Color Challenge-white?.....

This week I played along with SCS color challenge (can you believe I haven't stamped since Tuesday!). Of all weeks to jump back in, I pick the week of white! Yes, the challenge this week was to use a white card base and make it a single layer. You could add other colors of ink, BUT the base had to be white. I kept it super simple and with a little cutting and masking I created this.
I stamped my fave flowers from the Unity May KOTM twice, once on my card front and another time on scrap paper. I cut out the image from the scrap paper and maksed the flowers on my base and then sponged on pacific point and kiwi kiss. That was it! I did emboss a cute scalloped border on my card base with some rectangle nestabilities and finished it off with a bit of gingham ribbon. I WILL be stamping today, I finally got my hands on my SU new catty pre-order! OMG! I {{{{heart}}} the new catty and the new In Colors, you will too! I hope to have a fun sneak peek for you, if not tomorrow, then definitely Monday! Hugs, Lisa

Fun with White

The Ways to Use it challenge on SCS this week was to use all white (you could color an image that was stamped onto whit cs) products-cs and embellishments. I stuck to the rules and made a crisp, clean all white card. The butterfly was cut out of vellum cs and linen vellum cs (by PTI). I used one of the hat pins from the pretties kit to add some pizza to the pretty butterfly. I did add one pop of color with the sentiment (from Matchbox Messages) stamped in Tangerine Tango!
I really like this! I can't believe this was my first Ways to Use it challenge. I know I'll be back to play, it was a fun challenge. Hugs, Lisa

Can't refuse Chocolate

I rarely get around to playing in the limited supplies challenge over at SCS on Fridays. My good friends Kristin posted two of the cutest cards yesterday and as usual, she motivated me to play. Besides, how could I refuse chocolate? The challenge was to use something related to chocolate: the color, the theme, the actual stuff. You know chocolate chip is one of my all time favorite colors to work with, so this was an easy one for me. I actually made two since Kristin also motivated me to use some of my rub-ons (they are on sale this month from Stampin' Up!). Here's what I came up with. They both use all SU products.


The first one is my favorite, although I do love the richness of color the riding hood red and chocolate chip create in the second card. Thanks for stopping by on a Saturday. Hugs,

Classic color combo!

You have to try it! The color challenge on SCS is Kraft, red, and black! I had so much fun creating these Clean and Simple cards yesterday. They are somewhat similar layouts, but they look totally different due to the different images and ribbon. I really need to get crackin' on my Christmas cards, I make about 60 of the same cards ( I actually die cut 60 kraft top note pieces yesterday, so I technically did get started on them, hehehe!) but for some reason I keep making single cards with all my other fun Christmas stamps. I do think the Merry & Bright set from PTI is one of the easiest sets to work with. I have loved everything I've created with it so far. On Monday I received my Unity, November Kit of the Month (KOTM) and it is just full of the most adorable images! This deer is my favorite! Didn't this just turn out so cute? I was going to make his nose red and sparkly, but decided against it when I added the naked chipboard heart. Instead of a Holiday card, I felt this would make a great Valentine card. Who wouldn't love to get this delightful deer?! Happy Hump Day! Hugs,

Lovely Sparkly Trees

I'm late today, I know. I am a first thing in the morning blogger, but this morning I had nothing ready to show you. I was able to whip out a card for the sketch challenge on SCS. I found it easy to work with. Check it out, if you haven't. I had a friend ask me about this card I did a few weeks back using the Growing with Unity tree. She wanted to see this technique done with SU images. I knew right away it would look awesome with the trees from Lovely as a Tree (I think this is the longest running stamp set in the catalog right now). It is an oldie but a goodie and a must have to anyone's stamp collection. I used the 1 inch circle punch and a post-it note to create the mask for the moon. I pulled the colors from the Holiday Treasure dsp pack and even got to use some of my favorite wide olive grosgrain ribbon. Click on the photo for a close up and check out my sparkly trees. I wanted to create an icy/snowy look to them and so I added some Stardust Stickles to them. LOVE this product and guess what? Head on over to Limelight and get yourself a bottle for only $1 this week! What a deal! Just wait until tomorrow, I've got some fun cute stuff to show you and almost all of the products I used you can get at the Limelight Paper Crafts store. So don't forget to check back. Hugs,

The End of them...

These are the last of my WCMD challenge cards. I didn't win the Unity prize, but that's okay, it was just the incentive I needed to jump in and do all seven challenges. This first one was the Limited Supplies challenge-No P's please. We couldn't use designer paper or pastels! No pattern paper was definitely a challenge for me, especially when told not to use it, it made me want to use it more. I decided to make my own. I used the funky, Hullabaloo stamp. Inked it up in white and stamped it on Kraft cs. I also kept it simple with just the two colors, tied it up with some Riding Hood Taffeta ribbon and added a choc. chip felt flower. The last challenge card I have for you turned out to be my favorite for the fact that I really tried something new. It was the technique challenge and we had to create our own layered flowers. If you use different sized circles and layer the on top of each other, ruff up their edges and hold them together with a button or brad you can make some pretty cool flowers as an accent for your card. I really wanted to try one of those ribbon flowers like we did at Convention. So I did. I actually made three of them and used them as a layer on my flowers. I really struggled with the stitching at Convention when we did these, but this weekend I was able to make them rather quickly. Yeah, me! This is a big, bulky card, one I would never mail ( at least not without special packaging) but someone someday is going to get this beautiful, card for their Birthday! Happy Wednesday! Hugs,

Some more of WCMD!

I finished all seven challenges over on SCS for World Card Making Day. The other day I showed you a couple of the cards I did. Here are two more of the ones I finished up on Sunday. This is the color combo challenge card. Lemon Lime twist was the name for the challenge. We needed to use a a lime green, a yellowish-orange, black, dark gray and vanilla. It sounded a bit weird to me at first, the lime green was really scaring me (I am not a big fan of the bright colors, green galore makes me cringe). Then I remembered a little tip, if you don't like the color, use it sparingly. That's what I did and actually REALLY like this card (plus I got to use a retired favorite, marigold morning). The Ways to Use it challenge was called, Tree-mendous and required the use of a tree stamp or anything to do with a tree. I used this beautiful tree image from Unity (Growing in Unity). I must have been on a square card kick, because most of the cards I did on Saturday were a 4 1/4 square. I paired this up with some of the Autumn Vine dsp and my rectangle nestabilites for the scallops. Rectangles you ask, those are squares. Well, if you cut out two of the same size rectangles and overlap them on each other, lining up the scallops you can create squares (probably wasn't the best explanation of that, but I tried). That was one reason I ordered the rectangles first, because I could get some more mileage out of them. The ribbon is white taffeta dyed sage shadow.
I do have two more cards to share with you from WCMD, but I'll stretch it out one more day since I haven't really stamped much since then. As always, thanks for stopping by! Hugs,