Thursday- Bright and Bold challenge

Hey everyone,
I hope everyone is having a fun week.  I just have been swamped.  I worked 5 hours on Tuesday prepping for my card class next weekend.  In a way I hope I don't have anymore sign ups because I will have to get all the stuff back out and the store is out of some of the paper--very stressed.  it will all work out! right?

Over at Some Odd Girl Stamps they were have a challenge to make a bright and bold card. I loved this challenge because every Wednesday is mail day at Jack's summer camp.  I like to make little cards for him and he LOVES that I make them especially for him.  So here is next week's card.

supplies

cardstock- bazzill, neenah



paper-imaginisce
gems-imaginisce

I think that little watermelon is just so darn cute.  I am sure he is going to LOVE it!

Wow it has been a long time since I posted a layout.  I have done tons and I will show you one tomorrow from my July kit from Burlap and Buttercups.  So thanks so much for stopping by! I will see you all tomorrow!

Wednesday Card

hey everyone,

Tuesday's video showed the technique of emboss resist.  I have taken many of Jennifer's classes and did this technique and always loved it; however, the embossing part was done for us.  Well, I realized that I am NOT a good embosser.  I had lots and lots of problems but I did my best with the challenge.

Here is my take on the embossed resist technique.

As you can see I am not Jennifer Mcguire, but I tried it all on my own and I think the results are decent.  Not perfect, but not horrible either. 

supplies

paper- hero arts, watercolor paper

stamps-hero arts, paper trey ink

ink- tim holtz, hero arts

twine- paper trey ink

button-paper trey ink

I hope everyone has a wonderful day.  I will be back tomorrow with a new project.  Thanks for stopping by!



Tuesday Summer Card Camp Week 2

Hello,

Did everyone have a fantastic long weekend?  Boy, we did here.  It was wonderful.  I loved every minute of every day. 

Well, week 2 started yesterday of my Summer Card Camp and here is the color combination.

 Great colors- right?  Well I had a heck of a time to get some of the apricot colors.  Then I realized that last week I had picked up a new kit from Simply Scrapbooks to work on for a display and the colors worked brilliantly. 



Supplies

cardstock-bazzill

paper, stickers, tag- cosmo cricket

flower-webster's pages

Today I am going to scrap with the girls today.  I have to kit for 2 upcoming classes  and then scrap a bit for me.  I am excited. 

I hope everyone has a great day today. I will be back tomorrow with a new post and creation.  Thanks for stopping by and see you tomorrow!

mp



Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July,

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend with friends and family.  I know we have here.  The weekend has been full of bike parades, cook outs, family and friends.  Today we are just staying home and enjoying our family.  Here a couple of pictures from our weekend.

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back tomorrow with a new creation--what I don't know yet but I am going to my craft room right now so I will have something fresh!  See ya then!

Sunday

Hello,

Hope everyone is having a a great weekend! We are here.  Trying to get ready for our family cook out today.  Just popped in to show my card from summer camp.  This card is taken from Thursday's post with the sketch.  I chose the symmetrical sketch. 

supplies
cardstock-neenah solar white
paper-echo park
stamps- paper trey ink
ink-jenni bowlin
tools- fiskars border punch, martha stewart punch
die cut- paper trey ink

I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  Thanks so much for stopping in! I truly appreciate all your kind comments! I also want to give a big shout out to my many new followers! welcome-bienvenidos!!!

saturday

Happy Saturday,

OK I usually don't blog on the weekends but I am behind in my card class and postings so I had to schedule one for today and one for tomorrow.  So this is going to be a quickie!

For this card I wanted something bold using the color palette and here is what I came up with.

supplies

cardstock-hero arts, neenah

stamps-hero arts

ink-hero arts, memento

markers-copics

My mom's birthday is on Wednesday and this is going in the mail today for her.  I hope she likes it!

I will be back tomorrow with my take on one of the sketches.  Have a great weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!

Friday

Happy Friday and Long Weekend to Everyone,

I am so happy that we have a long weekend.  We have a lot going on but it should be fun.  Saturday we need to get the back yard and house ready for our family cook out on Sunday.  All of hubby's family will be here and a ton of kids.  We are getting out the sprinklers and bounce house for the kids.  It should be fun! Then on Monday we just have a quiet family day. 

Yesterday I went to Archiver's and I have to say  I was a very good girl!!! They had the coupon of buy 3 cardstock and get 3 and I did that, and they had a coupon for 30% off one item.  For this item I got a 1 1/2 inch circle punch and that was it!!!!! I was so happy.

Later that day I made another layout from my July Burlap and Buttercups.  You have to pop on over there and check out this AMAZING KIT.  There is so much stuff-jillibean soup-my minds eye-echo park-jenni bowlin-doodlebug-ribbon and matching cardstock.  What a deal.  I will be showing my layouts next week.

As you know I am participating in the online Summer Card Camp.  The Tuesday's class topic was to make a card with a window. 

Here is my take.  I used a hero arts note card and stamped it with coordinating ink.  I then punched a circle on it.  I then punched a white circle of neenah cardstock and stamped it with memento ink.  I colored my peacock  with copics.  Next I used a small sheet of acetate and covered the back side of the front of the card.  This created the window.  On the acetate I then put some bling from hero arts.  As Jennifer said in the class "this creates a floating effect"  The gems look like they are "floating in air". Finally I stamped my greeting.  I love how it turned out.

Supplies

cardstock-neenah, hero arts

stamps-hero arts

ink-memento, hero arts

gems-hero arts

Well I hope everyone has a fantastic day.  I will actually be back tomorrow because I am behind in my class and I need to get caught up.  You know I hate being behind _heheheheheh-.  So have a great safe and happy 4th of July if you are taking the weekend off from the blog world.  See you later!