ColourQ Tuesday #49

Arielle gave us lots of solid boys colors to play with this week at the ColourQ.  I really had fun with these.  We hope you can play along with us!  The super cute layout comes from my favorite online Stampin' Up! hangout, Stampin' Addicts.  They have daily challenges, and Thursdays challenge is a sketch challenge.  I like that they can be clean and simple, or you can step them up and make them more.  Sometimes I can get overwhelmed by all the layers in a sketch.  It's always refreshing to be able to choose whether or not you want to make it complicated.  That's what I love about the Stampin' Addicts sketches!

SMARTY PANTS

I love the sayings in the Smarty Pants set.  They are super creative.  This will be the perfect card for my brother's birthday.  He loves trains and he loves to do goofy stuff.  Even though he will be turning 40 on his next birthday!!  After looking for the perfect stamp for this challenge, I decided I needed some new stamps.  :-)  I love all the sets I have, I just need some new ones!

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It's A Triple Good Day!

Hi Stamping Friends!

I'm so excited to share my triple challenge card with you today!  Not because it's so fabulous, but because it comes along with some super exciting news.  Maybe I should call it a quadruple good day!  Today's card gets its sketch form the Pals Paper Arts blog PPA17.  The color challenge is from the Colour Q blog cQc7.  And the third challenge is from my favorite Stampin' Up! friendly, online hangout, Stampin' Addicts.  This is for Tuesday's Technique Challenge Tech34 Faux Marble, a.k.a. the shaving cream technique.  Here's another technique I have never tried!  Here are the challenge photos:

I just love the colors Arielle picks out every week.  And she has always finds such gorgeous inspiration pics!  I know Kiwi Kiss is retired, but since it is one of my all-time favorite In-Colors, I decided to go with it.  Here's my card combining all three challenges:

Isn't it wild and crazy?!  My kids loved it and my hubby thought it had a tie-dyed look to it.  I think I may over over mixed my ink colors in the shaving cream, but like I said, this was my first try at it.  With a little more experience, I can become a Faux Marble expert.  And so can you!  Come back on Tuesday, when I will post the how-to photos of this technique.  I'm having photo issues.  It just bugs me that I can't get a brighter pic!  I don't know if its the camera or the photographer.  More techniques I need to practice.  :)

Aren't these colors fun?!  The card base is Taken With Teal which is layered with my Faux Marble piece.  The Choo Choo stamp set images are stamped in Taken With Teal, Kiwi Kiss, Pumpkin Pie, and Soft Suede.  The sentiment comes form the Teeny Tiny Wishes set.  This is such a great set for all those little sentiments.  I think the hardest part of assembling this card was trying to get the Pumpkin Pie Striped Grosgrain Ribbon and Kiwi Kiss Kiss Corduroy Brad centered and adhered properly to the card!

I almost forgot!  I have some super exciting news... Arielle, the hostess of the Colour Q challenge blog asked me to be a Guest Designer for her December 1st color challenge!  How cool is that?!  I'm so thrilled!  I've never been asked to be a guest designer before.  She already sent me the color challenge and let me just tell you... it's going to be fabulous!  I already have two cards floating around in my little pea-brain.  I'm glad it's a holiday weekend next week.  Just means more time for me to stamp!

Well I better get some house cleaning done.  I've got my Hostess Club gals coming over tomorrow afternoon.  Can't wait to stamp and chat with them!  I've got to figure out one more project.  There's just too much stampin' goodness to choose from!

Choo Choo  #113982  $16.95

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Stamping Sketch and Color Pals

Hi Stamping Friends!

Happy Monday!  I guess it's back to the old salt mines.  Don't you just love old phrases like that?  It's so interesting to find the history behind some of the things we say.  I have no idea behind what's the history behind that particular phrase, since I've never been anywhere near a salt mine in my life!  But something I am near all the time, is my stamping stuff.  I don't have a stamp room, so I stamp on my kitchen counter that extends out into our family room.  It's about a 3'x3' space that is constanly covered with cardstock, stamps, adhesive, etc. and I love it!  The only time I clean it completely up is when I have people (other than family!) over.  Which is about every other week or so.  I think it drives my mother crazy when she comes over, but I'm good with that!  :)

My double challenge card for today gets the color combo from the Pals Paper Arts blog PPA15 and the sketch layout comes from the Stamping 411 blog SSC124.  Here are the design inspirations:

Again, I thought these were great boy colors.  But instead of "tween" boy, I went for a little boy card.  Here it is:

I don't ink up my Choo Choo stamp set often enough.  Looks so cute paired with the Right On Track wheel.  My 4yo DS loves Thomas the Tank Engine.  Thomas is a wonderful blue engine, and he was my inspiration for this card.  The card base is Basic Gray.  The layer of DSP comes form the Autumn Traditions pack.  I haven't bought many of the Designer Series Paper packs from this catalog yet.  Otherwise I would have loved to have used some paper from the Holiday Lounge pack.  But you can't use what you don't have!

Choo Choo #113982  $16.95

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Cards for Missions

Hi Stamping Friends!

A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I had the priviledge of attending the 15th anniversary celebration of Students International.  It's a Christian mission organization that has mission sites in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Figi, and Costa Rica.  Our church has been partnering with them for a number of years.  Our high school and college students have the opportunity to go on a two week mission trip during the summer.  My husband has been to the Dominican Republic site and had an amazing time. 

So fast forward to the dinner/fundraiser that we attended.  I was enjoying the food, listening to students give testimonies to the awesome experience they had with SI.  Then the director's wife steps up to the mic and starts talking about how they had their first Women's Only trip to the Dominican Republic last year what an incredible experience it was and they are so excited to plan a second one for this coming February. Well... I want to go!  So I'm in the process of planning card bundles to sell to help raise funds for my trip.  Each bundle will have 5 cards and will cost $15.  I'm planning on sending out an order form to all my family and friends. 

Here's the first pack that I've designed.  This is the Birthday Boy set: 

I have the Birthday Girl set designed as well.  Hopefully I'll have time to post those tomorrow.  I hope to have a teen set, plus a set for women and one for men.  I was also thinking of doing an All-Occasion set, as well as a "Blue-Plate Special".  I'm sure my plans are bigger than my energy, but God will provide!

Of course the day would not be complete without a Christmas Jingle card.  We are getting to the end of our Christmas card parade.  

I have a couple challenges I want to partcipate in, so I should go get stamping!

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