Other SCS challenges from weeks gone by

I was really pleased when I finished this card. I started this card with the Limelight Papercraft Six Chick's Sketch #15. When Limelight puts out a sketch, there is always a bit of a product challenge to go with it as well. This time is was flowers, so I used the white flowers from my Pretties Kit. These flowers always seem to stump me. I like them, but am not really proficient in my use of them! Which leads me to the next challenge that you see here.

I worked in LSC207 from SCS. The challenge here was to "stretch yourself" and use things outside of your comfort zone. I have already mentioned the flowers. The other thing that I barely ever use is my brayer. So I brayered some white craft ink on one of my new Texturz plates and ran that through my Big Shot with some Baja Breeze card stock. I love how it turned out! I finished the card with some bling!

This card came via Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday #74 for the sketch! I used the Inspiration Challenge 167, some really fun bras to work in my embellishments. I drew my color scheme from my designer paper. Finally, the challenge from Stamp Something that week was something chocolate and my ribbon and card stock definitely qualified me there!

Below are the details about these cards:






Inspiration -
Stamps: Inspiration with a Swoop (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Baja Breeze
Ink: Craft White, Basic Black
Accessories: Pretties kit, black brads, M's self-adhesive rhinestones, clear ep, heat tool, brayer, flourish embossing plate, glue dots
Techniques: embossing (dry and wet)

Hello -
Stamps: Tiny Trinity
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Afternoon Tea dsp, vellum, Whisper White
Ink: Timber Brown StazOn, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip
Accessories: Theater Ribbons Originals, peach satin ribbon (Joann's), stampin' dimensionals, glue dots, random buttons, blender pen

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

A Clean and Simple Post

The Clean and Simple Challenges are new to Splitcoast. To date, there have been four and I would expect another one on Monday. I have found them here, in the Splitcoast Challenges Forum. I like this look and the ease with which a CAS card comes together. This week the challenge was to make a CAS card with one button. I made two cards for the challenge. This first one I submitted in the Unity Forum for one of the SCS sponsored challenges. I also used some of my beloved Basic Grey paper, Bittersweet! It took me forever to cut into it!!!


My second card is an SU only card. I'm not sure if the buttons are current, but only because I was too lazy to go look at my catalog! I don't make enough SU only cards. I think that I will try to do that! Maybe because I do SU only for my card parties.

Here are the specifics for the cards:

Enjoy -

Stamps: Sentiments O'Simple (Unity)
Paper: BG Bittersweet
Ink: Bravo Burgundy
Accessories: Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, Burgundy button from my stash, mini glue dots
Techniques: clean and simple

Best wishes -

Stamps: Holiday Blitz, Short & Sweet
Paper: Bashful Blue, Whisper White
Ink: Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink
Accessories: Soft Subtle buttons, white thread, stampin' dimensionals, 1 1/4" square punch, 1 3/8" square punch
Techniques: CAS

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

Did you play along with VSN?

VSN stands for Virtual Stamp Night. Well, it's really a two day event with some extra time to play along, in case you have something else going on. A ton of challenges are posted, one per hour, and you have 45 minutes to make a card that meets the requirements of the challenge. You can find out all about it here in the VSN forum on SCS.

I think I did 7 cards for this past VSN, my first ever. The second, third and fourth Viva La Verve sketches from my last post were also VSN challenges. I'll explain a little about each card as we go.

This card fulfilled the challenge to make a card inspired by the movie, "The Princess Bride". The quote I chose was about trees, so I used a Unity stamp and some great dp given to me by Jennifer Buck to paper piece my trees.






This card was a card made to fulfill the challenge of resurrecting a "long lost love". You know a stamp that you own and just love, but has been collecting dust as of late! More paper from Jen here and some ribbon left over from my wedding that was over 7 years ago! Oh and Beate's weekend sketch is back and I used WSC69 to flesh out this challenge.






This card fit the challenge requirements to be a card that a man would send. I saw this card made by Gina K that I cased for this card.











Finally, this card met the challenge of using feathers or a feather to "Tickle Your Fancy"! I harvested this glittery feather off a corsage that I wore at a wedding last summer. It was too pretty to discard. I like it here!

Again, another long post, so I left you links to my SCS gallery to get the specifics about each card.

All products used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

So many great stamp companies...

so little time! {Oh, I might add so little money:( }

Really, that is how I feel. There are so many wonderful stamp companies and designers out there. I could never leave my stamp room, but then how would I send out my creations.

Verve is another great stamp company I really like. Julee Tilman heads up that company and has three great blogs that I follow. She has an amazing design team that supports her. Amber Hight draws 4 sketches a month that anyone can participate in and win some Verve new releases! (And wouldn't you know it, Amber designs for another stamp company I just love!) You can find Amber's sketch posted on Friday in the Verve
Forum on SCS under Viva La Verve! There is a twist with each sketch and it's fun to try them.

So what I am getting at is that I did all four sketches for the month of February. Did I win? Nope, but I did all four and I am proud of that! I like some of my cards better than others, but isn't that how it always goes?

This was the first sketch and the twist was to use embossing somewhere on your card. I embossed the cross my vellum oval and then embossed my sentiment below.










This is the second sketch and the twist here was to NOT use any patterned paper. That was tough, but I used textured paper and an embossing plate to get around that! You can't see the embossing on the Navy circle in the picture, but it is there irl!


This was the third sketch and the twist was to make the card monochromatic! I made this one with my dh in mind because he loves green above all colors. I got this fantastic dp from Jennifer Buck, an artist I greatly admire.



This is sketch #4 and my personal favorite of the bunch! The twist here was to use acetate on your card somewhere. My card base is acetate! I love how this turned out!

Details can be found in my SCS gallery links (only because this feels like a monster post!)

All products used are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

SCS Sponsored Challenge Cards

Every week, the design team at Unity posts a thread in the Unity forum where you can link up your SCS sponsored challenge cards in which you have used 100% Unity stamps. You are then eligible for prizes, because Unity Stamp Company just loves to give away prizes. (See two posts below). This card features SC218 and the colors from Kristina Werner's Color Inspiration.
This is the second card that I made with my Unity stamps for the Clean and Simple Stamping challenge (CAS04). This is a new type of challenge that has only been around for a month. I used some ribbon that was sent to me by Jennifer Buck, an artist I very much admire, and I drew my color combination from said ribbon. I had the square idea in my head before I chose my ribbon and as I stamped, I realized that my card began to look suspiciously like one of Jen's cards. Let me link you up: here.

Let me know what you think!

Here are the details for these cards:

First card -
Stamps: Sentiment o'Simple (Unity), Inspiration with a Swoop (Unity)
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Candy Lane dsp
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Creamy Caramel, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: MS Butterfly punch, M's self adhesive rhinestones, sponge dauber, crystal effects
Techniques: sponging, vintage values

Second card -
Stamps: Dream Tree (Unity), Tiny Trinity (Unity)
Paper: Whisper White
Ink: Sahara Sand, Soft Sky, Creamy Caramel, Tempting Turquoise, Basic Black marker
Accessories: M's ribbon, mini glue dot, sponge dauber
Techniques: sponging, clean and simple

All products are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.

Remember that game...Telephone?

Well, Taylor of Taylored Expressions asked us readers to spread the word. Taylor is having her First Birthday Party with games and prizes.


Today's prize is for spreading the word about the party. Go and check it out!









This is Friday's prize for participating in her sketch challenge. You can see it here!

Woo hoo!

This is the card that I made for both of the Hip Hop Challenges yesterday in the Unity Stamp Company thread. The first challenge was called Unity Happiness and the challenge was to make a project to make someone smile. The thought of no housework makes me smile. The second challenge was called Unity Colors of the Heart and the object was to use red, pink and a neutral. Alas, I was not selected based upon merit to win the second challenge, I was randomly selected and I'll take it!

My dh was kind enough to make dinner while I was upstairs working on the challenge card. So when he called me down to dinner, I had to come. My card was assembled, but not photographed and uploaded to SCS. I wolfed down my dinner and promised to do the dishes if I could just get it uploaded in time. Well, I did manage to do that, but I rushed and I goofed up and wrote, "Images copyright by Toni Storie". Of course, I didn't notice that until tonight when I was reading the Unity blog and it glared up at me. (I was instantaneously transported back 16 years to when a college professor suggested that I had plagiarized). I was very excited to be featured and then mortified at my blunder. I will upload another picture and let AJ and Angela know of my typing error so as not to offend or take credit that belongs to someone else. So if you noticed this too, IMAGES COPYRIGHT BY UNITY STAMP COMPANY (not Toni Storie).

How does one ever move up in the world if they goof like this?

Here are the specifics on my card:

Stamps: Have a Diva Day (Unity)
Paper: Riding Hood Red, Very Vanilla, Pink Pirouette, Candy Lane dsp
Ink: Stazon Jet Black, Riding Hood Red, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: Ivory organdy ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, ticket corner punch, two way glue pen, dazzling diamonds, M's self adhesive rhinestones, red Sharpie

All products used at Stampin' Up! unless otherwise posted.