Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Chrissy's Belli Challlenge #15 - PENCILS!


What is the Belli Challenge you ask? Belli = Embellishments.

Each week, I try to give us a challenge that will use things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, I tend to forget about the other things I have and they quickly become clutter! Come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to the card!

This Weeks Belli Challenge is PENCILS Your challenge this week is to make a project using any kind of PENCIL! Art Pencils with Gamsol, Watercolor Pencils, Metallic Pencils...let your imagination go wild! I bought a box of Prismacolor pencils and have let them sit. I also have a box of watercolor pencils, I rarely use!

Make a completed project and share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC15. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC15 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge! The winner will recieve a memo cube, stamped or unstamped. Deadline to make a comment with the upload and do the Challenge will be on Monday evening. A random drawing will be held on Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesdays! This week's winner is Joan Ervin. I will attach her link soon, right now my computer is acting fussy.

Between doctors appointments, getting side tracked with other stamping projects and being out of town, I did not get a project completed yet...just started! Once I get my children started on school this morning, I will complete my project and have one here for you. Sorry for the delay!
My card also utilizes the Splitcoast Sketch Challenge #174 and the Penciled twinks technique. Oh yes, one more challenge! Korin's Fantastic Friday Challenge was to make a Masculine card!
Here are the details:
Stamp Sets: Stampscapes sent to me as an RAK from Holly (I colored it in) Stampin' Up! Wildlife Reserve, Lovely as a Tree, All in a Row Sweet n' Sassy Stamps Encouragement
Cardstock and Ink: Night of Navy, White Naturals, Western Sky DP, Holiday harmony DP, River Rock, Blue Bayou, Black Staz On
Accessories: Watercolor Pencils, Pewter hodgepodge, Twill, Dimensionals, Word Window Punch, Corner Rounder, Oval Cutter (trimmed and rounded edges with Paper snips), blender pen, Golden Bamboo Twinkling H20's, Aquapainter, Paper piercing Tool, Mat Pack

For more inspiration -Check out these and make a comment too for them please! We all LOVE comments. It is fun to see what everyone is thinking about what we are creating! :) Have a fabulous day!
Holly Brown
Laurie Serino
Trish Wood
Shelly Koskinen
Debby McGivillary

Guest Designer? Your name could be here! :) Contact me if you are interested at chrissyd723@gmail.com.

Thank you for playing along!

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

CC164 - B Is for Birthday


Todays Splitcoast Color Challenge is Purely Pomegranite, Soft Sky and Basic Black - Liz Miller's birthday was on Sunday and I am LATE in sending her a card and her gift for the Belli Challenge. Sorry Liz, I hope your birthday was FABULOUS!
This is what I used to make this card:
Stamp Sets: Just B, Circle of Friendship
Cardstock and Ink: Soft Sky DP, Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranite, Basic Black, Whisper White, White Gel Pen - markers
Accessories: Designer Label Punch, Half inch circle punch, 1 inch circle punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, Paper piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Vintage Brads, Dimensionals, Photo Corner Punch
Thank you for looking! Have a fabulous day!

DUDE! With or without Black?


Dude and flowers? Well, this is a card I made for my friend, Sharon. She was just speaking at a Retreat and her teen age boy says DUDE a lot, so I thought it would be funny to send her a DUDE card. LOL

Today is Debby M's Sketch challenge and at first I made this card. I decided it was to BLAH - and did not POP out at me enough. So I let it sit for the day. After looking at it for a full day, I decided I just could not stand it and took it all apart. Do you ever do that? Well, I did that today, while my kids were doing some school work... I only added a "FEW" layers of black and then outlined the letters of DUDE with a black marker instead of the turquoise.

What do you think? With Black or without?











































Here is what I used to make this project:
Stamp Sets: So Cool, Fundamental Phrases
Ink, Cardstock and DP: Design Notations DP, Cool Carribean, Basic Black, Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Barely Banana
Accessories: Cowboy Dew Drops, Mat Pack, Paper piercing Tool, Paper Snips,Black grosgrain, Certainly celery, Lg. Oval Punch, White Gel Pen, Dimensionals

Monday, April 28, 2008

TLC166- Two Way Paisleys



Todays Technique Lovers Challenge was a Two Way Card. Fun and Easy...

Here is the link for the instructions, generously shared by Beth Warner.

This is what I used to make this card -

Stamps - NONE
Rub Ons - Love and Happiness (retired SU)
Cardstock and DP - Petals and Paisleys (retired SU), Old Olive, Tempting Turqouise, Regal Rose, Whisper White
Markers: Regal Rose, Tempting Turqouise
Accessories: Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, 1/4 inch circle punch, Stickles Star dust, Chipboard and Craft Ink












Friday, April 25, 2008

WSC 45 - High Ball

Today is Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #45
This is what I came up with. Today is our friend Doug's birthday and he loves to play golf on the Wii and game cube. I just bought this stamp to make a birthday card for him. It is called High Ball by Whipper Snapper Designs.

This is what I used to make this card:
Stamp Sets: High Ball, Whipper Snapper Designs, Stampin' Up!: Sweet Serendipity
Cardstock and Ink: Basic Black, Black Adirondack, Copic markers, East Coast Prep DP. Tempting Turqouise, White Gel Pen
Accessories: Designer Label Punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, Photo corner punch, Black marker, Paper Snips to pop up the golf ball, Vintage brads....

Thank you for looking! Have a fabulous weekend!

Thursday, April 24, 2008

RAK from Nancy Grant


My new friend from Alaska, Nancy Grant sent me this adorable card. I just love this paper and think these monkeys are adorable! Isn't it cute?
Thank you, Nancy!

RAK- Shelly Schmidt


Shelly Schmidt was SO very generous! She sent me a bunch of Cuddlebugged Waxed images so I can do the Technique Junkies Technique - Waxy Cuddlebug - I still have to work on that! But this is one of her beautiful creations using that Technique.


Thank you, Shelly.

RAK from Deb Lovett


I have been blessed the past few weeks with many RAK's - This RAK was a Just One swap with Deb Lovett. I am mailing her card out next Tuesday, if I do not get it out tomorrow. I love this cat stamp! Very cute!


Thank you, Deb!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

By Definition - Wild Rose -Sketch Challenge 173

Oh! I just noticed Korin at Inky Doodle is having her Friday Challenge too and it was to use 3 different embellishments - so this is going towards her challenge too! Thanks for the inspiration Korin!
I had left over pieces of the longer cardstock from the card I made last night, so that helped me start with this color scheme. I also had the stamp sets - Wild Rose and By Definition and the Stamp of Authenticity that I haven't used yet, so I grabbed those -
I am behind on writing a thank you note for a speaker to the gathering we did a few weeks ago for the Card Ministry meeting, so this will be what I send her...
This is what I used to make the card -
Stamp Sets: Wild Rose, By Definition, All In a Row, Stamp of Authenticity, Itty Bitty BG
Cardstock and Ink: Purely Pomegranite, Blue Bayou, Basic Black, Whisper White
Accessories: Styled Silver hodgepodge, Black grosgrain, Paper piercing tool and Mat pack, Dimensionals, Stardust stickles, Dew Drops, Mini Glue Dots, Paper Snips
Thank you for looking! Have a blessed evening!







Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Chrissy'd Belli Challenge #14 - RIBBON!


What is the Belli Challenge you ask? Belli = Embellishments.


Each week, I try to give us a challenge that will use things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, I tend to forget about the other things I have and they quickly become clutter!


So come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to the card!


This Weeks Belli Challenge is RIBBONS! Your challenge this week is to make a project using RIBBON without tying a bow or a knot.



Make a completed project and share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC14. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC14 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge! The winner will recieve a memo cube, stamped or unstamped.


Deadline to make a comment with the upload and do the Challenge will be on Monday evening. A random drawing will be held on Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesdays!
This week's winner is Liz Miller. Click on her name to see her awesome gallery!


For the project -
Stamp Sets: Encouragement by Sweet n' Sassy Stamps, All in a Row,
Cardstock and Ink: Purely Pomegranite, Blue Bayou, basic Black
Embellishments: Double STitched Pomegranite and Blue Bayou Ribbons, Tape, Dimensionals, Paper piercing Tool, Mat Pack



The sketch I used was also a challenge from Debby M.



For more inspiration -Check out these and make a comment too for them please! We all LOVE comments. It is fun to see what everyone is thinking about what we are creating! :) Have a fabulous day!

Holly Brown

Laurie Serino

Trish Wood

Shelly Koskinen

Debby McGivillary

CC163 - Encouragement for a friend


You know what? I think I am the worst procrastinator when it comes to mailing things. I have been wanting to mail a card to a friend for about 3 or 4 weeks and I have not done so yet. I have kept her in my prayers now for several weeks and every day when I pray for her, I think I should be sending her a card.


I praise God that He does not need to wait to respond to my prayers - that I can pray through out the day for my friends and He hears them immediately not waiting to recieve a card from me! :) So for my friends- know that I pray for you often and I am just "SLOW" on sending out a note letting you know.
Todays Color Challenge on Splitcoast Stampers is Certainly Celery, Pretty In Pink and Chocolate Chip-
This is what I used to make the card:
Stamp Sets: Stampin' Up! All Scallops, Sweet n' Sassy Stamps - Encouragement, Cross & Blossoms by Paper Impressions
Cardstock and Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery - COPICS
Accessories: Dimensionals, Chocolate Twill ribbon, Paper snips, Dew drops, Mini glue dots, Dazzling Diamonds, 2 way glue pen
Thank you for looking!

Monday, April 21, 2008

2008-2009 NEW IN COLORS by Stampin' Up!

I can NOT wait to get these in my hands. I LOVE them! Aren't they so FABULOUS? As demonstrators, we will be able to pre-order them in July.

I can't wait to get them and play.

WSC44 - Purely Shimmery Thoughts



This is Beate's WSC44 - and the creation I made with it!

I did a new to me technique using Brushed Silver cardstock - what I did was the following steps:

1. Embossed image using Hologram Highlights (you could use clear as well)
2. Using the rubber brayer, I went over my Purely Pomegranite ink pad and then over the cardstock - in both directions making sure I covered the entire piece of cardstock evenly. (on the darker gray images- I used Black ink)
3. Wipe off image with a kleenex and get excess ink off the embossed image.






Materials used to make this card:
Stamp Set: Kind Thoughts
Cardstock and Ink: Basic Black, Brushed Silver, Purely Pomegranite, Versamark
Accessories: Rubber Brayer, Hologram Highlights EP, Heat Tool, Embossing Buddy, Pretties Kit, Paper piercing Tool, Gray Taffeta
Thank you for looking! Have a blessed evening!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

FS63 = Bloomin Beautiful Birthday


Todays Featured Stamper on Splitcoast Stampers is Sparklegirl.....
I chose this card of hers to CASE...
I changed the colors AND the stamps AND the Pretties Kit. I also added some holes to the scalloped portion along the bottom.
My hubby will give his mom this card for her birthday.
This is what I used for my card:
Stamp Sets: Bloomin' Beautiful, Warmest Regards
Cardstock: River Rock, Ruby Red, Groovy Guava, Very Vanilla
Ink: Esspresso Adirondack, Copics Colorless Blender, W5, E11, YR07, YR23, YR20, YG67, R29
Accessories: Cricut - Mini Monograms, corner rounder, Paper piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Dimensionals, Pretties kit, half inch circle punch, Mini glue dots.
Thank you for looking! Have a great night!

Thursday, April 17, 2008

A Light Unto My Path -SC172



Here is another card I made for the Sketch Challenge this week. I will be sending this to a dear friend, who I saw this week and is need of some extra encouragement.

I added the white gel pen and am not totally wild about about it. But you know how that goes - once it is on there, it is on there! :)

This is what I used to make the card:

Stamp Sets: All In A Row, A Light Unto My path, Canvas BG

Ink: Basic Gray, Going Gray, So Saffron, Old Olive, Soft Sky, Sahara Sand, Creamy Caramel

Cardstock: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Whisper White,Soft Sky DP

Accessories: Vintage Brads, Distressor, Paper Piercing Tool, Soft Sky Double Stitched Ribbon

Thank you for looking! Have a nice weekend - I will be getting together with some friends! I will post some pictures on Sunday and next week. We will be participating in a Shoe Box Swap!

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

For Father - SC172


Today is Sketch Challege day on Splitcoast Stampers! You can see the details here.

I also used the color challenge 159 - those colors were Basic Gray, Soft Sky and Whisper White - I added Black too.

I used the cuddle bugged images from my friend Joan.

This is what I used to make the card:

Stamp Sets: Sweet Serendipity, For Father, All In a Row

Cardstock and Ink: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Soft Sky DP. Basic Black
Ink: Black Stazon - Water color Wondercrayons

Accessories: Paper Piercing Tool, Aquapainter, Vintage Brads, Gray Taffeta, Mat Pack

Thank you for looking!

Chrissy's Belli Challenge #13 - UFO's Un-Finished Objects!



















What is the Belli Challenge you ask? Belli = Embellishments.





Each week, I try to give us a challenge that will use things we have lying around our stamp rooms! With a constant flow of new things coming out, I tend to forget about the other things I have and they quickly become clutter!




So come join us in the Belli Challenge and be sure to post your link to the card!




This Weeks Belli Challenge is UFO's - Un-Finished Objects! Come on, you KNOW they are there... unless you are NOT like me. LOL I have about 4 of them, but this Tag Book has been haunting me for about a year. I kept looking at it and FINALLY with THIS challenge I completed it.



Your challenge this week is to complete at least one UNFINISHED projects in your office. And if you are NOT like me and have all of your projects completed - Your challenge is to make a Tag book! :) It does not have to be as involved as mine.





Make a completed project and share the link here in the comments linking to my Blog and CBC13. When you post to Splitcoaststampers or to your Blog, be sure and put CBC13 as the KEYWORD and mention of the challenge! The winner will recieve a handmade personalized journal in a similar style as the tutorial I wrote last week.



Deadline to make a comment with the upload and do the Challenge will be on Monday evening. A random drawing will be held on Tuesday and the winner will be announced on Wednesdays!



This week's winner is Liz Miller. Click on her name to see her awesome gallery!

For the project - I used ALMOST everything in my office! Let me start my list:


Stamp Sets: Print Bg, Circle of Friendship, Spring Flowers (?) Retired, All ina Row, Rub Ons from Saleabration, All Scallops,

Cardstock and Ink: Sahara Sand, Spring Showers DP, Bashful Blue, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, So Saffron

Embellishments: Copper Hodgepodge, 1/16th hole punch, Earth Element Buttons, Soft Subtles Buttons, Mini Glue Dots, Assorted Ribbons, Round Tab Punch, Designer Label, 1 3/8 circle and 1/2 inch circle punch, Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon, Ticket Corner Punch, Blue Gingham Ribbon


For more inspiration -Check out these and make a comment too for them please! We all LOVE comments. It is fun to see what everyone is thinking about what we are creating! :)
Have a fabulous day!

















































Monday, April 14, 2008

TLC-164 - God's Grace - Double Pocket Card















Todays Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast is a Double Pocket Card!


You can find directions here at Judy's website - Thank you Judy!


Stamp Sets: God's Grace by Sweet n' Sassy Stamps, All In a Row

Cardstock: Soft Sky, Chocolate chip, Tea Party

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White Craft
Accessories: Heat Tool, White EP, Pewter Hodgepodge, Chocolate Taffeta Ribbon, Cropodile, White Gel Pen, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack, Ticket Corner Punch

Sunday, April 13, 2008

FS62 - Case of SCS Kharmagirl





This is this weeks Splitcoast Stampers Featured Stamper Challenge. The Featured Stamper is Kharmagirl. She does FABULOUS work! This is the card I chose to CASE. My version of it is above. You can not tell, but I did use a window sheet on the porthole. I attached a close up, but I still can not tell on this photograph that there is a window...

This is what I used:

Stamp Sets: Pun Fun, Canvas

Cardstock: Basic Black, Gable Green, tempting Turqouise, Whisper White, Lavender Lace

Ink: Copics W5, C5, B32, BG05, Colorless Blender, Black Adirondack, Gable Green

Accessories: Coluzzle, Silver Brads, Dimensionals, Black grosgrain, Turqouise polka dot grosgrain (brand unknown), Ticket corner punch, Paper piercing Tool, Mat Pack, 1/16th hole punch.

Thank you for looking!

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Just the inside - Kaliedascope - Just So Hippy


I started this today and will finish the outside tomorrow or Monday. We are having company over tomorrow, so it will depend on how much time I get to stamp. But for this evening, I am calling it quits. I am tired!

Stamp Sets: Just So Hippy (Gina K Stamps) and a retired Dinosaur set -All Scallops

Cardstock and Ink: Whisper White, Bashful blue, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, chocolate Chip marker, Copic Markers, Die Cut Textured Flowers, White Craft Paper

Accessories: Fiskars cutter, Build a Brad, half inch circle punch. Eastern Elegance Rub Ons.

Thank you for looking! Have a blessed evening!

Friday, April 11, 2008

Our dogs together











When we first bought Rusty, who is 5 years old, a few years ago, he came from a wonderful home with 2 other dogs. He liked it here but was a bit lonely and would always enjoy going to my sisters' house with her 3 dogs. He loved his Doggy friends!


My daughter bought this new puppy a few weeks ago and the two have become best friends! They are continuously wrestling and playing. It is fun to watch them play together and run in the yard...

Beate's WSC43 - Great Grads

It has been a few weeks since I have taken the time on the weekend to do Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenges, so I will have play catch up now! This is her sketch challenge this week.

I wanted to make a card for graduation...here is what I used:

Stamp Sets: Great grads, All Scallops
Cardstock and Ink: Basic Gray, Basic Black, Whisper White, Real Red
Accessories: Coluzzle, Scallop Punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, Paper piercing tool, Mat Pack, Vintage Brads, Dimensionals

Thank you for looking!

Thursday, April 10, 2008

CBC12 - Kaliedascope Scraps! SCS- CC161



A few weeks ago for the Belli Challenge we had
Embossing Powder and I embossed all of these things from Frames with a Flourish stamp set...but I could not get the card to turn out the way I wanted, so I threw
those pieces into my scrap box.






After making the Kaliedascope card last night, I loved that technique so much I had to make another! BUT this time, I used Splitcoast Stampers Color Combo 161, which was Real Red, Glorious Green and Night of Navy.
I recieved the instructions from the Technique Junkies Newsletter in the April-May 2008 Newsletter, it was the online bonus!
This is what I used to make this card:
Stamp Sets: Frames With a Flourish, Stampabilities God gives gifts....
Cardstock and Ink: Real Red, Whisper White, Night of Navy, Glorious Green
Accessories: White Embossing Powder, Paper SNips, Heat Tool, Fiskars Paper Trimmer, Eastern Elegance Rub Ons, Paper Piercing, Styled Silver Hodgpodge, Dimensionals, White Gel Pen, Ticket Corner Punch

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Kaliedascope Here's Hootin' For Shelly!










A new friend and I are going to swap Technique cards! Shelly made some beautiful cards for Technique Junkies, so I asked to "see" it in real life and offered to make something for her out of the Technique Junkies Newsletter. The technique I did was the Kaliedascope Card from the April-May Online Bonus Technique....For directions please check out the Technique Junkies Newsletter!






I am not sure if you can tell but this layered and stacked with lots of dimension! This was a FUN technique!



This is what I used to make this:
Stamp Sets: Touched By Nature and Rough Around the Edges by Stampin' Up! and Owl Occasions by Sweet n' Sassy Stamps.
Cardstock and Ink: Night Of Navy, Always Artichoke, Whisper White, Black Adirondack, DP do not know the company...pine trees....
Accessories: Paper Trimmers, Paper Snips, COPICS, Heat tool, Artichoke grosgrain (Not SU - looks more Artichoke IRL), Pewter Hodgepodge, Paper Piercing Tool, Mat Pack
Thank you for looking! Have a great evening!