Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Live the Life You've Imagined...{CQC230} & {DS139}


Welcome back, everyone! Thanks for stopping by today to see what I have to share with you. It is Tuesday and that means it is time for a brand new Colour Q combo.  This week's inspiration is a fanTASTIC pair of heels from Kate Spade - I could never wear them but they sure are cute!


I tried to keep it fairly CAS again this week - ran short on time AGAIN - and was delighted to find that this week's Deconstructed Sketch fit the bill perfectly:



I am really loving using these sequins I found at the dollar store - such a little addition to a card that totally makes it *sing*.  :)  I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week - next week is MARCH already!  OY!  See you then!
 


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Saturday, February 22, 2014

You're Sew Nice...{JUGS229} & {RS102}


Hello everyone! Sorry I wasn't around to post for Tuesday's Colour Q - the kids and I decided to head off to my parents' place for the long weekend and I wasn't able to get a card done before I left.  I will admit it was kind of nice to have a week *off*, but now back to the grind.  :)

Today is my final day as the guest designer over at the Just Us Girls challenge...so sad!  I have thoroughly enjoyed playing along with the girls this month - they have been so sweet and supportive.  Thank you so much ladies!!!  This week's challenge is an inspiration challenge so take a peek at the photo inspiration:


For my card I used the colors as well as the sewing spools for inspiration.  I got to play with a new cutting plate I got awhile ago from Taylored Expressions - holy chevrons, Batman!!!  It's awesome!  I used last week's Retrosketches and came up with this *sorta* CAS card:



Thank you so much for visiting today - I love all the love.  :)  Enjoy the rest of your weekend and the upcoming last week of February!!  OY VEY!  How did that happen?  I'll see you back here on Tuesday with a brand-new Colour Q.  Later!



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Saturday, February 15, 2014

{HELLO} JUGS228 & RS101


Hi all! How are you doing this Valentine's Day weekend? The boys and I have gone on a road trip to visit my mom and dad - it's been quite awhile since we've been down there so it will be nice to relax and visit.

Today marks the third week of my stint over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog and this week is my FAVORITE kind of challenge - a COLOR challenge.  And, to make it even better, you get to PICK which three colors you want to use!  Take a peek:


So I decided to use yellow, purple and lime green for my card - I combined it with last week's Retrosketches for this fun, CAS card to just say {hello}:



Those little sequins are so much fun to use - they give a project just that tiny bit of *sparkle*. 

Thanks for stopping by today - enjoy your weekend!

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Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Happy Birthday {CQC228} {JUGS227} {DS137}


Welcome back for another totally amazing Colour Q combination. This week's inspiration is from a super-cute pincushion Arielle found on Etsy - this particular one is no longer available but she's got lots of other cute ones:


I had a little bit of time to play around with these colors this weekend and was able to use the reverse sponging technique from the Just Us Girls Challenge as well as the Decontructed Sketch- take a peek:







As always, I hope you will be able to play along with us at the Colour Q - these are such fun colors I can't wait to see what you come up with!  See you on Saturday!





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Saturday, February 8, 2014

Best Day {ever}... JUGS227 & FMS122 & CMCC6


Welcome back! I'm so glad you decided to pop by today - I've got a really cool (albeit DIFFICULT) technique to share with you for my second week as the Guest Designer over at the Just Us Girls Challenge blog.  The technique we are challenging you all to try is the Ink Bordered Die Cuts - the lovely Becca Feeken has an AWESOME video tutorial that explains how to do it PERFECTLY. 


I will warn you - you MUST have wet, wet, WET ink pads for this technique to work properly.  I had my whole card planned out but soon discovered that all my pigment ink pads had DRIED UP!!!  The only ink pad I had that would work was my SU! Whisper White Craft Ink so, I had to rethink the WHOLE card.  I used this week's Colour Me! combo as well as the Freshly Made Sketches sketch:


It really is a cool technique that helps to give you a border around a die cut when you might not have the right size die for layering.

I hope you will have some time to play with us at JUGS this week - make sure you have LOTS of wipes handy because this is a MESSY one!  See you on Tuesday for a new Colour Q!!!



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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

I Love You ... {CQC227} & {RS100} and Another Krafty Guest Submission


Hey everyone! Thanks for stopping in today - I have a sweet little card to share with you today for a couple of challenges.  The first one, since it IS Tuesday, is for the brand new Colour Q challenge.  Arielle has chosen some more colors that, together, work perfectly for those Valentine's Day cards you might be making.  Take a peek:


The second challenge is for Retrosketches 100TH sketch!  Holy smokes!  That's almost two years of awesome and amazing sketches from Arielle and the girls.  Thanks to all of you for some fantastic inspiration!  Here's #100:


And, since I've got one more day to submit cards for the Krafty Guest Contest over at Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps, I figured I might as well make one more.  This card uses one of the images from the Josephine stamp set - but, again, I can't find it in the KK store.  :(  All of my faves seem to be retired?  At any rate, it worked perfectly for these colors and sketch:


Thank you for stopping by today - I hope you enjoy your day wherever you are!  See you on Saturday for my second week as Guest Designer for Just Us Girls! 

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Saturday, February 1, 2014

It's a SUPER-AWESOME Saturday!!!


Hi everyone! I am so excited today! I have TWO very important reasons for this Saturday post and I am thrilled to be able to share them with you.  :)

First of all - the amazing group of ladies over at the Just Us Girls Challenge have asked yours truly to join them as a Guest Designer for the whole month of February!  I was so excited I nearly squealed when I got the email - of course I said YES!!!  So thank you to Vicki and all the girls!  The first challenge this month is a SKETCH challenge - take a peek:


And the SECOND piece of awesomenosity?  Remember back at the beginning of January when I submitted this card to the Kraftin' Kimmie Krafty Guest Contest???  Well, yours truly made the top ten!!!  SO, now the challenge is to make another card (or two...) using this round's theme, "Kim Loves Pink!"  I must say that I also enjoy pink so didn't really have a hard time with this challenge - the hard part was trying to pick which KK stamp I was going to use!!!  I finally decided on Goldilocks which, I just discovered, is NOT even available in the KK store anymore!!  I hope that's OK and doesn't disqualify me?  At any rate, some pink and green paper set the tone for the rest of the card, I added some Rose Red seam binding, a button, some teeny-tiny pearls on her skirt et voila:


Thanks for stopping in today - things around here are slowly finding their way back to normal after me being away in Disneyland.  I will be back on Tuesday with another Colour Q combination and *maybe* one more submission for this Krafty Guest contest...stay tuned!  Enjoy the weekend!



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