Kwerner Color Inspiration Challenge 55

Morning all - it's a drizzly Saturday morning here in CA. So, in the midst of my chores this morning, I found time to create a card for Kristina's Color Challenge 55. When I first saw the colors, I have to say that I wasn't really sure what to do - it's definitely a new color scheme for me. Then after I did some blog browsing this morning, I was inspired by the card design from Mary Fish's Father's Day card on her blog today. I liked the look of the tiled squares, so I thought I'd give it a try. First, let me show you what the colors are for Kristina's challenge this week:Here's my full card:
I experimented with scrunching up the ribbon - I wasn't sure how that was gonna come out, but I think I do like it afterall! I used a piece of sticky strip and put that on the card, then just applied the ribbon on top, scrunching it along as I went across. I was surprised at how well the sticky strip held the ribbon. That's some good adhesive. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the card and my attempt at this new color scheme. I like it with the In Colors! What do you think?

Here's the recipe:
*Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die
*Razzle Dazzle and Oval all stamp sets
*Dusty Durango and Crushed Curry textured cardstock and markers; Very Vanilla and Basic Gray cardstock
*Basic Gray taffeta ribbon and corduroy brads; very vanilla brad
*1 1/4" square, scallop oval and large oval punches

Thanks for coming by! Have a great day!

Kwerner Color Inspiration 54

Yay! I got to play with my new Stampin'Up! sneak peek stuff for Kristina Werner's color challenge! The colors for the Color Inspiration Challenge are really bright and summery...and actually reminded me a lot of the color scheme I had posted earlier this week! Here's the picture of Kristina's colors for the week:And, last but not least, here's the fun card I created with my new stuff!Aren't those owls so fun? I love that image from the new stamp set Animal Stories, coming in the July catalog! Those cool circles in the background are from the new Circle Circus stamp set, so you guys got 2 sneak peaks in one card! Here's the recipe:

*Animal Stories, Circle Circus, and Wow flowers stamp sets
*Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay, Green Galore, and Whisper White cardstock
*Soft Sky, Pumpkin Pie, Bermuda Bay, and Green Galore stamp pads
*Bermuda Bay and Dusty Durango markers
*Leaves sizzlit
*1 3/8" and 1 3/4" circle punches, scallop border punch, scallop oval and large oval punches
*Bermuda Bay pola dot grosgrain ribbon

Hope you like it! Thanks for coming by :)

Wow! What a nice surprise!

I am such a happy girl right now! No, my catalog didn't come in the mail this evening. But something equally fulfilling (on a personal crafty girl level)....I just discovered that I made it to Kristina's Werner's Color Challenge #53 roundup! WooHoo!!! {Imagine a happy dance here} How cool is that!!?! Here's a snapshot of the top 13 cards in the roundup. You can check out my sailboat card from my post here. I feel like such a little kid in a candy store right now! I am really so thrilled that Kristina picked my card - yay! That definitely helps take the edge off my wait for my new SU catty and sneak peek stuff!!

I still need to work on my Mojo Card...maybe now I'll have some new inspiration :) Catch you all in a bit!

Kwerner Color Inspiration 53!

Yes, I'm posting another card! I love me the color challenges, and it seems like for whatever reason, I feel more creative on the weekends. Maybe because I can take time to catch my breath and decompress from the work week! The colors for this week's challenge are definitely ones I don't use together frequently. They actually remind me of the Pittsburgh Steelers colors. I was drawn to do an ocean theme...maybe I'm channeling the beach theme from last week still! Let's hope - it seemed to work for me then! ;) Here's the card I came up with.I created my ocean waves by ripping a piece of cardstock to make a jagged edge. Then I took my "edge" template and a sponge and sponged in my ocean onto the Whisper White cardstock oval.
Here's a close up view - my sailboat was made from scraps! I cut down a 1 3/4" circle for the base and the sails are made from little pieces of Summer Sun and Pacific Point scraps. I also like that I got to use the Oval Scallop Frame - I've had the die for a while, but sadly, it hasn't been part of my rotation. Now that I've brought it out, maybe I'll figure out a way to use it more often!

Here's the recipe:
*Cheep Talk stamp set
*Frame, Oval Scallop Bigz die
*Pacific Point, Summer Sun, Real Red, Whisper White cardstock and Basic Black Textured Card Stock
*1/4" circle punch, Pacific Point striped ribbon, jumbo grommet, summer sun corduroy button

Thanks for popping by! Enjoy your day ;)

How exciting!

Wow! I just discovered that my Baja Beach Challenge card made it to Kristina Werner's Top 20 for her Color Challenge 52 this week! How cool is that! (Yay - imagine me smiling from ear to ear!) Here's a snippet of the top 20 cards that you can check out on Kristina's blog:Just thought I'd share the fun news....It's getting late for me, so I better get going...g'night for now.

Baja Beach Double Time Challenge!

Good Morning and Happy Sunday! I wish the sun was out here in my neck of the woods, but sadly, the fog has socked us in. Maybe that's why the card I came up with today has to do with a sunny beach scene. It could be wishful thinking on my part, but we definitely have a May Gray day in Southern Californina. Anyway - back to the card, I was inspired to create this from Taylored Expression's Cupcake Challenge sketch #68 and Kristina Werner's Color Challenge #52.
Here's a picture of my full card. I love these colors - besides the fact that they are also very UCLA looking, too :)

Here's the recipe - all supplies Stampin'Up!:
*Embrace Life stamp set
*Baja Breeze, So Saffron, More Mustard, Sahara Sand, Whisper White and Shimmery White card stock
*Delicate Dots and Walk in the Park DSP
*Baja Breeze Classic Ink pad
*Eyelet Border, Scallop Border, Wide Oval, Large Oval, Scalloped Oval punches
*Texturz Embossing plates, Matchbox Bigz XL die, and Circle Cutter
*Chunky Glitter, So Saffron Twill ribbon

I wanted to try making an umbrella with punches since I've seen so many cute umbrellas on the blogs I visit. I used the Wide Oval punch and the eyelet border to create mine.

Thanks for coming by to visit. Enjoy the rest of your day!

Kristina Werner's Color Challenge 50

Good Morning all! This weekend has been such a fun one so far - yesterday was the WooHoo Demonstrator stamping event which was soo much fun and so inspirational. I'll be sharing more on that in a later post either today or tomorrow. For now, I wanted to share the card I made for Kristina Werner's Color Challenge - it's her 50th already! While I've only been participating in the last handful, I do enjoy going to her site to get color combo ideas and fun and fresh designs. Here's the card I made. The colors for this week's challenge match up so nicely with Stampin'Up!'s Pink Flamingo Designer Series Paper, that I had to break open my new pack and try to come up with a design! The paper designs in the pack remind me so much of Hawaii (not so much the flamingos, which are more a Miami thing, I think) so I went with a "tropical island" feel. Notice the fun little swirlies? That's from the Sizzix Swirls Scribbles sizzlit, which is just so cute. I used the die cut image and also used the negative to stencil in a few swirls here and there.

Here's the recipe:
*Pink Flamingo DSP, Whisper White, and Chocolate Chip cardstock
*Cute and Curly stamp set
*Chocolate Chip and Real Red Classic Stampin'Up! Ink pads
*Sizzix Swirls Scribbles die cut
*Real Red grosgrain ribbon, Summer Sun corduroy button, Curly label punch, Boho Blossoms punch, scallop edge border punch, linen thread, brads, sponge dauber

So whaddaythink? Hope you like it. Have a fab Sunday! Thanks for stopping by :)

Kristina Werner's Color Challenge 49

Hello all and Happy Easter Sunday to all of you! Hope you've had a nice day so far. Today, I'm posting a card I created for Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration Challenge #49. I thought the color scheme was a good challenge, since it's a color palette that I haven't used so far in my card making. I wanted to do something bold and use some new die cuts I've gotten (you can never have enough, right?!). Here's the card I created.
I had a lot of fun using all kinds of tools for this card! I even pulled out my crimping tool for the leaves! I embossed the rockabilly paper with the texturz plates, then sanded it to distress the paper and reveal the white embossing. Here's the recipe:

*Flower Layers Originals dies for the Big Shot, Matchbox Bigz XL die
*Flourish Stampin'Up Texturz Embossing Plate
*Raspberry Tart DSP, Rockabilly Specialty paper, Rose Red, Kiwi Kiss, Pacific Point cardstock and Basic Black Textured cardstock
*Hugs and Wishes stamp set
*Pacific Point Classic Ink Pad
*Scallop border punch, word window punch, scallop oval punch
*Double stitched rose red grosgrain ribbon, jumbo brad, gel pen, sanding block, crimper

Hope you like it! Thanks for coming by to visit ;)

Inspired by Color and Sketch Challenges

I love the colors from Kristina's Color Challenge 47 and love the layout from Taylored Expressions Cupcake challenge #61, but sadly, I didn't make my card quick enough to submit to either challenges! Oh well, I still had fun making the card, and that's the important thing, right? It got my creative juices flowing with the color scheme and layout. Here's what I came up with:And, of course...here's the recipe:

* Tangerine Tango textured cardstock, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip, and Whisper White Cardstock
* Baroque background stamp, Trendy Trees stamp (for the sentiment)
* Daisies #2 and Top Note Bigz dies
* So Saffron grosgrain ribbon, corduroy button

What do you think? Hope you like it!

Kwerner Design Challenge 40 meets non-traditional Valentine

Here's Kristina's color challenge for the week. I enjoy this type of challenge because rather than having a specific sketch, it pushes you to design around the colors. This is a fun color combination, which I probably wouldn't have thought of if I were left to my own devices. :) It uses Taken with Teal, which isn't in my normal repertoire of colors, so this is good that we're using it because I have a whole pack of this cardstock that I've barely used! Now, the card I came up with is along the lines of the circles and hearts card I did the other day, but slightly different. Here's my rendition of a non-traditional Valentine's card:

What do you think? Kind of different and funky, huh? It sort of has a retro-ish feel when I look at it. The only stamping I really did was with the sentiment from the Sale-a-bration set, "Yummy." Here's the recipe:

*Whisper White, Old Olive, Taken with Teal, More Mustard and So Saffron cardstock
*1 3/4" circle, heart to heart, eyelet border and small oval punches
*Texturz embossing plates
*Linen Thread, So Saffron ribbon, and brads

Hope you like it! Thanks for looking and have a great Saturday!

Cards for KWerner's Color Design Challenge

Happy Friday afternoon! I made a couple cards to play in this week's kwernerdesign.com Color Challenge #39. If' you've been following my blog, you'll know that I've recently gotten hooked on doing card challenges, particularly the Mojo Monday challenges, and I've peeked at a few of Kristina's color challenges before, but this is the first time I'm participating. I've inserted a picture of the colors for this week. Now, here are the 2 cards I made. Both of them are very different. I'm still not sure how I feel about them, but thought I'd play in the challenge anyway.
This first one I'm calling "Toile Petal":

And this one is what I'm calling "Summer Whimsy Thanks":

What do you think?