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TGIF Challenge #9 Remix Time

 Hey, Hey!!! Happy Friday, friends!!!! I hope you had a great week. Have you been playing along? I am loving reading all of the comments and seeing the projects!!!!

 So this week is seriously FUN! This is a "MIX UP" challenge. You choose any of the challenges from the month and mix them up! I chose to use the sketch challenge and the watercolor challenge.

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 Being as my first "watercolor" card wasn't very "water-color-y" I thought it would be a good one to revisit:

 

  Lots of little details in this one. First of all I used one of my fave new color combos, Delightful Dijon, Mint Macaron, and Tip Top Taupe. To create the striped background for this version, I used Watercolor paper for a GREAT texture. I embossed the main panel of Watercolor paper with my fave Polka Dot Textured Folder, then I used my Aqua Painters to pick up some of those same inks to create this fun look. 

 This card went to my Brother In Law and his girlfriend who are expecting boy/girl twins at the end of summer! 

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Fancy Friday - So, what's new?

 Welcome back to Fancy Friday! So, what's new with you? I know what's new with US!!!! NEW Stampin' Up! stuff!!! I am LOVING this catalog and all of the fun things in it!

 Today's card is pretty special to me. It's for a special little boy who lost his Police Officer Daddy here in Las Vegas last year. He has a birthday coming up. He's turning 2. We want to make sure that he knows there are lots of families that loved his Daddy and always want to make him feel special.

 No Bones About it was a natural choice as a go to for this one. I did keep it a little on the simple side, but still wanted to make it special.

 By stamping the vines multiple times without re-inkin, I was able to add quite a bit of depth. I cut the dino out and popped him up on Dimensionals for a little extra fun.

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Head on over to my Fancy girl friend the fabulous Mrs. Jennifer Timko and check our her fancy take on this month's challenge!

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TGIF Challenge #8

 Hey, Hey!!! Happy Friday, friends!!!! I hope you are excited for this week's challenge - I know I was! If you haven't played along yet, maybe this will be your week!

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 I suppose I could have gone a little more traditional "wedding", but this card is perfect for me to give to my hubby!

 

 I used the AMAZING new green In-Color, Cucumber Crush as my base for this, as well as the fun foliage and grass from the Sheltering Tree stamp set. I actually stamped the image on vellum, and then matted it on Soft Sky cardstock. It gave it the PRETTIEST, softest look. I love how it turned out! Of course I had to add that little bit of GOLD.

Something for Baby, and Baby.....

 

 Ok, so a while back I got the exciting news that I was going to be an Auntie again! Then, I got even more great news - TWINS!!! A boy and girl set of twins!!! I am so over the moon. 

 Last weekend there was a baby shower in their honor. Being as we surprised them with this in the morning - 

(well, us as well as a few other family members... this was something that they really needed!)

 As much as I wanted to buy tons of cute baby things, I figured I'd stick with the useful items, so I made up a big stack of Thank You cards for the Mama to send out. Of course I HAD to package them up cute....

 

 We had the guests at the shower address themselves an envelope to make it even easier for her. She is going to have her hands full shortly as it is....

 I am soooo looking forward to snuggling those babies :)

 

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A little punchy fun, Sweetheart and Heart Border Punch card

 Despite having boys home on track break, I was actually able to get some stamping time in last week. It felt GREAT! Made some cards for some challenges, made a few for personal use, made some for a class.... 

 This card is one I made for a challenge. From time to time Stampin' Up! presents some fun challenges to us Demonstrators. There is currently a challenge to use some punches! I grabbed two of my faves off the list and started playing. 

 I have to say, I LOVE this card! I used the Sweetheart Punch and the Heart Border punch. These combined with the clean white, hearts punched from the Subtles collection and a pop of black, make for a rather great looking card if I do say so myself...

(I did add a few little hearts from the Heart Confetti punch too, just to give the shaker a little more movement)

 So I am going to "Pin" this over on my Stampin' Up! board. If you like it, would you kindly repin it with the #punchitup ? That would be awesome! You'll also be able to find other submissions with that same hashtag if you'd like to see them :) 

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TGIF Challenge #7

 Hey, Hey!!! Happy Friday, friends!!!! I hope you had a great week. This sketch is awesome - so I think there will be a LOT of players this week!!!!!

 I LOVED this challenge, I think I will be using this sketch for many cards to come.

 

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 I wanted a little fun, and a little fancy,so this is what I finally decided on:

 I created my own background by sponging Cucumber Crush ink across some Whisper White card stock. I layered that on some Watermelon Wonder and Delightful Dijon, which are also the colors I used to color the stamp with. 

 To make it fancy and fun, I created my own Gold patterned vellum with one of the other stamps in the Whole Lot of Lovely set and some Gold Embossing Powder

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TGIF Challenge #6

 Hey, Hey!!! Happy Friday, friends!!!! I hope you had a great week. I am LOVING seeing all of the fabulous challenge projects y'all are submitting! Wasn't last week's FUN?

  I LOVE water-coloring, so I was excited to see this challenge. Then I really didn't take the approach I thought I would....

 

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At first glance, you might wonder where exactly I water-colored:

 So, I water-colored this cute little party-girl. I LOVE the look it gave to the skirt of her dress. I was also able to add just a tint of color to her skin. (Don't worry, you might see a little more water-coloring from me later in the month too - hint-hint)

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TGIF Challenge - JUNE THROW DOWN #tgifctd01

 Hey, Hey!!! Wait a minute - it's not Friday... what's going on here? Well check this out. It's a THROW DOWN challenge. Have you ever seen the Food Network show, Chopped? Well, if you have it's kind of like that..... let me fill you in

 

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In this throw down challenge you get some "basics" or a pantry of sorts of supplies. Here is this month's "pantry"

 That's it - that's your pantry. Now, you can add these items...

Not too shabby. Think you can make a project using ONLY those ingredients? Well, here is what I came up with...

This is a single layer card essentially, being as I was limited to only Whisper White card stock. First thing I did was laid down a Doily and then spritzed some Blushing Bride ink over it. I then stamped the heart from Work of Art stamp set, in an ombre look in the background. I trimmed a second doily and layered it over the spritzed one. In order to have some Blackberry twine, I dyed some with my re-inker. I thought it looked sweet tied in a little bow around that Gold Foil "happy"

What do you think? I think my recipe turned out pretty well. I would love to see the project that you come up with using these "ingredients"! Make sure that you link up on the #TGIFC site!

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We Create Blog Hop - Something Old, Something New

 Welcome JUNE!

 Seriously? June, already? I'm going to have to let that sink in for a bit.

 You might have seen some samples with this stamp set floating around - Stampin' Up! Demonstrators have the opportunity to pre-order a few items so that we can prepare for our classes. I LOVE this set! It is so fun and it's great for so many looks and techniques. It's called - "I Think You're Great"

 

 That gorgeous, rich color you see is a new one - Watermelon Wonder and it's YUMMY! I love it paired with Black, White and of course GOLD! You also might spy a Project Life Grid Journaling card and the adorable new Washi Tape from the new Project Life kit!

 All of these great items will be available for you to order too starting tomorrow! Make sure you come back tomorrow for a Hostess Code that will land you some sweet benefits!

 

Head on over to Julie's blog - I know she'll have something great to share with you today.

 

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