CPS #213 & cQc #80

Above is this week's colors for the ColourQ Challenge and below is this week's sketch for the CPS challenge:

And here's my card combining both:

This card is for my nephew Liam...whose due date was yesterday! As soon as I find out that he has made his appearance, I'll be sending this off to him for his actual birth-day :) The image stamps are from Lizzie Anne, the sentiment is PTI. The ribbon and all papers are SU. It is hard to tell, but I used the Spica sparkle markers to color everything to make it seem more space like. I like this color combo, it is clean and fresh looking to me. If you want to play along on this week's ColorQ challenge, make sure to check them out here.

JUGS #79

And here is a close up of the baby wipe technique:

Here's yet another one of the absolutely gorgeous hand crocheted flowers made by my friend Christina (click on her name to check out her blog):

The inside:

The back:

This week Just Us Girls has a technique challenge and it was to use a baby wipe technique with re-inkers. Click here to check it out and try this challenge yourself. Well, I only had a few re-inkers, so I chose Pumpkin Pie and Perfect Plum from SU. I added the green patterned paper after and I think the whole effect turned out quite springy :) I have had these neat rhinestone raindrops for quite sometime now and just hadn't created the right thing to use them on, but I like that extra bling they give this card. The stamp is Darcies, the paper and ribbon are SU, the sentiments are all PTI (and so is the border in the inside). The grass punch is from Martha Stewart. This card was made for another of my stampin' friends, Suzanne, who has been going through a lot lately, and I just wanted to let her know that I care and am thinking about her.

Lunch with Liam

Here's what I've been working on lately, invites for "Lunch with Liam." This is my new nephew who we thought would make his grand entrance this past weekend, but he's just not quite ready yet. Thank goodness our Lunch with Liam party is not until May 7th! Anyway, it was fun making them, but I guess when I made the sample I didn't think of how many details are involved in each card, so that is what took so long, and why I haven't updated my blog since Friday ;) Anyway, the banners are the PTI set that I've been using a lot lately, and I also used the PTI ticket set (I don't have the dies for either the ticket or the banners, so I hand cut them all!) and everything else on the card is from Stampin' Up: punches, paper, ribbon, baby onsie, etc. I think the recipients are really going to like them :)

Card Patterns Sketch #109

Check out this gorgeous hand crocheted flower embellishment!!! This was made by my new friend Christina, and it is just so awesome :)

I have enjoyed trying things that aren't my style lately, and am happy to admit that I don't really consider myself as having a specific style anymore, but I will have to admit that this is definitely not it LOL! It was great to try a new sketch, and I love all the separate elements of this card, but together laid out like this I'm just not really feeling it. I have not really embraced the blank card, and I feel like the right side is just too busy and the left side too blank. Oh well, I'm still glad I tried it :) The absolute best part of the card is most definitely the hand made flower embellishment...thanks so much, Christina! The papers are all PTI and so is the cut out sentiment embellishment (from Color Couture). The ribbons are SU. Border punch is EK Success, and the scalloped oval is a Nestabilities die.

colorQ Challenge #79 & CPS #212

Here is the color line up of this week's colorQ challenge:

Here is the CPS sketch that I used:

And here is what I created with both challenges in mind:

The inside:

The back:

I absolutely LOVE how this color combo turned out! It is so clean and bold looking. I actually had all the right colors to use, so that was exciting. Also, I never make tall skinny cards, so it was fun to try something new. What was especially fun was using my new PTI Signature Greetings Set that just came in today! It is the set I chose from winning the PTI February blog hop and was a wonderful surprise to find it waiting for me on my porch when I came home from work today :) The other sets used were all PTI, Background Basics: Sheet Music, and the Banner Builder set. The papers were all SU, and so was the ribbon border punch and label punch on the back.

I found this great colorQ challenge through my new friend Christina who is one of the Design Team members at ColorQ, so make sure to go over to their website and check it out and maybe even play along :)

Make It Monday #9 & JUGS #78

The Make It Mondays challenge was to break out the 'ole heat embossing gun, so I combined it with the Just Us Girls sketch and came up with this card:

A close up of the heat embossed ticket stubs:

A close up of the funky bow...I didn't mean for it to look like this, but I like how it turned out ;)

The colors I used were from one of Dawn McVey's Color Couture combinations, and so are the cut out embellishments. The ribbons are both from SU. The stamp set is from PTI. It was kinda hard to line up all the tickets, and it was time consuming to heat emboss them all, but it was a good technique to try again...I rarely use the heat gun. I used a Nestabilities to cut out the circle. Hope you enjoy :)

Make It Monday #8

This week's Make It Monday was to use an ink blending technique. Here is what I came up with:

I didn't have the ink tool that was used in the video, but I did have some Stampin' Up sponge daubers. I used 3 Stampin' Up inks to try to match PTI colors. I started on the outside with Pink Passion, then went to Only Orange, and finally Apricot Appeal in the center. Then I stamped the silhouette of the vase and flowers from the Asian Fusion PTI set on top. The ribbon is Peach Parfait from SU, and the pink button is from the Big Designer Springtime Vintage buttons that were in the most recent mini catalog. The clear button is from A.C. Moore. The polka dots are from PTI (Polka Dot Basics II). And finally I used Whisper White ink to stamp the Thank You sentiment (also from the Asian Fusion set) on chocolate paper and cut it out with the SU Modern Label Punch. I don't think I'd use this technique often, but it is always great to add yet another technique to my ever growing catalog :)