Musical Peace ~ CTD221 & Merry Monday

 

Today's card is for Color Throwdown #221 & Merry Monday Year In Review Challenge. For the MM challenge, I chose past sketch #13. 

My red and green are a smidge different from the challenge colors, as I used Cherry Cobbler and Garden Green.  I love the addition of Black and Crumb Cake with red and green!  It's so rich looking!  My Crumb Cake was added by inking the Lacy Brocade EF and running the paper through the Big Shot.  I love the elevated distressed look this gives!  I also sponged Crumb Cake right onto the fussy cut tree.

 

 

Here's a list of all my supplies.....

Stamps: Christmas Lodge, Watercolor Winter

Paper: Black, Cherry Cobbler, Vanilla, Newsprint DP

Ink: Garden Green, Always Artichoke, Crumb Cake

Accessories: Cherry Seambinding ribbon, Lacy Brcade EF, Glimmer brads, Join In The Cheer decorative strip, Northern Frost decorative strip

 

Thanks for taking a peek!

Jenny

Triple Challenge Snowman ~ CCMC228, NAC23, & PP124

 

I havn't had time to blog much this week, but I have a few projects coming up in the next few days.  This card is for Create With Connie and Mary Challenge 228, Nacho Average Challenge 23, and The Paper Players Challenge 124. 

 

The color challenge for CCMC has always been a favorite of mine for winter cards.  I love lavender and light blue for snowflakes and snow.  My chistmas cards a few years ago featured these two colors.  I used the sketch from Nacho Average Challenge and the snowman theme from The Paper Players.  This is the first ink this stamp set has seen.  I just got it during the big sale SU had!  I love a good deal, and this set WAS a good deal!  If you havn't played along at Nacho Average Challenge, you should.  The sketch this week would be the perfect time to try it out!

 

I used alot of glitter glue on this project...almost as a third color!  I added it to the top hat, the buttons, accents on the snowman himself, the bird wings, and below his feet as snow.  I love all the sparkle this card has to offer, especially with the glimmer paper.  It's an eyecatcher for sure!  The last thing I did was add the sentiment as a little hanging tag and a layered snowflake accessory using all three colors from the challenge. 

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Snow Much Fun

Paper: Baja Breeze, Wisteria Wonder, Silver Glimmer, White

Ink: Baja Breeze, Wisteria Wonder

Accessories: Modern Label punch, Northern Frost die, Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon, Snowflake EF, Glitter Glue, In-color brad

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a terrific day!

Jenny

Country Christmas ~ DD31

Today marks the 4th week I have been a designer over at Dynamic Duos.   Wow, time really flies!  It seems like I was just chosen the other day.  This weeks challenge is to use Real Red and Certainly Celery.  My sketch inspiration this week comes from Freshly Made Sketches #63.

 

 Certainly Celery used to be my very favorite green to play with in my cards, but since Pear Pizzaz arrived on the scene, it has taken over first place.  It was fun to dig out the older color and use it again!  I wanted to play around with the bleaching technique, so I embossed the holly in white on Crumb Cake CS, bleached out the image and used my blender pen to put the Certainly Celery and Real Red onto the leaves and holly berries.  What a fun technique.  The addition of Crumb Cake, along with the corduroy button, gingham DP, and the linen thread, gives the whole thing a country chistmas kind of feel. 

 

 

Check out the other Dynamic Duos Designers!

Allyson Andersen
Christina Barnes

Vicki Burdick

Karen Day

Deanna Dean

Anne Marie Hile

Erna Logtenberg
Bobbie Trost

Amy White

 Here's a list of supplies.....

Stamps: Watercolor Winter, Peace On Earth (CTMH)

Paper: Real Red, Crumb Cake, White, Certainly Celery, Polka Dot Parade & Pawsitively Prints II DP

Ink: Craft White, Certainly Celery, Real Red

Accessories: Spellbinders labels 3 die, Corduroy button, White EP, Big Dots EF, Linen Thread, Wide Celery Stipped Grosgrain ribbon

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a great day!

Jenny

 

Looks Like Christmas ~ FM86

 

Over at The Friday Mashup this week the challenge was to make a christmas project using non-christmas stamps and add a messy technique.

 

 I thought this challenge sounded like so much fun, so I began browsing my stamps to figure out what to use.  I came across my Reason To Smile set and figured the flower head could pass for a wreath.  I stamped it in Wild Wasabi, punched it out with my 1 3/4" circle punch and layered it on an oval cut Designer Frame.  I fussy cut three little flowers from that same set, after I stamped them in Real Red, then topped them off with rhinestone centers. 

 

 

For the messy technique part, I ran a piece of white through the Big Shot using my Holiday Frame EF and then cut it out in a big oval with my Creative Memories oval cutting system.  I dropped a bit of sparkle gel to a scrap paper, ran my brayer through it and rolled it right onto the embossed image.  I like the way it turned out!  I finished everything off with some Wild Wasabi photo corners with added bling and a sweet gingham ribbon.

 

 

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Reason To Smile

Paper: Real Red, White, Wild Wasabi

Ink: Real Red, Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Holiday Frame EF, Designer Frame EF, Circle & Oval punch, Oval Cutting System from Creative Memories, Rhinestones, Gingham ribbon, Photo Corner punch, Sparkle gel, Shimmer spray

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a spectacular day!

Jenny

 

Dynamic Duos #30

 

This is my design team card for this weeks Dynamic Duos Challenge #30 using Midnight Muse and Silver.  I have to say thay Midnight Muse is one of new favorite colors!  All the new In-Colors this year are super fun!

Make sure you check out the blogs of the other design team members!

Allyson Andersen
Christina Barnes

Vicki Burdick

Karen Day

Deanna Dean

Anne Marie Hile

Erna Logtenberg
Bobbie Trost

Amy White

I tried to stay true to the challenge this week using only white as an extra color. 

My jumping off point was this fabulous snowflake punch strip, which was made with a tool called the Fiskars Advantage Punch System.  The tool belongs to a friend of mine and she was gracious enough to let me take it home and play with it for a few days.  I figured it would be perfect to use the snowflakes in this challenge. 

Once I had my snowflake theme in place, I added the other elements from there. 

 

 

 

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: none

Paper: Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer

Ink: none

Accessories: Fiskars Advantage Punch System, Lacy Brocade EF, Snow Flurry die, Lots of Tags die, Extra Large Oval punch, Silver Hodgepodge Hardward, Silver cord, Midnight Muse Stitched Satin ribbon, Dotted Scallop Ribbon border

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a wonderful Saturday everyone!

Jenny

 

 

Pink Poinsiettas ~ CCMC227

 

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I hope you are surrounded by friends and family celebrating this thankful day!  I sure do have much to be thankful for!

This card is for Create with Connie and Mary 227.  The challenge was to make a special shaped card using framelits or dies. 

I pretty much stayed true to the sketch.  I used the Bells and Boughs set and colored these pretty poinseittas pink.  This makes me think of my mom who loves poinsiettas.  She had a very pretty pink plant that she was able to keep around for a long time.  Me, I've never been a plant house plant person and can't seem to keep them alive, so I admire anyone who can! 

I watercolored the image after stamping it in Stazon ink on watercolor paper.  I layered it on a piece of Champagne Glimmer paper and then on the main card base of Primrose Petals.  I ran the base top through my Big Shot using the Lacy Brocade EF, placed a couple of strips of Primrose Petal DP, then finished everything off with an always artichoke seam binding bow and some pearls. 

 

 

 

Here's a list of my supplies....

Stamps: Bells and Boughs

Paper: Primrose Petal Cardstock and DP, Champagne Glimmer, Watercolor

Ink: Primrose Petal, Raspberry Ripple, Always Artichoke, Pear Pizzaz

Accessories: Gold glitter, Labels Framelits die, Always Artichoke Seam Binding ribbon, pearls, Lacy Brocade EF

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a blessed day!

Jenny

 

 

 

 

 

 

Victorian Mojo Monday 268

 

It's been a long time since I participated in a Mojo Monday challenge.  When I saw the sketch this week, I was inspired to create something to go along with this stamp. 

 I had a request from a friend to make a victorian christmas card.  Now, victorian style isn't really my thing so I didn't think I owned anything I could use.  However, as I started digging through my old, old stuff....and I mean OLD....I found a hand-me-down stamp set that I recieved from my MIL.  She tried her hand at stamping and had purchased this Inkadinkadoo victorian style christmas set about 17 or 18 years ago.  Aha!  I DO own something victorian!  I picked this little image of two children sleddin, set to work and this is what I ended up with.  Victorian to me is mauve colors, lacey things and antique or vintage.  Stampin' Up's new In-Color, Primrose Petal, fit the bill for the mauve part.  I paired it with Blushing Bride ink and ribbon, along with a Sahara Sand & cream colored retired designer paper that came out a few years back. (I can't recall the name of it for the life of me!)  The pattern of the paper reminds me of snowflakes and mimics the snowflakes in the image. 

 

 

 

I added a little texture and some sparkle along with crochet trim and antique brad and I love, love, love the results!  I'm excited for my friend to see this card.  I hope she likes it as much as I do! 

Here's a list of my supplies.....

Stamps: Old Inkadinkadoo set, French Script

Paper: Sahara Sand, Primrose Petal, Retired DP, Vanilla

Ink: Blushing Bride

Accessories: Dazzling Diamond, Glue Pen, Crochet Trim, Blushing Bride Pleated ribbon, Antique brad, Circle cutting system, Circles #2 die, Snowflakes EF, Tiny Tag punch

 

Thanks for taking a peek and have a glorious day!

Jenny