TPE #249 {Mother's Day!}

 

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This week at The Pink Elephant, we have a THEME week for you:

TPE #249 {Mother's Day!}

I know I won't be able to link up to this challenge, but I totally loved this sketch from Mojo Monday! I don't make many "different shaped" cards, I generally stick to the A2 size - so this was fun to do something a bit different!

And here is my card using the theme and sketch:

I borrowed some crafty goodies from my friend, Diane to make this card - here's the list of materials:

Stamps: Well Scripted, Perfect Pennants, Petal Parade, Flower Shop

Ink: Pear Pizzazz, Elegant Eggplant, Wisteria Wonder

Card Stock: Naturals White, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla, Pear Pizzazz, Afternoon Picnic DSP

Accessories: Scallop Tag Punch (I so need to order this!!!), Pansy Punch, Bird Builder Punch, Ribbon, button, dimensionals

I sure hope you get some time to come get crafty with us girls! Come on over to the challenge blog HERE and see what Ella's girls have come up with for you this week and link up your Mother's Day creation for us! Happy crafting!!

SPCC #128 Peace, Joy, Be Merry!

Welcome back! Samantha at Scrapmaster's Paradise has issued yet another awesome color palette for this week! I found this combo rather "Christmas-y" so I decided to use the Mojo Monday sketch from last week and the SP & Co. stamp set "Cutest Gingerbread" for the sentiments

Stamps: Cutest Gingerbread (SP & Co.); Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Lucky Limeade, Stampin' Up! DSP; Ink: Momento Black; Accessories: Ornament dies from Whimsy, silver brads, baker's twine, snow dots embossing folder

I am entering my card into the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenges - Christmas or Winter
Little Red Wagon - Christmas
Pattie's Creations - Christmas
Friday Mashup - Sugar and Spice Make Christmas Nice
The Poodles Parlour - Christmas
2 Sisters - Holiday
Sweet Stampin - Dies/Punches
Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or Bows
Aud Sentiments - Winter Holiday Sentiments
PaperCrafting Journey - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Christmas
TotallyPaperCrafts - Christmas
Stamptacular Sunday Challenges - Anything Christmas

Please check the right-hand sidebar for the other members of the SPCC Design Team and be sure to hop on over to see their wonderful creations using this week's color combo! Happy crafting!!

4 Crafty Chicks are CELEBRATING!!!

Welcome to the 4th stop of 4 Crafty Chicks "1st Anniversary" Blog Hop! If you arrived here from Tamie's BLOG, then you are on the right track! If you just happened to pop in, please hop on back to the 4 Crafty Chicks Challenge Blog and start at the beginning for your chance at some wonderful prizes!

What are we celebrating, you ask?? Well, the 4 Crafty Chicks are celebrating our FIRST Anniversary this week and we are so excited to have shared one year of fabulous challenges with you all. We certainly couldn’t have made it through the year without the support of all of our participants. The Design Team would like to thank everyone who has enthusiastically participated in our challenges over the last year – especially when they were *really* challenging challenges! We all have so much fun visiting your blogs to see what you have created week after week and hope to have another fun-filled year of crafty goodness... with a few surprises thrown in!!

This week’s challenge theme is “Celebrate” and the Chicks have made some pretty awesome cards – remember... the theme can be interpreted many different ways so please have fun with it!

As another way to celebrate and say THANK YOU to everyone, we have put together a Blog Hop for you this week and here’s the low-down:

• Each Chick has graciously donated a prize to be given to one lucky Blog Hopper who leaves a comment on the Chick’s blog. The winners will be chosen by each Chick using Random.org.

• To be eligible to win Blog Hop prizes, participants must: (a) become a follower of the 4 Crafty Chicks blog; (b) leave a comment on each of the Chicks’ blogs; AND (c) leave a comment on the 4CC blog.

For my card this week, I decided to use an older Mojo Monday sketch and keep it fairly simple but I really love this color combination!

Stamps: Word Play; Paper: Whisper White, Calypso Coral, Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze DSP; Ink: none; Accessories: markers, star punches, brad, pearls, embossing folder, crumb cake ribbon, dimensionals

Here is my prize for the hop today:

The 4 Crafty Chicks have also decided that NOW is the time to start having a monthly Guest Designer! We are so excited to be giving everyone the opportunity to join us for a month of fun challenges. This month, and during the first challenge of the month in January and May, we will be on the lookout for Guest Designers for the next three months. If you participate in this week’s “Celebrate!” challenge and would like to be considered for October, November or December’s Guest Designer positions, please put (GDT) after your name when submitting to inlinkz – please remember that you will be committing to a month of challenges (which you will receive immediately after being chosen as Guest Designer.)

Whew! That was a LOT of information, wasn’t it? I suppose you ALL want to get busy hopping, right? Well, what are we waiting for? Off you go!!

Leanne

Melissa

Tamie

Lori

4 Crafty Chicks' Blog

I hope you will all take a few minutes to play along with us this week – we can’t wait to choose our first Guest Designer! Have fun, everyone!

PPC Specialty Challenge #6 - EASTER

Good Monday morning PEEPS! It's time for another "Specialty Challenge" over at Picture Perfect Creations....this one is "EASTER." I used last week's Mojo Monday sketch as my jump off point...hope you like it:

Stamps: Easter Blossoms, Well Scripted; Paper: Whisper White, Night of Navy, MME DP; Ink: Night of Navy and Versafine Onyx Black; Accessories: navy marker, nestabilities, navy ribbon, scallop trim punch, pearls, bakers swine, button, dimensionals

I know our new line-up of wonderful DT members have come up with gorgeous creations, so be sure to hop on over to their blogs (links are on my right-hand sidebar), then set aside some time and make us an Easter creation and link it back to the PPC Challenge Blog so that WE can leave YOU some lovin's :) Happy crafting!

5-in1 Easter Fun

Happy Hump Day! My good friend, Leanne, is leaving for home today - she's been my saving grace (along with my DH and kids) looking after me since my abdominal surgery last Monday, and we wanted to do one last "hurrah" for-fun card! I decided to use the Mojo Monday sketch and Colour Q's gorgeous palette for my card:

Stamps: Something to Celebrate; Paper: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Old Olive, Tangerine Tango, Cherry Cobbler, DSP; Ink: Basic Black; Accessories: baker's twine, finial press and perfect dots embossing folders, cherry blossom embosslit, perfect stem embosslit, oval punch, oval scallop punch, eyelet border punch, pearls, white brads, crumb cake seam binding, dimensionals

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Stamping Royalty - Spring has SPRUNG!

Creative Card Crew - Spring

Top Tip Tuesday - Spring has SPRUNG!

Please be sure to pop on over to Leanne's blog HERE to check out her creation she made with me this morning! She won't be home for a while, but it will be on her blog by this evening! Thanks for popping in and we'll see you tomorrow morning for a brand new 4 Crafty Chicks challenge :)

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #30 - Eyelets!

Happy Thursday PEEPS! It's my turn this week to play "Hostess-With-The-Mostess" over at 4 Crafty Chicks and I decided to throw out a challenge using EYELETS! They have been forgotten about in my crafting stash, that much is true....I headed in search of a color combo and came across this very "spring inspiring" combo from Inkspirations Color Challenge Blog:

The Mojo Monday sketch challenge this week worked perfectly for my stamp set that I wanted to use:

Stamps: Easter Blossoms, Best Yet; Paper: Whisper White, Early Espresso, Regal Rose, Daffodil Delight, Daffodil Delight DP; Ink: Early Espresso; Accessories: EE marker, rose eyelets, crop-a-dile, circle punches, scallop circle punch, finial press embossing folder, daffodil ribbon, eyelet border punch, dimensionals

With all this snow that's been falling the past few days, I am REALLY looking forward to spring getting here - this card helped perk up my mood a bit - hope it does for you too! Be sure to check out the other creations that Leanne, Melissa and Tamie created...I know they will lighten your mood too! :)

Thanks for stopping in this morning. Be sure to link up your creation (using eyelets) to the 4 Crafty Chicks website before Tuesday, March 29th at midnight MST!! Happy stamping!!

4 Crafty Chicks #21 - Tamie's Recipe

Happy Thursday BLEEPS! :) I hope your week has been going great .... we just keep getting snow, snow and more snow here in central Alberta! It can quit anytime now and hopefully we start getting some warmer temperatures too! This weekend sounds like we are to get above 0C! Yay!

Our wonderful "hostess-with-the-mostess" this week over at 4 Crafty Chicks is Tamie, and she's bringing us a RECIPE challenge. We are to use 3 different patterned papers, 2 brads and a ribbon on our project....easy peesy right?! Sure...I had a bit of difficulty incorporating 3 different DP's but I think I got it figured out ok ....I got my sketch from Mojo Monday.

I am also entering my card into the following challenges:

Simply Create - Use your punches (heart punch, nesties)
Creatalicious Challenges - It's all about the ribbon/love
Really Reasonable Ribbon's - Hearts
Secret Crafter - with love

Stamps: Well Scripted; Paper: Very Vanilla, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black, Love Letter DP, Basic Black DP; Ink: Basic Black; Accessories: black satin ribbon, nestabilities, black brads, trio heart punch, dimensionals, paper piercer

I'm sorry for the quality of the photo - it looks like my black dotted paper has a pink tinge to it, but it's vanilla :( Not sure what happened there, but anyhew....have fun creating something with Tamie's recipe and I cannot wait to see what all you come up with! Be sure to check out the rest of the Chicks' blogs - links are on the righthand sidebar! Ciao!

4 Crafty Chicks Inspirational Challenge

Happy Thursday my blogland PEEPS! I am so stoked for today...my baby sista and I are getting packed up to head out to Banff, AB (Rocky Mountains) to do some hiking, sightseeing, SHOPPING, and a wonderful day at the Banff Springs Hotel Spa! I am sooo looking forward to it :) One can never go wrong with fresh mountain air, Starbuck's coffee and a day at the spa.....


*SNAP!* Ok, back to reality now .... LOL... our hostess-with-the-mostess over at 4 Crafty Chicks this week is Melissa and she came up with this "interesting" yet gorgeous photo for us to create with. I must admit, the only thing I kept seeing when I came back to look at this picture was a BIG PUMPKIN in my vision :) But, alas, I overcame that vision and found I could overcome my inspirational block - I think my card turned out pretty good...here's the picture:

so...then I was in need of a sketch to follow for this wonderful inspirational idea I had....and of course, the Mojo Monday sketch was the perfect fit for the image I chose: ...and without further adieu, here is my card using both challenges:

Stamps: Upsy Daisy; Paper: Whisper White, Garden Green, So Saffron, Peach Parfait DP; Ink: Garden Green; Accessories: So Saffron, Peach Parfait and Garden Green markers, green pearls, dimensionals, So Saffron ribbon, Martha border punch

I realize my ribbon isn't quite like the sketch asks us to use it, but I had to tweak it a bit to make my image work :) That's the beauty of sketch challenges...we can adjust them a wee bit to fit our needs, right?!? *giggle*

I sure hope y'all are able to sit with a great tasting cup of coffee, tea or hot chocolate and create with us 4 Crafty Chicks this week. I cannot wait to see the lovely projects that are made with Melissa's inspirational photo (it really is a nice pic, Mel!) Be sure to hop on over to the other 3 Chicks' blogs for more beautacious inspiration...

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #6 - Distressing!

Good morning blogger-land PEEPS! Today 4 Crafty Chicks is giving you a "distressing" challenge. Now that can mean using a distressing tool, scissors, ripping, or inking... I didn't use any distressing tools but I *did* ink up my card A LOT. I used the Mojo Monday sketch this week and the wonderful color combo from Hand Stamped Sentiments! My card also qualifies for Sweet Stampin's challenge of "Punch It Out."

Stamps: Bronc Buster; Paper: Early Espresso, Pear Pizazz, Real Red, Pacific Blue, Whisper White; Ink: Early Espresso; Accessories: EE marker, sponge dauber, star punches, pacific ribbon, red brad, dimensionals, scallop edge punch, word window punch, modern label punch, perfect dots embossing folder

I sure hope you check out the other 3 Crafty Chicks' blogs (links are on right-hand sidebar) for more lovely distressing creations....and then whip up your own delicious creation and link it back at the 4 CC website :) Happy stamping!!!

Mojo Monday and OCC bring a 2-Cup Day!

On Saturday, Melissa and I went to Red Deer for the day and we *had* to stop in at Scrapbooker's Paradise to shop :) I found a cute new monkey to bring home into my craft room and I think he's fitting in quite nicely - he sure is a cutie! Changito from Stampendous is his name and he sure has some cute poses and sayings that I might just have to start *collecting* LOL...


This morning I decided to give the Mojo Monday "Square or Round" Challenge a go and I picked the square card today as it fit my image better. The color challenge over at Our Creative Corner is amazing, I must say! I totally LOVE this color combination they chose this week - might even make some Christmas cards with it! Yep, you heard me right...it *is* almost time to start thinking about that....giggle!
...here is my cutie pie monkey holding not one, but 2 cups of joe - my kinda guy! *wink*

Stamps: Two Cup Changito Set (Stampendous); Paper: So Saffron, Early Espresso, Cherry Cobbler, Old Olive, Whisper White, Old Olive DP; Ink: Versafine Black, Basic Black; Accessories: markers, paper piercer, dimensionals, nestabilities, oval punches, early espresso ribbon, embossing folder, photo corner punch, pearls

Thanks for poppin' in on this cold, rainy, dreary Monday....I hope you all have some time to sit with a hot beverage (or cold if you like - wink) and get inky today! Cheers!

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!

SPCC #52, Mojo Monday and a Sneak Peek!

I am still recouperating from my wild and wonderful 40th birthday weekend and today is a lazy-sit-around kinda day...it felt so good to sit and create a card! I used the Scrapmaster's Paradise color combo and the Mojo Monday sketch for this card. This Level I Hostess set is from the new 2010 - 2011 Stampin' Up! Idea Book & Catalog...it sure is pretty! The store where I sell my cards at asked me to make some more anniversary, wedding, male birthday and birthday cards, so I had better get started hey?! :)


...here is my card using both challenges:

Stamps: Because I Care, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Bravo Burgundy, Pretty in Pink, Mellow Moss, Whisper White; Ink: markers (burgundy, pretty in pink, mellow moss); Accessories: nestabilities, sizzlits Lots of Tags Label 1, Modern Label punch, Word Window punch, brads, dimensionals, pretty in pink ribbon, cuttlebug folder

Thanks for stopping in this afternoon...I am hoping to be back with another installment tonight! Take care....

Dear Father...

Welcome back! It's been raining non-stop all day today and I must admit, I'm *happy* about that! The rain helped me to relax today and not worry about yard work and gardening etc. I enjoyed a 2.5 hr bubble bath today with my book that I cannot put down! Yep, you heard right - 2.5 hours :o) I had to drain and refill twice before I got out - ha ha!!

I finished planting the garden last night, so that's a bonus! The seeds will welcome this rain with open arms. I think we are scheduled for rain all this week and hopefully the weekend turns nice as I am planning a fun "girls only" weekend in the city to celebrate my 40th birthday! Yay!!!

I have been wanting to watch "New Moon" for quite some time now and I just haven't done it. I was talking to Tamie tonight and she challenged me to sit and watch it tonight. So, I will be doing that later on. I wanted to sit and get a card made before I did though. Father's Day is in a couple weeks, so I wanted to get a jump on those. I used the Mojo Monday sketch, and this card also qualifies for The Shabby Tea Room and Always Playing With Paper's challenges of "Father's Day or Masculine."

Stamps: Well Scripted; Paper: Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke, To the Nines DP, Sahara Sand; Ink: Chocolate Chip; Accessories: choc ribbon, oval punch, scallop oval punch, brads, decor elements Elegant Trio stencils, sponge dauber, dimensionals, scallop trim punch, stapler

Thanks for poppin' in tonight. Don't forget about my Celebration Blog Candy - deadline is June 11th - be sure to click on the picture at the top right of my blog. Good luck!!

"Buddy Challenge" at ColorQ

Good afternoon! Wow, we've had quite the day here in central Alberta, CANADA! Winter has returned with a vengance! The blizzard conditions started out as rain last night near midnight and when we woke up, this is what we looked out to find:



NUTSO! DH stayed home from work and my Dad and his girlfriend were here from Vulcan, so they needed to head out in this to get back home! They made it back safe and sound, just took them an EXTRA long time to get there....The snow and nasty winds continued all afternoon until about 4 p.m. and it's calmed down somewhat now, but the aftermath of heavy, wet, icy snow has been left behind. The roads are not in good driving conditions and some of our trees were sure creakin' and crackin' due to the weight of the snow. Hopefully, this is our "usual" freak spring snow storm and summer will now come :)

Anyhewwwww...onto my card for today!! :) My good friend, Melissa, called me this afternoon (to tell me she made it home safe and sound) and she let me in on great challenge over at Arielle's ColorQ :) You are to find a "buddy" who wants to do the color challenge for this week and you do it together and mention each other in your blog post. So, I GLADLY took her up on that challenge - we have a chance to win some new ISLAND OASIS DP from Stampin' Up! Yeeehawww! Make sure you find a buddy and head on over and do the challenge! It's a great color combo this week:

I went in search of a sketch for my card and I immediately remembered the Mojo Monday blog! It had the "perfect" sketch for my colors:

...and here is my "challenge with a buddy" card created for both challenges:

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Teeny Tiny Messages; Ink: none; Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Brilliant Blue, Crushed Curry, Certainly Celery, Island Oasis DP; Accessories: markers, various embossing folders, scallop oval punch, oval punch, word window punch, ornament punch, dimensionals, paper piercer, pearls

Thanks, Melissa, for "challenging" me this afternoon - it was a lot of fun! Click on over HERE to check out Melissa's GAWWWWGUSSSSS card! I hope you all have a super Tuesday...stay warm wherever you are! LOL...not sure if I will be back this evening or not :) Hopefully YES! Happy Stamping!

A Quiet Afternoon....

The kids worked on building their new puppy a house with Nana, Papa and Uncle Jim this afternoon until 3 and then I took them to 4H (building a doggie house is Math, Science, Health, and Phys. Ed right?!? RIGHT!) so I've had pretty much the whole afternoon ALL TO MYSELF!!! OMGOSH, that doesn't happen very often :o) A girl can't let a good crafting opportunity like *that* go to waste now can she?! I got to work right away on the Color Throwdown and Mojo Monday challenges for this week:

Stamps: Thankful Accents (Verve); Paper: Rich Razzleberry, Whisper White, Old Olive DP, Barely Banana, Pale Plum, Cottage Wall DP; Ink: Versafine Black, Rich Razzleberry; Accessories: nestabilities, clear embossing powder, eyelet border punch, vanilla grosgrain ribbon, dimensionals, pearls

I have to run and pick up the kids and I hope the snow stays away long enough for me to get back home. It's supposed to be pretty nasty here in my neck of the woods for the next day or so. Good hunker down days :) I have a Stamp Camp scheduled for tomorrow night here at my house, but if the weather is nasty, I might just cancel it and have it next week :)

You *might* see me again later on tonight - we'll see how things go. DH won't be home tonight, so I just might be able to crank out a few more treasures! Yay!

Later gators!

Sneak Peek and Play Date Cafe Challenge #25....

I'm back with another challenge and a sneak peek from the new Summer Mini catty! I decided to do the Play Date Cafe color challenge of white/black/orange and I knew *exactly* which stamp I wanted to show you....it's a new one from the back of the Summer Mini catty that starts May 1st. I scoped around the challenge blogs looking for just the right sketch for my featured stamp...and I came back to the Mojo Monday sketch from this past Monday....hope you like it!

I totally LOVE the Night and Day DSP that was in the Holiday Mini...I sure hope they bring it into the main catalog in July! My DH helped me color the motorbike ... see, he's useful sometimes LOL...hahahaha! Just teasin...he's always helping me with my cards and he has to "inspect" every one I complete.

Stamps: Motorcycle (Summer Mini), It's Your Birthday; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Night and Day DSP; Ink: Versafine Black, Basic Black; Accessories: clear embossing powder, markers (pumpkin pie, gray), paper piercer, dimensionals, adhesive pearls

Alright...I'm outta here to start cutting paper for another upcoming class - a Stamp Camp, being held at my house on April 29th...and it's FULL! Yay! Gotta love when the classes fill up! I'll probably be back a bit later on tonight with another installment! I'm hoping to work on the Diva Coffee Break color challenge of Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral and So Saffron (with another sneak peek from the new Summer Mini!) Ciao!