I'm So Excited! My Timeless Template Challenge 01

I am participating in the "My Timeless Template Challenge" - the very first one! I have been an admirer of Lauren's work for quite some time and am excited to participate! I used the "For Keep{sake}" template for my project. The challenge was to use bath products for inspiration. I made my own bath salts for the project. I just googled "homemade bath salts" and came up with lots of different websites. It was easy! Here's my project:

I love this little penguin image! I did little individual packets for single use using some small ziploc baggies. Here's a close up of the baggie:

I used the ribbon to make her little hula skirt. I trimmed off the edge so I was able to fray it up to the middle stitched part. I gathered it using mini glue dots and then trimmed the frayed part to fit the image. I used little strip of rhinestone stickers around the waist to bling it up a bit! Speaking of bling - I cut out the flower and her bikini top from an extra stamped image and glittered it, then layered it on top to give it some dimension. Cute, huh?!

I wrapped the ribbon around the lid and added the little "Relax" tag. It was a fun project! Now......who do I give it to??!!! Hmmm. Have to think about that one! Here's another view - of course, it looks much better IRL! I was bummed that I didn't have a rhinestone flower brad (that's on the top) that matched the color better, but I still think it works!

That's it for today! Stay tuned for my Blogger's Challenge to be posted tomorrow! It's an "Alter It" challenge. Have a great day!

Blogger's Challenge #95 - Color Challenge

This week's challenge was to use the following colors on a card: Always Artichoke, Sage Shadow, Chocolate Chip, and Sahara Sand, and a neutral if you wanted. I, like everyone else that I've been reading, had a hard time working in that Sage! I kind of masked it a lot with other ink colors to try to make it "blend" a little better!

I started out with an Artichoke base and layered the top half with Sahara Sand, after I ran it through my wonderful Big Shot on the Damask Texturz plate. I did use a sponge and kind of "rub" a little chocolate ink on the Sand to kind of dirty it up a little and make it a little less stark. Then layered the bottom half with the Sage. I used a few different stamps from the "Wanted" set to make my own background paper. I used both Arthchoke and Chocolate ink on it - if you click to enlarge the picture, you may be able to see that better.

I stamped the horse image from the "Wanted" set on Vanilla using the Sahara Sand ink, and then stamped the saying from the "Best Wishes and More" set with Chocolate ink. I made the dust from the running horse by using a piece of scratch paper and making a template using different sized circle punches and then sponging Sand ink while moving it around a little. Here's what my template looked like:

Then I tied some of our yummy 5/8" Chocolate grosgrain ribbon around with a little lasso (our natural color hemp twine) tied in the knot.

I think that's about it! It was a fun challenge and I'm looking forward to the next one. Now that we're all moved and settled - notice I said "settled" and not "organized"!! - I think I'll be able to play a lot more. I also have my own stamp room now too!

Have a great weekend!

Love You Much!

I really like this set. It has some fun images and it coordinates with that great "Heart to Heart" punch! It's just one punch - but 3 different hearts. Cute! This is a close up of the detail on the front of the card. I stamped the hearts image in Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss and Pink Passion and used the punch to punch out the image, but I only used the largest hearts on the project. *Little punch tip: when using a coordinating stamp and punch, always stamp image first and then punch out the image by turning the punch upside down and centering it, and punch! I used the rectangle punch on the Kiwi Kiss squares and threaded the ribbon through. That ribbon is really great! It's reversible - Kiwi Kiss trimmed in white on one side and White trimmed in Kiwi on the other side. I popped up the squares and the hearts using the Stampin' Dimensionals. I love those! They are a great price, so you should always keep some on hand to add that little WOW factor to any project.

This is the whole front of the card. I punched through the Kiwi Kiss and the Chocolate Chip layer to show the stamped image on the inside of the card.

This is a close up of the detail on the punch out part on the front of the card. I did the tone on tone look by stamping the image using the same color ink as the paper. Of course, the versamark pad would've worked too.

This is view of the open card showing the punched out part on the top and the stamped image on the bottom. This was a very simple card to make. I love those that look more complicated than they are! (Supply list below)

Stamps: Love You Much

Papers: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Pink Passion, Whisper White

Inks: Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Pink Passion

Tools: Rectangle Punch, Heart to Heart Punch, Kiwi Kiss/Vanilla Satin Ribbon

Blogger's Challenge #53

Don't you just hate posting a card that you don't like near as well as the post below it?? Ha ha ha! Needless to say, after that comment, I'm not too crazy about my card that I came up with for this challenge! I don't HATE it -- it just doesn't look like what it looked like in my head when I thought of the idea -- also hate when that happens! Maybe I should just change the name of this post to "Don't you hate when....." OK - I'm done complaining now! (hee hee!)

This week the challenge was to do any resist technique. I've been wanting to use this background stamp that I got at convention last year. I sadly have not used it since then!! I don't really love the stamp as a whole, but it's cute if you use the different strips on it. I was trying to challenge myself to use it as a whole. Well, I cheated a little! I ended up cutting it into blocks so I could have that little bit of color throughout. It was pretty boring all together.

Oh yeah, the technique........(I'm easily distracted!) I used the emboss resist technique. I used Versamark ink on white glossy cardstock and embossed it with clear powder. Then I just used my aqua painter and ink pads to color the different parts of the image. The colors just don't look as vibrant on the glossy paper - or maybe it's just from the residue of the embossing powder. The only orange doesn't really look orange at all!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day!

KWernerdesign Color Challenge #13

I really like how this card turned out! I have to admit that it was a little challenging for me to work in the Regal Rose color with the rest of the colors - the challenge was to use Purely Pomegranate, Regal Rose, River Rock, Wild Wasabi and Whisper White. I did not have any of the River Rock paper (GASP!), so I did leave that one out. Sorry! I love this little chick/bird stamp that I got for .99 cents at a local craft store. The word "chick" was done using my cricut machine in the rose color and then I did a shadow behind it in the pomegranate. I watercolored the rose color in the flower on the bird and added a little bling rhinestone to her - but she wasn't complete until I added her blushed cheek! I like doing this little trick with some of my animal stamps, especially if I'm trying to make it "girly"! I just press my pinky into the ink pad and stamp off on paper first so it's not too much and then press it on my paper. It looks really cute on baby girl cards!

Hope everyone is having a fabulous day! It's rainy and dark here in good ole' Nebraska!

Blogger's Challenge #52

Holy Smokes I'm a big fat slacker! I go from Challenge #46 to #52! Wow! I don't know what I was thinking when I thought that we would slow down a bit after school got out for the summer! We have been running constantly to soccer camp, softball camp, VBS, Summer School, soccer games, etc. etc. etc. We also had pink eye and swimmer's ear mixed in there too! Needless to say, we haven't been bored! LOL!

Our challenge this week was to do a manly card. I'm posting the card that I made for Father's Day. I did the background with the little stamp from the Wanted set - it was time consuming, but I liked how it turned out. I got the layout idea from a card that I saw somewhere and saved it. There was no name on it, so I'm not sure who it was -- sorry! I did this card just a day or two before I found out the the Noble Deer set is retiring. I'm sad to see it go, but I'm sure that they have another fabulous set to take it's place. I have a few retired sets for sale so if anyone is interested, contact me and I will email the list to you.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend! Thanks for checking in!

Blogger's Challenge #46 - Mother's Day

I hope that everyone had a fabulous Mother's Day! I was sick in bed! ICK! It was just a one day thing, but of course it had to fall on Mother's Day. Here is my card that I made for my mom and my sister - they haven't actually gotten them yet, so I may be spoiling the surprise! I used Stampin' Up! Bashfull Blue cardstock and ribbon, the patterned paper is from a slab I got at Wal Mart, and the flower brad is from a pack that I got in the clearance isle at Michael's! What a hodge podge of materials!! The M's were made using my new Cricut Expressions machine that happened to be my Mother's day gift!! I was so excited - I love it! Wal Mart had them on sale for $289.00, which is a fabulous price if you've been scoping them out! OK, enough of my blabbing and on to the card! Enjoy!