Finger Print Love

Play Date Cafe is celebrating their third anniversary this week so I wanted to play along in honor of the big event :)  Here's the color story for this week:

I realized this week that I have a TON of ink pads... more than I thought I had.  So I thought instead of stamping an image and coloring it in (like so many of my cards seem to have lately), why not use some ink pads that match.  So that's what I did, but I couldn't use any old stamp.  I had to use my thumb :D

I kept it pretty simple.  Stamped my thumbs in each of the three colors, added a sentiment, distressed the edge of the main panel then adhered it to matching cardstocks.  I didn't have paper that matched the bluish purple or the red, so I used the same ink pads to color a sheet of white cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

INK - Memento Paris Dusk, Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler and Rich Razzleberry

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Whisper White and Rich Razzleberry, Neenah Solar White

STAMPS - Paper Smooches Word Salad

Lime Splashed Thanks

I've been super busy around the house lately (cleaning things up and reorganizing... fun times!) so I've been out of my crafts space for far too long.  I decided I was due some real fun so took a break from all of the house work to play along with a couple challenges.

Here's the card I came up with:

Seems pretty simple, right?  It took FOREVER because I had problems with the white chevron piece.  I don't know what it was, but I just couldn't get the image stamped and embossed to my liking.  I think I repeated it five times before I finally got this one.  The black card base is the same image stamped then embossed with clear embossing powder to give a little pop to the background with out being overwhelming.

And a view of the inside:

The challenges I'm playing along with are:

Well I guess I've procrastinated long enough... back to the grind!

Thanks for stopping by,

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
STAMPS: Hero Arts Chevron Background and Paper Smooches Word Salad
INK: Versamark and Memento Tuxedo Black
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Basic Black and Lucky Limeade; Neenah Solar White
OTHER: Stampin' Up! In Color 2011-2013 Brads; Zing Clear Embossing Powder, Zing Black Embossing Powder; Tag Punch

Up, Up, and Away

I've seen a lot of hot air balloons up in the sky lately and that made me want to make a card with some as well :)

I used the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe Challenge and the 'strips' from CAS-ual Fridays' challenge .  The yellow is kind of a mustardy yellow on its own, but paired with the blues, it takes on more of a green hue.  :(

I kept the inside fairly simple, mimicking the front but not embossing the light blue or coloring the center panel (giving room for a message!).

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Island Indigo, Summer Starfruit, Whisper White

INK: Stampin' Up! Island Indigo, Summer Starfruit, Pool Party, Basic Black

STAMPS: Stampin' Up! Up, Up, and Away; Hero Arts Envelope Pattern

DIES: Stampin' Up! Apothecary dies

OTHER: Stamp-a-majig; Scissors, Finger Daubers, Lattice Embossing Folder, Piercing Mat, Piercing Pack essentials from SU!, Paper Piercer, Sanding Block, Adhesive, Dimensional Adhesive

Gorjuss Hello

I got home from work today and decided to put that watercolor background from yesterday to use for the Playdate Cafe.  I had a plan but once I got started, I changed my mind :)  I opted to water color with Distress Inks and came up with this lovely:

I used the colors from the PDC cchallenge -

And since I used such dark card stock, I actually took the time to do the inside (I often neglect to do this then when I go to use it, I always wish I had the inside done!). 

Thanks for stopping by!
--Angie

SUPPLIES:
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Night of Navy and Whisper White; Basic Grey Perhaps 6x6 pad
INK: Stampin' Up! Night of Nave; Distress Inks - Black Soot, Tattered Rose, Faded Jeans, Worn Lipstick, Wild Honey Fired Brick
STAMPS: Paper Smooches Chit Chat, Market Street Stamps Punched Tin, Gorjuss My Own Universe
OTHER: Aqua painter, Stampin' Up! Fancy Label Punch

Crochet for the Playdate Cafe

When I saw the colors for this weeks playdate cafe, I was stumped.  What do you think???

I went into my craft space and pulled out some distress inks that matched the colors and made a water color background for a card, but couldn't figure out exactly how to use it so I put it away and figured i'd get back to it. 

Then while I was exploring the web, I found this crochet pattern for a beanie and I had a plan.  I scoured my yarn stash and found four suitable colors then got to work.  It only took about two hours to crochet this up!

 

I still have the distress ink background lying on my desk...I still have time to figure something out with it ;)

--Angie

SUPPLIES:
H (5.0 mm) crochet hook
Vanna's Choice Yarn in Pink and terracotta
Loops and Threads Yarn in Burgandy and True Blue

Color Splashed Congrats

I'm playing along with a few challenges today - feels like it's been ages since I've made cards for a challenge! Here are the challenges I'm playing along with (click on the images to go to the challenge websites):

I was so excited to participate in a couple of challenges that not only did I make one card, I made a whole set of encouragement/congrats cards:

I didn't have any bright blue card stock that I liked for what I had in my head, so I grabbed a piece of Neenah Solar White and covered it with one of the summer Distress Inks - Salty Ocean.  The color was perfect for what I wanted! 

 

 

To make the sentiment banner pop from the patterned background, I inked the edges with the Salty Ocean ink pad. And for those counting my layers for the YCU challenge - there's FIVE :)

It was a quick set to make and I can see lots of possibilities in all colors of the rainbow with this one!

Thanks for stopping by!

--Angie

SUPPLIES:

PAPER - Neenah Solar White, Stampin' Up! Basic Black

STAMPS - Lawn Fawn Itty Bitty Backgrounds, Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler and Good Gab

INK - Versamark, Distress Ink Salty Ocean

OTHER - Spellbinders Wonky Rectangle Dies, Zing Black Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Adhesive

Happy Birthday Crow

Today I'm sharing a card that I made for my sister-in-law's upcoming birthday that I also am entering in the following challenges:

     

    

as well as the Guest Designer call over at Paper Smooches.  So without further adieu, here she is:

My sister-in-law researches crows, so I thought it would be fun to color in the little peep as a crow, which also brought in a little more of the gray color from PDC's color palette.  I kept the inside simple by adding a sentiment and stamping the bird a few times along the bottom:

Have a creative weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Paper Smooches Party Posse, Chit Chat and My Peeps; Hero Arts Flower Dot Background

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack, Neenah Solar White

INK: Versamark, Stampin' Up! Pool Party, Memento Angel Pink and Rhubarb Stalk

OTHER: Clear Embossing Powder, Black Embossing Powder, The Twinery's Slate twine, 1/2" Corner Chomper, Stampin' Up! Fancy Label Punch, Stampin' Write Markers in Basic Black and Pumpin Pie, Blender Pen, Heat gun

Sending Love in a Hot Air Balloon

Happy weekend!!  Today started off with I smile when I saw I was picked as the Primo Stamper for the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  I loved that card when I was done with it so I'm glad Kim and her DT did too!

This weekend I'm catching up with all of the CPS anniversary sketches and I'll have at least one card to share every day and hopefully an extra special project that I'll be working on this weekend.  For today, I'm using sketch #26, for day 10:

I also decided to use the colors from this week's Play Date Cafe's challenge:

For whatever reason, when I saw the colors I immediately thought of a hot air ballon and the diamond pattern that some of them have so I set out to make my own background paper.  When I was searching through my stamps deciding which to use, I found a set that I forgot I had and haven't even used yet.  In the end, I was pretty happy with what I ended up with:

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I created the background by cutting 1/2" strips of the four colored papers and glueing them on a piece of copy paper on the diagonal.  Then I cut that into 3/4" strips and placed them onto another piece of cardstock that I ran through my xyron to make sure it was super adhesive.  I flipped every other strip 180 degrees and lined them up to form the pattern.  I used the same colors to paper piece the ballon that I finished by covering it with crytal lacquer.

It took sometime to make the background, but I think it was well worth it!  And since I paper pieced the background and ballon, it'll be playing along with CAS-ual Friday this week too:

Stop by tomorrow to see how I use CPS's sketch for day 11.

Have a great weekend!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 
PAPER: Stampin' Up! Night of Navy, Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Crumb Cake, Neenah Solar White
INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist, Night of Navy
STAMPS: Ain't Love Grand Stampin' Up! Hostess Set
OTHER: Tombow Mono Multi Glue, Snail Adhesive, Spica Lipstick marker, Crystal Lacquer, Glue Dots, 5" Xyron, Stampin' Up! Brights Buttons, Tonic Distresser, Finger Daubers

Week 4: No Copic Coloring

Have you seen the Lawn Fawn blog recently?  Kelly Marie featured my card that I made for my alphabet sticker self challenge on this post here.  I was grinning ear to ear when I saw that pop up over there!  There's also a Valentine's card drive for children's hospitals going on.  You can get the info from that post if you're interested in sending cards out to the kids.

Yesterday, I posted this card that I made using my Prismacolors instead of my Copics.  Today, I stepped away from the pencils and picked up some of the Smooch colors I have to create this non-traditional Valentine's card:

I used the sketch from the Young Crafter's Unite Challenge and the CAS-ual Friday Challenge (they sketches are very close to each other!).  I used the color palette that is out there this week at the Play Date Cafe (plum, pear, and moldy cheese).  

I stamped Hero Arts' Blooming Heart and colored it in with three colors of Smooch - Plum Berry, Ocean Soul, and Olive Twist.  The olive twist was a little darker than the papers I had picked out so I added some pops of green with Zing's Leaf Embossing Powder and a Zig emboss Writer.  

Next week, I may bring back the Copics (my, how I miss them!), but I will also be using ribbon.  Ribbon is my challenge for week 5.

Have a great week!

--Angie

SUPPLIES - 

Paper: Stampin' Up! Island Indigo, Whisper White, Wisteria Wonder DSP, and Lucky Limeade DSP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin' Up! Lucky Limeade

Stamps: Hero Arts Blooming Heart, My Favorite Things Notched Tag Die and Stamp Set

Other: Zing Leaf Embossing Powder, Zig Emboss Writer, Heat Gun, Stampin' Up Mat Pack, bone folder, Snail Adhesive, Indigo Island Brads, Stampin' Up! Word Window Punch

Smooch Ink: Plum Berry, Olive Twist, Ocean Soul

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Gift Box II

Since I made this gift box, I've been itching to make another, so that's what I did today.  Instead of going with a Christmas theme, I went with a generic "For You" -

I based this box on three different challenges going on right now:

   

I used the color scheme from PCD's Color Splash Challenge and the layout from CPS's sketch.  Here's a close up of the front panel:

To finish it off I added a tag in honor of the CAS-ual Friday challenge using Mandarin and Charcoal twine from the Twinery:

Now that I've done a generic one, I better get back to the Christmas theme so I have plenty to use for gift boxes this holiday.  :)

Happy Monday!

--Angie

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