Embellish Color Trends Challenge with Birds

It's time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The Challenge: To create a project using the colors pictured above and to incorporate birds. The Sponsor: Tiffany Doodles! Check out their digital stamps and other what-nots here.

For today's project I've used: Birdies Housework, Clouds & Love Banners. Started the card by printing the digital images onto colored cardstock. The clouds were printed onto Rustic Cream cardstock, cut out and attached to a Rustic Cream cardstock block with dimensional adhesive. The cloud block was then attached to a Dark Chocolate card base.

The banner was printed onto kraft cardstock, cut out and attached above the clouds. The birds were printed onto Blueberry Sky cardstock, cut out and attached at either end of the banner. Finished the card off with Dark Chocolate Satin Ribbon and a few buttons.

Now it's your turn to join in on the Embellish Color Trends Challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing creations and the fabulous prize. To share your projects, either link here (just below) or over at the Embellish blog. Hope to see your challenge creation soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

Forever & Always:

• Digi Stamps: Birdies Housework, Clouds & Love Banners
• Cardstock: Rustic Cream, Kraft & Blueberry Sky
• Accessories: Dark Chocolate Satin Ribbon, Rustic Jute Twine & Blueberry Sky, Dark Chocolate & Fine Linen Vintage Buttons

Embellish Color Trends Challenge with Hearts

Embellish Color Challenges are back! Check it out... The Challenge: To create a project using the colors pictured above and to incorporate hearts. The Sponsor: Tiffany Doodles! Check them out here.

For today's project, I've used Labels 3 and Birdies Housework. Started today's card by die cutting three hearts from Pure Poppy cardstock, impressed them with Sheet Music Impression Plate and attached them to a white card base with dimensional adhesive.

Printed the Labes 3 onto Simply Chartreuse cardstock, the birds (from Birdies Housework) onto Hibiscus Burst and Hawaiian Shores, cut out and attached over the hearts. To finish the card off, I stamped "XOXO" and embellished with a few black Rhinestones.

Now it's your turn to join in on the Embellish Color Trends Challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing creations and the fabulous prize. To share your projects, either link here (just below) or over at the Embellish blog. Hope to see your challenge creation soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

XOXO:

• Digi Images: Tiffany Doodles (Labels 3 & Birdies Housework)
• Stamps: Heart Prints (sentiment)
• Cardstock: White, Simply Chartreuse, Pure Poppy, Hibiscus Burst & Hawaiian Shores
• Accessories: Black Rhinestones, Sheet Music Impression Plate & Heart Prints Die Collection

Embellish Scrapbook Layouts Color Challenge

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The Challenge: To create a scrapbook layout using the colors pictured above. The Sponsor: Canvas Corp. Check them out here and here.


Ok, so please be easy on me this time around. It's been over 3 years since I last scrapbooked anything. You can say I am way behind on scraping my sons baby album, lol. Anyways, I must admit I had fun with this challenge. It was much easier than I though it would be.


Red was my choice (as long as you don't count the colors in the photos) for the third color of the challenge combo. I also chose to work with a few pictures from a photo session I did recently with my sister and her gorgeous family. I really wanted to focus on the photos of my beautiful sister and her hubby, to create a special layout for her to display in her home. Here is what I came up with...
Started by adhering a cream cardstock circle onto a base of chocolate and vanilla polka dot pattern paper.

To keep with a circle theme, I cut each photo out using a circle cutter. Arranged the photos from smallest to larges and attached along the right side of the large circle.

Before attaching the larger photo, I stamped and attached a cream sentiment strip. Trimmed the edges and attached the photo to the layout using dimensional adhesive. Embellished with a Pure Poppy and a polka dot chipboard button, both strung with chocolate twine.

Finished the layout with an embellished canvas circle. Here's How: This circle started as a round shape of cream colored canvas. To spruce it up a bit, I first punched a heart from cardstock and temporarily attached it to the canvas. This created a mask which I then sprayed over with Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist. Then I let it dry, removed the mask and embellished with another Pure Poppy button strung with twine.

Now it's your turn to join in the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing creations and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

You Bring Me Joy Layout:

• Stamps: Sentiment from Sweet Nothings (Wplus9)
• Ink: Dark Chocolate
• Cardstock: Cream Circle (Canvas Corp)
• Pattern Paper: Mini Dot Reverse from Chocolate and Vanilla Collection
• Accessories: Chocolate Jute Twine, Pure Poppy Vintage Button, Red Jenni Bowlin Chipboard Button, Mini Round Canvas Shape, Candy Apple Red Glimmer Mist & Coluzzle Circle Cutter

Embellish Holiday Color Challenge

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out...The Challenge: To create a holiday themed project using the colors pictured above. The Sponsor: My Time Made Easy. Check out their great line-up of stamps and digital files here.

Here is what I came up with using both Dashing Through the Snow and The Gingersnaps...

Started by die cutting a Mat Stack #3 from a Post It Note, to use as a mask. Then placed the die cut Post It Note on the front of a white card base and stamped with light pink text. Using the same pink ink, I inked around the Mat Stack mask and around the card edges. With mask still in place, I stamped red snowflakes and then removed the mask.

Stamped mistletoe in green, cut it out and attached to the top of the Mat Stack opening. Finished the card off with a sentiment from The Gingersnaps, a few buttons and some ribbon.

Now it's your turn to join in the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

Hugs & Kisses:

• Stamps: Dashing Through The Snow, The Gingersnaps & Background Basics: Christmas
• Ink: SU Pink Pirouette, Ranger Shabby Shutter Distress Ink, Pure Poppy & Dark Chocolate
• Cardstock: White
• Accessories: Spring Moss Satin Ribbon, 1/8" White Silk Ribbon, White DMC Embroidery Floss, Spring Moss & Sweet Blush Vintage Buttons & Mat Stack #3

Embellish Bags Color Challenge

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The Challenge: To embellish a bag using the colors pictured above. The Sponsor: It's In The Bag. Check out their great line-up of bags here.

Here is what I came up with, using the small glassine bag...

Here's an goody bag idea perfect for the holidays, parties or even as wedding favors. Here's how:

Start with a 3" X 9" strip of cardstock and a small glassine bag. Score the cardstock strip at 4" & 5" to create a wrap.

Insert goodies into glassine bag and fold the top down. Fold the cardstock wrap at scored lines and wrap around the glassine bag. Punch two 1/8" holes through the top of both the bag and wrap. Thread ribbon through and tie into a bow.

Embellish the bag/wrap as desired. I've embellished mine with two Soft Stone cardstock strips. A Limitless Labels die cut from Shimmer Pink cardstock and a white circle stamped with snowflakes and a sentiment from Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers. Finished it off with clear rhinestones.

Now it's your turn to join in the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

Holiday Sweets:

• Stamps: Freindship Jar Holiday Fillers
• Ink: Raspberry Fizz & True Black
• Cardstock: White, Soft Stone & Shimmer Pink
• Accessories: Sweet Blush Satin Ribbon, Limitless Layers: 1 3/4" Circle Die Collection, Clear Rhinestones & Small Glassing Bag

Embellish Color Challenge Vintage

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The challenge: To create a vintage themed project using the colors pictured above. The sponsor: Pixie Petals. Check out their gorgeous line of embellishments here.

I must admit, vintage it not my usual style. After putting this challenge off for as long as I could and finally creating a card this morning, I surprisingly found this challenge fairly easy. And here is what i came up with, using a Pixie Petals flower and ribbon...

Started today's card by stamping the Hero Arts Lace Background in Chamomile ink (lightest color in the PTI Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo) onto a Rustic Cream card base. Over that, layered the Hero Arts Wreath Of Leaves in SU Wild Wasabi and a sentiment, from Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers, in Dark Chocolate. Inked the card base edges with the PTI Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo.

Embellished the wreath with antique brads, rust colored ribbon and a yellow flower.

Now it's your turn to join in the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

You're On My Mind:

• Stamps: Lace Background & Wreath of Leaves (Hero Arts) & Friendship Jar Holiday Fillers (PTI)
• Ink: Vintage Touch Tea Dye Duo Inking System, Dark Chocolate & SU Wild Wasabi
• Cardstock: Rustic Cream
• Accessories: Recollections Antique Copper Brads, Pixie Petal Colorado Rust Wistful Ribbon & Harvest Yellow Faye Flower

Embellish Color Challenge with Felt

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The challenge: To use the colors pictured above along with a felt element in your challenge projects. The fabulous sponsor: My Favorite Things. Check out their amazing line of stamps and supplies here.

Here is what I came up with using Sheltering Tree stamp set & Banana Split felt...

Started with a Sweet Blush card base and stamped it with Background Basics: Woodgrain in Versamark ink. Wrapped the base with ribbon and stamped with a sentiment.

Cut a heart from yellow felt and attached to the card base. Die cut the tree from brown felt and attached over the yellow heart and then trimmed the edge. Stamped, colored, cut out and attached the owls.

Now it's your turn to join in the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great one!

Maile

You're On My Mind:

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree (MFT), Background Basics: Woodgrain & Blooming Button Bits
• Ink: Versamark & Dark Chocolate
• Cardstock: Sweet Blush & White
• Accessories: MFT Banana Split Felt, Sweet Blush Satin Ribbon, Copic Markers & Sheltering Tree Die

Embellish Color Challenge with a Stamped Background

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out...The challenge: To use the colors pictured above along with a stamped background in your challenge projects. The fabulous sponsor: Skipping Stones Design. Check out there amazing line of stamps here.

Here is what I came up with using Timeless Textures & Always Here... Started by stamping the flourish background image in black onto a Smoky Shadow cardstock square. Wrapped the stamped square with True Black satin ribbon and attached to a white card base with dimensional adhesive.

Stamped the butterfly in black onto Lemon Tart cardstock, cut out and attached above the ribbon bow. Finished the card off with a sentiment and black rhinestones.

Now it's your turn to join in on the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

Maile

Have a Beautiful Birthday:

• Stamps: Timeless Textures & Always Here (Skipping Stones Design)
• Ink: True Black
• Cardstock: White, Smoky Shadow & Lemon Tart
• Accessories: True Black Satin Ribbon & Black Rhinestones

Embellish Color Challenge with Paper Piecing

Time for another Embellish Color Challenge! Check it out... The challenge: To use the colors pictured above, along with a paper piecing technique in your projects. The fabulous sponsor: My Favorite Things. Check out there amazing line of stamps and supplies here.

Here is what I came up with using the Sheltering Tree stamp set and Sheltering Tree & Leaf Trio Dies...
Started by stamping a white panel with the tree and colored the woodgrain with two shades of brown. Die cut leaves from Simply Chartreuse, Spring Moss & Harvest Gold and attached to the ends of the tree branches. Hand cut a couple hills from Simply Chartreuse and Spring Moss and attached them at the base of the tree. Attached the tree panel to a Simply Chartreuse card base (measuring 4 3/4" square).

Cut a circle from a kraft cardstock square and attached it over the tree panel with dimensional adhesive. Stamped the sentiment onto white cardstock, cut it out and attached. Stamped acorns onto scrap cardstock (SC, SM & Kraft), cut out acorn tops and bottoms, assembled together and then attached.

Now it's your turn to join in on the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

Maile

Friendship is a Sheltering Tree:

• Stamps: Sheltering Tree
• Ink: Dark Chocolate
• Cardstock: Kraft, White, Simply Chartreuse, Spring Moss & Harvest Gold
• Accessories: Sheltering Tree & Leaf Trio Die, Coluzzle Circle Cutter & Copics

Embellish Challenge Using Squares

Hooray! It's Embellish Challenge time again! Check it out...The challenge: To use the colors pictured above and squares in your projects. The fabulous sponsor: Inchie Arts, LLC. The design team and I were so surprised to find out how much fun these little Inchie Squares really are! Check them out here!


Here's what I came up with...
Working with 4 of the white 1" Inchie Squares, I stamped a few images from Flutterby Friend in Palette Noir. Colored them in with green and purple Copics. Stamped the final square with a sentiment from Mixed Messages, the tiny size of the sentiments in this set make a perfect fit for these little Inchies. Then embellished the sentiment square with a tab of Plum Pudding twill ribbon.

Impressed a green Inchie Note with my Guide Lines Grid Impression Plate and finished the card off by attaching the stamped Inchie Squares.

Now it's your turn to join in on the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, the Design Teams amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for stopping by, have a great one!

Maile

Thanks So Much:

• Stamps: Flutterby Friend & Mixed Messages
• Ink: Palette Noir & Plum Pudding
• Cardstock: Green Inchie Note
• Accessories: White 1" Inchie Squares, Plum Pudding Twill Ribbon, Copics & Guide Lines Grid Impression Plate

Embellish Color Challenge Quirky-Cutesy-Clean Style

Today is the start of a new Embellish Color Challenge! Take a look...The challenge: To use the colors pictured above and a quirky-cutesy-clean style. The fabulous sponsor: Lawn Fawn. Lawn Fawn (brought to you by the adorable Kelly Marie) is such a fun and unique stamp company, perfect for a challenge like this one. I am working with a set I couldn't wait to get my hands on, Bake Me A Cake! Love it, I've got all kinds of ideas for this set floating around in my head, just itching to get out.

Here is what I came up with...A fun Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake! Started with some Melon Berry cardstock then, stamped the first layer at an angle, masked off the top (with a Post It Note) and stamped the next layer at the opposite angle. Continued this process all the way to the top.

Cut the cake out, embossed with the Sunshine Impression Plate and embellished with a few hand cut Vintage Cream flowers. Set the cake atop an Aqua Mist cake stand and attached it to a Vintage Cream cardstock strip. Just below the Vintage Cream strip, I attached half of an Aqua Mist Fillable Frames #4 die cut. Then finished it off with a Melon Berry satin ribbon bow and sentiment.

Now it's your turn to join in the quirky-cutesy-clean fun! Look here for the challenge details, amazing inspiration and a fabulous prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for visiting, have a great one!

Maile

Topsy Turvy Happy Birthday:

• Stamps: Bake Me A Cake (Lawn Fawn)
• Ink: Dark Chocolate & Melon Berry
• Cardstock: Kraft, Vintage Cream, Melon Berry & Aqua Mist
• Accessories: Melon Berry Satin Ribbon, Sunshine Impression Plate & Fillable Frames #4 Die

Embellish Color Challenge With Birds

Hello, all! Just popping in from my vacation to join in on the latest Embellish Color Challenge. Check it out... The challenge: To use the colors pictured above and incorporate a bird of some sort, into your projects. The super sponsor: The Angel Company by Christina Franco. Here is my take...

Round corners of pattern paper strips and attach them to a white cardstock piece cut to 5 1/2" by 4 1/4". Stamp the bird in Raspberry Fizz and the sentiment on Dark Chocolate.

Stitch buttons directly onto the card stock then, wrap with Baker's Twine and attach twine ends to the back side. To hide the twine ends, attach the stamped cardstock piece to the front of a white card base.

Now it's your turn to join in on the challenge fun! Look here for the challenge details, amazing inspiration and a great prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for visiting, have a great one!

Maile

Enjoying The Moment:

• Stamps: The Angel Company
• Ink: Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Fizz
• Pattern Paper: The Angel Company Mia's Cottage
• Cardstock: White
• Accessories: Baker's Twine-Chocolate, Dark Chocolate Vintage Buttons & Corner Rounder

Embellish Color Challenge With Ric Rac

Yep, it's Embellish Challenge time again! Check it out... The colors and the inspiration photos pictured above are amazing! These gorgeous photos are brought to you by the fabulous Travelingmama (Tina).

The challenge: To use the colors pictured above and Ric Rac in your projects. Our super sponsor: Kim Bell with Ippity by Unity. Here is my take...

For my creation I used Fall For You.

Stamped, in Dark Chocolate, the bird couple on top of the tree branch and a sentiment. Colored the images with Copic markers. Used a couple different shades of orange for the leaves, and I really love the way they turned out. Stamped (in Hawaiian Shores), cut out and attached a tiny heart from Heart Prints. Die cut and attached large and small felt ric rac above these gorgeous Jenni Bowlin vintage style orange buttons. Love them!

Now it's your turn to give this fun challenge a try! Look here for the challenge details, amazing inspiration and the great prize. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Thanks for visiting, have a great one!

Maile

In Love:

• Stamps: Fall For You & Heart Prints (PTI)
• Ink: Dark Chocolate & Hawaiian Shores
• Cardstock: Kraft, Vintage Cream & Dark Chocolate
• Accessories: Dark Chocolate Felt, Jenni Bowlin Vintage Style Sew-On Buttons, Rustic Cream Button Twine, Copic Markers - Aqua Mist Trio & Orange Zest Trio, Small and Large Rickrack Border Dies

Embellish Color Challenge Invitations

Hello all and happy Friday! Welcome to another Embellish Color Challenge... These weeks challenge is based off of these amazing photos, brought to you by the fabulous Tina of the Traveling Tribe. The challenge... To create an invitation using the colors pictured above. Our sponsors...Unity Stamp Company! Check out their huge collection of stamps here.

When I think of invitations, I think of creating something that is simple, yet bold. Simple, so that it's not a huge chore to crank out a large number of them. And bold, so that it really makes a statement and grabs the recipients attention right out of the envelope. For this challenge the design team is working with the Soirees & Such stamp set. And to keep things simply bold here is what I came up with...

I chose to work with the elegant chandelier and let it really stand out. Stamped it three times onto the kraft card base in Scarlett Jewell and hung them from some rustic twine bows. Here's a tip: for a clean look on the inside of the card, pierce your holes (at the top of both the image and card front), thread twine through holes so that both ends are at the front of the card and then tie into a bow.

Rounded the bottom corner and finished the card off with some rhinestones and a sentiment.

For the details of the challenge, prize info and more fabulous invitation inspiration, be sure to stop here. Hope you too will give this challenge a try!

Have a great 4th of July weekend!

Maile

Open House Invitation:

• Stamps: Soirees & Such
• Ink: Scarlet Jewell & Ripe Avocado
• Cardstock: Kraft
• Accessories: Rustic Cream Twine, Rhinestones & Corner Rounder

Embellish Color Challenge - Baby Theme

Hooray!!! It's Embellish Challenge time again! This time around the challenge is to create a project that uses the colors pictured above and is of a baby theme. Our sponsor for this week is someone that I consider a dear friend... Dawn of Wplus9 Design Studio! As a member of the Wplus9 design team, I can personally tell you that these stamps are top quality and stamp beautifully. As for the stamp designs, you can tell that Dawn has put her heart and soul into creating them. They are so unique, amazing and easy to work with.

Here is what I came up with...

For my card, I've used Kisses & Cuddles and Design Basics: Backgrounds 1. Used one of the background images stamped in Versamark onto a Melon Berry cardstock strip. Wrapped it with Spring Moss satin ribbon and attached it to a Vintage Cream card base.

This adorable old style pram is from the Kisses & Cuddles set. Isn't it just too cute?! I paper pieced the pram to match the stamped Melon Berry strip and then embellished it with a cute little yellow bow. I love the sentiments in this set, they fit together so perfectly. Which made stamping this phrase, in two different colors, a breeze!

Now it's your turn to give this fun challenge a try! There's a fabulous prize up for grabs... two Wplus9 stamps of your choice! You can find much more amazing inspiration and the challenge details here. Hope to see your challenge creations soon!

Maile

Precious Little One:

• Stamps: Kisses & Cuddles and Design Basics: Backgrounds 1
• Ink: True Black, Spring Moss & Versamark
• Cardstock: Vintage Cream, Melon Berry & Spring Moss
• Accessories: Spring Moss Satin Ribbon, Small Scalloped Border Die & Copic Markers