Crazy meets Elegant

Today I have another one of the birthday cards that I made to replenish my stash.  I think that the little cupcake tower/stack is pretty cute.  This card uses two of the new in color from this years collection, Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzazz with a little bit of Early Espresso thrown in.  I have previously enjoyed a similar color combo of Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip and Certainly Celery.  While it is still a good combo, I really like this one too.  It is a little more richer and modern looking.  When I first made the card I had used the Elegant Lines Embossing folder on the actual card base, but it just did not feel right.  By cutting the embossed cardstock and creating it as a layer on the same color card base I was able to get the feel that I was going for.  I hope that you enjoy!

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Swap Card

I participate in a monthly swap.  This month’s theme was "I just LOVE ___________ from the new catalog!"  There were 3 stamp sets that I fell in love with and had to have.  One of them was the Word Play stamp set.  There are so many fun greetings in this set and they are all nice and big so they can be used as a focal point.  I also really liked the Newsprint Designer Series Paper especially for the sheet music page (I want to sit down and see if I can actually play it at some point).  I am really glad that Stampin’ Up! has continued to carry the satin ribbon because I just love that stuff.  I have had a lot of fun with this stamp set and really love this card. I hope that everyone has received their cards, because I have been sitting on this one for almost a month now and cannot wait any longer to share it. 

Oh and I forgot to add in the Elegant Lines Embossing folder as one of those things that I just had to get and fell in love with.  I like the elegance of it yet the lines aren't super thin and weak looking, they are nice and bold!  I think that this card is super simple to create for a workshop but will definitely create the WOW! effect, don’t you?

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A bright birthday

I realized I was seriously low on birthday cards this week.  I have quite a few friends that all have birthdays at the beginning of September so I have been madly making a bunch of cards.  I am happy to report that my stamping mojo is back!  I was able to crank out several cute cards befitting each recipient.  I will have to wait until their birthdays pass to show all of them but here is a simple one that is not yet ear-marked for a certain person.

I wanted to keep things crisp with this color combination, so there is not much extra going on in the card.  The colors are Melon Mambo, Old Olive and Basic Gray.  It is another color combo from the color coach.  I think I want to give them all a try, because I really did not like this combo at first but now am happy with it.  There are so many possibilities in the future with this handy – dandy tool. 

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My first try with Concord Crush

I am trying to design some simple cards to have a stamp a stack for world cardmaking day.  I was trying to keep them simple with a pop.  This card is super simple and the richness of the color really makes the card pop!  I really like the current In Color Concord Crush.  It is such a pretty purple, it really fills the gap of missing colors in our current core color collection.

I found this color combination in the new color coach.  I love just fanning it out and having one of the little girls pick a card for me.  I helps to challenge me as I do not think I would have come up with all 3 of these colors together but it turned out fantastic!

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Diva Coffee Break Design Challenge #192

Welcome back for another Diva Coffee Break Challenge.  Can you believe it is September already?  I am still wondering where June went.  Boy this summer was a challenge but is sure went fast.  Today also happens to be my birthday.  I always set a few goals for the year on my birthday, I pick a couple areas of things I want to try and improve on.  I actually set 8 goals this year and one of them is to be a better blogger both here and on my family blog.   Although I would like to be able to post at least on this blog every day Mon-Fri (I take a break from the blog on the weekends to be with my family) I have set a realistic goal to post at least 3 times a week.  OK, enough with the boring goal talk, on with this week’s challenge.  I really enjoyed this color combination. The only problem was that I wanted to use river rock as the base for my original card sketch and I went to pull some out and I have completely depleted my supply of river rock with out even know it.  I went to my scrap folder and only had one scrap left about 1/8 of a sheet of cardstock.  I was sure bummed but went a different direction and made do with what I had.

The Just Believe stamp set was one that I knew that I had to get when I looked through the catalog the first time.  Then shortly there after I received the monthly demonstrator magazine that Stampin’ Up! sends to us demos free of charge, and fell in love with the card.  I changed the colors but still like the card just as much and I was able to use my one piece of River Rock cardstock!  I created my own Baja Breeze satin ribbon by dragging the ribbon through my inkpad squishing it down with a sponge dauber.  Then I overheard a great tip at convention, a lady was telling her friend to use a baby wipe on the ribbon.  I have shied away from dying my own ribbon because even after drying it with the heat tool I would still get some ink transfer from the ribbon.  But if you wipe it with the baby wipe and then dry it, something in the wipe prevents the ink transfer, and by George it actually worked! 

Thanks for stopping by.  Please head on over to the Diva Coffee Break Designs blog to check out some fantastic samples using this color combination challenge, there are quite a few of them!

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