PURPLE AND GOLD

This week CSAYL (#46) has a color challenge - purple, gold, white and ivory.  I love purple and gold, they're UW/Husky colors, where I went to school, but I've always had trouble putting white and ivory together.  The white always seems to make ivory look kind of dirty, but I didn't have too much trouble making this Christmas card:

The snowflakes and pearls (Can you see them?  They're on the band) are white, and the band is ivory.

FLOWERS

It's the last minute to add my entry for the CSCC #73.  I had a pretty good idea of what I was going to make, but I tend to postpone things, so I just got around to it.

What do you think of my colors?  It's not as subtle as my original plan, but it just happened.  I like it but I'm not sure that it suits the movie. 

I CASE'd the design...I first saw it on Maureen Plut's blog (http://buttonsandbling.blogspot.com/)  and she said that she had CASE'd it from Dawn McVey.  It's been a while, and this is not the first time I've used it; it really is versatile, changing the color and type of flower etc.
I hope you like it.

MAKING BOXES

Well, maybe I don't LOVE making boxes, but I'm not afraid of it anymore.  This week at Christmas Stamping All Year Long the challenge was to make a box with a snowflake theme.  I'm really not too keen on making 3-D items, but there was a very good tutorial by Maria Bell that I followed, and I think that it turned out fine.

Now I just need a good tutorial for taking pictures.

SPRING

Pals Paper Arts have a color challenge this week.

Last Wednesday I had an Easter Card class, and I used these colors and variations for all three of our cards.  after the class I made cards with the extra materials and put them in the mail.  Then I checked PPA's challenge and saw that if I had taken any pictures I wouldn't even have to make a project.  A lesson learned.

Well that's okay I need to make a card for a niece's Birthday anyway.

I used my Big Shot to cut the daisy and butterflies, the ribbon I tied became the stem and leaves, and an ivory button is the flower center.  This was pretty easy to make..the color combination is very easy to work with.

EMBOSSING - CHRISTMAS STAMPIN' ALL YEAR LONG #45

The requirement for CSAYL #45 is embossing.  I love embossing; it adds texture to paper.

Here is my card with dry embossing using texture plates in a Big Shot, and heat embossing with silver powder.

In real life, the green paper shows through the silver embossing much better than in this photo.

Thanks for checking out my Christmas card.

JULIE AND JULIA

That's the movie for CSCC this week.  I haven't seeen the movie yet, but I read the book and loved it.  I will see the movie soon.
I filled my card with food...kind of like Julie's life for one year.  Almost every day she made a new dish and blogged about it.

I really felt guilty that she worked full time, shopped, cooked something new and blogged about it often enough to get through all the recipes in Julia Child's first cookbook in one year.  I'm retired and my time is my own, but I have a hard time blogging more than once a week.

To make my card I used, Stampin' Up's "Voila" and "Voila To Go" stamp sets.

Have a nice dinner tonight...Bon Appetit!

CSAYL #44

I'm trying to catch up on my blogging.
I've made cards for 3 challenges this week, but this is just my 2nd post...I'm going to really have to get to work.

This post is for Christmas Stamping All Year Long's Pottery Barn inspiration challenge.  We are to make a Christmas card inspired by this picture:

and it's supposed to have a bird in it.

Here 's my card...

I used Stampin Up's colors More Mustard, Old Olive, and Real Red.  I stamped the little bird on red designer paper and pieced it onto the white paper .  I punched a couple of small flowers that I also added.  The sentiment stamped in red is from Waltzing Mouse's "Seasons of Love".
This could be used with a different sentiment for any other occasion.  I think I'll CASE myself!