Kick up yer heels for Colour Me...!

This week at Colour Me...! we are going retro subtle and using Mossy Meadow, Cajun Craze and Hello Honey. 

I used the Bootiful Occasions stamp set (oh, how I love this fun set!) and added some rustic elements. The background is Mossy Meadow ink stamped on Mossy Meadow cardstock sing the Hardwood background stamp. 

For the boot, I stamped it on Hello Honey and Cajun Craze cardstock. I fussy cut out the heel/toe and the top of the boot from the Cajun Craze and sponged it lightly. I sponged the Hello Honey boot as well to give them some dimension.

Check out the challenge this week:

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara
xox

Colour Me...! DT#1 Thank you!

Today Hayley and I have put together a special post on Colour Me...! to thank the lovely ladies of our inaugural design team!

We each CASEd two DT member cards. I was CASEing Brenda and Rosemary. 

Tara CASEing Brenda

For this card I used the hardwood background stamp in Crumb Cake (stamped off once) on the Naturals Ivory paper. it gave a very subtle woodgrain to it. The sunburts in the background behind the sentiment and the butterfly are from the new set Kinda Eclectic and are stamped in Soft Sky. 

This was Brenda's original card

I loved Brenda's design for CMCC#21 (Early Espresso, Primrose Petals, Soft Sky). The branches coming down from the top and the flagged banner for the sentiment were just beautiful. I could resist recreating her fab card!

Brenda has so many gorgeous card that it was so hard to select just one to case!

Tara CASEing Rosemary

For this card I started with the stripes masking template and sponged with Pool Party. The "You Rock" sentiment is from the new You Rock set form the new catalogue (the awesome rocking chair!). I scattered a few Candy dots in Rich Razzleberry et voila!

This was Rosemary's original card

Rosemary's card rocked my world when it came out with CMCC#7. The perfect balance of Pool Party and Rich Razzleberry and her design was just fabulous! I love the fabulous heart and the scattering of sequins. 

I just love Rosemary's style and have a bunch more of them saved for future CASEing :) 

Be sure to swing on by the Colour Me...! blog to see the cards that Hayley CASEd and to be a part of our special goodbye!

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox

White on White (on a bit of Sahara Sand)

Sara is our hostess this week at The Friday Mashup and she has a lovely challenge for us.

Our challenge was to create a project with trees and embossing (heat or dry). I chose to do a whole bunch of dry embossing! I saw these really funky trees at a store not too long ago, on some super awesome pillows... Unfortunately, the pillows didn't match my decor, so they didn't come home with me ;)

I embossed panels of Whisper White with various embossing folders and then cut them out freehand in different tree-like shapes. The pillow had patterned 'trees' and then solid circles in them, so I mimicked that with some un-embossed white circles.

The tree trunks were cut from a piece of Whisper White that I had stamped with the Hardwood background stamp. A little anniversary greeting was stamped at the top in Sahara sand. 

Check out the challenge this week:

1. Create a project with "Trees"
2. Create a project with "Heat or Dry Embossing"
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project with "Embossing and Trees"

We would love to see what you create this week.

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara

xox

Supplies:

Stamps: Hardwood, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Whisper White CS, Sahara Sand CS

Ink: Sahara Sand

Tools: Argyle EF, Perfect Polka Dots EF, Argyle EF, Decorative Dots EF, Arrows EF, 1" Circle punch, 3/4" Circle punch

Rainbows for The Friday Mashup!

Good Friday morning,

This week at The Friday Mashup Heidi has a fun, colourful challenge for us. As St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner, Heidi would like to see some rainbows in our projects!

I started out with a strip of Soft Sky cardstock and punched out 8 chevrons using the Chevron Punch. Then I cut chevrons out of 8 different colours (Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, Gumball Green, Pacific Point, Island Indigo and Elegant Eggplant).

Once all those were cut out, I inlayed them into the open slots on the banner. It came out looking so cool (if you ask me!). I reinforced the back with another banner, to make sure the chevrons didn't pop out, but the hold was quite amazing actually!

Finished off with the hardwood background stamp embossed in white and a few little rhinestones.

Check out the challenge this week:

1. Create a project using the "Sketch"
2. Create a project with "Rainbows or Rainbow Colours"
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project with the "Sketch and Rainbow or Rainbow Colours"

Thanks for stopping by today!

-Tara
xox

Supplies:
Stamps: Happy Watercolour, Hardwood
Ink: Elegant Eggplant, Versamark
Paper: Soft Sky CS, Whisper White CS, Real Red CS, Pumpkin Pie CS, Daffodil Delight CS, Gumball Green CS, Tempting Turquoise CS, Island Indigo CS, Elegant Eggplant CS
Embellishments: Rhinestones, Paper Clips
Tools: Chevron punch, Heat Tool, 

Colour Me...! Playful!

It's hard to believe that February is almost over! Over at Colour Me...! we are on a 4-colour week, and already saying goodbye to our oh-so-wonderful Featured Designer for the month, Susie. My how time flies.

This week we had some fun colours; Bermuda Bay, Basic Black, Real Red and Smoky Slate.

I started with a 4-1/4" x 4-1/4" cardbase. I used the hardwood background stamp on another piece of Smoky Slate and cut out one of the frames from the Chalk Talk framelit set. In behind I tucked the fun stamp from Love You to the Moon. I distressed the edges slightly using the distressing tool and sponged around it a little bit with black. 

Let me tell you, I loved these colours... As I was making this one, I was thinking about 100 other cards I wanted to make with this combo. I digress...

The banners were punched out with the Banner Punch from SAB and each one was decorated differently. From Left to Right: 

• Bermuda Bay candy dots
• Essentials Wooden Elements (coloured with Real Red marker)
• Hand doodles with Bermuda Bay marker
• Vintage Faceted button 
• Itty Bitty Shapes punch

Check out the challenge colours this week:

We would love to see what you come up with this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

-Tara

xox

Suppliers:

Stamps: Love You to the Moon, Peachy Keen, Hardwood

Ink: Bermuda Bay, Real Red, Basic Black

Paper: Smoky Slate CS, Bermuda Bay CS, Real Red CS, Whisper White CS

Embellishments: Bermuda Bay Candy Dots, Essentials Wooden Elements, Vintage Faceted Buttons, Basic Metal Buttons, 

Tools: Chalk Talk Framelits, Itty Bitty Punch Pack, Distressing Tool, On Film framelits