Sweet Dream Mashup!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYBODY!!! Wish you all a safe and fun evening J We will be taking our little dino out this year for the first time trick or treating. He will be going with a little friend of his and he is very excited!!!

For this week’s Friday Mashup I continued onto my second “welcome” card for one of my new recruits. Our challenge was to reduce, reuse, and recycle. So I decided to recycle an old look, one of my favourite Stampin’ UP! dsp’s and colour theme Razzleberry Lemonade!!!

As I had mentioned in my last post I wanted to make each new recruits card something that had to do with them personally. Well this lovely lady is currently reading a fabulous series and I thought she may need a book mark so I decided to go with a card design with a detachable book mark! I stamped “sweet dreams” on the book mark because this particular series is bound to give you sweet dreams hehehe...

My Challenge:

1.            Make a project using the "Sketch".

2.            Or Make a project using "Recycled / Repurposed Materials or Supplies".

3.            Or "Mash it Up" and create a project "Using The Sketch and Recycled /Repurposed Materials or Supplies".

My Card:

 Tiny Tips:

I found the idea for this fun card over at Split Coast Stampers (http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/tutorials/bookmarkcard/). I do not have the Creatopia (the tool used to make the perforations along the card to detach the book mark) in my collection yet, but I do have the fantastic multipurpose tool put out by Stampin’ UP! which can do the very same thing! It comes as part of the Cutter Kit and I would be lost without it!

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Trying Something FRESH!

Hope you are all having a spoooktacular Halloween Weekend! We have been to a few kids’ parties and got to show off our little dinosaur J His costume was a hit he absolutely LOVES it. I have a feeling he will be playing dress up well after the 31^st.

So I have decided to try something new this week and take part in the Freshly Made (http://freshlymadesketches.blogspot.com/) sketch challenge.

I was very lucky to recruit three new ladies this month with the fabulous promotion Stampin’ UP! offered (A FREE BIG SHOT or $125.00 IN PRODUCT – still time left offer good until October 31^st). I thought it appropriate to make a “welcome” card for each of the lovely ladies in a style which I thought best suited them. This is the first card I came up with for my first new recruit.

My Challenge:

My Card:

Tiny Tips:

I love using the seam binding ribbon that Stampin’ UP! sell but the one thing I find tricky from time to time is how easily it frays. This time I decided to use that to my advantage and add it as an element on my card. I rolled adhesive on the back side of the ribbon starting at the point where I wanted the fray to end and then pulled on one piece of thread to give it that wispy look.

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3 Times Lucky!

I have been chosen again this week as one of the “Glemettes” at Friday Mashup!!! Going to give it my best shot this week to “ROCK THE MASHUP” J

Radical Ribbon

So I was sitting here designing the project for my next stampers club and had the idea I would combine our project with this week’s Pals Paper Arts Challenge. So my stampers following my blog will get a sneak peek of what they can expect next month (lucky them!!!).

This week we were asked to use ribbon as the element of style in your design. They had also mentioned keeping the project simple but once I got started I could not stop!!! I love Christmas and everything about it. I am not a huge fan of giving gift cards (as I LOVE to wrap presents) but when you are shopping for that person who has it all sometimes a gift card is just the thing. That does not mean you cannot “wrap” it though J

I choose to make a double pocket card, in the first pocket is a tag which adds a decorative element to your card and in the second pocket right behind the flower you slip in your gift card for that someone special.

My Challenge:

 My Card:

 Tiny Tips:

After finishing my card I really wanted to add a wee bit of sparkle so I gave it a spray with my vanilla shimmer smooch spritz from Stampin’ UP!. My tip for the week is when using your smooch spritz it is a good idea to hold it far away from your project as you spray if you hold it too close (as I did ooppss) it will cause your stamped image to run a little and your card stock will appear to have a wet look to it. We live and we learn J

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Birthday Bling!

A very good stamping friend of mine has a birthday coming up so I thought it fitting to make this week’s Mojo Monday project all about her J She continues to inspire my creativity daily and I hope she knows just how special she is to me!!!

This week I chose to go with the colour palate from Stampin’ UP!’s Paisley Petals. It gave me 11 wonderful colours to choose from. It was a tough decision but after a lot of cutting and moving around I made it work.

My Challenge:

 My Card:

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I wanted to make the flowers on this card stick out so I cut them out and applied them to my card with Stampin’ dimensionals but it was still not quite enough. So I decided to add a little “sparkle”! Now I have been known to go a little crazy with glitter in the past but believe I have found a balance now hehe J. I used Stampin’ UP! Dazzling Diamonds glitter to add a little bling to this project.

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A Blast from the Past!

This is going to be a fantastic week readers!!! I have 3 stampin’ events and will be blogging about all of the projects we will be working on J For now here is my Friday Mashup Challenge. I was unable to make the post for last week due to very busy work schedule (but I plan to complete that challenge also as the theme was something I was really interested in doing!!!).

This week we were asked to use a Belly Band for the first part of the challenge and if we wished to add some twine. I have to admit I had to dig into the vault for this project as I mentioned work has kept me quite busy and I didn’t want to miss out on another week!

This is a project I made with my Stampers Club. When Beyond the Garden (a Stampin’ UP! dsp) came out in the summer mini I could not wait to use it as this colour palate is soo me! In the same mini they released colour embossing powders to coordinate and I was sold, add to that a fantastic stamp set (Fabulous Florets) and it doesn’t get any better than that!

My Challenge:

1.            Make a project featuring "A Belly Band".

2.            Or Make a project using "Twine".

3.            Or "Mash it Up" and create a project "Using Twine with a "Belly Band".*

My Project:

Tiny Tips:

Ever get finger prints on your embossed projects? When heat embossing an easy way to eliminate such a problem is to use the Embossing Buddy sold by Stampin’ UP! Initially I did not as I was not sure what it was for really but after learning from another demonstrator and seeing the results for myself it made it to my MUST HAVE list!  

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Comfort & Joy

TGIF - I have had a busy but wonderful week J We have a fabulous weekend planned and hopefully you all do as well. So better late than not at all is what I say. For my Mojo Monday card I chose to go with one of the beautiful sets from the Stampin’ UP! Holiday Mini cattie, “Comfort & Joy”.

For the past several cards which I have made I have been using my DSP for colour inspiration but this time I chose to take a peek through my colour coach and went with the Sweet Set combo of Wild Wassabi, Marina Mist and Early Espresso. I felt it fit well with a holiday card and it is that time of year!

My Challenge:

My Card:

Tiny Tips:

I felt the bird needed some colour after I finished heat embossing with the pewter embossing powder. I did not want to go ahead and colour it in with my Marina Mist stampin’ write marker because I felt that would be a little too much colour and might take away from the look of the embossing. So I decided to use Aqua Marker to give just a subtle touch of colour.

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