Crafty Contagion Challenge: Leftovers!

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It’s my week to join the rest of Team B for the latest challenge at Crafty Contagion, which is to use leftovers (also known as scraps) on your creation!

Crafty Contagion is a new challenge blog that my group of stamping buddies (the Stamping Together Divas) set up for us to share cards and projects we’ve made, to challenge each other and inspire YOU!

We issue a challenge every two weeks, and I hope you’ll find some time to play along with us! Just grab your stash of paper scraps and jump in!

My card uses several scraps from Basic Grey’s “Nordic Holiday” mini pad! They were left over from earlier projects I made for the September DeNami blog hop:

Supplies: patterned paper (Basic Grey – Nordic Holiday; Bo Bunny Double Dot,  pink polka dot paper  – from stash), cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), card base, image stamp (The Greeting Farm – Beanie Anya), sentiment stamp (Paper Smooches), Liquid Applique, ribbon scrap, embossing powder, adhesive rhinestone, Copic markers, card base, ink (Tsukineko).

The snowflake embellishment is an extra that I had left over after I finished making our Christmas card for this year.

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you’ll find time to play along with us!

Unscripted Sketches #134

Happy Saturday and welcome back for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! If you celebrated Thanksgiving this Thursday, hope it was wonderful!

Here’s my card for this week, it’s a few days late for Thanksgiving, but I still wanted to share it with you!

If you’re discovering Unscripted Sketches, every Saturday morning we post a sketch for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it…make a card, a scrapbook page, or anything your imagination comes up with! There’s no right or wrong way, as long as you’re using the Unscripted Sketch as the inspiration and basis of your creation!
Supplies: patterned paper (Bo Bunny), cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), sentiment stamp (Stampin’ Up!), image stamp (DeNami Design), embossing folder (Sizzix), ribbon, glitter brads, card base, ink (Stampin’ Up!) 

I rotated this week’s sketch for my card:

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s Unscripted Sketches challenge! 

colourQ #112

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge! 
We’ve been having some crazy cold & rainy weather (with a tiny bit of snow thrown in) lately, so I’ve been in a hot tea and hot chocolate mood! That “warm” feeling inspired my colourQ card for this week:
Supplies: card base, patterned paper (Fancy Pants, Bo Bunny Double Dot),  card stock (Stampin’ Up!),  image and sentiment stamps (Paper Smooches), brads, ink (Stampin’ Up!)
And here are our colors for this week:

As always, The rest of the colourQ Royal Court have created some phenomenal cards and layouts with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.)

Don’t forget to link your entry at the colourQ blog! To be in the running for this week’s colourQueen, make sure you’ve linked up before noon Central Time on Sunday, November 27! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create!

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Unscripted Sketches #133

Happy Saturday and welcome back for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! This week, we have an optional piggyback challenge for you…no pre-patterned paper! If you stamp, doodle, or emboss solid cardstock, that will work; just no pre-patterned designer paper.

Keep in mind, the piggyback is optional, and if you use patterned paper, but still use the Unscripted Sketch as your inspiration, it won’t disqualify you from being considered for this week’s Top 3! It’s an additional challenge to stretch your creativity!

My first instinct was to skip the piggyback this week, but I took on the extra challenge and made my own patterned paper and stamped a pattern on different scraps of cardstock for the bottom half of my card. I embossed another piece of cardstock for the top half of my card:

Supplies: card base, cardstock scraps (Stampin’ Up!, shiny cardstock – not sure of the manufacturer, but I bought it at JoAnn), image stamps (Lizzie Anne Designs), sentiment stamps (Paper Smooches), Copic markers, foam tape, glitter gel pen.
…and here’s our sketch for this week! There’s no right or wrong way to play along, as long as you’re using the Unscripted Sketch as the inspiration for your creation!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan! 
Thanks so much for stopping by! 
I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s Unscripted Sketches challenge!

colourQ #110

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge (#110)! 
We have some more fabulous fall colors for you to play with this week! Here’s my card:
Supplies: cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), card base, ink (Paper White – Impress Rubber Stamps, Crumb Cake – Stampin’ Up!), sentiment stamp (Paper Smooches – Sentiment Sampler), image stamps (Lawn Fawn – Harvest Season), embossing folder (Cuttlebug), twine, button.
Here are our colors for this week’s challenge:
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the colourQ Royal Court for additional inspiration! You can see them all at the colourQ blog or at their personal blogs! (The links are on the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors!) To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your entry at the colourQ blog by noon Central Time on Sunday, November 20!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
P.S. The “Thankful” challenge at Crafty Contagion is still open! It’s the blog that my craft group started so we can share what we make between meet-ups and to inspire all of you to create with us! 

Saturday: Unscripted Crafty Contagion Day!

Happy Saturday! Hope all of you in the U.S. are having a safe and happy Veteran’s Day weekend!

Today is my monthly craft group meetup and I have a card to show you for this week’s Unscripted Sketches challenge! I’m using another one of my Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps (Stella Strawberry):

Supplies: card base, Copic markers, ink (Tsukineko Brilliance – Graphite Black), gingham paper (aMuse Studio), card stock (Stampin’ Up!), polka dot paper (scrap from my stash), lace (KaiserCraft).

Here’s our sketch for this week! I hope you’ll play along with us!
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team to see what they’ve created with this week’s sketch: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan! After you’ve been inspired, link your entry at the Unscripted Sketches blog for a chance to be picked as one of this week’s Top 3!

And, there’s a new challenge at my craft group’s blog (Crafty Contagion). We post a new challenge for fun every two weeks. This week is a “thankful” challenge!  
I post cards on the even numbered challenges, so I don’t have a card for this week. But, If you have time, I’d love for you to visit and play along with us!

Hope you have a crafty week! Thanks for stopping by!
 

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps: Karber Preview!

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Hi! Thanks for stopping by to check out my card for the Karber Stamps sneak peek! This stamp set will be available along with the other two new Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps this Saturday, November 12!

Here’s my card, featuring the new Karber set, “Hawaii Kawaii”!

Supplies: card base, patterned paper (Basic Grey Lauderdale mini pad, Bo Bunny Double Dot  – Sunflower), card stock (Stampin’ Up!), Copic markers, foam tape, adhesive pearls, Spellbinders dies.
The set also comes with an additional sentiment (Mahalo) and a cute pineapple stamp that some of the other Karber team members used on their cards! 

Be sure to visit all rest of the SCRS designers for more peeks of Karber’s “Hawaii Kawaii”. Sparkle will be giving away Karber “Hawaii Kawaii” to one lucky person! 

For a chance to win, you need to comment on all of the designer’s blogs (list below). Then visit the SCRS blog and comment on the Karber post. You have until midnight EST each day to comment. The lucky winner will be announced the following day!

Corinne Mercado
Kadie Ensley
Margie Cortina
Mary Johnson
Peggy Toole, Sponsorship Coordinator
Suzanne Bier, Newsletter Coordinator

Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Store
Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps Blog

Thanks so much for stopping by!

P.S. If you subscribe to the Sparkle Creations Monthly Scoop, you already know that Rin is this month’s featured character! All Rin stamps are 15% off starting this Saturday until November 24th!

If you don’t subscribe to the SCRS newsletter yet, it’s easy to sign up! Just visit the Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps blog and enter your e-mail address under the “Subscribe” link near the top right side of the page!

colourQ #110

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge! I’m sure you’ll love what we have in store for you this week! I’m trying to get ahead with my challenge cards, and am finalizing my Christmas card design. I’d like to get most of the prep work done before my craft group meetup on Saturday, so we’ll see how that goes!
Here’s my card for the latest colourQ:
Supplies: image and sentiment stamp (The Angel Company), ink (Soft Suede – Stampin’ Up!), cardstock (Soft Suede, Dusty Durango, Pool Party, Peach Parfait – Stampin’ Up!), ribbon, brads, Sizzix embossing folder, patterned paper (aMuse), card base.

It’s the first time I’ve used the stamp set…I love stamps that feature sewing images and sentiments, although I don’t sew as much as I’d like to, especially on my cards. Someday, I hope to have a dedicated craft room so that I can have space to do both!

And before I forget, here are our colors for you to play with this week!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the colourQ Royal Court for additional inspiration! You can see them all at the colourQ blog or at their personal blogs! (The links are on the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors!) To be considered for this week’s colourQueen, make sure to link your entry at the colourQ blog by noon on Sunday, November 13!
Thanks so much for stopping by! And also, thanks to everybody who is gracious enough to leave me comments! Y’all are fantastic! 

Unscripted Sketches #131

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Happy Saturday and welcome back for another Unscripted Sketches challenge! Thanks so much to everybody who played along with us last week! If you didn’t get the chance to play along, I hope you’ll join us this week!
If you’re just finding out about Unscripted Sketches, every Saturday morning we post a sketch for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it…make a card, a scrapbook page, or anything your imagination comes up with! There’s no right or wrong way, as long as you’re using the Unscripted Sketch as the inspiration and basis of your creation!

Here’s my card:
Supplies: card base, Copic markers, patterned paper (My Mind’s Eye, Bo Bunny Double Dot), image/digi stamp (C.C. Designs – Latte Monkey), sentiment and flower stamps (Paper Smooches – Hot Concoctions set).
And here’s our sketch for this week! I rotated the sketch for my card and added the sentiment to the right side of the card instead of in the middle.
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Arielle, Billie, CherylAnn, Debbie, KathyJo, Linda, Loes, Rudlis, Sarah Kaye, and Susan! They’ve created some simply fabulous things to show you!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s Unscripted Sketch!

colourQ #109

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Happy Tuesday and welcome back for another colourQ challenge! I can’t believe it’s already November! We don’t celebrate Halloween (we don’t have kids), but if you did, I hope you had fun!
I think you’ll enjoy this week’s set of challenge colors! They’re very fall-ish!
Here’s my card:
Supplies: card base, Copic markers, cardstock (Stampin’ Up!), lace trim (KaiserCraft), adhesive pearls, embossing folder (Sizzix), Spellbinders Lacey Circles & Small Circles dies, foam tape, patterned paper (aMuse), sentiment, accent & image stamp (Abigail Apple, Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps)
and here’s the colourQ for this week: 

The rest of the colourQ Royal Court (as always) have created some gorgeous cards and layouts with this week’s colors! You can see them on the colourQ blog or by visiting their personal blogs. (The links are to the left under the thumbnail of this week’s challenge colors.)

Don’t forget to link your entry at the colourQ blog! To be in the running for this week’s colourQueen, make sure you’ve linked up before noon Central Time on Sunday, November 6! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create!

Thanks so much for stopping by!