What's My Style?

Honestly....I really don't have any! LOL!!

The Calendar Girls were all invited to a Ball this month! Our challenge was to make a card that reflected our style. We were to add a touch of our favorite color to our card. And lastly, we were to shape up for the Ball. We were to add some kind of shape to our card.

So...truly, I don't really have a style. We do not attend formal events, or ever really get too dressed up. So, I thought...if I were to attend something formal like a Ball, what would my style be???? Well, the only thing that came to my mind was our wedding. We were married outside on a beautifully sunny day. At some point, one of my mother's friends told her that our wedding was the most beautiful wedding she had ever been to. She said, "it was elegant in it's simplicity." So I guess if I were to "dress up" my style would be simply elegant. Here's hoping you think my card reflects that style.

To create my gown for the ball (my card) I used ideas from two different cards that I recently made at a card club. I embossed the black cardstock using the Elegant Lines embossing folder from Stampin' Up! Both my image and sentiment are from SU. The image is Elizabeth from their a la carte line of stamps. The sentiment is from the set called You're A Gem. I thought the Vanilla and Black cardstock together came across as both simple yet elegent.

I don't really have ONE favorite color. Seems I go through phases of liking a color. Right now my phase seems to be pink. So since I am in my pink phase, I added a pink, self-adhesive pearl to the flower on my "sash." (The flower was made using SU's First Addition speciality paper. The sash is SU's 1-1/4" black striped grosgrain ribbon.) Lastly, I shaped up for the Ball using my small oval punch, scalloped oval punch, 1 inch circle punch and scalloped circle punch.

Thanks for stopping by! And be sure to check out the other "dresses" at the Ball. All the Calendar Girls' blogs are listed in my side bar.

A Mystery No Longer...

Today the card on my blog is a card made for a swap on SCS. The swap is a mystery swap. All the participants receive an image that the hostess has picked out. No one but the hostess knows what the image is until the images are received in the mail. Then everyone creates a card or project with the images and on the 18th of the month we are allowed to post the card/project to our blog or gallery.

I love the image we received this month. The image is from the Artful Inkables-Think Big set. And since reading is one of my favorite hobbies, the minute I received the image I knew I wanted to make a pocket card with a bookmark in it. You can find the tutorial for the pocket card at http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/, on the resource page. I used Brocade Blue, Pixie Pink, Whisper White cardstock and designer paper all from Stampin' Up! I used the Rounded Tab-Extra Large punch, the three flower punch (retired), very small cirlce punch (retired), and white grosgrain ribbon from Stampin' Up! I added self-adhesive pearls to the center of the flowers. The sentiment saying on the actual bookmark is from Hambo Stamps.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Time to Duel

Well it's the 15th of the month and you know what that means...it is time for the Dueling Darlings to duel it out.

I apologize my post is late...but I am sitting in Hawaii with my husband and well, I am on island time!!!

April was our hostess this month for the Dazzlers. Our outstanding kit included, ribbon from Michael's, self adhesive pearls (in teal and gray) from Michael's, along with patterned paper from ColorBox, and the cute image from Close to My Heart.

Recently, I have been involved in a couple of ABAC swaps and am enjoying making things other than cards. So I used my kit to make a matchbook treat holder. Being that Valentine's Day was just yesterday, I used the cupid image, and tucked a Butterfinger heart into the matchbook. Thought the sentiment was appropriate for the candy!

Well...back out into the sunshine! Thanks for looking.

ALOHA!!!

ALOHA!!

I made this card earlier this year for a layout challenge. But since my husband and I are taking off for Hawaii next week...I thought it appropriate to be on my blog while I am away.

Yes just hubby and me...alone for ten days in beautiful Hawaii....what more can I say???

Okay...a can say...the image is from The Greeting Farm. I used Whisper White, Old Olive and Rose Red cardstock from Stampin' Up! The designer paper is also from Stampin' Up! I colored the image with Copics and used my MS grass punch.


Thanks for looking.

Calendar Girls

Who are the calendar girls, you ask???? We are a group of blogging friends that love to create. And what do the Calendar Girls do? They rise to the challenge before them! There are ten of us in this little group and each of us picked a month that we would like to be the hostess. When it is our turn to be the hostess, we pick the challenge and everyone in the group creates a card or an ABAC item based on that challenge. I am Miss August!

For our first challenge, we were to create a card or an ABAC that reflects the month that we are the hostess. Secondly, we were to use our favorite embellishment. And, THIRDLY (cuz that is Jeanette's favorite number - she cracks me up. Love her!!) we were to use our newest paper crafting toy/tool. And we could not run out and buy a new toy for this challenge. Nope, it had to be something we had already purchased or received as a gift.

And since I am Miss August, and where I live, school starts in August, and since no matter how old my kids get, they love to buy school supplies...I created a ABAC item with a school theme. I made this cute "post-it note tote" (see tutorial at http://www.stampingschool.com/). I used a digi stamp from Dee Dee's Digis. I fell in love with this digi when I saw it quite some time ago and just had to purchase it. I love the sentiment that goes with it. You can find this digi at: http://deedeesdigis.blogspot.com/. I found the cute post-it note pad in the dollar section of Target.

I am not sure that brads are my most ABSOLUTE, favorite embellishment but I sure like them, and I use them a lot!! For my newest toy/tool, I used a new paper cutter that my son gave me for Christmas. It's hot pink!! (Matches Kelly's pants and flip-flops! ROFL!!!)

Thanks for stopping by! And to see the other great Calendar Girl creations, please see my sidebar for their blogs! Have a great weekend!

What's my Weather Like?

Good Morning!!

The card on my blog today is for a card swap in which we were to design a card showing the weather where we live. Well...since I live "up north" it certainly wasn't hard to figure out what would be on this card. Since it is cold, cold, cold here and there is lots and lots of white, fluffy stuff, I knew instantly my card would have snow or snowflakes on it.

However, I didn't want it to be your general snow/snowman card. LOL! A sweet on-line friend and sister of mine used a great set recently and posted a great card on her blog. It was a beautiful and bright tree that so much had me wishing for spring and summer. Please see her awesome creation here http://www.paola-sama.blogspot.com/. Anyway...after seeing this beautiful card, I thought...I could make a winter tree to show my weather...that might be a little different. I used the images and sentiment from the SU set Season of Friendship. I used Close to Cocoa, Riding Hood Red, Bashful Blue and Whisper White cardstock for the card. The image of the tree trunk/branches is stamped in Close to Cocoa ink and the snowflake "leaves" are stamped in Bashful Blue. I embellished my card with some Bashful Blue grosgrain ribbon and white organdy ribbon. I decided my tree needed a little something so I punched the mittens and hung them from the tree branch using white hemp and a white brad. (Here's little secret...if you run out of white brads, you can make your own. I used silver brads and dipped the heads of them into Versamark Ink, then coated it with white embossing powder and heated them. Presto...white brads!!! Use tweezers to hold brads while heating and let them dry a few minutes.) I added the Riding Hood Red photo corner punch to offset the mittens. And, lastly, I used my two-way glue and some Dazzling Diamonds glitter to add some snow at the base of my tree. I hope you enjoy my winter scene.

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Duel - Round 6

Well it's time for another duel. That's right...the Dueling Darlings have dueled it out again this month. The Dazzlers received an awesome kit from Paola.

The theme for this month's duel was "Fun and Laughter Forever After." The image is Best of Luck from Penny Black. The birthday sentiment is from the Perfect Punches set from Stampin' Up! Then our kits included so much embellishment goodness it was incredible. There was designer paper from Daisy D called "Paisley Bloom" and doublesided designer paper from K & Company called, "Lovely." Our kit also included a paper doiley, three different strips of ribbon, candy dots, a button, rosettes, and several other flowers and gems. Like I said, so much embellishment goodness!!!

For my card I used SU Whisper White, Crumb Cake and Riding Hood Red cardstock. I loved the Paisley Bloom designer paper and had to use that. I colored the image with my Copic markers and my Riding Hood Red SU marker. To embellish my card I used the Riding Hood Red stripped grossgrain ribbon from SU, one of the rosette flowers (from Michael's), the self-adhesive candy dots by Pebbles, Inc. and then the paper doiley. I sponged around my image and on my doily with Crumb Cake ink to give it a little of a distressed looked. I used my large oval punch from SU for my sentiment.

Along with this awesome kit we received instructions that when posting our card we were to share a New Year's Resolution that we have NEVER kept so far but really want to. Mine is easy...learning not to worry about the things I don't have control over. Every year I want to learn how not to worry about those things I cannot control and yet, every year....I still worry. Will I ever learn?

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!