Friday Fun Challenge #20

It's Friday and this week we are celebrating Friday Fun Challenge number TWENTY!! As your hostess this week, I am offering up a challenge to use at least three different patterns on your card. You can use DP or make your own patterns with stamps and/or inks.

Here is mine. I used Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday 68 sketch for my layout.

Paper: Bella Rose DSP, Pink Pirhouette, Riding Hood Red

Stamps: Short & Sweet

Ink: Pure Poppy

Accessories: small and large oval punches, Nestabilities circle cutters, mini brads, Sizzix flower with leaf & swirl die cut

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

Sara's blog - Expressions of a Creative Mind

If you'd like to play along, please link your card back here (using keyword FFC20 for your Splitcoast gallery) so we can admire your work!

New Year's Cheers!

It's a busy Friday Fun Day and I am posting my FFC15 card late because I went Christmas shopping this morning. This week's challenge, to make a New Year's card, was hosted by my Sassy friend Sherry. I was shocked to discover that I only have ONE New Year's stamp, but then I found the perfect paper to go with it, so it worked out great! Neither the DP nor the stamp have any markings indicating their manufacturer, but I the pink paper and matching ribbon is Papertrey Ink's Berry Sorbet. If you'd like to play along, leave a comment here with a link to your blog or SCS gallery, using keyword FFC15.

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations
Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper
Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

It's Rubber Romance!

It's Friday again, and that means it's time for the weekly challenge I do with my Sassy Friends! This week it's Jimmi's turn to hostess, and she challenged us to make a card using our Rubber Romance stamps.

I decided to use my "Amy" stamp because for some reason she makes me smile. She seems very carefree and cheerful ~ just as I'd like to be at holiday time. I used my Stampin' Up Haiku paper and added a touch of bling with Icicle Stickles.

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

We'd love for you to play along with us! Just link back here to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, using keyword FFC14.

Happy Friday!

Let It Snow! Friday Fun Challenge 13

Are you ready for today's Friday Fun Challenge? This week's fun is brought to you by our sassy friend, Kim. Her challenge is to create a snowflake card without using the color blue. You must also have some sort of glitter on your project.

My card combines FFC13 with this week's color challenge (CC195) and Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday Sketch #59 (Mojo59). Yeah, I multi-tasked! The tree is dusted with Dazzling Diamonds.







Stamps: Lovely as a Tree
Ink: Palette Noir Hybrid
Paper: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Sahara Sand, PTI White
Accessories: Basic Black sheer ribbon, Dazzling Diamonds glitter, black and white mini brads, snowflake punches

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations
Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper
Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

We'd love for you to play along with us! Just link back here to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, using keyword FFC13.

Happy Friday!

Friday Fun Challenge 12

I'm really excited because this week it is my turn to host our Friday Fun Challenge, and I have designed my very first SKETCH CHALLENGE! Thank goodness my Sassy friend, Jimmi ,was able to help me draw it (thank you, Jimmi-Jam!). We'd love for you to play along with us! Just link back here to your blog or Splitcoast gallery, using keyword FFC12. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!




And here is my FFC12 card:

stamps: Martha Stewart bird, Short & Sweet

ink: StazOn Stone Grey, Copic Sketch Markers (BV20, T1, N3, E44, Y11, BV08)

paper: Basic Grey Granola Collection

accessories: hole punch, pewter mini brads, sheer ribbon

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations
Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper
Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

Thanks for looking and I hope you can play along! Happy Friday!

Give Thanks

Today's Friday Fun Challenge is being offered up by my Sassy friend, Sherry. Her idea is to celebrate the upcoming Thanksgiving week by creating a thank you card. I don't know about you, but I can never have too many of these on hand! Please join in the Friday Fun by playing along with us, and link your card here so we can enjoy it, too! If you are linking to your SCS gallery, please use challenge code FFC11.

Because this is the final week of my son's Little League Fall Baseball Season, I decided to create a thank you for our team mom, Cyndi. She has helped to make the season loads of fun, and has worked really hard to organize game schedules, practices, uniforms, snacks, etc. In order to show my appreciation, I decided to make her a special thank you Noteables notepad, signed by all the parents and players inside. I hope she will like it and know how thankful we are for HER!

I also want to gratefully acknowledge the designer of the Noteables notepad, JulieHRR! She has generously given permission for me to post a link to her Noteables design instructions/pattern for this fantastic project. I encourage you to check it out and give it a go! I think these babies would make great Christmas and birthday gifts, too!

Outside View:

Here is a view of the inside, before it was signed:

Recipe:

Paper: Papertrey Ink's Kraft, SU's True Thyme, Karen Foster's "Baseball Collage"

Ink: none

Stamps: none

Accessories: Cuttlebug's "Olivia" alphabet die cuts, light weight chipboard coasters, Nestabilities circle die cut, mini brads, redline tape, 5"x8" small legal size steno pad

You can find more Friday Fun creations on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

Thanks for looking and I hope you can play along! Happy Friday!

My Favorite

This is my card for this week's Friday Fun Challenge (FFC9), hosted by my Sassy friend, Kim (Nutsymuhl). This week's challenge is to use your favorite stamp on your card. I couldn't come up with just one favorite, but my American Art Stamps are definitely among my favs. I love stamps that are witty and/or amusing! I even broke out my Prima flowers for this one.


Stamps: Image by American Art Stamp, Sentiment by Inkadinkado
Paper: Basic Grey Archaic Collection, PTI White
Ink: Ranger Ink's Walnut Stain, Copic Sketch Marker
Accessories: brown mini brad, Prima Flowers

You can find more Friday Fun cards on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations
Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper
Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working


We'd love to have you play along! Just leave a comment with a link to your blog or SCS gallery (using keyword FFC9). Thanks for playing!

BOO!

Happy Friday!!! This week's Friday Fun Challenge is brought to you by Jimmi (jpmayo), and she has created an awesome sketch challenge for us.

This is the only Halloween card I have made this year, because I don't really know what I'm supposed to do with Halloween cards! And so, despite the fact that this one is destined to find a home in my card box, I had great fun making it. Strangely, it also has no mini brads on it, which may also be a first for me. And from the bottom to the top ~ 12 layers!

Stamps: Hero Arts "Halloween Border", Snap Stamps (alphabet)
Ink: Palette Noir Hybrid, Copic Sketch Marker YR09
Paper: Tangerine Tango, PTI White, s.e.i. Black Orchid Collection, Making Memories Black & Mat Stack
Other: Nestabilities circle and scallop circle die cutsWhite

You can find more Friday Fun cards on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

Please play along with me, and leave a comment with a link to your blog or SCS gallery (using keyword FFC6).

A Very Special Friday

This week's card is special, as it a birthday card for my good friend Jimmi (jpmayo), who will be celebrating her birthday this weekend! It is also my card for the Our Creative Corner challenge (to use bling/sparkle on your card) AND my Friday Fun Challenge card! But the real reason it is special is because it was made in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.


This week's Friday Fun Challenge hostess is Kim (Nutsymuhl). Her challenge is to create a card with the colors pink and white/ ivory & one of the following neutrals (chocolate, black, or kraft). You can check out the challenge details on her blog, here: http://www.kmuhl.blogspot.com/ .

Stamps: Blooming with Happiness, sentiment by MFT (You Take the Cake set)
Paper: Basic Grey (Perhaps Collection), PTI White and Sweet Blush, SU Basic Black
Ink: Palette Noir Hybrid, Copic Sketch Markers (RV11, R32)
Accessories: Stampendous Diamond Dots, Silver Stickles, Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder

You can find more Friday Fun cards on these blogs:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working


Please play along with me, and leave a comment with a link to your blog or SCS gallery (using keyword FFC5). Thanks for looking!

It's Friday!

This week's Friday Fun Challenge is being hosted by Sherry of Stamping When I'm Not Working. The challenge is to make a masculine card without using any shade of blue or green. I used my new Ambrosia paper from Basic Grey, including a slate grey color which looks a bit blue in the picture, but believe me, IT'S GREY. I used last week's Splitcoaststampers sketch challenge for my layout (SC187).

Stamps: Image and Sentiment by Hambo Stamps
Paper: PTI White, Basic Grey (Ambrosia Collection)
Ink: StazOn Stone Grey, Copic Sketch Markers (T5, YR09, R29, YR14)
Accessories: grey mini brads

If you'd like to play along, please link your challenge card here (using the keyword FFC3 when uploading to your SCS gallery).

Also, check out more great challenge cards here:

Kim's blog - Papertastic Creations

Jimmi's blog - The Stamping Shopper

Sherry's blog - Stamping When I'm Not Working

Enjoy!

Friday Fun!!!

Hi all! It's Friday again, and that means it's time for our weekly Friday Fun Challenge! This week's hostess is Jimmi, and her challenge involves using BLING on your card. For details, visit Jimmi's blog, here.



Here is my Blingy card. It's hard to tell in the pic, but the bloom is completely traced over with Platinum Stickles and it shines like crazy! The dandelion stamp is from Hero Arts, and the sentiment is from SU's Short & Sweet set. This is my first card using the new In-Colors, Kiwi Kiss and Pacific Point. I added in SU's Close to Cocoa and PTI's Vintage Cream, which I stippled with Close to Cocoa ink. I also used my Nestabilities scallop square die cuts, SU's word window punch, and Kiwi brads. My layout was cased shamelessly from Beate's gorgeous card, here.







For more great samples, check out:


Kim's blog ~ Papertastic Creations,


Sherry's blog ~ Stamping When I'm Not Working,


Jimmi's blog ~ The Stamping Shopper.



I would love to see what you come up with! Please link your challenge cards here, using keyword FFC2 when uploading to your SCS gallery.

Thanks for playing!

Let's Have Some FRIDAY FUN!!

Hi Y'all! Welcome to the FIRST EVAH FRIDAY FUN CHALLENGE!!!!

This is a new challenge that I will be presenting every Friday with my Sassy friends Kim, Jimmi, and Sherry. Our plan is to take turns hosting a fun challenge ~ color, sketch, limited supplies, project, technique ~ anything that we think you will enjoy trying.

This week our hostess with the mostest is Kim, and she has decided to present a color challenge using Pretty in Pink, Chocolate Chip, and Kraft. Check out all the deets on Kim's blog, Papertastic Creations.

Here is my card. I used my new Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder to create the background on Kraft paper, adding elements in PTI White and Chocolate Chip. The layout for this card is courtesy of Julee Tilman (it's her Verve Visual Sketch #1). I just love her layouts! I added the Pretty in Pink around the owl's eyes, and also with the mini brads. I think it gives a nice little POP to the card! The stamp is from Inkadinkado. You likey?

To see some other sample cards, check out

Jimmi's blog ~ The Stamping Shopper,

Sherry's blog ~ Stamping When I'm Not Working,

and Kim's blog ~ Papertastic Creations.

I would LOVE to see your creations, too! Link your challenge cards here, and use challenge code FFC1 if you upload to your SCS gallery.

Enjoy! Thanks for playing along!!!!!! Isn't Friday FUN??????