Another Red, White and Blue Creation!

Happy 4th of July!  Hope you are enjoying the day!

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to use the colors red, white and blue!  So appropriate for celebrating 4th of July.  This was a pretty easy challenge, as I still had some paper left over from my 4th of July projects, but couldn't decide on which Penny Black image to use. :) 

Here is my card for the challenge using the cute kitty with balloons from the PB Bubbly set.

Supplies:

Red and blue Bazzil cardstock

Designer paper from Scenic Route

Sentiment from Best Crafts designer paper

May Arts ribbon

Corners cut from my EK Success punch

PB image cut, usiing my Nestabilities petitie oval and petitie oval scallop die-cuts, glittered with Sakura glitter pen and colored with Copics W3, R20, R35 and B28.  Also used At You Spica pens gold, red and sky blue for the balloons

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Paper Patching Away

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is called "paper patch." It is taking different pieces of paper and making a quilt of sorts on your project.  What  a great challenge!

I thought it would be difficult, but I was able to do the challenge and had so much fun!

Below is my card for the challenge:

 Supplies:

Bazzil cardstock

Designer paper from my stash, using a Jelly Roll black pen for the faux stitching and for the sentiments

Martha Stewart scallop punch

EK Success corner punch

PB's kitty from the Piece of My Heart collection, cut with my Nestabilities Labels die cuts and colored with Copics C3, W3, YR04, RV13, and the colorless blender

Sakura glitter pen

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One color!

Getting the creative juices flowing again!  Feels good to work on something to bring the creativity back again!

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is called "Monochromatic Brown." Brown has to be the main color in the creation and all shades of brown are welcome!

Below is my card for entry to the challenge:

Supplies:

Bazzil cardstock

The Paper Loft designer paper

Image and sentiment from Penny Black's Flowers and Wishes set, inked with Versacolor White ink
Versacolor bark ink to "distress" the image

May Arts ribbon

Image cut with Nestabilities petitie oval scallop and petitie oval die-cuts

Corners cut with EK Success corner punch

Sakura glitter pen for some "bling" on the image

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"Check" It Out - Two Challenges

I am combining two challenges, which are pretty fun.  I participated in the Penny Black Saturday Challenge and Mojo Mondays.

For this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge, the challenge is "check it out."  Creation should have something with checkard prints such as paper or ribbon.

Here is the sketch I used for this week's Mojo Monday's challenge:

Here is my card for both challenges:

Cardstock is from Bazzil.  Designer paper is from Basic Grey's new collection kioshi.  The image is from Penny Black's In The Garden collection.  Ribbon is from May Arts.  The pearls are from my stash.

The image was cut, using my Nestabilities petitie oval and petite oval scallop.  I used my Sakura glitter pen to add some sparkle to the frame of the image. I colored the image with the following Copic colors:

C5, R20, Y3, Y11, Y15, R37 and the colorless blender

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Spring Colors

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to use spring colors!  Bring out the pinks, blues, greens, flowers, etc!  It was nice to get back into the groove of making cards and I had fun making this one.

Below is my entry:

The pink and green cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary collection. The critter is from PB's new collection In The Garden.  The critter was cut using my Nestabilities labels die cuts and colored with the following Copic colors:

E37, RV32, C5, and YG63

I also added in some glitter with my Sakura glitter pen.

I used my Martha Stewart border punch for the bottom of the card.  The twine and ribbon are from May Arts.  The buttons are from Basic Grey.  The pearls are from my stash.


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I Can't Wait For Spring!

This week's Penny Black Saturday challenge is to make an easel card.  You can use whatever Penny Black stamps/sentiments you want, any colors you want.

I can't wait for spring!  Probably why the card I made for the challenge has a spring theme to it. :)

Here is my card for the challenge:

The red and beige cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye Quite Contrary collection, my favorite DP!  I chose Penny Black's Toadily collection and colored the cute frog with the following Copic colors:

Y13, Y17 (flower), G94 (frog) and the colorless blender.

For the background, I sponged on some ink from Memento - Dandelion.  The red background was cut, using my Nestabilities petite oval scallop die-cut.  I used my Martha Stewart punch for the border on the front and inside of the card. 

The sentiment is also from Penny Black, inked with Memento ladybug ink and cut, using my Nestabilities small circle and small scallop circle die-cuts.

The corners were cut using my Cuttlebug die-cut.  The red gems are from my stash. The felt red and yellow flowers were picked up from my local scrapbook store.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - A Sketch

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to use a sketch created by one of the team members - Carole.

 

Such a simple and clean sketch that I wanted to make my card simple and clean.  Here is my card for the challenge:

  

Pink cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper is from DCVW.  I used my Martha Stewart scallop punch for the bottom of the card. The ribbon is from Bazzil.  The pink gems are from my stash.

I used one of the stamps from the new Penny Black collection Bundle of Joy.  I colored the critter with the following Copic colors:

C5, R20, E00, YG63, R85, Y38 and the colorless blender

I cut the critter using my Nestabilities small square and small square scallop die cuts.

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It's Almost Springtime!

Ah it's almost springtime!  What I really enjoy about springtime is seeing the bright colors that are out there.  This was good inspiration for my entry to two challenges for this week.

1) Penny Black Saturday Challenge - This week's challenge is to use the colors pink, green and yellow in the entry.

2) Copic Colour Challenge - What timing to use these Copic colors in the challenge!

 

Below is my card I made for both challenges:

The pink cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye.  I use my Martha Stewart scallop punch for the pink border and added some green ribbon, new from Bazzil.  The pearls are from my stash.  The corners were punched out using my EK Success punch.

The PB image and sentiment is from the Micey Day collection.  The mice were colored with the following Copic colors:

YG00, E35, RV32, G21,  R12 (didn't have R11 for CCC so used this color instead), C3 and the colorless blender

The mice were cut using my Nestabilities label die-cut.  The sentiment was cut using my Nestabilities petite oval and petitie oval scallop. 

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Last Valentine's Day Card....

For details on this week's Robyn's Fetish Saturday Challenge blog hop, click here!

It's always bittersweet when I make the last card for a special holiday or particular day.  This particular day is Valentine's Day.  I really enjoy making paper projects for this day, especially since my daughter's school has a great party and gives out homemade Valentines to the teachers and the kids. :)

I am combining two challenges this week in honor of Valentine's Day:

1) Mojo Monday - Sketch to use is below:

2) Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Guess what the theme is? Happy Valentine's Day!  Entry should include one PB image and/or sentiment.

Here is my card for entry to both challenges:

Front of card

 

Inside of card

Red and pink cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper is from Best Creations, Inc. The Penny Black image and sentiment is from the "Piece of My Heart" collection, cut using my Nestabilities small square and small scallop square die-cuts.  The PB image was colored with the following Copic colors:

E00, E33, R20, R85, and the colorless blender

Ribbon is from American Crafts. I punched out the heart border, using my Martha Stewart punch.

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A Touch of Pink, Brown and Beige

Pink, brown and beige are three of my favorite colors.  So when I saw the Copic Colour Challenge colors for this week, I was thrilled and couldn't wait to make my card!

Below are the Copic Colour Challenge colors for this week:

And here is Mojo Monday's sketch to use - either a circle or a square.  Or if I had more time, I would have done both. :)

I love the sketch!  Such a simple, but elegant design. :)

Below is my card:

The pink and brown cardstock are from Bazzil.  The designer paper and buttons are from Basic Grey.  The red and pink ribbon is from May Arts.  The gold ribbon is from my stash.

The image is from Penny Black's Piece of My Heart collection, cut using my Nestabilities Labels die-cuts.  The image was colored with the following Copic colors:

E00, E33 (CCC challenge colors), R20, R85 and the colorless blender

I also added some bling to the cupcake box and tops of the cupcakes with Stickles fruit punch glitter glue.  The ribbon was decorated with The Robin's Nest Dew Drops.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Blue, Cream and Gold

This week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge is using a color combo: blue, cream and gold. I just bought a new Penny Black stamp and was excited to use it for this challenge.

I went with a CAS (clean and simple) design for this challenge. And I also did not use a single Copic marker, which was kind of nice to take a break from.  Below is my card:

The cream cardstock is from Bazzil.  The designer paper (double-sided) is from cratepaper. The image is PB's mid summer, cut with my Nestabilities Label die-cut.  The image was inked with Tsukineko Encore Honeydew ink and sponged over with Versa Color sand beige ink..  I used my Martha Stewart's scallop punch for the blue border. The ribbon is from May Arts.  The photo corners were punched with my EK Success punch.  The stick-on pearls are from my stash.

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A "Sketchy" Creation To Choose From

This week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to choose between two sketches DT member Nat created. Or you can do both if you feel like more of a challenge. If only there were more hours in the day, I would do both, but I ended up doing only one. Below are the two sketches to choose from:

Sketch #1



Sketch #2



I chose to do Sketch #2. Below is my entry:



The cardstock is from Bazzil. The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye Penny Lane Collection. The image, sentiment and mice feet are from the PB Micey Day collection, that I won from Guest Designer Debby from PB Saturday Challenge's Christmas Blog Hop. Thank you again Debby! The image was colored with the following Copic colors:

E33, Y17, R59, RV32 and the colorless blender.

The image was cut using my Nestie small circle and circle scallop die cuts. The sentiment was also cut with my Nestie small petite oval and oval scallop. I also sponged on some Versa Color sand beige ink on the image and sentiment. I used my Sakura glitter pen to add some glitter to the image.

I also added in some dew drops from The Robin's Nest.

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Happy New Year!

This week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to make something in celebration of the New Year! Because I have been recovering from a cold, I threw a card together last night for this challenge. Below is my entry:



Brown and yellow (Hollywood) cardstock is from Bazzil. I forgot who made the designer paper - got it in December for Christmas projects. I distressed the paper using Versa Color bark ink.

The PB image is from their Bubbly collection, which I noticed a lot of the DT members used a couple of images from that collection - so cute! I colored the image with the following Copic colors:

C5, E33, RV32, Y17, BV23 and the colorless blender

The sentiment is from Hero Arts's All Occasion stamp set.

I also sponged on some ink in the background with Versa Color sand beige. The image was cut out with my Nestie petitie small scallop oval die-cuts.

I used my Martha Stewart scallop punch for the yellow cardstock. The brown woven ribbon is from May Arts.

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Last Christmas Card for 2009

As the saying goes: "All good things must come to an end." Hence, this week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge will be the last time I will be creating a Christmas card for 2009. Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year and I am always sad when the holiday is over.

Penny Black Saturday Challenge is to use Christmas charms. Surprisingly, also being a jewelry maker, I don't own a lot of charms, particularly Christmas charms. So off I went to my local bead store and it was a good day to go. Their charms were half off! I picked up a bunch to have for next year, including the cute red Santa hat I used for my entry. :)

Below is my entry. I kept it on the CAS (clean and simple) side:



Red cardstock is from Bazzil. Designer paper is from Reminisce. The cute critter and sentiment are from PB's The Wonder collection. I colored the critter using the following Copic colors:

E00, C3, R37, R20, Y17, and the colorless blender

I also used the At You Spica garnet, lipstick and lemon pens, as well as my Sakura glitter pen for the critter and the decoration around the critter and sentiment.

I used my Nestabilities Label Two for the critter and the petite scallop oval for the sentiment. The sentiment was colored with Tsukineko's honeydew ink. The gold nailheads on the corner of the card are from my stash.

Happy New Year! Looking forward to more challenges from Penny Black Saturday Challenge in 2010.

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The Holidays In Pink

I didn't think I could do my three weekly challenges this week. With my office's Christmas lunch coming up and making 17 mini cakes plus working on my daughter's teacher's treat boxes (19 of those!) for Christmas, I am running on full steam. I took a look at the three challenges and was glad I could incorporate all of them into one entry.

Below are the three challenges for the week:

1) Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Christmas For The Girls. Recently there was a challenge to make something for the guys. The DT didn't want to leave out the girls! :)

2) Copic Colour Challenge - Below are the colors to use:



3) La-La Land Crafts Wednesday Challenge - Buttons, Buttons, Buttons! Include at least one button in your entry.

Below is my entry:



The bright pink cardstock is from Bazzil from their "Bling" collection. The soft pink cardstock was from a store I visit often called Paper Source. The designer paper is from Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses collection. The corners were made using my Cuttlebug die-cut with stick-on pearls from my stash. The sentiment was made with my Cricut machine, using the "Joys of the Season" cartridge. The button flowers are from Sassafras. The PB critter is from The Wonder collection, colored with the following Copic colors:

Copic Challenge colors (YG03, YR04, RV06), RV13, Y38, YR23, R35, R37, RV32, E00 and the colorless blender. I also added some sparkle with my At You Spica pens red pink and orange.

I cut the PB critter with my Nestabilities petite oval and petite oval scallop shapes. I paper pierced the scallop.

As soon as I finish the mock of one of my daughter's teacher's treat boxes, I will post it. :)

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A Simple Sketch

This week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge was to use a sketch provided by Design Team member Beth. Below is the sketch:



Here is my entry:



Red cardstock is from Worldwin - Deep Berry Red. The designer paper is from My Mind's Eye (double-sided). The PB critter and sentiment is from The Wonder stamp collection. I colored the cat with the following Copic colors:

RV11, R59, C3, YG03, and the At You Spica color gold

I used my Cuttlebug to cut the corners of the card. I used my Nestabillities small scallop square and small square for the sentiment; the small scallop rectangle and small rectangle for the cat. I added some sparkle to the Nestie scallop square and rectangle using my Sakura glitter pen. The blue snowflake ribbon is from Queen and Company. The pearls are from my stash.

I was so excited to win PB Saturday Challenge's November Guest Designer Debby's prize from last week's Christmas Blog Hop. I can't wait to get my micey stamps! Debby is such a talented designer. Visit her blog here to see her creations.

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Winter Wonderland

I am doing two challenges this week with a Christmas theme to it. Can't seem to get enough of the holiday. :)

Below are the challenges I am participating in this week:

1) Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Winter Wonderland. Part of their Christmas Countdown Blog Hop. An amazing aray of prizes to win, plus a fun Christmas themed quiz. :)

2) Copic Colour Challenge #40 - Below are the challenge colors to use:



Below is my entry in two parts. You will see why:

Front view


Inside view


Shadow box cards have become a popular layout for a card so I thought why not? The tutorial is from Dawn Griffith, whom I follow her video blogs. She is a Stampin' Up! demonstrator and makes incredible cards and other paper crafts. Click here to see her tutorial. Very simple!

The cardstock is from Imaginisce polar expressions, cut out using my Nestabilities small oval scallop. The PB critters are from The Wonder stamp collection. I colored them with the following Copic colors:

RV34, YG0000 (in place of the CCC challenge colors), E33,and the At You Spica pink and lemon pens. The white swirl felt ribbon is from Queen and Company.

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Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Christmas For the Guys!

This week’s Penny Black Saturday Challenge is titled "Christmas for the Guys." Basically, making something in Christmas fashion that has a masculine theme.

It is hard for me sometimes to come up with cards that are masculine so I thought this challenge would definitely be a challenge! I was able to find some paper I used recently and came up with my entry below:



The cardstock is from Core'dinations. I used two different patterned papers from GCD Studios. I cut them out with my Nestie small scallop and small square die-cuts. The dog is from Penny Black's Holly Day Critters collection, cut out with my Nestie label die-cut and colored with the following Copic colors:

R37, C5, YG63 and the colorless blender

I also added a little bit of glitter with my Sakura pen.

The woven ribbon is from May Arts and the brown pearls are from my stash.

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"Stepping Up" Card

I am combining challenges this week and decided to do a different kind of greeting card. Below are the challenges I am participating in:

1) Copic Colour Challenge - Below are the colors to use:



2) La-La Land Crafts - Getting Punchy: Use any kind of punches in the entry

Below is my entry:



I am doing the Stair Step Fold Card for my entry this week. I wanted to do something different and saw this card on Split Coast Stampers. This tutorial is by Beate Johns and she did a wonderful explanation on creating this simple card. Click here to see the tutorial.

Below are the materials I used for the card:

Red cardstock - From my stash
Green cardstock - From my stash
Background paper - Basic Grey's Eskimo Kisses
Nestabilities small scallop and small circle die cuts
Martha Stewart punches
Cuttlebug's snowflake embossed folder
American Crafts ribbon
Penny Black critter and sentiment from It's A Wonder stamp collection
Copics: R35, Y06, G02 (in place of challenge colors), E00, E33, RV13 and the colorless blender
Queen and Company winter brads
Sakura glitter pen
Pearl - from my stash

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