COLORING DOWN THE LINES!

Hello. Here we are. 

Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop. 

End of summer blues. Do you feel it in my tone? Yup. Not enjoying the fact summer is ending. I'm such a summer girl.  Just a little bit more-please??  

Anyway, hello hoppers from Helen's blog. Hope you're looking forward to fall. It's coming. Oh bother.  And hop over to Sandy's blog when you are through here. Wish we could hop over to summer again.  

Here's my card:

Here are the blues:

I chose Whisper White for the neutral-clearly!

So this is a "rainy day" card. Kinda like I'm feeling. Oddly enough it did rain today. Tropical storm Hermine. She was a bust. Thank goodness. But she brought some chilly weather with her.  Guess it's gonna warm up later in the week! Summer will be back-for a bit!!!

So the details on this card are simple. Stamps et is Weather Together.  The umbrella was cut from the Umbrella Weather Framelits.  The background is embossed with the Gently Falling Textured Embossing Folder.  Lastly, there are some Metallic Enamel Shapes embellishing the sentiment. 

 Overall I actually love this card. And I joke about the Ey-ore attitude (sort of!).  Because after all, summer does REALLY end until September 22! lol

Happy Stampin'!

COLORING DOWN THE LINES!!!

Well December sure is moving along far too quickly!! With only 1 week until Christmas, I need to get my Christmas card act together! lol  So I'm continuing to use the 

Coloring Down the Lines Blog Hop 

for just that purpose! So here we go with another Christmas card!!!!!! lol

Hello to the hoppers from Helen's blog! When you are finished here head on over to Sandy's blog!!!  So much fun on our little hop!!!

Here's my card:

Here's the inspiration photo:

Here are the Stampin' Up! colors:

So I thought the blue tones here made a great card for snowflakes! Blues. Winter. Etc. Etc. Etc.!!!  So this Flurry of Wishes stamp set is perfect for the snowflake world!  It's even nicer when you  have 2 different punches to punch out the snowflakes: the Snow Flurry Punch & the Flower Medallion punch! Perfect partners!

My Oval Framelits cut out the "window", which was then embossed with the Gently Falling Embossing Folder! Lots of texture going there!  

And of course... lots of bling! First the Iridescent Ice Embossing of the snowflakes, the Rhinestone Jewels, and that amazing 

3/8" White Glitter Ribbon. What??? It's not white you say?? Well it was! Until I colored it with my Smoky Slate marker! So there! lol!!!

So hop you enjoyed this week! Next week we will be getting ready for the "big day"!! Hope I get my cards done by then! lol

Happy Stampin'!!!

FALL FRENZY WITH CONNIE & MARY!

Today's post is a combination of 2 challenges: first, Sketch Frenzy Friday 083013, and second, Create with Connie & Mary CCMCfall 13-01. Sketch Frenzy Friday is a design challenge, and the Connie & Mary one this week is a color challenge! 

Here's the sketch:

And here are the colors:

I decided to go with fall today! But not Halloween yet!

Here's mine!

I used the beautiful paper from the Witches' Brew DSP Pack! It's available in the Holiday Catalog!  

Now I wouldn't have thought of black for a fall color per se! But I really like how it works here.

The stamp set is Gently Falling from the 2013-2014 Catalog. I love this stamp set! Its a 2-step stamp set, and the images are sooooooo pretty!

Not sure if you can see it in this picture, but there is a bit of the totally awesome Witches' Brew Designer Washi Tape. Have you tried the washi tape yet? If you haven't, you really need to!!! It's amazing! Adds just that special something with so little effort!!!

 Lots of "zig-zagging" going on here!!!

The outline of the leaves is embossed with Black Embossing Powder!  Pretty, right?

So just wanted to share a fun fall card! I'm still so not over summer yet tho! But I love my Summer Starfruit color!

Happy Stampin'!

MORE SWAP FUN!

One of the swaps from convention that I participated in was a calendar scrapbook layout spread! We each had a month to do! I chose October-even though I am such a summer girl!!! I just thought this would be fun! Here's mine!!!

I like how it came out! I used the Autumn Accents Die for the leaves & the lovely Gently Falling Stamp set for the backgrounds! "Smile" comes from 

Happy Day!!! Plus a bunch of other stuff! :)

I love my little pumpkin!!! Need a tutorial?? Just let me know!!

Here are some of the others! Now bear in mind, this is not my work! Only the one above is mine!!! 

Enjoy!!!!

Happy Stampin'!!!