Shades of Gray

Shades of Gray - I bet my title really grapped your eye. My shades of grey is not the hot books that are all the rage right now, but the challenge at Craft Your Days Away. Our challenge is to use shades of grey plus one other color. See, not racey at all. Although I guess it could be a racey color combo. LOL

Would you believe that I didn't use any DP for this card? Boy, I am just shocking everyone with this card and post. It is a stamp set that I bought at the scrapbooking convention.

But wait I have one more shock, hold your heart, this is a Christmas stamp set by Kaisercraft. That's right a Christmas stamp set. I just didn't use the Merry Christmas part of the set.

The large demask stamp, I heat embossed on yellow card stock. I really like this embossing powder. I has little dark glitter flecks in it. The demask image was cut with a SB.

My finishing touch is a ribbon that I hotglued to a button. You can find lots of beautiful ribbon at The Pretty Little Ribbon Shop, who is our sponsor for this challenge.

Now it is your turn to show us your shades of grey plus one at Craft Your Days Away.

Kathys Waffle Sketch File Sketch

Basic Black

Basic Black - Here is my card for Creative Card Crew. Todays challenge is to use black cardstock on you project. I think it is an under used cardstock color for cards.

My DP is DCWV The All Dressed Up stack. I inked all of it with Broken China distress ink.

Here is my image. She is Uptown Angel by our sponsor for this challenge, Kenny K Downloads. Isn't she the greatest? She was homework for my Copics class. We are working on Hispanic skin and hair. I'm not completly happy with it, but I will keep trying.

I added Stickle to her earring, belt, trim on her shirt and shoes.

I cut my MA swirl with black cardstock, then added gemstone to the leaves. The corners recieved some sparkle with a Recollections gemstone sticker.

My butterfly was one that I bought at a booth at the scrapbooking convention in Dallas.

My sentiment is Studio G.

I had a lot of fun making this card and I hope that you will join in our fun challenge at Creative Card Crew.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Graphicat Sketches #12 Sketch

Do You Stack Up #80 Cool Colors

Mad For Markers Challenges #6 BV/B/BG

Stampin Sisters in Christ #148 Sparkle

Laced Kiss

Laced Kiss - Time for another challenge at Alphabet Challenge Blog.  Our challenge this time is L for... Lace!

This is a very quick and easy card to do. My DP's are Graphic 45. The papers are double sided which is great; as I can use both sides and have them coordinate. Everything was inked with Tea Dye and Rusty Hinge distress inks.

My flowers are Petaloo. They came already glittered. My lace is Prima. I love everything that Prima makes. It is all so beautiful.

The image is on the paper. I just had to cut, ink, Stickles and pop-up.

My gemstone swirl is Want 2 Scrap.

I hope you will join us in our Lace challenge.

Pink Ink Sketch Challenges #27 Sketch

Dutch Dare-Card Challenges # Bingo middle row across Flowers, pearls and distressing

Creative Craft Challenges 2 Pink and Black

The Paper Shelter #71 Flowers

C Inspirations #171 Bingo Top row-Pink, Pearls, Glitter

Crafty Creations Challenges #178 Free for all

Howdy

Howdy - Wohoo! Another challenge at Seems a Little Sketchy!!!  The sketch this time was girly, so I decided to change it up and make it Masculine! I used an adorable little cowboy image from Ai Factory, who is our sponsor for this challenge.

Jen make the most fabulous sketches for us to use and true to form I turned it. I don't know if you have noticed, but I always turn the sketch before I start working to see to decide which way I want to do the sketch. It seems that I always forget to turn it back before I post it here on my blog.

I am so behind in my scrap booking and this sketch was a good one to work with. My DP's are Kaleidoscope by MME. I used my Cricut to cut the shape. I used the Gypsy Wandering cartridge.

All of the DP's were inked with Peacock feathers distress inks. It is in the spring color pack.

My sweet little cowboy is Ai Factory's image. It is a good buy, as there are several images in this set. I used only 3, but there were more.

My images were colored with Copics on Neenha Smooth Solor White Classic Crest. I like the way the markers glide across the paper.

Here is the cactus. Isn't it fun?

The circle are a series of punches by CM. I off set them and used star brads to hold them together.
This added interest to what could have been rather dull. (This is my tip for Top Tip Tuesday.)

Here is the star, another image in the Ai Factory set.

The sentiment/title was cut again using my Cricut. This time I used the Old West cartridge. I cut the shadow feature twice; as with the red it got lost, adding the blue helped it stand out a little more.

I just wanted to leave you with the photo on this page. It is me holding my grandson Jace in the NICU. He had to stay there for a week and I spent a lot of time in that chair rocking him. Jace is now almost 3 years old and is a strong, healthy little boy.

Top Tip Tuesday #80 Men (Tip)

Fab N Funky Challenges #128 Stars and Stripes - brad stars in circles, stipes in DP

Belli Challenge #147 Stars - brads

Stampin Sisters In Christ #147 1 Circle, 2 different papers and 1 embellishment

By the Sea

By the Sea - It is time for another sketch challenge at Sunday Sketch and Stamp. This challenge is sponsored by Crimson Cloud. Crimson Cloud has lots of lush inks, papers and flowers for your every crafting need.

My DP's are from one of my favorite paper pads, Afternoon Muse by Glitz. My corner die is CB.

Here is the lovely sketch that is the challenge for Sunday Sketch and Stamp. It is a good one, so I hope that you will join us for this weeks challenge.

My image is The Greeting Farms Mermaid. The was one of the first stamps that I bought I first started coloring with Copics. She is so easy and simple to color with her big open areas. I hand drew her rock. After she was colored, I added gemstones to her hair.

I used 2 different glitters on her. The glitter that is in the water, is MS ultra fine. The glitter that is on the Mermaid is SU iridescence.

My flower was made by stamping a scenic image on white paper, then blending it with spun sugar distress ink. It was cut with a SB, then wet and shaped. The layers are held together with a brad. The green curls are formed by wrapping a wire around a thin paintbrush handle. The gemstone swirl is Recollections.

Deep Ocean Challenge Blog #29 Sea of Love

Simply Create Too #17 Summer/Vacation

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge #193 Pastel Colors

Pile it on Challenge #28 Shore Thing

Fancy

Fancy - I was asked by my daughter to make a Fancy Nancy card for a little girl who was having Fancy Nancy themed party. Fancy Nancy is a story book character who is quite popular with little girls right now.

I googled Fancy Nancy images and found this coloring book page image to use. She is colored with Copics and I added a lot of Stickles to her dress. A full colored illustration of this image had a tiara and butterflies in her hair, but that was missing from the coloring image, so I made my own tiara with rhinestones. I used Perfect Pearls to make the streamers on the image.

The challenge sponsored by Crafty Emmas at Craft Your Days Away is to use doilies and lace. My friend bought this doily diecut recently and cut some for me. I don't know which company made the die.

My DP is an old stack kaleidoscope by MME. The flower is Petaloo.

I love the lace; as it has very pale pink sequins on it.

Digital Tuesday Challenge #167 Kids
Paper Take Weekly #72 Highlight with a product
Anything Challenge #70 Dots and Birthday - The pink paper has big dots on it.
Crafts and Me Challenges #91 - 1 image, 2 DP, 3 Embellishments-lace, flower, Doily
Dutch Dare-Card Challenges #172 For a Child
Paper Play Challenges #27 Birthday
One Stop Craft Challenge  #190 Summer flowers

Pearls and Swirls

Pearls and Swirls -  This fortnight our challenge at Creative Card Crew is Pearls and Swirls. I have had these Inkadinkado swirly, Christmas images for several years without using them very much, so and now was my chance!

We are sponsored by Simon Says Stamp, where you can find many of the products that I used on this card.
My DP is from The Paper Studio's Holiday Wonder. I loved the teals in this paper pack.

My image is Inkadinkado's. They have a series of Christmas images with swirls. I think I bought all of them. I really like how elegant they look.

I stamped my image with The Rubber Cafe's glue and then rubbed on their Hunter's Green glitter.

Everything was inked using Ranger's winter distress inks Iced Spruce. This is my new favorite distress ink color. It just seems to go with everything.

I finished off the image with a white pearl as my tree topper.

My sentiment is also an Inkadinkado stamp. It is from another of the swirly image packs. I added a pearl that I make with my Viva Decor icy white pearl pen.

My poinsettias are made using SB poinsettia die. I cut, dry embossed, color embossed with the paper still in the die. I then shaped them using a tiny embossing tool. They were stacked and then another small pearl was added to the flower centers.

My teal diecut is made with a Marianne designs die. I also used some pearls swirls that are Want 2 Scrap's.

Charisma Cardz #25 Anything Goes

Pink Ink Sketch Challenges #26 Sketch

Phindy's Place Challenge #78 Song Inspired - O Christmas Tree

Chocolate Coffee Cards #16 Anything Goes Card

Stampin For the Weekend #12 Your Style

The Secret Crafter Saturday Challenge Christmas

All Sorts Challenge #161 In Bloom

52 CCT Anything Goes Christmas

Stampin Sisters in Christ #147 New Products - Poinsettia dies, Green glitter