CAS53 & LPSC54

Well Brandon did set his alarm for 12 this morning to do the CAS challenge today. One problem -- he didn't wake up, I did -- long enough to turn it off.

We have been shoveling snow -- and playing some too. They are predicting 5-10 more inches of snow Tuesday night into Wednesday. That probably means no school all week. I am looking at the bright side -- I get to spend time with my kids -- let's see if I make it until the end of the week :o)

We saw on the Little Paper Shop Blog that the challenge this week is a color challenge -- Red, White, and Black. So our cards work for that challenge too.

The first card is Brandon's. We both picked the Cinnamon Toothpicks box for inspiration. He thought that flavored toothpicks were an awesome idea. He wanted to use a piece of the candy that we are putting on his valentines for this challenge -- the red heart in the middle is chocolate krispy candy from the $1 store.

We created our cards at the same time, but he did this one completely by himself -- even choosing to do a 3" x 3" card. I don't think I would have used a black heart -- to morbid for me, but for a boy it makes perfect sense. I am a perfectionist and a control freak, and I struggle with taking over his projects, but I am learning to let go. He did a Fantastic job and I am truly PROUD of him.

Stamps: none

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Textured Real Red

Inks: none

Extras: Full and Small Heart punches, Cuttle bug, Dot embossing folder

This one is mine.

Stamps: Well Scripted

Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, and Textured Real Red

Inks: Basic Black

Extras: Full and Small Heart punches, Cuttle bug, Dot embossing folder

The inside of my card:

Stamping Royalty Challenge #5

This week's challenge on Stamping Royalty is to create anything but a card. I have been creating these little animal cracker boxes (seen here, here, and here) to hold Valentine's treats for Brandon's class. I decided that I wanted to do a pretty one for his main teacher.

For this box I used the Bella Rose DP. This DP is so beautiful I just love it, I wish it wasn't retired. Did you see that I created a puffy flower to go on top -- too cute huh?

You can find the tutorial for the puffy flower here.

Tracy Harp's tutorial for the animal cracker box can be found here.

Thanks for stopping by,

Corie

Stamps: none

Paper: Pink Pirouette, Window Sheets, Bella Rose

Inks: Pink Pirouette

Extras: Paper Cutter/Scorer, paper snips, Coluzzle Kit, Crop-a-Dial, Large & Medium White Brad, Scallop & 1/2" circle punch, Jumbo Eyelets, Pirouette Ribbon, Sponges, Sticky Strip

The top:

MTSC59 & Color Inspiration #109

It is snowing AGAIN. I live just outside of Annapolis Maryland. Our winter seasons are not that bad. We have a few snows every once and a while, but nothing like this year. The kids have been out of school so often in the last month. It's enough to drive a mom CRAZY.

This card is for Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I am still making valentine cards for Brandon's teachers. I need 1 guy card. So when I saw the color inspiration on the Stamping 411 site this morning, I figured I should give this a try. They recommended using Apricot Appeal, Real Red and Taken with Teal for guy valentine's cards. Unfortunately -- or maybe fortunately -- I do not have any DP with these colors, so I made my own. Do you remember the baby wipe technique? I used that to create my striped DP. Then I used the direct to paper technique to create the teal "DP" for the background rectangle and the apricot heart -- neat huh?

When I do a challenge for Stamping Royalty or Stamping 411 I try and use only SU supplies, because these ladies are demos like me. I know this Cuppie is not SU, but he makes the perfect teacher valentine's cards. I did color my cuppie in with SU markers instead of my Prisma markers. I wonder if SU will ever carry Copic marker, I doubt it -- but one can always hope.

I am still working on the tutorial for the flower that I made on yesterday's card. I hope to have it up later today.

Thanks for stopping by,

Corie

Stamps: Love is Sweet (TEI), A Happy Heart

Paper: Kraft, Real Red

Inks: Taken with Teal, Real Red, Apricot Appeal, Soft Suede, Basic Black

Extras: Re-inkers, Markers, button, linen thread, Modern Label, Word Window, Key tag and Full Heart punch, Mat pack, Paper Piercer, dimensionals, sponges, baby wipes, bone folder, White gel pen

The inside:

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I still need more Valentine's cards for teachers, and I think this cuppie is the perfect choice for teacher cards. I used today's sketch from SCS to create this card. I flipped the sketch to the mirror image, and I couldn't get that little circle in the corner to fit -- but it still works. I colored my cuppie in with Prisma Markers, and sponged EVERYTHING with Soft Suede.

Thanks for stopping by,

Corie

Stamps: Love is Sweet (TEI)

Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Sahara Sand, Bella Rose DP

Inks: Soft Suede, Memento Black

Extras: Cuttle bug, Hearts folder, Heart embosslit, kraft taffeta ribbon, button, linen thread, Prisma Markers, Word Window and Small Heart punches

The inside:

CAS52

Today's CAS Challenge was a sketch challenge. The kids had a 2 hour delay this morning, so Brandon was able to do the challenge again. This first card is his. We have been making his Valentine's cards for his class, and this DP was out on my desk. We were able to use scraps -- ya gotta love that. He planned out the card, but I tied the ribbon and stamped the sentiment for him.

Stamps: A Happy Heart

Paper: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Sending Love DP

Inks: Chocolate Chip

Extras: Small heart punch, Chocolate Taffeta ribbon, Latte Buttons, Linen Thread

This is my card. I used the same DP, but mine is a little different.

Stamps: A Happy Heart

Paper: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Sending Love DP

Inks: Chocolate Chip

Extras: Small Heart and Scallop Square punches, Pink Organdy ribbon, Latte Buttons, Linen Thread

The inside is the same on both of our cards, but his used whisper white and mine used very vanilla.

Stamping Royalty Challenge #4

I forgot to post this -- Sorry!! Here is my card for the Stamping Royalty Challenge #4. This week there is a sketch challenge. Now I know that I do not have a tag shape on my card, but I hope this still counts. I tried several different sizes for the tag, but none of them seemed right.

Brandon and I have been making his Valentine's cards for his class, so I have quite a few scraps of the Sending Love DP. I was able to do this card with almost only scraps. After I finished adding all the strips of DP it looked so pretty and sparkly -- so I just couldn't cover it up with the tag.

Thanks for stopping by,

Corie

Stamps: None

Paper: Real Red, Very Vanilla, Sending Love DP

Inks: none

Extras: Heart border and Big Flower punches, Fire Rhinestone brads, Vanilla Taffeta ribbon, Dimensionals

Here is the inside:

CAS51

These 2 (3" x 3") cards are for the CAS51 challenge on SCS today -- we were to use DP on our cards. The card on the left was created by Brandon (my 10 year old) and the one on the right is mine. Brandon is off school AGAIN today. They have been off 3 of the 4 Mondays in January, tough life huh?

Brandon popped his heart up on dimensionals and attached the sentiment under the tip of the heart. He did this card entirely by himself -- cutting, punching, stamping, and attaching. Can you tell I am kinda proud? I put my sentiment on dimensionals and the heart behind it. I pierced the dp around the heart. I actually like his card better, I think the sentiment covers up too much of my heart.

These will be the Valentine Cards that Brandon will hand out at school. 2 down and 28 more to go -- oh boy. This is the last year that he will be doing Valentine's Day, next year he is off to middle school. Oh boy do I feel old.

Thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to scroll down, this mornings card is for the challenge too.

Corie

Stamps: A Happy Heart

Paper: Very Vanilla, Sending Love DP

Inks: Real Red

Extras: Full Heart and Modern Label punches, dimensionals, mat pack, paper piercer

Punched Out Heart

Here is another Quick card that I created for Valentine's Day. It uses the "Punched Out" technique.

Stamps: A Happy Heart .

Paper: Crushed Curry, Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Razzleberry Lemonade

Ink: Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry

Extras: Full Heart Punch, Melon Polka dot ribbon, distressing tool

Happy Heart Valentine

This month's project uses the Happy Heart Stamp set. We are going to create 4 cards and a Gable box to hold them. I wanted to create a few other cards with this set to show how versatile it is. This one is a relatively quick card.

Stamps: A Happy Heart . Paper: Mambo Melon, Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede, Whisper White . Inks: Mambo Melon, Rich Razzleberry, Soft Suede . Extras: Melon Polka dot ribbon, Latte Buttons, Dimensionals, Sponges, Double Slot punch

Mojo Monday 119 -- Oops

Well I wanted to do a card for the Mojo Monday Challenge 119, but I oopsed. I thought this was the layout, but I was wrong. The ribbon is in the correct place, and I am sure I could substitute the hearts for the circle, but the other layers are all wrong -- back to the drawing board.

This all started when I saw this card that Christi created, and I fell in LOVE. Isn't it gorgeous?? I don't have the Verve heart stamp (I wish I did, it is FABULOUS!!) set so I needed to improvise. I stamped the Bella Toile BG stamp on Whisper white CS with VersaMark, and then embossed it with black powder. Then I punched 2 hearts with the Full Heart punch. Next I sponged the heart with Rose Red ink, and then sponged around the edges with Basic Black. The rest is obvious.

Stamps: Bella Toile BG . Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Bali Breeze DP (retired) . Inks: Rose Red, Basic Black, VersaMark . Extras: Cuttlebug, Paisley embossing folder, sponges, black embossing powder, heat gun, Black ginham ribbon, Latte Buttons, Silver elastic cord, dimensionals

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I decided to try doing the challenge on SCS this week. I haven't done them in a while. Boy the Color and Sketch challenge were difficult!! I guess that is why they call them challenges -- duh.

Here is the my color challenge card -- Crushed Curry, Real Red, and Sahara Sand. These are not colors that I would reach for, but I guess this turned out OK. I think this will be my valentine's card for my little one.

I have seen these polar bears several places, but I think Heather (Stamp with Heather) did them first. She is the QUEEN of punched art.

I punched out all the shapes and then sponged around them with Sahara Sand.

Here are the punches

The Mom: Head--Ornament punch, Nose--Large Oval (trimmed) and 1/4" circle punch, Ears--1/2" circle punch and the small heart from the Heart to Heart punch, Eyes--1/8" circle punch, Body--Wide Oval punch

The Baby: Head--1" circle, Nose--Small Oval punch & 1/8" circle punch, Ears--1/4" circle punch & 1 small heart from the Heart to Heart punch cut in half, Eyes--1/8" circle punch, Body--Large Oval Punch.

Stamps: A Happy Heart . Paper: Sahara Sand, Real Red, Crushed Curry, Whisper White, Basic Black . Inks: Real Red, Sahara Sand . Extras: Sponges, Cuttle bug, Swirl folder, Punches (listed above), 2-way glue pen.

More Animal Cracker Boxes

Here are more of the Animal Cracker Boxes that I showed here. These use the Pink Flamingo too. I have created 12 of them, only 18 more to go.

More Animal Cracker Boxes

Here is another Animal Cracker box that I created with the Pink Flamingo Designer Paper. You can see the original one here.

Animal Cracker Box

This is a little box that I created with a tutorial from Tracy Harp's site (Inky Doodles). She created this box to hold Animal Crackers, but I think I am going to use it to hold goodies for Brandon's Class for Valentine's Day. I know, I know -- it's not even Christmas, and I am talking about Valentine's Day -- shame on me.

I used the Pink Flamingo DP. Each box uses approximately a 1/2 of a sheet of DP. I was able to create 12 boxes with 6 sheets of DP.