Color Throwdown #294- smile!

Did y'all have a wonderful holiday weekend? I sure did but, it was "way busy" and not enough stamping time. We did get out on the lake and did some jet skiing, boating, tubing, and sunning...

Which fits right in with this week's Color Throwdown colors brought to us by Broni.

Made me wish I was at the beach this WE... lake is a good second choice, though!

I was going with the beach, sun, sand, thing but, ended up playing with some PTI stamps and dies instead. The "circles" were stamped in the requisite colors, sprayed with water, and then stamped on the cardstock. The colors are a little dark in this pic. Sentiment is from Wet Paint III.

Don't forget to check out Annette Allen - May Guest Designer - My Clever Creations

Our Guest Star Stamper this week is Christy Stanford  at Snapdragonstamps.

And visit the other team members' blogs for more inspiration.

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud
 Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

Melody Rupple- A Paper Melody
Monika Davis- MAD Stamper

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Cindy Lawrence- The Creative Closet
 

Remember, if you don't have the exact colors, use whatever you have that's close...this is all about having fun!  If you upload to a public gallery, please use the key words CTD294.  Also, when linking up your card using the linky tool at the bottom of the post, please link to your specific post, not a generic link to your blog.  

When you are finished with your creation, head over to the Color Throwdown blog to add your entry to the Inlinkz tool. 

I played with CASE(E) this sketch this week.... not totally CAS but, good for me :)

 

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Color Throwdown #293- Hey Foxy!

Happy, Happy Wednesday!! Time for another Color Throwdown Challenge. Barbara picked the colors this week...

Oh, I had fun playing with these colors!!

 

Played with some new stamps and dies (new to me anywho) from Reverse Confetti and colored with copics! Ms. Foxy didn't turn out too bad (my coloring) although at the last minute I wanted to add those glasses and just didn't have time! She looks like she's been out in the sun with a little tan line around her eyes, LOL!!

Don't forget to check out Annette Allen - May Guest Designer - My Clever Creations

Our guest star stamper this week is Jo Hooper and you can find her blog here! So excited to have you join us this week! 

 And visit the other team members' blogs for more inspiration.

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud
 Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations

Melody Rupple- A Paper Melody
Monika Davis- MAD Stamper

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Cindy Lawrence- The Creative Closet
 

Remember, if you don't have the exact colors, use whatever you have that's close...the color police won't come after you--this is all about having fun!  If you upload to a public gallery, please use the key words CTD293.  Also, when linking up your card using the linky tool at the bottom of the post, please link to your specific post, not a generic link to your blog.  

When you are finished with your creation, head over to the Color Throwdown blog to add your entry to the Inlinkz tool. 
 

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Serendipity Stamps Challenge #31 --- Flowers!

Good Morning!! I have two posts today. This one is for May's Serendipity Stamps Challenge.... it's all about flowers- stamped, die cut, paper, dried etc. See link below to get all the details about how you can play along and win some $ towards Serendipity stamps or dies! Mary has just released some fabulous word dies (you'll see one below) and a gorgeous floral frame.

This time the DT were challenged to use flowers along with a resist technique.

I chose to use a Gesso Resist technique... you can find the tutorial on Splitcoaststampers here. This was a new adventure for me. I applied gesso onto a magazine page until it was opaque, let it dry, stamped the solid image with versamark and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Then you start sponging ink. The tutorial advises to start with the lighter colors and blend to dark. Not sure if I applied my gesso too thick but, when I applied the lighter ink... my image wasn't showing up... so I immediately went to a darker pink and it worked.

I probably could use a better camera... IRL the image is very clearly detailed and you can see the magazine print clearly.

A little close up...

And... the sale.....This week’s sale is Buy 3, Get the 4th Free.

Hope you find time to join us, and...

The rules are simple... play along using at least one Serendipity Stamps image on your submission and add a flower. You don't have to have a blog to play along - you can link your designs to any on line gallery.

Click Here for all the details

For extra inspiration there are samples from the design team on the challenge blog or you can visit them directly and get all the details by clicking on their names below.

Karen Amidon
Jeanne Jachna

Marybeth Lopez

Jenny Gropp 

Julie Warner 

 Anya Schrier

Pauline Pollington

Miriam Napier
 

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Curtain Call and The Cats Pajamas!

It's a BIG TOP Kinda Day!! Haven't had a chance to play in the Curtain Call challenge for a while and haven't played with my TCP stamps for a while... perfect opportunity to have a little fun...

 

I SAW the popcorn... lower right corner... bright colors in the "back of my mind" and immediately thought of these stamps!! Popcorn... circus... bright colors....

 

PJ Party is the theme... PJ Party is using TCP stamps :)

 

 



 



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Will do the details tomorrow.. my oldest daughter and I canned 36 jars of strawberry jam/jelly today. Was actually fairly quick... first time, but, taste test was awesome!! Hoping you had a fabulous WE!!

 

 

 

Serendipity Stamps Blog Hop... It's All About DIES!!

Yes, Serendipity Stamps is having a blog hop... WHY...NEW DIES! We are showcasing word dies being released today... all of the new dies make me smile! Mary is releasing 9 new word dies AND there is a Fabulous Floral Frame- with some other goodies "tucked in"!! Make sure to visit all of the DT blogs listed below so you can see all the new dies. There were so many... so the DT are providing samples using all of them. I've had so much fun playing... haven't even scratched the surface... OH, the possibilities!!

I have a few samples....

Aren't those Lilacs gorgeous... I grew up in the Midwest and May is the time for lilacs to bloom... it is not a natural flower in the South Eastern US... bought a hybrid and trying to "baby it along" and DREAMING of Lilacs next year... gorgeous flowers and fabulous scent! And, yes, these Serendipity flowers/images have "cured" me of my purple phobia :)

This card uses an image that I fell in love with after my teamies posted some cards with it. Guess that plane should be shooting upward... instead of down... OOPS! BUT, could you IMAGINE being able to fly your own small plane... what an accomplishment! Imagine... I die cut the sentiment three times using different cardstock/patterned paper to make it stand out a little.

 

My last card uses the new Fabulous Frame...

 

How gorgeous is this frame!! The frame was die cut with some MME paper and mounted on SU Blushing Bride. The large butterfly die is Serendipity's  Solid Butterfly die ... die cut with watercolor paper. added ink to an acrylic block, placed the new die cut butterfly from the Floral Frame and Embellishment dies on top... rubbed with my fingers to pick up color and it wasn't even so I sponged on a lighter pink, and added gold spritz!!

 

A close up of the frame die... used my metal "poker" and fingers to "pull up" some of the flower images for dimension. 



 

 

A little close up... wanted you to see the intricate detail in this frame. Gorgeous!!


Here's the blog hop order... Next stop is Anya... click on the link below.

                                                                      Mary's Blog

Karen Amidon

Marybeth Lopez

Miriam Napier

Pauline Pollington

Vickie Zimmer

Anya Schrier

Jeanne Jachna

Jenny Gropp

Julie Warner

OHHHH... there's a prize

$20 gift code to one person who has commented on ALL the blogs. To enter to win leave a comment you need to comment/ leave a little love on all the DT blogs. You have until midnight Sunday 5-18.

Winner will be posted on Mary's blog  Monday 5-19.

 

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