Let's Paint the Town... Bright!

It's Thursday so that means we have new creative prompt posted up at Creative Prompts 4U!

This week's challenge is by Nicole, my co-owner of CP4U and it's a fabulous and bright colour challenge this week!

I just loved the bright orangey-red with the calming blue and yellow colour combo! So fun... so I had fun with my own page this week!

Self Love

supplies: cardstock, Couture Cardstock; patterned paper, BasicGrey, We R Memory Keepers, October Afternoon; ribbon tape, rub-ons, brads, button, BasicGrey; edge punches, Martha Stewart, Fiskars; flowers, floral lace, Prima Marketing; glitter flowers, polka dot brad, Doodlebug Designs; ribbon hanger, Stampin' Up!; alphabet stickers, American Crafts; digital journaling box, 2Peas; star, MAMBI; tools, deco scissors by Fiskars; pin, Making Memories; other, ribbon, thread.

Here are a few close up of my floral clusters...

I went bold and bright with all my floral and embellies to match the bright colours of the challenge.

I hope you'll join the Creative Crew this week for our challenge! I can't wait to see your work!

CP4U #14: Kazoom! BOOM!

This week our challenge came from the lovely Angie! Angie's creative prompt was to use her provided sketch (which reminds of comic strips when the blast goes off!... hence the name of the challenge this week!) and to incorporate at least 2 stamps within our design. Click here to see Angie's sketch.

Here's what I did with Angie's challenge...

Tea for Two

supplies: lace paper, Kustom Die Kuts; die cutting machine, Klic N'Kut; stamps, myStampBOX (Review Time, Road Trip), Glitz Design, Verve; ink, Stampin' Up!, Copic, Memento, Martha Stewart; cardstock, Bazzill, Couture Cardstock, Prism; ribbon, Kaisercraft; mists, Tattered Angels; patterned paper, Fancy Pants Designs; pearls, Prima Marketing; twine, Stampin' Up!; other, thread.

I used a more simplified shape for my sketch instead of the starburst type shape on Angie's sketch.

To get my vintage photo look, I grabbed 3 of my favourite photos from the tea party and edited them to be a more rich sepia tone. Then I grabbed a fun digital vintage portrait cards image (from Designing on the Edge) from my digital stash and created a photo montage in Photoshop. I printed them out just as you see them above on photo paper and fussy cut them out.

The lace paper is a new Kustom Die Kuts design called Tea Party Lace. I cut it out in white cardstock and then used a series of Glimmer Mists and a Hero Arts script stamp to distress it a bit.

The cute little tea pot and tea tag are from a fun Verve stamp set called A Cup of Life.

I created the little ruffle of ribbon by running a quick stitch up and down the length of a piece of teal coloured ribbon and then pulling one end of the string until the ribbon gathered back on it's self. So fun and EASY to do!

What page would be complete without some yummy pearls and some stitching! These pearls are a Prima Marketing product that I adore!


I hope you'll join the Creative Crew this week and come and play along at Creative Prompts 4U!

Let's Capture Our Memories - Card Challenge

This week Darlene challenged the L-COM members to create a card using at least 4 different patterned papers.

For my card, I created it using my Photoshop CS3 program using the amazing Vintage Holly digital papers by Emily Giovanni from Gina K. Designs. I just love all the beautiful patterns to choose from in this set of papers.

I added a cute little digital penguin image from Angel's Landing, a pretty snowflake sticker, a shimmery red dot and some simple ribbon to finish off my card.

Penguin Greetings

supplies: cardstock, Prism; digital papers, Vintage Holly by Emily Giovanni from Gina K. Designs; ink, Copic; snowflake sticker, Hot Off the Press; bling, Hero Arts; other, ribbon.

I also forgot to share last week's card challenge for L-COM.

Melissa challenged us to re-use something we had received in the mail. For my card, I re-used a piece of a cardboard box that I had got a few weeks back.

Let it Snow

supplies: cardstock, Bazzill; stamps, myStamp BOX, Hero Arts; die cut shapes, Making Memories; twine, Stampin' Up!; ink, Versamark, Stampin' Up!; pearls, clear embossing powder, Hero Arts; glitter, Ranger; corner punch, Martha Stewart; other, thread.

Make sure you check all of the card designer's work on the L-COM blog here. You won't wanna miss them all!