Hi everyone! Today is a PACKED post! It's a double hop with one card!
First of all, let me give you all the information from the
Paper Makeup Stamps hop. Today is Release Day for
Paper Makeup Stamps, and we always hop on release day! So if you are hopping with PMS, you should have come here from the fab
Christi Thorsen's blog. If not, stop by the
PMS blog to start at the beginning. We are showcasing four new sets today that all deal with beauty. Our DT member,
Shaela Odd, illustrated all of them! You should have been collecting letters along the way that will spell out a code to get you 15% off the new release. My letter for you is
"A". When you leave here, you will head on over to our new DT member, Andrea Vernagus. Also, tonight at 8:00 pm CST, we will be partying in the PMS forum. Stop by for some chatter, fun, games, and giveaways! (Just a note: the PMS hop is starting at 7:00 am EST, so if you are here before then, you won't see that hop just yet!)
Secondly, it's the 100th color challenge at the Color Throwdown Challenge blog! Woohoo!!! Those girls are so talented, and always come up with some great color combos! I'm not on their team (that's just a dream of mine!), but they've asked all of their previous guest designers to participate in this challenge. I was honored to be guest designer in October 2009, so that's why I'm hopping with them today! And there are some fabulous prizes being given away. You can get the details on the CTD blog, but in a nutshell...you have to comment on all the blogs participating in the challenge (one comment per person and I have them listed below) AND post a card using the colors on the CTD blog by Monday, July 12 at 11:59 p.m. in order to be in the running. Each participating blog is giving away some fab prize, and mine just happens to be the entire July release from Paper Makeup Stamps!!!! (I wonder how I got that prize to give away! LOL!!) One of you is going to be so lucky because this month's release is HUGE! Good luck!Now, here are the CTD colors to play with for this 100th celebration.
I have to admit that this was a challenging one for me...I think I got it to work ok (but I think I've lost my mojo...it's still on holiday!). Here's my card.
I first pulled out cardstock in the four colors, then pulled out every dp I had that could possibly work with this combo. After much consideration, I chose these which are both My Mind's Eye. The floral print is an old one called Wild Asparagus, and the other is from the Quite Contrary line. The image is a new single image called
Beauty Profile. I just love that image. To keep with the colors, I had to color her hair green (I really like it!), and swirled some regal rose ink around the white part. The sentiment, which is from a new mini set called
Beautifully Fabulous, was stamped over the image as an after thought (and is a little crooked because of it!). It's a quote from Coco Chanel which reads "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous!" Love that saying! The corner pieces are a cuttlebug die. I added the blue crystals to it and some star dust stickles to the image to bling it up!
So now you have to hop! Remember my PMS letter for you is
"A" and you should head over to Andrea's blog to see her amazing reveal!
Thanks so much for double hopping with me today...have fun on your way!
The JUGs girls are sending out our greetings to her today! So have a great birthday and celebrate all weekend, Kathryn! (Isn't this a great cake? I used to make cakes, and I know how difficult this is to make!)
I first pulled out cardstock in the four colors, then pulled out every dp I had that could possibly work with this combo. After much consideration, I chose these which are both My Mind's Eye. The floral print is an old one called Wild Asparagus, and the other is from the Quite Contrary line. The image is a new single image called Beauty Profile. I just love that image. To keep with the colors, I had to color her hair green (I really like it!), and swirled some regal rose ink around the white part. The sentiment, which is from a new mini set called Beautifully Fabulous, was stamped over the image as an after thought (and is a little crooked because of it!). It's a quote from Coco Chanel which reads "A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous!" Love that saying! The corner pieces are a cuttlebug die. I added the blue crystals to it and some star dust stickles to the image to bling it up!
My hubby and I love to travel, so she had a traveling fairy designed for me! Cool huh? I guess she even gave Diem Pascarella (the artist) a picture of me! The sentiment is a free one with every order this month, too!
The sentiment "Hugs & Fishes" is one of seven in the set. Angie is colored with copic markers, and the colors came from the Basic Grey Lime Rickey dp. Angie has three bubbles coming from her mouth on the stamp (one of them a heart), but I chose to leave those off and use the blue bubbles instead. I put three more in the upper left corner. I used a wave border punch on the yellow piece to go along with the fish theme. I should mention that the sketch is from today's Just Us Girls challenge. 
Next, our sponsor this week is JustRite Stampers! The JUGs DT has used their stamps for our challenge today! I used a set called Stitched with Love. I fell in love with that set when I saw it!
(I don't know what's going on with my camera lately...the pictures are coming out bad! Time for a new one, I guess!) I decided to make this a baby girl card since my cousin, who lives in California, just had a baby girl. This is off in the mail already! I stamped the image twice, punched out the center with I think a 2 3/4" punch then layered it onto the other piece with dimensionals. I colored it with green and pink copics. The dp is from Hobby Lobby and the ribbon is from SU. I used the Bow Easy to make my bow, and a Martha Stewart punch for the scalloped border. I added the buttons because, well....I had to because of the sentiment! Love how easily this went together!
