Time Out Reminder

Hi everyone!  It's been a little quiet here on the ol' blog!  I've been on vacation in sunny Huatulco, Mexico!  This was the view of sunrise from our room...absolutely fabulous!

 

Anyway, since I've been frolicking on the beach, I've been behind on my crafting but I did want to remind you that the current Time Out challenge, Rock Around the Clock, is still going on!  You can find it here.

 

 

Hope you can join us!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 



Just Us Girls #281 - Color Week

Hi everyone!  I'm the hostess over at Just Us Girls this week, and it's Color Week!  I've chosen a fun color palette that I hope you'll enjoy too!

 

Here's a close up of the colors.

 

Here's what I came up with.  For the beige, I chose to use kraft card stock.  Then I took inspiration from that pillow on the left.  I embossed the navy card stock with Versamark and liquid platinum embossing powder.  That powder is just so pretty!  The flowers on the one pillow reminded me of this dahlia image, so I stamped it in regal rose and navy.  I added some silver pearls to the center of the flower.

 

You can see more from the JUGs design team and our guest on these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Chris Dring

Ina Grehan

Maria Levine

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

Stephanie Severin, guest designer

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Delightful Dahlia, Delightful Dahlia Additions, Background Basics: Retro (PTI)

Paper:  Kraft, night of navy, recollections white

Ink:  Versamark, night of navy, regal rose

Accessories:  Delightful Dahlia dies, liquid platinum embossing powder, silver pearls, dimensionals

 



Just Us Girls #280 - Trend Week

Hello friends!  It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls, and Ina has chosen to have us use burlap on our creations! How fun!

 

I made a burlap flower.  My friend and DT member, Cheryl, purchased some at Michael's on one of our shopping trips.  This is that burlap!  I made a tag with this sentiment and buffalo die cut that I purchased at my LSS, Buffalo Stamps and Stuff.  I used a new stencil I got there too from Memory Box with some texture paste. 

 

I used this tag from the Tag You're It! challenge as my inspiration.  That buffalo was sitting on my table and I just thought it was a good fit!

 

You can see more from our design team and guest on these blogs.

 

JUGs blog

Cheryl Rowley

Chris Dring

Ina Grehan

Maria Levine

Nancy Leppek

Sharyn Polesel

Sue VanDeVusse

Vicki Dutcher

Stephanie Severin, guest designer

 

Recipe

Stamps:  Greetings (Buffalo Stamps and Stuff)

Paper:  Scallop tag cards (The Papercut)

Ink:  Memento rich cocoa

Accessories:  Burlap, Beautiful Blooms II #3 die (PTI), Prima Donna Petals die (MFT), scraped paint stencil (Memory Box), texture paste (Ranger), glitter dot, ribbon, floss, hole punch, Buffalo die cut

 



Christmas Card Challenge #10 - White on White

This week's challenge over at Christmas Card Challenge blog is white on white.  In all the years I've been stamping, I don't think I've ever done a completely white card.  Always a first time for everything!

I pulled out a new die set I just got this week.  I love this little village set.  I die cut it from white cardstock and then backed it with some saffron cardstock to make it look like lights inside the buildings.  I arranged them around some stitched snow drifts.  I stenciled the background with a falling snow stencil and some texture paste.  The sentiment was stamped on vellum and made into a banner.  I attached it with a button threaded with some twine.

 

You can see more beautiful cards on these blogs.

 

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