Paper Pursuits

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Birthday Annual Pass - Color Throwdown #156

Mornin’, everyone! It’s another Color Throwdown day! Today’s colors were chosen by the hugely talented Laura and here they are:

Just perfect for a nice soft birthday card for my sweet friend and MFT Teammate, Jody Morrow.

Of course I used a bunch of MFT Die-namics dies for this card: Tag, You’re It Die-namics and Stamp Set , Just the Ticket Die-namics and Stamp Set , and Upsy Daisy Die-namics. And Basic Grey's Kioki paper collection was pretty perfect for this color combo.

Remember, you do not have to have the exact colors to play the Color Throwdown challenge. If you don't, just use the closest you have. So, c'mon over to the Color Throwdown blog and play along with us this week. Please use the link service to post your card and please link directly to your card so we can find it easily. And please include a link in your post to the Color Throwdown. If you upload your card to a public forum, please use the keyword CTD156 so we can see your beauty all in one place. Hope to see you there! Be sure to check out what the other team members have come up with this week!

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Laura Pryor - Lil' Inker Designs
Carole Burrage - Mother's Little Helper

Broni Holcombe - Splashes Of Watercolor

Kristin Eberline - Mindless Creativity

Lori Tecler (helping out in August) – Inking Aloud

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back later with the MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge for this week!

~Supplies~

Stamps: Just the Ticket (MFT)

Paper: Kraft, Perfect Plum, So Saffron (SU!); Kioki 6 x 6 pad (Basic Grey)

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)

Accessories/tools: Vagabond (Tim Holtz); Just the Ticket, Tag, You're It, Upsy Daisy Die-namics dies (MFT); seam binding, baker's twine, foam dots, buttons, Dew Drops, sewing machine

Kiss the Cook

Hi, all, I’m back today with another card I did for the Splitcoast Stampers Dirty Dozen team. The theme for this card was Things We Love. I do love to cook…when I have time ;-)

No stamping on this card! All scrappy stuff and easy peasy to put together.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll be back tomorrow with a Color Throwdown card AND MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge!

~Supplies~
Stamps: None
Paper: Vintage Cream (PTI); Ruby Red (SU!); Kitschy Kitchen 6 x Ink: Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)6 pad (Melissa Frances)
Accessories: twill; twine, button (PTI); lace; sewing machine; Homemade Journal Notes (Crafty Secrets)

Monday, August 22, 2011

Sweet 16

Happy Monday! Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend! Today I've got a card using MFT’s By the Numbers Die-namics and Stamp Set. I thought this MME Lost and Found: Market Street paper would be perfect for a Sweet 16 birthday card.

I made good use of my paper design and stamped the ‘SWEET’ using Typewriter Alphabet. The 16 is glittered up with some Glitter Glitz Microfine Glitter in Apple Red and is popped on on the smaller of the Decorative Doily Duo Die-namics dies. I have a love-hate relationship with glitter—I love to use it but I hate to use it. KWIM? Until this stuff—it’s fabulous! I ran my numbers through my little Xyron X sticker maker then poured the glitter on. Stuck like a charm! Then some stitching, some vintaged up seam binding and some stick pins and it was done. It’s hard to see, but I have a strip using the Simply Scallops Medium Die-namics die under the seam binding.

And here’s the inside, using a couple of the Well Worn Greetings Die-namics dies and a sentiment from Clearly Sentimental About Birthdays.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

~Supplies~
Stamps: Typewriter Alphabet, Clearly Sentimental About Birthdays (MFT)
Paper: Fossil, Whip Cream (MFT); Lost and Found: Market Street 6 x 6 pad (MME)
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa; Antique Linen Distress Ink (Ranger)
Accessories/tools: Vagabond (Tim Holtz); By the Numbers, Decorative Doily Duo, Well Worn Greetings Die-namics dies, glitter (MFT); seam binding, stick pins, foam dots; sewing machine

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Kindred Spirits - C4C #101

Hey, everyone, I'm late!!! Late getting this posted. I've had my card done for over a week , but not my blog post, so of COURSE my Internet connection decided to take a little vacation last night. Grrrrrrrrr!! So, this will be short and sweet so I can go live.

It's Crazy 4 Challenges day and today's challenge is to play Bingo! So fun, I promise! Get all the deets on the C4C blog and play along! ALSO, today's challenge is sponsored by Flourishes. So be sure and hop on over to their store to see all the gorgeous sets they have for sale. AND if you play along with this week's challenge, you'll have a chance to win one of two sets Flourishes has generously donated.

Soooo, I'm using one of the latest releases, Sweet Days Of Summer, a companion to last year's Kid's Play. I chose to use the little girl with the watering can image because it speak to me as a gardener. But if you could see my garden this year, you think I NEED this little girl to help me, LOL! So dry.

I stamped her with Versafine ink in Onyx Black, popped her up, and tied a ribbon around. Did a little stitching and added a sentiment tag.

This set has too many sweet sentiments to only use one, so I added another one to the inside. So, what Bingo squares did I use? Diagonal top left to bottom right: Square card, die cuts, two or more patterned papers.

OK, short and sweet ;-) Sooooo, NOW, be sure to check out the samples by the rest of my crazy girls...er, I mean the Crazy 4 Challenges team ;-)

THEN, you know what to do--we'd love to have you come along and play with us. Just do your thing with the challenge and link it to Mr. Linky on the Crazy 4 Challenges blog. Please link directly to your project. And, if you upload to a public gallery, please use the key word C4C101.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Supplies~

Stamps: Sweet Days Of Summer (Flourishes)

Paper: Classic White (Flourishes); Basic Black (SU!); Blissful 6 x 6 pad (Authentique)

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories/tools: Vagabond (Tim Holtz); Classic Square, Lacey Pennants, and Labels Four Nestabilities; ribbon, sewing machine, foam dots

Friday, August 19, 2011

Flouishes Friday - Wild For Watermelon

Good morning!! For today's Flourishes Friday card I'm using one of the newest releases, Wild For Watermelon. It's another fabulous set by artist Marcella Hawley--I tell ya, she is da bomb when it comes to botanicals.

So, for some reason, my DH and I have been craving watermelon this summer--maybe it's because it's been SO hot and dry around here? I dunno, but we've been getting some really good ones and thoroughly enjoying them. Early on, I remembered the watermelon rind pickles my mother used to make and decided to try a batch for myself. Soooooo, I did and they're everything I remembered, YUM! I decided a gift set with a jar of these pickles would be awesome!!

I stamped the image on Classic White card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored it with the Poppy Collection, the New Leaves Collection, and the Fields Collection Copic markers. Then I cut it out with my Grand Calibur machine and my Labels Eighteen Nestabiliies.