Color Throwdown & CAS-tastic Challenge

Here is my entry for CTD99 and CWC010 challenges.  Anything with turquoise, I am there! Add in chocolate brown - oh yeah~  I used another one of my new stamps from Innovative Stamp Creations (ISC) Serenity.  Once again, is this realistic or what!  Love it!!  The sentiment says "Summer Vacation"- my dream vacation, water and the beach.  Off to stamp some more...  Thanks for stopping by..

A few STV Challenges

So Ladies this is my newest July/August DT position.  I don't know if you have ever seen Innovation Stamp Creations stamps but boy oh boy - do I love them!  These images are just so realistic and gorgeous!  This is my first attempt - and to be honest, I don't card for this card.  I didn't do justice to this beautiful stamp! (The Tropics) However, the color challenge over at STV was blue and green so I went with it.  When I get done I am suppose to mail these into Betsy, the owner.  Not so much this one - maybe the next one... LOL

 



















This card is for the STV sketch challenge.  I fell in love with the sketch!  I almost missed it - [to busy doing other projects.]  So glad I was able to play with this one.  I will use this again!!  I used GKD stamp sets Hope Grows, illustrated by Theresa Momber and Take Flight, by Gina K herself.  Papers are also from GKD; Cranberry Tart and Aqua Mist with white.

and, my last card (I am getting sleepy) is the Christmas Card Challenge.  This week was "your own style" - since I really still have not figured out my "style" I just went with a sketch by CPS and used my fun snowman image by Stampendous.  I think this guy is to perfect for the holidays.  I also used my new Signature Christmas stamps from Paper Trey Ink.  Love this handwriting by Dawn McVey.

Okay, that's it for today.  Still getting ready for my vacation in 2 days!  Lake Chelan here I come!!I am so excited~~  Thanks for stopping by~  Vicki

Speedy the Cat's Frends Challenge #9

Gosh, I forgot to upload my SCF card last pm. I was to tired to get up and do it.  Hopefully, you came back to see what I made! (If you haven't been over to Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge Blog - head on over and play!!)  My challenge this week in 3+ flowers on your card - really easy for sure!!  My card is using a sneak peek at the new MFP release Apples & Camellias   (This is a fun set, with a variety of items for all different kinds of cards!) and I used the ferns from Tropical Vacation for the leaves.  Camellias are colored with copics and I popped one up with dimensionals.  Pretty basic card, but I am happy with it.  Hope to see you play with Speedy the Cat's Friends!!

RAKS - from STV Friends

For a thank you from being a Hostess over at STV Jessica ran a mini blog hop and DT's made cards for the retired Hostesses.  These are the cards I got!  WOW! They are gorgeous in the pictures but in real life ~~ STUNNING.  Thanks so much to all of you!  Nothing beats receiving a handcrafted card!!
From: Donna Baker

From Linda Payne

 From Carla Suto

 From Theresa Momber

Aren't these all gorgeous!  Its so fun.......they are all MINE! and, they were created from sketches I created!  Oh! Just a fun Friday~~  Thanks Ladies - you are all awesome!!

Verve New Release Challenge

Julee, over at Verve is running a challenge/contest for the entire  June release!  I am trying once again - however, I am so happy with the end result of this project that I feel like I already won! LOL.  Julee's challenge was to pick sketches from the last 6 months from the weekly challenges that Amber hosts, and make 5 cards. I guess I was drawn to the month of March since 4 out of 5 are from it!  I used one of my absolute favorite color combos - black, bermuda bay, white and a touch of red.  [Oh this combo just makes me so HAPPY!]  I used a couple of sentiments from Gina K Designs (congratulations & happy birthday) from the Inside & Out stamp set.  The rest are Verve stamps; Happy Days and Happiness Found.  As you can see, I made 4 cards with a card holder.    Gina K made this holder about 5 months ago she called it a Memory Keeper, for photos - but it works so great for cards that I adapted it.  Is this awesome or what!  [I used velcro to keep the lid closed.]  Okay, you ready to see the final results???

Here it is all together.  The box has the sketch on the flap.

Well, this post took me FOREVAH to load it up~ wow.  I hope it looks good when you see it.  Thanks so much for stopping by - keep your fingers crossed - I really would like to have a double win~~ Later..

EDITED - OMGosh I am so bummed - I didn't fully read the directions so I am not eligible for the challenge/contest.  Dammit~~ Oh well, there is always next month because like I said in the beginning I LOVE the way this turned out and it is going to be a FABULOUS gift for someone, and I am so done with trying to make this many cards at once - it's exhausting...bwahahahah

Curtain Call 35 & CPS Sketch

I love it when I find "forgotten" challenges.  Thanks to Marisa she always reminds me about Curtain Call - and this week is a fabulous - and I mean - FABULOUS color challenge.  Garden Green, Green Galore, Turquoise and Coral Cameo~~ pretty huh?  I thought so!  I used the sketch from CPS #172.  My cyber friend Karen won a GD position  (with CPS) with one of her gorgeous cards - so I am there to support her, and yeah - I struggle without a sketch - LOL.  I used my Hero Arts butterflies - love the way these stamp and they are so easy to color with copics!

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for your comments~~ I sincerely appreciate them~

Thank You STV Hostesses for Your Challenges

This is a small hop to thank the STV Hostesses from last quarter.  The cards I made are my way of thanking my fellow hostesses for challenging me, and I will be sending these on to them!
Karen Knegten ROCKED out the Anything But A Card Challenge.  Every week she came up with awesome projects that just inspired me to make because I would use it!  I have to say, if I won't use whatever I am challenged for, I won't make it-  be a card, or a project.  Karen had some awesome inspiring projects, but my favorite by far was her bookmark!  I have made many of these since the original challenge she had.  The best part of this bookmark... it is made from packaging I received from some papers I got, so its a recycled project too!

Tina Gilliand every week chose color combinations that I just LOVED!  [I strongly believe her and I are on the same page with color!]  My favorite by far though was her Kraft, Red and White.  These colors are just glorious together (plus, I adore kraft!).  Tina thanks so much for challenging me on a weekly basis!  This one's for You!

 And last but not least is Sharri Seffens.  Her challenges Blast from the Past were wonderful!  I on the other hand, not so much.  I didn't do as many challenges as I should have with Sharri.  However, the ones I did partake in were fun to do!  My card for Sharri used her Color Your Embossing Folder.  [I know, I know you thought this was Vintage Backgrounds - nope!]  I got a dot embossing folder (from PTI) and I LOVE it!  So, this card is for Sharri with my thanks for challenging me to re-learn some old techniques!  (Oh yeah, it's a real early birthday card for hr lol)

This is it for me.  I had fun making all these cards to actually be MAILED out.  What a concept - lol  Thanks for stopping by!!

SCS Featured Stamper - Pam (Iris)

I ended up doing a 2nd CASE off of Pam's gallery.   I saw this card

and  I used the newly released digital from Clear Dollar Stamps, illustrated by Laurie Wilson.  I wanted the focus to be the chair, so I kept this really clean and simple.

I did color this with copics, and than I sponged over the bottom of the chair to add some depth to the chair.  Actually, I was very happy with the coloring of this image.

Thanks peeps for stopping by.  There is a small hop tonight for thanking of the hostesses from my quarter over at Stamp TV.  I hope you stop by later tonight...

           

JUGS38 - Color Challenge/ Featured Stamper

Took another day to play - this week the JUGS color challenge is brown, vanilla and pink.  I really enjoy these colors together~~  I also did this for the SCS Featured Stamper - Iris.  I have never seen her work, but it is pretty darn amazing! (She is an alumni Dirty Girl).

I chose this (because of the colors for JUGS - see ladies you took priority - lol) My birthday sentiment is a sneak peek from MFP Flourishes & Frame set.  I used my SU paper and ribbon from Wally World - my ms butterfly is dual punched - a nice and basic card, but pretty from the color combo.  Thanks for stopping by...

Speedy the Cat's Frends Challenge #8

This week Claudine challenged us to do embossing on our card.  To be honest, I do not usually have good luck with embossing - I can never get it "clean" enough.  I don't have an embossing buddy, but my girlfriend told me a USED dryer sheet does the same thing~~ go figure. [ It does work!]  On my card, I used the MFP's soon to be released stamp set [July] "Southwest Cowboy".   I embossed the horses, and than did both sponging and direct to paper technique.  [Direct to Paper is when you take your inkpad and rub the corner directly on to your card stock - I love this technique - the results can be just outstanding!]  I used a reverse punch for my sun and last step was stamping the Cowboy. 

I hope you come over and play in Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge this week.  Remember, for every 40 entries, there is another weekly winner!  One Mark's Finest Paper stamp set - FREE!  Nothing wrong with free~~
Thanks for stopping by -see you tomorrow..

A Couple of New Challenge Sites

Well, I found a couple of challenge sites, again, clean and simple.  Might as well go for it, since I am still on my clean and simple roll.  The first one is Just for Fun Friday, a color challenge.  This week was blue, green and yellow.  As you can see, I like blue and green and I just snuck in a touch of yellow.  The sketch is for Clean & Simple FLT95.  The adorable digi  I used is one of the images I won over at CAS-tastic from Inktegrity - is Wally the Whale too cute! (She does have a freebie on her blog at this point)  I just love his sweet smile!  The sentiment is also a digi, from Laurie Wilson for ClearlyDelightful.  Gosh, it's late I am off to bed.  Night all!! 

One Layer Wednesday & CAS-tastic Challenge

This card is for OLW9 and CAS-tastic 8.  These 2 challenges are just too fun for me!  Since I started to play in them, I can't seem to stop! (I even WON last week at CAS-tastic!!)  LOL - it's so relaxing to make a CAS card - especially a one layer CAS - stamp, stamp, a little bling - DONE.  Oh simply to fun!  hee hee.  I was at Big Lots yesterday and found packages of peel & stick rhinestones - 300 in each for 50 cents!  Sheez - I bought them all!!  Let's see me and gems?.....ya think?? LOL.  Then, at the $1 store I found little inchie jars (with lids) to hold all these fun little rhinies!  Did I have fun or WHAT!  Oh yeah.  Wanna see em?...  They're so little and cute!  LOL

Thanks for stopping by - I am going to further re-organize my stamp room.  Again, I am out of space!   LOL.  Bye~~

Stampin B's #63 - Green, Red and Something Round

This week Faith challenged us to use green, red and something round.  So, I got out my MFP July set "Apples & Camellia" to give you all a sneak peek.  I didn't photograph the inside but it says Get Well Soon  (computer generated).  Appropriate with this front sentiment.  I colored my apple with copics and used my red gems for the red.  I hope you come over and play with the Stampin B's~~  Thanks for coming by! 

Sketch challenge at SCS

I LOVED LOVED LOVED the sketch today over at SCS.  Last pm I had downloaded a sample of Beautiful Blooms dp from Papertrey Ink.  I really liked the colors,but I was wondering how I could utilize it.  The sheet looks like this:

 Just a small square of each paper.  Well, when I saw the sketch...

I was thrilled!  Here is my card:

 

Now do you see why I was thrilled!  I got to use the sample.. for FREE.  (I really like free)  I will probably end up ordering this paper~~ I really do like the colors and the patterns.  Actually, I really am liking PTI products period!  I might have to try and get a Guest Designer position... I would love that!
This image is a sneak peek of MFP's July set "Apples & Camellia".  A very fun set.  Tomorrow I will have another peek at this same set.  Hope to see you come back.  Thanks for stopping by.

New Digi Images - Clear Dollar Stamps

Well, I am late with this post.  Misunderstanding with me~ whoops.  Laurie Wilson has drawn these wonderful digis - I am seriously liking these fun images!  This image is FREE - check it out over at Clear Dollar Stamps!!
Resting Bird

 and here is another colored image - went with a red bird this time!

 and than again, there's always the comfy chair for that good book, or rocking the adorable baby:

I like digis.  You can re size them, color them, cut them out for some depth, or just print for a one layer card!  There is really a great diversity with these images.  Check it out over at Clear Dollar Stamps and see what other images they have!
Thanks for stopping by~~