Friday Mashup!! Colorful Kids!

Happy Friday, everyone! It's time for a fun Mashup Challenge! Lesley came up with this week's challenge. Check out this great picture...aren't those colors delightful? This week, we get to:

• Make a card using Daffodil Delight, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise, and Pacific Point


• Make a card with a kid theme


• Or Mash'em up to make a kid card with those colors!

Check out the Friday Mashup challenge blog to see the AMAZING DT entries! I feel like an amateur this week! LOL! http://www.fridaymashup.com

I decided to make this bright baby card. Now the picture is lousy, but my photographer, aka hubby, is in bed! I hope he can get a better picture in the morning!

So often, we use pastels for baby cards, but I like bold, bright colors for babies too! I decided to use my soon-to-retire Fun and Fast Notes. I stamped it in stazon black on whisper white, then colored it with my markers. I layered it with daffodil and turquoise. My larger layers of daffodil and white were embossed with the perfect polka dots impressions folder and the Big Shot. My ribbon is long-ago-retired...I hoard ribbon!! Takes me forever to finish a roll! LOL!

If you wanna get this cute stamp, and the other 7 that come with the set, check out my demo website by clicking here: http://kimpadan.stampinup.net

Lots of goodies are going away...you don't want to miss out!

In the meantime, play along with the Friday Mashup! Use keyword MU09 when you upload to your online gallery.

By the way, I am having lots of problems posting comments on blogger. Makes me sad! Please know thatI look at all of the challenge cards...to fun not to!

Inky {{{HUGS}}}

Thanks Again!

Here are MORE thank you cards! I made all of these on Saturday! Yes, I really need to do something else...and I finally can take a break from these!

Once again, I used retired dsp as inspiration. The first set uses Cottage Wall dsp, and features old olive and rich razzleberry card stock and embellishments. There is also a touch of daffodil delight. In fact, the Free 4 All challenge on Friday was called Hello Sunshine. I was outlining one of my image panels (Fun & Fast Notes) with my daffodil delight marker, when it slipped! Aack! So, I just colored in a big bright sun!! Easy fix!

The second set features Bella Bleu dsp, crumb cake, bordering blue (retired), very vanilla, and not quite navy card stock. I have this bag with punched out shapes...and sure enough, I had some butterflies made with the big shot and beautiful wings embosslit. I was only going to add the butterflies on a few cards...but decided to cut more out and use it on all 6! I also used some basic pearls and retired earth element brads, which included not quite navy. The sentiment is from Thank You Kindly.

Hope these inspire you to sit down and make a big stack of cards!!

Inky {{{HUGS}}}

On Time for the ColourQ!!

I decided to peek at the ColourQ blog again...and the palette is right up my alley! Check it out:

All of the products used are from Stampin' Up!, though a couple of things are retired. I am on a roll with thank you cards, and I toyed with various stamp sets...but this little bird is great for springtime! It's from Fun & Fast Notes. I stamped the image in stazon black, then colored with markers. Since there is no marker for kiwi kiss, I used my blender pen, just lightly dipped in my ink pad. There is a touch of daffodil delight as well for his beak and feet.

With a very dark concord crush card base,I really needed to brighten things up. I ran whisper white through my big shot with the square lattice impressions folder, then sponged a bit of bashful blue so it wouldn't be too stark. Using kiwi kiss ribbon that is retired, along with retired bermuda bay pattern paper is really helping me work my stash! The ticket corner punch adds just the right detail for the main image.

I may make some more of these...this ribbon has been idle too long!!

Inky {{{HUGS}}}

Challenge Catch-Up!

I have not posted for a week, but I have stamped! So I am doing a long post...hang in there!

I did 4 challenges from SCS this week...Featured Stamper, Clean and Simple, Color, and Sketch. I also spent a bunch of time prepping card kits for my friends. I hosted a World Card Making Day event all day yesterday. Lots of fun...big mess! heehee! I even had a woman come and stamp for the very first time! I think she's hooked already!!

This is my Featured Stamper challenge card. "Hobbydujour" was the star of the day...very nice gallery! Here is the card I CASE'd. I loved the simplicity of one bright color and a neutral. I used Eastern Blooms for my flowers, Elements of Style for the flourishes at the bottom, and Teeny Tiny Wishes, all stamped in Melon Mambo. I used my ornament punch to make the vase. Just cut of the tip! The paper is from the neutrals paper pattern stack to go with the basic gray card base. Rhinestones and ribbon finish it off.


Monday's Clean and Simple challenge was a sketch, and it was perfect for me to make some more thank you cards. I have a couple of male board members who did a lot of work the day of the Walk for Life. I needed cards that were not too frilly! The card base is river rock (I'm trying to like it!), an I added cherry cobbler and very vanilla. The cherry cobbler was run through the Big Shot with a Texturz Plate from Backgrounds 1. I used Thank You Kindly and Pocket Silhouettes, stamped in Cherry Cobber and Soft Suede, respectively. I added some hemp twine and a button from the regals collection. I really love my buttons this year!

Next came Tuesday's Color Challenge...basic gray, daffodil delight, and regal rose, with the option of another color, since gray is a neutral. I added wild wasabi. I immediately thought of my numerous floral sets, but wanted to try something different. This is Love You Much, and I had rarely used it, but this was fun to make! I colored the image with my markers. I also had fun with my scallop trim punch and heart to heart punch (which makes 3 different heart sizes). I used more of my pattern paper stack, since I had some out from the featured stamper challenge! I added some 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon and one tiny rhinestone on the flower.




Finally, I made this thank you card for Sketch Challenge 300. Because of this milestone, lots of prizes are being offered by random drawing. I'll let you know if I win anything! The card base is cherry cobbler, and I added basic black, embossed with perfect polka dots in my big shot. Since I am making thank you's for each of my staff, I used the cute little bird in Fun and Fast Notes again, colored with markers and my blender pen. The DSP is from Love Letter. Fun patterns! The markers are blushing bride, daffodil delight, wild wasabi, cherry cobbler, and riding hood red. I also added some self adhesive pearls, and used my corner rounder a lot!

Hope you made through this mini-gallery! Time for me to stamp again!!

Inky {{{HUGS}}}

Colorful Challenges

Here are 2 recent color challenge cards from splitcoaststampers. All products used are from Stampin' Up!

This clean and simple card was made with always artichoke, blushing bride, and marina mist (this week's colors). I used some patterned paper from the Hostess Level 1 In-color pack. The cute little bird is from Fun and Fast Notes, colored with markers, and mounted on a bit of artichoke patterned paper. Everyone should get these Patterns Designer Series Paper Stacks! So versatile...such a great way yo add interest in a short time. I accessorized with artichoke seam binding and flower brads from the brights collection.





This next card was for a swap, and for last week's color challenge...pear pizazz, peach parfait, and concord crush. I added a bit of daffodil delight and baja breeze too. I actually started this swap before the color challenge was posted, but it took me forever to finish!! I have somehow lost my oval punch. How did I do that??? My efforts to find theovl so I could use a particular sentiment failed...so I resorted to the fail-proof Teeny Tiny Wishes. My faithful scallop oval and word window punches got a work-out, as I needed to make 30 of these! You probably recognize the Awash with Flowers images too, for 2-step stamping. I think I am going to tuck them away for the fall/winter season now. That way they will feel like new next April! More patterned paper...and how 'bout that FABULOUS twill ribbon!? It comes in each of the 5 In-colors! I *need* some more!

Thanks for stopping by!

Inky {{HUGS}}}