Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #69

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Aug 312012

Hello!  It’s Friday!  I am SO definitely looking forward to this weekend!  Tonight is our high school’s first home football game of the season.  Both of my sons are in the marching band this year so our whole family will be out at the stadium tonight supporting the team – and yes, I’m excited to see the band’s performance, too!  Since Monday is Labor Day, it will be nice to have a little break from the early alarm for getting the boys up and ready for school.

And another fun thing about it being Friday is that it’s time for a new Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week our challenge is Something New, Old, and Blue. The idea is to create something using a digital image for the focal point, and to use one of your newest supplies, one of your older supplies, and something blue. Share your work on the SNSDC website by next Thursday, September 6. You can use a digital image from any company, but we especially love seeing what our challenge participants create with Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images. Check out the website for all the details.

This challenge did take a bit of thinking, but I got it all pulled together in a card that I think is pretty cute.  My “something new” is a digi image I just got a couple weeks ago; this is my first time using it.  This is Stanley Penguin.  Isn’t he darling?  I have several old-ish supplies on here… the snowflake print paper has been in my stash for at least 3 or 4 years, and the punches I used to create the snowflake embellishment are older than that.  My blue card base fits the last requirement, and I know I’ll need to line it with a white layer before popping the card into my stash of winter-themed cards for Operation Write Home.  (I’ll make sure the snowflake is glued down really well, too.)

I think my subconscious was channeling our high school’s colors while I was working on this card.  The “official” colors are blue and white, but the marching band and sports teams also use a lot of black on their uniforms.

The layout for this card is Freshly Made Sketch #50.

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I hope you have a fabulous weekend!  Take some time to see what the rest of the SNSDC design team has created – links to their blogs are in my left sidebar.

Supplies:
Digital Image and Sentiment: Stanley Penguin (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Brilliant Blue, Bordering Blue, Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah); Winter Wonderland paper pack (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Ink: printer ink
Other: snowflake punches (EK Success); markers (Copic); snowflake embossing folder (Sizzix); half pearl (KaiserCraft)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am Cards, Digital images, Freshly Made Sketches, Lizzie Anne Designs, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

dynamic floral birthday

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Aug 302012

I decided to go floral with this week’s Dynamic Duos monochromatic color scheme and pull out a Stampin’ Up stamp set that’s been retired for a few years.  Since this card is going in my Operation Write Home stash, I wanted to keep it simple and easy to mail.  I figured this would be a good card for a hero to send home to a lady of about any age – wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, or aunt.  So, without further ado, here’s the card:

All supplies for today’s card are from Stampin’ Up.
Stamps: Wild Rose, Hugs & Wishes
Cardstock: Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush, Whisper White
Ink: Wisteria Wonder, Concord Crush

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 pm Cards, Dynamic Duos, Operation Write Home, Stampin' Up!

sketchy Halloween, part two

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Aug 292012

I used the July Sketch For You To Try to make a Halloween card for Operation Write Home… and as fate would have it, I repeated that theme with the August Sketch For You To Try!  I even used the same image stamps.  (I love how the witch’s hat fits the cat!) But the stamps and theme are where the similarities end.  My August card is more colorful, which in my opinion gives it a more “fun” feel.  I have to admit I enjoyed using up some of this designer paper.

OK, enough chitchat… here’s the card:

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Critters in the ‘Burbs, Hats Off To You (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Razzleberry Lemonade designer papers (Stampin’ Up); Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic)

Posted by PH in VA at 11:30 pm Cards, Lawn Fawn, Operation Write Home, SFYTT sketches

sketchy snowflakes

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Aug 272012

Today I’m sharing a quick card I made using Freshly Made Sketches #49.  I combined this with the current Lawnscaping challenge of creating your own patterned paper.  I added a few rhinestones to the snowflakes in the border for a bit of bling.  I’m not sure how well the photo will show that the ink used for the snowflakes is silver rather than grey.

 

I have a twin of this card in the works (I’m waiting for the ink to dry completely before assembling it – it’s pigment ink, so in our current humid weather it’s taking a little while). So once it’s finished, I’ll have two more winter cards ready to go to Operation Write Home!

Supplies:
Stamps: Critters in the Snow (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Basic Black, Soft Sky (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: Silver (ColorBox); Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: rhinestones (Bazzill)

Posted by PH in VA at 2:00 pm Cards, Freshly Made Sketches, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges, Operation Write Home

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #68

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Aug 242012

Hello! It’s been a busy week here, with my kids going back to school and having marching band practices in the afternoons. I’m ready for the weekend and looking forward to the start of the high school marching band and football season! How about you?

Since it’s Friday, that means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week we have an Inspiration Challenge for you. Create a project using a digital image, using the inspiration photo at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge website as a starting point. Share it at the SNSDC website by next Thursday, August 30. Although you’re not required to use one of the fabulous Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images for your project, we especially enjoy seeing what our challenge participants make with them – and you have the chance for extra perks if you do. Details about all that can be found on the SNSDC site.

For my project this week, I used the Fall Arrangement digital image and a sentiment from Autumn Leaves.  The layout is based on this week’s Splitcoaststampers sketch challenge, but I turned this into a flap card rather than a standard A2 card.  The image is colored with Copic markers, and I added a little piercing in the corners.  I attached the focal panel with dimensional adhesive so the piercing wouldn’t smash flat, which unfortunately gives the illusion in the picture that it wasn’t cut straight and was attached a bit wonky.  This card will be going in a shipment to Operation Write Home early next week.  I like making flap cards for OWH because I feel like they give more writing space for our heroes to use.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team has created! Links to their blogs are in the left sidebar. Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Digital Images: Fall Arrangement, Autumn Leaves (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Pumpkin Pie, Marigold Morning (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink
Other: piercing tool (Making Memories); dimensionals (SU); markers (Copic); magnets (Basic Grey)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am Cards, Digital images, Operation Write Home, Splitcoast challenges, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

dynamic paisley birthday

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Aug 222012

Here’s a quick and easy birthday card I put together using the current Dynamic Duos color scheme.  I think the paisley works well enough for this card to be gender neutral.  What do you think?

Since there isn’t much else for me to say about the card, I’ll just let it speak for itself:

Supplies:
Stamps: birthday sentiment (Studio G); Jolies Fleurs (Lizzie Anne Designs)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); River Rock, Basic Black (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: River Rock (SU); Onyx Black (VersaFine)
Other: ticket corner punch, brads (SU); Paisley embossing folder (ProvoCraft)

Posted by PH in VA at 1:30 pm Cards, Dynamic Duos, Lizzie Anne Designs, Stampin' Up!

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #67

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Aug 172012

Hello! It’s time for this week’s Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s theme is 3-D Flowers. To play along, create a card using a digital image and three-dimensional flowers, and link it at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site. You can choose to add dimension to a floral digital image, or you can create a flower by stacking punched shapes, or maybe even make a flower from ribbon. Use your imagination! Even though you can use a digi image from any company, we especially enjoy seeing what our challenge participants create using Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images. More details about the perks you can get for participating are available on the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site.

I decided to layer a digital image for my card for this challenge.  I printed the Poinsettia image twice.  I colored the leaves on one image and the petals on the other, cut them out, and reassembled them to give my flower some dimension.  I also added a few tiny half pearls to the center of the poinsettia.  The layout I used for my card is based on Stars and Stamps Sketch #133, although I’ve added a few layers to it and substituted a different shape for the circle element in the sketch.  I’ve also worked this week’s Stars and Stamps Midweek Throwdown challenge into this card by using kraft cardstock.  The sentiment is also a digital image, printed directly onto the kraft.  And now I have another Christmas card for Operation Write Home.

The rest of the design team and I hope you’ll join us this week! Be sure to “like” the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge Facebook page, too!

Supplies:
Digital Images: Poinsettia, Christmas Sentiments (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury Ivory (Gina K. Designs); Poppy Parade, Kraft, Everyday Enchantment designer paper, Afternoon Tea designer paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink
Other: half pearls (KaiserCraft); Labels Nine Nestabilities die (Spellbinders)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am Cards, Digital images, Nestabilities, Operation Write Home, OWH Midweek/Midmonth Throwdown, OWH Stars & Stamps sketches, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

dynamic one layer piggy

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Aug 152012

Just a quick post tonight to share what I came up with for the Lawnscaping challenge to create a one layer card.  I used the current Dynamic Duos color combo of Pretty in Pink and Certainly Celery for my color scheme.  Some coloring and a little fussy cutting of the birthday hat, and ta-da – a very quick card.  (But it’s a cute one, if I say so myself!)

Supplies:
Stamps: Critters on the Farm, Hats Off to You, Critters in the ‘Burbs (Lawn Fawn)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento); Certainly Celery (Stampin’ Up)
Other: corner rounder punch (EK Success); Premier colored pencils (Prismacolor); odorless mineral spirits (Houston Arts)

Posted by PH in VA at 11:45 pm Cards, Dynamic Duos, Lawn Fawn, Lawnscaping challenges

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #66

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Aug 102012

Hello!  Happy Friday!  Are you ready for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge?

This week we have a color challenge for you. We’re asking that you use the colors green and purple in the artwork you create with a digital image. You don’t have to use a Sweet ‘n Sassy digital image, but we do enjoy seeing our participants use them (and you get the chance for extra perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details!). Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, August 16.

I decided to get a head start on some love and Valentine type cards for Operation Write Home.  I’ve used the Chuggin Along digital set and several of the Sweet ‘n Sassy dies.  The sentiment bubble was cut with one of the cloud dies and the hearts were cut with the heart dies (um, yeah, that was obvious, sorry).  For the train tracks, I used the fence die and then snipped off the pointy pickets of the fence.  The train is paper pieced from designer paper.  I just changed the cartridge in my printer and some toner dust apparently got smudged on the white cardstock that I used for the sentiment – which actually worked to my advantage because it lended a smoke puff feel to it and took away the starkness of the white.  Happy accident!  LOL  I tried really hard to stick to the challenge colors, but this little scene just didn’t look right against any color background except a sky-looking one.  So I hope I’ll be forgiven for taking liberties there.

Thanks for stopping by today! Be sure to see what the rest of the Design Team has created and give them some comment love. Links to their blogs are in the left sidebar. Check out the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge Facebook page too! It’s so close to getting 100 likes – and when it does, three people will be chosen to each receive one digital image of their choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy store! What are you waiting for? Go “like” us!

Supplies:
Digital Image: Chuggin Along (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Basic Black (Stampin’ Up); “Chartreuse” and “Grape Fizz” from Fusion collection (Basic Grey); “Ice Blue” from Blitzen collection (Basic Grey)
Ink: printer ink
Other: Clouds & Raindrops dies, Fence & Grass Border dies, and Heart dies (SNSS); brads (Making Memories)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am Basic Grey, Cards, Digital images, Operation Write Home, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

my everything

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Aug 092012

Good morning!  I’m finally getting around to sharing this card that I made for one of the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps Release Party challenges that was presented last weekend at Splitcoaststampers.  The challenge this time was to use buttons and brads to embellish the card.  Well, I used only one button, but I think that was OK.  I used brads for the centers of the flowers.  I was happy to discover just how well the SNSS stamp image works with this retired Stampin’ Up designer paper.  That’s why I chose to color the flowers the way I did; normally I’d use a lighter color but I was trying for something to coordinate the image with the designer paper.  The layout is Sweet Stop Sketch #170.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
Stamps: Happy Place (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Soft Sky, Old Olive, Fall Flowers designer series paper (SU); Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs)
Ink: Old Olive (SU); Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Other: markers (Copic); button (Basic Grey); ribbon (Offray); brads (Bazzill); linen thread (SU); sponge

Posted by PH in VA at 10:00 am Cards, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, The Sweet Stop sketches

just a simple note

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Aug 082012

I recently discovered a new challenge blog, Stamping With The Oldies.  I love their tag line:  “Inspiring Stampers to Dig in their Stash and Stamp with their Oldies but Still Goodies!”  Goodness knows that after ten years of stamping, I have plenty of “oldies but still goodies”!

For their first challenge, they asked viewers to create something with their oldest stamp set.  I still have the first stamp set I bought – Stampin’ Up’s” Just A Note Mini”.  However, the images in the set just weren’t speaking to me this week.  So for my challenge card, I used one of the sentiments from my first set.  The note image is from another one of my first sets.  I used a ruler to help me draw the lines straight.  The notes aren’t completely random – if you’ll forgive my lack of drawing in the treble clef, key signature, and time signature, and that the note image is eighth notes rather than quarter notes, it’s actually the first few notes of Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”.  I used this week’s Splitcoaststampers Clean and Simple challenge colors for my color scheme.  I meant to use my corner rounder punch but grabbed the wrong punch by mistake.  Ooops.  Oh well. It’s still a decent card for Operation Write Home.

I hope you’ll take the time to check out Stamping With the Oldies!

All supplies for this card are from Stampin’ Up:
Stamps: Just a Note Mini, Mini Medleys
Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy, Whisper White textured
Ink: Night of Navy
Other: Night of Navy marker, ticket corner punch

Posted by PH in VA at 11:00 pm Cards, Operation Write Home, Splitcoast challenges, Stampin' Up!

dynamic autumn smile

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Aug 072012

I’m still working on some autumn cards for Operation Write Home.  Here’s one I made yesterday morning, combining a few challenges in the process.  For the Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps August release party, Taylor asked everyone to make a CAS card using kraft cardstock.  So I did that, using this week’s Dynamic Duos colors with the kraft.   I watercolored the leaves with a few drops of Pumpkin Pie and Wild Wasabi ink.  I love the random results of coloring that way (plus it’s quick and easy)!  I confess that I purposely chose leaves that weren’t very intricate so fussy cutting them wouldn’t be too difficult.

Supplies:
Digital Images: Autumn Leaves (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Kraft, Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie (Stampin’ Up); Solar White (Neenah) [for the leaves]
Ink: printer ink
Other: Wild Wasabi and Pumpkin Pie ink refills (SU)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 pm Cards, Digital images, Dynamic Duos, Operation Write Home, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps

Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge #65

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Aug 032012

Hello!  It’s been a busy week here and I’m ready for the weekend.  How about you?

Since it’s Friday, that means it’s time for another Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge! This week’s theme is Beary Special, and the design team is featuring the adorable Rhubarb the Teddy Bear on our sample cards. If you’d like to join the fun, simply create a card, using a digital image of a bear for the focal point. You don’t have to use Rhubarb or one of the other cute Sweet ‘n Sassy digital images, but we do love when you use those (and you get the chance for perks if you do – see the Digi Challenge site for more details!). Link your card at the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge site by midnight eastern time Thursday, August 9.

Here’s the card I created using Rhubarb Honey Bee.  I printed him fairly large and used Microsoft Word to add a sentiment for a cute “HallNOween” card.  I used Stickles to give Rhubarb’s wings some glittery shimmer.  Because Stickles is essentially a glitter glue, it doesn’t rub off, making it OK to use in small amounts on cards for Operation Write Home.   The layout is this week’s Splitcoaststampers.com sketch challenge.  The orange panel is designer paper with a subtle print.  I wanted to add something to the yellow strip to keep it from being plain, but I didn’t want to emboss it and add any more bulk to the card.  So I took my Stampin’ Spot ink cube in the same color and “stamped” it randomly on the cardstock.  The cube was kind of dry, so it didn’t add too much ink, just enough to give a bit of a tone-on-tone design.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the Design Team has created!  Links to their blogs are in the left sidebar.  And if you haven’t “liked” the Sweet ‘n Sassy Digi Challenge Facebook page yet, go do that!  It’s so close to getting 100 likes – and when it does, three people will be chosen to each receive one digital image of their choice from the Sweet ‘n Sassy store!  Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies for today’s card:
Digital Image: Rhubarb Honey Bee (Sweet ‘n Sassy Stamps)
Cardstock: Pure Luxury White (Gina K. Designs); Basic Black, Daffodil Delight, Razzleberry Lemonade designer paper (Stampin’ Up)
Ink: printer ink; Daffodil Delight (SU)
Other: Black Licorice twine (Really Reasonable Ribbon); markers (Copic); Star Dust Stickles (Ranger)

Posted by PH in VA at 12:00 am Cards, Digital images, Operation Write Home, Splitcoast challenges, Stampin' Up!, Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenges, Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps
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