PaperTrey WCMD Challenges

Hi everyone! I have a couple WCMD challenge cards to share. These are for PaperTrey's challenges to make cards inspired by Japan and India (I didn't get to Australia and Mexico). I had a blast with these and both were totally driven by Pattern Paper. First up, Japan. This gorgeous Kaiser Craft PP is from one of my BFF's, Kathy -thanks girl! It's called Sakura Pack and has amazing Japanese prints!

I used some Pure Poppy grosgrain ribbon and the button is vintage from my granny's tin. The sentiment is from Birthday Basics and I added a couple touches of gold in the pearl accents and gold cord on the button.

This card also follow's Beate's WSC100. Love the clean simple lines of this sketch! Thanks Beate for 100 sketches!

Then I journeyed on to India. I actually started out inspired by Australia in that I used the dotted outlines of Vintage Labels. Using white dots were part of that challenge. But then as I went along, I figured the goregous colors of the Basic Grey, Indian Summer paper I chose, were more suited for India. So, I added plenty of gems to more closely follow the India challenge.

For this card I used the sentiment from Flourishes Many Sentiments. I added TONS of Kaiser rhinestones to this. I used the colors, Lippy Red, Yellow, and clear. This card follows this week's sketch from 2 Sketches 4 You #36. I don't often play along with these challenges, but this sketch really spoke to me.

Thanks for stopping by and a big THANK YOU to all the players of the Verve WCMD challenge. We had 157 players and was a huge success!! Congrats to Verve winners: Cook22, Grammyof2boys, Redlynny and Stargirl!

Card Deets (Japan):

Stamps - Birthday Basics

Ink - Black and Pure Poppy for edges

Paper - White, Black and KaiserCraft PP

Accessories - Pure Poppy grosgrain, gold pearls and cord, vintage button

Card Deets (India):
Stamps - Vintage Labels, Bountiful Backgrounds
Ink - versamark
Paper - Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry
Accessories - Label's One nesties, Kaiser Rhinestones in Lippy Red, Clear and Yellow, White EP, SU! scallop border punch, Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder, Berry Sorbet Twill ribbon

HSE Halloween blog hop!

Hi everyone and welcome to Hope Stamps Eternal HALLOWEEN BLOG HOP!

Along with seeing some fabulous Halloween creations from the HSE Sweeties, there is also a HIDDEN (well, semi-hidden) HSE Promo Code. To get the code, you follow the blog hop and collect the "hidden" letter from each blog. The letters will spell a word that will give you 25% of EVERYTHING in the Hope Stamps Eternal store!! That includes the Clearance and all the NEW products we just received! (Pre-Order items excluded.) Promo Code will need to be in All Caps and the sale will be Oct 24th - 27th!

AND, it wouldn't be a blog hop without some sweet treats right? So, one of the HSE Sweeties is also a Secret Sweet Treat Stop!! So, be sure to comment on all the blogs, we will choose a random winner from a random blog Sunday night at 8pm Pacific. If you came my way via Colleen, you are on the right track. If not, you can go back to Rachel's blog and start from the beginning.

My card uses the SPOOKY and totally fun Crow Gate image from Inkadinkado. I embossed it in black and then did some sponging to make the moon and the yellow highlighting. I almost never do this, but with this Halloween card I thought it would look cool. The DP is Basic Grey, Eerie. What FUN this paper is!! I used Beate's Weekend sketch #98 for the layout.

Oh and see all the BLING? I finally remembered to use my Zva Creative clear swirls! I removed the last rhinestone on the ends and replaced it with colored rhinestones from Zva's Crystal Dots. The sentiment is computer generated, I used the Matisse ITC font (comes standard with Word), and the purple cardstock is from Core'dinations. I sanded it a bit and the white showed thru -cool!!

Well, thanks for stopping by, now head on over to NATALIE's blog for some more spooky stuff and the next letter!!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Crow Gate (Inka), computer generated sentiment (Matisse ITC)
Ink - VersaMark, pumpkin pie, lovely lilac, black (all for sponging)
Paper - Black, white and Avacodo (all PTI), purple (Core'dinations), and pattern paper Eerie (Basic Grey)
Accessories - Crystal Dots Bright Series rhinestones and Symmetrical Flourishes-small (G) clear (both Zva Creative), rectangle Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Distress tool (Heidi Swapp), misc silver ribbon

A Raspberry Owl?

Hi everyone! Isn't this owl the cutest? It's from Unity's June KOM!! Love it!! Can you really color an owl with Raspberry Fizz?!? You bet!! LOL!

This is my second card using Dawn's Raspberry Suite color challenge -using Vintage Cream, Kraft, Raspberry Fizz and Chocolate Brown.

Like my last card, this one also follows one of the weekend sketches. This sketch is the WSC84 hosted by my fellow Verve diva, Laura! Fun sketch girl!!

This card is pretty straight forward. The owl is stamped with Adirondack Espresso and colored with copic markers with Angel Wings Shimmerz on the colored parts. I used some more of my new silver pearls I finally found at my Michael's -LOVE them!! The satin edged ribbon is from Heidi's store.

Here is a detail picture. Thanks for stopping by, have a great evening!

Card Deets:
Stamps - owl from June KOM
Ink - Adirondack Espresso
Paper - Vintage cream, kraft, raspberry fizz, chocolate brown
Accessories - silver pearls, circle nesties, copic markers, satin edged ribbon, swiss dots EF

Raspberry Delight

Hi everyone, I have a double challenge card to show you. This card follows Beate's Weekend Sketch this week hosted by the lovely Jenn Balcer. AND I played along with Dawn's Raspberry Suite color challenge -to use Hibiscus Burst, Raspberry Fizz and Basic Grey. What fun colors!!

The sentiment is from Verve's Miracles Blossom set and the flowers peeking out from the ribbon are from the newly released Wishful Elegance. I love love LOVE the flowers in that set!! The butterflies are from punches and the bling trails are from Eva Creative.

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend!

Card Deets:
Stamps - Wishful elegance, Miracles blossom

Paper - Hibiscus burst, Raspberry fizz, white, Basic Grey DSP

Accessories - Raspberry fizz grosgrain, bling, Rectangle curve nesties, butterfly punches

A couple of weekend sketches

I love what Laura (Scrapnextras) does each weekend, doing all the blog weekend sketches with the same stamps and papers making a lovely set. Well, I actually had some time this weekend to do the same (well kinda)!! I was able to do 2 of the sketches using Flourishes stamps. Each card has NO designer paper (gasp) -I made my own using Flourishes Damask background stamp. Since I need to stock up on my sympathy/get well cards, this was perfect.

This first card uses Jen's Sketch for you to Try layout. I just love the font of the sentiments in Flourishes Many Sentiments set -so graceful and elegant. The main image is from Flourishes Spring Ephemerals. I inked up the flower with baroque burgundy and colored the stem with my old olive marker. I then painted the 2 blooms with red Shimmerz. The background of the card is Flourishes Damask. I drug the edges of all the panels thru my old olive ink pad to soften them a bit.I used Jen's Sketch For You To Try for the layout. The organdy ribbon is Lemon Yellow and the bling is Mint Green, both are from Flourishes. I took my heat gun for a few seconds on the ribbon bow, I love the crinkly look it gives.

Here is a close up:

The second card, I used the magnolia flower from the Flourishes Lilac set. I colored the flowers with prismacolor pencils and gamsol. The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday's Simple Sentiments set. The background of the image panel is Flourishes Damask. I drug the edges of all the panels thru my sweet blush ink pad to soften them a bit. I used Beate's Weekend Sketch #67 for the layout. The organdy ribbon is Lemon Yellow from Flourishes. I took my heat gun on this one too.

Card Deets (card 1):
Stamps: spring ephemerals, damask, many sentiments
Paper: baroque burgundy, so saffron, old olive, white
Ink: old olive, baroque burgundy, black
Accessories: green gems, ticket corner punch, SU! large and small ovals, organdy ribbon, swiss dots folder, shimmerz

Card Deets (card 2):
Stamps: lilac, simple sentiments, damask
Paper: sweet blush (PTI), barely banana, white
Ink: black, sweet blush
Accessories: organdy ribbon, paper piercer