CR84FN #69

Welcome back to CR84FN Color Challenge! I am so glad to be back, especially with these fabulous colors! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season with your family and friends, and are looking forward to 2013! Yahoo!!!!

On to our current color challenge:

Raspberry ~ Lavendar ~ Neutral

Unfortunately, I needed to make a sympathy card for a very dear friend of mine.  I just loved the raspberry and lavender color selection, so I wanted to use them for this card.  I was hoping the browns and creams would really soften the raspberry and lavender, since it was going to be a sympathy card.  And they really turned out nice together!

I found some really cool papers at Michael's called Industrial Chic by Susan Lenart Kazmen. Are you familiar with her stuff? I just discovered her!!  Lots of cool papers, and charms, etc...! I didn't want to cover the this pretty scripted paper so I decided to heat emboss the sentiment (Verve) onto some vellum, so the pretty script and soft colors would show through. I used eggplant ink with clear embossing powder for the sentiment.

 I always like butterflies for a sympathy card, and I just LOVE this die by Memory Box so I just had to use them again!

I added some stitching to the back panel and across the top of the vellum panel.

I hope this card brings a little comfort to my friend. 

We are SO excited to have a guest designer joining us this month- Lisa Snowdy!!!! Please visit her blog and leave her some love!

I really do hope you check out all the DP's creations! Wonderful inspiration! Their blogs are listed in my sidebar to the right!  

Please join us and link up! We love to see what everybody does with our color choices!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Mackie

Stamps: Treasured Words(VERVE)

Paper:Habitat (Recollections); Industrial Chic(Susan Lenart Kazman); Rose Red, Lavender(SU)

Dies: Jumbo Fishtail Banner Stax(MFT)

Butterflies (Memory Box)

Clear Embossing powder(SU)

All things Grow with Love

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone is having a blessed day. 

I wanted to share a card I made this afternoon using the beautiful colors with the current 

CR84FN Color Challenge #61

Aqua ~ Tan ~ Cream

Such soft pretty colors!

And I used this week's Retro Sketches # 26:

The card base was embossed with a floral Sizzix folder.

The sentiment panel was cut with the Large Labels (Spellbinders).

I then stamped the flowers with Crumb Cake and Baja Breeze (SU) inks.

This stamp set is called Bloom and Grow (Verve). 

Added some aqua rhinestones and a beautiful satin bow!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mackie

Thank You So Much

Happy Tuesday!

I made this happy card using the colors required for the 

CR84FN Color Challenge!

I stamped the background with the stamp set Beautiful Blooms Two (PTI) with Guava, Sky, Strawberry and Artichoke ink (Color Box by Stephanie Barnard).  I then stamped the banner with the same colors.

The technique for making this cool banner is on the Paper Trey Blog. It is called a Dimensional Sentiment Banner and it was featured on Nichole Heady's Make It Monday segment this week!
I added some cute flower buttons and Voila! A Happy card!!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by!
Mackie

Stamps: Beautiful Blooms Two( Paper Trey Ink); Rainbows & Clouds (Lil Inker)

Inks: Guava, Strawberry, Sky, Artichoke (ColorBox by Stephanie Barnard)

Accessories:buttons, embellies, button twine

My last post as Guest Designer at CR84FN

Hello!  This is my last post as the Guest Designer for  CR84FN Color Challenge!

 I have had so much fun being a part of this fabulous team!  I just want to thank Mona and all the wonderful designers at CR84FN Color Challenge for inviting me to be a guest designer for the last few weeks. You all made me feel so welcome! It has been such an honor! 

Now on to this week's challenge...

The CR84FN Color Challenge #44:

And to my card...

Don't ya just love this paper! This paper is from Basic Grey's Out of Print 6x6 paper pad. 

The colors were a perfect match for this color challenge!

First, I hand stitched the zigzags with my Sew Easy tool and pink floss.
(I still haven't figured out to get the right tension on my sewing machine!)

I then made a layer of aqua ribbon, a strip of DP and a die cut (Spellbinders) of aqua card stock, and placed it in the middle of the card.

I stamped the sentiment onto die cuts, all from Verve.

The sentiment area looked a little flat, so I die cut some hearts (Verve) out of DP and the aqua cardstock. I think this gave the card more depth...a little more oomph!

Finally, I added the light coral Prima chiffon flower and 3 pink & coral buttons.

Now go check out all the other designer's beautiful creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

And...thanks again, CR84FN !!!

Mackie

Paper: Out of Print (Basic Grey)

Stamps: Make a Statement (Verve)

Dies: Rounded Rectangle, Rounded Scallop Frame, From the Heart (Verve- A Cut Above)

          Banners Basic Two (Spellbinders)

Accessories: Sew Easy, Prima Flowers, ribbon, buttons

Hello Friend!

 I created this card for the bi-weekly CR84FN Color Challenge 

 

And I was also inspired by The Shabby Tea Room Challenge:

I really liked the way this card turned out. I just love the heart and the sentiment, which are from Verve Stamps.  The layout of this card is from one of my favorite sketches. It was one of the sketches designed by Amber Hight for the April Viva la Verve Sketch challenges.

I wrapped ribbon twice around the card. I attached the heart with dimensionals. I attached the pink flowers with pearl brads. I accented the flowers by adding the cream roses. I felt the flowers needed something else, so I then stamped and die cut some leaves with the Verve Elegant Leaves die and Bloom & Grow stamp set. The ink is SU Pear Pizazz.

Hope you have enjoyed my post!

Thanks for stopping by! I love reading your comments!

Mackie

Paper: K & Co Watercolor Bouquet

Stamps: Verve "Love Notes"; "Bloom & Grow";"Hope Blooms"

Accessories: Verve Die "Elegant Leaves"

Prima roses & fabric flowers

Recollections pearl brads and pearl embellies

Just Because....

Another challenge! Another card! My favorite thing to do! Even now, I'm trying to cook supper and do this post at the same time. If I burn the chicken pot pie, my dh may not be so understanding of my paper addiction!

This card is another combination of challenges! I love having a sketch and a color combo all figured out, so that "all" I need to do, is come up with an idea!
    Easy, peasy...NOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The sketch (done by one of my favorite Verve Divas-Amy Sheffer) for the
          Viva La Verve May Sketch Challenge:

And the beautiful colors are from the fabulous  CR84FN Color Challenge:

And this is my creation:

 

The corners were made with a Spellbinder Shapeabilities Pendant eyelet dies.

as well as the pendant behind the sentiment.

I added some Stickles glitter to give it some sparkle!

I felt it was too bare in the middle, so I hung a silver charm from the bow with some linen thread. 

Thanks for stopping by! I must go finish our dinner!

Mackie

Paper:K&Co. Watercolor Bouquet; Kraft

Stamps: Verve "Circular Sayings"

Dies: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Pendants Eyelets,

Accessories: EK paper punch;purple ribbon;linen thread;rhinestones; and a silver charm