4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #78 - Picture Inspiration

Happy Thursday PEEPS! Are you ready for a new challenge from 4 Crafty Chicks? This week, it's brought to you by me, Lori, and I have a gorgeous INSPIRATIONAL photo for you....I got it from the Better Homes and Gardens website. For our challenge this week, you take whatever you need to from this photo and run with it! It can be the colors, the patterns, the textures, whatever you want! I can't wait to see what you come up with

I decided to take the black/red/white color scheme from the photo and I decided to make a sympathy card for a dear friend of mine who recently lost her Mom....here is the card I came up with -

Please be sure to hop on over to the other Chicks' blogs and also our wonderful Guest Designer, Heather! Thank you Heather for all your beautiful creations and being so wonderful to work with! 

Happy crafting!!

SPCC #119 - Love and Sympathy

 Welcome back! Samantha has issued the following color palette for this week's challenge:

For my card, I decided to ink up Love & Sympathy from Stampin' Up! It's a perfect set for using markers and the colors matched perfectly for this set...

 Please hop on over to the Scrapmaster's challenge blog HERE and check out what the other Color Diva's have made using these colors - I know they are gonna knock your socks off!!

PPC-CC #67

Good Monday morning! It's time for another wonderful color challenge at Picture Perfect Creations...crafty challenge #67! I decided to go with "CAS" on this card and I really, really LOVE this simple layout from Clean and Simple Stamping...check it out:

...isn't that a NEAT sketch? Three circles, a strip and done! I added one more layer on my card base so that I could emboss it and add some plum brads:

Stamps: Verve; Paper: Very Vanilla, Perfect Plum, Concord Crush; Ink: Concord Crush; Accessories: embossing folder, brads, nestabilities, ribbon, dimensionals

Thanks for stopping in this morning! I hope you will consider joining us this week for your chance at the "Grand Creation Winner" badge for your blog!! Please link your creation at Picture Perfect Creations by 10 a.m. EST on Monday, August 8th.

PPC #39 meets Sketch Saturday

Welcome back...are you ready for another challenge this morning? Megan over at Picture Perfect Creations has given us another "doozie" combo :) I actually didn't have too much trouble with this one. I struggled a bit with the red, that's about it...I combined my color combo with Sketch Saturday's wonderful sketch this week:

...and here's my square card using both challenges:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Whisper White, Pacific Point, More Mustard, Soft Suede, More Mustard DSP; Ink: Soft Suede, Real Red; Accessories: scallop trim punch, pearls, dimensionals, red ribbon, scallop oval punch, oval punches, perfect dots embossing folder

Be sure to hop on over to the other PPC Design Team blogs and check out their wonderfully inspiring creations using these colors. Then be sure to get inky and create something for *us* to comment on for you! I can't wait to see what you come up with! CHEERS and STAY WARM!

PPC - CC#30 and DCBC #193 - Sympathy Card

It's time again for a wonderful color challenge from Picture Perfect Creations....Megan picked a great trio for this week, don'tchya think?! When I laid them out on my craft table, the first thing that screamed out to me was "BOY COLORS!" However, that is not were I went with my creation...last Thursday evening, I got a phone call from a very distraught friend of mine who had just lost a wonderful friend to a plane crash and I *knew* right then and there, I was making a sympathy card. The colors are perfect for it.

I combined my colors with the gorgeous, simple sketch from Diva Coffee Break Designs Blog:

...and here is my sympathy card using both challenges:

Stamps: Forever in Our Hearts (Verve); Paper: Early Espresso, Pear Pizazz, Bashful Blue, Whisper White, Pear Pizazz DP; Ink: Pear Pizazz, Early Espresso, Bashful Blue; Accessories: nestabilities, paper piercer, pearls, scallop trim border punch, dimensionals, flowers, boho blossoms punch, elegant lines embossing folder

Please be sure to check out all the wonderful inspiration the rest of the DT has left for you on their blogs - links are on the right-hand sidebar. Be sure to join us and link your creation back on the PPC Challenge site HERE! I can't wait to see what all you come up with! Happy crafting!

PPC #23/Sketch Saturday - Praying for You

Good morning! Happy Monday to you all out there in craftyland...I hope you all had a fantabulous weekend. I did..I got to celebrate my friend's 40th birthday with her and her family, got a great start on my tan while doing a bunch of yard work with my cousin and even enjoyed the odd "cool one." :)

Today's color combo from Megan at Picture Perfect Creations is WONDERFUL...I love, love, love these colors together. I went through my stamps stash and came across the Thoughts and Prayers set - perfect!! I hopped on over to Sketch Saturday and they had just the right layout for the stamp I wanted to use....I hope you enjoy it!



...here's my sympathy card using both challenges:

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight; Ink: Basic Gray; Accessories: markers, paper piercer, dimensionals, embossing folders, lace trim, oval punch, circle punch, label punch, pearls.

Please be sure to click on over to all the over PPC gals' blogs (they are located on the right-hand side bar) and see some more wonderful creations using this color combo. Then be sure to upload your creation for this weeks challenge over at the PPC Challenge Blog for your chance to win this week's prize! Good luck - can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! :)

SPCC #58 Sympathy

Welcome back to another color challenge at Scrapmaster's Paradise! Samantha has a nice, warm, gentle combo this week that was saying "sympathy or thinking of you." I used Mojo Monday's sketch from last Monday and I think it fit the colors perfectly....

Stamps: Watercolor Trio, Thoughts & Prayers; Paper: Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Certainly Celery, Whisper White, Certainly Celery DP; Ink: Soft Suede; Accessories: Soft Suede ribbon, nestabilities, dimensionals, embossing folders

Please be sure to hop on over to see the other Color Divas blogs for more inspiring creations then link your submission at the Scrapmaster's Challenge blog for your chance to win!

Valerie

Calypso

Jennifer R

Thanks for stopping in - have a super dooper Monday!

Mojo Monday #134 - Sympathy

Good afternoon from my craft room! I wasn't going to make another card today as I'm suffering from a nice head cold *UGH!* but I decided to take some Benylin daytime capsules and give it a shot! LOL..I'm glad I did cuz this card turned out pretty good (I think - wink!) I've had this set from Verve for a while now and I've been wanting to ink it up - today's Mojo Monday sketch made that possible!!

Stamps: Forever in Our Hearts - Verve; Paper: Very Vanilla, My Mind's Eye DP; Ink: Sage Shadow Classic Ink, Choc Chip Craft Ink, Close to Cocoa Classic Ink (sponging); Accessories: sponge dauber, choc taffeta ribbon, dimensionals, clear embossing powder, scallop trim punch

I don't think I'll be back again tonight. DH is on his way home (yay!) so I think I will have a hot bath, a hot rum toddy, and crawl into bed early. I will be back sometime tomorrow with another installment.

Don't forget to hop on over to Picture Perfect Creations Crafty Challenges blog and give this week's color combo a try....it's a gooder!! *wink* Happy crafting!!

...more sympathy cards

These are the other 3 cards we made at my Sympathy Stamp-A-Stack on Saturday....

Stamps: Pocket Sillouettes, Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Eggplant
Paper: Eggplant, Whisper White
Accessories: scallop border punch, eggplant ribbon, swiss dots cuttlebug folder, big shot


Stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Warmest Regards (retired)
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Whisper White, Kraft
Accessories: sheer ribbon, black brads


Stamps: Close as a Memory
Ink: Basic Black
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Basic Gray
Accessories: black ribbon, ticket corner punch, pewter brads, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, leaves cuttlebug folder

Artichoke and Chocolate Sympathy

This is one of 4 sympathy cards we will be making on Saturday at my Stamp-A-Stack. I have had a lot of customers ask me to host a Sympathy class because they find them difficult to make. I really enjoy the Thoughts and Prayers stamp set for sympathy cards. Hope you like it!

Stamps: Thoughts & Prayers
Paper: Chocolate chip, Always Artichoke, Sahara Sand, To the Nines DP, Very Vanilla
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke
Accessories: scallop square punch, 1 1/4" square punch, dimensionals, artichoke ribbon, cuttlebug folder, sponge dauber

Terrific Thursday....

Today has been a good day. The kids only had a 3-day school week, so we all got to sleep in today! YIPEEE! After working at the school for the past week, being able to sleep in was a real treat for me :o) When I got up this morning, we were experiencing some wonderful fat flakes of snow and it lasted all morning into the afternoon - looked soooo pretty! Tonight after running some errands in town, I got to sit down and make some much needed sympathy cards. I bought this cuttlebug folder a while ago and have been really wanting to try it on some sympathy cards. I think it turned out wonderfully. What do you think?

Recipe:

Stamps: Close as a Memory
Ink: Basic Black, Basic Gray
Paper: Going Gray, Basic Gray, Basic Black
Accessories: pewter brads, black grosgrain ribbon, sponge dauber, ticket corner punch, leaf branch cuttlebug folder, martha stewart butterfly punch

Artichoke Sympathy

Good evening stampers! Yep, it's still *chilly* here in central Alberta...I guess winter has set in. We have to admit, we've been fortunate up until now with no snow and warm temps, so it's time Old Man Winter has come to visit :o)

Sympathy cards are ones that I don't make very often, so tonight I decided that I would tackle one or two. I made 2 of the same card tonight so that I would have some on hand. I found an idea on Paper Craft Planet but cannot remember whose gallery it was. Sorry! My DH left today for up north so I will be muckin' around in the craft room for a bit yet tonight....I *might* make one more card and post it tonight - stay tuned! :o)

Recipe:

Stamps: Embrace Life, Fine Lace, Close as a Memory

Paper: Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White

Ink: Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, Creamy Caramel

Accessories: Always Artichoke marker, sponge dauber, chocolate felt ribbon, chocolate brads, dimensionals