Pretty Palette #45

Happy Sunday everyone!  This week's Pretty Palette challenge colors came from the Plum Pretties digital paper pack from My Time Made Easy.  Pretty colors!

The paper has an Asian theme and coordinates with the So Fortunate stamp set.  It just so happens that the Chinese New Year was last week, so this is a nod to that.  I printed out the plum paper and also the green polka dot paper from the Coffee Beans digital paper pack.  I used the So Fortunate digital images and colored them in GIMP to match the papers.  The zig-zag piece was cut using the Random Ribbons cut file.

The sketch is from this week's Card Patterns sketch.  It is a great sketch and so easy to work with.

There is some great inspiration over on the MTME blog.  Stop by these blogs to see for yourself.

My Time Made Easy blog

Charlene Cundy
Jacki Randolph

Pattie Goldman

Romaine Rancier

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Just Us Girls #121 - Template/3D Challenge

Hi everyone!  We have a new challenge from Just Us Girls that the marvelous Maria has come up with....create a 3D project or template with a Valentine theme.  Perfect for those gifts we love to give or display.

I'm using a box from My Time Made Easy called A Box is a Box.  While I was cutting the top out on my Cricut, I added a heart cut-out on the side.  Then I added some liquid pearls around the heart to hilite it a bit.  The bow was cut using the Bow Tied cut file.  On both the lid and bow, I used the Candy Kisses digital paper pack.  With the leftover paper from the bow, I used the Martha Stewart heart border punch to adorn the bottom of the lid.

Here is a closeup of the bow.  I just love this cut file!  It makes making a bow super easy and they look so professional!  I added a pretty Prima rose in the center.

Stop by the JUGs blog and the design team's blogs.  Also we'd like to thank our featured designer, Kylie Kueter, for designing with us this month!

Just Us Girls blog

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Lynn

Maria

Pam

Vicki

Kylie Kueter, January Featured Designer

Thanks foir stopping by today!

Pretty Palette #44

Hi everyone!  Today the Pretty Palette challenge has lovely, soft colors for you.  I saw these colors on this card by Andrea and fell in love with them!

This is my take on the colors.  I used the Occasional Labels stamp set and stamped the gingham frame in Apricot Appeal on the Occasional Label cut file I cut with my Cricut.  Then I stamped the outline on the inside with Melon Mambo ink.  The flower, from Sensational Stems, was stamped in Wild Wasabi and Melon Mambo.  The sentiment, from Sensational Sentiments, was stamped in Black Onyx Versafine ink.  All stamps from My Time Made Easy, of course.

I loved this sketch from Deconstructed Sketches.  I sort of followed it.  Creative license, right? 

The Pretty Palette design team has been busy making some beautiful cards for this challenge.  Make sure you stop by the blogs below to see for yourself.

My Time Made Easy blog

Charlene Cundy
Jacki Randolph

Pattie Goldman

Romaine Rancier

Thanks so much for stopping in today! 

Just Us Girls #120 - Color Challenge

Hello friends!  I'm sooo glad it's the weekend!  My students have been trying my patience this week.  I think we need another break from each other!  Sigh...

Well, let's talk stamping and get our problems off our shoulders, shall we?  It always relaxes me...especially when I'm coloring like I did today.  Over at Just Us Girls, our challenge this week is a color challenge and our amazingly talented Vicki has chosen some Valentine colors.  So I had to go with that theme!

OK, so is this not a cute image or what?  I purchased it eons ago at my LSS, Buffalo Stamps and Stuff.  It's from Inky Antics called Sniffing Treats.  I love dogs, so all cute dog stamps like this one just jump into my basket when I'm shopping there!  However, this is the first time this stamp has seen ink!  Why is that?  This dog just reminded me of our dog, Lizzie.  (Sidebar here:  As I was making this, she kept coming over to me in my stamp room.  My stamp room is in the basement and on the other side of the wall is her bed.  She is very tired tonight after a long day with her master (my hubby) and she wants me out of the basement so she can sleep!  Her eyes are just pleading for me to turn off the radio and leave!  Too funny!)  Anyway, I colored the image with the red and pink colors (and brown for the dog).  I added some glitter gel pen to the ribbon on the heart.  The punched heart border was done with a Martha Stewart punch.  I salvaged some of the hearts that where punched out of the border to place above the sentiment.  The sentiment is from Love Everywhere by Taylored Expressions.  Cute stamp set!  I added a red velvet button tied with some pink floss.

I followed this sketch from {Freshly Made} Sketches.  I just found their blog and am now following it!  I love me some great sketches, and their's seem to be fresh and fun!

The JUGs DT have made some really pretty cards this week!  The blog looks so pretty in all this red, pink, and white!  Stop by these blogs to see more fabulous inspiration from the team and our Featured Designer.

Just Us Girls blog

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Lynn

Maria

Pam

Vicki

Kylie Kueter, January Featured Designer

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a great weekend.  Stop by tomorrow for my Pretty Palette challenge card!  See you then!

Pretty Palette #43

Hello my friends!  Today is Sunday which means we have another Pretty Palette challenge for you from My Time Made Easy.  I just love the colors for this week...pink,white, and navy.  Such a classy color palette!

My card for this palette began with the digi paper from My Time Made Easy.  I used three different paper packs for this and did something I've never done before.  I created my own striped pattern paper!  The blue patterns are from Tea Parlor Plum's Silent Night pack, the pink gingham is from Ga Ga for Gingham, and the other pink one is from the new Candy Kisses pack.  I inserted them into a Word document, cropped each one to 7"x1.5" and just stacked them next to each other.  I wish my sewing machine worked better so I could have run a zig-zag stitch between each one, but it just isn't working properly.

The paper with the tea cups on it was the inspiration for my card.   I love the A Spot of Tea stamp set and coordinating A Spot of Tea Pretty Pieces Cut file.  I cut the tea cup using the cut file, then stamped the outline of the tea cup in Night of Navy ink.  I then stamped the floral design in navy also, then inked the coordinating flowers and leaves in pink and green.  The sentiment is from the same set and is also stamped in navy.  I added the Martha Stewart flowers and a partial pearl flourish I had to mimic steam coming from the cup.  The pink base was scalloped on the left side with a border punch and I added a pretty pink dotted ribbon to finish it off.

This sketch from Card Patterns was the inspiration for the four different pattern panels I created.  What a lovely sketch!

Stop by the MTME blog to see what the Pretty Palette design team has created with these colors.  We have a new member, Jacki Randolph, joining us!  We are so happy to have her on board!  Welcome Jacki!  Here are links to their blogs. 

My Time Made Easy blog

Charlene Cundy
Jacki Randolph

Pattie Goldman

Romaine Rancier

Thanks for stopping by!  It's a longer weekend for me with Martin Luther King day tomorrow.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Recipe
Stamps:  A Spot of Tea (MTME)
Paper:  Neenah white, pink pirouette, Tea Parlor Plum's Silent Night, Ga Ga for Gingham, Candy Kisses (all MTME)
Ink:  Night of Navy, Pretty in Pink, Garden Green
Accessories:  A Spot of Tea Pretty Pieces cut file (MTME), pearl flourish (Want 2 Scrap), roses (Martha Stewart), scallop border punch, dotted ribbon, dimensionals

Just Us Girls #119 - Technique Challenge

Hi all!  Did you all survive Friday the 13th?  Up here in Buffalo, NY, we got hit with our first storm of the season.  Yes, I said FIRST snow storm!  We have not had any snow on the ground until yesterday. And it took me almost and hour and a half to get to work!  There was a 10 car pile up on the Thruway which held things up for hours!  It wasn't an enjoyable ride!

But today is better, it's Saturday and the long weekend is ahead, and we have a cool Just Us Girls technique challenge for you!  Our newest JUGs member, and Moxie Fabber of the Week, Lynn Mangan, chose the collage technique.  I had such fun with this one!  You can find the instructions in the SCS Resources here.

 

I started with a stamp set I purchased at a stamp show from Darcie's booth (there's no name on the package and I couldn't find it online).  I started with a piece of white cardstock and stamped it with SU's retired canvas background in Basic Gray.  Then I stamped the other images in Basic Gray, Tempting turquoise, and the sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black.  The flourishes were stamped off before stamping on the cardstock.  The edges were distressed and then I added more Basic Gray ink to define the edges more.  The ribbon is Basic Gray taffeta.  I had to add something else, so I just added some silver pearls to each side.

You have to stop by the JUGs blog and the girls' blogs to see their amazing collage stamped cards.  They are listed below.

Just Us Girls blog

Andrea

Dana

Elise

Kathryn

Lynn

Maria

Pam

Vicki

Kylie Kueter, January Featured Designer

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great weekend!