2sketch4you sketch challenge

Celebrating the birth of a foal......made this card for a friend who's daughter's horse is having a baby. Thanks for another fun sketch, 2sketch4you! Since my day is so very full, I don't have time to write much....maybe I will come back later and tell you all about he card.

Mojo Monday Challenge.....

Running so far behind this morning......so just a picture of my card and link to the challenge. Maybe I will have time to come back later and do some more writing. This card was made for a friend who's horse is having a baby. Teresa, I know how you love a round card--great sketch!!!

My Last Week......

Well, this is my last week as guest designer for the Color Throwdown Challenge. It has been so much fun creating along side these super talented women. What a honor it has been. So here is what I came up with for this weeks color combo: Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, and Elegant Eggplant. I decided to make my card using the Top Note Die--I cut out two of them, scored one across the top so that it would open easily, glued the two pieces together and there you have a Top Note shaped card. My background is some Baja Breeze DP that I still had in my stash. I cut along the edge so that it would fit on the base, creating a layer. I then stamped flourishes using Elegant Eggplant ink with stamps from Stampin Up's Priceless set. My flower was created using ribbon pieces cut about an inch long--I folded then and help them in place with a glue dot and then I attached them to the cirlce I stamped and then punched out (the stamp was also from the Priceless set) The center of the flower is a Baja Breeze Corduroy button. The leaves are punched out with the MS fern punch and of course they are punched out using Certainly Celery. The sentiment is stamped in Elegant Eggplant and then punched out using the small oval punch and then layer on matching card stock--the sentiment is from the SU set Small Script. Thanks for stopping by and having a look. I will miss being on the design team as a guest but you will still find my creations there......just look for debhorst in the Mr. Linky list.

2 more challenges packed into one!!

Today my card was truely inspired by Stacey's card for the Color Throwdown challenge. I just recieved this stamp set from Stampin Up this week and I just loved her card so much that I had to get mine inked up. In honor of her inspiration I am using her Curtain Call Color Challenge and the sketch that she used from The Pink Elephant Challenge. I also just had to use my new embosslit again--love that thing--my hand just keeps reaching out and grabbing it today!! Thanks for stopping by and having a look!! It is cold and icy outside--spring can't come soon enough!!

CC254 challenge & OCC challenge

I created this card for this weeks color challenge over at SCS and for the sketch challenge give by Our Creative Corner. I just love how this card turned out. My new embosslit from StampinUp is what I used to create the butterflies. It makes the cutest little butterflies and the bigger one is fantastic also with some flourishes on the wings!! I am going to have so much fun with this new toy!! The color combo from SCS was to use Bashful Blue, Ruby Red, and Soft Suede--get combo!! I punched out a trio of circles--stamped them in Soft Suede, punched out using my 1 1/4 circle punch, layered that on a 1 3/8 circle out of Ruby Red, glued on my butterflies and bent up their wings, added my sentiment and then tied my ribbon. Thanks for stopping by and have a look see.....happy stamping!!

ColourQ and 2sketch4you challenges

I decided to play along with the sketch challenge from 2sketch4you and the colourQ challenge. I must say that this week has been hard to get the stamping done that I like--thus the combining for these two challenges. I hope next week is not a crazy and I can play along with all the challenges that I love. I used the scrapes (that are dwindling very quickly) of my Razzleberry Lemonade DP pack--glued my squares to Bravo Burgundy and then cut it out with my Top Note Die from Stampin Up!--used my new embosslit to cut/emboss my butterflies and then glued them on at the center so that I could bend up their wings--added the Pumpkin Pie ribbon to finish off the sketch and corner rounded two of the corners just for something different. Check out the fun and play along!!!

It is Color Throwdown Time again.....

It is time once again for the Color Throwdown Challenge!! Come on over and play along--we got great colors this week!! Just think of all the beautiful creations you can make using these colors!
I tried out this new little technique using a slot punch and ribbon.....love it!! I will be back after my club with alittle tutorial....just don't want to ruin what I have planned for them. Anyway I used a retired stamp set from Stampin Up for my flower....one of those I just have never been able to part with, and a brand new stamp set from Stampin Up's Sale-A-Bration catalog.....isn't that sentiments just the sweetest!! My base card is So Saffron and I layered my main image panel with Melon Mambo with a Old Olive wainscoating at the bottom. Inking my flower was fun--I used my So Saffron maker and then a paint brush and some Melon Mambo re-inker ink to "touch" up the edges....LOVE how this turned out!! What do you think??

Well, bye-bye for now.....Happy Wednesday everyone!!