Contempo Christmas

This is the first time this stamp set has seen INK... can you believe it??? I wanted this set in the worst way... and then I never even used them - UNTIL my friend Kim used this set here- and it gave me some ideas... So thank you Kim! Anything to keep my mojo flowing!

Chera's Contempo Christmas:

I loved the Cherry Cobbler snowflake (from Northern Frost) added to the ribbon, then had to add some Crystal Effects to it - but I think its still wet in the picture! The Old Olive is embossed with the Lattice embossing folder (Big Shot). The layout I saw on some challenge... and I liked it but wasn't sure where I would use it.

So what set did you HAVE TO HAVE and then not INK for a LONG TIME? I want to know ??!!?!

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Color Dare Challenge 64

This was a fun challenge.. two reasons - I just love these flowers pins in her hair & its bright and I haven't ever used Summer Sun, for more than scrapbooking!

Here is my take on the Color Dare Challenge

I haven't used Pocket Silhouettes in a while, so I added some sponging (old Olive) to the circle (Vanilla) and used the Summer Sun & Certainly Celery ink with the stamp set. The card base is Old Olive, and I layered the other colors before popping up the circle.

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Go ahead, play along with the Color dare Challenges, sometimes it pulls you "out of the box" and gives you a different outlook on the colors!

Flowers are a bloom

I spent a good bit of the day outside getting things put away from the summer, and cleaning out the garden for winter. It is sad alittle. I do like fall. But in the midst of my thoughts about all the clean up I had, there were three flowers, outside of my mums, that were still in bloom, looking at me to almost say.."hey, I am still here."

When the chores were done, and I was able to get back into my craft cave, I put this together. If it hadn't been getting so dark I would have taken a picture of the card with the flowers that inspired me so.

I used the LNS Challenge 42 - Color challenge to complete the card. Its unbelieveable how many scraps I 'used' to put this together, but I am liking it.

Ingredients: Scalloped Circle Punch- Ruby Red CS, Boho flowers Punch- Ruby Red CS, Scalloped oval Punch- Old Olive CS, Kraft flower pot base.

Ruby Red, Old Olive and Real Rust...

... was the color challenge for Latenightstampers, a Yahoo Group I belong to.

I was confident that this was going to be easy.. simple enough, afterall those are fall colors... colors in which I had limited supply of... so yes a challenge it was!

First please excuse the pictures, since its getting dark out so early, I wasn't able to capture it in great light. Still working on getting a photobox.

So here is Upsy daisy water misted with Ruby Red and Real Rust markers. I added brads since I thought it needed something. The Old Olive ribbon was included in the Elements pack of ribbon, which I wrapped around the Real Rust CS after I rolled the specklers roller across it in Real Rust.

Second, I did about a dozen of these alternating the base color. I am not crazy about the glitter that I added, so I only added it to one. This is the acorn from Autumn Splendor. Again, I used the specklers roller on the bottom cardstock althought you cannot see that in these photos. I popped the acorns up on dimensionals and turned the ribbon over for the plain side on the other cards.

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Stamps: Autumn Splendor, Sandy specklers roller, Upsy Daisy

CS: Ruby Red, Real Rust, Old Olive, Whisper White

Ink: Real Rust, Versamark; Markers- Real Rust, Ruby Red, Old Olive

Old Olive Ribbon (Elements), dimensionals, 1 1/2 circle punch, 1 3/8 circle punch, glitter, silver brads, water spritzer

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Mojo is back ...

I shouldn't really say my Mojo was gone.. but something wasn't let me create... dam household chores... LOL

Here is another card, using the sketch from Gretchen Barron's Inspiration in Action 105.

This time I have used Eastern Blooms, with eggplant and Bashful blue. It will also be a birthday card since there a quite a few birthdays in October for me.

Stamps: Eastern Blooms, Spackles roller
CS:Eggplant, Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Whisper White
Ink: Eggplant, Old Olive, Lavender, Lilac markers, Old Olive Ink
Purple brads, eggplant ribbon


Stay tuned - I have a LateNightStampers Challenge for you!!!

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