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 PEA SKETCH CHALLENGE

Hello everyone, welcome to Sunday!!!

I had been waiting to play with these cute little Sweet Pea felt flowers and dsp from the minute the UPS man delivered them! Aren't they just the cutest?

I was inspired by this week's OCC Sketch Challenge while creating this card. I will have to say, I like the way it came together!

If you haven't played with the felt flowers before I would recommend using Crystal Effects to attach the pieces together and to also mount them onto your cardstock.



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RECEIPE:

STAMPS: Short & Sweet
PAPER: Chocolate Chip, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White, Sweet Pea DSP
INK: Basic Black
ACCESSORIES: Sweet Pea Felt Flowers, Window punch, Chocolate Alpine ribbon original, Pink Gingham ribbon, swiss dot embossing plate, Oval Nestibilites.

LOVE SPARKLES WITH SWEET SUNDAY

Happy Monday Everyone!

Don't the weekends just fly by to fast? Mine just flew, my daughter was here for the weekend before leaving for Florida this morning for spring break. Although our weather was beautiful this weekend I wish I was going with her!

In between spending time with Megan I was able to do a little stamping too!

Today's card was inspired by Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #60 and this week's OCC color challenge. This card was super easy and fast to make with no stamping involved! As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use something other then flowers, my first thought was 'Stars' but soon realized I didn't have the set I wanted to use so the next thought was 'Hearts'. I LOVE the 'Simply Scrappin' set 'Love Sparkles' and knew this would fit the bill perfectly!

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RECEIPE:

STAMPS: None

PAPER: Old Olive, Pretty in Pink, Simply Scrappin' - 'Love Sparkles'

INK: None

ACCESSORIES: Linen Thread, buttons, Crystal Effects.

WSC61

Today's card was made using Beate's weekend sketch challenge #61. I also used the challenge from the OCC girls to use bling on your card. This card took a little more time then I hoped it would, I had a hard time getting all the elements to work together. I hope I finally got it to work! What do you think?

Supplies Used: Stamps~ Dreams Du Jour.

Paper~ Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Not Quite Nave, Whisper White, Baja Breeze DSP.

Ink~ Basic Black, Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, Not Quite Navy, More Mustard.

Accessories~ Jumbo eyelets, Circle Ice Rhinestone brads, So Saffron brad, Chip Board, Scallop punch, paper piercer, Non-SU! product-Marvy jumbo punches, Cuttlebug folder.

Chocolate Daisies - 4 in 1

Today's card is one I made for a few different challenges. Since I started working outside of the house I don't get as much time to stamp as I would like, so I've had to combine a couple of challenges that I like to do into one card. First challenge comes from the girls over at the OCC, the challenge was to use bling on your project. Bling you say?, I can do that! The next challenge was from the gals over at CCEE Stampers, their challenge was to make your own DSP. No problem in that challenge either, I LOVE my background stamps and of course my Cuttlebug! Last week's 'Ways to use it' Challenge 186 over at SCS was to use a quote, I love this quote from the 'Inspired by Nature' set. And finally, I am always looking for an opportunity to use up some of my scraps and I was able to use a few on this card, thus my 'Go Green' Challenge! Whew, 4 challenges in one!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Upsy Daisy, Inspired by Nature, Stitched.

Paper~ Whisper White, Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip.

Ink~ Craft White, Chocolate Chip.

Accessories~ Flower Fusions, Ice Rhinestones, Pink Pirouette Striped 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, vintage brads, paper piercer, Non-Su! product - Marvy Scallop circle punch, Stickles star dust.

BIC - Inspired by Nature

Today's card was inspired by Beate's 'Be inspired challenge' and this week's OCC challenge.

When I first saw this image I was drawn toward the layout and the colors of this image. The OCC challenge calls for colored stitching on your card. My favorite background stamp 'Stitched' falls into that catagory! This is what I came up with, I hope you enjoy!

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Supplies Used: Stamps~ Inspired by Nature, Stitched.

Paper~ Chocolate Chip, Kraft, Whisper White.

Ink~ Chocolate Chip, Regal Rose, Old Olive.

Accessories~ Vintage brads, Chocolate grosgrain ribbon, sponge.