Follow the Recipe #12!

Hello! Guess what, I stamped again! Yay! :-) And this time I played along with the Top Chef Quickfire for the Follow the Recipe #12 challenge! I also got to ink up my *gorgeous* Guiding Light set from WPlus9 - love!


Did I mention I loooove this set? So many gorgeous stamps to work with! I want to give a HUGE thanks to WPlus9 for this set, it's truly beautiful. Some of my caramel stamping didn't really photograph well, so here's another angle...


The inspiration card for FTR#12 is a real beauty from Grace Nywening.


I focused on several elements from her recipe, including:

• Colors – brown, blue
• Stamps and Stickers – nautical, light house, sentiment
• Color Mediums – stamp ink
• Embellishments – twine/hemp rope
• Tools – die cuts (tags)
  
• Techniques – make a scene
  
• Theme – masculine, Father's Day

The FTR challenge is so much fun - and so easy to play along! I hope you'll join us this week!

For the design of the card, I also played along with Tiff's Sketchy Sunday! I really love her tag inspiration.


Thanks for stopping by today!

• Stamps: Guiding Light from WPlus9, message from Flourishes
• Paper: Hero Arts kraft, My Mind's Eye Stella Rose DP
• Ink: Stampin' Up Craft inks (Creamy Caremel, Taken with Teal, So Saffron), Vintage Photo Distress ink, Memento Tuxedo Black, white gel pen
• Accessories: Twine, staples, machine stitching

DeNami Design Floral Frenzy Blog Hop!!

Hello and welcome to DeNami Design's Floral Frenzy Blog Hop! If you arrived here from my sweet friend Ruby's fabby blog, you're in the right place. If you just happened to stop by my blog, do yourself a favor and head back to the DeNami Design blog to start at the beginning! This month the blog hop theme is flowers...


I decided to play with the adorable little DeNami Elephant. I paper pieced him with some pretty floral paper. But then I worried that this wasn't enough floral to count as a floral frenzy, so I added some daisies from my stash to the polka dots on the patterned paper! Kind of fun, yes? :-)

DeNami Design has a ton of fun planned for this hop!! First and foremost, they are giving away TWO $20 gift certificates to random hoppers!! So be sure to leave lots of comments on all the blogs before 11:59pm PST tomorrow night (March 14) for lots of chances to win! Also, because the blog hop filled up so quickly, DeNami has an additional opportunity for those who weren't able to get on the list! There's a linkie widget on the DeNami post, go there and add your own floral card for a chance to win!! They're offering up a guaranteed spot in the next hop AND some stamps, woohoo!!


A bunch of my Play Date Cafe teammates are playing along with the hop today - because guess who's going to be our wonderful sponsor on Thursday - that's right, DeNami Design! Woohoo!! We're getting our DeNami groove on and getting ready!! :-)

A couple more card details - I played along with Tiff's Sketchy Sunday #10 for the card layout, although I cheated a bit and overlapped the panels. But I did round my corners, and that was key! LOL!


ETA: Tiffany picked my card as one of her Sketchy Sunday Faves!! Yay!! Thanks, Tiff!

Now back to my regularly scheduled post... :-)


This is also my card for this week's Catered Crop Follow the Recipe challenge! Have you played along yet?? This week we are inspired to use the recipe from Lisa's adorable card. I went with the gingham paper, the Spring theme and Spring colors, flowers, ribbon and a bow. Why don't you join us? There's some glorious felt up for grabs, and it could end up being your card we use to cook up our next designs!!

Now to continue along the hop, head on over to Nicki Scheck's fabulous blog!!

Thanks for stopping by!

• Stamps: G152 Elephant and E142 Stomping By from DeNami Design
• Paper: Hero Arts Kraft, Memory Box floral DP, The Paper Studio polka dot DP, unknown gingham
• Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
• Accessories: DeNami Design grosgrain ribbon, flowers, machine stitching

Guest Designing with the EIC #129!

Today I am *thrilled* to kick off my month guest designing with the Etsy Inspired Challenge team!


My card was inspired by this brooch from the Desired Things shop on Etsy.


She has sooo many gorgeous pieces in her shop, it was really difficult choosing just one to use as inspiration! But I really loved the background on this one, with the stripes, glitter and script text. Although I went with purple instead of silver (you know I can't resist purple!), I had a TON of fun recreating the background!


It was created with Claudine Hellmuth's yummy Studio Paints, some Stickles, and the La Lettre stamp from Hero Arts.


To pull it all together, I thought the latest challenge from Tiff's Sketchy Sunday was perfect!!


I created the silver flower "medallion" by building up several layer of embossing powder, then dipping the stamp into it while the EP was still hot. It didn't come out as perfectly as I would have liked - I got some bubbles. Meh.


I loved how the brooch has silver stars on the ribbon, so I punched some hearts out of the scrap embossed piece and glued them onto the tulle.

Now make sure and head on over to the Etsy Inspired Challenge blog and check out the full details - there are prizes to be had! WOOHOO!! And also visit the rest of the wonderful EIC team:

Ashley * Anji * Carole * De * Emily * Jackie * Joy * Kerry * Ruby * Savannah * Sherry * Virginia

The deadline is next Friday, March 11 at noon PST. I hope you'll play along!

• Stamps: K5344 La Lettre, CL495 Blossom Art, CL272 All Occasion Messages from Hero Arts
• Paper: Bazzill purple, gray cardstock from stash
• Ink: StazOn Jet Black, Versamark
• Accessories: Silver EP, heat tool, Stickles, Claudine Hellmuth Studio Paint (blank canvas, purple palette), SU heart & scallop punches, tulle, ribbon, staples