Colour and Layout Challenge

I am certain that everyone in the stamping world knows or has heard of Heather Summers and how extremely talented and super nice she is.

Before Heather went off to Convention this week , she put a challenge on her blog using this layout and also a colour challenge using Rich Razzleberry, Old Olive and Pacific Point. It was optional to use the clour challenge incorporated in the layout challenge or simply keep them seperate and use it as two challenges.

As you may be aware, I had gone back to school part time and am now taking the summer off to be with my children (they are teens but I just want to spend time with them) as this may be the last summer off as I hope to have a job next year. Ooop, I got off track there anyways, I seemed to have lost my creative mojo and being challenged with a layout design is exactly what I need to get my creative juices flowing throw my veins again. Not to mention it also justifies purchasing new items from the new catalogue.

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Recipe:

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly #111564

Well Scripted #117072
Ink: Rich Razzleberry #115658

Pacific Point #111837

Old Olive #102277

Cardstock: Rich Razzleberry #115316
Pacific Point #111350

Old Olive # 100702

Whisper White #100730

Embellishments: Silver Brads #104336

Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack #118309

Butterfly Punch #119848

Couldn't Resist...

Everyone knows how talented Kimberly Van Diepen is and I could not resit casing her card here.

This is not my usual style but I love it and think it is so pretty. This is a card I think could be framed (shadowbox style).

Anyways, I didn't have the stamps Kimberly used but I made due with what I have.

Recipe:

Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly, French Script, Baroque Motifs

Paper: Whisper White, Confetti White

Ink: Soft Suede, Crushed Curry, Close to Cocoa

Embellishments: Organza Ribbon, Pretties Kit, dimensionals, dazzling diamonds, SU Backgrounds 1 Texturz Plate

Hope you like it. Hope you are having a great weekend.

Simply Stars

I believe I have mentioned this before that I have a talented, fabulous friend and upline Heather Summers and we are called Simply Stars.

Heather arranged a full card swap within our group and I have to say we are a talented group of ladies. Sixteen ladies participated in this swap and as long as it was current Stampin' Up! products, the sky was the limit in our designs. Over the next few days, I will be posting cards from the swap. I hope you enjoy the fine creations.

The first card above was created by Renee Ballard. Renee chose a card with no stamping but has a lot of texture. I can't believe Renee made sixteen cards each with a dalhia fold flower. That's a lot of folding! Renee also used the texturz plates Stampin' Up! Backgrounds # 114512 on page 195. I think the card looks great, nice work Renee.

This card is soincredible! The stamped images are so crisp it looks like designer paper but it is not. I am convinced it is the quality of Stampin' Up! cardstock that makes images so clean and vivid. Back to the card, the designer of this piece of work is Charlene Godsave. Charlene is just starting to blog but you can check out her work here . Be sure to say Hi to Charlene and leave her a kind thougt.
Charlen used the Simple Friendship #113397 on page 105, Flight of the Butterfly #116564 on page 108

Linda Anderson is the designer of this beauty. Like the card above, the stamped images are sharp. Linda used the two step stamping set Greenhouse Garden #113824 on page 94 and in real the image has the illusion of dimension becasue of the clarity of the stamping. Linda used silver micro beads on the stamen of the flowers. Love this card.

I hope you find some inspiration and see you tomorrow.