Happy Anniversary!

This card ended up so differently than the original idea I had.  I love it when that happens, especially when I end up with extra bits and pieces to use on another card!!  I will get to that one later. For now, here is my creation for Paper Smooches SPARKS August Anything Goes (wk1) challenge!

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Recipe:

Stamps- Paper Smooches Blossoming Buds and Good Gab.

Ink - VersaFine Onyx Black, PTI True Black and Berry Sorbet.

Paper - PTI Berry Sorbet and Fresh Snow Linen Cardstock, Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Cardstock.

Accessories- Paper Smooches Chains and Blossom Icons Dies, Kuretake Gansai Tambi Watercolors,

Yasutomo Niji Waterbrush, Dimensionals.

Thrilled For You

It's time for a new AAA CARDS Challenge Game #44:

WATERWORLD & DIES

Please come visit our winners from last week- for Starry Night, next Sunday July 26. 

Our game this week is: Fun in the Water! Experiment with watery backgrounds or underwater life, cool pool colors, splashes, and die cut accents.

Here is my take on the challenge:

I hope your summer (in the northern hemisphere anyway) has been fun so far. If it is winter where you are, you can dream of water fun!  Please dive into your stash and make something fun with a water theme.

I am also submitting my card to Paper Smooches SPARKS: July 19-25 Anything Goes (wk3) Challenge.
All of the images I used to make my card are from Paper Smooches Briny Blue and Surf and Turf. I also used the matching dies for those images, the PS Waves dies and sentiment from Simply Said.

Little Red Wagon's theme this week is "Beach Time" so I am linking up there as well.

Thank you for visiting me today. Your comments make me very happy!!!!

Woodland Hello

Time for another challenge over at the AAA Cards Challenge Blog!

Game #41 Woodland Animals : Foxes, bears, bunnies, turtles, otters, squirrels, birds, worms, all forest fauna! 

Here's my take:

Please join us with your own Woodland Creature inspired creation.  Head on over to the AAA Cards Challenge Blog, link up your creation, and play along with us.

Images and Die Cuts are Paper Smooches. I am linking up to Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge this week:

Paper Smooches - Anything Goes

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So Excited

I am so tickled with this card. It was so much fun putting it together.  It was born of a combination of three challenges.

I started out with inspiration from Time Out Challenge #32 - CASE Deepti's card above with your own twist. I began to think about the elements in Deepti's lovely card and how to twist them into my own creation.  My new Paper Smooches Big Vase Dies came to mind, and then my idea began to take shape. I filled my die cut vases with flowers from Paper Smooches Twiggy Florets that I embossed in green on the black background and the inlaid white vases. My images and sentiment are all from Paper Smooches so it works for this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - May 31- June 6 Anything Goes (wk5).

I embossed the flowers in green again on vellum, colored them with Copics from behind, and adhered them with glue dots.  I so love the sentiment, so I embossed it to make it stand out on the black background . The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers' current challenge is "V is for Vellum". The vellum flowers and punny saying fit right in

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Joyous Easter

I found this adorable Easter confetti and of course, I had to make a shaker card with it.  I was inspired by the following challenges to come up with this fun creation:

 Click HERE to go to this week's FUSION Challenge. I used the sketch and (Easter) Celebration inspiration.

 Click HERE to get to this week's ATCAS Challenge.  These Paper Smooches images are terribly cute.

Click HERE to get to this week's The Pink Elephant Inspiration Challenge - Eggs and chicks and bunnies...

Click HERE to get to this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes.

Thank you for stopping by today.  I always appreciate your visit and your comments.

Joy To The World

This week's Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge is

I finally got around to experimenting with stencils and embossing paste - white, clear and Ferro. Using the Falling Stars stencil from Simon Says Stamp, I embossed with white embossing paste, then sprinkled SU Dazzling Diamonds on the wet paste to give it a nice sparkle.  I so love the images and sentiments in A Blessed Christmas. Here is my creation.

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Let's Be Merry

It's Sunday night of Thanksgiving weekend. It's time that I retire my beloved fall colors and images for another season and break out the winter colors and themes.  I decided to ink up some PS goodies and make something Christmasy.  I combined Color Throwdown ctd320 with the Paper Smooches SPARKS Anything Goes challenge to make this merry little snow dude. He makes me smile.

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Supplies:
Paper~American Crafts Christmas Glitter Paper, PTI Kraft, SU Cool Caribbean, Bazzill Vellum, Neenah Solar White.
Stamps~Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes and Christmas Sampler.
Accessories~Paper Smooches Snowdudes and Borders 1Dies, Lil' InkerStitched Circle Dies, Copic Markers, Twinery Bakers Twine.
Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, VersaMark, SU white embossing powder.

Hello With A GLOW

This is my take on CASology cue 103 - GLOW, and Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge - Anything Goes.  It's hard to see on this photo, but there is a wonderful shimmery golden glow on the embossed panel that I achieved by applying three shades of Ranger distress inks directly onto the EF before embossing on white paper.  I then sprayed the embossed panel with Heidi Swap Gold Color Shine.  The spray blended the colors beautifully and dried to a beautiful GLOW.  The embossed panel really needed no embellishment, so I just die cut the sentiment with the "hello" word die from Paper Smooches Quote Tag die set and voila! Hello with a GLOW.  I appreciate your taking the time to stop by today. Enjoy!

GillFriend

This week's Paper Smooches Sparks challenge is a trend watch with this picture as inspiration for your creation. Create anything with the OCEAN as the focus or as part of the design! 

ATCAS #17 - Take this code word and make it your own!

The fun card is born of these two challenges.  Of course, ocean and water are two things that I need to always be near.  This one was great fun to put together.  Thank you for coming by.  

Hope you had a great weekend!

Stamps~Paper Smooches and PTI

Paper~PTI

Embossing plate, ribbon and paper~PTI

PS Hello

This card was inspired by a combination of this week's Paper Smooches Sparks Picture Perfect challenge 

in which we are inspired by this picture...

... and this week's CAS(E) this Sketch challenge which provided the perfect layout for my idea.

The paintbrush images from PS I Heart Art are stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and colored with Copics. The sentiment is from PS Chilly Chums.

Thank you again for stopping by. It is rare that I post twice in one day. I really enjoyed being creative today. Therapy indeed.

I'm Impressed

Good Sunday afternoon! Squeaking in again with a creation for this week's Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge which is a Cool Shades challenge.  The images are from Paper Smooches Squeaky Clean and PTI Polka Dot Basics.

Hope you are having a wonderful day.  It's sunny and hot here in the Northeast. Perfect day to stay cool playing with cool shades!

What's Up?

This week's Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge is a Designer Draft. I love this little guy - he and the branch from which he is hanging are PS free digi images.

I created the cloud panel a while ago for another project that I never finished (story of my life these days).  It fit perfectly with this week's SPARKS challenge, so here it is. 

Sentiment~PS GOOD GAB

Leaves~PS VOGUE ABODE

DP~My Mind's Eye: Away We Go.

Thanks for visiting today.