Coloring Down the Lines - Old Olive

Ahhh, old olive.  It's such a staple color in the Stampin' Up color pallet.  What would we do if that color ever got retired.  OH NO!

Our color challenge for this week is the combinations of:  old olive, soft suede, and crushed curry, or old olive, pumpkin pie and cherry cobbler.  I chose the first color combination to start with.  I always put the colors together and look at them before deciding what to make using them.  I always gravitate back to flowers a lot, and this one is no exception.  But this one has a little bit of a twist.

So before I do the big reveal, what did you think of Carol's card?  Her cards keep getting better and better.  I love the way she blends her colors together - someday, I hope to be able to do that as well as she does.  As you can see, I stick to the card stock for my cards.  It's something I know I do best.  Check it out:

Card Recipe

Paper:  old olive, soft suede, very vanilla

Ink:  crushed curry, old olive, soft suede

Stamp Set:s:  mosaic madness, fabulous flourettes

Accessories:  mosaic punch, square lattice EF, crushed curry button, very vanilla seam binding, soft suede candy dots

I hope you like the card.  It was fun.  I love making the bows using a fork.  I saw the tutorial on France Martin's blog and have been doing them a lot.  She made it fun and easy, and they look so nice.

Now, let's check out Joni's card this week.  She already had her's completed before the weekend.  Go Joni.

Thank you for stopping by, and I do hope to see you again tomorrow.  Thank you!

By the Shore Birthday for Tom from Tj

Our son, Tj, asked me to make a card for him for his father for his birthday.  He told me he wanted me to make something masculine.  He said to make something that reminds him of the seashore, so I knew exactly what I wanted to do.  I pulled out "By the Shore" stamp set and went to work.  I changed things a few times, and here is the final result:

I cut out the starfish, crab, and seashell and put a dimentional behind them so they pop.  You can't see it real well in the picture, but I colored the rhinestones with permanent marker, and they added just the right touch.  I added the twine and whola.  I know Tom will like it, and I hope Tj does too.  I'll give it to him tomorrow so he can give it to Tom on Thursday.  

Well, back to the studio to make something for the blog hop tomorrow.  Hope you'll come back and join us.  See you tomorrow.

Tom's Birthday Card

I wasn't sure what I wanted to make for my husband's birthday card, but since I love the birthday dsp so much, I thought I'd try and make something from that.  So off I went to my craft studio to make him a birthday card.  I wanted to make something masculine, but then again, I can make a card that can be either or.  So, this is what I ended up making:

I saw a card like this and made one similar.  I like the way it turned out.  I hope he likes it.  His birthday is on Thursday, so I'll let you know what he thinks of it.  Until tomorrow....happy stamping!

Nancy's Birthday Card

I like the new birthday designer series paper, so how fitting that I use it for my sister, Nancy's birthday card.  The colors and designs are "fun" and "happy".  Here's the card I made for my sister...

My sister loved the card when I gave it to her.  I'm so glad.  So on to making a card for my husband.  His birthday is coming up this week.  Check back to see what I made for him.

Boat Babies

It's summer, and whenever we can get out on our boat, we do.  Our doggies, Barney and Bandit, love it too.   They get excited when we throw the anchor and settle in for a swim and some lunch.  They jump up on the sun pad and they're ready.  I captured some photographs of the little guys ..

 Thanks for the ride, Daddy.  We love riding the knee board to the beach and then playing in the sand.  How fun!

That's Barney on the left and Bandit on the right.  This is right after being in the water, cooling off.  Aren't they cute?  They're my little babies.

This is a picture of our boat anchored at Battery Island on the Chesapeake Bay.  There I am in the boat with Barney.

Summer seems like it's only here for a short while and then back to Fall.  I love the seasons, but more and more, I'm loving Summer a lot more than I used to.

Thanks for stopping by to visit us.  Hope you'll stop by again tomorrow.

Door Decor

When we were at Convention, a group of up decorated our hotel room doors.  We had fun doing that, and there were some really cute door decors out there.  Of course, I took a photograph of ours, which Jessica was kind enough to design for us.  Here's what she did with ours:

So what do you think?  Cute huh?  Jessica did a great job on it.  Thanks Jessica.  I couldn't have done it better.

Below are some other door decor that you may like too:

This is Laura Lynn's door decor.  She's such a talented lady ...

 This one is Robbie's.  She had a black, shiny board that was really cool.  When you wrote on her board, it really was visible and bright.  Way Cool.

And here is Marilyn's.  She was directly across from Jessica and I.  Cute cute cute.

What fun that was.  I wish I would have taken photographs of all the other doors - they all were pretty.

Until tomorrow, keep the designs flowing ...

Wisteria Wonder Purse

At convention, a few of us made some of our own make & takes, and this is one of them.  It's a cute purse that holds a gift card inside.  Check it out ... it's so cute:

I couldn't get the photograph to be right side up (sorry), but you get the idea.  Hope you like it.  I'm going to try and recreate it again, and then give you the details, should you want to make one too.

For now, keep on trying new things.  It's nothing but fun!