YPP Sketch Challenge #2

Here’s the sketch …

Here’s what I came up with …

Part of the challenge was to use Lindy’s Stamp Gang products … so, I used a couple of colours to colour the white Thickers and to create the accent paper behind the picture (along with my very first set of Nestabilities).  I also used them to colour a paper flower and to add a bit of shimmer to some seam binding and a bit of Webster’s Pages trim.  Then I added a bit of journaling on a piece of vellum to the corner with a few grey pearls.  I’m enjoying doing these challenges as I’m finding that I’m getting a lot more layouts done.

Materials used:

• card stock and vellum: Stampin’ Up!
• seam binding: from Fini Ribbon
• pearls: Prima E line
• trim: Webster’s Pages Bloomers
• LSG: Voodoo Violet Blue, Golden Lump of Coal & Creme Brulee Cream
• Thickers: American Crafts ‘Platforms’
• flower: Recollections'
• Spellbinders Nestabilities: Curved Rectangles

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PDSS Card Challenge #16

I'm taking the plunge and trying my hand at the latest sketch challenge over at the Posh Designs Scrapbook blog. Check out the challenge ... there's actually 2 - a card and a layout. I decided to use the sketch in the challenge to make a card for a friend that's going in for surgery later this week. I ended up using paper I received in a RAK (I think it's Stampin' UP!) and put together a colour combination that I've never done before. I'm not a huge fan of yellow, but I think it works really well with the brown. And since the prize is a variety of Prima flowers I just had to add them to the card.

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Life on the Scrap Beach - February challenge #3

This is the third challenge from Life on the Scrap Beach's 2010 February Monthly Crop. The challenge was titled 'I Can See My Shadow' ... in honour of February's favourite groundhog. So, you had to come up with a layout, card or other project using the shadow stamping technique. I've never used this technique ... in fact, I've never heard of it before ... but I really like the affect. I decided to create a tag ... I used a few shades of the Distress Ink and a CTMH ink for the stamped image. I don't have a grey ink, so I used the second generation stamping for the shadow portion of the image. Then I just finished it off with some BG fibers and a charm I picked up at Michaels.

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A challenge ...

I'm still a rookie when it comes to this 'blog thing', but I think I'm catching on. I came across this great challenge over on the Moxie Fab blog. You should all check it out ... seems like a lot of fun. Here's what I've made for the challenge (stampset used is 'All Decked Out' from CTMH).

I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend ... thanks for stopping by.