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
 

DD’s Birthday Invitation

Funny enough we now have a child’s birthday to celebrate each quarter of the calendar year!  LOL  And next month is our oldest daughter’s birthday so the last of her invitations went out in today’s mail.  But before they went I had to take some pictures to share with you all!

I think Crazy for Cupcakes might be my current favorite set!  Remember I used it for both the invites and thank you’s for my other daughter’s birthday and I’ve recently done a Cupcakes Class and I used it for my technique club recently as well, among other instances I’m sure!

This instance of using the set just made sense because the tier of cupcakes has 6 cupcakes in it and my daughter will be turning 6!  She thought that was just perfect.  We decided easily on the pink and brown color scheme and used the retired Berry Bliss DSP along with Pretty in Pink CS.  I didn’t have enough of the Pretty in Pink taffeta ribbon for all the invites but I thought the pink striped ribbon looked just as good (if not, perhaps, better!).  And of course the Big Shot was used a TON with the Top Note die, not just for the outside but the inside as well.   And if you remember from a few posts ago I used one of the cards from the Hawaii boards as inspiration for the layout of the card.  We’re pleased in our house at how they turned out and are looking forward to a fun birthday party!

Kristina’s 41st Color Challenge

These are difficult colors for me to work with yet I absolutely love them together and how sharp they look together.  This is my first attempt… I think I’ll play a little longer and make a few tweaks to this card.  What d’ya think?  I loosely followed the sketch challenge 214 on SCS and of course stuck with Kristina’s colors: Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Basic Gray, and Whisper White.

Peppermint Bark 6 x 6 Recipe Card

Talk about tedious (yet so worth it); Laurie stamped each individual peppermint candy and then colored the red part in on every one!  Can you imagine the patience to do that for 14 recipe cards!  And I know it’s difficult to tell in the scan but the accent color is actually Night of Navy – I think it’s a great choice as an accent color rather than the traditional green and red we think of for the Holidays.

Crazy for Cupcakes

(Originally posted on October 29, 2008)

Don’t forget the Birthday Promotion ends this Friday!  Click here to see which awesome birthday sets are on sale this month and how you can get your hands on them.  Here’s a sample using Crazy for Cupcakes.  My Marker Club will be creating this card tonight along with others.  Boy do I love pink and brown together and all things sparkly!

Ink: Black Stazon
Markers: Creamy Caramel, Pretty in Pink, Real Red, Brocade Blue
DSP: Bella Rose
Card Stock: Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White
Embellishments: Dazzling Diamonds, Ribbon Originals Alpine (from Holiday Mini)
Accessories: 2 way glue pen, dimensionals, stamp a ma jig