I just love the fall colors at Pals Paper Arts #144 this week. They are warm yet cool a the same time. I don’t think allium can be a mustard color but in the world of cardmaking, anything goes to finish a challenge!
Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU LONG STEMMED (retired), SU Wonderful Word (retired)
INK: SU More Mustard chalk, SU Really Rust, SU Chocolate Chip
PAPER: SU Early Espresso, SU More Mustard, SU Cajun Craze
ACCESSORIES: Mustard colored organdy ribbon
TOOLS: Paper border punch- lacey scallop
Here’s the challenge colors:
Month: October 2012
Mojo Trick or Treat…
I was making some Halloween cards for a friend and thought the Mojo Monday # 262 sketch would be perfect to showcase some Halloween colors and motifs.
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Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU Toxic Treats, SU Happy Hour, Heidi Grace Halloween (spider web) I forgot I had the SU Mixed Medley spider web…duh!
INK: SU Basic Black, SU Tangerine Tango, SU Gumball Green, SU Going Gray chalk (retired)
PAPER: SU Tangerine Tango, SU Very Vanilla, SU Basic Black, SU Toxic Treats DSP from Demo incentive, Random Charcoal Gray Paper very similar to SU Basic Gray
ACCESSORIES: SU Pearls, Martha bat punch
TOOLS: SU Chevron embossing folder, Nestabilities Circle Punches
Here’s the sketch:
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Give me some shades…this card is bright!!
Played around some more with the SU Quint-Essential Flower single stamp. This time a veered from my usual darker earth tones and brightened things up with Yellow, Green, and Orange! And, I liked the change. It even matches my blog background!Â
Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU Quint-Essential Flower, SU It’s Your Birthday (retired)
INK: SU Yo-Yo Yellow, SU Only Orange, and SU Green Galore (all retired but still alive and kicking)
PAPER: Same as ink, SU Whisper White
ACCESSORIES: SU Rhinestones
TOOLS: SU Paper Piercing Essentials Pack, SU Houndstooth embossing folder, SU 2 3/8″ Scallop Punch, SU 1 3/4″ Scallop Punch, SU 1/2″ in Circle Punch, Marvy Circle Punch
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Mojo Monday and Colour Q challenges were Time Well Spent…
I spent some time yesterday putting together two challenges, one with a sketch on Mojo Monday #261 and one with colors on ColourQ # 157. As I mentioned before, a have some  great stamp sets I have accumulated that I have not even used. But as Wendy and I always say…they don’t have an expiration date!! So, I pulled out an adorable retired SU set called Time Well Spent which  really spoke to me after getting to share stamping with some dear friends this past week. (Smile)
Card Recipe:
STAMPS: SU Time Well Spent (retired)
INK: SU Basic Gray, SU Melon Mambo
PAPER: SU Basic Gray, SU Basic Black, SU Pretty in Pink (retired), SU Whisper White
ACCESSORIES: SU Pearls, SU Gray Organdy Ribbon (retired), Pima Flowers, SU Black eyelets (retired), random stitched black ribbon
TOOLS: SU Crop-a-dile for eyelet in flower (retired), Nestabilities Ovals and Scallop dies
Here are the challenges:
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I found a new challenge — CASology
I came across a new challenge spot-CASology–the study of CleanAndSimple cards. I like doing challenges because it keeps me motivated and also allows me to use the abundance of stamping supplies floating around me!! Â This week’s CASology challenge was…ZOO. I have had the coolest giraffe stamp staring at me from afar for about two years now just begging for some attention;) Well, he finally found his place on this card. To keep it simple, I stamped the image on the card base itself and then stamped two more images. I cut out the the main face of the giraffe without the ears and eyelashes and then just the nose and mouth. I popped up the two cut images off the main stamped image with dimensionals. I found a cute sentiment that I have had for who knows how long that fit this guy’s size!! I have to say that “I love every inch of this stamp!!!” Hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it- clean and simple.
Here’s a close up of the popped up images:
Card Recipe:
STAMPS:Giraffe from Rubber Cottage, sentiment from Morning Star Stamps
INK: SU Chocolate Chip
ACCESSORIES: NONE- it’s clean and simple!
PAPER: Random
TOOLS: scissors
