Happy Heart Day

Playing around with my new SU set, Happy Heart Day.
Colleen wanted a break from Christmas and asked to see our valentine projects.
All products are from Stampin' Up.

Thursday Throwdown (10-11)

Colleen is discussing The Rule of Threes today and offering up an awesome sketch for her throwdown! She also has last weeks players' cards up for viewing.

I used my customer's Haunting Halloween set...(I love it! I think i need it). The card stock is Old Olive and Basic Black and the paper is unknown. The images are embossed with black embossing powder. The sentiment is popped up with dimensionals.
I used a dauber to sponge the edges of the image and sentiment. I love that look!



(I apologize for the poor photo quality...it's raining here and quite dark outside).

Thursday Throwdown!

Colleen over at Distinctive Touches has posted her thursday throwdaown and I took the challenge! She says, "Create a card but no stamping allowed!"
I went through my stash of SU Simply Scrappin' kits and decided to use Vintage Travel paper and Tickets and Tokens self-adhesive die-cuts.

Colleen's Throwdown in Soft Sky

I'm still not too sure about this colour yet...it's so pale. Colleen's challenge was to pick a colour and go with it. I chose Soft Sky because I do not use it much. This card design was one my friend Sherida came up with only she did hers in Groovy Guava and white. I added the bling brads for added interest.

Friendship Blessings

This was made for Colleen's Thursday Throwdown. We were to use her sketch to create a card. I used paper and brads from CTMH and the sentiment is from the set God's Blessings by Stampin' Up.

This is for Colleen's Throwdown!

Today's Throwdown is to CASE one of Colleen's featured artists. Maria from Card Inspired is on this list, and I LOVE her work, but I just used one of sketches yesterday, so I chose Bad Sherry! Here is MY card (yes, I know, Baroque Motifs AGAIN! At least I used different colours this time! LOL!)


And this is Bad Sherry's card:

A Day Late...

for Colleen's Thursday Throwdown! Love the sketch, Colleen, and will probobly do another one!
All supplies are from Stampin' Up.
CS: Gable Green, Cool Caribbean, Pretty in Pink, White glossy
ink: Green Galore, Pixie Pink, Cool Caribbean
stamps: Polka Dot and Posies, Wild About You
Green Galore Brads
the little bird was cut out and popped up with glue dots.

It's Thursday and Time For...

the Thursday Throwdown! I look foreward to these challenges, Colleen, so don't stop!
So, I whimped out on last Thursday's Throwdown. Just couldn't do it. But you've got to see the card Monica did! OMG, it's so funny!
Here is my contribution to Colleen's challenge.
ATCs are supposed to represent the artist...

The first one:
I love pink and black together; I love patterned paper; I love shopping; I use brads on almost every project; I love ribbon; I love polka dots.



The second one:
Cool Caribbean is my favourite colour; I love matching any colour with black; I love patterned paper; I distress on almost every project; I used SU products to represent me as an SU demo; I used a button because I love embellishments and finally, I think the WORD describes my personality!

And another one...

Doesn't it just feel great when a plan comes together exactly how you envisioned? Well, this card did just that! PLUS, I took Colleen's Thursday Throwdown challenge again! The Rhonna Ferrar swirls set was perfect...I chose ONE of the swirls as my background, picked a swirly sentiment from CTMH, and used ribbon as my embellishment.
I used the horizontal slit punch for my ribbon holes, the corner ticket punch on my sentiment panel and the slit punch to make my scallopped edge. And I added the holes in the scallops, cause it matches my new blog banner that Nicole made me!
Cameo Coral is one of those colours I just don't use, but I was looking at the SU 2004-05 catalogue, and saw the black ink and the cameo ink right beside each other and thought, "Hey, that looks good!"
So, there, Colleen! Twice in a row! Hoo-yah!

Throwdown Challenge Complete!

Ha! Take that, Colleen! LOL!
Colleen's Thursday Throwdown was very specific...follow the rules or ELSE! LOL! Well, I did! Let's see:
Follow sketch...check!
Only one stamp for BG...check!
Only a sentiment used on small panel...check!
Maximum 2 embellishments...check! (I used the peanut bag as an embellishment)!
It's not my most favourite card, but it meets the criteria!



I used the set Treat Yourself from Stampin'Up (which I earned free during SAB!)and I created the sentiment using the Memories alphabet from CTMH. I ran the peanut bag through the crimper and popped some of the peanuts with dimensional dots.