MOJO Monday Week 88

Yay, another sunny card picture day!! But man is it windy!!

So my friend at work Dana (pronounced Donna) asked me to help her make some place settings and table numbers for one of her friends weddings next weekend. So with out asking her I decided to make a wedding card out of all the scraps (will post stuff when done). I used this weeks Mojo Monday sketch.

She bought everything herself, most of it at "Omer Des serres" Embossed card stock and some iridescent coral-orange card stock. Then she picked up some orange glitter at the $ store.

I stamped the ring from Inkadinkado's Mr and Mrs set and used SU's Groovy Guava, great match!

I embossed the bottom piece with a cuttle bug embossing folder. Used some plain white ribbon and this is what I got. I hope she likes it!

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #7

For this weeks Raspberry Suite color challenge I decided to use something I have never used before. I love these colors, so I had to make something!!

You really can't tell from this photo but I used Crackle Accent on the flowers. It's seems that in the 3 hours later after taking these photo's the Crackle has crackled some more and now looks really good!!

I also used SU's "Inspired by Nature". I sprayed some Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist "English Ivy" on a piece of plastic and ran the stamp of the grass through the Glimmer mist so the grass has a sheen to it.

Color Inspiration #53

Today is one of my brother's birthday's. I thought Kristina's color inspiration was great for a guy. I definitely got this idea from visiting Kristina's website (frequently). She has a style all of her own. So I thought I would give it a try, I certainly don't have her and writing....

I love taking pictures in the sun! Don't these colors look fantastic in natural light!? I have here three Creative Memories, Basic fine-tip, journaling pens. Three Copic markers B29, Y15 and R29, which were amazing to use on the Thickers, I have three different sets here.

I just added a ribbon and some $ store bling and it was done!! Yah me, two cards in one day! (previous post).

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I LOVE taking pictures int he sun!! Today I was home, catching up on chores, I worked at the school this AM and had the chance to make this card. Last week I combined all kinds of challenges , this week I'm just going to do the challenges on their own. This weeks sketch is from Taylored Expressions.

I knew which paper pack I was going to use today. While I was flipping through the pack this piece in three sections jumped at me. I just went from there, every layer just added itself. The paper pack is from DCWV "The Sweet Stack". I also used SU's rub ons "Love & Happiness". No ink! I then added the little brown bling which I picked up at the $ store awhile back.

Mojo Monday Week 87

Oh, I've been thinking about using flies on this card for awhile now. I had bought these flies in the $ store last year and new I would use them on a card one day. So while I tended the gardens all day I had time to think about what I was going to do with them. I also new I had a 12x12 piece of cork, some where in the craft home. I found it and it wouldn't fit into my Creative Memories circle punch. But SU"s 1 3/8 " circle punch did the job.

The stamp set I used for this weeks MOJO Monday is CTMH's "Gone Fishing" I added some bling and used an "AtyouSpica" on the fishing rod.

The flies close up.... I just stuck the hook directly into the cork.

This one was fun to make!!!

TECC 68 and Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week 6

Okay, thanks to Dawn, 'cause these are some colors I would have never put together. But I tried just the same. The coral is alot nicer in person than in this pic. I just can't get my lighting right. It doesn't help that I always take these pics at night and have one teeny tiny lamp!!

I also used Taylor's sketch with these colors. I love this sketch I may have to use it again!! Thanks to Taylor!!

Finally, I ended up using SU's Bloomin' Beautiful. It's my 'old reliable. I embossed on the white circle and had a really hard time seeing the versa mark. Again, teeny tiny lamp.

I've got American Idol on in craft room and KISS just came on with Adam, it was way cool!! They were the first concert I ever saw! I was pretty young, so I'm not aging myself. Heehee.

OH, and last night I watched Glee, new show on FOX, I LOVED IT!!! It was a cross between Arrested Development meets Friday night Lights and High School Musical

Bella's Dad LOL!!

As I was deciding how I was going to make this weeks color inspiration I was checking out this weeks CPS blog and this weeks sponsor is Stamping Bella, I don't have many Bella stamps but I do have Fixafella.

And then I challenged myself to make this a masculine card or Father's day card. My husband spent the whole long weekend fixing his car. I thought Fixafella was very appropriate this week.

When I finished the card I thought it lacked alot of luster and it just needed something. I found a box of Designer Trading Cards by Nancie Rowe Janitz. I saw these at the local SBS and picked them up. Since my own Fixafella makes lots of lists, I like the look the list gave to the card.

I also used an argyle stamp from Studio g, Clear Stamps from Hampton Art. I was very disappointed in this stamp. I tried many different ways to get this stamp to stamp clean and crisp but was just not able to make it work to my liking. I picked up a few of these sets, I'm hoping they are not all like this one. Anyone else have this problem?

Mojo Monday Week 86

I know it's Thursday but I've been trying to make this card since Monday!!! What a week. Well It's done.

I just started out by coloring in this Thomas Kinkade stamp, which I love, I used a blended pen and the covers of my ink pads. I used a Kraft card and the rest of the paper is from Chatter box.

I raised the pics using some left over foam from my SU stamp set's. Hope you like it. It's the first of the father's day series I'm gonna' do.

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge Week 5

I made this card for Raspberry Suite Color Challegne, its week 5. But I've only done two.

WOW! Two posts in one day. This is the second template from Martha's show and all papers are from the scrap draw! YAY!!

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Another first today. Yesterday, mother's day, I wanted to spend the day in my craft room. But since, it rained all day. We did alot of spring inside cleaning and I had the Mather's day BBQ at my house and the whole family came. It turned out great.

I got the inspiration for this card at a recently discovered blog. Lauren Meader, this girl is talented. I also discovered that I haven't made anything in these colors!!!

Another thing I discovered is "Flower Soft". You ask me it looks like somebody cut up a whole bunch of sponges the color is "Fuchsia". The paper I just pulled out of the mixed up draw and just kept addin' stuff 'till it looked ok!?! LOL

Oh and Copic markers on the vase. They are my new love.

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Gee, I haven't done one of these in awhile (CPS). I told myself this week I wanted to make a card every night. Yah, you can see how that worked out for me. Well I tried. This sketch was actual a hard one for me. I have no idea why either....

The other thing I told myself, I was going to do, is to use things I haven't used in a long time!!! That, I did!

I used a Martha Stewart paper pack. It's called "elegant paper pad". I also used SU's Fun Pun stamp set. The ink is CHTM's chocolate.

On another note I went to see "Wolverine" tonight. I love Hugh Jackman!!!!! It was fantastic!

Color Inspiration #51

Check out this weeks color Inspiration #51. No stamping and I would have finished sooner if LOST wasn't on. So I saw this women make these placks on Martha Stewart last week for her sons room and as I was watching I could only think "What a great card that would make." So I waited for Kristina's next inspiration and went to town.

The template is on Martha's link. I got the More Mustard paper out of SU's Patterns Pack and the Chocolate paper from SU also. I looked for it in the catalog, but couldn't find it. I've had it for awhile and the Rose Red is from another SU paper pack which, of course, I don't have the name for either. I gently inked the edges of all the mustard paper with mustard ink. I also used a cuttle bug die for some texture.

Mojo Monday Week 85

Hey, two firsts for me today. I have often seen Mojo Mondays done on other blogs. So I decided this was the week I would play along too. The other first are the colors I chose for the card. My prize possession are my, no longer made Oakley Fire Iridium sun glasses (I tried finding a photo on-line, no luck, I'll have to take a pic of mine) anyway, their orangyish.

The paper pack I used was DCWV Citrus Stack and SU's Bloomin Beautiful and any orange, yellow or reddish marker I could find. I also used some yellow stickles for the center of the flowers.

TECC #66

Ever have a day when you wake up, bring your coffee into the craft room and a hundred ideas just come pouring into your head so fast that you can't keep up with them? See, that seldom happens to me but today was one of those mornings.

I need a birthday card for my new boss, who is a sweetheart and my co-worker was going to do the shopping I thought I would make the shopping card. I saw Taylor's sketch and thought it was perfect.

I love the colors of Dawn's color challenge. But. One thing I learned from this color challenge is that I really don't have any papers in AQUA!!! And I LOVE this color!!!! Guess I'll have to just the local SB Store!!!! Ahh the hard ship.... hee hee.

So in making this card, I used Paper Trey Ink's "Chocolate Remix". This is one of my favorite stamp set's from CTMH, "Let's Shop" I have used her a few times before on challenges. The ribbon is one of those which I had laying around. The bling on the top left hand side is actually a pale, pale blue but actually turned out as a deeper blue in the photo.