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Happy 4th of July!!! While it's nice to have a day off in the middle of the work week, today is about more than just that and fun in the sun. I wanted to make sure I remember that I live in a country where I am blessed with many freedoms and privileges. We are not a country without problems and shortcomings, but I feel lucky to be able to celebrate Independence Day in the United States of America. And today I have a card showcasing my patriotic pride!
I'm here to tell you about Tickled Pink Stamps' sponsorship of Fab 'n' Funky. Appropriately enough their challenge is "Stars and Stripes" (#128). I do have striped designer paper and a die cut star on my creation, but what I loved was this designer paper I found at Joann that had the words stars and stripes printed all across it! It was perfect for this card!
The TPS digi image I selected for my card is Party Pinkette Coraline. She is colored with Copics and Prismacolor Art Markers. I paper pieced her balloon with the striped paper as well as using it for the star. The star and ribbon banner dies are both from Spellbinders. That fabulous rhinestone flourish is a Michaels Recollections embellishment and it reminded me of fireworks so I added it to the card. The sketch I followed is a fairly CAS one over at Sentimental Sundays. It was a bonus part of the "Be Patriotic" (#109) challenge this week.
Be sure to stop by the Tickled Pink Stamps blog to see what the other {PINK} ladies have dreamed up for this challenge. Not everyone is celebrating July 4th so it's fabulous to see their creative interpretations of the theme!
I will be attending a cook out at my parents' house with the small man today. We didn't make it to see any fireworks displays this year (with the exception of the illegal ones someone in the neighborhood lights off at all hours of the night!) but we'll enjoy our holiday just the same. It's probably for the best considering I'm the girl who managed to burn her finger on a fairly innocuous sparkler one year! lol
Thanks for visiting and hope you have a spectacular day no matter what country's colors you hold dear!
I'd also like to enter this card into the following challenges:
- Celebrate the Occasion: #69-4th of July
- Die Cuttin' Divas: #72-Red, White, and Blue plus add a patriotic symbol (star)
- Party Time Tuesdays: #75-Be Patriotic and Show Your Country's Colors (USA=Red, White, and Blue)
- Incy Wincy Designs: Patriotism- Use only colors or items from your country (USA=Red, White, and Blue)
- Love To Create: #22-Stars and Stripes
- Made Especially For You: Independence Day + bling
- My Craft Spot: #62-4th of July & Canada Day
- Paper Playtime: #78-Die Cuts with Red, White, and Blue as main colors
- Tammy's Scrappin Corner: #17-Celebrations/4th of July
- Creative Inspirations Paint: Inspired by Independence Day
- Gingerloft Challenge: #43-Red, White, and Blue
- 2 Sisters: #98-Red, White, and Blue with optional glitter/bling
- Just Us Girls: #143-Wild Card-Use Stars and Sparkle
- Bloggers: Celebrate the 4th
- Card Makin Mamas: #48-Color Challenge-Red, White, and Blue
- Our Craft Lounge: #123-Let Freedom Ring
- Pattie's Creations: #47-Color Theme-Red, White, and Blue
- Simply Create Too: #16-Country Where You Live
- Stampin with the Dragon: Red, White, and Blue
- Sweet 'n Sassy: #60-Stars and Stripes
{hugs}
Regan
Welcome to the final round of the Sassy in the City relay! It has been a fun, and exhausting, week over at Sassy Studio Designs as we celebrate reaching 700 members on Paper Craft Planet. There have been trivia, contests, and prizes on PCP, but the real fun has been the progressive relay featuring the Sassy versions of the four fabulous gals from Sex and the City. Lindsay and the entire design team have worked hard all month so that we could celebrate with you! *applause*
There were 30 crafters who made it through the first three rounds of challenges to earn Carrie and a shot at the grand prize. See the Sassy Studio Designs blog for all the details and to see my fellow design team mates projects as well as the participants' entries for Round 4. Don't forget to leave some love there for your chance to win a Sassy image of your own!
My creation is late. Hmm, big surprise there as I have been running myself ragged this week trying to keep the relay/PCP festivities running smoothly. Carrie is my favorite SATC character and the one I think I am most like. I can relate to her on many levels: her views on relationships, her search for the "zazazu", her flair for writing, her shopping addiction, her love of shoes... So of course I had to rush home tonight to make a project with her! I decided on an easel card as I haven't made one in a while. Using the current sketch (#33) over at Addicted To Stamps Challenges, I created my card front. That amazing city skyline border was made with a Die-namics die from My Favorite Things! I am SO happy I bought it! Here is a better look:
Papers are My Mind's Eye - Stella Rose - Hattie. The sticker on the base/inside is from Paper House Productions. I also used a Tim Holtz stamp from his Regal Flourish set on the greeting panel. Flowers are from my stash and the sentiment is computer generated.
The fun continues for a few more days over on Paper Craft Planet so we hope you'll stop by! We just keep growing on PCP! We're already almost a quarter of the way to 800!
Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a fabulous weekend planned! It's going to be a hot one here so we're probably going to take it easy and lay low. I need a little down time before my next crafting adventure! I am off to collapse into bed in my lovely air conditioned room now. 'Night!
I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:
- Chocolate, Coffee, and Cards: #16-Anything Goes
- Totally Papercrafts: Can You Digi It? (use a digital image)
- Paper Shelter: #70-Punches and/or Dies
{hugs}
Regan
Hello! I know I've been a little quiet on here this week and this will be why: I am busy running a fabulous relay over at Sassy Studio Designs! It's a Sassy in the City relay celebrating our 700 members over on Paper Craft Planet! Now unfortunately, if this is the first you are hearing about it, it's too late to join in as it's a progressive relay. You had to snag the first free image from the SSD blog and play along with the challenge set for her before you could advance to the next round - and next free image! We are now beginning Round 3, and I finally had time to play!
This is Miranda Sassy! She is the successful, Type A lawyer with the sarcastic wit who is cynical about men! But when it comes to her friends she is their confidante and voice of reason. Our challenge to the relay participants is "No Nonsense". They are being asked to create a CAS (Clean And Simple) project with this image in order to move on to Round 4. They have until 10pm EDT on June 29th to do so.
I needed a birthday card for a co-worker anyway so I decided it was the perfect excuse to actually play along this time. On the show Miranda is a fiery redhead, but I needed a brunette, to better match my recipient. I opted for raven tresses as I found it more pleasing with my chosen color palette. She is colored with Copics, fussy cut, and popped on top of the current sketch (#72) from Try Stampin' on Tuesday. I am NOT very good at CAS so this one really was a challenge for me. I really had to resist adding little extras. The sketch helped because it is pretty enough on its own, but it was still hard to walk away from the flowers, ribbons, trinkets, bling, and embellishments! After I took my photo I considered tricking it out, but decided, in the end, to let the CAS stand. It was a good call too - my co-worker loved it! So much so that she promptly posted it to facebook! And tagged me! Oopsie! I didn't think about that one when using an as yet to be revealed image! lol
Now if you missed out on the relay, don't worry; you can still take part in the fun and festivities! We are selecting one random comment from the SSD blog for each round to win an image of their choice. AND we even more activities going on over at the Planet - trivia, contests, prizes, and more! We hope you'll stop by!
I'd like to enter this card in the following challenges:
- Ruby's Rainbow: #31-Black, White, and One Other Color (purple)
- Anything Goes Challenge Blog: #70-Polka Dot with a Birthday Theme
- Bearly Mine: #41-Anything Goes
- Party Time Tuesdays: #74-Anything Goes
Thanks for visiting! I hope you're having a wonderful week so far! I'll be back with more Sassy fun this weekend...
{hugs}
Regan
I must confess that I am exhausted as I type this post....I have been up for almost 24 hours at this point, have made 2 cards and written 4 blog posts. It is long past bedtime, closer to dawn, and my small man gave up on me hours ago. When he stumbled from his bed at 2am looking to crawl into mine with me, as he does every night, he found me still sitting at my desk in the craft room instead. He is now asleep on the couch as I type this, sitting criss-cross-applesauce on the living room floor. My lil trooper!
This is my last commitment for the evening (er, morning) and then I will try to catch a few winks before sleeping beauty wakes! I'm here to tell you about the new Corrosive Challenge and it's a fun one! I have to confess that a trip for ice cream last night was the inspiration for selecting this image and sentiment. Our fabulous June sponsor is Mayzy Art and this is her lovely digi called Mallory. You can find Mallory and an abundance of other fun images in Mayzy's etsy shop. Mayzy is generously offering up a prize of 8 digis to our June winner! How amazing is that?!?!
Our challenge this fortnight is "Summertime Girls"! You must use a female image to create a summery project. Easy enough for most of us, right? My tasty treat on a Summer evening turned into a relatively CAS card. Designer paper is DCWV Sweet stack, sentiment is My Favorite Things, and flowers are from my stash. The die is Spellbinder's Floral Oval.
I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:
- 2 Sisters Challenge: #97-Anything Goes
- All Sorts Challenge: Dies to Die For
- Cardmadfairy's Digi Day Challenge: Girly Challenge
Be sure to head over to The Corrosive Challenge blog to see what wonderful things my design team mates have to share with you! And please do play along!
As the sun starts to cast a rosy glow on the horizon, I am finally off to la-la-land... Zzzzzzzz......
{hugs}
Regan
PS Be sure to visit the Sassy Studio Designs blog today! Our Sassy in the City relay begins today and there is a FAB-U-LOUS freebie available there!
I've had a few of my own in my lifetime.... We all have. Graduations, weddings, babies, birthdays. They are the special moments in life that give us cause for celebration! And for cards! lol My family, friends, and co-workers know just where to go when they need a card for one of these occasions. I thought I'd share a couple of card I made this week for two such milestones.
The first is a 50th birthday card for a co-worker's sister. When asked what her sister liked she responded "anything with a drink!" Well, alright then! Let's get this party started! I selected one of the new Sassy Studio Designs Ladies Night images, Martini Sassy. Isn't she fabulous? There are three images in this collection but you can get them in or out of their respective drink glasses. I've used the image without. She is colored with Copics, fussy cut, and mounted with foam squares. I've paper pieced her dress (I'm on a paper piecing kick lately! lol) The sketch is the current Deconstructed Sketch (#57). I just looove Jen's layouts! I can always find (or create) the perfect sentiment, and I often go to my My Favorite Things stamps collection for this. Both sentiments used here are MFT. Add some glittered chipboard numbers and it's even more fun! The papers, apothecary label die, and seam binding are all Stampin' Up. And of course I added flowers from my stash for good measure! The border punch is from craft maven Martha Stewart. Plus I couldn't resist adding a dab of glaze to her glass!
The second card is for a high school graduation (another order from a co-worker). The school colors were black, purple, and gold so that is where my color scheme came from. I have used the adorable 2012 Grad Boy from Saturated Canary as the image. I wanted so badly to enter the Saturated Canary guest design team call, but I chickened out. I saw all the talent that had already applied and got stage fright! Plus I ran out of time and missed the deadline anyway. Maybe next time, but I need to brush up those coloring skills first... This grad is colored with Copics, with a sprinkling of freckles added.
I've used Carly's new sketch at Sketches by Carly (#59) for this one. Since it was for a teenage boy I kept it free from frill, froufrou, flowers, and all the other lovely embellies that I love to use! I simply added a Tim Holtz metal corner, baker's twine, and a ticket sentiment I made using the My Favorite Things Ticket Die-namic & stamp set and a sentiment from Stampin' Up's Great Grads set. The "Class of 2012" is from Michaels' Recollections line. Scalloped and Classic Circle Nestabilities and an argyle Cuttlebug embossing folder were also used.
I hope you have enjoyed my cards as much as I enjoyed making them! I am off to run a few errands, visit the family for the evening, and then it will be back home for more crafting and blogging! There is a lot going on tomorrow, including the start of the Sassy Studio Designs' Sassy in the City relay and a new Corrosive Challenge! Hope you'll check them both out!
Happy Saturday!
{hugs}
Regan
In 1989 Coke proclaimed itself "the official soft drink of Summer". And for me it probably was! I was 15 going on 16 and those were the lazy days of reading books, listening to music, and hanging out with friends. It was before everyone had computers or Internet access or cell phones. Sitting on a towel at the lake or walking to the mall on a hazy Summer day, we were never without our Diet Coke! Today's Sassy Studio Designs Fabulous Freebie Friday image reminds me of those days! Her name is simply Soda Pop, and you can make her yours by visiting the SSD Paper Craft Planet group.
Our new challenge there for this fortnight is the "Shades of Summer". Just use some Summer-y colors with a Sassy Studio Designs image and you're eligible to enter for your chance to win two Sassy images of your choice.
It has been hot here the past few days. Hot as in like almost 100 degrees Fahrenheit hot! The first day of Summer was officially on Wednesday, which was the day we welcomed the heat. Thank goodness my air conditioners went in on Monday in anticipation! Between that and seeing all the sunny monochromatic yellow creations the team made for the current Dare To Be Sassy Thursday challenge #170 "Fun in the Sun" that is where my project headed. A bit of silver and green did sneak in, but for the most part she is living in the sunshine.
Papers are DCWV from their Lemon Flower mat stack. My image was colored with Copics, and her overalls were paper pieced with some denim designer paper. She was then fussy cut and mount with foam squares atop Spellbinders' Deckled Rectangles. The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and is cut out with a fishtail banner from the First Place Award Ribbon Die-namics. Flowers, buttons, twine, and ribbons are all from my stash. I added a few punched branches with my Martha Stewart punch.
The sketch is from Sketch Saturday (#212). It has been a long time since I played along over there, but this one was too wonderful to pass up! I had a lot of fun putting it all together. And guess what I was sipping as I worked.... a Diet Coke! I guess all these years later Coke is still MY official soft drink of Summer!
Be sure to head over to Paper Craft Planet to see what the Fabettes have created with this sweetie. And you'll want to stop back tomorrow for our 4th mini release Saturday of the month as we continue to celebrate SSD's birthday/anniversary! Then Sunday we start our Sassy in the City relay.... There will be a freebie available to everyone on the Sassy Studio Designs blog to get you started. And believe me when I tell you that you aren't going to want to miss these fabulous images that Lindsay has created! She has been hard at work drawing all month to bring us all these amazing new Sassies!
I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:
- Charisma Cardz: #24-Summer
- Cute Card Thursday: #222-Here Comes Summer
- Dutch Dare Card Challenges: #170-Summer Fun
- Hanna and Friends: #148-Recipe (2 designer papers, 1 ribbon, 3 flowers)
Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy your day!
{hugs}
Regan
Blue you say? That appears to be a shade of fuchsia. (Pink Passion actually.) But there ARE blue highlights on her dress, made using Copic marker BG10 - Cool Shadow. See:
I know it's a stretch, but I really wanted to play along with the A Day For Daisies' current challenge and the person who requested the card asked for the color scheme to match the actual colors of the wedding she was attending. That meant I had black, silver, and fuchsia to work with. I hope the marker shading counts, but if not I still had fun making the card!
Here is how I met the requirements for Challenge #45 - Old, New, Borrowed, Blue:
Old - Cuttlebug embossing folder, silver and pink card stock, flowers, Fleur de Lis and Rectangle Fleur de Lis Spellbinders dies
New - You May Kiss the Bride image (ADFD)
Borrowed - My creation is based on this card. I "borrowed" her idea for the layout. Otherwise known as a "scraplift"!
Blue - We've already discussed this one! ;) Copic BG10 - Cool Shadow Sketch Marker
The gorgeous ADFD image is colored with Copics, and I've added some Stampin' Up Dazzling Diamonds glitter to the bride's veil. The organdy trim is from Tim Holtz.
I am a huge fan of Tammy and her art so I was happy to have a reason to use one of her images! I hope you have enjoyed my project. It's too hot here to be typing a long post (even with all 3 ACs cranked to the max! Welcome summer!), and I still have more crafting to do. I'm off now to plan a 50th birthday card for a co-worker to give her sister this weekend.... I'll be blogging more creations this week so I hope to see you again soon!
I'd also like to enter this card in the following challenges:
- Crafts and Me: #89-Anything Goes
- My Time To Craft: #182-Weddings
- Divas By Design: #40- To "Die" For (use die cuts)
- Bearly Mine: #40-Flowers
Have a fabulous evening!
{hugs}
Regan
