Crazy 4 Cahllenges......hello

Happy Saturday Peeps!!!!

Time for another new challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges

Here is the fun challenge we have for you this week:

Labor Day is here!  

Time to say goodbye to Summer, be it one last BBQ, dive in the pool, a parade or picnic.  How will you celebrate? 

 Show me on a card.

Not sure my card is exactly "how I will celebrate" since I will be working this Labor Day weekend, but it is an end of summer type card.

I think Sunflowers are the perfect end of Summer flower, this the time of the year that you see so many of them around here, even after the long hot days of July and August they keep blooming, the hotter the better seems to work for them, since September can and is mostly still very warm here.

So anyway I decide to make some Sunflowers for my card.

I pulled out the Stampin Up Beautiful Bunch stamp set and stamped tis flower image 4 times onto some thick white card stock. I then colored suing my aqua painter and ink pads. I used Daffodil Delight and Crushed Curry inks.

I fussy cut out the flowers and layered them together 

To make the centers of my "sunflowers" I used some retired Early Espresso cardstock, this is the one that was in the catalog awhile back that was sandable. I still had a bunch and thought it would be cute for the flower centers. I used my 1-3/8 inch circle punch and then ran the circle through my Big shot using the decorative dots EF

The leaves are from the Birthday Blossoms stamp set.

I stamped them onto white card stock and colored with Old Olive,

I used Crumb Cake for the base and stamped lightly with Crumb Cake ink using the 

Hardwood BG.

I added another strip of the sandable Early Espresso cards tock that was embossed with the Woodgrain EF and sanded.

I then used a small piece of glimmer paper and the little hello sentiment to finish it up.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Sweet Sunday......so sweet of you

Happy Sunday Peeps!!!

So happy to be back with my Sweet Sunday girls after a wee hiatus.

Here is the sweet sketch Karen has for us this week:

I pulled out another new set from Stampin Up with a matching Punch called Beautiful Bunch. From the first time I saw this set in the catalog I have been thinking about making a sunflower with it. Sunflowers, one of my fave flowers of all time, just say summer time to me. I stamped the flower with Hello Honey ink onto so saffron card stock twice and punched out. I stamped a second flower with Early Espresso for my sunflower center. I then used another flower in the set for the leaves stamped with Mossy Meadow on Always Artichoke card stock. 

The base of the card is Crumb Cake and then a layer of rustic white and then the DSP is from a new pack called Flashback. I added a strip of Always Artichoke that I embossed with the Decorative Dots EF. 

The sentiment comes from a new hostess set called Hello There.

I added some twine for the side element in the sketch and then added the sentiment panel and the flower to the card with foam tape. I finished with a few gold sequins.

Now let's see what the rest of the girls did with this fun little sketch:

Karen Giron

Barbara Anders

Jenny Peterson

 Dana White

Jackie Pedro

Karen Motz

Lori Telcer

Lynn Put

Sarah-Jane Kale

Tracy Clemente

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Thanks for stopping by today

Vicki