Christmas Blessings

Good morning! I'm ready for some Christmas crafts, how about you! My non-traditional Christmas card was inspired by a couple of challenges...the Color Throwdown 219 and...

a new-to-me sketch challenge, Classy Sketch 8. Pull out your pop dots for the Friends of Speedy Challenge 134 over at Mark's Finest Papers, too!

Have a wonderful weekend! Stop back by early in the morning for the Uniko Designs NEW RELEASE. It will knock your socks right off!

Stamps: Grateful Greetings (SU) Ink: Black Stazon (SU) Paper: White Naturals, Bermuda Bay, Baja Breeze, Basic Gray CS, DSP (SU) Other: Big Shot, Snowflake die, Scallop Edge punch, Basic Gray Satin ribbon, felt snowflake, Lucky Limeade baker's twine, rhinestones (SU), button (MFT), sewing machine
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Blessed

Good morning, stamping friends! It's Monday and that means it's time for a new challenge at The Pink Elephant! This week, grab your favorite punches and dies to get your crafting mojo going:)

Arielle's color combo this week is gorgeous (as usual)...ColourQ Challenge 162 using Cherry Cobbler, Kraft, Daffodil Delight, Soft Suede and White.

Jen's sketch this week is a goodie, too! Go check out the Deconstructed Sketch 77 and get ready to layer it up:)

The DYSU 97: Leaves & Trees is also a great inspiration this time of year!

Don't you just love this time of year?! Holidays and fall are the best...which is your favorite holiday, Thankgiving or Christmas! For me, it's a very close tie!

Thanks for stopping by the stage! Have a wonderful week:)
Stamps: Grateful Greetings, Autumn Days (SU) Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Soft Suede (SU) Paper: Daffodil Delight, Cherry Cobbler, Crumb Cake, Whisper White CS, DSP Other: Big Shot, Jumbo Button, Seam Binding (SU), Scallop Border die and twine (PTI), Flags dies (MFT), sewing machine
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Valentine Greetings

The color combination featured at Embellish Magazine blog was PERFECT for my first valentine card of the year! The Embellish Hearts Color Challenge includes the colors red, black, and pink. I used Stampin' Up!'s Real Red, Basic Black, Pretty in Pink along with the addition of several punched hearts.
Even though I found this amazing color scheme, I still needed a workable layout for my creation. Anne's (Ardodd) gallery at Splitcoaststampers was just the direction I headed in after learning that she was the Featured Stamper #251. Congratulations, Anne, and thanks for the inspiration:)





Stamps: Grateful Greetings
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Whisper White CS, Real Red Textured CS, Night & Day, Kaleidoscope, & Jackpot DSP
Ink: Basic Black
Other: Scallop Edge, Full Heart & 1" Circle Punches, Button Bouquet, Linen Thread, Fire Square Rhinestone Brads, Mistletoe Ribbon Originals

Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 7

These Gorgeous Colorful Pumpkins were found at the Country Living website. Pumpkins are such an amazing source of decoration as well as an ingredient in our favorite fall recipes. The colors of the pumpkins look like Stampin' Up!'s Pumpkin Pie (of course), Old Olive, Kraft, and Very Vanilla.

To play along in the Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 7, simply create a papercrafted project using these Stampin' Up! colors (or similar shades from other companies), post it on your blog or other public gallery (Splitcoaststampers, Paper Craft Planet, etc.) using the keywords Curtain Call, link your posting back here, and then come back to enter your name and URL in the Mr. Linky box. You have until Sunday, October 25th at noon (CST) to enter your project.

I will once again be picking my FAVORITE(s) Curtain Call Color Challenge submission(s) that will be announced as the Curtain Call Show Stopper at the end of the week!



Those who are chosen as Show Stoppers will receive this award to post on their blog and share the exciting news! I will be picking more than one Show Stopper each week depending on the number of entries there are. There will be one award given out for every ten Curtain Call Color Challenge entries!

Here's my inspired card...



I used the Autumn Harvest stamp set for this inspired card. After stamping the pumpkin images on watercolor paper with Black Stazon, I watercolored using Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers and the Aqua Painter. Notice the pumpkins are overlapped without the lines of the bigger pumpkin showing...that's easy, just create a mask for the image you are stamping over and viola...there you have two pumpkins sitting together! The sentiment on the scalloped edge piece of Pumpkin Pie is from the Grateful Greetings.





Stamps: Autumn Harvest, Grateful Greetings
Paper: Kraft, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive CS, Watercolor Paper
Ink: Pumpkin Pie & Old Olive Stampin' Write Markers, Black Stazon
Other: Scallop Edge Punch, Rich Regals Brads, Mat Pack & Paper Piercing Tool, Old Olive 1 1/4" Striped Grosgrain, Aqua Painter, Stampin' Dimensionals