It's Ashley's birthday today and the Embellish girls just wanted to wish her a happy happy day!
To check out the other girls birthday wishes please visit:
Have the best day ever Ash!! Relax and Enjoy your day. You deserve it. And make sure you have some yummy cake to celebrate!
When I chose the colors for this weeks challenge I had just finished making this little flower using Papertrey's Hawaiian Shores, Simply Chartreuse and Summer Sunrise. I used Hibiscus Burst too but I did leave out the pink that you see in the centre of the flower from the color combo. I didn't want to freak the girls out or anything.
I recently bought 3 different Cuttlebug Quilling Kits which create these flowers and I have to say I love them. Fun stuff to just sit and play. This was my very first one I made and the pink centre ain't exactly perfect but isn't is just adorable anyway?
I picked up that lace trim at a local thrift store. Great find.
The stamps used are: Swanky Sentiments and Harlequin Harmony.
Can I also just tell you how much I LOVE clear embossing powder on cream cardstock? Ok I just told you.
Did the girls embrace my colour choice? Let's go see.
Hey everyone. So glad you are here as I've got the newest Embellish Color Trends challenge info for you. This is one that we've all struggled with at some point....MASCULINE cards. Am I right or am I right? Maybe us crafters just have a tendancy to use all things pretty and frilly so when we have to create for a boy we get thrown for a loop. At least I do and I found this card took me much longer to make than usual for just that reason.
Lucky for me..... I had these fantastic stamps from our current sponsor Skipping Stones Design to help me out. This set is called Grunge and it has a variety of background stamps that are perfect for that masculine touch.
And just look at that sentiment. This will be so perfect for my nephews birthdays not to mention those grown men in our lives who all think they are 'tough guys'. I heat embossed the wood grain onto the star and the blocks of cardstock as well as the sentiment.
As always we sure hope to see you over at Embellish Magazine to link up your masculine project using the above colors. Have fun with it and show us what ya got! Seriously....everyone needs a wood grained stamp in their collection!
Friday! Woohoo!! I'm going to head over to the mall today where an Anthropology store just opened up. I hear it's a great store so that will be fun.
Speaking of fun check out these colours that Jewels chose for us. I bought this gorgeous lace at a thrift store and couldn't wait to use it on a card. I used punched out circles behind each lace circle. It really helped pop out the lace design, don't you think?
I'm really loving white embossing powder lately. The problem is I'm loving using it on colours like cream and grey which are so light you can barely see them in my photos. I'm finally using (the Nikon I bought over a year ago) and playing with some settings to get more comfortable with it. I can see improvement in my photos and I'm liking some of the results. Practice, practice, practice.
The {Happy Birthday} sentiment is from Technique Tuesday.
I can't wait to see what my LSC BFF's have made this week! Check 'em out......
Quick question.....is anyone else signed up for Pinterest? I did sign up here (if you want to follow me) but the only thing I have up is one "re-pin". For some reason I'm not able to add the "Pin It" button to my tool bar and I'm wondering if anyone else had that problem and what you did to fix it? If you have no idea what I'm talking about you should check it out. It's basically a way to "pin" images of stuff you love in one place that links back to the blog or site you found it. Think "Favorites" but with pictures.
Hey Everyone....our Loonie Challenge this week is a sketch which Wendy created for us. Seriously....that girl makes my world happy. Not that I love sketches but I love HER sketches.
I used some Stampin' Up patterned paper I recently got. I love the shabby romantic feel of it but I'm not sure the colour of the die cut was the right choice. It was sitting on my craft table and I was lazy so went with it. haha. I used Technique Tuesday stamps (Happy Birthday set and Long Stemmed Sentiments). Both are heat embossed and yes...one of them is crooked. I meant to do that. (shut up...I did so...lol.)
I'll leave it at that. I'm having a terribly reclusive week. Sometimes a girl just needs to have a whole lot of PJ days in a row don'tcha think?
TGIF! This week went by fast but it was still a long week so I'm happy it's over. I don't work Fridays and I'm going to sleep in till noon! Oh yes I am.
I got to choose the colours of the week and did I go colourful! It was my nieces 3rd birthday last week and this is the card I made for her. I am the first to admit I hate that Plum Pudding colour but I think it looks fantastic with these other colours. I mean really......who doesn't love a purple polka dotted cupcake??!!!
All stamps are Technique Tuesday.
Happy Birthday (sentiment, cupcake and alpha background on yellow cardstock) ~~~~ Thanks for Everything (large flower) ~~~~ Loving Words by Ali Edwards (tiny flower)
The little flowers are paper pieced. I don't mind some fussy cutting but those were a doozy and best left to the experts like Wendy. One of my favorite parts of the card is the small alpha that was embossed in clear onto the yellow piece.
Let's go check out the girls that crack.me.up. on a daily basis. I have a feeling that poor Dee had a heart attack over these FOUR very BRIGHT colours. Sorry GF.
I also made my nieces birthday invitations. I have actually made both hers and her 4 year old sisters invitations each year now. They just tell me the theme they want and I come up with something I think they will like. I've done Dora, Ariel and princesses galore.
This year Camryrn asked for a "Strawberry Shortcake" themed party. Instead of using the image of the little girl on the invite I cut out and heat embossed a strawberry shape with polka dots. I know she loved them cuz my sister sent me the cutest video of Cam thanking me. My sister said she didn't let go of them all day. haha. So sweet! The back of the invite is very colourful with all the party details, rsvp info etc. Love it. And yep, I machine stitched each strawberry after I heat embossed them. Don't you love my play on words? Yeah, I'm brilliant like that. Ha.
I had a few extra strawberries so I made her this little banner. I'm hoping she hangs it on her bedroom door as it would be the perfect size. Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a wonderful weekend everyone!!
Happy Birthday to You.
Happy Birthday to You.
Happy Birthday Dear Wendy.
Happy Birthday to You!!!
{sang in perfect pitch of course}
I hope you are having a wonderful day Wendy. You are the BEST friend a girl could ask for. Love you.
Many of Wendy's (on-line and real-life) friends got together for this birthday blog hop to show her how much she is loved. To check out the next birthday wish on the hop head on over to Lisa's blog.
Lisa Henke - My Little Creative Escape
Wendy, this day just wouldn't be complete if I didn't find the perfect Birthday song for you. Here it is baby....just for you. lol. {yes you can hit me on Saturday}.
Hey Everyone......can I get a YAY for Friday?!!!
Our colour challenge for the day is a fun one! When you think of "gold" you might be thinking of those old brass lamps from the 90's that you had {or in my case still have in the garage just waiting for me to get the nerve up to have a garage sale} and saying "ugh" but as soon as I saw it I knew what I'd be doing.
I went through some of my many jars of buttons that my mom bought me at a thrift store and found a matching set that does look like old brass. They are a bit beat up but they work. I strung the buttons with brown twine and adhered them to the centre of some Maya Road sheer plastic flowers (can you say vintage?!!).
{{Speaking of Maya Road...have you seen their CHA sneak peeks? I have to get my hands on some of that new chipboard!!! I am a chipboard hoarder and have drawers of it already but that won't stop me. In fact I just got 1000 blank chipboard coasters in the mail. I know....I'm crazy. haha.}}
ETA: This card to be published in Paper Creations magazine.
Sorry about the crappy photos. It was tough for me to get a pic where you could see the gold but not have the white cardstock and flowers look "blue-ish".
The stamped sentiment is from the Happy Birthday set over at Technique Tuesday. A fabulous set if I do say so. And I do.
Let's go visit 5 of my favorite people in the whole world!
Thanks for stopping by! I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend at home that involves alot of card making if all goes well. What big weekend plans do you have?
As you know the Loonie girls took a 3 week break from our weekly challenge.....some of us might be taking a longer break....WENDY!!!!
To be honest I don't know that I have much mojo in me. The break was nice to be able to concentrate on Christmas and family but it's really hard to get motivated and back into the craft room. So it's a good thing Dee chose this challenge for us....even though my card isn't the best at least it got me making something.
The challenge is STITCHING. I LOVE using my sewing machine on cards but instead I used some felt flower embellishments that already have stitching on them. The ribbon also has a faux zig-zag stitch.
Let's check out what the girls made after a 3 week rest (can we call Christmas a rest?? Ha!)
Teri challenged the Stamping Tech's with a colour challenge over at the Technique Tuesday Splitcoast forum. I'm going to need a birthday card for my awesome niece who will be turning into a teenager soon so I decided the colours were perfect timing to make her a card.
The Technique Tuesday stamps I used were:
My polka dot panel ended up looking like a present which wasn't planned but I like it!
I hope you have a chance to come on over to the forum to see what the rest of the Stamping Tech's did with this colour challenge. Have a wonderful day everyone.
Here was our colour challenge inspiration picture.
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