OCC......Shabby Thanks

Happy Saturday Peeps!!

It is time for another new challenge at Our Creative Corner.

Our hostess this week is the uber talented Susan Butler and she has a fun challenge for us this week.
Here it is in Susan's own words:

 The theme this week is unequivocally 'Shabby Chic'.This means the shabby part of Vintage! The challenge requires you to pull elements together, the more old/worn and distressed the elements/images the better; think of muted colours, layers, roses, burlap and pearls. 
You do not have to use all of these elements. 
The effect you are aiming for is a soft warm palette. 

Shabby chic is not my usual style and I put off tackling this challenge all week until down to crunch time and I had to put something together. Not sure my card is completely what one would call shabby chic but it does have a few of it's elements.

I keep my colors muted and I added some pearls and a scrunchy bow with and antique brad.

I have a few of these decorative pins in my stash and added them to the bow. 
The flowers are from the retired hostess set called "Love & Care" and I stamped them onto my whisper white top note die cut piece with Pink Pirouette ink and the stems are Pear Pizzazz. 
The sentiment is from the "Kindness Matters" stamp set and I stamped with soft Suede ink.  
The DSP on my card is from the Beau Chateau paper pack. 


I decorated the inside to match:

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge. 

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

CC333....Take Care

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card made with this week's color challenge on Splitcoaststampers. I promise I will stop using this sketch sometime soon, well maybe!!!

As you all know I love sketch challenges, but color challenges are a bit harder for me. I have been pushing myself to do more of them. Today's colors are Island Indigo, Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight and of course, a neutral of your choice.

Normally when I start a color challenge I pull out the colors of the challenge in card stock and see how I might want to use them. I new right away that the tangerine and daffodil looked good together and that either one could be used for flowers. I am generally OK with the colors if I can stamp some flowers. :)

 I also thought that the Island Indigo was dark enough to almost act as a neutral, so I used it that way. I made the base of the card with the Indigo and then added another layer of the indigo that I embossed with the square lattice EF.

I used the awesome hostess set from the Summer Mini called  "Love & Care". This is one of my favorite sets, right now. I stamped the flowers with tangerine tango and the stems and leaf are old olive. I added some daffodil delight satin ribbon, some silver pearls, (non SU) and a little butterfly for my accents. I hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

SC339....Take Care

Happy Thursday Peeps!!

Today I have another quick share for you, this one is done with the sketch challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers.

Nice sketch, I actually change it just a bit. they had a panel across the bottom and I used some ribbon instead.  I had a friend tell me recently that I tend to get stuck on a stamp set and use it alot. I guess that is true, I DO LOVE this set. It is the level 2 hostess set in the Summer Mini called "Love & Care" I teamed it up this time with some new DSP, This is from the new "Pocketful of Posies" and it will be available for purchase out of the new Stampin' Up Catalog that breaks tomorrow, July 1st.

I inked up the stamp and stamped it twice on some whisper white card stock, with razzleberry ink and old olive ink, getting a slightly lighter image on the second stamp.

I added some white satin ribbon and silver pearls to the card. The sentiment is from the same set and stamped with black stazon.

Well, that is all from me today thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

PPA......for you

TGIF Peeps!!!!

Are you ready for some weekend fun?

 I know I am, we have plans for dinner out tonight with some friends and chillin' out the rest of the weekend. Suppose to be HOT and humid so probably spending alot of time inside with the AC cranked up!!

 What you doing this weekend?

Today I am sharing a card I made with the sketch challenge this week on  Pals Paper Arts.

 I haven't participated in one of their challenges in a long time and yesterday when I was looking around blog land I came across the sketch challenge this week and wanted to play along.

I wanted to use this new Stampin Up  Hostess set I just got last week called "Love & Care".

 I really love these flowers and colors and I used another fave, the pretty "Sunny Garden" DSP. I stamped the flowers with Poppy Parade and So Saffron ink and used Old Olive for the stems and leaf.

The sentiment part of one stamp from the "Afterthoughts" stamp set another hostess set. I used my 1-1/4 and 1-3/8 inch circle punches for the sentiment.

Did you notice the pretty edging along the side. I made that with the new "Lace Ribbon Border Punch" that will be available In the new Stampin' Up idea book & catalog coming July 1st.

Don't have a demo or access to the new catalog, just give me shout out (e-mail address in my side bar) and I can get one in the mail to you ASAP!!

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by today and

 HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Take Care

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!!

I just love this new Hostess Set from the Stampin' Up Summer Mini Catalog. It is a Level 2 set called "Love & Care". I had to use it right away as I have been lusting after it every since the Summer Mini was unveiled!

I started off by inking it up with a couple of markers, Cherry Cobbler and Old Olive. I stamped onto some very vanilla card stock scrap piece of paper I had laying in my scrap pile.  I stamped the flower twice and then added the leaf, it is a separate stamp, gotta love that it makes it easier to add the leaves where ever you want them. I trimmed the scrap down to a 2-3/4 inch square and then matted it with another piece of very vanilla and then a piece of crumb cake.

Then I decided to look for some DS paper to go with my flowers. I can across the retired Christmas pack called Jolly Holiday and it had the colors I needed and I could use the dotted pieces from that pack and it wouldn't look Christmas-e! I matted the DS paper with some very vanilla and the base of the card is crumb cake.

I stamped one of the sentiments in the set with black stazon onto the old olive DSP. I added some very vanilla satin ribbon and tied a bow. I then used some black sticky pearls at the top corners. I added the main image panel to the card with some dimensionals at a slight angle.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki