SCS Color Challenge Wouldn't You Know It!

Well as I posted yesterday I had decided to follow the challenges on SCS to see if I could get some ideas going...lol...well after not having the proper materials for yesterday's challenge I decided to make a set of cards for a swap that I am in and hence the post for yesterday.....well low and behold I log on this morning to SCS to see what the challenge was and here it is...."the colors this week are in honor of the upcoming Avon Breast Cancer walk." Yes you got it..."Shades of Pink"...lol....so my post today is now sporting the same colors as yesterdays....lol.....just my luck....Okay the image for this card is from the lovely Em's collection of these cute little Bella Stamps and they can be found at www.stampingbella.com this is a Canadian Company that sells these wonderful little ladies...this particular Bella is called "CauseaBella", so you can color the ribbon to match whatever cause she may be part of.....today of course she is colored as part of the Breast Cancer Walk....okay so for materials used....well again it was all SU papers, Pretty in Pink, Black and White.....stamped the image in Basic Black and used my SU markers to color the image in, markers used were Pretty in Pink, Pixie Pink, Pink Passion and Apricot Appeal.....I used a little Heidi Swapp Jewel (that I got from www.noelmignon.com, cool little store this one), ribbon is a piece of shear Polka Dots that I got from a ribbon share from Jody over at Confessions of a Ribbon Addict, and I have tied a little piece of Light Pink ribbon from SU into the bow as well, as for the background sheet I ran it through my cuttlebug and this background seemed to be made for this type of card, it has words such as Extraordinary, Strong, Fine, Sweet, You, Faithful and Precious to name a few, I am not sure what the exact name of the Embossing Folder is but I love it....so this is my share for today.....

One more thing to mention today....the Retired List for the Stampin' Up catty has been released...good thing I am not a demo cause I would have lost half of my stamp sets to retirement...the list can be found here...http://www.stampinup.com/us/documents/US_retiredstamps_NUMB_COLOR.pdf...okay later gaters.....have a good day!

Using My BLOG More!

Hello! How is everyone this Monday morning.....well I said to myself this weekend....self....what good is a blog is you are not going to post anything to it....so I got up this morning and decided that I would use the daily challenges on Splitcoast Stampers to make projects for my Blog and wouldn't you know it....I log on to SCS today and the challenge is to make a Batik technique with white Mulberry Paper....lol....I searched and searched have every color of Mulberry Paper except white...so then I said to my self...okay what next.....I know I will work on some swaps that I need to have done in the next while....so the card I posted today is a card that I made for a Girly Swap....I know more baby then girly.....checked with the hostess to see if it was okay that I made then and she said sure why not!....I am an avid reader of many many stamping blogs out there, I am not sure that I am capable of the work that these ladies produce....but I am going to plug along and keep trying.....okay for this card I used my wonderful Cuttlebug that I got at Michaels with a 40% off coupon.....yeah for me I was holding out for the longest time as a friend of mine had one.....the folder that I used is called "Our Baby" it has such neat sayings on it such as Gods Little Miracle, Blessed, Angel, Precious, oh well you get the picture... and I got it from "Oh My Crafts" off Ebay (oh how I love her auctions....even the shipping is reasonable to me....I never order just one folder but many and I think that is why the shipping to me is so good....) it is layered on Black and Pretty in Pink Cardstock from Stampin' Up....the image is one from Gina at www.stampingfreak.com (check out her stamps they are really good quality and come both mounted on wood blocks and unmounted), the ribbon is a piece of one of the many shares that I have ordered from Jody her Blog is http://confessionsofaribbonaddict.blogspot.com, check out her site, she has the most awesome Prima Flower Share going on now......well I did my duty for today....lol....I will make an effort to do this everyday.....later gaters!!!!!!!!!