Inspired by Earrings

Stef gave us the Villa Sorgenfrei website as our inspiration website today. What beautiful items they have! I love these gorgeous earrings and drew my inspiration from them for my card today.  This is also for the first Mixed Media challenge that started yesterday on Splitcoaststampers. Lydia's challenge is called Yin Yang to use one shiny medium and one matte medium. I used Distress Inks sponged on Crumb Cake card stock, and I used Glossy Accents for the center of the flower as well as a red glitter gel pen for the outer stitching and dotting on the flowers. I also used black embossing powder on the two flowers and separated them with dimensionals. I used Pumice Stone ink to stamp the leaves in the background.

Supplies I used:

Stamps: Secret Garden

Paper: Crumb Cake

Ink: Ranger Distress Inks in Pumice Stone, Fired Brick, and Black Soot; Stampin' Up Marigold Morning

Accessories: Secret Garden and Labels Collection Framelits, Blender Tool, Glossy Accents, black brad, dimensionals, red glitter gel pen, black embossing powder, heat tool

 

CCEE Make It Hot

Make it a hot theme is what Joanne, the CCEE Stampers' challenge hostess for January, has challenged us to use in our card designs this week. 

My godmother passed away this week, so I used our hot theme to make a simple, one-layer sympathy card for her family.

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I've always been inspired by the beautiful works of Theresa Momber and Michelle Zindorf and have them to thank for the inspiration behind my creation.

I stamped the Inspired by Nature weeds with Black Soot Distress Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I made a mask for my sun using a 1" circle punch and then sponged my various colors.  I used Adirondack Lemonade yellow for the very center of the sun.  I then blended Summer Sun (Stampin Up) Wild Honey, Rusty Hinge, and Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress Inks).  At the bottom of the card, I used Vintage Photo a little heavier and then I blended Adirondack inks in Lettuce and Pesto for a tinge of darker green for the ground.

If you'd like to play in our challenge this week and/or see the creations my teammates made, please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog.

 

Challenge Cards

Just a quick post to share a couple designs I made this week.

My first card is a Valentine/thank you card for a kind friend who has one of the biggest hearts I know.  Her name is Cindy, and some of you may know of her as Mothermark on Splitcoaststampers (SCS).  Cindy started a Teapot Tuesday challenge a few years ago.  There are weekly tea parties wherein the tea partiers attend, bringing their inspired creations and munching on the cookies.  You can read more about Teapot Tuesday here, if you're interested and here's the link to the specific challenge for Cindy this week.  Cindy is well known for her love of polkadots, especially black and white ones!

I used heart Nestabilities for my polkadotted hearts, as well as the die cut heart for the sentiment.  I used Stampin' Up's scalloped border die and embossing folder for the three tiers of scallops.

I made the next card for the color challenge on SCS to use Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, and Daffodil Delight, which are Stampin' Up colors.  I don't have Island Indigo or Lucky Limeade, so I substituted Pacific Point and Wild Wasabi for those two colors.  I used a yellow button for the center of my flower, which is close to the color Daffodil Delight.

I stamped the base Very Vanilla card stock with Stampin' Up's Floral background stamp with Pacific Point.  I water colored the blue panel using Gelatos, and I water colored the Heartfelt Thanks flower with reinkers and water color brush.
 
 Be sure to stop back tomorrow for the CCEE Stampers' challenge!
 
 

CCEE Time

Did you know that there's a day called Punch the Clock Day? Yep. It is January 27. This tidbit of information is brought to you by my friend Joanne, who is this week's CCEE Stampers' challenge hostess. She challenged us to make a masculine card with some connection to time.

 I had this designer paper that shows various clocks in my stash. I dry embossed it with a Happy Birthday embossing folder and then lightly sponged gray ink over the raised portions. I die cut one of the smaller clocks for my circular sentiment panel. I distressed the edges of the various card stock layers. The sentiment and mouse/camera image are from Clear Art Stamps called Mouse Party.  I colored the mouse with Copic markers.  I turned back opposing corners of the designer paper and adhered in place with silver brads.

 Check the CCEE Stampers blog if you'd like to play along in our challenge or see what the other team members created.

 

Sari Inspired

Stef, the Inspiration challenge hostess at Splitcoaststampers, gave us a wonderful website from which to be inspired this week called Sana Designer Wear. I was so drawn to the bold, rich colors in this beautiful dress.
Obviously, I used the turquoise/teal/gold colors for my design.

 I stamped the paisley image with Versamark onto Tempting Turquoise card stock and heat embossed the images with gold embossing powder.  I stamped the center flowers with Not Quite Navy ink and then gold embossed with the corresponding outline image.  I sponged Not Quite Navy ink on the outer edges to imitate the shading in the dress.

Supplies I Used:
Stamps:  Polkadots & Paisley by Stampin Up
Paper:  Tempting Turquoise, Not Quite Navy, Whisper White
Ink:  Not Quite Navy, Tempting Turquoise
Accessories:  gold embossing powder, Versamark, heat tool, gold brads and ribbon, sponge daubers


 

CCEE CAS Sympathy

My good friend, Joanne, our January CCEE Stampers' challenge hostess, has challenged the team to make a Clean and Simple (CAS)Sympathy card this week. I love CAS cards, especially for mailing!!

 I used Stampin' Up's Thoughts and Prayers for my design today.  I stamped the tree image and sentiment with Versamark and heat embossed with black embossing powder.  I die cut the image with an oval Nestability, backed it with a lacy oval Nestability, and adhered to my Crumb Cake base.  Clean and Simple!!!

If you'd like to join us in our challenge and/or see the designs my teammates created, please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog!

CCEE1302 Something New

As I indicated last Thursday, Joanne is our CCEE Stampers' hostess for January. This week she wants us to use some of our new stamping toys. I didn't have any new stamping toys on hand, so, woe is me, I had to go shopping to get something new!   I ventured out to Michael's  and purchased this Martha Stewart Flourish Lace Punch Around the Page punch with my 40% off coupon.

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I stamped the background leaves from Stampin' Up's Season of Friendship in Rich Razzleberry and Soft Suede inks to create my own background designer paper.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up's It's Your Birthday stamp set and reads "Someone like you should be celebrated every day."

I stamped the Penny Black Blush image twice in Rich Razzleberry ink, fussy cut them, adhered them together with dimensionals, and applied Glossy Accents over the flower.  Here's a closer view of the flower so you can see the dimension and a bit of the shine.

 Please visit our CCEE Stampers' blog to see what the other team members have created and get the challenge details in case you're interested in playing in the challenge!

Have a great day!

Supplies I used:
Stamps:  Season of Friendship and It's Your Birthday by Stampin' Up
Paper:  Very Vanilla, Soft Suede, Rich Razzleberry
Ink:  Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede
Accessories:  Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page punch, Glossy Accents, satin ivory ribbon, dimensionals, 1" circle punch, paper crimper, Embosslits Beautiful Wings