Color Q #62, 4 Crafty Chicks #14 & Fall To Layout #119

Alrighty this is going be a very short post because it's already 12:36 AM and I need to work in the morning! And you read correctly. I am making another card for 4 Crafty Chicks and Fall to Layout! I had made a birthday card for my friend and posted it yesterday. The colors I chose were very close to this week's Color Queen Challenge. Although it was close, it still wasn't the exact colors and you could definitely tell so I wanted to make an exact replica of the card using similar colors. Here is it along with Clean and Simple's Fall To Layout #119 again. Love this sketch!!! And yes, it again does qualify for 4 Crafty Chick's challenge 14, to make a birthday card. Have a great night everyone! 

PS. I miss my beloved Circle Circus stamp set! I'm glad I busted it out again! 

Color Q #59 & CPS #193

It looks like I'm getting back into the late night crafting. That always seems to happen when winter starts looming. We got some snow today in lil Edmonton and it's starting to finally get chilly. The days get dark at like 3:00 PM. It really is quite sad. Sorta like that Expedia commercial where the girl is at work and looks outside into the dark night, looks at the clock that says something like 4 PM and then starts to cry. Anyways, onto why I'm really posting tonight so I can get to bed! I was out with my friend, Arlie, last week and we ran out of time at the mall so she didn't stop by Bath & Body Works for some little hand-sani. I had bookmarked this cute little project a while back from Pink Buckaroo Designs. it's a cute little holder for those mini hand sanitizers. I haven't participated in very many challenges since I took on the design team position with Picture Perfect Creations. I think summer had a little bit to do with that too. So here's a little combo challenge and those that know me know I almost always combine a sketch and color challenge together. Like I always say, why do more thinking than you need to. Especially for late night crafters! I've combined Color Queen's Challenge #59 and Card Positioning Systems #193. Now those that are Stampin' Up fans will notice that the DSP I used isn't the exact colors listed in the color challenge but they are just so darn close and it matched the stamp set so well that I decided to bend the rules a little bit. And for those that didn't notice, well then... Carry on!

Now you also can't really tell from the picture but I used a new product called Smooch Pearlized Top Coat. Picture a little bottle of sparkly glitter that you can paint onto projects like nail polish or white out. I painted it over the entire flower and in the middle added some Dazzling Diamonds glitter. The Smooch stuff is definitely fun to play with and now I need to buy more! 

For complete instructions, visit Pink Buckaroo Designs. She also has more photos on her blog. Total side note. I decided to try using a patterned piece of paper for the background instead of my plain old white and boy, I'm loving how it looks! That paper in the background is actually the one used on the project, but just flipped onto the other side! That's the great thing about Stampin' Up! The DSP is always double-sided and all the colors coordinate! Thanks for stopping by and happy early hump day! (Hump day still sounds so weird to me....)

SFYTT & cQc #19

Ok I really need to make this post fast because my 1/2 marathon run starts in exactly T minus 9 hours!!! I gotta get into bed and get myself a decent night sleep. I really hope tomorrow goes ok. I shouldn't be nervous because it's the same route that we've ran for the last 2 months. At the same time though, I've never EVER in my entire life ran 21km before... And to top it all off, I've been feeling sickish all day. Belly aches and upset stomach. Upset almost to the point where I feel nauseas. Lets hope I'm not coming down with something and if I am, please let me get through tomorrow. Here's my take on this week's Sketch For You To Try (SFYTT) and Color Queen Challenge (cQc). 

Card Ingredients

All items Stampin’ Up unless indicated.

Stamps: Full of Life

Ink: Chocolate Chip & Close to Cocoa

Paper: Blush Blossom, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, patterned paper (DCWV)

Embellishments: 5/8" satin ribbon, buttons (Walmart?), felt flowers 

Tools: Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, scalloped edge and trim border punches, Coluzzle, 

Mojo 121 & ColorQ 15

Boy it's been so nice having the last two days off to do some laundry and make some cards! I've even started to organize my stamp area a bit (... a really small bit!!). I love combining challenges as you may or may not know so here's a card with Mojo Monday 121's layout and ColorQ #15's colors. You can't really see the colors of the background but I stamped Belle Toile in Versamark and cotton swabbed on some Certainly Celery and Barely Banana pastels. The big 'F' was also stamped in craft Pumpkin Pie and embossed some clear powder. 
Now a little story that has nothing to do with cards. Yesterday Jamie and I were eating supper and he swallowed a little too fast. He ended up choking a bit and snorted some food up the wrong tube! So he blows his nose and he blew out a HUGE HUGE HUGE piece of lettuce!! It was probably like 2" long and 1/4" wide. It was sick sick sick but oh so funny at the same time!! I've never blown any food THAT big outta my nose before. All he had to say after he looked into his tissue was "Man that felt weird." 

Card Ingredients

All items Stampin’ Up unless indicated.

Stamps: Belle Toile, Vintage Vogue, Whimsical Words

Ink: Versamark, Pumpkin Pie craft ink, Basic Gray

Paper: Basic Gray, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White, Barely Banana, Certainly Celery, Vellum

Embellishments: Ribbon (bought at Michael's), rhinestones (Kaiser Scrapbook), embossing powder

Tools: Heat gun, Stampin' pastels, 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle punches, corner rounder,  Stampin' dimensionals

First Color Queen Challenge

This is my very first Color Queen Challenge. The founder is Arielle and I still remember she was one of the first followers of my blog. She has done some amazing work over the last year and I'm so glad I found her amazing blog. The colors she chose were amazing and I absolutely LOVE Kiwi Kiss. Yet again, you can't tell from the picture but the strip of Rich Razzleberry is embossed. I'll see if I can take a better picture when the sun is out. I just can't quite figure out how to take pictures under my lamps. 

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Vintage Vogue (SU)

Ink: Versamark, Orchid Opulence, Regal Rose, Rich Razzleberry, Kiwi Kiss (SU)

Paper: Orchid Opulence, Regal Rose, Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry, Kiwi Kiss

Embellishments: Eyelets (Don't remember where I got them!), clear embossing powder (SU)

Tools: Crop-a-dile, Scallop Trim Border (SU), heat gun