Papertrey Ink Celebration Continues!

Papertrey Ink is continuing its 4th anniversary celebration AND its monthly new release party.  Here's a card I made for a new contest all about buttons!

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Last PTI Card...

Papertrey Ink is having a HUGE series of giveaways and events during their 4th anniversary. This particular contest involves free tag downloads. Here's another card I made.

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Another PTI Card...

Papertrey Ink is having a HUGE series of giveaways and events during their 4th anniversary. This particular contest involves free tag downloads. Here's another card I made.

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Papertrey Ink 4th Anniversary Festivities Continue...

Papertrey Ink is having a HUGE series of giveaways and events during their 4th anniversary.  This particular contest involves free tag downloads.  Check out the free download HERE  and see some wonderful cards fellow crafters have made HERE.  Here's a card I made...unfortunately I ran out of time to make 6 more. 

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Contest at Papertrey Ink

It's PTI's 4th anniversary and there's one big contest going on.  Go HERE and check it out along with some AMAZING artwork from some AMAZING gals on the PTI Design Team!  Here's a couple projects using one of my favorite stamp sets Enoy the Ride with the coordinating die.  I am a Beetle fan (I own a 2007 Triple White VW Beetle Convertible), so this set is right up my alley.

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Shelly

Cameo Challenge

Moxie Fab World does it again!  Another exciting challenge is taking place at MFW...and it's all about cameos.  Cameos of all sorts, shapes and sizes are making headlines in the crafting world these days.  Go over to the MFW Cameo Challenge and take a look at the beautiful cards fellow crafters have made.  Here's mine along with a few other pretty cameos.  I started out using just black, tan and white, but I decided a pop of color would be good...I really like it!

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Shelly

Check this out...ever heard of The Farm Chicks?

I heard The Farm Chicks lived right here in my town, but never looked into it.  I stumbled upon their website this evening by mistake.  Here's the link- The Farm Chicks -check it out! 

Go HERE and you'll find a cool download for these sweet treat bags from The Farm Chicks.

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Divine Twine...Oh My!

I was doing a bit of surfing here and discovered Whisker Graphics and the Divine Twine sold on the site.  There are some YUMMY colors and a roll of 240 yeards sells for only $15!  Go have a look and see all the colors currently offered.  Here's a photo of a clever way to store a roll of Divine Twine, and a deliciously cute little twine cupcake made from a styrofoam ball and wooden "cherry".

Thanks for looking!

Shelly

Color Inspiration Challenge: Neutrals

I had a lot of fun making this card for the Neutrals Color Inspiration Challenge over at Moxie Fab World.  I enjoy mixing ribbons, buttons, punched borders and various paper types.  I keep trying to "find" my style, but I have a style, it's just not defined by any particular style.  Make sense?  Likely not to you, but to me it's HUGE to know I have found that I belong right where I am, and this card depicts ME and who I am...a little bit of everything :)

This is the last of the Color Inspiration Challenges... so the next post will be something new!  I hope you have enjoyed looking at how the various color schemes inspired me.

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Color Inspiration Challenge: Monochromatics

You may not believe it, but I sat down Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon and made all 6 Color Inspiration challenge cards to take part in the challenges over at Moxie Fab World.  This challenge, Monochromatics, was one of the more difficult for me to do because I like to use a blend of colors.  Here's my end result: (the sentiment is difficult to read in the photo, but really stands out in real life, I also think my camera batteries are dying because there's a wierd shadow down the middle of the card)

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Shelly

Color Inspiration Challenge: Metallics

I'm not much of a metallic paper user, so when Moxie Fab World posted the Metallics challenge during Color Inspiration Week, it was a difficult task for me to accomplish.  But with some online inspiration and the color inspiration, I found myself playing with my metallic paper and actually having fun doing it!

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Shelly

Color Inspiration Challenge: Jewel Tones

Here's yet another color inspiration challenge from Moxie Fab World.  This go around, the challenge is Jewel Tones.  So, I have to say that my husband actually inspired me along with the colors on this challenge.  He had this idea about the faces and lining them up similar to Warhol's Marilyn Monroe art.  Not quite the same effect, but you get the idea.

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Shelly

Color Inspiration Challenge: Pretty Pastels

And so it continues with the Pretty Pastels challenge over at Moxie Fab World.  I had this great sparkly "Laugh" 3D sticker and found it to be quite fitting for this color challenge.

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Shelly

Moxie Fab World's Color Inspiration Challenge: Bold and Bright

Hey bloggers, how about some fun color inspiration challenges?  Moxie Fab World is having 6...count 'em...6 color inspiration challenges.  The first one is the Bright and Bold challenge.  Hop on over and take a look.  Here's my take on the color scheme:

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Moxie Fab's "Gray is the New Black" Challenge

Moxie Fab World is hosting another challenge that sparked my interest: Gray is the New Black.  Hop on over there and see all the great creations people have made.  I just got these new fashion doll paper doll dies and I absolutely love them!  Moxie Fab's post has photos of some great gray-themed items, and when I saw the classy outfit on a gal in one of the photos, the paper doll dies immediately came to mind.  I chose some luscious pearlized paper in a gray/blue swirl pattern and in silver for this little lady's outfit.  I added some blue pearl buttons to top it all off.  I thought this would be a great card to give to a special friend.

From Moxie Fab World's "Gray is the New Black" post

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Shelly

Glitter is GLAM....again!

I was looking through some cards I had submitted for magazines that were not chosen and came across this one.  Since Moxie Fab World is hosting the Glitter is Glam challenge, I thought I'd throw this one in too.  I used glitter on the Grungeboard swirl.  I also used clear embossing for the chandeliers in the background and it gives them a bit of a shine, and some of the background paper is a bit glittery.

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Shelly

Happy New Year!

Over at the CREATE: Blog you can find information of all kinds.  Since the new year is just around the corner, click on over to CREATE: and see what they have to share.  I try to enter as many of the CARDS challenges that I can, so take a look and see if I made it for this week's challenge of New Year's cards.  Here are two cards I made for that challenge.  I love the retro one with the guy and girl.  I found an old set of clip-art disks I had laying around and decided to play around with them.  Keep checking back here for more clip-art inspired cards.

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Glitter is GLAM!

Moxie Fab World is hosting another challenge called Glitter is Glam.  I'm not much of a glitter-er, so this truly was a challenge for me.  I ended up making this sparkly tree holiday card.  I embossed the trees using Versamark pad and embossing glitter.  I ripped the white "snow" paper and dipped the edge in Versamark and embossing glitter as well.  The green paper is also a bit sparkly because it is pearlescent.  I also used some sheer white ribbon and a glittery snowflake button to top it all off.

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Shelly

Waltzingmouse Tag Challenge

So, I'm running a little behind on this one, and seeing that the tag challenge over at Waltzingmouse closes in about 10 minutes, I'm not writing much.  I created MANY tags for a stamp camp I held last month, so decided to put some on here for the challenge.

Thanks for looking!

Shelly

Diggin' On Damask Challenge at Moxie Fab World

Moxie Fab World is hosting a damask challenge, but hurry if you want to enter because time is running out!  I actually made this card last weekend, but haven't had much time to get it posted.  I used a different color combination than you might often see for a Christmas card, but I thought it turned out really cool.  I stamped the damask background in yellow, then added the hot pink mini snowflakes to the pattern.

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Shelly

It's a Boy!

I am going to be a grandma again on or about March 30th and I found out on Monday that Katie will be having a boy!  It's pretty exciting because we already have sweet Ashlin, and now there will be a new baby boy to add to our family.  I helped pick Ashlin's name, so now I'm on the hunt for some good boy's names for Katie and Justin.  So, in celebration of the news, here's some cards I made several months back:

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Shelly

It's the most wonderful time of the year...well, almost!

The days are getting shorter and the nights are definitely getting cooler around here in Washington state, but that doesn't keep me from crafting, in fact, it probably keeps me inside more.  My granddaughter turned 2 a couple weeks ago and on Monday, I get to find out the sex of my newest grandbaby that's due March 30th...how exciting! (my guess is it's another girl, but it's purely a guess!)

In preparation for that most wonderful time of year that is soon approaching, I made this card for the Embellish Magazine Challenge.  Here's also a photo of the color inspiration:

Thanks for looking!
Shelly

Halloween Tag Treat Bag

CARDS Create Blog is hosting another challenge.  This week, the challenge is all about Halloween tags.  I used one of my Sizzix dies to cut two tags from orange felt.  Then I stamped the sentiment and images on the felt using StazOn black ink.  I attached purple gems to the cute little spiders, then stitched around the two tags using black embroidery floss.  I tucked a piece of candy inside and tied the treat bag closed using sheer ribbon and a spider embellishment.

Thanks for looking! Shelly

Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger: A Funky Fall

I absolutely love the colors in Moxie's Tuesday Trigger this go around. 

 The bright oranges, greens and purples make for a great card crafting pallette.  I used stamps and dies from Papertrey Ink (the Beetle Bug and ticket are two of my favorites!) along with the coordinating stamp sets to make my card.  Fall is one of my favorite seasons and where I live, the trees are just starting to turn.

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Shelly

The Colors of Fall

Today was a fun day for the family.  We went to one of our local parks where they have a glorious display of roses in their rose garden and there is a Japanese garden area with a koi pond.  The fall colors were beautiful and the weather was on the mild side until the rain began to fall.  Here are some of the photos we took on our adventure.




Me and my daughter




My husband and step-son



Mikey and Kristen

Mikey and Kristen



  

Me and my daughter

 

Thanks for looking!

Shelly