Papertrey Blog Hop

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Had a little extra time this morning, so I thought I'd join in on Papertrey's May Blog Hop.

"I think it is safe to say that just about every stamper enjoys playing with floral sets the most.  This month we are giving you an entire rainbow of "bouquet builder" color schemes to incorporate into a new floral project.  Just pick your favorite floral set at the moment, pull out the ink colors for one of the gorgeous inspiration pieces above and create!  Have fun experimenting with which colors are more dominant, and which ones serve just as a tiny accent.  You do not need to use all of the colors listed in any particular scheme above & feel free to use substitutions.  Just have fun with the challenge and perhaps try something a little bit out of your normal creative comfort zone!"

Here's mine:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: PTI - Turning a New Leaf, Rosie Posie, and Beautiful Butterflies; Hero Arts Shadow Inks - Green Hills (mid-tone), Field Greens (mid-tone), Butter Bar (mid-tone), Raspberry Jam (mid-tone), Soft Cantaloupe; Memento - Lilac Posies
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles

Diva Dare - May

Here's this month's Diva Dare over at Verve Stamps! So excited to actually have a Verve star die to give it a go..

"This month's dare pays tribute to Diva Amber's (Stamping Scrapbooker) military service and Diva Laurie Wilson's (Soapbox Creations) wonderful use of stripes on her cards.  So this month, we dare you to create a card using stars and/or stripes.  If you want to get really daring, you can add the extra challenge of making it a CAS card with stars and/or stripes, as that is Diva Laurie's signature style.  However, that is not a requirement, just an optional twist to the Dare if you want to get really daring!"

This card was inspired by Paulina over at Pretty Pink Posh -- been seeing all these neat cards with die cuts and sequins, so had to give it a try!

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar white, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Paris Dusk, TH Distress Ink - Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans, and Spiced Marmalade, Verve Stamps -Treasured Words
Cutting/Embossing: Verve - Starry Die, Poppy Stamps - Pine Tree Border (I think)
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, twine from The Twinery, sequins from Neat and Tangled, TH Stickles - Rock Candy, Inky Antics - Cloud Stencil

Little Tangles Challenge #13

Here's this week's challenge over at the Little Tangles Challenge blog. The recent new release over at Neat and Tangled was fantastic - loved the new sequin colors!

"This week's theme is Embellish It. Create a project and use any kind of embellishments that you have in your stash. Wood veneers, ribbon, bling, pearls, chipboards...oh I don't know, perhaps sequins?"

Here's mine:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Neat and Tangled - Party Dots and Across the Card, Impress - Circle stamp, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Grape Juice and Tide Pool
Misc.: Neat and Tangled sequins

Lawn Fawn gift set/Lawnscaping Challenge

Here's a little something I put together for our new neighbors to welcome them to the neighborhood...

It also seems to fit with this week's challenge over at the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog.

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress ink - Antique Linen, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Red Royal, Lawn Fawn - Home Sweet Home, Envelope --- SSS - Envelope Sentiments
Misc.: Twine from The Twinery, Copic markers, copic multiliner

DeNami Fresh Florals Blog Hop

Welcome to DeNami's Fresh Florals blog hop! You should have arrived here from the lovely blog of  Dana. If you are lost, and need to head back to the beginning, you can certainly always click HERE to go back to the DeNami homepage.

Who: Anyone who has a DeNami floral image! 

When: The blog hop starts on May 19th at 6 AM, PST. However, you have until May 20th, 11:59 pm PST, to leave comments on all the blogs (to be eligible for a prize) 

Why: To be inspired by fun DeNami Design creations and also the chance to win mini shopping sprees on the DeNami Design website! 

Prizes: We are giving away THREE $20 gift certificates to our website! We'll be giving away one gift certificate to a random participant (DT members not eligible) and then we'll also be giving away TWO gift certificates to TWO people who comment along the hop!    

Here's my card:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock, kraft
Stamps/Inks: Versafine - Olympia Green, Amuse Ink - Evergreen, Fresh Ink - Grass, Delicata Gold, DeNami - CL-GD008 Solid Flower Accents Set, J146 Garden Bouquet, PF48 Thoughtful Greetings stamp set
Cutting/Embossing: Ranger superfine clear embossing powder
Misc.: Prismacolor pencils, dimensional adhesive, American Crafts gold glitter tape, Liquid Pearls - opal, Gold stickles


Thank you for stopping by, and don't forget to comment for an opportunity to win a gift certificate to DeNami! You're now off to see Larissa's lovely creation!

Monday Mood Board #12

Loved the festive color scheme for WPlus9's Monday Mood Board, so decided to play along...

PLAY ALONG

If you'd like to play along, use the mood board as a starting point for a card, tag, layout or any project...where ever the inspiration takes you! Use at least one Wplus9 product. Upload your project to your blog or online photo gallery such as Flickr. Then link it up to share it and keep the inspiration flowing! Remember, you'll have 2 weeks to play along.

Here's mine:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Fresh Ink - Mojito, HA Shadow Ink - Pale Cantaloupe, Red Royal, Cornflower Blue, HA - CG522 Edgy Background, WPlus9 - Fresh Picked and Spring Tags
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles
Misc.: Sequins from Neat and Tangled, dimensional adhesive

Lawnscaping Challenge #57

Here's this week's challenge over at The Lawnscaping Challenge Blog...

I do love a little sparkle on a card! Tried to make it gender neutral --- hard to do with lots of sparkle, so it had to be subtle.

Here's mine:

Materials
Paper: Watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock, kraft
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress ink - Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, and Antique Linen, Memento - Rich Cocoa, Lawn Fawn - Many Thanks, PTI - Leaf Prints, Delicata Gold Ink
Misc.: Zig Wink of Stella Gold brush, dimensional adhesive

Little Tangles Challenge #12

I've been loving my stamps from Neat & Tangled (and even more excited for my new release stamps to arrive!), so I decided to try something new and play along this week.

Here's mine:

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Tide Pool and Pale Tomato, Paper Smooches - Sentiment Sampler, Neat & Tangled -On the Strip and Party Dots
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles
Misc.:Wink of Stella - Gold brush tip marker, dimensional adhesive

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day!

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Ranger Archival black ink, TH Distress Ink - Mowed Lawn, HA/Sizzix - Antique Flowers and Butterflies, DeNami - Happy Mother's Day
Cutting/Embossing: Coordinating die cut for butterfly (HA/Sizzix)
Misc.: Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol, Wink of Stella brush marker - Silver, Distress markers, dimensional adhesive, jewel embellishments

And some Mother's Day knitting...

Pattern: Ridgely
Needles: 6 circ
Yarn: Cobasi

His & Hers - Day 5

Day 5....

Topic: Anniversary/Love/Appreciation
Technique: Embossed Embossing - This was HARD to get to emboss evenly and stick where it was supposed to - I seemed to be very good at getting way too much or way too little...

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Hero Arts Shadow Inks - Soft Stone, Hero Arts - Art of the Card - Untitled Word Shadow and sentiment collection, Versamark, TH Distress Ink - Peacock Feathers
Cutting/Embossing: Cuttlebug embossing powder, Zing metallic embossing powder, Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Circles
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive

His & Hers - Day 4

Day 4...

Topic: Mother's Day and Father's Day Cards

I went with Mother's Day, because for day #5, I decided to go for pseudo-manly.

Materials
Paper: Neenah - Solar White, Lawn Fawn - Bright Side, My Mind's Eye - Hootenanny
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, DeNami - Happy Mother's Day
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Nested Hearts
Misc.: Perfect Pearls - Lavendar Lace, dimensional adhesive

His & Hers - Day 3

Day 3....

Topic: Sympathy Cards
Card 1:
I loved Heather Nichols' techniques - wasn't adventurous enough today to do the pocket card technique, but I loved the soft look of her watercolor stamping. Wasn't as happy with mine, but I think bigger stamps would have been better.

Materials:
Paper: Kraft, Lily Bee Design - Victoria Park
Stamps/Inks: TH Distress Inks - Walnut Stain, Crushed Olive, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Evergreen Bough, Brushed Corduroy, Pumice Stone; Just Rite Clear - Large Fancy Sentiments, PTI - The Sweet Life
Misc.: May Arts Twine, button

Card 2: 
Hand-Drawn technique with sparkling H2Os...

Materials:
Paper: Watercolor paper, misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, TH Distress Ink - Antique Linen, Just Rite Clear Stamps - Large Fancy Sentiments, Penny Black - Delicate Florals
Cutting/Embossing: Corner Rounder
Misc.: Sparkling H2Os, Copic multiliner, dimensional adhesive

And, just for fun, some clips made over the weekend using a variety of dies - Spellbinders and TH.