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Jan 06 2010

Chocolate Makes It Better - Color Throwdown #74

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Yeah!  It’s time for the very first Color Throwdown of 2010!!  Can you believe another year has come and gone??

We’re also celebrating because we have a brand new CTD designer!!  She’s so cool and so talented and I bet you already know her….Kristin Bueter!!  And for her initiation, we’ve asked her to start the new year off by hostessing her first Color Throwdown challenge.

You may have seen that she’s designing the beautiful digital papers for Lauren Meader’s new store, My Time Made Easy.  Well, Lauren has generously donated 2 prizes, each consisting of a template and 2 of the new paper packs, for this week’s challenge.  And all the design team members were given the paper  to use in our creations.

The colors that Kristin chose are straight from her papers called Fluttering-by and Shutt-erfly.

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I’ve chosen Our Craft Lounge’s Granny from Granny’s Truffles to grace this week’s Valentine themed card.  Isn’t she just too cute?  Lovin’ that chocolate!  The wavy line background paper and the sweet gingham paper are both Kristin’s creations.

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Be sure to check out all the designers’ cool creations here:

 Barbara * Cathy * Danielle * Kristin

LeAnne * Tammy * Deb Horst (Guest Designer for December)

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You can get all the details and rules for entering the challenge HERE.

Thanks so much for visiting!

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Dec 29 2009

Fairy Dust on kraft - Van Gogh style

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I wanted to play along with the technique challenge at Splitcoaststampers this week.  I’ve never tried the Van Gogh technique before, but it sure was fun and I can’t wait to experiment some more!

I chose Fairy Dust is a Must from Our Craft Lounge to work with and decided to try it on kraft cardstock.  I love it paired with the Basic Grey Lemonade 6×6 papers.

Kraft Fairy Dust

I’m so glad you stopped by!

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Dec 28 2009

It Was on Sale!

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So did you shop the day after Christmas?  I only went to a local pharmacy to stock up on Christmas wrapping paper and a few other things for next year.  It was close and I didn’t have to fight the crowds!  Just the way I like to shop!

I’ve got a card to show you today using the Our Craft Lounge set Shop ’til Ya Flop.  This is such a fun set!!

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I guess I’m ready for the holidays to be over now, but it sure was fun spending so much time with the family.  Especially all the grandkids…they are so much fun!  They all had a happy Christmas, so all is well in their world.  How simple a child’s life is!

I hope you have a wonderful week.  Thanks for stopping by!

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Dec 16 2009

A Seasonal Celebration - Angels Landing challenge

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This is my last post as an Angels Landing design team member.  I’m very sad to leave this great team of wonderfully talented ladies.  Judi Maddigan is SO VERY gifted as an artist and such a great pleasure to work with.  I’m grateful to her for allowing me to play with her adorable images and I wish her all the best for a wonderful and prosperous future.

Our challenge this week was a Seasonal Celebration.   Since I’ve had grandkids, each year both of my daughters and their families come to my house early in December and they all help me decorate my Christmas tree.  We have such fun and it really sets the tone for a joyous and grateful season of celebration for us all.

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I’ve used the Seasons Tweetings cardinal to create a new ornament to add to my tree this year.  The base is a wooden snowflake.  I added glass glitter, a little lace, a silk flower also coated with glitter, and some tiny garnet colored microbeads.  The cardinal is layered and the top layer has a fine coat of Distress Stickles in rock candy, for just a touch of shimmer.

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Please be sure to check out all the other Seasonal Celebrations of the design team by choosing the links you’ll find at the Angels Landing blog.

Thanks for stopping by!!

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  • Stamps: Seasons Tweetings (Angels Landing)
  • Paper: Neenah white
  • Ink: Ranger Distress antique linen
  • Other: wooden snowflake, silk flower, Ranger Glossy Accents, Sulyn glass glitter, FloraCraft Diamond Dust, lace, silver cord, Martha Stewart glass microbeads, Ranger Distress stickles - rock candy, Quickie glue pen, sponge dabber, foam tape, velvet ribbon, Copic markers:

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Dec 09 2009

Joy Love Peace Bear - an Angels Landing challenge

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This week’s design team challenge at the Angels Landing blog is to finish the edges of our cards.

I’ve finished the edges of my scalloped circle card front with sponging and a line of pink stickles.  I also finished the edges of the patterned paper on the inside of the easel card by using a Fiskars Threading Water punch.  Even the little scalloped sentiment circle edges were finished by sponging them.

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Head over to the Angels Landing blog for links to check out all the cool ways the design team members have finished their card edges.

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Dec 09 2009

Pom Pom Tree - Color Throwdown #72

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This week I’m hosting the  Color Throwdown challenge, and our sponsor is My Favorite Things!  Woo hoo!  Everybody loves MFT!!  Hey, did you know that I was a Guest Designer for them way back in October 2007?  Yep, I was!  That was before I even had a blog!

If you play along with us you have a chance to win a prize from them or even to become our Featured Stamper this week.  You can use whatever colors you have that are similar to this week’s choices, inspired by Basic Grey’s Eskimo Kisses.

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I chose to work with Grow Love, Plant a Tree for my card.  I LOVE this set!  Even though it’s not a Christmas set, I’ve used it with the seasonal paper for a winter-into-spring card.  See the snow on the ground?

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The pom poms represent bunches of leaves that are starting to sprout in the springtime.  Yeah, whatever….I just wanted to make some of the cool pom pom flowers that I saw on Dawn McVey’s blog!  She was inspired by the flower arrangement that Wendy Smedley made.

The bark on the tree was made by first coloring the tree trunk with Copic markers (E00, YG91, E71, E74, E77), and then touching the brush tip of the colorless blender marker to it.  Oh, and I used last week’s sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You too.

Thanks for stopping by to check things out today.  Be sure to stop by my fellow CTD designers’ blogs for more inspiration:

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Barbara * Cathy *Danielle

LeAnne * Tammy * Carol (Guest Designer for December)

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Please stop back by later for this week’s Angel Landing DT challenge card!  We’re finishing our edges this week!

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  • Stamps: Grow Love, Plant a Tree (My Favorite Things)
  • Paper: Neenah white, riding hood red, pretty in pink, Eskimo Kisses 6×6 pad (Basic Grey), Classic K Margo mat pad (K & Company), Fresh Paint glitter paper  (K & Company)
  • Ink: Memento rich cocoa, versamark, Ranger Distress - broken china & antique linen
  • Other: 3/4″ circle punch, punch & mat, silver brads, corner rounder punch, Swiss Dots CB folder, clear embossing powder, Martha Stewart double loop border punc, riding hood red ribbon, sponge dabbers, foam tape, Copic markers

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Dec 04 2009

Mistletoe Music

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Hi, everyone!  I have another Our Craft Lounge Christmas card to show you today.  Funny, because I had already started on this card using the Cosmo Cricket Jolly by Golly paper, when I received the Zva package that I showed in THIS post.  So what a coincidence that I used a very similar mix of papers as I did on that project!

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I’ve used Laura’s sketch 40 from the 2 Sketches 4 You blog.  And I also used at least 5 buttons which qualifies for the Cards Magazine challenge.

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All my edges are sponged with Ranger Distress antique linen ink and if you look closely, you can see the Ranger Distress crackle paint in Rock Candy on the sheet music.  (Click on the photo below.)  I just love that stuff!

I used a circle and scalloped circle together at the same time to cut the black glittery paper into the wreath shape.  The mistletoe is colored with Copic markers.

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Mistletoe Music close up 1       Mistletoe Music close up 2

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Thanks for stopping by again today!  Have a wonderful weekend!  Hopefully I’ll be finishing up my Christmas cards and be able to start a little shopping!  (Yep.  I said “start”.  Sigh.)

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Dec 02 2009

Tilda’s Ready for Christmas - Color Throwdown #71

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This week for the Color Throwdown, Danielle chose some yummy colors just perfect for another Christmas card!   Here they are:

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This presented such a wonderful opportunity to use this adorable Tilda with Wreath from Magnolia-licious.  Well, that coupled with the fact that they’re sponsoring the challenge this week!!

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I just adore her sweet little vintage-looking ruffled dress.  And I love that I had the brown and cream combination to use for it.

Check out the challenge at the Color Throwdown blog for all the details.  And we’ve got a new super-talented Guest Designer for December.  It’s Carol from Our Little Inspirations.  Please be sure to stop by and welcome her.

Here are the links for the remarkable ladies I have the pleasure of designing with:

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Barbara * Cathy *Danielle

LeAnne * Tammy * Carol (Guest Designer for December)

 

I’m sitting out of the Angel’s Landing design team challenge this week, but please be sure to stop by and see what they’re up to!  You won’t be disappointed, I promise!

Thanks SO much for dropping by!

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Nov 27 2009

Under the Mistletoe - a challenge card

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I’ve missed the last couple of weeks of playing in the JUGS girls challenges so I made it a point to get a card done for this week’s JUGS8 color challenge.  What a fun combination of bashful blue, pumpkin pie and really rust!  I also used the C4C12 sketch for this week too!  Here’s my card using another Pure Innocence digi image:

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There are Ranger Distress stickles in Picket Fence white all around the edge of the patterned paper, spread over the snowflakes on the blue panel and along the ground snow line.  I used Sparkly Fluff on the hat pom poms and on the snowman’s scarf.   Here are a couple of close ups. (You can click on them to see them larger.)

Under the Mistletoe close up  Under the Mistletoe sentiment

That’s it for today!  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you enjoy the rest of your weekend!

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Nov 20 2009

Fairy Dust Wishes - Our Craft Lounge new release!

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I just love fairy tales!  So I was thrilled when I found out I would get to use Fairy Dust is a Must for the Our Craft Lounge blog hop.  These little darlings are so cute, aren’t they?!

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I went for a rustic, woodsy feel for my card today.  But I can’t wait to try this out with a sweet & glittery feminine theme too.

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 Fairy Dust Wishes mushrooms   Fairy Dust Wishes sentiment

Here’s the deal.  I’m giving away the Fairy Dust is a Must set.  The winner will be chosen randomly from all the comments left on yesterday’s sneak peek post HERE and on this post.  Be sure your contact information is in your blogger profile or in your comment.  You have until 11:59 p.m. Friday (11/20) to leave your comments.

Now go visit all the other blogs to see all the fantastic new releases!

Bird and Groom  - Beth
Hang it Up Cupid - Carol, Vicki
Hearts & Hugs - Holly, Joy
The Journey - Charmaine
Life Is -Amber
Love Notes -  Heather, Beate
Out for a Spin - Pam
Fairy Dust is a Must - Cami, Broni
Granny’s Truffles - Val
Jungle Love - Deb, Kendra
Shamrock Blessings -Cindy
Sweet on You -Kisa
Wanted - Lila

If you get lost anywhere along the way, all the information and links can be found at The Lounge.

Check out the fun Our Craft Lounge birthday bash challenges HERE!

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  • Stamps: Fairy Dust is a Must (Our Craft Lounge) - also can be purchased at eclectic Paperie
  • Paper: Neenah white, chocolate chip, magazine page, Nutmeg Mini Deck (Cosmo Cricket)
  • Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Ranger Distress brushed corduroy
  • Other: Dahlia Nestabilities, sponge dabber, ribbon, Tombow mono aqua glue, Martha Stewart luster glass microbeads -clear, foam tape, DecoArt Glamour Dust, Ranger Glossy Accents, button, twine, Copic markers:

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