stamp set and Hugs Love Notes! And if you aren’t a member – it’s not too late to join – we still have lots of great projects. We’ve already shared over 18 tutorials, with step by step instructions and pictures that you are welcome to use in Stamp Camps and Classes. In addition, we share daily projects that contain instructions, tips and a full supply list for you to duplicate the projects.
I hope you have a “Colorful” day today!
Feb 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Cards, Occasion Mini 2010, Valentine's Day |
Well I don’t have any new creations for you today. I have been busy with some other things so I don’t have a project that I made to share with you. I do however have some swap cards to share with you. I did not make any of these and unfortunately they aren’t even my swaps so I didn’t receive them and therefore don’t have them to look on the back and see who created it. So if you created one of these swaps ( or know who did) please leave me a comment so I can tell everyone it is yours. My upline, Wendy Randall, had these displayed when I was at her house. She probably got them all when she went to leadership in January. I didn’t go this year – I know I missed a lot of great information, visiting with friends and learning new stuff. I do plan to go to convention.
Enough jibbering – here are the cards.
Have a great day – I’m trying…. it is raining here again and we are supposed to get several inches by the end of tomorrow. Ughh…
Jan 8, 2010 | Big Shot, SU Buttons, Thank You |
I wanted to do some more challenges and decided to make a Thank You card. I got the Stampin’ Up! stamp set called For All You Do a couple of months ago. Whenever I saw other people use this stamp set I just loved the results. I don’t think I’ve seen anything with this set that I didn’t like. But now that I have it I haven’t used it much – I’ve been working on all the different holidays for the last few months and haven’t done much with flowers. So I pulled it out last night to use for the challenge I found. I found Pals Paper Arts and they had a sketch challenge (PPA24) and I decided to pair that with a color challenge (#105) from the Stamping 411 blog.
Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- For All You Do stamp set
- Tempting Turquoise card stock, ink and marker
- Brilliant Blue card stock and ink
- Green Galore card stock and ink
- Whisper White card stock
- Basic Grey ink
- Vellum paper
- Big Shot
- SU Elegant Bouquet Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
- Color Spritzer Tool
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
- Playground Designer Buttons
- Circle Ice Rhinestone Brads
- Paper Piercer & Mat pack
I used the Rock-n-Roll technique on the butterfly 
– inked it with Tempting Turquoise ink and then rolled the edges in the Brilliant Blue ink. I used a small amount of Tombow Multi-purpose adhesive on the body of the butterfly to attach a piece of Vellum paper. Then I cut the butterfly out – cutting the card stock and vellum at the same time. The Tombow glue dries clear so it worked well on the butterfly. I pulled the vellum paper up for the wings.
I did realize after I made my card that the Stamping 411 color challenge was supposed to be a kids card but I missed that and just used the colors.
Thanks for stopping by today.
Be sure to visit the Create with Connie & Julie site today – Mary posted a cute project that uses the Movers & Shapers die in a new way – you won’t want to miss this one and she wrote a tutorial for the project. And the winners for the free pass to the class are in the post below this one.
Jan 4, 2010 | Big Shot, Circle Scissor Plus, Create with Connie & Julie, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Sale-A-Bration 2010, SU Ribbon, Thank You, Thank You Kindly |
So today I took a break from Valentines – well actually I did a Valentine project this morning but I’ll be posting that one on Wednesday – make sure to come back. But this afternoon I worked on a non-Valentine’s project. I also tried another sketch challenge – called Mojo Monday. I see this mentioned all the time in our yahoo groups where we share our projects but I haven’t tried it before. So this is my first Mojo Monday sketch attempt….here is the sketch
and here is my card….
instead of the brads I used a greeting in that spot.
I used four new Stampin’ Up! products: the Garden from the Heart stamp set, Satin Ribbon, and the Scallop Trim Border Punch, and the Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack. All of these are available to order beginning tomorrow – January 5th.
Here is a complete list of Stampin’ Up! products that I used for this card:
- Garden from the Heart stamp set (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Thank You Kindly stamp set
- Taken with Teal card stock
- So Saffron card stock
- Pumpkin Pie card stock
- Whisper White card stock
- Chocolate Chip ink
- Black StazOn ink
- Watercolor Wonder Crayons: Earth Elements, Rich Regals
- Aqua painter
- Big Shot die cut machine
- Scallop Circle #2 die
- Circle Scissor Plus and Glass mat
- Scallop Trim Border Punch (Sale-A-Bration 2010)
- Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper stack (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Chocolate Chip satin ribbon (Occasions Mini Catalog 2010)
- Linen Thread
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
I’m going to like this new gardening set. And I do have it in the new Clear-Mount version which worked so nicely on the new Stampin’ Up! Clear blocks. I cut the white circle first and then stamped the image – it was easy to position on the circle with the Clear-Mount option. Happy Stampin’!
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Jan 2, 2010 | Cards, Designer Series Paper, Occasion Mini 2010, Thank You |
Here is a sneak peek at some new products from the upcoming Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog – I used the new Sweet Pea Designer Series Paper Stack and the Sweet Pea Stitched Felt pieces.
Didn’t this turn out so cute?
Here is my list of Stampin’ Up! supplies:
- Sweet Pea Designer Series paper stack
- Sweet Pea Stitched Felt
- Taken with Teal card stock
- Chocolate Chip card stock, ink and Stampin’ Write marker
- Whisper White card stock
- Family Phrases stamp set
- Tombow multi-purpose adhesive (to glue on the felt)
- Stampin’ Dimensionals
You will be able to order from the Occasions Mini Collection beginning January 5th!
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This is my attempt at creating Rainbow Row. If you have ever been to Charleston, South Carolina that is where you find Rainbow Row. A row of brightly colored houses along the water front. Combine the bright colors from this color challenge with the Good Neighbors stamp set and you think of Rainbow Row.
