Teal and Terracotta

This month, the challenge at Crafter's Companion is to use a favorite color combination.  Now, normally, I don't think this is what I would have chosen, but on the day I made the card, this is what called to me.  I used the Butterfly Frame stamp from the Stamp It-Australia line.

TSC 36 Monochromatic White

I haven't had much time to play in challenges lately, but I'm glad to get back to it.  The challenge over at the Stampsmith Challenge Blog this month is Monochromatic white.  This was definitely challenge for me, but I really like how it turned out.  I used an embossing folder and some dies for texture and even tucked a bit of tulle under the focal image.

Three French Hens

Well, I said I might share more of my 12 Days of Christmas swap here and now I have the perfect opportunity since The Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge is French Inspired this week.  This was the ATC that I made to represent 3 French Hens.  The hens are Tweety Jill stamps and I think the other stamps are from Stampington.
Bonjour!

Simon Says Stamp and Show-Tape Challenge

I'm going to a birthday party today for my Great Aunt Lillie who is 90 years old.  I made her this card, which I'm entering in the Simon Says Stamp and Show Tape Challenge.  All of the stamps are from Stamping Scrapping.  I did some selective inking on the cupcake stamp since it's part of a Ladybug set and the stamp has ladybugs on the cupcake.  Since I didn't want any bugs on my food for this card (just kidding, it's a cute set) I carefully inked the stamp and avoided the ladybugs.  I used washi tape on both corners of the card.

Lots of Dots

The September Challenge over at the Crafter's Companion blog is to use dots or stripes.  I just happened to have run a swap on my Yahoo group (Inkyfunstampers) to use dots or circles and I'd signed up for the swap, but had not yet completed my card.  Well, I decided to kill two birds with one stone and use a Crafter's Companion stamp and enter the challenge.

I used the Compass stamp from the Stamp It Australia collection.  I like the saying on here, "If you don't know where you're going you will probably end up somewhere else."  My background was created with spray inks and a stencil.  There are some dots there, but I also punched circles out of polka dot patterned paper and added them to my card as well.  I finished the card off with a ribbon and used pop dots to adhere my focal point.

Nine Ladies Dancing

I'm doing a 12 days of Christmas ATC swap this year with one of my groups (A Mad Crafter's Attic).  This is the card I made for number 9.  I'll be sharing some of the other cards here as well.  This has been a very fun swap.
I am also entering this in TSC33 Anything Goes.  I love this beautiful ballerina.  She is probably one of my most used Stampsmith Stamps.

Birds with Hats Received

I received lovely coasters in return for the Alpha Stamps swap I blogged about earlier.  Mine are from Peggy Recker, Stacie Schwartz and Marilyn Fishwick.  Here they are:

Birds with Hats Coasters

This is my first time participating in a swap with Alpha Stamps.  I couldn't resist the idea of doing a birds in hats swap since I always love all things birds.  These are the coasters I made.

At the Beach Tag

Wow, two posts in one day.  Pretty good since my blog's been neglected since the kids got out of school for summer break.

This is another of the tags I did for a Red Lead swap, that fits the theme for the Unruly Paper Arts RAC, Beautiful Beach.  Again, all stamps, stencils and collage images are from Red Lead.

Mermaid Tag

I recently made some tags for a Sea themed swap and it just so happens that the themes this month for the Unruly Paper Art's Readers' Artquest Challenges (RAC's) are Marvelous Mermaids and Beautiful Beach.  This tag used a mermaid stamp from Red Lead.  In fact, all the stamps and stencils used here are from Red Lead.  I also used washi tape, which I love.