Welcome Friends

The Challenge (#50) at 

Simple Salutations 

this week is to use an 

Auto/Train or Plane on your card.

I've used Mark's Finest Papers'

  Christmas Bridge Stamp Set 

for the image and the

 Autumn Friendships Mini Stamp Set 2012 

for the sentiment on 

this 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" inspiration card as a

 Guest Designer 

Materials Used:

• Colorbox Manilla and Kraft card stock
• Stampabilities Brown Pigment Ink Pad
• Liquid Pearls - Dark Chocolate
• ATG
• Foam Tape

A True Friend Is A Priceless Treasure

That is the beautiful sentiment on the

 Design Team papers we were given

 to work with this week at 

Tsunami Rose Designs 

- Tic Tac Toe Challenge (#25).

Thank you for joining us for our 25th Wednesday Challenge at Tsunami Rose.  This weeks challenge was to create a project using the Tic Tac Toe board presented below.   The project required the use of three embellishments that formed a straight line.

I used the left hand vertical row:  lace, inked edges and embossing

I dry embossed the pink card stock and inked with TH Distress Ink in Spun Sugar

The "labels" were distress with both the Spun Sugar (Ink and Distress Stain) and Old Paper

Kraft Paper backing trimmed to match sentiment.  

Added dots of liquid pearls

I added the next layer (the designer paper) and attached all to the black 

5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card base.

Adding the ribbon to the bottom of the designer paper.

The designer paper was embossed with Brown Sugar (Zing!) 

Die cutting leaves

These BEAUTIFUL "crystal/acrylic" flowers are from my friends over at
  Crafty City.
You should REALLY check out their stuff and
 the service is incredible!!!

Supplies Used:

• Spellbinders Shapeabilities Foliage
• Inkadinkado Clear Stamp Dot Flourishes
• Spellbinders M-Bossabilities Awesome Blossoms Reversible Embossing Folder

Materials Used:

• Tsunami Rose Designs Designer Paper from the         collection
• Inks:  TH Distress (Spun Sugar and Old Paper)
• TH Distress Ink (Spun Sugar)
• Liquid Pearls (hydrangea and pearl)
• Flowers - various (Dollar Tree, Paper Studios Spare Parts (Pink)
• Acrylic "crystal" flowers - http://www.craftycity.com/
• Lace flowers - Walmart
• Pearl Flower Center - Prima Marketing Say It In Pearls
• Butterfly - Dollar Tree/Special Moments

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You're so Gullible

This is my very first time using the Spotlight Stamping Technique. 

 Actually, I had never even seen it and 

had to research what it was when I was given the

 Challenge (#51) at 

Mark's Finest Papers - 

Sketch With A Twist.

I used the Gullible 2012 image and sentiment for this card.

This is the sketch you need to follow/use:

It's a fun technique. 

 Next time I think I'll use a larger stamp so I can concentrate on a smaller specific area, 

but hey,

 this isn't too shabby.

Products Used:

Spellbinders Nestabilities Wavy Rectangles Dies

Materials Used:

Colorbox cream and kraft card stock

Stampabilities Brown Pigment Ink Pad

Recollections Chunky Embossing Powder (Aged Silver)

Recollections Sparkle Embossing Powder (Clear Gold)

Zing! Embossing Powder (Brown Sugar)

Embossing Pen

Colored Pencils

TH Distress Ink (Broken China and Old Paper)

I'm The Cutest

Love Love Love

 this Beware of the Dog Image and Sentiment from

 The Stamping Chef.

It was my choice for the 

Paper Piecing Challenge #70 at

 Love To Create this week.

I believe that each one of us has our own interpretation of paper piecing 

and I'm not sure if mine is right or wrong, 

or if there really is a right or wrong on this technique.

Based on the detail cutting involved I'm not going to give 

step by step instructions on this card,

 but if you follow along with the 

photo tutorial,

 I think you can get the basic idea of

 what I'm trying to accomplish for this theme.

Supplies Used:
Studio G Clear Stamp Set VC0053

Materials Used:
Colorbox card stock basics - gray, light blue, black, white
Recollections Opaque Embossing Powder - Ebony
Recollections Opaque Sparkle - Vintage Pink and Glitz
Ranger Embossing Tinsel - Red
Tim Holt Distress Stain - Peacock Feathers
Ink:  Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Shabby Shutters)
Acrylic Gems (Walmart)
Jolies Stickers (Dog Bone)
Embossing Pen
Scissors
ATC
Foam Tape
Colored Pencils
Baby Oil
Q Tips / Blending Tools

It's A Winged Thing

I hope you had a great Father's Day Weekend making and reflecting on sweet memories!

My inspiration card for 

Tammy's Scrapin Corner's 

Challenge  #67

Anything With Wings

is full of purples and mint greens

It is the Garden Square Digi from

Eureka Stamps

The image was colored based upon 

accessories I had on had and 

knew I wanted to add to this creation.

 Card base is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (purple) layered with a 5 1/4 x 5 1/4 inch piece of black card stock.  Ribbons (purple sheer base with 1/8" mint green satin) were added on a diagonal and attached with Scor-Tape (1/8" is the only size I own right now, but can see that some larger size should be on my wish list).

 The digital was completed with colored pencils and cut to

 4 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches 

(much larger than just the image itself). 

 I added 1/8" scor tape around the black edge of the image and 

applied glitter, the remaining 1/8" white card stock was

 distressed with Shabby Shutters. 

 The image was then mounted to a piece of the purple card stock, 

cut to size and "aged" with a distressing tool.

 The two layers with attached with foam tape. 

 Embellishments were added to corners, image and card base.

Materials Used:

• Colorbox Card Stock (purple, black, white)
• Recollections Sparkle Embossing Powder (Glitz)
• Liquid Pearls:  Key Lime, Majestic Purple and Orchid
• Butterflies (Dollar Tree/Special Moments)
• Flowers:  La Petites by The Paper Studio (Purples 3D Papers Flowers stkr)
• Heidi Swap Jewelled Photo Corners
• HTC
• Foam Tape

Happy Father's Day

I hope you are having a great week.  

It's Friday!

That means it's time for my

 Guest Design Team inspiration card for

 QKR.

Challenge #43 is For Dad

and

I've used this adorable Playing With Dad image and sentiment.

 This card base is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2

 I don't have a decent supply of markers yet,

 so I still use water color pencils and/or colored pencils to do my coloring 

It's beginning to come together

Wishing all of you Dad's out there a very Happy Father's Day!

Blessings!

Trudy

A Bad Day At The Pier

Is always better than a good day at work.  

So here's hoping that you are feeling well enough to get to the pier!!!

Challenge #49 at 

Mark's Finest Papers -

 Simple Salutations this week is a

 Get Well Card!

I used Mark's Finest Papers 

Gullible 2012

mini stamp set for this card.  

It was embossed in Recollections Opaque Embossing Powder.

The 6 x 6 card base if Black Colorbok Card Stock, with a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 sheet of Dark Gray Paper and a 5 x 5 sheet of Light Gray Paper.

Black Liquid Pearl dots were added to each corner.

Easy Peasy!!!

Have a great day. 

 See you tomorrow with a new creation!!!