Aug 16, 2011 | Cards, Masculine, Masking, SU Ribbon, Summer Mini 2011, Techniques, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi all! This weeks color challenge was one that I wasn’t quite sure about. Gretchen went back up to lots of colors again after several weeks of just a few. I can’t decide which is more challenging a few colors or a lot of colors. So here is the inspiration –
Six colors in this one – Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Basic Black and Whisper White. I wasn’t quite sure where to go with these aside from flower like the inspiration but I wanted to do something other than flowers. I think my last few challenge project have all had flowers. And then I finally figured it out and I love this card that I came up with – and no flowers! Looky here it is……
I made a masked sunset card using the Sail Away stamp from the Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalog. Now this was the card I needed to make for my brother for his birthday – I just didn’t think of it until this week and his birthday was last week so I sent him something else. He may just get two cards from me this year.
I took step by step pictures for you too. So here is what I did.
step 1
Step 1: First stamp the boat on the Whisper White card stock – mine was 3″ x 3-1/2″ – and I used Jet Black StazOn ink. Then stamp it again on a post it note and cut out right on the lines for the two sails and the hull of the boat. Here is a helpful trick – use the two-way glue pen and put some glue on the back of the cut out pieces and let dry. Now these become sticky but it is repositionable.
Add the mask on top of the stamped image on the white card stock matching up so that the sails are covered. And then you will also need to cover the hull of the boat in just minute (I don’t have it covered in this picture).
step 2
Step 2: Punch a 1″ circle out of a scrap piece of card stock. You will use the scrap piece as a mask to create the sun. In this case your are covering the area around the circle that will become the sun. I overlapped just a bit with the sail on the boat so it looks like it is behind the sail.
Step 3
Step 3: Use a Stampin’ Sponge and sponge the inside of the circle with So Saffron ink. Then take another sponge and sponge the edges of the circle with the Pumpkin Pie ink. This will make the center lighter and the outer edges darker.
Step 4
Step 4: Remove the circle mask for the sun, but leave the sails covered and make sure the boat hull is covered. Now punch a scrap strip of card stock with the scallop edge punch and use this as a mask to create waves at the water line. I sponged with Marina Mist ink, starting darker near the scallops and going lighter as you go down the card stock. Move the scallop mask down into different spots so that you can make various waves as you sponge.
Step 5
Step 5: Now you have the sun sponged in and the water and waves sponged in.
Step 6
Step 6: Last I sponged Baja Breeze in the sky. You can either cover the sun with the circle you punched out earlier or carefully sponge around it. You can leave white space in the sky too, it doesn’t all need to be covered.
Once you are done with the sponging then remove the masks from the sails and the boat.
I stamped the greeting along the bottom. And mounted the piece on Basic Black card stock. I added a strip of Marina Mist card stock that was scalloped. This is put on the front of the Pumpkin Pie card stock with Stampin’ Dimensionals.
The final addition to the card is the Basic Black wide grosgrain striped ribbon on the side – the ends are overlapped and then tied together with a piece of Whisper White Baker’s Twine.
I hope you like it as much as I do!
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: Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie, Marina Mist, Baja Breeze
- Stamp sets: Sail Away, Bring on the Cake
- Accessories: Scallop Edge Border punch, 1″ Circle punch, Stampin’ Sponge, Basic Black Striped Grosgrain ribbon, White Baker’s Twine.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Aug 9, 2011 | Big Shot, Pocket Silhouettes, UDI Color Challenge |
Yep – it is Tuesday and time for an new color challenge with the Utah Diva’s. Here is the inspiration picture for this week – another three color combination –
Just three colors – Basic Black, Always Artichoke and Pear Pizzazz and I decide to add a neutral – Whisper White. I wanted to do something besides a card this week and decided to try a cute little project that I saw at convention. I didn’t actually get to see the demo of it because it was in one of the classes that I didn’t take. We only have so many time slots for classes and there were lots to choose from. A couple of my roommates took the class and they took pictures. Before we left convention I copied the pictures from Michele, Cindy and Dawn to my laptop. I have copied all of our pictures on to a DVD for each of us to have. Now I just need to mail them out. Anyway the project was in their pictures and on the resource files that we have from convention. It is the cutest box – here is my version.
And it is actually easy to make! It is one of our Big Shot dies. Can you guess which one?
It is the Mini Milk Carton die – actually two of them put together to make a six sided box. I tied the tops closed with a piece of Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding ribbon (love that stuff). On each of the six sides I added a panel of Whisper White card stock that was stamped with the image from Pocket Silhouettes – it is stamped multiple times in Pear Pizzazz ink. The edges are also sponged with Pear Pizzazz ink. On the front panel I added “for you” stamped in Always Artichoke ink. And a stamped cut out butterfly – also Always Artichoke ink. These are both from the Clearly For You stamp set. I did “paint” the butterfly with Illuminate Top Coat Smooch Pearlized Accent ink. So the butterfly has some shimmer and it made the wings curl up more too. It really turned out cute!
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: Basic Black, Whisper White
- Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Always Artichoke
- Stamp sets: Pocket Silhouettes, Clearly for You
- Accessories: Big Shot Die Cut machine, Mini Milk Carton die, Crop-a-Dile, Pear Pizzazz Seam Binding ribbon, Illuminate Top Coat Smooch Pearlized Accent ink, Stampin’ Sponge.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Aug 2, 2011 | Cards, My Digital Studio, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi! Well the first day of school is behind us – at least Ryan’s first day. Our county public schools started today! So summer is over for Ryan. Tyler and Kyle are still home – their college schedules give them a little bit more time before they have to be back. Until then we will be cleaning out their rooms, shopping and packing up to move them in to their dorms.
And now for the Tuesday Utah Diva’s Color Challenge.
I see lots of purple in this weeks colors – which reminds me of my friend Laree! Concord Crush, Perfect Plum and Night of Navy and I decided to add Whisper White to the mix. I went with a My Digital Studio Hybrid card this week. Combining the digital elements with traditional elements is just one more option with paper crafting. Here is my creation for this week…..
The digital element is the main panel that was printed on Whisper White card stock. Using My Digital Studio I created a card – I added Perfect Plum Soft Flowers Designer Series paper as the background. On top of that I added the print digital stamp from the First Edition stamp brush set in Concord Crush and the flowers in Night of Navy. For the flowers I added a drop shadow that gives in a sponged look inside the flower. At the bottom of the panel I added two punches – the square punch stretched to a rectangle to fill the bottom of the card front and the Scallop Trim Border punch – both filled with Perfect Plum. On top of that I added an overlay from the Vintage Overlays – it is hard to see in this picture because it is pretty light. Using a text box I added the Happy Birthday choosing a font that I have on my computer. After printing this out I cut it to fit on my card front.
The traditional elements include adding the Taffeta Ribbon around the printed panel. Then attach that to a piece of Whisper White and then on the Concord Crush card base. Finally I added some of the tiny basic pearls – in the center of each flower and also for the dot on the “i” in Birthday.
I hope you like this quick hybrid 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: Concord Crush, Whisper White
- Ink: from my printer
- Stamp sets: First Edition Digital Stamp Brush Set, Vintage Overlays Digital Stamp Brush Set
- Accessories: My Digital Studio, Whisper White Taffeta Ribbon, Basic Pearls
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jul 26, 2011 | Cards, Embellishments, Inspired by Nature, SU Buttons, UDI Color Challenge |
Hi everyone! I’m back. I took a few days off to spend some time with my sweetie! Friday was our 22nd wedding anniversary – 22 years on July 22nd. So we went away for a long weekend to a peaceful cabin in the mountains of Tennessee. It was nice, quiet, and relaxing and now we are home and back to the real world.
So today is Tuesday and I did just get my card made for the Color Challenge this week – but it turned out really cute. The inspiration picture for our colors was this one –
Tempting Turquoise, So Saffron, Old Olive and Whisper White and a beautiful floral sundress. With these colors out on my desk I was trying to decide what to do. I spent a few minutes looking through my convention photos and came across a project from the display area that Stampin’ Up! set up. They were flowerpots that had the crochet flowers in them with buttons for the centers. So I decided I wanted to recreate the flowers on a card. And here is the result.
I used Inspired by Nature for the background – both the grass image and the flower image (but without the flowers – i only inked the stems and leaves). Both are in Old Olive ink. Then I sponged around the top with the Tempting Turquoise to create the sky and at the base with Old Olive to add to the grass. The flowers are the Crochet Flowers in the catalog called Fleurette’s II. I used the two smaller sizes – there is also one larger size. I pulled a piece of White Baker’s Twine through the flower and then tied a button to the front and tied a bow. The funny thing is that I tied such pretty little bows in each of my buttons and then didn’t realize until after I took the picture that I put all the flowers on either upside down or sideways – so just pretend my bows are blowing in the wind and it is a windy day! Around the base I tied a piece of So Saffron Taffeta ribbon – so glad to see that we have So Saffron ribbon in the catalog – yeah! I use this color a lot and really missed having matching ribbon lat year. The little jewelry tag has “hello” from Tiny Tags on it.
And here is the photo from convention of the flowers that Stampin’ Up! created –
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: Whisper White, Old Olive
- Ink: Old Olive, Tempting Turquoise
- Stamp sets: Inspired by Nature, Tiny Tags
- Accessories: Fleurettes II, Brights & Subtles Buttons, White Baker’s Twine, So Saffron Taffeta ribbon, Jewelry Tag punch, Stampin’ Sponge
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jul 19, 2011 | Decor Elements, Designer Series Paper, Stampin' Up! Convention, SU Ribbon, UDI Color Challenge |
Well when I am pressed for time I try to double dip and get two things accomplished at the same time. I knew that with it being the week of convention the only way I was going to get my Color Challenge done was to use it for something I was working on for convention. And as it turned out I ended up using this weeks color challenge to create one of my roommate gifts. I made the same gift for all my roommates and my upline but each one was a different color combination. I’ll show you the one that fits the Color Challenge today and then later in the week I’ll show the rest and the instructions on how I made them.
Here is the inspiration piece with our colors for this week: 
A swimsuit featuring Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black, Concord Crush and Certainly Celery. Earlier I had sent each of my roommates a convention getting to know you survey – so we could all learn something about each other. One of the questions was what is your favorite color. As I looked through them I saw that my roommate Dawn listed purples and blues as her favorite color so I decided she would be my Color Challenge project. And I went to work with my idea – I actually had the idea for a while I just waited until the last minute to actually try to implement it. So here it is:
This is what I’m calling a Demo Board. It is actually two sided so you can use both sides. It was an adaptation of a project I saw on Wendy Wexler’s blog. My idea was to use this for classes, clubs, or workshops – on the top is a clip for you to clip the card that everyone is making. On the bottom is the Decor Elements chalkboard where you would write brief instructions, measurements or information that everyone needs to know to make the card. You can set it in the center of the table and have one card on each side. Here is what it looks like with a card clipped to the top.
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: Whisper White, Certainly Celery
- Ink: Concord Crush, Certainly Celery, Tempting Turquoise
- Stamp sets: Butterfly Prints, Creative Elements
- Accessories: On Board Long Board, Patterns Designer Series Paper – Subtles, In-Color, Concord Crush Ribbon, Crop-a-Dile, Glimmer Brads, Brights Buttons, Baker’s Twine, Wide Grosgrain ribbon, Anywhere Glue Stick, Scallop Trim Border Punch, Butterfly Punch, Chalkboard Decor Elements sheets, binder clips
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Jul 12, 2011 | Big Shot, Cards, Mini - Love Notes, Summer Mini 2011, UDI Color Challenge |
Today is the best Tuesday! Why? Because I am on my way to the Stampin’ Up! Convention! Yeah – so much fun, so many friends, so many ideas….I can’t wait to get there. I’m leaving all the boys behind and getting a full 6 days of girl time!
I have been super busy and away from home a lot – so my blog posts have been a little sparse – hopefully I’ll have time to set some up to post while I am away (like this one) or actually post from convention (if we have internet access). So on to today’s color challenge from Utah Diva’s….
This weeks challenge is some bright summer colors. Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight, Pear Pizzazz, Peach Parfait, and Riding Hood Red. At first I thought what am I going to do with all those colors – they are pretty together but I just don’t know where to go with them. They made me thing of a rainbow – which always makes me think of Roy G. Biv. Do you know what that is? I can’t even remember how long ago I learned that – probably elementary school somewhere. But it is something I won’t ever forget. Roy G. Biv – that is the colors of the rainbow – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. And this weeks color challenge is real close to including all the colors of the rainbow.
I was caught up with the fact that there were five colors and some how wanted to have 5 different things like a rainbow of color – I thought letters and was thinking of 5 letter words. And then I remembered the single stamp in the Summer Mini catalog – Hello Blossoms – that’s a five letter word – Hello. So I pulled out the set and did some quick playing around with it.
Ultimately I covered up the Hello and went with the 5 blossoms and this is the result –
I ended up with a cute little 3×3 card! I stamped the Hello Blossom stamp in Pear Pizzazz ink on a piece of Whisper White card stock. The “grass” at the bottom is where I dragged the edge of the ink pad over the card stock – it gave the look of little hills of grass. To add the color i decided to use the Sweet Buttons Embosslit and I cut one set of buttons in each color. I put them in order of the rainbow. Then I decided to add the little crinkled flowers to the center and pop in a tiny pearl. Perfect result I think. The buttons in the back give each flower a different personality. The greeting is from a new Hostess stamp set called Perfect Words. I chose the “you’re the BEST” – because you guys are the best! The new Hostess program is going to be awesome. My first hostess got TWO half-price items!! And she was able to get all the hostess sets that she wanted – instead of being limited to quantities and levels.
I hope you have a great week and if I don’t post this week – don’t despair, I’ll be back with posts after convention including all my convention swaps – although I hope to have those scheduled while I’m away. Be back soon!
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: Pear Pizzazz, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Riding Hood Red, Peach Parfait, Tempting Turquoise
- Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Riding Hood red
- Stamp sets: Hello Blossoms, Perfect Word
- Accessories: Big Shot, Sweet Buttons Embosslit, Bitty Punch Pack, Basic Pearls.
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Six colors in this one – Baja Breeze, Marina Mist, Pumpkin Pie, So Saffron, Basic Black and Whisper White. I wasn’t quite sure where to go with these aside from flower like the inspiration but I wanted to do something other than flowers. I think my last few challenge project have all had flowers. And then I finally figured it out and I love this card that I came up with – and no flowers! Looky here it is……
