Wedding Bells at 4 Crafty Chicks!

Happy Thursday! One more day and the weekend is here! Any big plans? Not sure what we have going on - maybe some beach time somewhere?

Our hostess-with-the-mostess over at 4 Crafty Chicks is Tamie this week and she's bringing you a "Wedding" challenge! It took me a while to come up with my card for this challenge. Normally, I would do an elegant, soft card but this time around, I decided to crack open my Love Birds Simply Scrappin' Kit (retired) and make a fun, cute card. I hope you enjoy these two love birds:

Click HERE to check out what the rest of the Chicks made for our challenge this week. Be sure to link your 3D project, scrapbook page, card or other craft project at the 4 Crafty Chicks challenge blog....happy crafting!

PPC - CC#65 Cute Shower Card

Good Monday morning, crafty PEEPS out there in blogland :) I hope you had a fantastic weekend! I did!! Guess what?!? I got both my kids packed up and off to camp yesterday! Yep, you got it - I am ALONE for a whole week! *insert large grin here* Now, please don't get me wrong, I love my kiddos to smitherines....however, I am the type of person who needs a break from people every now and then. And...they've been with me every day (except the odd weekend here and there) for two whole years being homeschooled! I have been looking forward to this camp week for a while now...Whatever shall I do with myself?!?! CRAFT, you say?! I think so! *giggle, snort!*

OK, enough about me - as you can see from the above picture, Megan, over at Picture Perfect Creations has given us an interesting color palette to work with this week. I struggled a little bit trying to decide what image to use for it and a while back, Tamie and I were at her local scrapbook store and found this cutie patootie La-La-Land Crafts moo-cow! Isn't she adorable?! I had a great day coloring her with Tamie in her craft room - thanks, friend!

Stamps: LaLa Land Crafts, Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red, Regal Rose, River Rock DSP; Ink: Momento Black; Accessories: black satin ribbon, scallop edge punch, word window punch, modern label punch, nestabilities, dimensionals, markers, pearls, dots embossing folder

Click HERE to take a look-see at what the rest of the Design Team has created using this color combo. Be sure to link up your 3D project, scrapbook page or card HERE for us to leave you some lovin' :) Happy creating....I'm off to brew some coffee, light some candles, crank my tunes and start my week of kid-free living! Whoop! Whoop!

PPC #63- Happy Wedding Day

Welcome back to another color challenge from Megan at Picture Perfect Creations. The palette this week is a bold, yet elegant combination for me. I thought of wedding right away so I dug out an old, old, OLD set (All Year Cheer) and got to work:

Stamps: All Year Cheer; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Grey, Poppy Parade, Poppy Parade DSP; Ink: Basic Grey; Accessories: scallop trim border trim, poppy parade ribbon, pearls, nesties, divine swirl EF, dimensionals

I hope you take some time to play along with us this week - we'd sure love to see what you create with our colors! Check out the rest of the design team's creations for more inspiration and link your card, scrapbook page, or 3D project HERE. Happy inking!

Saturday Night 4-in-1

Yep, I am back! This feels sooooo good! I am loving spending some time in my craft room today! I found this wonderful inspiration challenge over at Stampin' Celebration and found a great sketch over at CardPatterns...

I love yellow/black/white together - and then to make it a wedding theme challenge was perfect! I decided to ink up the wonderful flower in the Verve set, Love's Flower.....

...and here is the inside of the card using more of the stamp set and the sentiment is from Little Paper Shop....

Stamps: Love's Flower (Verve), Beauty of Nature (Little Paper Shop); Paper: Daffodil Delight, Whisper White, Basic Black, SU Designer Paper (retired); Ink: Versafine Black, Daffodil Delight; Accessories: nestabilities, markers, perfect dots embossing folder, big shot, Basic Black 1/8" taffeta ribbon (new!), paper piercer, pearls, dimensionals, 1 1/4" square punch, martha stewart double border punch

This card also qualifies for the "Flower Power" challenge over at Your Next Stamp Challenge and the "Nestabilities" challenge over at Little Red Wagon.

Thanks for stopping in today - I am off to spend the evening with DH...we're kid-free and that doesn't happen very often, so we had better take advantage of that! Happy crafting and have a super dooper night!

Wedding CASE

Good evening my crafting PEEPS out there in blogland....it's been a wicked-crazy week, let me tell ya...my kids' last day of sending in school work was today, so since we started school late this year, we were cramming all week. Plus, I've had an emotional time of it as we finally got someone to listen to us regarding our complaints as to WHY we are now homeschooling the kids - and things are FINALLY going to be done about it. It's been a LONNNGGGGGG week! LOL...but a good one in the end. :)

Now, I probably didn't tell you, but Melissa and I went scrapbooking in Jasper last weekend with a group of wild and crazy ladies - Joycelyn and Becky (from Totally Stampalicious) and our good friend, Diana and her friend Ronda. All these girls grew up together and went to school together and it was a hoot meeting them all and spending quality "close-quarters" with all 4 of these fabulous ladies - hearing about their school years and wild and crazy things they've done.

Anywhoooo...to get to the point of my blog post LOL...Joycelyn made a beyoootiful wedding card on her blog for a challenge a while ago, and I've been saving a copy of the card on my computer for quite some time because I had to order the set to CASE it! LOL...So...now I have the set, and I just *had* to re-build this gorgeous wedding card. I am a total FAN of red/white/black for weddings so I hope she doesn't mind me copying her card....My card qualifies for this week's challenge over at Crafty Creations Challenges where they want us to use "White, Black and a splash of Red"....click HERE to check out hers.....here is mine:

Stamps: Together Forever; Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red; Ink: Versafine Black; Accessories: pearls, scallop trim punch, dimensionals, red satin ribbon, finial press embossing folder

Thanks, Joycelyn for such a GORGEOUS card! I might do up a few of these so that I can have them on hand for weddings/anniversaries in the future! You ROCK girl!

Thanks for stoppin in tonight...don't forget to check out my BLOG CANDY (button on top right) and also be sure to hop on over to the Picture Perfect Creations blog and join us in our Color Challenge #15 - Megan has a great prize up for grabs!! :)

Wedding Cards...

I decided to use the colors from the Color Dare again and make some wedding cards using the same layout as my last card..what do ya think?!? I think they are elegant and could be used for any color combo that is soft for weddings....

Parisian Tri-Shutter Card

This is my first crack at making a Tri-Shutter card....what fun!!! There are so many possiblities for this style of card. Any DP will work. We will be making this card at Usona Hall for my stamp club on Sept. 20th....thanks for looking!

Stamps: From the Heart, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Pocket Silouettes
Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Parisian Breeze
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: choc taffeta ribbon, 5 petal flower punch, sponge dauber, brads, dimensionals

A cute wedding card...

I came across this card in the Stampin' Up! catalog too and decided to paper piece the birdies and add some bling! Hope you like it!!

Recipe:
Stamps: A Little Birdie Told Me
Paper: Close to Cocoa, Pink Pirouette, Confetti White
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Accessories: paper piercer, whisper white ribbon, heart punch, jolee's crystals (Michael's)

Here Comes The Bride....

OK..I have to admit, I totally CASE'd this GOOORGEOUS card from Jodi over at SCS. It is *the* most beautiful card I've come across in a long time...I don't know if it's the red/black/white combo (one of my ultimate fav's) or just the way she layed it all out, but...I HAD to copy one. Thanks, Jodi!! I am planning on duplicating it more tomorrow - I'm off to cuddle up in my warm bed with a great book my friend, Melissa, lent me called Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. Amazing, hey, Tamie!! Don't fall over girlie...hee hee. Night all!

Recipe:
Stamps: She's All That
Ink: Versafine Black Onyx
Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Shimmery White
Accessories: Cuttlebug folders, Starry Night Embossing Powder, silver brads, Styled Silver Hodgepodge brads, black and red ribbon