Holiday Extravaganza!

Hi Stamping Friends!
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  Our family spent a few days on the beautiful Central California coast.  My 2 oldest kiddos had a swim meet in Arroyo Grande.  The weather was a perfect 72 degrees, with just enough ocean breeze to keep you from getting too warm.  We had a great time and the kids swam their best.  My 13ds even made the Junior Olympic cut for the 100 yard freestyle!  Needless to say, I did not get much stamping done.  Thankfully I had some posts scheduled for my blog.  And I was able to stay updated with hubby's Iphone, so my stamping life didn't come to a complete halt.  As soon as I got home, I got out the ink and started playing.

This double challenge card gets the sketch from Techno Stamper TSSC94

and the monochromatic color scheme from my favorite online stamping hangout, Stampin' Addicts SACC36.  For the color challenge we could use any color we wanted, but we had to limit it to three shades.  We could also use the nuetrals of Whisper White or Very Vanilla.  I chose shades of brown: Chocolate Chip, Soft Suede and Sahara Sand.  I also used Whipser White.  I decided to finally use a Christmas stamp.  I'm sure you're all tired of my birthday cards!  Here's what I came up with:

What do you think?  Does brown work for Christmas?  The card base is Chocolate Chip and is layered with Sahara Sand that has been embossed using the new Texturz Plate Perfect Details.  The Designer Series Paper is from the Holiday Mini, called Christmas Cocoa Specialty.  This piece has a sparkly shimmer to it.  There are other pieces in the pack that have velvet flocking on them.  So cool!  I embossed the tree from Snow Swirled with Winter White embossing powder.  The Merry Christmas sentiment comes from the set A Cardinal Christmas.  The snowflake embellishment came about because I accidentally touched that area of the cardstock with Versamark ink and it left a dark spot.  As they say... there are no mistakes, just opportunities for embellishment!

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Snow Swirled  #111690  $24.95

Christmas Cocoa Specialty DSP  #116770  $11.95

Perfect Details Texturz Plates  #115962  $3.95

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Happy Stamping!

Techno Diva Day

Hi Stamping Friends!

Today's double challenge card uses a sketch from Techno Stamper TSSC92 (love her playlist BTW!) and a color challenge from the Diva's at Diva Coffee Break Designs DCBD150.

I thought these colors would make an awesome teen boy card, so I got out my Extreme Elements and Extreme Skateboard stamps.  Here's what I came up with:

I really like how this turned out.  Totally grungy!  The card base is Certainly Celery and then layered with Basic Gray and Old Olive.  The Old Olive layer is stamp with the Extreme Elements set in Old Olive.  The skater image is stamped in Basic Gray.  The stars from the Extreme Elements set are stamped in Really Rust.  I tried to use my Spritzer Tool again, to dirty up the image, but I'm just not having alot of luck with that thing!  I distressed the main image with my distressing tool from the Cutter Kit and sponged Basic Gray ink on all the layers.  The sentiment comes from the All Holidays set.  I was really happy with the Hemp Twine.  I used a Stamping Sponge and rubbed some Really Rust ink onto it.  Then I ran my Hemp across the sponge to color it.  Hemp in any color you want!

Extreme Skateboard  #115179  $8.95

Cutter Kit  #106958  $16.95

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Happy Stamping!