Snow Much Fun . . . and Inkspirations #87

For my second post this afternoon, I have a Christmas card made for this week's Inkspiration #87 challenge. This week the challenge is a sketch challenge and I had lots of fun with this one. Bling really makes this one shine. All stamps and papers are from Stampin' Up.

Supplies
Stamps: Snow Much Fun and Sweets For the Sweet sets by Stampin' UP
Card stock: SU silver Glimmer, old olive and confetti white
Patterned paper: SU Big Top Birthday
Ink: SU real red, basic black, old olive and chocolate chip
Other: SU old olive satin ribbon, classic circle and large scalloped circle Nesties, SU large gold glitter, Kaiser red rhinestones, SU and Fiskars corner rounder punches, SU 1" circle punch, the Big Shot, and dimensionals

Have a great week ahead and thanks for looking in,
Colleen

Snow Much Fun . . . again

My second post today is a card using the new Stampin' Up set called "Snow Much Fun". I {heart} this set and will be using it for many of my Christmas cards.

Today, I'm using some "not so Christmasy" colors.  The sketch comes from this week's Sweet Stop sketch # 115. The colors come from the Inkspirations Challenge #76, and finally I'm posting it to the Paper Players challenge #54, Christmas In July theme.

Supplies
Stamps: Snow Much Fun by Stampin' Up
Card stock: SU peach parfait, poppy parade and whisper white
Patterned Paper: Kitchen Spice by Bo Bunny
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, SU baja breeze, peach parfait, poppy parade, soft suede, pumpkin pie
Other: SU punches, SU ribbon, Stickles, aqua painter, mini glue dots and dimensionals

Have a great Monday afternoon and thanks,
Colleen

Time For Tea and More Challenges

Hi again everyone,

This is my second post today.

I had a really fun day of stamping, taking the opportunity to play along with a couple challenges that I normally don't have time for.  Since I had a few days off work last week, I was able to get cards finished for the challenges that I usually do, and so on this weekend, I had time to do some other challenges.  As you all know, there are tons of challenges in blog land.  I chose to do the Cupcake Inspiration Challenge and Inkspirations Challenge #25.

I couldn't decide which element in the picture that I wanted to use as my "inspiration" so I picked three, the color, the flowers and the pearls.  Here's my card using these three elements:

And here's the Inkspiration Challenge #25 layout:

Supplies

Stamps: CreativiTEA set by Taylored Expressions
Card stock and DSP: Taylored Expressions
Ink: Memento tuxedo black
Other: SU Sizzix Texturez plate pattern #1, Nestabilities labels 9, EK Success daisy chain punch, medium and small pearls by Recollections, SU pretties kit large pearls, the Big Shot, dimensionals.

The tea pot and cup were paper pieced.

All in all, it was a really fun stamping day.  I hope you all have a great Memorial Day tomorrow and a great week,

Colleen