Hello

This week's PPA challenge was Paper Piercing.   I selected a piercing pattern and pierced the design onto SU Crushed Curry.  I cut out the center with a Nestabilities Classic Scalloped Oval.  The card stock is SU Pumpkin Pie.  I stamped the cat and the hello with SU Pumpkin Pie ink using the Touch of Kindness stamp set.  I die cut the stamped image with the next smaller scalloped oval in the set.  I then pierced each scallop.   Because of the amount of piercing, I did not embellish any further.

40. Diane from Rhode Island

40. Diane from Rhode Island

Yay! My Stampin' Up! order came in and I am using my new stuff for the PPA 102 challenge.
I used my new Touch of Kindness stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog. The card stock is Daffodill Delight from the Brights Collection abd the DSP is from Just Add Cake. The image is stamped on Very Vanilla.

I used my new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch to make the DSP "ribbon" The "Hello" sentiment is from Swirls and Curls Verses punched with the Curly Label punch atop an altered Decorative Label punch. The little blue bird singing above the hello is a great match for his feathered friends enjoying the bird bath. Summertime and the Livin' is Easy.

The Birdbath

Yay!  My Stampin' Up! order came in and I am using my new stuff for the PPA 102 challenge.

I used my new Touch of Kindness stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalog.  The card stock is Daffodill Delight from the Brights Collection abd the DSP is from Just Add Cake.  The image is stamped on Very Vanilla.

I used my new Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border punch to make the DSP "ribbon"  The "Hello" sentiment is from Swirls and Curls Verses punched with the Curly Label punch atop an altered Decorative Label punch.  The little blue bird singing above the hello is a great match for his feathered friends enjoying the bird bath.  Summertime and the Livin' is Easy.

It's Time to Bloom

Well it is official.  I have registered as a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator.  I will be organizing my first workshop soon.  This is very exciting.

The PPA 101 theme is Summertime Blues.  As we all know, "there ain't no cure for the summertime blues..."  Blue is not a color I often use.  No reason why, I am just not drawn to it, so this was a struggle.

Using SU Not Quite Navy, SU Bella's Bloom, Boho Blossoms Punch and some heat embossing, here is my submission.

...pie oh my...

For PPA 100 I am submitting a very simple technique.  I stamp the design multiple times on different papers, cut out portions of the design and glued them in place where they belong on the stamped design.

This "window" stamp and the sentiment are from the Lockhart Stamp Company.  The design was stamped on Stampin' Up! Very Vanilla.  The shutters are stamped on SU Kraft paper, then cut out and attached.  The card stock used for the card itself is Jen Wilson's 29th Street Market two-sided paper; a floral design on one side and a distressed green on the reverse side. I used the green side for the curtains, cut them out and glued them in place.  I colored the pie, cut it out and glued it in place.

The Very Vanilla is layered (on dimensionals) over SU Rich Razzleberry.  I colored the flowers, the pie and the window sill with watercolor pencils.

All the stamping was done with Versafine Onyx Black.  I don't often stamp the sentiment on a floral print, but I did this time; I like the result (...pie oh my ...)  The Sentiment on the inside of the card is "Happy New House" by Stampotique Originals, Inc.  This card is for a friend who just bought her first home and will be moving in soon.

Thank you PPA for all the inspiration, week after week.

The Pick Up

After many months I am back to stamping.  I finished school, moved and have been working on a crafting space.  Thanks to my husband, I am now in a new space.  So,  I can participate in Pals Paper Arts PPA96 Color Challenge -Masculine.

For my masculine card, I began with a digital image, The Old Truck, from Fred She Said.

I then colored the image with water color pencils and "painted" with an Aqua Painter from Stampin' Up!  The sentiment is also from Stampin' Up's "All Holidays".  I used SU's Scalloped Edge Border punch for the Cherry Cobbler scallops on the sentiment and under the Truck image.

Its good to be back participating in PPA's challenges.

Christmas 2010

PPA68 The Covered Bridge

Clean and Simple with a bit of ribbon.  I've used my new Covered Bridge stamp again from Impression Obsession, Inc., this time on Gold Metallic paper.  I stamped with black onyx Versafine ink and colored here and there with white prismacolor pencil.

Color Challenge PPA67

This was a difficult color combination for me.

I used The Covered Bridge Stamp by Impression Obsession on a gray metallic paper and black onyx Versafine, but used the dull side to stamp the image. I used white Prismacolor pencil here and there with a tiny touch of white glitter.



The designer paper is Stampin up. Afetr I punched the red SU modern label shape, I cut it in half and folded it to make the "hinges" on the side of the card. The sentiment is SU and it is stamped on the SU Decorative Label shape.



The Scalloped Edge Border is also SU.

PPA65 Bring on the Bling -Fabulous Friend

Gotta love the bling and who better than Marilyn as Lorelei Lee to inspire us for this weeks PPA challenge.

For this card I used Recollections cardstock from the Precious Metals collection.  I used the silver for the card and I used the white for everything else.  This paper gives everything a nice shimmer that I don't think is captured in my photo.

I embossed the background with the Sizzix Snowflake #6 embossing folder.  I used the Stampin Up! Simple Snowflake punch for the raised snowflakes and the new Stamping Up! scalloped oval punch under the sentiment.  The Sentiment is 'fabulous friend' from Stampin Up! "Oval All."  When I saw the photo, I could hear Marilyn singing about a girl's best friend, so that was the perfect sentiment for this challenge.   After I stamped fabulous friend, I then re-stamped a tiny snowflake over the flower and finished with the tiniest Stampin Up! Rhinestone. 

I tried and tried to work some Marabou into the design; I even trimmed some of the marabou off and glued it to a ribbon to embellish the design to get that "Marilyn" look, but I just couldn't work it in.  Oh well.  I never realized just how many snowflake stamps I have until I started this challenge.  Thanks for the opportunity to play PPA!