PICK A PETAL & OCCSC

Hello Everyone and welcome to Sunday!

Ever since the big announcement last week over at Stampin' Up! regarding the color renovation. I have been in the mood to do some spring cleaning in my stamp room! As they say 'Out with the Old, and in with the New'! Now I have plenty of room for the new colors coming this July! I for one, was sooooo excited to see some of those old Stampin' Up! colors retire, but have no fear they are just a arms reach away just in case I feel a little urge to use them again!

I also spent some time yesterday blog surfing, seems like I haven't done enough of that lately. I hopped on over to 'Pickled Paper Designs' to visit one of my favorite stamping friends, Amy Sheffer. I hadn't been over there for awhile and I wanted to get caught up with what she's been up to lately, BOY did I get caught up! Amy is sooooo talented, I just drool everytime I see what she's done. I got lost in her creations for about an hour last night but I also came across some VERY helpful information that she had posted last summer on a forum over at SCS. I had seen this before but just never took the time to sit down and give it a try until last night. If your wondering how some of these ladies always have these awesome pictures of their creations and want to know how to do it for yourself, check out this link. Amy does a fabulous job of explaining step by step on how to photo edit your pictures.

Ok, so now that I'm all caught up with my blog surfing, I did have some time to stamp today. Today's card was inspired by this week's OCC sketch challenge. I embossed all the flower petals with clear embossing powder and cut out my own stem to create this big bright flower!

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STAMPS: Pick a Petal, French Script.

PAPER: Real Red, Basic Black, YoYo Yellow, Wild Wasabi textured cs, Whisper White.

INK: Going Gray, Wild Wasabi, VersaMark

ACCESSORIES: Clear embossing powder, Red button, Linen Thread, sponge, corner rounder, small oval punch, Black polka dotted ribbon (non-SU)

OCC Challenge ~ Bows

Hello Everyone and welcome to Saturday and another challenge from Our Creative Corner!

This week's challenge was to make a card/project using a bow, big or small, but no knots! I think this is about as big of a bow as I could come up with! I LOVE this chocolate 1" satin ribbon. Before it retired from SU! I made sure I bought plenty of it!

To create the soft look of this image, I inked up the image with my markers and stamped it onto a piece of cardstock. Then I 'huffed' onto the image and stamped again on another piece of cardstock, thus giving me a soft looking image and two stamped images with only inking up the image once.

Stop by Our Creative Corner for this week's challenge and too see what the other Design Team members have created!

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RECIPE:

STAMPS: Inspired by Nature, Great Friend

PAPER: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Sweet Pea DSP.

INK: Chocolate Chip, Markers: Regal Rose, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip.

ACCESSORIES: Hodgepodge Hardware, 1" Chocolate Satin ribbon, sponge.

Sweet Curtain Call Challenge

Hello Everyone and welcome to Friday!!!!

Another work week flew right by (oh yea, it was only a three day work week!). I love it when that happens!

Today's card was inspired by two of my favorite challenges: Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge 24 and Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I was really pleased with the way this card came together, just as I planned it! I will definately use this color combination again! And the Sketch is a favorite too!

Stop by both challenges and be inspired too!

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STAMPS: Enjoy Every Moment, Best Wishes, All Holidays, Sanded BG.

PAPER: Kraft, Tempting Turquoise, Whisper White, So Saffron DSP.

INK: Tepmting Turquoise, So Saffron, Garden Green.

ACCESSORIES: Hodge Podge Hardware, Buttons, Linen Thread, corner rounder, White Organdy Ribbon (colored with ink pad & sponge).

Stampin' Up! ~ Color Renovation

As the saying goes - All good things must come to an end! After two years of planning, Stampin' Up! is updating their color collection!

Remember some of those favorite In Colors you were so sad to see go? Well now some of them are making a return, check out the chart to see if your favorite is making a come back! Also check out the retiring list of colors for any colors you may want to purchase before they are gone forever! Oh, and don't forget to buy extra re-inkers as well!


Click here to print off a copy of the New Color Collection for yourself.

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Retiring list of colors:

Grrreat!!!! CQC27

Hello everyone and welcome to TUESDAY!

Today's card was inspired by this week's Color Q Challenge. The challenge was to use: Tangerine Tango, Night of Navy, Tempting Turquoise, Soft Suede and Whisper White. These colors were soooo fun to work with, the bright colors came together well, even though I wasn't so sure at first. Stop by and give the challenge a try for yourself!

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RECIPE:

STAMPS: Under the Stars

PAPER: Night of Navy, Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Tangerine Tango DSP, Watercolor paper.

INK: Basic Black

ACCESSORIES: Star punches, Hemp, Silver brads, 1/4" circle punch, Tangerine Tango striped ribbon, dimentionals, glue dots.

HAPPY EASTER!

Hello everyone and Happy Easter!

Today's card is a combination of two challenges, the first being the 'Color Q Challenge #26' and the second being the 'OCC Sketch Challenge #9'.

Do you remember this cute little Bunny set? This set has been retired for a few years, but I just had to pull it out for my Easter Card today. Hope you enjoy!

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RECIPE:

STAMPS: Spring Gifts, A Good Egg

PAPER: Certainly Celery CS & DSP, Bermuda Bay CS & DSP, Lovely Lilac DSP, Whisper White.

INK: Basic Black, Bashful Blue, Bermuda Bay, Lovely Lilac, Lavendar Lace, Certainly Celery.

ACCESSORIES: Window Punch, Bermuda Bay Ribbon, Pretties Kit, Certainly Celery Brads, blender pen, sponge, Non SU! - Nesties, Prima Flowers.

NEW OCC DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

Hello Everyone and welcome to Saturday!!!

I have some VERY exciting news to share!!!

I was recently asked by my friend Jennifer Meyer to become a member of the design team over at 'Our Creative Corner'. WOOHOO!!!

It didn't take me long to think about that one! I am soooo excited to be designing next to all the very talented ladies on the OCC Design Team!

In case you have never visited the OCC before, hop on over and check out the challenges we post every Saturday, and play along! This week's challenge is to create a card/project using buttons.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to drop by the OCC too!

RECIPE:

STAMPS: A Flower for All Seasons

PAPER: Regal Rose, Whisper White, Old Olive, So Saffron, Maine Blueberry & Georgia Peach DSP.

INK: Stazon Black, Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink, Certainly Celery, YoYo Yellow, Going Gray

ACCESSORIES: Blender Pen, Buttons, Linen Thread, Celery Ribbon, Non- SU product- Nestibilities.