ColourQ #360...Hang in There

It's time for another color challenge at ColourQ.  I have one customer for my cards, and she had requested some cards she could send to cheer up her clients who have been looking for the perfect house for a long time without success.  The card I made using this weeks colors is another card for her.  You can see the first one here.

I pulled out an ancient Waltzingmouse set (5 plus years old?) that I always love to paper piece.  Isn't this a cute country house?

I am also linking this up at Simon Says Wednesday Clean and Simple Challenge, Retro Rubber #47: Anything Goes, and Addicted to CAS #97: Stitching (all the image stamps have faux stitching in the design.

Please head over to the ColourQ blog to see more inspiration from the Design Team.  I hope you will play along this week.

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Tuesday Trigger, Paper Smooches, and Make it Monday

I have three cards for today, and I am going to show them in the order of how much I like them.  My first card is for this week's Tuesday Trigger.

I just fell in love with this photo.  I was inspired by the sweet flowers, the colors, the buttons and the blanket stitching.  I am also linking this card up to this month's Hero Club challenge which is to make a card for a female.  

Next up is a one layer birthday card using three butterflies.  I am entering this card into this week's Paper Smooches Sparks challenge, where the inspiration is butterflies and this picture.  I was inspired by the multiple colors in this butterfly.  

Since I don't currently have any Paper Smooches butterflies, I had to improvise.  I die cut some butterflies out of a mask, and then colored them with a rainbow of Inktense pencils.  Then, using a water brush, I painted over them so the colors would run and blend.  Sounds complicated, but it was actually pretty easy.   I also added a little shimmer on the center and the edges of the wings.  There is only one stamped image on this card, and it is a sentiment from Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler.

I am also entering this card into this week's One Layer Wednesday challenge OLW134 where the challenge is to use as many threesomes as you can.  I have three butterflies and three sequins.  I also have three main colors on each of the butterflies.  

 Edited to add:  I am linking the next this project to the The Wonder of Watercolor Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. 

Here is what the mask looks like:

My last card is for this week's Make it Monday #110:  Collage Elements, and I used the color scheme from this week's ColourQ cQc #183.   It's good to try new things, right?  Even if they don't work out, and you plan to never do them again, right?  I am wondering if this card is going to be my entry into next year's Ugly Card Contest.  But, I am posting it now, because I did make it today.  I think collages are just not my thing.  This card was so hard for me to make.  Ok--enough complaining, here is the card.

I used images from Tea for Two, Tea for Two Additions, Background Basics Birthday Fun, Iconic Images, Text Style and Wood Grain.  The teapot is stamped with Berry Sorbet, coated with three layers of UTEE, and then crumpled up a little to create a cracked surface.

I will enter all three of these cards into this week's Simon Says Stamps challenge to make a birthday card in honor of their 4th birthday, and Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes challenge.


Supplies Used (PTI):
Flowers
Stamps:  Waltzingmouse Sewingbox Hugs, Heart 2 Heart 12, Hero Arts Birthday Messages
Paper:  White, Spring Rain, Aqua Mist, Blueberry Sky
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black, Ocean Tides
Other:  Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangles and Instant Camera dies, Heart 2 Heart 12 die, Buttons, DMC floss

Butterflies
Stamps:  Paper Smooches Sentiment Sampler
Paper:  White
Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  Inktense Pencils, Michael's Sequins, Picnic Plaid Impression Plate, Sakura Gel Pen

Teapot
Stamps:  Tea for Two, Tea for Two Additions, Background Basics Birthday Fun, Iconic Images, Text Style and Wood Grain
Paper:  White
Ink:  Kraft, Berry Sorbet, Harvest Gold, Memento Angel Pink, Versafine Onyx Black
Other:  Teapot Die, UTEE

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Four-of-a-Kind #12 and a Special Celebration Giveaway

It's my favorite time of the month again--Four of a Kind posting time.  I think most of my readers know what is about to happen, but if you are new, please click here to get the scoop.  

This month is very special because  it marks the one year point for our Four-of-a-Kind group and my one year blogaversary.  This month, one year ago, I started a blog so I would have somewhere to post the cards I made with my newly found blogging friends, Cathy, Kim, and Renee.  Well, what a wild ride it has been.  I have made so many new friends, posted and blogged numerous cards, entered many challenges, and even won a few.  If you can bear with me for a very picture heavy post, there will be information about a celebration giveaway at the end.

This month, Renee is our hostess, and she sent us a kit chock full of Waltzingmouse goodness, featuring Sewing Box Hugs, as well as lots of Lily Bee Double Dutch paper.  I always hope for a self assembling card kit, as those are usually the easiest to work with.  But, as you will soon see, Renee sent me a kit that was particularly bewitched.

Here is a picture of what Renee sent:

I began by cutting out all those sweet Sewing Box Hugs images while watching the Olympics.   These cut images then arranged themselves into the following cards.

What do you think of that denim ribbon?  Can you believe Renee made that?

Well, after these four cards, I thought I was done.  Time to hoard (as usual) all the rest of the patterned papers that Renee sent.  But then, a funny thing happened.  The papers Renee sent refused to go into my patterned paper basket.  They begged and pleaded to be used.  They did not want to gather dust.  They wanted to be run through my Cuttlebug.  OK.  So here are a few more cards I made with the papers Renee sent.  I told you they were bewitched.

I did make one other card using these patterned papers, and if you want to see it, stop by tomorrow for the Waltzingmouse blog party.  Would you believe that I still have things left over?  And, I had a few more ideas for cards, but I ran out of time.

Good for you for making it to the end of this post.  Please leave me a comment telling me which is your favorite card, and you will be eligible for one of two prizes--a $20 Gift Certificate to PTI or the Paper Smooches Chit Chat set.  There will be two winners--one for each prize.  You have until Thursday, August 23 to leave your comment.  One comment per person, please.

Now you can head over to the other members of our Four of a Kind group to see what they have created with the same kit.  That is one of my favorite parts of our little group--the BIG reveal.  There will be excitement for sure on Kim's blog, where she will be holding her own blogaversary celebration and contest as well.

Cathy Weber:  Empty Nest Crafter

Kim Heggins:  Cupcakes, Cards and Kim

Renee Lynch:  It's a Patchwork Life

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Waltzingmouse June 2012 Blog Party

Isn't this picture just gorgeous?  This is our inspiration for this month's Waltzingmouse Blog Party.  I had ordered some new stamps from Waltzingmouse, and was stalking my mailbox, hoping they would get here in time to use for this challenge, and they did.  I chose to focus on the color scheme, and the theme of rectangles.  I had been eying Sewing Box Hugs for a long time, and finally took the plunge and ordered it.  I paper pieced the house, and used the two hearts as a background stamp.

 

A very sad thing happened in the making of this card.....It was supposed to say 'home sweet home', only the sentiment dashed from my desk, and is now somewhere in the ether.  Perhaps it got homesick, and flew back to Ireland.  I don't know.  All I know is that my brand new stamp set is missing the sentiment I wanted to use.  Very sad.  I hope it turns up--I've looked everywhere I can think of.  If you have any ideas, I'm all ears.

Supplies Used:

Stamps:  Sewing Box Hugs

Paper:  PTI Orange Zest, Hawaiian Shores, Smokey Shadow, Aqua Mist polka dots

Other:  PTI:  Tiny Tags Die, Striped IP, Nesties, bitty dot ribbon

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