Willow & Paisley

Embellish Color Trends Challenge - Mixed Patterns

 

 

 

Happy Friday everyone!  Welcome to the current Embellish Magazine Challenge which is also the last challenge of 2012.  We know everyone is busy getting ready and enjoying the Christmas season but we hope you take some time for yourself to relax and get a bit crafty with us. 

 

 

 

 

Today we are asking you to use "mixed patterns" along with the colors shown above.  I have to admit I kinda screwed up and missed the "mixed" part.  I only used one pattern.  Whoops. 

 

 

 

 

I incorporated my colors by making a little embellishment with twill ribbon.  I stapled them together before securing it down which made it much easier to work with.  I used Hound Houndstooth for my embossed background pattern and my sentiment is from Loving Words by Ali Edwards.  

 

 

 

Have a great week everyone!!  Merry Christmas!

 

 

Loonie Stampers Challenge - Kraft on Kraft plus 1 Colour

 

 

 

Hey Everyone.  Today Regan challenged us to layer Kraft on Kraft and add only one other colour.  I knew I had these Maya Road journal tags somewhere and once I found them the card came together quite fast. 

 

 

 

 

The stamps I used are from the Thanks for Everything set by Technique Tuesday.  I stamped the flower 3 times randomly onto the card base.  The black flower was heat embossed with a light tan embossing powder and then paper pieced.  Once it was in place I added the journal to the card and then I heat embossed the sentiment.  The top flower was also heat embossed in black and attached with a dimensional foam square.  The button and twine topped it off.  That's it, that's all. 

 

 

 

 

Be sure to check out my girls to see what they came up with.  Have a great day everyone. 

 Dee   Regan   Wendy   Maria   Rhonda

 

 

 

 p.s....I finally got a picture up showing the full Pointsettia card on last fridays post .  Still don't love the photo but I love the card. 

 

 

 

October’s Technique Tuesday Stamping Tech Blog Hop!

 

Hello!

Welcome to October’s Technique Tuesday Stamping Tech Blog Hop!

 

It’s the time of year to give thanks to the important people in our lives. So this month, the Stamping Techs want to share with you some fabulous thank you cards.

 

I used The Family Circle by Ali Edwards on my card.  I know this set is geared towards being a scrapping stamp set but since I don't scrapbook I can pretty much find a way to use any stamp on a card.  The circle, the text block and the scroll-y word are all separate stamps so you can play around with any look you want.  Fun, yes?  

 

 

 

 

Be sure to check out the blogs of everyone taking part in today’s blog hop.

 

Tanis

Ashley

Char (Moi!)

Daniela

Tobi

Laura

Sharyn

Kris

Jaclyn

Teri

 

 

We want to give thanks to one of you for taking part in the blog hop today.

From the comments received on all the blogs, we will pick one lucky person to win one the I Pick You stamp set. This is one of TT’s newest stamp sets!  I Pick You!

 

 

 

You don’t need to comment on all the blogs to be eligible to win. But the more comments you leave, the more chances you have to win!

Comments must be posted by midnight on Nov. 2nd. The winner will be announced on Nov. 3rd sometime on the Technique Tuesday blog.

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Thanks for stopping by!

 

 

 

Loonie Stampers - Green, White & Black

 

 

 

 

Hey Everyone.....we're back for another Loonie Stampers Challenge.  It was my pick this week and I chose Green, White and Black.  I made this card in the middle of summer to be ahead of the game when it came to my turn.  That's about all I was prepared with.  I couldn't find the card until yesterday to take a picture and as I type this it is almost 1:00 am.  Such a procrastinator!  Oh and I had a beotch of a time doing the post.  We downloaded the OS X Lion system to our Mac and now I feel even more lost than I was before.  So either I'm a hopeless dummy (yes) or Typepad does not like Lion.  Sheesh. 

 

 

 

 

So for that reason I'm going to keep it short and sweet!  Oh but I will tell you that Steph and I found out there is an sale at a community hall for antiques and collectibles.  Hopefully I'll be back on Sunday with a Thrifty finds post. 

 

 

Here's the Technique Tuesday stamps I used. 

Thanks for Everything

Passion for Polka Dots

 

 

 

 

 

 Let's check out what the girls did with my colour choice 

Dee   Regan   Wendy   Maria   Rhonda

 

 

 

 

 

Embellish Color Trends Challenge ~ Background Stamping

 

 

 

 

We're back with the second installment of Hero Arts sponsored challenge.  Have you ever been to their blog and website?  Such happy places to visit!

Last week it was all about using "text" and this week we are doing some background stamping.

 

 

 

 

 

I love my 2 newest large background Hero Art stamps.  I used Diagonal Dictionary Type on the card base in a very light ink.  It's subtle but the angle of the stamp adds a ton of interest.  On the small tags I used Thank You Definition Cling Large Background.  I just inked up some corners of the large stamp and randomly stamped the tags here and there.  

 

 

 

 

 

Here are the challenge details:

Sponsor: Hero Arts

Theme: Background Stamping

Colors: Kraft, Terracotta Tile, Turquoise, New Leaf

 

 

 

Hope to see you over at Embellish Magazine Blog.  These colours are great and we'd LOVE to see what you do with your background stamping! 

 

 

Loonie Stampers Challenge

 

Our challenge today was to use Chocolate, Melon Berry and Scarlet Jewel.  What can I say other than .....holy moly Maria, those were some tough colours to work with!  Yikesa.

 

 

 

I just received my latest Technique Tuesday order and used Mon Ami Paris on my card.  The second I stamped the image I instantly loved how beautiful and detailed it was.  I played it safe and used the "Merci" sentiment as I'm not sure what "Mon Ami" means.  I'll have to look that up one of these days.

 

 

 

Have a great weekend everyone.  I've got a few more perennials to plant and Mike built me 2 fantastic raised flower beds that I need to get some veggies planted in as well.  I've been really enjoying anything to do with plants and out doors these days.  Whatcha all up to this weekend?

Dee    Regan    Wendy    Maria 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Embellish ~ Color Trends Challenge ~ Text

 

 

 

Hey Everyone....I'm super excited about our newest sponser for the current Embellish Magazine challenge....... Hero Arts.  I know I don't need to tell you how amazing their stamps are.  I'm sure everyone has at least one treasured Hero Arts stamp in their collection!  (and if not....you need to climb out from under your rock and do some shopping, girlfriend!)

 

 

 

Here are the challenge details. 

Sponsor: Hero Arts

Theme: Text

Colors: Gray, Blue-y gray (I used ocean tides), Black, White

 

 

 

 

I die cut the bird on the gray cardstock and overlayed the negative onto the white cardstock which was stamped with Diagonal Dictionary Type.  The wing was cut freehand and the eye is a little button that is tied on the back to secure it.  I then cut a strip of the same stamped "paper" for a bit of a decorative border at the bottom.  And a teeny tiny bow is always cute don'tcha think?

 

 

 

 

 

We would LOVE it is you would join us and play along.  The entries into the Embellish challenges are always so incredible and so inspiring.  I swear I often look at the cards and think "I wish I made that!" 

 

Reject Blog Hop

 

 

 

Yesterday I found the most awesome blog and she had the funnest thing going on over there.  Amber from Damask Love started a Linky party for her "rejected" cards from the Paper Crafts Sketch call.  I thought that was just the most brilliant idea and wanted to join in.  I had one card out of 2 picked up.  With over 2700 cards submitted and only 288 cards being picked you can imagine exactly what I thought my chances were.  Yeah, slim to none.  So I was pretty shocked to get the email.  {{I guess they must have not hadmany entries for sketch #75.  lol.}}

 

 

 

 

 

This card was my submission for sketch #81 and it hit the ol' reject pile.   I don't have a picture of the sketch to show you (cuz I have no idea how to even do that) but here is the link for all the sketches.  You might want to even use these as inspiration for yourselves one day?!

 

You can barely see it but part of the sentiment is embossed in white on white.  Yeah, like that makes for good magazine material.  Geez, I wonder why they didn't want it?  Bwahaha. 

 

ThanksAmber for hosting this fun Linky party and make sure you keep on submitting!  Your style is wicked and your sense of humour is obviously as well.  

 

 

 

 

Stamps are from Thanks for Everything by Technique Tuesday. 

Have a fantabulous Sunday everyone!

 

 

 

 

Inspired Posies

 

 

 

Now that it's March is anyone else just so ready for Spring to hurry up and get here??!  {OMG it's March!}  I'm sure we have a long wait for spring where I live in Canada but a girl can hope right?  And just as soon as Tulips go on sale 2 for 1 at the grocery store I'm going to fill the house with them.  I'm cheap like that.  lol.

 

This card was inspired by THIS layout by Sharyn Tormanen.  I just LOVED her bright patterned paper flowers.  {{But let's be serious ....her layout kicks my cards butt}}.  Are you familiar with Sharyn's blog?  She's on the Technique Tuesday stamping tech team with me and she totally cracks me up!  She is just the funniest blogger. 

 

 

 

 

The flowers are from Pocket Full of Posies.

Well that's it for now.  I just wanted to share this happy filled card.  Thanks Sharyn for the inspiration to create it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loonie Stampers Challenge 128

 

 

 Hey Everyone....welcome to another Loonie challenge.  Regan is the brilliant mind behind these very cool colours.  When she chose them she said "think retro".  I had attempted to do a modern-retro style but I soon realized it wasn't going to work out for me.  However, here is what I did come up with.  It's a simple layout and uses up some patterned paper that I love but haven't used much since I got it.  The little forget-me-not flowes are from an Etsy store.  I bought those a long long time ago and again....hoarded them rather than used them.  Such is my life.

 

 

 

The stamp I used is from Thanks for Everything by Technique Tuesday.  The only thing I don't like is my brand of embossing powder.  It doesn't cover smoothly.  But I did just buy a new one .....Zing by American Crafts in dark brown so I'll use it soon to compare.  It's gotta be better than this bumpy look.

 

 

 

Let's go check out what the Fab 5 have done for us today. 

Dee    Jewels    Regan    Maria    Wendy