Latte Love

Here is my weekly color challenge from Kristina Werner. I lover her color choices. I think that this week the hardest part was coming up with a set that wasn't a flower! This week the colors were: chocolate chip, regal rose, certainly celery, very vanilla and pink pirouette (one of the new SU "In Colors"). I wanted to keep it simple and wanted to play with my new Big Shot. I love it. I used the top notch die and put both pieces of CS in and viola! What a cinch. I used the Pun Fun set. I love this set. I haven't used the latte stamp until today. My go to stamp in that set in the hippo! I was stepping out of the box. I colored the mug in with my celery marker and the flowers got some regal rose. Girls always love diamonds, so I had to sprinkle DD glitter on the steam and hearts! The background paper in the new Bella Rosa DSP. I love that paper. It has so many awesome colors. It's off to bed now! Enjoy. Thanks for stopping by.

In the nick of time!

I almost forgot about the color challenge today. I had to pack up the china cabinet after playing softball tonight. Hopefully, I will have a beautiful living room/dining room after this weekend. My husband has done his part. I need to step up to the plate and get my tush in gear to make the curtains (or maybe pay someone to do it)! Anyway, back to the color challenge. I loved the colors in Kristina's inspiration but when push came to shove I had a difficult time. The colors were; black, pumpkin pie, rose red and green galore. At least I got to try out my new Sizzix Big Shot! I love it! The flowers and leaves were from the birds and blossoms die! I used the Baroque Basics for the background and I'm embossed with clear EP. I wasn't thrilled with the outcome at first but it is starting grow on me. Enjoy. Thanks for checking it out! I need to go to bed. I've got a long weekend with the kids in the mountains!

birthday bling

This was one of the cards that we made Friday night at my card class. This was my favorite. I CASED it from splitcoast stampers. Thank you whoever was the creator! I left the color scheme the same, had less circles and added the scallop punch and bling! I wanted my cards to be a little, extra special for this class. It worked great because it utilized 2 retiring sets! I think it would look great with a ton of color combos too. I might have to try that later since I'm still working on my swaps for convention! No big surprise. I always put them off to the last minute. Anyway, enjoy the cards. Thanks for visiting.

color challenge time

I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do the color challenge this week. I working on some cards for a class tomorrow night. I love the colors this week, so I had to make time for the challenge. I need to make a card using Sage Shadow, Regal Rose, Rose Red and Whisper White. These are colors that I wouldn't normally put together, esp the Sage Shadow! The dress was so beautiful. I felt inspired. Once again, I used a few scraps. The Rose Red strip and Cutie Pie DS paper were my scraps along with the striped ribbon. I stamped the Sage Shadow paper with Pretty Petals BG stamp. I thought the pretties kit would add a vintage touch.

Dreaming Away

Here is another swap that I'm working on. What do you think? I hate trying to figure what it is missing! I love the new set, Dreams Du Jour. It is a great set for watercoloring. That is what I did. I used the watercolor crayons and then embossed with the Iridescent Ice EP. I used Pixie Pink, Certainly Celery and Lavender Lace CS and white taffeta ribbon.

convention swaps

Here is my first try at a swap today. I'm trying out some the new, yummy SU! "In Colors". I have used Pacific Point and Tangerine Tango and a good, old stand by, chocolate chip. I was trying to come up with a manly card. I wanted to choose a set, Winds of Grace, that wanted be so popular at convention. I used the crimper on the strip of Choc chip. What do you think? Is it convention acceptable?
Stephanie