Papercraft Star Challenge French

Happy Sunday Paper Crafters,
When I was blog hopping around checking out the beautiful creations done by the challenge entry's at ColourQ I found another challenge :) this one is at Papercraft Star. While I am rather a newbie when it comes to challenges I had to join in when I saw it was anything French. I've always loved anything and everything french plus I had a cool background stamp that I had yet to use and this was the perfect opportunity to ink it up.


I've been in a very vintage card making mood it seems lately so my card is distressed and vintage looking. The distressing is kind of a faux burning effect, I love the result. I used watercolor pencils to color in the background stamp, the water droplets continue onto the inside and surround the sentiment.


Thanks for stopping by and Thank you Papercraft Star for the inspiration!
Tami

cQc Challenge #133

Good morning Paper Crafters,
I had so much fun participating in last weeks ColourQ challenge that I decided to join in the fun again this week. I love how those palettes get your creative juices flowing. I focused on the darker colors of this selection and after finding a piece of DSP fitting the scheme I had a lightbulb moment, lol, and knew I wanted to use the image from Elementary Elegance and emboss it in black. My daughter liked the card but said it looked goth, lol, I think that was a compliment :) I liked the way it turned out too.
Here's the palette:


And here is my take:


A closer view of the details:

And on the inside:


There's still a little time to join the challenge so come play along :)

Thanks for stopping by and Thank You ColourQ!
Tamara

Glitter Queens Hop Next Week!

Good morning Paper Crafters,

It a beautiful sunny day here in California, I love it, gets me energized to get creative :) Speaking of creating the Glitter Queens have another hop in the works, we will be hoping next week, April 25-27. We will have a new project to share each day of the hop, so be sure to stop by and see all the goodies everyone has created!


I sure you've heard but if you haven't Stampin'Up! has released their list of retiring stamp sets, from what I understand the IBC will be out a month early, so look for it in June. Anyone who would like a new IBC for FREE contact me to find how you can get yours!
The retiring sets will only be available till May 31, 2012, some accessories will also be retiring but that list will not be available till April 25.

So if you have any favorite sets going be sure to order them before they are gone!
Have a wonderful day,
Tamara

Embellished Sketch Journal

Hello Paper Crafters,
I've been busy doing some early cooking today....my oldest daughter has a softball game and I wanted a good dinner, not ball park food, and I knew that I wouldn't feel like cooking after the game, lol. So I'm cooking a pot of beans, some homebaked bread, and I made cupcakes for dessert.
Thankfully our weather warmed up over the weekend so it will be pleasant outside to watch the game, we actually had a couple games and practice cancelled because of the thunderstorms we were experiencing last week.

Today I thought I would share an embellished journal I created to use as a card/scrapbook template sketch book. It's the On-board journal from SU, it's spiral bound, has a board front and back and is full of sketching pages.


On the inside of the back page I added a little pocket with a small rectangle/for cards, and a square/for scrapbook sketches. I can just trace them then I start out my sketch with straight edges.


I can't wait to start drawing, hope I can think of some good templates :)
Well I need to blast off.....it's almost game time!
Have a great day,
Tamara

cQc Challenge #132

Hello Paper Crafters,
I'm so excited to share today's post, I was recently hopping around checking out some cardmaker blogs and came across a badge for Colour Q, even though I have been there before I have never participated in a challenge, until today, there's always a first time for everything, lol.

This color combo was definitely a challenge for me as they were not colors I would typically put together, but I do love the way my card turned out.

I've been in a vintage mood lately and I love creating and using flowers so I knew I wanted to use those elements for this card. I used satin ribbon to create the large pumpkin pie flower and cs for the smaller flower on the tag. I added ribbon twirled and a few poppy colored buds to balance out and complete the front.

I had fun with this challenge and want to thank the ladies at Colour Q for all their hard work and for letting me play along :)

Scallop Envelope Greeting

Good morning Paper Crafters,
I have another project today using the SU Scallop die and the blue and beige color combo, I used the Kindness matters stamp set. I like butterflies so I love this set, plus it's so versatile it could be used for a variety of occasions and it's inexpensive. Although my card design looks simple there are really a lot of details added. I used the SU's scallop punch on the edge of the cs and dsp on the front, I created a flower using the doily triple layer punch, 3 layers of newsprint and the bottom layer is blue cs, then I used a glitter brad in the center. The trio of butterflies was stamped onto the dsp then I used SU neutral markers to color them in.
Here is my supply list:
Scallop Envelope-113462
Doily Triple Layer punch-122465
Kindness Matters Stamp Set-122902
Marina Mist Scallop dot Ribbon-122986
Designer printed brads-122940
Glimmer brads Brights-121005
Marina Mist CS-119682
DSP Attic Boutique -125407

I love the end result, these colors are so serene, the perfect way to say Thank you to a special someone in your life.

Thank you for stopping by....
Tamara

Queen for a Day Birthday Greeting

Hello Paper Crafters,

I've been absent a bit due to a crazy busy schedule and spring break, my girls had 10 days off (that's counting weekends) I spent a lot of the time playing games, crafting, cooking and hanging with them. We had a few windy days and made good use of them flying kites....towards the end of vacation we played badmitton and on the last day my daughter got her cast taken off! She had a buckle fracture but it is all healed, yea!, and she can get back to her normal activities in a week.

For today's post I have a birthday greeting, I love the vintage type look to it and all the details. I wanted to create a card using blue and beige and I wanted to incorporate a scallop envelope, ( it is a new die for me so I just had to use it, lol) The crown and key accents were heat embossed gold to add bling fitting for a Queen for the Day.


A look at the details and below a peek inside....
I hope you enjoyed my greeting, Thanks for stopping by!

Tamara