Blue Car

It's Colour Splash time over at the Play Date Cafe and this time the splash colour is blue.  I pulled out my Paper Smooches stamps and some blue embossing powder that I've never used before.  It melted a lot brighter than I expected but I really like it.  I also like the fact that there was no EP drama today.  Whoop whoop!  Finally, I used a piece of my lone roll of washi tape which I won from Amy a while back.  More washi tape is definitely on my wish list!


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Basic Black) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Car from My guy, Fire from Spiffy Scooters, Sentiment from Perpetual Bliss) Paper Smooches
Inks: (VersaMark) Tsukineko
Embossing Powder:  (Blue Glass & Seafoam White) Ranger
Smash Tape:  (Black Dots) K & Co

Sorry For Being Prickly...

**This is my second post for today!  For my Paper Smooches Sparks post please scroll down or click here!**

I love punny cards and this one made me giggle while I was making it.  :)  I used the colours from the Market Street Stamps Paint the Town Challenge and the cactus from Travelscapes.  The cactus is my favourite image from that set - so cute!


It was another humid, grey day here today so I holed up in the Craft Cave again while Luis braved the elements and cut the lawn.  Thanks to the rain we had last week (yay!) it was looking a little wild out in the yard but now it looks lovely and I love that fresh mowed grass smell!


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Textured white) Bazzill, (Smooth white) Pacon, (Real Red, More Mustard, Old Olive, Chocolate Chip) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Cactus from Travelscapes, Cane background) Market Street Stamps
Inks: (VersaMark, VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Punches:  (2" & 2 1/2" circles) Marvy Uchida

Smoochy Boob Tube

This week at Paper Smooches Sparks is a colour challenge.  This one definitely had me scratching my head for a while yesterday but I finally pulled out the Boob Tubes set and came up with a little love card.  I think you could maybe get away with this for a guy even with the lavender.  What do you think?  I'm now going in search of a hamburger having just read Kim's post.  Don't look if you're hungry!!






Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (Off-white) Pacon, (Cherry Cobbler, More Mustard, Wisteria Wonder) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (TV & sentiment from Boob Tubes, Heart from Vegtastic) Paper Smooches
Inks: (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Impression Plate:  (Sunshine) PTI
Die:  (Nesties Standard Circles Large) Spellbinders

Confetti Wishes

Aside from a surprise visit from my friend and her new baby, I spent most of today in the Craft Cave.  How blissful! Especially as the humidity is really kicking in outside and it's been rather grey all day.  Blah!  A good day for hiding out.  


I decided to play along with the latest ColourQ challenge.  I was initially inspired by the graphic design on the bag but as seems to be the usual case these days I ended up going in a totally different direction.  I made a flower using one of the petals (butterfly wings?) from PTI's Modern Basics and dressed up the PTI sentiment with some matching confetti.  This was a tricky colour palette as 3 of the colours are retired.  Crushed Curry is the only one of the three I have so I had to substitute the Soft Sky and Cameo Coral.  Why does SU retire colours anyway?  Aside from it being a good way to get AR/OC people like me to buy up enough product to last me a lifetime!

Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White, coral) Bazzill, (Light blue) Pacon, (Island Indigo, Crushed Curry) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Petal from Modern Basics, Sentiment from Think Big Favourites #7) PTI
Inks: (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko, (Island Indigo) Stampin' Up

Punches:  (1/2" circle punch) Marvy Uchida, (5/16" & 1/8" hole punches) McGill

Celebration

Hi there!  Popping in with a red, white and blue celebration card for the colour challenge at Just Us Girls.  I love this skyline stamp from Paper Smooches and it looks great embossed.  And yes, there was an embossing powder incident this time.  Tip of the Day:  Put the lid on your embossing powder BEFORE you blow the excess powder off of your card!  *Sigh*  One day, drama-free embossing sessions will become the norm!  


Thank you so much for all your good wishes for Jem.  He's being a little trouper and enjoying his private swimming sessions with Luis every evening while I walk Atticus.  He's finding ways to entertain himself too.  I caught him lolling around on his bed throwing his toy in the air and catching it.  He's also taken to grabbing Atticus by the hock whenever he walks by Jem's bed in a desperate bid to start some wrestling!  :)  My funny boy...


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Night of Navy) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Skyline and fireworks from Metropolis, Sentiment from Pretty Phrases) Paper Smooches
Inks: (VersaMark) Tsukineko, (Riding Hood Red) Stampin' Up

Embossing Powder:  (Seafoam White) Ranger

Punch:  (Corner punch) Marvy Uchida
Gems:  (Ladybug assortments) Doodlebug

Here's To A New Week!

Boy am I glad that it's a new week.  Last week was a bit of a nightmare.  Along with having two migraines, Jem completely blew out his knee.  There's no one on the island to fix it and the specialist who comes in from Boston a few times a year to do those sort of surgeries isn't due to come back until August or September so poor Jem will be running around on 3 legs until then.  We're trying to keep him as quiet as possible but he's bored silly and looks so depressed that we won't play ball with him or take him for walks.  Poor guy!


Between dealing with Jem and taking care of my head I haven't been in the Craft Cave or on the computer since Wednesday.  Today I finally feel better and am playing a bit of catch up. I gave the Craft Cave a good tidy and made a card for two challenges.  I was inspired by the layout and the flower on this card by Joy over at CASE Study and I used the colours from Dynamic Duos.  I also managed to use the Dessert Option from DD and used a ribbon threader punch and wove some ribbon through the white card.  Whoop whoop for using ribbon! Must dash but hopefully I'll be around a lot more this week.  :)


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (Melon Mambo, Basic Black) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Flower & leaves from In Bloom) PTI, (Sentiment from CL340) Hero Arts
Inks: (VersaFine Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko, (Melon Mambo) Stampin' Up

Die:  (In Bloom collection) PTIPunches:  (Corner punch) Marvy Uchida, (Ribbon Threader) Martha Stewart
Gems:  (Beetle Black assortments) Doodlebug
Ribbon:  Hot Off the Press

Crown Jewels

Good morning all!!  After losing most of yesterday to a killer migraine I am so happy to be feeling back to normal.  Good thing too as I've got a busy day ahead.  To start it off I've got a card for the Simon Says Stamp challenge to use crowns and/or gems in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.  I love this Teresa Collins crown stamp that I got from Amy and it goes perfectly with this Unity sentiment.  After trying a few different backgrounds I finally settled on this one from Market Street Stamps.  Added a few gems and voila!  A card fit for a Queen!  :)  Hope you all have a lovely headache free day!  


Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill, (So Saffron, Perfect Plum) Stampin' Up
Stamps:  (Here Comes the Sun background stamp) Market Street Stamps, (Crown from Freestyle) Teresa Collins,  (Sentiment from May '12 KOM - Love In An Instant) Untiy
Inks: (VersaMark, VersaFine Tuxedo Black) Tsukineko
Dies:  (Bookmark) PTI, (Nesties Labels 4) Spellbinders
Gems:  (Bumblebee & Lavender assortments) Doodlebug