This Week's Challenge

Our Three Amigas Weekly Challenge is to make a card for a boy or man with any shades of the colors brown and blue. It can be for any occasion you choose.
I used the Parisian Breeze designer paper which is a very nice cardstock weight, textured paper, double sided. The Naturals White panel was embossed with one of the new Stampin' Up textured plates which are very cool! I stamped a sentiment right on the embossing in Chocolate Chip. Embellishments were the neutrals brads in Chocolate and linen thread. Cute and Curly stamp set along with matching punch for sentiment.
This challenge was combined with today's Featured Stamper, Kelly H, where I cased her pocket card layout, making changes to the paper, stamps, and embellishments used.




For this second card I used some of the large Pretties Kit white flowers, my new Prints Pack designer paper (Level 1 hostess choice), the Top Note die that was run through the Big Shot with the new texturz plate. I cut the flowers from Simple Friendship out of the same dp, added some Crystal Effects and some of the tiny silver beads from the Pretties Kit. Sentiment/flourish is from Yummy which is a Sale-a-bration choice, stamped in Pacific Point.

True Friend Inspiration

Today's inspiration challenge comes from Room Service Home. I chose the stamp set pictured as my inspiration piece.
True Friend flower/emblem was stamped in Pretty In Pink and Sage Shadow on Whisper White. Label Classics tag stamped with Sincere Salutations sentiment.

Simple Friendship

Today's challenge was to create your own designer paper using one stamp set. I chose Simple Friendship with Cocoa, Baja, and Naturals White.

Refrigerator Magnets

The Frugal Finds challenge on SCS was to find some old somethings you have around the house to recycle. Have I got some junk here, I can't seem to part with anything. I found these casters that were from some older furniture we no longer even have and some flat magnets I got in the mail with advertising on it.















I used some double sided adhesive sheets, cut to fit caster frame and lightly sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds. (These sheets are from Close To My Heart). The swirly image was stamped in Kiwi Kiss ink on retired Cool Caribbean. Stick sheet to it, and then to caster.














This is what some of the finished magnets look like. I used Ocean Commotion for the fish and Just Buzzin' By with Chocolate Chip and Summer Sun. I'll be back later with some more pictures, I'm getting evicted from my craft room for a while due to some construction we have going on.

Simple Friendship

I just got the new set Simple Friendship yesterday and I think I'm going to love every stamp in this 7 piece set!! I used the Bella Birds paper with Cocoa and Naturals White cardstock. Small flower was stamped in Pirouette Pink with rhinestone brad added to center. Butterfly was stamped in Pretty In Pink on vellum and cut out.

Bella Toile Monogram

Chrissy's Belli Challenge this week was to use a monogram. I used the Stampin' Up Lovely Letters set embossed in gold with Riding Hood Red, Handsome Hunter, and Whisper White cardstocks. I stamped the Bella Toile and then colored it in with Copic markers. I stamped a musical score (Stampendous) in Encore gold ink over top the Bella Toile. Finished off with some Riding Hood Red taffeta ribbon.
Please check out the cards made by the Belli team:
Anne Harada, Shelly Koskinen, Courtney Fowler, Chris Dickinson, Christi Thorsen, Jennifer Greco, Holly Brown, Karen Gibson, Ceal Pritchett, Danita Hollander, Lee Murphy, Debby McGivillary, Joan Ervin

Celebrate Everything & Embrace Life

Color challenge choices today were Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, and Summer Sun. I double stamped the Celebrate sentiment, in each Summer Sun and Pumpkin Pie (shadow stamping). I embossed the Embrace Life flower in gold and colored in with markers and re-inkers, cut them out and mounted them with some leaves from Old Olive cardstock.