Colleen's Creative Corner: Life Is Good for Ms. Cuppie

Happy Tuesday all,

Today I'm happy to be participating in Taylored Expressions "Blast from the Past" blog hop. This month, we are all showing projects made with TE stamp sets released prior to March 2010. Taylor provided a color challenge for our projects, which is shown below.

For my card, I chose to use the Beach Bum stamp set, released a year ago in June 2009. It's a really fun stamp set with such cute images. My card has Ms. Cuppie taking it easy, probably on vacation in some exotic, tropical location. She is dressed in her favorite beachy attire, including the appropriate hair bling. Her lounge chair is placed under a shady palm and I imagine she's waiting for a young, hot, cabana boy to bring her a cool refreshing Mai Tai. She's all set for a day of relaxation with the latest romantic thriller tucked into her beach bag.
Yes indeed, Life Is Good!

For the most part, I kept to the color scheme although I incorporated a few additional colors.

Cuppie and lounge chair are stamped in memento tuxedo black. I masked the image so the palm tree could be stamped behind the lounge. The palm tree was stamped 3 additional times and cut out. Two palms are used on the side panel and the third's palm fronds popped up on the tree behind the lounge. All images are colored with Copics. Cuppies cupcake paper is paper pieced. Light blue and tan ink are sponged around the white circle.

Supplies

Stamps: Beach Bum set from Taylored Expressions

Card stock: Medium blue and choice snow white from Taylored Expressions

Patterned paper: Snorkel collection from Cosmo Cricket (from the Beach Bum key ingredients released June 2009)

Ink: Memento tuxedo black, Copics, bashful blue and creamy caramel classic ink pads

Other: classic circle and scallop circle nesties, blue flower rhinestone, SU word window punch, the big shot and dimensionals.

Please be sure to check out all of the other blog hop participants. They are listed below for your convenience.

Thanks for stoping by today,

Colleen

Here are the entries from the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past blog hop! Stay tuned for details on how you can sign up for the customer blog hop next month!

1.	Taylor VanBruggen	18.	Alison Anderson	35.	Libby Hickson
2.	Monika Davis	19.	Jessica Willison	36.	Rebecca Ednie
3.	Jen Tapler	20.	JoAnn Valderama	37.	Angela Bear
4.	Tracy Clemente	21.	Cassie Trask	38.	Peggy McCurry
5.	Carolina Buchting	22.	Karen Motz	39.	Tonya Woodruff-Everett
6.	Jackie Pedro	23.	Candace Mitchell	40.	Barbara Anders
7.	Corinne Reyes Mercado	24.	Shelly Cameron	41.	Jami Sibley
8.	Bonnie Ratzloff	25.	Charmaine Ikach	42.	Pattie Goldman
9.	Tangii Crain	26.	Karen Giron	43.	Carole Chesser
10.	Jodi Collins	27.	Laurie Schmidlin	44.	Ayana Posadas
11.	Stacey Schafer	28.	Tammy Hershberger	45.	Lisa Smeaton
12.	Kerry Johnson	29.	Lorie Ames	46.	Colleen Begley
13.	Tanis Palmer	30.	Ann Kranitz	47.	Lori Tecler
14.	Kelli Hull	31.	Carolyn Mustopa	48.	Rosie Hughes
15.	Lisa Hjulberg	32.	Melissa Cooper	49.	Sankari Wegman
16.	Margaret de Witt	33.	Laura Jean Nygaard	50.	Meri McLaughlin
17.	Stephanie Kraft	34.	Patti Gingrich	51.	Melissa Sauls