Thursday, August 15, 2013

A day of joy

A day of joy 2013
We have started The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge and  if is ANYTHING GOES and each week we always add a TWIST and for this week it is TO ADD MIX MEDIA to your card. I had so much fun making my card. I have so much mediums and I need to start using them. The stamp set is from 100% proof (never heard of the company) and my girlfriend Lee is the one the owns the set , she purchased the set awhile ago and let our friend Pam use it and Pam returned it to Lee at our stamp club and of course I seen it so I asked if I could take it home with me and Lee said “yes” because she is so sweet. So I will return it to her at stamp club. I love Silhouettes, I made two cards. You will see the other card for next weeks Twisted Thursday challenge.
Our sponsor for the month of August is My Besties, you can stop by and see the darling images Sherri has provided us! You can win 5 amazing images from The Besties.
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Here I will tell you what medium I used, to get most of the mediums to stick I used versamark watermark stamp pad, also heat embossed to set most madiums,  Krylon gold leafing pen, visa inka gold color red, stampendous fran-tage champagne, gilded mica fragments, crushed glass glitter, Suze Weinberg’s ultra think embossing enamel colors red, white and clear. Distress ink color festive berries.
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The die cuts are, Tim Holtz butterflight cut one in red and one in white, spellbinders floral doily motifs and the accents cut each of them in red card stock and white card stock. Cuttlebug embossing folder plaid.
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The flowers are punched out with Nellie Snellen flower medium FLP006 and the embosser FLP006, large flower FLP007 and the embosser FLP007. Added red gem to the center and just tipped the ends of the flower in distress ink color festive berries. The flowers are white foam with sparkles.
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Added pearls around the frame and long the middle of the ribbon. My ribbon I have had for a long time, added fabric glue to the ribbon and tried to make pleats, them added the pearls and glued them with the fabric glue. 
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This is what I did for the inside. Added some Viva Pearl Pen color red. Left open for a stamped message or a written one. I hope with these close ups you can see all the effects of the mediums.
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Thanks so much for stopping by. Week end is almost here and the end of August also, where has the time gone??? I hope you will join us with this fun challenge. Stop by and see the inspiration all the designers have created for you to see.

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Thursday, August 8, 2013

Enjoy a fabulous day.

Enjoy a fabulous day 2013
Hello to all my blogging friends. I’m so glad you stopped by. I hope your week has been going well. It is time for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge to start and the twist for this is is to make A STEP CARD. I made the center step card and if you would like to join us and try the center step card here is the link. If you stop by The Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge I have posted the side step tutorial and the circular step card also. If you make one stop by and enter it in our challenge. Our sponsor for the month August is MY BESTIES and you could win 5 images for Sherri’s fantastic collection.
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The image I used is #789 and I think she is so adorable.
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Spellbinder is gold labels four, Tim Holtz alterations butterflight, vases are a punch from punch a bunch. The flowers are from wild orchid crafts.
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The sentiment is from taylored expressions, I embossed it with Versa Mark and used gold embossing power.  Added a couple of fabric brads.  My papers are from DCWV (Die Cuts With a View) the stack is called Luxury.
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These are the copic markers used to color the image and here is a close up.
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I hope you have enjoyed my card. Thanks so much for stopping by. Would love for you to join us. Have  a wonderful day.
 
The Besties challenge- School or fall theme
Lori Designs challenge #52- Designer Paper Aug 13
Whimsical Designs- Anything goes Aug 22
Stamp n Doodle- Anything goes Aug 13
 Digi Galore-Anything goes Aug 31
Paper Shelter- Punches and Dies Aug 13

 
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Howdy!

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At Color Me Creative we have started the new challenge #74 and wait tell I tell you what it is all about ***PINK*** and as you can see I sure know how to follow directions!!! So why on earth did I color in blue???? I love pink and Gilli girl would have been darling in pink. Suzanne is the best when I told her I colored my image in blue she said not to worry that she would post it anyway, yah right… this way everyone can see that I do what I want… No!!! that not me, oh well, the challenge must go on!

BIG NEW WE HAVE SOME NEW DESIGN TEAM MEMBERS AND THIS IS THEIR FIRST CHALLENGE WITH US. (Sure an I color in Blue), They all colored in pink..

They are:

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Cathy Preissing - http://corysnana1.blogspot.com

Carol Kruger VanderWesthuizen - http://carol-mylittlepieceofheaven.blogspot.com/

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I used a stamp this time and she is called gilli cowgirl from anary.com, I used memento tuxedo black ink and stamped her on crygoen white paper. The paper was 12x12 sheets that I had, they did not come in a pack and their was nothing on the back to say who made them.

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Dies: Memory box astrid circle, marianne design LR0154 tag, die-namics rolled daisy. Used distress ink color tumbled glass sponged around the tag and astrid circle.

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Cut the rolled daisy out with blue felt and used Martha Steward punch called frond. Added some blue gems and blue stars brads. The sentiment is from stampin up stamp set called whimsical words.

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The inside of the card. Added another tag and used the flowers that the tag punches out added some pearl pen color blue.

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These are the copic markers used to color the image. Here is the close up.

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We would love for you to join us. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful week.

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Monday, August 5, 2013

Born to Ride

Born to Ride 2013

The Cards for Men Challenge #16 has started Aug 5 2013 and ends Aug 19 2013 and the theme for the challenge is HEAVY METAL, all you need to do is add some thing metal/metallic on your card. The design team has worked hard to give you inspiration so if you would like to stop by and check out the cards click here.

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The image I used is called Ryder Cole. This is a CAS card (clean and simple card). Cut the image out with spellbinders scalloped oval, papers are from scraps.

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The metal gears, I have had in my stash. The sentiment my girlfriend made at her work. She works at a trophy company and she can make any kind of sentiment as long as it is not to long.

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Inside is left open for a written message or a stamped message. The leaf stamp is from Judi Kins  stamped with distress ink color bundled sage and the bird is from Art Impression stamped with distress ink color broken china.

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These are the copic marker used to color the image. I also used spica glitter pens orange, yellow, black and red.

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Hope everyone had a wonderful week end. Thanks so much for stopping by.

 

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Thursday, August 1, 2013

Oh Butterfly’s

Oh Butterfly 2013
It is time again for the challenge at The Outlaws Twisted Thursdays and our challenge is ANYTHING GOES and the TWIST for this week is to MAKE YOUR OWN EMBELLISHMENTS.  My project is made with four punches. Martha Steward punch and stamp butterfly, vintage doily, butterfly border and stampin up 1 1/4 circle scalloped .  The size is 13’ by 13”. The paper is from bazzill basic  colors mud puddle and sunset rose. The colors used for the doily's and the butterfly’s I picked from my scraps so I’m not sure to what the names are to the colors. It was 2 shades red, 2 shades  pink, 2 shades crème, 2 shades yellow. Why??? I have no idea…  Added a butterfly charm.
Our Sponsor for the month of August is Besties by Sherri Baldy, so we would love to have you join us for all the challenges this month. Stop by Twisted Thursdays Challenge and see all the images you can win if you join us for the month of August.
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What I did with all the colors is I embossed them with cuttle bug folder dots. After that I added some inka gold metallic red, gold, pink to the embossed papers. Then I punched the butterfly’s out. On the bottom butterfly colored the antenna and tails with smooch black and the rest of them I out them off.  
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Here you can see the butterfly’s are three layers. Added stickles glitter glue star dust to the ends of their wings.
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In the center of the butterfly’s added pearl pen yellow, red and pink.
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I’m really not happy with the pictures, I had a hard time getting good ones for some reason. Thanks for stopping by, hope all is well on your end. I had a wonderful surprise this week my grandson Isaiah from South Dakota is here. He is growing up so fast, 15 years old now and another surprise he finally got his black belt in Tae Kwon Do, I’m so proud of him.
 
Challenges I like to enter my project in:
Simon Says -Anything goes Aug 6th
Craft room door- Anything goes Aug 5th
Craft your passion- Challenge 173 3D
Paper Shelter- Challenge 122 anything goes Aug 5th
Sister Act Challenge #17 anything goes Aug 2nd
Crafty ribbons-use 1 or more circles Aug 6th


 
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Summer Flowers

Flowers 2013
I’m so happy you stopped by today. My card is somewhat a copy of my friend Pam’s card, I thought it was so darling and it would work perfectly for our challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursdays as you know it is always anything goes with a twist and the twist this week is SUMMER5 FLOWERS. For me it is a clean and simple card and I do find it had to make these kind of cards because I never know where to stop and I love adding all those beautiful embellishments. So I do not have any side view this time. The card is a standard 4 1/4” by 5 1/2 card.  All of the stamps are from the Angel company and they are randomly stamped on a 3”by3” piece of card stock.  The black is a strip cut 1 1/8” by 9” and then I cut it to fit the white card stock 1 1/8” by 3 1/8”. Embossed a little over half of the front turquoise card stock and used some sand paper to take off some of the color. The embossing folder is from Lifestyles crafts, Goose Bumps embossing folder called Lattice. The ribbon is from JoAnn’s.
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On the inside, punched out the corners with creative memories corner punch. Added some pearl pen color sunny yellow. Stamped All night media stamp called large sprig on the sides with distress ink color crushed olive. Left open for a stamped sentiment or a written message.
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Sorry my picture did not come out so good. These are the copic marker used to color the flowers. Here is the close up. Added some stickles glitter glue color star dust and cinnamon.
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Thanks so much for stopping by.
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Monday, July 22, 2013

Holidays are Magical

Holidays are Magical 2013

Hello to everyone and hope you are having a dry cool week. All my friends in the south please stay dry and away from those rains, my heart goes out to everyone. Hot here today but they say it is going to cool off for the next week and I will be happy to take that. It is time again for Cards For Men challenge #15 and it is all about making a card for a guy or young man that is a Christmas card. Our sponsor for this challenge is Meljen and the image I’m using is called ornament mouse and the sentiment holidays are magical. We would love for you to join us. The challenge ends August 4 2013.

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Sentiment and image is punched out with marvy unhida scalloped oval and 3 inch circle. Cut out several sizes of the spellbinders scalloped circle. Embossing folders are stampin up petals a plenty and cuttlebug snowflake. The paper is from paper studio Christmas traditions.

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On the embossing folders I hope you can see, I added metallic rub on to the embossed area gold and green. Ribbon was from the Christmas department at Hobby Lobby.

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I wanted to try this. I seen it on pinterest. This is Maryann Tree die and to make it look snowy they added some of Martha Steward branch punch. I do like it but next time I will add less branches.

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Martha Steward aspen snowflake border for the inside. Left open for a sentiment or a hand written message. These are the copic markers used to color the image.

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Lots of glitter…. Colors forest green, red and gold. Krylon gold leafing pen around the image and a few other places. To the hat added some white liquid applique and some stickles glitter glue star dust. The pom pom cut in half and glued it on.

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Thanks for stopping. Have a wonderful week.

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