Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 31th:

The Final Challenge:  choose a project from the Couture Cardstock Gallery and scraplift it.  

I chose to use Broni Holcombe's card from the Seduction Gallery.  I used the card as my inspiration for my page today.  This pic of my daughter was just taken Saturday for her graduation photo shoot.  I knew right away I wanted to use red.  Since I have a wonderful package of Couture Cardstock reds from a previous challenge,  all I had to do was choose the bling.  I went with Prima "Say it with Crystals" and Prima Watermelon flowers.  Instead of a circle, I went with an oval, which I think worked better with the black and white paper from Autumn Leaves Pretty Poppies collection.  

My daughter was very happy to have a page full of bling...lol.

I would love to thank Couture Cardstock for the awesome month long challenges, inspiration and all the tutorials.  I had a great time!  I'm happy that I actually took a big chunk out of my stack of pictures too!

It was a great feeling to work on some pages and have a chance to win a prize.  That's one way to get a girl motivated!  

Looking forward to the Reader's Gallery on the blog!   

Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 30th:

Couture Cardstock suggested for today that I use a color I wouldn't normally use.  

Choose a color I wouldn't normally use??  I had to think about this one allll day!  I love colors, I use everything!   I had to have a rainbow themed wedding because I couldn't decide on one color!

Okay...so I started looking through all my cardstock and these "neon" colors jumped out at me.  Not because they are so bright....I just don't use them.   It's really, really hard to find the right pictures to go with these colors, but I just couldn't bear to get rid of them.  So.....I made a simple layout using a few of these loud colors.  I also found in my stash (I really need to look through my stuff more often), these really cool chipboard flowers!  I felt really lucky that I didn't have to pull my hair out all night trying to put this page together.   A little ink on the autograph tag, a little extra bling on the smaller flowers....and another successful challenge completed!  

Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 29th:

I was so happy to see today's challenge!  I was working on this page last night and got stuck on the embellishments.  I really don't care for "blank" space on a page and out of everything I have, I just couldn't find the right stuff.  So Couture Cardstock's challenge for today was to use stamps on your page.  Lo and behold, while searching the small stash of stamps that I have, I ran across a set of alligator stamps!  I totally forgot that I had even bought these!  I know I was lucky enough to find them in the dollar section at Michael's.  So I decided to make little tags using the stamps.  Then I mounted the tags on mulberry paper, added fibers and buttons.  

So glad to be using my stash!  I need to start going thru it more.....

Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 27th:

For today's challenge I chose to celebrate my daughter's upcoming milestones.  She will be graduating from college in May and celebrating her 20th birthday.  We decided this year to combine both parties.  The papers are from PineCone Press.  I thought the colors were perfect and fun to mix up both celebrations.  I had to handcut the little mortarboard.  Then I added a brad and some fibers.   I love these alphas from Basic Grey too!  I need more colors!  A little ribbon, flowers and pearl bling....TADA!  An easy peasy card and the color scheme for the party is set!  I'm going to use the same set to make the grad announcements too!

Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 26th:

Today's Couture Cardstock challenge was to use a different medium as in Mod Podge, Glimmer Mist or Glossy Accents.  I'll admit I have never tried Glimmer Mists or Glossy Accents.  But I can tell you the hubby will not be happy with this weekend's checkbook results.  

I have ModPodged a few items around the house, but I really wanted to work on another page.  

So I broke out more beach pictures!  I wanted to use real sand on my page, but I had a little helper today, so that was not going to happen.

I took these squares of patterned paper and added a few buttons to them.  Then I went over the outlines of the design with....STICKLES!  I love the look of this stuff!  I've used it on lots of snowflakes and snow pages.  I'll also admit I only have one color.  But I am REALLY intrigued with Glimmer Mist.  

And the wishlist grows....

Couture Cardstock Challenge - March 25th:

Today's challenge was to use only cardstock!  Holy Cow!  This was so difficult to do!  I kept getting distracted from the main goal and reaching for my ribbons, buttons, stickers, brads...I love Fall, so I have tons of stuff I could have used on this page.  

Solid cardstock background paper.  I had this border already stamped with the leaves laying around.  I stamped the letters "FALL FUN" on the border and then filled them in with my markers.  I then took pieces and scraps of solid cardstock and tore them into different shapes, inked the edges and placed them randomly on the background paper.  Solid cardstock for photomats.  I'm happy with the way it turned out, but WOW!  That was hard!  Great Challenge!

Welcome Aboard!

Here is a page for the Stuck on Sketches challenge.  I mixed it up a bit.  

I used stamps on the background paper, Prima flowers with buttons, and of course, Disney stickers!