I've JUST GOT TO SHOW THESE OFF....WOW

I received my package from a tag swap I was in from Paper Phenomenon Ok, these ladies have some SERIOUS talent, I'm going to list their blogs so we can all check em out. Earthyscrap.blogspot.com is Splash, Balloon is Cardsbychristy.blogspot.com, Icecream is sniptuck.blogspot.com and Florida is psychomoms.com, mine sad a** one is the lobster one.. LOL

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK 2, Day 4

Here is a beautiful card from Tara at: . A Stamping Good Time She says "The colors are: Marina Mist, Perfect Plum, and Certainly Celery...all part of the new Subtles Collection of SU colors. The stamp set is Artistic Etchings and Teeny Tiny Wishes. The technique is what I call the tye-dye method, that I am going to feature this week in Baltimore at the Stampin Up! Regional Training!"

WELCOME CHIFFON

Welcome, nice to have you. As an american, I too would like to say that I am proud of your Navy daughters as well and of others who serve our country. Honor, Courage, Committment! We thank them for their service. We hope to see you back around soon :)

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 3

Here is a lovely layout sent in by Dawn. This is beautiful Dawn, I love how soft the colors are. The lil seahorse is the cutest! Of course, I'm jealous of the pic as of my favorite places to be is right there on a beach in Maine!

Swap is officially closed

Good afternoon fellow swappers (is that even a word??),

We wanted to let you know that we have 10 participants in the Christmas swap.

The swap will consist of:

1 standard Christmas card 4.25 x 5.0
1 3-4 inch Christmas tag

We are making 1 card and 1 tag per participant. So you should be mailing 10 cards and 10 tags. They can match, but don't feel they have to. Feel free to use your creativity.

Here are some basic rules:

1) You must include a self address stamped envelope if you don't, we can't mail the swap back to you.

2) Please mail the swap to Laurie by 10.17. Please email Laurie @ lbaires@comcast.net to get her address.

3) Have great, great fun.

Please let us know if you have any questions.

Kel and Laurie

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 2, Post 1

Here is a great layout by studio j "I did this with one of the gorgeous sky photos from AZ. Azure means "purplish blue" and that fits that sky!A Closeup shows the Elegant Eggplant, Perfect Plum and Old Olive Cardstock, some patterned paper that had just the right shades of blue and purple to go with the photo (pp from my stash). I used some Old Olive retired ribbon and Old Olive ink. The outlines are done in a pale blue stickles and I added some pale blue rhinestones from my stash:)

COLOR CHALLENGE, Week 2, Day 2, Post 2

Here is a great layout sent in by Jean's Crafty Corner: Serenity Scrappers Color Challenge She says: "While I was thinking about what to do, I was thinking about how I mainly make layouts for pictures, but you can also make them without pictures and also wall hangings, etc. I love to make layouts and frame them as gifts, so thinking about that, I decided to make a layout with a bible verse on it to frame and hang up. I used a blue background sheet,a purple flower and button and then for the green, I cut the stem from Serenade, the leaves from Gypsy Wanderings and the frame is from Storybook. I printed the sentiment onto the cut in purple. The butterflies are stickers by Jolee. I like how this turned out and think it will make a really nice framed layout."

TOOOO SWEEEET!

Here is a thank you card for me and Laurie from Diane over at ?scraps by ownhomedog? It is the cutest! She was our 35th follower and she won a prize!! We are glad you enjoyed your candy! Ladies if you want some card inspiration, go on over and check out Diane's talent. Everytime I pass by her blog I scroll down to her card with the ooey gooey carmel apple cut on it..yummmm :)

COLOR CHALLENGE - WEEK TWO

Good morning,

I hope everyone had a great weekend. I just wished they didn't go by so fast!

Here is a card I made, I thought I would join in the fun. I also decided to go old school and not use anything from the Cricut. That wasn't easy, but I did it. I used my Cuttle bug to emboss the small strip going across the card. I used the small border folder. The flowers I used are from my stash, sorry I have them all together I am not sure which ones. The purple cardstock is of course StampinUP! as well as the Thanks stamp.

On another note we will post tonight how many people we will have for the swap, so be sure to let us know if you want in. Have a fantabulous Monday!!

OOOPSIE I HAVE COLOR CHALLENGE DATE WRONG

OOOPS, Color challenge was for two weeks, last week and this upcoming. It will end OCTOBER 3RD not 10th...YIKES, that would be toooo long.. lol SO SORRY LADIES.

WELCOME!

Welcome critterbug to our blog!! So glad u stopped by. We'll be sure to check u out at 365 Days of Cricut Ladies, she's part of a blog hop starting oct. 3. There will be 11 participants!

CARRIE'S CHALLENGE ENTRY

Great layout!! I love going to the zoo! The printed paper it awfully cute! Thanks for submitting for the challenge!! Ladies, be sure to head on over to DoubleClick Connections - AKA Abusybee To check out the rest of Carrie's Incredible papercrafting talents!!

DONT FORGET

CHECK OUT THE UPCOMMING SWAP DETAILS TO THE RIGHT AND CHECK UNDER 9/20 POST TO CHECK OUT OUR COLOR PRIZE CHALLENGE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. CHECK EM OUT.. HAVE FUN!

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 5

Wow is this a busy page, I'm laughin'.. LOL. I didn't realize how crazy it was. I did this about a year and a half ago I think. I was still a bit new at scrapping. I remember I was having such a hard time with photo matting. I believe I was going retro or something and attempting to think out of the traditional "mat"box and thought triangle's would work for some reason.. LOL. It does have green, purple and blue on it, so I thought I'd toss it up here. It does bring back fun memories of one of my kids favorite things to do on vacation!

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 4

Here is a 12x12 I did using the challenge colors. I used my Silhouette for the three big flowers. I used the print and cut. It's pretty cool. One of my bff's Dawn inspired me to try and it's a pretty cool feature. Thanks Dawn. It's like the Cricut Imagine, just WAAAY cheaper version. I think I got my Silhouette for $100. Anyway. I used some the arrows are chipboard from American craft. The paper is all DCWV. I wanted to add a "kidlike" element to this so I took white pre embossed paper and wet and crinkled it, straightened it out and took a q-tip to my SU inkspots and just did it willy nilly. I though it kind of looked like what a toddler might color. The stickers came from my stash. I outlined the flowers in one of my other FAVORITY FAVE tools, which is a gelly roll clear sparkly pen. The bling are stickers.

FIRST TRI-COLOR CHALLENGE ENTRY

LOVE THIS.. from bumblebee creations: Want some Blog Candy? She's has some pretty blog candy over there,c heck her out!

I love this.. How darn cute to have the bird houses as photo mats..very creative, very fun!

Oh ya, and She used Create A Critte Cartridge for the bird and birdhouses

COLOR CHALLENGE WEEK, Day 2

Here is a lil card I did for a friend who's been having a tough couple of weeks. Putting these three colors together is definately a challenge. Of course Mr. Holtz could pop out a vintage 3D wedding favor or birthday gift perhaps..actually using these three colors plus some.. LOL. For me.. this is it.. LOL. That ribbon actually has purple going through it..The whole ribbon part of this card was stressful... Don't try this without a helmet and knee pads..lemme tell ya!! Well, hopefully you gals out there can do a HECK of a lot better than me! And I'm positive give Mr. H a run for his altered money!! LOL.

WELCOME

Welcome Funky Cards. I love this card you did for the WOW chalenge.. I'm so sorry our times got crossed. I had just posted the winners and I went back to check my mail and there was your adorable card. Please join the next challenge and have fun!

"It is still summer weather here in California, so I thought about making a beach day card! Hope you like it!"

I like it..NICE JOB!

Color Challenge - Week's Theme

Good morning Scrapping Gals and Guys,

We have a two week challenge starting today, 9/20/10 ending Sunday, October 3rd. NOTE NOT MY ORIGINAL DATE OF Oct 1oth. The rules are as follows:

1) Any size layout, whether it is 12x12, 8x8 or 6x6, what ever your preference is.

2) Use the color combination of, blue, purple, green (look at the picture of the prize for this challenge above and you will see the color scheme).

3) Please post the challenge on your blog, as we know that most of you already do this, thank you!!

4) You must a follower.

5) Have great fun!!

AND THE WINNERS ARE!

My son DJ drew from a hat..A real hat!! LOL
CELESTE and CARRI! Congrats