The Paper Players Challenge #77

I knew just the image I wanted to use when I saw this challenge's theme! Fairytale Tilda! What could be more romantic than that??? And I'm so tickled with how this card turned out...one of my very best ever!

My card for this challenge:
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Pearl strips and paper flowers

Recipe:
Stamps: Fairytale Tilda, Once Upon a Time
Paper: Blushing Bride, Old Olive, Cryogen White, Twitterpated DSP
Ink: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers
Accessories: Fleur de lis square nestie, circle nestie, silver embossing powder, dimensionals, glue dots, diamond stickles, frosted lace stickles, gray satin ribbon, pearl strands, MS branch punch, paper roses

Paper Players & Play Date Cafe Challenges

It seems like forever since I've participated in any challenges!! It's just been one thing after another, and I've either been too sick, too tired, too sick-and-tired, or too busy to stamp!! Not a good situation, you know?!?!? So it feels really good to be "back", lol!

And to make my life that much easier, I've combined two challenges (one sketch, one color), to make it a much smoother transition to stampin' bliss....

The Paper Players...

...and the Play Date Cafe challenge!

PDC doesn't label colors like some other challenges do, so you have to figure out exactly what colors you want to do on your own. SU doesn't make a light blue-green (mint) color, so I picked out my yellow and coral colors, and found a green which complimented those!

My challenge card:

It really ISN'T day-glow orange!! Honest!

But it sure looks that way in these photos!

Recipe:
Stamps: Cute by the Inch, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Strength & Hope (inside)
Paper: Whisper White, Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz
Ink: Calypso Coral, So Saffron, Pear Pizzazz
Accessories: Calypso Coral ruffled ribbon, 1" square punch, 1 1/4" sq. punch, nesties, dimensionals, sponge daubers, daisies #2 die (for reverse masking)

A much simpler card than I normally do, but I love the oh-so-soft look of the reverse masking sponging. What do you think?

Paper Players Challenge #56

Finally! Doing challenges again!! Wooo Hooo! This is for the Paper Players and it's a sketch challenge!

My card for this challenge:

Totally making use of some of my new goodies!

Recipe:
Stamps: Touch of Kindness, Perfectly Penned
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Basic Black, Versamark
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Garden Green, Very Vanilla, Woodland Park DSP
Accessories: 1" clear button, linen thread, 1" circle punch, 1 3/4" circle punch, copper embossing powder, pennant ribbon die, watercolor pencils, blender pen

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It feels good to be playin' again!!

The Paper Players Blog Hop!!

Yay!!! This is so exciting!! If you're a regular reader of my blog, you'll know that I was a guest designer for The Paper Players last June before I moved. And the lovely Lesley has asked me to play with her team once again for a Blog Hop! This isn't the beginning of the Hop though, so if you haven't come here from the lovely Jaydee's blog, then you need to start at the beginning with Anne-Marie, HERE! Okie Dokie?

Stampin Up is currently holding it's Sale-A-Bration, which is the BIGGEST event of the SU year!! Not only can you get regular hostess credit, and regular free product...but you can also earn special SU items FREE for every $50 you spend!!!! And some of these are only available during this time - so don't wait! (Get all the info: http://www.stampinup.com )

To highlight some of the special products in our current Occasions Mini and Sale-A-Bration catalogs, we are showing projects made using these limited edition sets! I was asked to make a card using the new Build A Blossom stamp set and coordinating punch, shown below.

Build A Blossom

Wood Mount: #121923 $25.95
Clear Mount: #121994 $18.95

Blossom Punch
#121808 $16.95

Here's a card I made using these awesome new products:

Recipe:
Stamps: Build A Blossom, A Word For You
Paper: Concord Crush, Daffodil Delight, Whisper White
Ink: Concord Crush
Accessories: blossom punch, tulip embossing folder, C.C. ribbon, CC glimmer brad, shimmer mist, dimensionals

Other cards I made with the same set!:

So fun and so versatile!!! Makes ya sort of want it, huh?? *big smile!*

Be sure you check in with ALL the designer's blogs, follow them and leave comments to be eligible for some incredible prizes!! Also, this is a "Anything Goes" week if you wanted to participate in the weekly challenge with the Paper Players! Don't miss out!!!

Now on to the next stop in the Hop with Julie!!

Stamp Happy!

Paper Players Challenge #31

This week the Paper Players have a sketch challenge! I think those are my favorite because it gives you a good direction to go in and yet you can be versatile with it too!! For me, they're much easier than color challenges!

My card for this week's consideration:

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Closeup of that sweet Tilda!

Why not head over to see what their Design Team has come up with,
and see the other entries! Click HERE!

Paper Players Challenge #28

It's that time again!! This will be the final challenge for the year on The Paper Players - so really make it count! For this challenge it's your choice of Favorite Color Combos for a particular card type. What screams "Christmas" for you? Or "sympathy"? Or "birthday"? Or "anniversary"? Pick your favorite color combos for a particular type of card and link up with us this week. Easy peasy!!

I would like to once again thank Lesley and the Paper Players Design Team for welcoming me back again this month as a Guest Designer!! It's always an honor to be asked to join a team. Having others acknowledge and appreciate your work really makes the time spent on projects very rewarding. These ladies have be doing this for a lot longer than I have, and their acceptance of my work has been thrilling. Thanks so much, Girls!!

My card this week:

Believe it or not in this very pink castle....my favorite color is actually yellow, lol! I love shades of yellow together the most - so warm, happy and inviting! So my color combo is shades of yellow (More Mustard, Daffodil Delight and So Saffron) for a friendship card. I also love monochromatic cards (same color family only on a card), as well as combinations of embossing.

Recipe:
Stamps: Elements of Style
Paper: More Mustard, So Saffron
Ink: More Mustard
Accessories: Daffodil Delight ribbon & button, glue dots, clear embossing powder, dimensionals, sq. lattice embossing folder

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The detailing on this stamp set is extraordinary!! This is truly one of my all-time favorite stamp sets! It can be used for ANYTHING and it's simply gorgeous!!

I hope you will want to play along this week! Just click on the badge at the top of this post, and link up YOUR favorite color combo!!

Paper Players Challenge #27

I was asked by Lesley to again be a Guest Designer for the Paper Players! Wooo Hooo!!! It's always nice to be asked! This week's theme is easy - CHRISTMAS! It can be a card, a scrapbook page, 3-D item - whatever your little ole heart desires!!

I, of course!, made a card!:

Punch art is fun and easy! And with Stampin' Up's designer paper - it winds up looking so lovely too! I saw someone else had made these too adorable mittens out of oval punches and had to try it myself! Cute!!

Stamp sets: SU Tags Til Christmas and Northern Hearts
SU colors: Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Very Vanilla
Accessories: small oval punch, large oval punch, scalloped circle punch, Old Olive satin ribbon

I liked it so much, I included it in my 5 for $5 Stamp Club and all the girls loved making their own - ALL BEGINNERS!!! WTG girls!

Why not pop over to the Paper Players and give this challenge a shot?!? You'll be able to cross off another project or card off your to-do list while you're at it!

Paper Players Challenge #19

Back with the Paper Players...again! THIS TIME I'm going to make the deadline, lol!

This is my card for this week's consideration:

I used SU's 'Jolliest Time of the Year' stamp set, and limited my colors to the Whisper White, Real Red and Basic Black of the challenge. Click to enlarge picture - I'm really happy with how this turned out!!

To see the other entries, click HERE!

ColourQ Challenge #39

Can you say withdrawal??? Ohmygosh, what on earth did we do with ourselves before internet?? I don't even remember! But I miss it, and I need it and I'm totally LOST without it!!! Thank you to those of you who are still popping by for my scheduled posts and for leaving your sweet comments!! It is sooo appreciated!

So amidst the chaos that has become my life, I still managed to make a card, photograph it and will hopefully be able to link up before my "borrowed" internet craps out on me. So far, so good...*fingers crossed!* I can't believe this is my 11th time playing with the girls at ColourQ!!!

Here is my card for this week's consideration:

Recipe:
Stamps: SU Fourth of July
Ink: Real Red, Brocade Blue
Paper: SU cardstock in Real Red, Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, Bravo Burgundy and Whisper White
Accessories: Lattice die, large & small star punches, Dazzlin Diamonds glitter, rick-rack die, 1 1/4 & 1 3/8" circle punches, Real Red buttons, dimensionals, glue dots, star embossing folder

This is my first easel card too!

I love the patriotic colors!

Lots of fun details, like paper rick-rack, buttons, glitter and embossed background!

Glittered stars!

Fun, fun, fun!!

I hope everyone has a happy and safe 4th of July!!

Paper Players Challenge #3

This week's challenge is a Sketch Challenge! Those are always so great because you can use any colors you want and you can be pretty liberal with the sketches. These are some of my most favorite challenges!!! Luckily for me, I made this card last weekend because I had next to zero time to craft this week!!

My design card shown on Always Playing With Paper:

Recipe:
Stamps: SU Peguin Paradise (R), matching wheel (R)
Paper: SU Tempting Turquoise, SU DSP
Ink: SU T.Turquoise, Versamark, StazOn black
Access: SU Watercolor crayons, black embossing powder, corner rounder punch, flower dies, SU build-a-brad, sponges

Want to play along? Head on over and see the rest of the Design Team's creations at Always Playing With Paper and link up your masterpiece!!!

Paper Players Challenge #2

Another new week - another new challenge!!

This week with the Paper Players, we have a color challenge. It was SO HARD to keep this card a secret because I love it soooo much!! You can tell, because I took a ton of pictures of it, lol!!

My design card for this challenge:

Recipe:
Stamps: One of a Kind, Baroque Motifs
Ink: Brilliant Blue, Bashful Blue, Old Olive
Paper: Bashful Blue, Brilliant Blue, Whisper White
Access: SU buttons, SU gingham ribbon, embossing foler, SU Boho Blossoms punch, scalloped oval nesties, dimensionals, Dazzlin Diamonds glitter

Just a hint of glitter for some sparkle!

Lots of texture!

Now it's YOUR TURN!!

Come on over to the Always Playing With Paper blog, take a look at the fabulous Design Team's cards, and link up your masterpiece using this week's colors! You'll love it!!

Paper Players Challenge #1

It's Game Time Stampers!!!

It's the very first week, and first challenge of The Paper Players! I so hope that if paper crafting is your "thing", you will join us this week!! This week's theme is quite timely - a Father's Day card or other masculine theme.

This is my offering for inspiration:

(This card is available for sale too!)

It was soooo much fun to be a Guest Designer!! I love having the "inside scoop", lol!! Ready to play along?? I hope so! Go ahead and check out the other FABULOUS creations by The Paper Players team and link up your masterpiece!!!