Stella's Feeling Blue (and Green & Brown)

Supplies:
Paper:  Early Espresso, Certainly Celery, Baja Breeze, Baja Breeze DP
Ink:  Certainly Celery, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Blush Blossom, Going Grey
Accessories:  Scallop Trim Border Punch, Chocolate Chip Tafeta Ribbon, Large Circle Punch, Large Scallop Circle Punch, Color Spritzer Tool, Polka Dot Embossing Folder

This week's challenge at Totally Stampalicious is a color challenge - Brown, Green, & Blue!  I LOVE this color combo!!!  Since we got dumped with a foot of snow last night I was able to work from home and fit in my challenge card in place of my commute!  I'm so lucky I didn't have to drive in that mess!  So since it's very cold and snowy I felt inspired to work with Stella tonight.  I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge 105 for the layout.  The best thing about this sketch was that I used SCRAPS that were laying around on my craft table.  Love when I can put my scraps to good use.  I need to remember this sketch!

Totally Stampalicious is having a New Release and Blog Hop this Thursday (Feb 24) at 9pm EST.  One lucky winner will get 4 new stamp sets!  The stamp set I used for this card is one that I won in their blog hop a few months back!  So mark your calendar and hop over to the Totally Stampalicious Blog on Thursday.

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Just Fake It - Ruby

It's a busy day here so I'll make this post quick.  I'm so excited this is my last day of work before my Christmas vacation!  I'm going to be off work until January 3rd.


This fun card is for this week's Totally Stampalicious Challenge - It's All Faux Fun.  The challenge is to make some faux brads, stitching, flowers, metal, etc.  I made faux brads using circle punches and stickles!  The stamp set is  Attitude Ruby also from Totally Stampalicious.   I initially tried doing faux stitching but it wasn't pretty.  I need more practice at that technique.

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SSSC86 - VSN Random Drawing Goodies

Today is a GREAT day!  I got to make a card using the goodies I WON from the random drawing over at Splitcoast Stampers Virtual Stamp Night.  Addicted to Rubber Stamps supplied the prizes.  I only had time to participate in two challenges so I feel extra lucky that I won!  Since I won the stamps and designer paper I thought it was only right to make a project with them :)

I used the Owl stamp from Hero Arts and the designer paper is from the prize too! I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge for the layout. The sentiment is from Treehouse Stamps digitial set Fall Blessings.

Supplies List:

Stamps:  Hero Arts Flower Branch with Owl, Fall Blessings Digital THS
Paper:  Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Barely Banana, Pebbles Giddy Designer Paper
Ink:  Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery, Real Red
Accessories:  Button, Elastic String, Scallop Circle Punch, Scallop Edge Punch, Large Circle Punch

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Ways To Use It - Treehouse Stamps Contest

As the guest design team member for Treehouse Stamps for the month of August I am using only Treehouse stamps this month.  I'm excited to show off their awesome stamps!

I made this card for today's Ways to Use it Challenge over at SCS. The challenge was "Stick It".  You could either use pins or sticks.  What a FUN challenge.

I decided to do some paper piercing because it isn't an element I use often.

I used the Treehouse August Contest image for this one. The sentiment is a new release from Treehouse Stamps. I think it goes perfectly with this little image.  For more information on how to enter this months contest click here:  Treehouse Stamps August Contest

I used the computer to color 90% of the image. This was my first attempt at coloring a digi stamp on the computer and I'm really happy with how it turned out. I was used the Stampin Up color codes to get close matches to the paper colors.

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Tropical Drink Color Challenge

I love this week's Splitcoast Color Challenge color combo! I thought it was perfect for a Banana Daiquiri. I made two versions of this card. The top card is the fancier card. The other one is Clean and Simple. I like them both.

For the top card I used a Fiskers embossing plate. The ledge of the bar was inspired by the the cute ice cream shop card by Lori Heilling in the splitcoast stampers gallery. The red strip at the top is actually the scrap from the eyelet border punch.

I also changed up the orientation on this one. I don't usually make landscape cards that open from the side. I really like it though!


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Color Challenge Card - CC274

Today's Color Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers was to use Tempting Turquoise, Cameo Coral and Ruby Red. This was a new color combo for me and I really wasn't sure about it. The cards that were submitted to the challenge all looked really good so I thought I should at least give it a try...there is a reason they call it a challenge. I decided to trust the professional challenge makers and give it a go. In the end I'm happy with the result.

This is the revised version of my color challenge card. My first version was okay, but it felt like it was missing something. I added the bottom edge to the window and changed the scalloped oval paper behind the sentiment from Cameo Coral to Ruby Red.

To add a little fun - I used transparency film to make the window - you can't see it in the picture but it adds a nice element to the actual card.

I did create the image panel and the sentiment in My Digital Studio. I don't have Cameo Coral or Tempting Turquoise ink in my craft room but I do have it on the computer. It seems like every time I make a card I find a way to incorporate the MDS into it.

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