Finally Friday Hobby Challenge - Michelle

My friend Michelle created this gorgeous layout for my Finally Friday challenge at www.spcolorcombos.com, incorporating her hobby of gardening with scrapbooking. Look closely and you will see dried flowers used as embellishments on this layout. Simply beautiful. Michelle doesn't have a blog, so I am sharing this layout on my blog. Hope it inspires you as much as it does me!

SPCC #12

Well, I've been a little behind on getting to this challenge, but not for lack of enthusiasm over the color combo. The minute I saw this combo, rather than summer, I thought winter! It reminded me of my daughter's winter vest and scooter that she received for Christmas, so I wanted to create a layout for those pics with this challenge. Unfortunately, my week has been busy! I took this evening off though, and whipped up this layout. I may be too late to participate in the contest, but I still wanted to play along.
The papers are Hobby Lobby brand, and the die cuts are Quickutz's Fiesta alphabet and Bosskut's scooter.

Check out the other fun projects at www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com.

It's me!

Well, I'm a little late in posting here, but I was honored to host last week's Finally Friday challenge over at www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com. My challenge is one of mixing hobbies, so be sure to go check it out at http://spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/2009/08/its-finally-friday_28.html.

While you're there, take a look at some of the awesome color challenges and other fun things Samantha has going on.

SPCC Finally Friday Challenge - Fancy Borders

This week's Finally Friday challenge is to create something with a fancy border, so my interpretation of that is sewing a fancy border onto my cards. These are some cards I have created for my Stampin' Up group's card swap, and because I couldn't decide on which color to do, everyone in the group is getting a different color scheme. The papers, stamps, ink, and some of the ribbons are Stampin' Up. The Happy Birthday phrase is Quickutz. Don't forget to check out some of the awesome projects that other people have done at www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com. These people are seriously inspiring!

SPCC color combo challenge #11

This week's color combo is so great. I love the green and brown together. I actually had the Creative Imaginations golf ball paper already cut for my dad's birthday card, but I couldn't figure out what to do as an accent color until I saw this week's challenge. The colors work so well together! The sentiment says "Don't 'FORE'-get....to have a great birthday!" I was going to type the sentiment, but I'm running short on time these days, so I just hand wrote it. It's not my favorite, but it works, and since it is for my dad, I know he would love anything I do! Go check out the other great projects at http://www.spcolorcombos.blogspot.com

SPCC color combo challenge #10

Well, I had so much fun with last week's color challenge at the SPCC blog that I decided to try again (plus, this week's prize is AWESOME!!!). Anyway, this combo was way harder for me for a couple of reasons - 1) I don't own any pale plum...or anything that close to it, really, and 2) I don't have any patterned paper or inks or stamps that could be used to really pull the look together. So, I found this polka dot paper in my stash that sort of matched a few of the colors, except it had red dots instead of orange dots. I wanted to figure out a way to cover up those red dots with some Pumpkin Pie orange, but I opened a box and remembered these fun felt flowers...which just happened to be the perfect orange color! Voila! Problem solved. The patterned paper and flowers are Hobby Lobby's brand, the letters are Quickutz, and the stitching templates are Bazzill In Stitch'z.

Hopefully, I will get to keep playing along every week, but it's back to my day job this week as school starts on Thursday. Maybe one project a week wouldn't be too hard to get accomplished.
Thanks for looking, and be sure to check out the rest of the wonderful projects at http://spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/.

Robbyn's Finally Friday Challenge at SPCC

I loved this challenge over at SPCC because I love the look of monochromatic, but I rarely attempt it because I think it can be kind of hard to pull off. After looking at some of what the other ladies did, I was inspired! There are some really talented paper crafters out there. This is my take on the challenge - a yellow thank you card. All the products are Stampin' Up's So Saffron. Yellow is such a pretty and cheery color, so it was fun to do the mono look with it.
Be sure to check out some of the other entries here -
http://spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/2009/08/finally-friday.html

New Hair Bows for sale on Etsy!

I am loving these polymer clay beads as bow centers. They are made by www.candylandbeads.etsy.com.

SPCC color combo challenge #9

I was doing a bit of blog hopping the other day, and I came across this fun blog called Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combos: http://spcolorcombos.blogspot.com/. The head "diva," Samantha, has put together some awesome color combo challenges and invites people to use either Stampin' Up colors or similar colors to complete their projects - cards, layouts, altered items, etc. I am seriously deficient in combining colors, so this blog is perfect for me. I'm one of those people who just doesn't see it unless it is already combined in a patterned paper or something like that. This week's colors are just beautiful...some of my favorite colors, actually!

I chose to create a first birthday card because these colors said "Princess" to me, but then they said "cupcake," so I did a cupcake card for a little birthday princess complete with sparkly paper. The only SU products on this card are the ink, stamp, and tag punches. (I am pretty new to SU, so I don't have enough resources yet to do the full color combos using SU products...someday...a girl can dream, right?) The cupcake and #1 candle are Quickutz.

Florida Scrapbook

Here is the 8X8 album that I made for our trip to Florida this summer. It was quick and pretty easy because I used sketches from Page Maps, Creating Keepsakes, and other blogs and websites.

I know it is only August...

...but I'm one of those people who starts thinking about Christmas gifts well in advance. These are a few things that I made last year, and I was just browsing through some old pictures to get some ideas for this year. The wreath is one that I made for my brother and his wife. Wreath-making was actually one of my first creative endeavors. I saw some awesome wreaths at a craft show when I was in college, and I wanted to give it a try myself. I think I've made wreaths for just about everyone I know.

The other projects are altered treat buckets and matching clothes pins which can be used for displaying pictures or Christmas cards. I put cookies and fudge in the tins.

The most labor intensive card ever...

This card took forever because it is hand cross stitched directly onto the paper. The end result was well worth it though. I'm very excited about the way this card turned out.

Fancy cupcake bow and gift tag

I thought this combo might look really cute attached to a gift bag for a little girl's birthday.

Hair bow creations for friends

Here are some custom order hair bows that I have been working on for my friends.

Cards and Hair bows

Lately, I have been combining my two obsessions and creating these hair bow cards. The bows make a cute decoration for the card, but then they can be slipped off and worn. These are my flower clippies.