Easter Greetings 34

Hi Everyone! I hope you are all having a great weekend! Yesterday, my dear friend Shana & I went to the 13th Annual Rubber Stamp Spring Fling Show. We met some amazingly talented people & found some awesome goodies :) I had some crafty time, so I played along with a few of my favorite challenges. For color inspiration, I gave the embellish magazine.com color challenge with borders a try:
Here is my Easter Greetings card:
I will admit, creating with these pastel colors only was extremely challenging for me! - using borders was no problem because I love to layer & always use some sort of border routinely but using Verve Stamps was an issue because I don't have any in my collection, so I inked up some Stampin' Up petals.
My blogging buddy, Silke Ledlow is this month's Hostess at Our Creative Corner. Sadly it is her last month with this challenge site :( My dear friend Pam, recently introduced me to Gina K. Designs line of stamps! I didn't know what I had been missing! Gina just released the Lovely Labels set designed by Nina Brackett. This set is full of various gorgeous designs which all coordinate with several different Spellbinders dies! Match made in my stamping heaven :) I inked up an image that coordinates with the Spellbinders Labels 1 die, then centered the die over the stamped image & sent it through my die cutting machine. Makes a wonderful border around the stamped sentiment! I randomly stamped several of the images from the SU Petal Pizazz set to create the background paper. The images range in sizes which makes it a nice set to create your own custom DP.

If you visit here often, you know I am a "gadget girl"! I love papercrafting tools & toys to play with but sometimes you just have to simply cut by hand the old fashioned way - using a scissors! To make this big bloom embellishment, it is pretty straight forward: I inked up the 2 different blossoms, cut them out, sponged the edges with SU Creamy Caramel ink & bent the edges for added dimension.

That is all I have for today - maybe you will give some challenges a try? Thanks for looking! Be Sweet!

Ingredients Used: Stamps: Gina K. Designs Lovely Labels, Stampin' Up Petal Pizazz, Hero Arts Easter Greetings Paper: Stampin' Up Barely Banana, Pretty In Pink, Papertrey Ink Rustic White Ink: Stampin' Up Barely Banana, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Groovy Guava, VersaMark Sprinkles: S4-161 Labels One, EK Success border punch, American Crafts brad, PTI ribbon, Making Memories brads, Husqvarna sewing machine, silver embossing powder from stash

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Funky Flowers...Just Us Girls Sketch Challenge, JUGS23 37

Hi Everyone! Before I get started about this week's challenge, I would like to welcome Stephanie Kraft as the Just Us Girls Featured Designer for the month of March :) Now, it's time for another Just Us Girls Sketch challenge & Dana is our lovely Hostess who has provided us with this fun sketch to play with. Dawn, Owner/Designer of WPlus9 Studio LLC has sponsored this week's challenge & has graciously provided us all with great stamps to play with. Dawn & her DT will be joining along with the challenge & Dawn is offering up a generous prize for one lucky participant!

Here is my Thanks card:

I inked up the fun image containing 3 Funky flowers & showcased all their beauty as my focal point :)

To create the background paper on the right side of the card, I inked up several of the "outline" images from the Funky Flowers set with SU Rich Razzleberry & randomly stamped away then, I inked up the "solid" rectangular images with SU River Rock & Pretty in Pink ink. To add color to the "circular" images, I inked up a sponge dauber with SU Cool Caribbean ink & dabbed away!

I had soooo much fun playing with BOTH Dana's sketch & Dawn's stamps, I made a second card!

To change things up a bit, I flipped the sketch.

The Funky Flowers set has so many different images, there is no way I could show them all to you so hop on over to WPlus9 webstore & see for yourself :)

There you have my interpretation (s) of Dana's beautiful sketch using Dawn's amazing stamps! I hope you are able to play along this week.

For complete details, please visit the Just Us Girls challenge site & be sure to visit ALL the DT girls (found on my side bar) as well as Stephanie & Dawn & her DT girls! Once you have your project photographed, be sure to go to Just Us Girls and post a direct link to your creation on our site. If you upload to on online gallery, please be sure to label your creation as JUGS23.

Deadline to be considered for the weekly "Chic of the Week" will be 9:00 PM EST on Thursday, March 11th. Our Inlinkz tool will also close at that time. Our top pick "Chic of the Week" will be announced on Friday morning following the deadline.

Ingredients Used: Stamps: WPlus9 Funky Flowers Paper: Basic Gray DP, Papertrey Ink Rustic White, Aqua Mist, Stampin' Up Pretty in Pink, Rich Razzleberry Ink: SU Rich Razzleberry, Pretty in Pink, River Rock, Cool Caribbean, Creamy Caramel, Memento Tuxedo Black Sprinkles: Spellbinders dies: S4-229 Labels 5, S4-117 Scalloped Circles, S4-115 Scalloped Circles, S4-116 Standard Circles (SM), S4-114 Standard Circles (LG), S4-141 Petite Scalloped Oval - Small, Offray ribbon, Husqvarna sewing machine, Fiskars border punch, buttons & twine from stash

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