CIC #14 Johnny Cupcakes...

Whew! What a whirlwind weekend. A trip to Alabama on Saturday and back on Sunday. And guess what? We get to do it again THIS weekend...except we're leaving Friday and will be back Sunday.

Anyway, I wanted to get Kristina's challenge done. And since I'll probably be packing, again, tomorrow night -- I decided to do it tonight. Here's the inspiration picture. I love that it's mostly B&W. And who doesn't love cupcakes?

I didn't really have a design in mind -- or any stamp sets picked out. But then I looked down at my B&W stripped pants and voilà, a card is born. Then Doodle This just hit me, and I went from there. I think the Ruby Red just makes it pop. I put Dazzling Diamonds (glitter) on the frosting. I don't know if you can tell that or not. And I ran the "cup" through the crimper and hit the ridges with River Rock ink. I think it's cute. I also water-colored the "leaves/stems" with River Rock. It kinda looks green IRL.

I hope you enjoy this too. Makes me hungry for a cupcake though...

G'Night!

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WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I made Kristina's top 24. Oh yeah! Go girl! It's my birthday -- well, close. I'm so STOKED!

Ok, so I didn't make her top 10 or her random 10, but I did get a mention/link. In her first paragraph she says to click on each of the orange linked words to view other cards that had the same inspiration as she. I'm the "how" link. That's too cool! My first time to make deadline....

Thank you so much, Kristina, for linking to my card & blog. You made my day!

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CIC #12

I've been thinking about this all day long. I made challenge #11, but I forgot to post it to Kristina's blog by the deadline -- can we say DUH! I blame it on it being late when I finished and put it on my blog. That's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

I love this place mat. I reminds me of cutwork/hardanger. Something I've always wanted to try. But I've given away most of my x-stitch stash. I traded it for ink, paper, and stamps. A trade up I'm thinkin' (although I will always love x-stitch).

So. I really wanted to take this one literally. It's a very classic/classy look. Super crisp.

I'm so glad that Stampin' Up! came out with textured CS. It looks just like the linen place mat. I used it in Whisper White & Sahara Sand. I used smooth CS for the So Saffron and Wild Wasabi circles (I'm going to miss that color!).

Anyway. Here's the card I made. The sentiment says, "I'm here for you always...". And inside it says, "please know that I care". I thought the Curvy Verses stamp would go with the circles.

You can't tell from the picture, but I used a clear Glaze gel pen (by Sakura) around the circles -- to mimic the edging on the place mat. It looks good IRL.

Guess I'd better go and link is to Kristina's blog before I forget!

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CIC#11

Just a quick post for Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #11. This is first one I've attempted to do. The idea is to take a color combo and create a card or scrapbook page using those colors as inspiration. This is the inspiration picture. You can get the details here. Then she picks her favorites and a few random ones.

I think these are pretty cool. I enjoy seeing everyone's interpretation. That also usually links me to other blogs -- blogs that I probably never would have found. There are some incredibly talented papercrafters on the WWW.


Anywho. Here is my card. I thought the colors were great. So Saffron, Rose Red, Old Olive, Going Gray, and Whisper White. I combined the challenge with a birthday card I needed for tomorrow. It would have been much better if it hadn't needed to be a masculine card.

I only have a few sets that are "masculine". And this one isn't -- necessarily. But it was quick and easy. The inspiration picture was mostly yellow and white -- so I tried to keep my card mostly those colors. I used the other colors sparingly. I never did see the Old Olive in the picture. Maybe I'm just missing something. I also added a little Taken with Teal for the bubbles.

Also, you can't tell from the pic, but I clear embossed the fish strip and the fish/words images. I was going for a watery look -- and it kinda looks wet IRL.

I think I could have done a better job with the challenge if I had made it more feminine. Oh well. Maybe next time.

I did make one more card for tomorrow. I used the same stamp set (Very Puny, a 2007 SAB set). It's also for a male, but this one is 3 years-old. It's totally more fun. And I had more fun making it. I guess it's because I've made a similar card before. This is one of my favorite color combos : Bashful Blue, Ballet Blue, and Gable Green. Very "oceany" to me.

Ok, that's it for tonight (eeks! this morning). HEYYYYYY! Stampin' Up's retired list comes out in an hour. I can't stay up for it. I'll just have to check it in the morning....phooey!

Good night.

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