So it's Penguin Day!

{ Mojo Monday #225 }
{ CAS-ual Fridays: Challenge CFC36 }
{ create: Square Card Challenge 01/19 }

Evening all! Hope your week is going well! I created a Clean and Simple card tonight. YAY! The photo is messed up because it is almost midnight here and I took the photo in my kitchen. Baaaaad. I made this card for my sweet friend Tara who invited two friends and I for Game Night last week. It was a night full of laughs, and of food and wine, poker and a game I never played before, Bananagrams? LOVED! Anyway, I wanted to give her this Thank You card for inviting us and having hosted such a fun night. I really needed some time with the girls!

{ The Design }

The Design: I used the Grand Calibur again. I had trouble with it the first time I used it. Tonight it was happy with me. I used my new EK Success Zig Zag punch. LOVE!!! My stamp is from (digging through the pile of mess on my desk....ah!) Studio G, and the butterflies are from a Hambly overlay.

{ My Inspiration }

I followed the Mojo Monday sketch very closely, with hardly any variation. I loved that the sketch had four slots. Each butterfly represents the four of us that night. CAS-ual Fridays wanted a clean and simple card using ONLY black and white, in honor of Penguin Day. Hee-Hee, too cute. Wish I had a penguin stamp!

Thanks for stopping by!!! Have to rush and link these up! I have like 9 minutes!!! See you again! And don't forget, it's CARDS Week at Color Combos Galore, so go play!

Happy Scrappin'!!!!
xoxo

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Project Supplies:

{ Just 4 You } Card:

• Stamp: "just 4 you" ((Studio G))

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American Crafts: 12x12 Cardstock - Black	American Crafts: 12x12 Cardstock White	Hambly: Overlay - High Tea Black	Marvy Uchida: Square 1½ Inch
Martha Stewart Royal Butterfly Punch	Martha Stewart: Scallop Dot Edge Punch	EK Success: Zig Zag Chain Edger Punch	Jenny Bowlin: Fountain Pen
Cuttlebug: 5x7 Polka Dots Embossing Folder	Spellbinders: Grand Calibur	3-D Foam Discs White - 1/8" Thick	Tombow Mono Adhesive - Permanent
Tim Holtz Design Ruler	Tim Holtz Kushgrip Snip	Xacto: Laser Paper Trimmer

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CCG 216 ... A Shaped Cupcake Card

{ Color Combos Galore: Challenge #216 }
{ Card Patterns: Challenge #149 }
{ The Ribbon Reel: Challenge #20 }
{ DYSU Challenge: Challenge #55 }

Hello everyone! Did you all get snow? We did on Saturday, LOTS of it. The children made their igloos and I ended up getting sick. Feeling better today and I can't wait to share my latest card.

It's CARDS, TAGS and OFF-THE-PAGE Week at CCG! Because it is National Pie Day (Jan 23), I decided this week's theme for Challenge #216 is "Sweets and Treats": Create a project using a sweet or treat image.



The colors are so yummy and the challenge was quite simple. I had so much fun creating my card!

{ The Design }

The Color Combo: I just love how happy these colors are. I used everything from "Ducks in a Row", an older October Afternoon release. Great thing about their products, it doesn't ever get old. Ever. I distributed a lot of the "Vanilla Ice Cream" color throughout the card. For the "Blue Sprinkles" color I used the Lullaby paper, sheer ribbon and buttons. I used the Sleep Tight PP, a Copic Marker, and twine for "Banana Cream Pie", and my "Pink Fondant" was their circle tag from the Label Sticker sheet and This Little Piggy paper used in the banner strips.

Featuring products from October Afternoon

The Design: Okay, the way I made the cupcake template was very primitive. I downloaded and printed an image, cut it out, then traced it onto the PP, and cut again. I suppose it would be easier to have a die, but I don't have it. I decorated the filling with dimensional paint and yellow Stickles. The cupcake liner was passed through a crimper and I used a Dritz tool to create the faux stitches. See HERE for a tutorial I wrote at the old CCG site about faux stitching.

{ My Inspiration }

The Card Patterns challenge this week is shaped cards. I did not have a round card die or template so I decided to make the cupcake shape. I varied the design by creating a banner strip and circle tags for the lace strip design shown in the sketch. The Ribbon Reel Challenge required ribbon/lace/buttons/twine. A little hard to work in the lace, but check, check, check and check. The DYSU challenge wanted colorful mixed patterned papers. Check.

Totally fun!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by and having a look!!! Hope you will pop over to Color Combos Galore as well as the other challenges I played. This Combo Challenge ends along with last week's Layouts, Mini-Albums and Off-the-Page Designer's Challenge on January 30th, 11:59pm USA/EST. Hope to see you there! Please visit each Designer's blog and see what they created for this gorgeous palette!

Bente Fagerberg
Kelly Holbrook
Tomomi Nomura

Happy Scrappin'!!!!
xoxo

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Thanks so much for visiting me, 
your sweet voices make my day! :)  :)

Project Supplies:

{ Happy Birthday } Cupcake Card:

• Paper Crimper (Fiskars); Serrated Tracing Wheel (Dritz)
• ribbon; buttons; dimensional paint

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American Crafts: 12x12 Cardstock White	October Afternoon: Ducks in a Row - Lullaby	October Afternoon: Ducks in a Row - Sleep Tight	October Afternoon: Ducks in a Row - This Little Piggy
October Afternoon: Ducks in a Row - Labels	Martha Stewart: Die-Cut Lace Tags	Imaginisce: Snag 'Em Stamps - Happy Birthday	Divine Twine: Lemon
Copic: Yellow - Y06	Ranger Stickles - Scattered Straw	Jenny Bowlin: Fountain Pen	Marvy Uchida: Nesting Punches - Square 1"
Tombow Mono Adhesive - Permanent	Xacto: Laser Paper Trimmer

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CCG 214...A Card and Sketch Challenge

{ Color Combos Galore: Challenge #214 }
{ CAS-ual Fridays: Challenge #34 }

Color Combos Galore Challenge #214 for CARDS and TAGS went up yesterday. Looks the same, but really, it's not! It's an extension of last week's colors but CARDS Week has a different Inspiration Photo and Designer's Challenge. This time the challenge requires you to use the Inspiration Photo as a "sketch" for your card or tag design. For this week's theme I decided to celebrate couple of non-traditional holidays:

Silly thing to celebrate, right? Didn't know that there was a National Bubble Bath Day or even a Bath Safety Month, too funny. Here is my card:

{ The Design }

The Color Combo: It's a lot of fun to come up with color names for the themes of the Inspiration Photos. I almost called one of the colors "Nude", LOL. For "Golden Candle Glow", I used Crate Paper's Traditions paper and gold glitter glue. The cardstock and sentiment tag is the "Porcelain Bathing Tub", the "Therapeutic Sea Salt" is the gray stamping ink and silver glitter glue and finally, "Scented Candles" was used in Crate Paper's Phrase Stickers, also in the twine and buttons.

Featuring products from the Crate Paper Portrait Collection

The Design: I wanted to try embossing vellum. This was the first time I used my Grand Calibur, I had some trouble because when I sandwiched the Cuttlebug folder and layered the plates as directed, it was not going through. If anyone can tell me how to do it right, please, I need to know! I used an owl stamp (a Studio G dollar stamp from Michaels) and then a gray UniBall sparkling pen to outline him and for the faux stitches. The circle tag is actually cut out of the inside of another tag from the Portrait Phrase Stickers.

{ My Inspiration }

This week at CCG, you are required to use the Inspiration Photo as a sketch, the Cas-ual Fridays Challenge required the use of chipboard. I also got mixed up with two other challenges that expired last week: Scrapbook Trends Create: blog challenge was using vellum, and the Shabby Tea Room wanted wings and colors - I didn't use their colors, but I was inspired by the owls and bedskirt.

I started dieting again. It's my first week. I am doing Weight Watchers. Last time I did it I lost 50 pounds in a little over 3 months. I am hoping to achieve that again, and not let myself go afterwards.

Wish me luck!

Well thanks for stopping by again!!! This CCG Challenge is running concurrently with last week's CCG #213, both will end on January 14th, 11:59pm USA/EST. Hope you will play along too! Please visit each Designer's blog and see what they created this week for this gorgeous palette!

Bente Fagerberg
Kelly Holbrook
Lilith Eeckels
Tomomi Nomura

Happy Scrappin'!!!!
xoxo

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Thanks so much for visiting me, 
your sweet voices make my day! :)  :)

Project Supplies:

{ Thinking of You } Card:

• owl stamp, gray ink (Studio G)
• buttons (Autumn Leaves)
• gray sparkle pen (UniBall)
• twine

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Crate Paper: Portrait - Traditions	Crate Paper: Portrait - Phrase Stickers	Crate Paper: Portrait - Borders	American Crafts: 12x12 Cardstock White
WorldWin: 8.5x11 Translucent Vellum	Maya Road: Classic Label Chipboard Coaster	Ranger Stickles - Silver Ice	Ranger Stickles - Gold Ice
Jenny Bowlin: Fountain Pen	EK Success: Abstract Flower Edge Punch	Marvy Uchida: Nesting Punches - Square 1"	Cuttlebug: 5x7 Polka Dots Embossing Folder
3-D Foam Discs White - 1/8" Thick	Tombow Mono Adhesive - Permanent	Tim Holtz Kushgrip Snip	Xacto: Laser Paper Trimmer
Spellbinders: Grand Calibur

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