Happy Birthday, Saharra

Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #44 had the perfect colors to create a card for my niece, Saharra, who turned 3 yesterday. The colors this week are:
chocolate chip, close to cocoa, pink pirouette, whisper white

I used this card made by Anna Wright as the inspiration for my card. I love how she had the owl hovering above the tree stump.

Have a good weekend. Thanks for looking!

Card Ingredients

Stamps: Birthday Whimsy (SU!), Whoo Loves You (Hero Arts)
Paper: White (JudiKins), Pink Pirouette (textured and regular), Chocolate Chip, Candy Lane DSP (SU!)

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Encore Bark Pigment Ink (Tsukineko)

Tools: Big Shot, Dots Texture pad (SU!), Threading Water border punch (Fiskars), Take it Easy Alphabet (Sizzix)

Other: Heidi Swapp chipboard, white gel pen (Sakura), Souffle pen (Sakura), clear embossing powder, linen thread (SU!), foam tape, Pink Pirouette Striped Grosgrain ribbon, Felt Fusion flower, mini brad (Making Memories)

Happy Birthday, Cris!

One of my dearest friends, Cris, has a birthday on September 11th. Her birthday dinner was abruptly cancelled 7 years ago during that terrible day in our country's history. Tomorrow, she is having a birthday dinner again. We won't be able to make it because of a previous commitment at Kalino's school. I hope she has a great party and a great day.

This card was created for Kristina's Color Inspiration Challenge #22 . The colors this week are:

This is one of the rare weeks that I have all the cardstock colors. I don't have all the inks though. I was inspired by the collage in the Stampin' Up catalog on p. 161.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Eastern Blooms & All Holidays (SU), Asian Flair (Verve)
Paper: Soft Sky, Bravo Burgundy, Rose Red, Regal Rose, white, & white textured paper
Ink: ColorBox Frost White, VersaMark, Soft Sky, Rose Red
Punches: Scallop square, 1 1/4" circle, 1 1/16" circle, Martha Stewart butterfly
Edited to Add: Forgot to list the SU scallop border punch...duh!
Other: foam tape, dimensionals, SU button, Felt Fusion flower, Making Memories rhinestone brad, silver beads (Michael's), rhinestone sticker (Michael's), white cording, white embossing powder, clear embossing powder, corner rounder

Thank You - AVS01

I finally finished the 12 cards for the Julee's Anni-VERVE-sary sketch challenge! I completed all 12 cards in less than 48 hours. That's a record for me. I was up till almost 3 AM and I was up again by 7 AM. It's after 2 PM and I haven't showered yet.

This was also the first time I uploaded anything to Splitcoaststampers (my gallery). I messed up the categories a few times. I was in such a rush, I forgot to select the SU stamp set names. Sorry, Splitcoaststampers!!

Julee's first sketch was the hardest for me to complete. I created this card last.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: For a Friend
Paper: Confetti Kraft (CA Paper Goods), Certainly Celery, Rose Red, Pumkin Pie, SU DSP
Ink: Memories Black
Other: Felt Fusion, Martha Stewart marker, Certainly Celery Polytwill ribbon, foam tape, 15/16" square punch, Making Memories rhinestone brad, Fiskars scallop scissors

The Smell of Play-Doh (SOA Challenge #5 - Fave Childhood Memory)

This scrapbook page if for Stampin' Out Alzheimer's Challenge #5. We had to scrap a page inspired by a favorite childhood memory. Photos were not required. The smell of Play-Doh and playing with Play-Doh are one of my favorite childhood memories.

I had to totally redo this scrapbook page. I hated the paper choices I made the first time around...I used primary colors matching Play-Doh...ugh, to circus-ish (sorry, not a real word). I love the new color choices of this page.

Scrapbook Page Ingredients
Stamps: none
Paper: designer paper (My Mind's Eye), small scrap of white used for printing Play-Doh logo
Ink: printed on my laser printer...font used is SBC Scribble
Other: Embossed stickers (Marcella by Kay), 3/4" paper punch, flower-shaped brad, felt flower (SU Flower Fusion), foam tape

We May Not Be Tadpoles Anymore

For Kristina's Color Inspiration #6 challenge, we had to use the following colors:
So Saffron, Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie, and Wild Wasabi (she also told us to keep Wild Wasabi to a minimum)


It took me a long time to come up with a design for this challenge. How to use Sahara Sand with these other colors, was the challenge for me. I decided to embrace the color and use it at the focal point of the card.

I love the layout challenge Taylor gave us last month. I've used it a few times (here and here) and I love it. I decided to use it for Kristina's color challenge.

I also wanted to use some of the blog candy Theresa gave me on this card. Thanks, Theresa! I used a flower from Flower Fusion for the lily pad and some Wild Wasabi ribbon.

I also did some sewing on the border. My stitch length and tension is not what I wanted, but I didn't have time to fool around with the machine settings.

Card Ingredients
Stamps: Birthday Banner, By Design, Unfrogettable
Paper: Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, Making Memories designer paper, white kromekote brayered with Sahara Sand ink, sunflower paper rubbed with So Saffron ink for the card base
Ink: Wild Wasabi, Pumpkin Pie, Sahara Sand, So Saffron, Basic Black
Other: Flower Fusion, Wild Wasabi striped grosgrain, Making Memories mini brads, goggly eyes, white gel pen, Fiskars corner edger scissors, Making Memories slot punch tool, VersaMarker pen