Creative Crew - Design Team!

I'm quite excited.  I've been asked to be on the Design Team for the Creative Crew Challenges on Splitcoast for 4 months.  This is a challenge for Stampin' Up! demonstrators!
Here are the projects I created for this month's 4 challenges.  Hope you come play along.  You can find the challenge here and the challenge gallery here for all the projects.

Pieced and Pierced

 

I made this card for Creative Crew SU! challenges on Splitcoast.

 

One challenge was to use the soon-to-be-retired 2011 colors.  Focus on your least favorite.  My least favorite was Calypso Coral.

 

Also the challenge was to use piercing in a different way.  I pierced a heart behind my sentiment.

 

The snail and flowers are stamped and cut out (paper pieced) on white, limeade and coral.

I inked the zigzag embossing folder with brown ink before running the calypso coral paper through.

Blooming birthday

 

I made this for the color challenge - mustard, razzleberry and midnight muse.  I stamped the flowers and then cut them out.  I pierced around the framelit.

Happy Happy Bike

I made this card for 2 challenges.

 

The color challenge at Splitcoast - Perfect Plum, Summer Starfruit, Tangerine Tango & Pool Party

 

This cool layout coumes from Retro Sketches.

The bike image is colored with puple mostly but I added the orange and yellow in the flowers.

Birthday car - color blocking

 

Yippee, I'm getting back into the challenges again!  This card is for 3 challenges.

1) - color challenge - cajun craze, pumpkin pie, midnight muse

2) - CAS color blocking

3) - Clean & Simple Fall to Layout #207

 

Great male birthday card.  I love how it turned out.  The car is embossed with white and I paper pieced the 3 balloons and added two rows of piercing.

Clear Block - Summer Afternoon

 

A very simple card using a layout from Sketch Frenzy Friday.

 

I inked a clear acrylic block with green and pressed onto the white paper, then stamped the line image from "Summer Afternoon" overtop.  It's quite hard to see from the photo.  It's a subtle effect but is a nice and easy way to add color to this image.

 

I added a zig zag from "Tasteful Trim" die and a little twine bow.

The colors are Wild Wasabi and Certainly Celery with Chocolate Chip and white.

New Queen... QFTD129

My two cards for the QUEEN this week.  Come take a look at the Queen for the Day Challenge and come play along.

 

I loved Peggy's layout for this card.  Actually the angles of the triangles were the hardest part to figure out.  I mixed a few oranges (not my usual go-to color) and made this with a cupcake so it would be suitable for boy or girl (or even adult!)  I loved the brads on Peggy's card too, but I didn't think with the shape of my sentiment it would work very well, so I tried a bit of white twine.

 

I love her very simple bike on kraft.  I tried a few different colors, although I loved hers.  I also changed the placement of some things.  I added some piercing and faux stitching in the corners and am not sure if I like it.  I think it makes it a bit too busy.  The colors of this are kraft (crumb cake), real red, baja breeze and midnight muse.

I colored the bike image with the midnight muse marker except for the flowers I colored in the lighter blue and red.

New Queen... QFTD126

I made these two cards for our Queen this week...

 For this first one I brayered a sunset.  This is what it looked like without stamping...

I masked off the bottom left corner with a piece of torn paper.  I brayered yellow, then orange, then red.  I took the paper off and sponged in brown and black in the bottom area (so it hopefully looks like a hill).

I stamped the trees with Staz On black, but it didn't show up as well as I wanted, so I colored the image in with black marker.  I'm really pleased with how this turned out.  The trees are from "Evergreen" and a retired set "Branch Out"

For this card I used my square punch and punched out 6 pieces of patterned paper.  Added a piece of ribbon with a stapler, punched out the sentiment and pierced some holes and used a marker to connect the dots (faux stitching).

Really simple to make.  I used some colors I don't normally put together and I'm happy with how it looks.

I really hope you come play along with the Queen for the Day Challenge.



Water Stamping with leaves

I made this card for last week's layout on Splitcoast.  Such a pretty layout, although I think I took a bit of liberty with it.

The colors are: Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Summer Starfruit, white, with a bit of always artichoke


I used twine, brads, oval and modern label punch.  The embossing on the mustard is houndsooth.

I made the background circle by sponging colors on glossy paper, then I wet my stamp background and stamped it on.  I used french filigree background.  I found the technique on Splitcoast - Water Stamping.

The leaves I made by coloring the image with markers and stamping on summer starfuit paper and more mustard paper and cutting them out.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with how this turned out and think it makes a nice masculine card.

Summer Afternoon - Made for You

I made this card for two challenges.

The color challenge at Splitcoast - Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler and the new Gumball Green.

I challenged myself NOT to make a Christmas card with these colors.

The layout is from Techno Stamper.

Especially for You Leaves

I made this card for two challenges.

The colors are from Dynamic Duos - River Rock and Always Artichoke and I used Very Vanilla as a neutral.

The layout is from Just Add Ink.

I used "French Foliage" and "Made for You".

Did some ripping and used a piece of linen thread.

Happy Birthday car

This card was made for a color challenge and a layout.

The layout is from Techno Stamper.

The colors on Splitcoast today are: Choc Chip, Tangerine Tango, Always Artichoke.

A really different color combo that I would not have tried. 

I like how this turned out though.  These colors make a great masculine card.

I used stampin dimensionals on the image so that the presents and balloons would pop up a bit.  I put brads in the tires.

New QUeen.. QFTD117

Here are the 2 cards I made for this week's Queen.  You can find the Queen for the Day Challenge here.

I used my new stamp sets Serene Silhouettes and Blooming with Kindness.  New finishing touches edgelit and argyle embossing folder.

This card uses Serene Silhouettes and Made for You stamp sets!  I did the Spotlight technique and I pierced around the circle with the new piercing template.  Fun new ribbon!