Nov 2, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
It is Tuesday – welcome to the Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
These are nice cool colors. I decided to use a sketch from a crafting magazine. I had marked it some time ago. I usually look through my magazines and fold down a corner on ideas I want to try. And then some time later I pull the magazines out and try an idea or two. This one was actually a June issue – so I’m not very timely with some of these ideas – but that’s ok. Here you go – my color challenge card:
In fact there isn’t really much stamping on this card at all. I would be more tempted to call it a Big Shot card – since that is what I used on it. I just added the splatter stamp from French Foliage because the background looked a little plain. The strips of card stock are cut at 1/2″ and then I embossed each color with a different Embossing Folder. I used a little bit of Designer Series Paper and the Many Thanks Sizzlit is where the “thanks” comes from. The flower is a Filigree brad with a rhinestone brad in the center instead of the silver one. I doodled with a marker – the card in the magazine had real stitching on it – but I didn’t want to do that.
That’s my interpretation. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Old Olive, Night of Navy, Baja Breeze, Tempting Turquoise, Perfect Plum
- Ink: Old Olive, Night of Navy Stampin’ Write Marker
- Stamp sets: French Foliage
- Accessories: Big Shot Die-Cut Machine, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Square Lattice Embossing Folder, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder, Finial Press Embossing Folder, Many Thanks Sizzlits Die, Cutter Kit, Filigree Designer Brads, Circle Ice Brads
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
And we are on to Bingo…..
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #4 –the snowflake from Season of Friendship stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush).
Oct 26, 2010 | Bingo, Cards, Masculine, UDI Color Challenge |
It’s Tuesday and time for another Utah Diva’s Color Challenge. Here is our inspiration for this week:
Quite a turn around from the last couple of weeks of really bright colors. I pulled out Cajun Craze, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip and Basic Gray and the first thing that jumped into my mind was something masculine. I have boys that should be easy. What jumps to mind – the Extreme stamp sets – so I pulled out the two that I have Extreme Elements and Extreme Skateboard. And here is the result….
It’s quick and easy – I took the stamps from Extreme Elements and put each one with an ink pad and just randomly stamped on the outside of the card and also the inside. I took a piece of Very Vanilla card stock and stamped the Extreme Skateboard in Basic Gray. I decided I wanted the look of motion so I stamped multiple times to the left of my main image to give it a look like he was moving through the air. What do you think?
Then I decided to take the same size piece of card stock in the remaining colors – Basic Gray, Chocolate Chip and Cajun Craze and kind of twist them around behind the image. Somehow I think it also adds the feeling of movement to the card. Here is a look at the inside:
I added the quote from Word Play – “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams”. A good thing to tell a teenager!
That’s my interpretation. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Basic Gray, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Crumb Cake, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip and Basic Gray
- Stamp sets: Extreme Elements, Extreme Skateboard, Word Play
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
So far no Bingo Winner – so let’s keep playing….double check your cards to make sure you didn’t miss any!
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #15 –the butterfly from Flight of the Butterfly stamp set (stamped in Concord Crush).
Oct 19, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to week 6 of the weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. I can’t believe we have been doing this for 6 weeks already – it feels like we just started.
So for this weeks color challenge we had a whole lot of color – Rose Red, Concord Crush, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie and Daffodil Delight. Oh my….what to do with that many different colors. I thought – thank goodness there is a green in there, I can always do flowers again. But I wanted to do something besides flowers – so I spent several days mulling it over until I finally came to a decision. To make a set of monochromatic cards – but now to choose a set with 5 different images that I could use – I wanted one stamp set, one layout, and each card a different color. I pulled out several different ones and finally decided to use Cute by the Inch – a Level 2 Hostess Stamp Set in the Stampin’ Up! Catalog. It has 9 images – 10 would have worked better, but 9 will do.
Ta-Da – my set of mini cards using the Cute by the Inch set. The whole set is inside a Fancy Favor box – cut using the Thick Window Sheets.
This was the first time I had used these thick window sheets – and boy they are thick – just like those thick plastic boxes you can buy to put treats in. I used Sticky Strip to assemble my box.
Here is a close up of the box with all the cards and envelopes inside.
I tied a piece of Old Olive Satin ribbon around the outside and added a tag to the front.
Here
is a close up of one of the cards. There are 2 of each color except Olive that is why I chose to use the Old Olive ribbon around the box. I probably should just add a 10th card to make it equal and double one of the images.
These mini cards are 2-3/4″ square cards. The white mat is 2-1/2″ and the colored embossed panel is 2″ square. The images are stamped on Whisper White and punched out with the 1-1/4″ square punch. The tag on the front of the box was layered with a 1-3/8″ square that was punched.
That’s my interpretation. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Rose Red, Concord Crush, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
- Ink: Rose Red, Concord Crush, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight ink and Stampin’ Write markers
- Stamp sets: Cute by the Inch
- Thick Window Sheet
- Old Olive Satin Ribbon
- Mini square envelopes
- Big Shot Die-Cut machine, Fancy Favor Box, Square Lattice Embossing Folder
- 1-1/4″ square punch, 1-3/8″ square punch. 1/16″ circle punch
- Sticky Strip
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
And now lets check in on our Bingo players – anybody have 4 in row today or even a Bingo?
Let’s play….
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #8 –the dog from All in the Family stamp set (stamped in Chocolate Chip).
Oct 12, 2010 | Big Shot, Bingo, Cards, Poppin' Pastels, Thank You, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to week 5 of the weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. Gretchen picked some bright spring colors this week. At least I think they are very spring like. I always start by pulling out the colors for the color challenge and putting those pieces of card stock on my craft table. I had them out while I worked on other projects. I didn’t have anything in mind so I just wanted to look at them for awhile.
I was working on another project with the Just Believe stamp set and the Butterflies from the Beautiful Wings Embosslit. I decided the colors for the color challenge could be flowers or butterflies so I started rolling around different ideas in my head. And this is what I came up with.
I pulled out my Stampin’ Pastels – I have the new box with all the new colors in it and I haven’t used them yet. I stamped the large floral image from the Just Believe stamp set in VersaMark ink and then used the Stampin’ Pastels to color the image. This technique is called “Poppin’ Pastels”. I use qtips to add the color and it sticks to where you have the VersaMark ink making the image “pop”.
Then I cut butterflies with the Big Shot and the Beautiful Wings embosslit die. I added those scattered around the flowers. And then I added the little pearls to some of them.
The last thing I did was add some sparkle to the whole card. You can’t really see it in the picture I took of the whole card. So I took a close up while I held it up in the sunlight so you can see the fine sparkle that is all over the card. I hope you can see it – it really sparkles. I used an empty Stampin’ Mist bottle that I cleaned – I put some rubbing alcohol in it and mixed in some Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint. Shake it up and it sprays out a fine shimmery mist over your card. I did do this inside my Color Catcher so I won’t shimmer my craft table!
Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Certainly Celery, Perfect Plum, Baja Breeze, Pacific Point, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White
- Ink: Pacific Point, Certainly Celery, VersaMark
- Stamp sets: Just Believe
- Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint
- Basic Pearls
- Big Shot Die-Cut machine, Beautiful Wings Embosslit
- Modern Label Punch
- Stampin’ Pastels
- Stampin’ Sponge
- Color Catcher
- Q-tips, Rubbing Alcohol, fine mist spray bottle
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’m starting a new round of Monika’s Blog Bingo today – this is Group 5.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 5 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 7. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the previous winners.
Here is piece #1 –the Pear from Cheep Talk stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz).
Sep 28, 2010 | Big Shot, Birthday, In Colors, SU Buttons, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to week 3 of the new weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. All I can say about this weeks color inspiration – is where can I get some of those? I need one now! Look at what Gretchen has for us this week – 
Yummy! I was kind of late with this one and didn’t have any ideas at all so I started to play with the colors and throw a card together and before I was done I threw it right in the trash – well not exactly I saved all the pieces that I hadn’t messed up already. So it was time for a do over because that first idea did not work out at all. I left and ate some dinner and came back with a new idea. This one turned out cute – I just wish I had some chocolate to put inside – well I actually do have some chocolate – Greg brought some back to me from his trip to Paris – but I have it hidden in a secret place so I won’t eat it too quickly. Anyway here is my second attempt at a creation with these colors:
I’m going to add some more details later with step by step pictures on how I make my mini milk cartons – mine come together perfectly every time but I have a little trick. And I’ll tell you how I made the frosting for the cupcake too! Come back on Wednesday for the details on both of those. Now it is your turn to play with these colors – then go to the UDI blog and add your creation to the linky section. I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Concord Crush, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla
- Ink: Chocolate Chip, Stampin’ Write Markers: Concord Crush, Crumb Cake; Ink Refill: Concord Crush
- Stamp sets: Birthday Bakery
- Frost White Shimmer Paint
- Mini Library Clips
- Big Shot Die-Cut machine, Mini Milk Carton die
- Large Tag punch, Small tag punch, Heart to Heart Punch
- Bitty Buttons
- Concord Crush ribbon
- Concord Crush Designer Series Paper
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
I’m going to post my Bingo information in a separate post later this morning – so check back on my blog in a little while.
And one more thing – I will be at the Baltimore Stampin’ Up! regional on Friday – if you find me and tell me that you are one of my blog visitors I’ll have a surprise treat for you! I hope to see you there!
Sep 21, 2010 | Bingo, Birthday, Cards, UDI Color Challenge |
Welcome to week 2 of the new weekly Color Challenge over at the Utah Diva’s International Blog. Week 1 had some wonderful creations and a really pretty color combination.
Here is the color inspiration we got for this week from Gretchen –
I’m wondering where she finds these pretty pictures! That is definitely not a shoe that I would ever wear but it sure is cute! I’m a flats kind of girl or barefoot if I can be…. But this is a color inspiration challenge so I just pulled the colors from my card stock drawer and laid them on my table. I finally decided on a birthday card and this is what I ended up with.
The layout sketch is actually from an old Stampin’ Success magazine from the first of this year. I just turned it in a vertical direction. The stamp set is Birthday Bliss and the Designer Series paper is the Play Date package. I don’t think you can see it very well in this picture but I added the Gold Lame’ Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink to the candle flame and the Illuminate Top Coat Pearlized Accent Ink to the stripe on the top layer and to the middle layer – so there is a little sparkle and shine on the card.
Stampin’ Up! Supplies:
- Card stock: Real Red, Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Whisper White
- Ink: Jet Black StazOn, Stampin’ Write Markers: Chocolate Chip, So Saffron, Regal Rose
- Stamp sets: Birthday Bliss
- Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink: Gold Lame’, Illuminate Top Coat
- Silver brads
- Play Date Designer Series paper
- Paper Piercer
- Staples
To order Stampin’ Up! Supplies to make this project click here.
Hmmm….I’m wondering where my next Bingo winner is? Have all of you playing in Round 3 been checking your cards? If you have a Bingo email me and let me know!
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 3 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I’m currently taking names for Round 6. See this POST for more details on how to join, how to play and the Round 1 and 2 winners.
Here is piece #12 –the the Pear from Cheap Talk stamp set (stamped in Pear Pizzazz, of course).
Good luck everyone!
In fact there isn’t really much stamping on this card at all. I would be more tempted to call it a Big Shot card – since that is what I used on it. I just added the splatter stamp from French Foliage because the background looked a little plain. The strips of card stock are cut at 1/2″ and then I embossed each color with a different Embossing Folder. I used a little bit of Designer Series Paper and the Many Thanks Sizzlit is where the “thanks” comes from. The flower is a Filigree brad with a rhinestone brad in the center instead of the silver one. I doodled with a marker – the card in the magazine had real stitching on it – but I didn’t want to do that.
It’s BINGO TIME! We are playing Round 6 of Monika’s Blog Bingo. I have now filled group 7 and won’t be taking any more names right now – I”ll be taking a Bingo break after group 7 plays – I may play again in the future so I hope you will continue to visit my blog. See this POST for more details on how to play and the previous winners.
