Go Confidently - CR84FN47

It's time for another wonderful color challenge at the CR84FN Challenge Blog!  We are thrilled to welcome Monika as our Guest Designer for the next two challenges!  The colors for this TWO WEEK Challenge are Pink, Red and Light Blue.

To add pink hue to the background, I used Ranger Spun Sugar Distress Stain, smooshing the stain on a Non Stick Craft Sheet, spritzed with water, then smooshing the watercolor paper into the ink mixture and heat dried.  All stamps are from Stampotique, stamped in Black Archival on Watercolor paper, then colored with STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils and Marsgraphic Markers.  I added clouds to the background sponging around a scallop scrap piece of paper with Blue ink.

Here's this weeks color inspiration, we'd love for you to play along with us at CR84FN, you can find all the details here on how to enter. If you upload to any online gallery please use keyword CR84FN47 so we can find your creations!


Looking for more inspiration using this weeks challenge visit the other Designers Blogs:

Mona Pendleton* Sue Lelli * Andrea Matthews *  Stephanie Kraft * Suzanne Czosek *  Heather Jensen  *  Deborah Frings * Monika (Guest Designer) 

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Texturize It - Bloggers Challenge

Happy Bloggers Challenge Friday!  Thanks so much to those of you who played along with last weeks Elements of Time Challenge, it was wonderful to see how everyone was inspired by the challenge theme.  This weeks challenge theme is Texturize It.

To create the texture on my card, I used the Shabby Tin Technique from the December Technique Junkie Newsletter.  I paired my Shabby Tin butterfly with the  Finish the Moment stamp from Our Daily Bread Designs. 

For a limited time Metallic Paint Dabbers can be found at Blitsy for $2.25!  I used Copper and Silver Dabbers on my Shabby Tin Butterfly!

Details:
Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs
Ink - Ranger Black Archival
Card Stock - Copper, Brown, Kraft
Other - SU Butterfly Die, Metallic Paint, Grunge Paper, Texture Fades Embossing Folder, Tulle, Dimensionals, Idea-ology Pieces, Bo Bunny Pattern Paper

If you'd like to play along with this weeks Bloggers Challenge, please link back to this post on your blog and mention you created your card for the Bloggers Challenge Texturize It Challenge. Please add your link using the Link Tool below, your link should be a direct link to your Bloggers Challenge Post, use your name as the Title. Please do not link to cards that were created prior to the challenge date. Entries not linking properly, or backlinked will be removed.  If you have the captcha enabled on your blog, please consider turning it off, as it makes it so much easier to leave comments.

Have a great weekend!

Think and Wonder

Wonder and Think.......

I'd love to tell you how to create the background, but I can't take credit for it.  Recently Gerrie sent me some scrap (2-1/2" x 11") pieces of paper she created using the Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate, so I could see what they looked like.  OMW - I'm just lovin' this, doesn't it make fab artsy backgrounds!  The scraps weren't big enough to turn into a card, so I used bits and pieces for the background design, adding some stamped images from the Artistic Outpost Whimsical Melange set in Black Archival.  The house is also from this same set, again I pieced together the scraps, by taping the leftover panels together, then cut out the house and layered it on a black panel.  Still working with the scraps I stamped the sweet kids from the Artistic Outpost Think and Wonder plate in Black Archival, then cut them out and adhered them to the house.  They are actually pieced together on 3 different scraps of the Gelli Arts paper, but you can't really tell that from the photo.

Details:
Stamps - Artistic Outpost (Think and Wonder/Whimsical Melange)
Card Stock - Black, Blue, Watercolor
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs
Other - Gelli Arts Gel Printing Plate, Dimensionals, Sponge Dauber, Acrylic Paints

Fight the Good Fight - {ODBDLYLS13} Scrapbook Challenge

There's still time to play along with this months Our Daily Bread Designs Scrapbook Challenge!  This month Patter is challenging you to create a layout of any size using ODBD stamps and the color inspiration photo shown below.    

I pulled the Red and Blue colors from the inspiration photo, to create this Patriotic scrap page that features photos of my Grandma and Mom (age 3), and Grandpa/Mom, when they flew out to see my Grandfather while he was on leave from the war.  I used the wonderful papers from the Bo Bunny Liberty collection, stamping the Honeycomb BG from ODBD on the top portion in Ranger Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.  The ODBD Old Flag Background is stamped in Navy ink on the Vanilla Panel, then colored with STAEDTLER Watercolor Crayons.  The verse is from ODBD's Not Forgotten set is stamped in Navy.

Details:

Stamps - Our Daily Bread Designs Honeycomb Background, Not Forgotten, Old Flag Background,

Ink - Ranger Distress Ink Gathered Twigs, Stampin' Up! Night of Navy

Card Stock - Navy, Red, Vanilla

Other -  Bo Bunny Liberty Pattern Paper, STAEDTLER Karat Aquarell Watercolor Pencils, Sponge Dauber, Metal Stars, Glue Dots, Hemp, Blending Stump, Gamsol

Use any or all of the colors in the inspiration photos, feel free to add basic colors such as brown, black, or white.  The ODBD Scrapbook Challenge runs through Tuesday, January 31st, at 6 p.m. Eastern, click here for complete details!

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Yours Forever

Happy Kitchen Sink Stamps Monday, thanks for stopping by, I hope you had a great weekend!  We've been having some really weird weather - on Friday we got 7" of snow, then late Sunday night we had Thunder/Rain and Lightening, which kept knocking out my ISP.  Thus my late post today, as we keep losing our connection.

To create  my card I used the beautiful Kitchen Sink Stamps Multi Step Sweetheart Roses, along with some Basic Grey pattern paper.  The top panel is embossed on the edges, on the bottom panel I added "yours forever" from Kitchen Sink Stamps Ready 4 Any Holiday set.

Color Recipe:
Sweetheart Roses - #2 Cranberry, #3 Cherry Cobbler, #4 Cherry Cobbler, #1 Cranberry stamped off

Details:
Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps Multi Step Sweetheart Roses, Ready 4 Any Holiday
Ink - Ranger Black Archival, Stampin' Up! Cherry Cobbler, Cranberry
Card Stock - Cherry Cobbler, Vanilla, Black
Other - Big Shot, Embossing Folder, Seam Binding, Brad, Maya Road Trinket Pin, Basic Grey Pattern Paper

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Thanks so much for stopping by, for more Kitchen Sink Stamps inspiration, be sure to visit the other Design Team Members

 Connie • Julie • Lynn • Makiko  • Maria

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