This card was CASE'd from the fabulous Mary Fish. If you are a Stampin' Up! demonstrator you will have seen a version of this card in July's Stampin' Success magazine. It was sooooooooo easy to make this card thanks to punches and the Big Shot. The butterflies were punched out with the Butterflies die and the Eyelet border punch made a great border. This paper is one of my favourites. 
OK isn't this the most fabulous colour combo? Of all the one's SPCC has come up with - this is my absolute FAVOURITE!!!! This card was made using the fabulous new dies for the Big-Shot. Stampin' Up! has teamed up with Build-a-Bear and come up with these fabulous dies for the big shot. You can mix and match papers and colours and create your own bear - A La Build-a-Bear's own products. It was super easy for me to make this card and I have to say I absolutely LOVE the result. This card was made using the new Cottage Wall DSP and cardstock from the combo colours. Looking for Whisper White? Check out the polka dots on the bear's sweater. I ran out of Tempting Turquoise cardstock, so I made the shoes out of Going Grey and then sponged them in Tempting Turquoise ink. I really like the result and it was sooooooooo easy to do.
This layout was based on this week's 52 Sketches challenge. (Just like last week's Tuesday Tutorial) I printed out the pictures for last week's layout and this week's and managed to get last week's done in time for Tuesday Tutorial. Anyway, I love this layout because it used 5 photos which is great for vacation pic's. I mounted the photos on Riding Hood Red and decided to make the layout a bit more funky so I tilted the photos around a bit. They were laid out on Old Olive Cardstock, and I mounted the whole thing on Chocolate Chip. The stickers are from Making Memories and the adorable tags are from We R Memory Keepers. The fabulous punch horse was copied from Natasha Hein. You need to check out her blog. She is the queen of Punch Art.
If you didn't already know, PURPLE is my favourite colour. I decided to combine my favourite colour with my favourite stamp set - Best Wishes And More. I used the scallop circle die from the big shot and the modern label movers and shapers die which combines nicely with the modern label punch. The single snowflake ws popped up on a dimensional and then glitter was applied with the 2 way glue pen.
Recognize these cards? They are very similar to a post from last week. The card I posted last week was using up my leftovers from making these cards and jazzing it up a bit. This project here was made for a customer for a wedding shower. I bought a small wooden box at the dollar store and covered it with DSP. Then I used the Note Cards that SU sells for the Thank You cards themselves. I used these because they are a bit smaller than a standard card (5"x3.5") and they fit in the box perfectly!! There are 10 cards and envelopes and I made a little insert to keep them seperate.
So it's time for another Mojo challenge. I used the card below as an inspiration for this challenge. Well, basically I CASE'd her card. This card below is by Mercy Kerin. Check out her Lordhavemercy blog here. I put a copy of her card on my computer to inspire me because I love this card of hers sooo much. I think it's pretty obvious why I felt her card fit this sketch. Mercy used Basic Grey, but I used Burnished Silver cardstock as the base of this card. I layered Cameo Coral and Whiper White and then used my cutter be and scor-pal to make the outside border. I then used my paper piercer to pop the holes all the way through. The sentiment and the butterflies are from 'Great Friends'. I used silver embossing powder for the sentiment, and versamark with the classic ink to clear emboss the two butterflies. Then I carefully cut them out with craft scissors. The large scallop is from the Bigz die Scallop Circles #2. The smaller circle is the scallop circle punch. The large circle is cut with the Circle Scissor Plus and the smaller circle is the 1 3/8" punch. The DSP is Walk In The Park, and Basic Grey DSP. This is a Stampin' Up! only card with a few retired products to spicen it up.
What's up for grabs??? Well there a large sampling of 6x6 DSP, over 60 die cuts of DSP, the retired hostess set Comfort Food and a tempting turquoise stamp pad. The DSP includes Parisian Summer, Junior Varsity, Summer Picnic, Georgia Peach, Washington Apple, Urban Garden, Windsor Knot, Bella Rose, Hawaii Papaya, Maine Blueberry, & Green Tea, to name a few. The stamps are new and unmounted and the stamp pad is still wrapped up in it`s shiny plastic wrapper.
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You have until September 30th at midnight PST to do this.
I really hope to see you all as followers. And if you are already a follower, you already get an entry, but if you link to me or post a comment you will get more!
Another monday...another SPCC. This week's colour challenge is posted over SPCC. Please check it out to see what awesome prizes are available this week!!! This week I made a card with supplies from some SPCC sponsors. The rick rack is from 62 Cards, The White knitted ribbon is from Sue Z, and the DSP is from the Scrapmaster herself. The cardstock is all SU. I used the labels 4 nesties for the medaillion in the middle and the sticker was from the dollar store. I coloured it in with Stampin' Write Markers.
This is for this week's Color Throwdown. I really like this colour combination, but I have to say this card took a long time to get started. I finally settled on using the rock'n roll technique on the Best Wishes & More stampset. The Whisper White has been embossed with the Finial Press Textured Impression Folder.
Time for another Inkspirations Challenge. Check out Makeesha's blog to see what it's all about. I'm trying to use up all my non-stampin' up product, so the flowers and brad came from the dollar store. The DSP is retired but it had the right colours in it. I used the Elegant Bouquet Textured Impression folder and I love the look on the white cardstock. If you're wondering where the Real Red is, I stamped the sentiment in RRed ink. And the Stampset I used is soft summer.
Ahh, I've been Mojo'ing along once again. I've been working on Christmas Cards with non-traditional colours. Purple and green is my absolute favourite colour combo. All the cardstock in this card is from SU but the beads are from a little vendor at a quilt show I went to and the sentiment is from g-stamps. The DSP is cottage wall and the white cardstock is shimmery white. The other colours are Old Olive and Rich Razzleberry. If you look carefully you can see the silver cardstock I used at the top of both ornaments. I ran the white cardstock through the big shot with the snowflakes cuttlebug folder, and I heat embossed the sentiment with silver.
I love checking out Jenn Dierks' blog. She is a very talented artist and she was a top 30 finalist in this year's Artisan Award challenge She is also a member of the prestigious Tour De Freaks, along with some other Stampin' Guru's like Patty Bennet and Jan Tinks. I found this card on her blog and I decided to copy it (not case it).
Welcome to SPCC's Colour Challenge #14. This week I designed a card using a Mojo Monday sketch from their recent Mojo Turns 100 week of sketch challenges. I had a lot of fun with this card and I absolutely LOVE this colour combo. Isn't it great? I'd like to add a special thanks to some of SPCC's Sponsors for some of the supplies. The wavy rick rack grey paper is from 62 Cards. The sentiment is from Sue Z and the buttons come from the Scrapmaster herself. 
Time for another Mojo. I absolutely love the new holiday lounge DSP from SU! This card started as an only SU card, but then I decided to use my circle nesties instead of the circle scissor plus to make the large circles. Then I used the die as a stencil and sponged on some turquoise to add another layer of colour. The oval image was stamped and cut out on the line, then I used the wide oval punch to add a silver matte. After I was sure it was dry, I used my two way glue pen to add the glitter. The ornament was stamped and punched out and after the rhinestone and silver twine was added, I also used the two way glue pen to add glitter. 
First I made the house shape out of the heavy cardboard that we get with our DSP packs of paper. It's easy enough to cut in the paper cutter, but heavy enough to make a cover from. Next I inked up some Creamy Caramel paper to make the faux wood effect. Then I used punches to make the fence and the circles. This actually started out as a birdhouse card, so if you're wondering where the door is; it's a birdhouse!
Next I stapled all the inserts together and then attached them to the front cover using these cute eyelets I found at the fabric store. The great thing about these eyelets is that they are 2 pieces, so there's a front and a back which means no sharp edges on the inside of the album.
Isn't this colour combo just great!!! Please don't forget to check out SPCC for more examples by the talented design team and see what you can win. International entries are also eligible. I found these black and white stickers at the dollar store and decided to use them in this colour combo. I used my stampin' write markers to colour them in. Then I ran the white cardstock through the big shot with the top note die, and then again with the curly cuttlebug embossing folder. I then trimmed it and mounted it on Regal Rose cardstock die cut with the top note die. Then I stamped Old Olive paper with an image in Old Olive ink for the tone on tone background. 
I went back through 52 sketches past sketches and I decided to do a layout based on this sketch. I had this paper from Imaginisce and it matched perfectly with the retired In Color Soft Sky. The white paper was run through the big shot using the finial press textured impressions die. Then I The chipboard filigrees were from the dollar store and I sponged on Whisper White Kraft Ink. The title is from a retired simply scrappin' kit and mounted on going grey paper. The ribbon is Basic Grey taffeta ribbon. The Journaling stamp was stamped in White Kraft ink on Soft Sky cardstock and then cut out and mounted on going grey and then whisper white.
Supplies: Paper: Pink Passion, W White, Bash Blue. Ink: P Pass, B Blue, C Celery, Pixie Pink. Stamps: Big on Spring (ret). Accessories; Textured Impressions Folder - Finial Press, Bashful Blue taffeta ribbon, Nesties Labels 4, 2 way glue pen, Dazzling Diamonds glitter.
Here's a card I whipped up this past week. What's unique (to me) about this card is that when I used the scallop oval nestabilities to cut out the chocolate chip, I then left the nesty on it and used it as a stencil. I sponged choc chip ink over the stencil so if you look closesly you will see that the two tones of brown.
Time for another Inkspiration challenge from Makeesha. This week its a sketch challenge. I added a bit of non SU stuff to this card because I absolutely love my nesties and I didn't have time to dye some flowers to match but I have these cute flowers from the dollar store and matching brad's. I used my new Textured Impressions folder and let me tell you I'm addicted. You will see MANY projects with this texture folder in the next little while. I've already made a ton of projects using it. 
