PDCC #47 Part II

I decided to play with the PDCC colors this morning again. :)  Challenge #47  was to use turquoise, real red, leaf green and black and white.

I pulled out another Paperbag Studios set as inspiration for my Christmas card.

Love this little Christmas tree with the music underneath. After I pulled it out and saw the music under the tree, I knew I had to pull out my CHF music background and use it in the same colors.

The paper is Webster's Pages, perfect fit for my red in the card. The birds are from a bird cube from B Line Designs. (Everyone needs a bird cube!)

Fairly simple layering of different sizes and shapes of papers. Accent the tree with some of my favorite Memory Box pearls and done!

Products not mentioned so far: Versafine Deep Lagoon, Versafine Black Onyx, Adirondack Meadow, May Arts Silk Ribbon.

Hope you have a beautiful Sunday! We are off to church and SRE and then back to clean the house. Ugh.

Suzz

Play Date Cafe Challenge #47

This week Sarah selected  the great photo and inspiration colors for the Play Date Cafe challenge.

Isn't that house so sweet with it's turquoise door and trim? .

Combine the fun color combination with the wonderful stamps (Doodles & Daters) that our sponsor provided this week and you get this:

Our sponsor this week is Paperbag Studios.  I was thrilled to learn they were sponsoring our challenge. Love their stamps and was so excited to be able to use them in the challenge.

This card has a little story behind it. My friend and fellow design team member Lisa was able to come over and spend the day chatting, laughing and inking. We had a lot of fun and laughter.  During the day we both were working on our cards for this week's challenge. The images were stamped and our papers were selected.  At that point we decided to swap cards to finish the design.   The card you see above was really a collaboration of effort between me and Lisa. Thanks Lisa!  

Paperbag Studios is offering a wonderful prize to this week's winner.  A $25.00 gift certificate!

We also are lucky to have Roben-Marie, the owner and a designer of Paperbag Studios as our guest designer  this week! Make sure to stop over and see her creation at the PDCC.

The rest of the design team created some lovely projects using the same set of stamps and colors:

Play Date Cafe design team

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Have a fabulous Thursday!

Suzz

Tag Challenge # 35

Today is Monday and a new tag challenge will come out tomorrow. SO I have to get this posted up today... The challenge by Louise was to create a doll tag.

I thought about this for awhile and had a few failed attempts... I am a little worried how easily I was able to cut little legs and arms from cardstock that actually looked like legs and arms. Maybe something left over from childhood paper dolls?

But I decided to go way outside my comfort zone and try something very different for me.

Anyways... Without further ado...

I think she looks a little like a garden baby? I think it is always good to try something new and different and helps us grow in our creativity.

So show a little kindness to my little butterfly girl.

The little girl's face is a Paperbag Studio stamp. The body is made using the Hero Arts old french writing and antique flower brocade. The wings are from a beautiful stamp set from Tattered Angels.

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz

Tag Tuesday Challenge #17

This week's tag challenge is to create a tag with children. http://kardkrazy.blogspot.com/2009/09/tuesday-tag-challenge-17-children.html

Here is the tag I created for the challenge:

I actually had been coloring this image for awhile as part of my Copic practice. I would start on a section and play with the colors and then leave it aside and work on something else. I finished the boy's shirt and hair today to include it in this challenge. I love the image of the little boy and girl holding hands and walking outside. I like to think of it as a brother and sister and one of them protecting the other as they walk.

The main image is layered on a tag with a Stampers Anonymous field grass and cattails background. There are some real twigs mixed in with the twine and buttons.

Products:

• Stampers Anonymous U1-1344
• Hero Arts - Wood Finish
• PaperBag Studios - Always Young
• Impression Obsession - Lofty Dreams
• Memento - Rich Cocoa, Black Tuxedo
• Copics Markers
• Twigs, Twine, Buttons, Raffia

Thanks for stopping by...

Suzz

Alcohol Inks Class

This is a card from my Alcohol Inks class. The colors are from the new alcohol inks from Ranger. I love the new colors, this card used juniper, willow, and stonewashed inks.

Products:

• Ranger Alcohol Inks - Juniper, Willow, Stonewashed, Blending Solution
• Hero Arts - Dandelion
• American Crafts - Zing - Brown Embossing Powder
• Signo - Uni Ball White Gel Pen
• Memento - Bamboo Leaves
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots
• Paper Bag Studio - Beauty
• Versamark Watermark Ink

Thanks for stopping by..

Suzz