Bugs and Kisses Color Challenge

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to play along with one of Kristina’s color challenges.  So today, on this gorgeous day outside, the baby and I stayed inside.  Good and bad.  Sure would’ve loved to enjoy the  beautiful weather and watch my hubby do the yard work (yes, watch, I do the flowers and he does the rest) and play with the older kids, but the baby needed me inside and so ‘we’ stamped and it was great fun. 

I have a few little boys birthdays coming up so with that in mind I went to Kristina’s color challenge and began playing.  I decided right away that I wanted to do an unusual layout, use the circle scissors plus, and use the Bugs & Kisses stamp set.  I pulled out the colors of cardstock and inks from the challenge and sat and sat and sat.  I just couldn’t decide where to start with the layout!  I finally decided to just go ahead and cut a circle, which led to stamping the bugs in rows, which led to layering the circles, and then I sat and sat and sat.  Remember that unusual layout I wanted?  Ya, wasn’t feelin’ it.  So I turned my focus onto the background and challenged myself NOT to use Designer Paper (I seriously have an addiction to DSP!) so that left me where?  I wanted to incorporate some kind of round aspect to mimic the bugs circle.  But my go-to fave background stamp (Polka Dot) has retired, so I decided to keep thinking.  That’s when I decided to do the Big Shot texturz plate but knew I wanted more.  That’s when it hit me to make my own DSP with a baby wipe and reinkers and Whisper White CS.  Hence, the stripes.  I grabbed an envelope and striped the bottom inch of that and then grabbed an inside layer for the card and striped that!  Fun!  The rest of the card came together pretty easily and an hour and a half later (yes, I know it doesn’t look like a card that should take an hour and a half but remember all that sitting and thinking I was doing?!?!) I had this simple layout, bright and fun birthday card!  Hope you like it and I hope the recipient and his mom do too.  So T.R. pretend you didn’t see this post! 

The colors for the challenge:

My creation:

Supplies
Stamp Sets:
Bugs & Kisses
Paper:
Real Red
Tempting Turquoise
So Saffron
Chocolate Chip
Whisper White
Inks:
Tempting Turquoise marker,  pad, & refill
Real Red marker, pad, & refill
Chocolate Chip marker, pad, & refill
So Saffron pad & refill
Accessories/ Embellishments:
Tempting Turquoise brads
large oval punch
circle scissors & glass mat
baby wipe
paper snips
Big Shot
Texturz Plate
blender pen
dimensionals
 

New Card Video Tutorial

Well, I covered three things with the above cards:

1) I created two birthday cards for two different 6 year old boy birthday parties we had today.

2) I made a video tutorial for you all showcasing: (a) watercoloring with a blender pen, (b) creating a dimensionalized frame, and (c) personalizing a Stampin’ Up! designer brad.

3) Participated in Kristina’s Color Challenge! 

So, I hope you enjoy the video! 

 Happy Stamping!

 Part One Below
(To watch in high quality, click here, then click "watch in high quality" to the bottom right of the video.)

 Part Two  Below
(To watch in high quality, click here, then click "watch in high quality" to the bottom right of the video.)

PCP Color Challenge 10

Another week, another color challenge!  I’m finding myself leaning toward the bright, springy, cheery colors!!!  Gee, wonder why?   LOL

Inspiration Piece

My Creation

And some of my club members will be making this card next week! 
Hope you like it.

Ski Slope Scrapbook Page

So, this is one of the two pages I was referring to in my last post about my stamping New Year’s resolution.   These are all pictures of my son this past November enjoying Disney.  (Club members, go to your section to see both pages and the other January layout.)

Supplies

Stamp Set
Owl Together Now

Inks
Classic Pads: Old Olive, Real Red, Baja Breeze, Pumpkin Pie, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip,
Black Stazon, Old Olive Marker

Card stock/ Paper
Old Olive, Whisper White, Real Red, Baja Breeze, Ski Slope DSP, 6" x 6" Chocolate Chip Envelope (that come with Scallop Notes)

Tools
Blender Pen, Color Spritzer Tool, My Way Punch, 1" circle punch, scallop circle punch

Accessories
Real Red 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Silver Hodge Podge Hardware, silver eyelet (can’t see in picture)

More Catching Up…

Okay, so this one I’m actually on time for!  LOL  These thank you’s were for my DD#2′s 4th birthday party which just happened on 12/13.  (You may remember me posting her invitations here.)  I conitinued the color scheme and the balloon from the Crazy for Cupcakes stamp set.  I used the same retired DSP as on her invite, just a different pattern in the package.  I watercolored the balloons with the retired Cool Caribbean ink refill and then colored over it with the Versamarker and embossed with Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.  The ‘thank you’ is from All Holidays and stamped in Always Artichoke.  The card stock is Kraft, Old Olive, Cool Caribbean, and Whisper White.  I used the blender pen with Sahara Sand ink over the string on the balloon.  And the ribbon is the Always Artichoke 1/4" grosgrain ribbon.  These will all go out in tomorrow’s mail (and I finished them on New Year’s Eve!  Woohoo!  It must be a new record for me for getting thank you notes made and out in a timely manner!)

Happy New Year!!