Color Throwdown #82 & Fall To Layout # 81

Another lazy Sunday for me today! I ended up sleeping in till 12:30! It was fantastic. I only woke up because Jamie woke me up. I've been trying to clear out a bunch of the random scraps I have laying on my table. I don't have a great system to store DSP scraps so they just end up sitting on my desk. I also have a bunch of card stock that's been cut that I "file" on my desk. A few nights ago I was hoping to participate in this week's Color Queen challenge, so I cut up 2 cards and decided to bling them up with some shimmer mist I made. The first card I used Platinum shimmer paint and the next card I used Frost White shimmer paint. So the first card picture is my take on Clean & Simple's Fall to Layout #81 and Color Throwdown challenge #82. I was in such a mindset to use up the two scraps of Night of Navy that I used that instead of Not Quite Navy. And I don't have any DSP in Ruby Red so I cheated yet again and used Real Red DSP. Hopefully I don't get my hand slapped! 

Here's what I did with the other half of my Night of Navy card stock with the Platinum shimmer mist. You  might not be able to see it but I got to use my Liquid Pearls again! This time I figured out what went wrong with the last time I used it. When it comes out, it sort of looks like a pile of poop or ice cream swirl so you're supposed to tap the paper to round it out. Being totally foolish I tapped it upside down and wondered why the heck it wasn't working. Well that only made it MORE poop/ice cream swirl like. You're supposed to hit it from the BOTTOM of the paper! So this time worked out better. Have a great Sunday! 

Card Ingredients

All items Stampin’ Up unless indicated.

Stamps: Very Thankful, Fresh Cuts

Ink: Craft Whisper White

Paper: Old Olive, Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Whisper White, So Saffron, Ruby Red, DSP in Old Olive & Real Red

Embellishments: Liquid Pearls in Lemon Yellow (Ranger), Shimmer mist in Frost White & Platinum, white embossing powder

Tools: 1" & 1 1/4" circle punch, heat gun

Mojo 112 & Color Throwdown 68

Wow. Can you believe I haven't participated in a card challenge since MAY!?!?!? I know.. I'm a little shocked myself!!! Of course I'm back to my old habits of posting late at night. This will be a short post since I have to work tomorrow. I combined mojo monday and color throwdown (some of my old time favorites!) This card was made for my friends Annette and John's housewarming party tonight.

365 Cards Day 62, CTD 40 & Stamps and Smiles Sketch 13

Boy I started falling behind since I had a girls' night out on Friday after work. I'm now officially 3 days behind on my 365 Cards challenges. So Friday's challenge was to put a number on our card. I combined it with this week's Color Throwdown #40 and The Fresh Batch's Stamps and Smiles Sketch 13. I went shopping today bright and early at for some free goodies and managed to get a free American Crafts mini 6x6 album and $10 in free products. I bought a few containers of Prima flowers and 4 different colors of liquid pearls! So I used my new stuff and as I'm typing this I realized that I put the flowers in the wrong spot for the sketch!! I kept thinking it was bottom left hand side but not when I turned the sketch sideways!! Yikes! Anywhoo, this is what I came up with. The chipboard letters are from Basic Grey and all the paper is Stampin' Up. 

We did tons and tons of shopping today and Petcetera was closing one of its stores so I bought Khuno a little backpack to hold his water!! Here's him strutting his new gear!