H2H Challenge - You are my sunshine

Today over at Heart2Heart we are doing a color challenge.  Emerald, Smoothie, Canary, Peach, and Glacier.

Here is what I came up with.  

I ended up using Smoothie, Canary, Peach and Glacier for my card. Here is another look.

Don't you love the little hearts? They are a puffy sticker. When I was little I had a sticker collection featuring puffy stickers. We stuck them to sandwich baggies and would trade them at recess in grade school. How I wish I still had that.

Here is a peek at the inside. 

Does this paper look familiar? I have exciting news for you! Close to my Heart has a new special this month called Bring Back My Pack and they brought one of my favorite papers back Zoe from 2015. They have updated to colors and have a brand new coordinating 12 x 12 sticker sheet.

We would love to see what you come up with over at the Heart 2 Heart Blog and be sure to check out what the other designers did this week. See you soon!

H2H Color Challenge

Hello everyone, this week over at Heart 2 Heart we have a color challenge.

Sage, Sapphire, and Sugarplum

I had a lot of fun making this card with our new Thin Cuts -Shaker Window & Confetti and Decorative Borders. I used the Loose Sequins to full up the shaker and I added some of the Heart Confetti. Have you tried the new thin cuts yet??? I am so in love with them and they add the finishing touch I am looking for to my cards. 

I colored the butterfly from the Grateful Heart Cardmaking stamp set with the Sugarplum Shimmer Brush and oh my goodness this photo does not do it justice it is so pretty and so sparkly. I finished the card off with a couple of  Sugarplum Glitter Gems.

Stop of on over at our H2H blog to check out what project the rest of the Design Team came up with! 

Supplies

all CTMH unless otherwise noted

Cardstock - White Daisy, Sage, Sapphire, Sugarplum

Ink - Black, Sage

Stamps - Grateful Heart

Other - Sugarplum Shimmer Brush, Sugarplum Glitter Gems, Loose Sequins - Silver 

Thin Cuts - Shaker Window and Confetti, Decorative Border

H2H Color Challenge -

Today over at Heart2Heart we are doing a color challenge.

We also had a pretty photo to inspire us...

Here is what I came up with. 

Supplies:

Card stock - Ruby, White Daisy, Black

Ink - Ruby, Charcoal; Black, Mink

Stamps - Perfect Picture Cricut Collection 

Other - black dots

A new pal

I recently discovered  Newton's Nook Designs. They have a ton of cute stamps have sort of a cutesy feel that are perfect for coloring. Sounds like an Amy stamp to me!!!

I have a pretty large wish list going but thought I would start with this set cause I know a few people who love dogs. I got some new happy mail this week and Newton's Nook are having a color challenge it is called Inky Paws Challenge #26. I love a good challenge so I gave it a try the colors were: Pink, Mint, Teal, and White.

 
Here is what I came up with

 

Supplies:

Cardstock: Teal

Pattern Paper - Polka dots, Friendly words
Ink - Memento Black
Stamps - Delightful Doxies

Copics - 0, R81, R83, R85, E53, E55, E57, BV02, BV04, BG01, BG10, BG13

 Other - Scallop Border Die, Scallop Circle Die, Circle Die, White Ribbon

History, Mysteries and Gifts...

Well that is part of it anyway. I love the saying that is in the new stamp set The Present (D1436) I have heard it before but every time I hear it or see it, I just think it runs so true

"Yesterday is history
Tomorrow is a mystery
Today is a gift
that's why we call it
the Present"

This week over at Heart 2 Heart Challenges I found quite the challenge it was to use Autumn Terracotta, New England Evy, and Honey together on a project. I thought and though, I moved stuff around, I stamped this and that, tossed some bad ideas out and finally settled on this great card!

Now I took the photo's a little bit ago and the lighting is not the best but here they are I hope you enjoy...

I also used Colonial White and Desert Sand on the card. I distressed the edges to make them stand out against the tone on tone for the Autumn Terracotta.

Another fun thing that I did was use my Martha score board to make a diamond pattern and then I took mini brads and put them at all of the intersections. I normally do not put so much metal on a card but they were bitty brads ;)

Next I want to show you and tell you about the New England Ivy. I used a piece of patterned paper out of the Evergreen paper pack and cut it into a 1/2 strip then I folded every so often to mimic ribbon. I also took some embroidery thread and hand stitched through the middle. It turned out so cool! It also tied the Colonial White in a little better.

I hope you have enjoyed this card and I hope you can find your way over to Heart 2 Heart they have a prize available if 40 people play along....Happy Stamping!

Heart 2 Heart challenge 1 - Extreme Happiness

Heart 2 Heart has a color challenge this week and that is to use Sweet Leaf, Sunflower and Cocoa on a project. I started a few different cards and finally came up with this one. I just LOVE this stamp set and have not used it in the longest time. I scored the paper and sanded it down to white added three brads some ribbon and mounted teh sweet leaf onto the cocoa. Then I stamped the flowers in cocoa stamped off and made the edges darker by rolling the stamp back into the cocoa ink then cut them out. I also added some liquid glass and glitter to the ends of the flowers.

I hope you like it. I can't wait to see what the next challenge it at H2H

Color chef challenge 4

Well I am back to playing with my new favorite and now you can get your hands on this great stamp set too! Be Yourself is the May Stamp of the Month.

KJ's color challenge this week was all about the pink. With three girls I know all about pink and I love it!!! I decided that my girl needed to be drowning in dimonds and pink...perhaps she is off to prom. My daughter wore a pink prom dress a few years ago and was just gorgeous!

Danielle is my girly girl all about shopping and girly stuff. She humored me and played sports for a long time and was really good at it but her heart is on the girly stuff.

She is so super sweet (she even brought me a blizzard today for no reason yummy) and smart. She is about to graduate high school and go to Nursing school. I am very proud of her.

Here is another view of my card I needed to add some bling! Every girl in a fancy dress needs some bling.

I hope you had a chance to check out yesterdays' blog hop. If not please check it out.

I am in love...with Be Yourself

Seriously this set rocks! I go to work and dream about coming home and getting the kids into bed so that I can stamp with them. Each day I pick a new girl and come up with an amazing fun card that makes me smile. Here is my main inspiration for todays card. This is my 13 year old Savannah. She is absolutly amazing. She is also very into sports. She joined track this year for the first time to train for soccer and softball. She just finished up her basketball season where she rocked. She is quite the speedy little one and I am not really sure why she never joined track before. Wow do they ever get a workout every day.

So I am super excited cause I am actually on time for KJs color challenge this week. Yeah me! This was a hard one as I am not such a fan of bright bold colors in my cards. I can do pink and orange all day long but pink and yellow and then black makes me say yikes! I did however find a use for this beautiful ribbon that I have had forever and ever.

I thought this jogging girl makes a perfect little track star. I mean seriously this set...I love it!

The girl in this card is running a race, she is jumping hurdles, doing the 100 yard dash and maybe just maybe she might even be talked into the 400 meter as well.

She needs to stay fast...and stay confident.

I hope you enjoy the card today. One of these days I will scrapbook agian.

I am going to have an open house on May 2 and then after that I am going to have friends over to scrapbook or make cards. So eventually you will get to look at pages too!

Be your beautiful self and Color Challenge #2

So wow...I just cannot seem to make the 10 am deadline but I wanted to share my card as I like the way it turned out. I usally stamp on Saturdays and the challenge comes out durring the week...oh well. This color combination came from KJ's second color chef challenge and it consisted of Sorbet and Tulip two of my favorite colors. I also added a touch of cocoa to make the colors pop.

I again used the May Stamp of the Month it is becoming a fast favorite. It is just such a fun flirty stamp set.

I went back and forth and back and forth on these brown buttons. I almost did a vanilla button but in the end I decided that the brown with the colonial white waxy flax...other wise known as that stuff I never thought I needed but absolutly cannot live without.

The other items I used were patterned paper from the level two Perfect Day paper back, Tulip, Sorbet, Cocoa and Colonial White Card Stock, Sorbet Ribbon and Cocoa ink.

Here is a over all view of the card and the inside as well.

I hope you liked this weeks challenge and next week...you never know I might even manage to make the challenge.

This card sketch is from the Originals book.

A little challenging fun

So a fellow consultant has posted a color challenge that you can find here it is her Innagural Color Challege: Color Chef Challenge # 1. I was so excited to stumble upon it as usually I am last to know about something cool going on. This weeks challenge was to use Breeze, Sweat Leaf, and White Daisy. I don't have Breeze so I subbed Cool Caribbean.

I combined it with this weeks sketch challenge over at Split Coast Stampers

I love the way this card turned out. I have been really wanting to do something with this stamp set Precious Smiles. It is a stamp set that can be used to promote Operation Smile or thank your customers for donating. These kids are so precious you can find tons of things to do with this adorable set. The flowers are from A Huge Thanks which is a consultant set with lots of thank yous and adorable flowers.

I really like how this card came together. I played with this set once before and I just was not happy with the resut but I think I will make up some of these so I can send some out.

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