Feeling pretty at Dynamic Duos

Happy weekend, friends!

I'm still riding the high of a very fun and intimate BOGO event last night with some superb ladies. I'm just so excited about the new catty - can't wait to get my hands on new goodies.

Over at the Dynamic Duos, we've got a very pretty colour combination for you!

Happy Birthday Wishes - Tara (Murphy) Bourgoin

I went with Crumb Cake as my neutral for this card, which I generally don't do. I typically stick to white or vanilla, but sometimes you just have to get a little wild and crazy.

The stamp is from one of the new hostess sets, and I'm absolutely addicted to it already. After I stamped the image in Raspberry Ripple, I shaded underneath the foliage with Crumb Cake and a Blender Pen. I then added some highlighting with White craft ink. I have a Blender Pen reserved for this purpose alone. I like to use the white gel pen, but I find that I have more control over how strong the colour is going to be when I use the blender pen - It works great!

To make the 'chubby' scalloped border, I punched out one of the Fancy Flowers from Wisteria Wonder and cut it up into three pieces (two heart-shaped pieces with 2 petals each, and a single petal). It fits perfectly on a 4" panel. 

The Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon was pulled and ruffled. 

Check out the challenge for this week:

I am really looking forward to seeing all the lovely cards with this colour combination!

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox

Notecards for all occasions!

Today I'm sharing a project I made for this week's challenge at Dynamics Duos. Two of my fav colours - it was pretty hard to resist.

1 stamp set, 1 punch, 2 colours and some embellishements (Ok... and the Big Shot and some embossing folders, but that's just for something a little extra!) and you can make these cute little notecard for all occasions! 

Happy Valentine's Day was embellished with some itty bitty heart buttons and some Lace tape (which was stuck to some whisper white and punched out with the ticket duo punch).

Perfect Polka Dots, Stripes and Cloudy Day embossing folders were used.

Precious Baby was embellished with some Pool Party Baker's Twine. Perfect Polka Dots and Argyle embossing folders were used. 

Christmas Wishes to you & Yours was embellished with a little banner and some Rhinestones. 

Perfect Polka Dots and Stripes embossing folders were used.

Here's this week's challenge colours from the Dynamics Duos.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Tara
xox

Sunday Stamps colour challenge!

Good Sunday morning! 

This week, Melissa has some really great colours for us at Sunday Stamps! I'll admit, I was a bit nervous at first, not knowing what to do with these... but that lightbulb moment did eventually come:

For the boot, I stamped on Whisper White and then paper pierced with Early Espresso and More Mustard. The stars are cut out from Marina Mist. 

I've used the Woodgrain embossing folder on the background of More Mustard, and sponged it lightly. I added a layer embossed in stripes and then a panel of Early Espresso Core'Dinations paper. 

I finished it off with some faux stitching on the white, and the mustard (to match the stitching in the boot). The rhinestones were added as a little tribute to Glen Campbell ;) The last addition was the Linen Thread lasso and crocheted embellishment on the left. 

Check out the colours and the wonderful projects from the rest of the design team!

Last night, my hubby and I went out on a date night. We played a game of darts, had some nachos and then played a couple games of pool. It was pretty awesome, I must say. Here's a shot of the sharp shooter:

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox

Feelin' the Love

I started the morning out with a paper cut. The good news is, I got the paper cut when I was opening my birthday present from my sons! :) Today, I hit the big Three-Oh, and I have to admit, I'm kind of excited about it!

I had a great morning surrounded by the ones I love, and got spoiled like crazy... so Liliana's challenge for this week at The Friday Mashup is very fitting - hearts and a sketch. Here's my take:

I had a lot of fun with this card! I love the Storytime DSP, and was going to save the entire pack to use for my son's school scrapbook, but decided that I could steal this sweet little image of two friends blowing bubbles.

Here's this week's sketch and challenge:

So here is the "Mashup" Challenge:

1. Make a project using the "Sketch".
2. Or Make a project featuring "Hearts".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project using the "Sketch and Hearts".

Thanks for stopping by today! Looking forward to seeing what you create and share with us this week.


-Tara
xox

List of Supplies:
Stamps: Itty Bitty Banners
Papers: Midnight Muse CS, Whisper White CS, Wild Wasabi CS, So Saffron CS, Storytime DSP
Embellishments: White Baker's Twine
Tools: Fashionable Hearts embosslit, Bitty Banners framelits, Corner rounder, Stripes embossing folder

Sympathy in Pear Pizzaz

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Even though I'm currently on maternity leave, the weekends are still so sweet! My (big) boy always wakes up on Saturday morning with big eyes and excitement in his voice and says "it's Saturday? we get to spend all day together!!" It's incredibly endearing, and makes me long for Saturday mornings almost as much as when I was a kid.

However, while I long for Saturday mornings, I'm also overjoyed on Wednesday mornings because it means a new Freshly Made Sketch! :)

Sympathy

 

Check out this week's sketch by Lesley! Versatile and fun, it lets you get your craft on with DSPs or embossing. Love it :)

This is it... officially the 'last' of my Pear Pizzaz paper. Pear Pizzaz, I will miss you and your ambiguity. Were you a subtle? were you a bright?... you just always kept me guessing with each new colour combination I used you in.

-Tara
xox

Gnome Sweet Gnome

I was laying in bed last night thinking about the Freshly Made Sketch challenge (I know, I'm kinda crazy like that), and I couldn't shake the feeling that I had missed something really obvious with my last entry into the challenge. Then it hit me... a window with shutters!

The Gnome Sweet Gnome set was gifted to me from a friend (thank you!!), and I LOVE it. I honestly still laugh every time I use it.

there's no place like gnome

 Materials used to make this card:
Cardstock: Whisper White, Wild Wasabi
Paper: Just Add Cake DSP
Stamps: Gnome Sweet Gnome, Gnomenclature
Inks: Wild Wasabi, Rich Razzleberrym Basic Black
Tools: Big Shot, Adorning Accents Edgelits, Decorative Label punch, Square punch, Stripes embossing folder,

This was the fun sketch I was working with:

And here is basically how it was made:

1. The shutters were painstakingly made by cutting and sponging 1" x 3/4" pices of Wild Wasabi and layering them on the panels. 

2. The Whisper White piece is embossed using the Stripes embossing folder, to give them illusion of siding.

3. To make the windows, I punched out 4 pieces of scrap paper using the 1-1/4" punch and placed them on a 3"x3" piece of cardstock. This gave me my template... even still, I managed to make them all a little uneven.

4. The curtains and valance are made using both the edgelits dies

5. The sentiment is punched out using the Decorative Label punch and cropped to make it look like a flower box. The flowers are from the Gnome Sweet Gnome set as well (the sentiment is from the set Gnomenclature").

6. The little lady gnome was stamped in Basic Black, then coloured with blender pens and cut out. I adhered her to the inside of the card, so that when it's open you can still see her, and it makes her feel as if she's not painted on the window :P

Until next time - Happy stamping :)

-Tara

xox