Limelight Papercrafts meets Chipboard

Happy Thursday!  I am home from my week long stay in Seattle.  I had a great time visiting with my parents, shopping at CKC-Seattle and stopping at the yummiest bakery ever (Celebrity Cake Studio in Tacoma) for a cupcake – yum!!  I missed my hubby terribly, so in that sense it was good to come home.

It’s time for another sketch & product challenge sponsored by Limelight Papercrafts.  This week we are focusing on chipboard.  I love me some chipboard!  I used to have a hard time using it, but Cosmo Cricket changed all that for me!  I love their Ready Set Chipboard pieces, so I’ve used some today.

I paired Cosmo Cricket’s Nutmeg paper and matching Nutmeg chipboard with a cute sentiment from Unity’s September Store Kit, Everything Extraordinary.  I really enjoyed this layout as it allowed me to keep my card simple but not boring!

Now for the *fun* part!  We would love for you to play along with us!  Here are all the details you need to play:

**Use the sketch above and try to incorporate your favorite CHIPBOARD!
**Key word for SCS upload is LLPC034.
**Post a link to your card on MANDY’S BLOG by Sunday night (Nov 15)
**PRIZE ~ One lucky winner will receive their choice of one chipboard item

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team for lots of chipboard-themed inspiration:

Christi
Amy
Lisa A.
Lisa H.
JenMarie
Kerry (Guest)

Thankful in the Limelight

Each month Mandy over at Limelight Papercrafts challenges the design team to a themed challenge. This month we were to make a project and matching card in Thankful theme.  I struggled with this for a bit then thought pretty much anything Thanksgiving is thankful themed, so that made it easy for me!  I decided to make a Thankful journal.  Something I can write all the things that I’m thankful for.  Right?

I took a journal I picked up at Michael’s for $1 and covered it using Cosmo Cricket’s Nutmeg patterned paper.  I used the October kit from Unity and some Kaisercraft rhinestones for the image panel.  Super easy but it leaves a nice place to write nice thoughts.

I made a matching card using Nutmeg scraps, May Arts ribbon and some sparkly alphabet stickers I found in my mom’s stash.  She has a LOT of them!!

Be sure to check out the rest of the design team for some more Thankful projects:

JenMarie Taylor

Lisa Henke

Amy Castellano

Kerry Angeles (Nov Guest)

Mandy Cheshire (Owner)

Be sure to check out the specials this week at Limelight Papercrafts:

*The entire Basic Grey Eerie line is 40% off! WOW!

*The entire Pink Paislee Twilight line is 25% off!

*Unity Build-a-Turkey stamp set $18!

*Unity September and October store kits ONLY $28!

Vacation all I ever wanted…

This is a pre-written piece, done up Tuesday night when I really should be doing other things to get ready for my trip in the morning.  My plane takes off at 6:30am for Seattle, WA.  Yay!

Here is a birthday card using the saddle stitched ruffle technique I saw on Lisa Johnson’s blog a while back.  Ruffles seem to be all the rage right now, and I can see why!  The bingo card looks a bit washed out – but it’s really vibrant in person.

Stamps: Sweet Celebration (Taylored Expression)

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink (white, new leaf)

Patterned Paper: Papertrey Ink 2008 Bitty Dot Basics (summer sunrise)

Ink: Memento (tuxedo black)

Accessories: Jenni Bowlin bingo card; Papertrey Ink saddle stitched ribbon (pure poppy); Heidi Swapp ghost shapes (stars); buttons

Clean and Simple (CAS39)

The new Clean and Simple challenge (CAS39) over at Splitcoaststampers is up!  This week we’re playing with a fun sketch originally done by Latisha.  I absolutely love this sketch and see myself using it over and over again – I hope she doesn’t mind

My card uses some of the new Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg products – paper and chipboard elements – both found at Limelight Papercrafts.  I also added some PTI ribbon and twine – love this stuff!!

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Stamps: Sweet Celebration (Taylored Expressions)

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink kraft, cream

Patterned Paper: Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg

Ink: Memento rich cocoa

Accessories: Papertrey Ink saddle stitched ribbon, twine; Basic Grey Eerie button; Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg chipboard elements

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween my friends!  We will be staying home tonight to pass out candy.  This is our first year in this neighborhood so we don’t know what to expect.  I just hope we don’t run out of candy!  Whatever you are doing tonight, have a fun and safe holiday!!

If you feel like doing a little shopping, today is the last day to get 20% off your entire order over at Limelight Papercrafts!  Just enter the saving code BOO at checkout to receive your discount.  :)

Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop(e)

Welcome to the Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop(e)!  If you are joining me from Ashley’s blog – you are in the right place!  If you’ve happened upon my blog some other way, why not start back at the beginning HERE.  :)

In 2002 I participated in the 3 day, 60 mile walk for Breast Cancer.  I remember how exhausted I was.  How my feet hurt and I couldn’t walk without limping by the time I was done.  I remember how much I hated “camping” in the tent city that was set up for us each night.  But I also remember the amazing people I met.  The incredible stories I heard. Some were of sorrow and loss.  Others were of triumph and survival.  Many tears were shed. Many hugs were given.  It was an amazing experience I will never forget.

Thank you for joining me today.  Next up in the Breast Cancer Awareness Blog Hop(e) is Anita!  Go HERE next!

Have a great weekend

xoxo

Limelight Papercrafts – A Challenge!

Today is another sketch/product challenge this week sponsored by Limelight Papercrafts. Typically we focus on a particular product but this week is a little different.  We have a special guest designer playing along (Lauren Meader) so Mandy thought it would be fun to have a butterfly theme this week. Who doesn’t love butterflies?!?  And more important – who doesn’t have butterfly products? Whether is paper or stamps or punches – I think everyone will be able to play along this week!

For my card I pulled out some yummy Jillibean Soup paper from their Minestrone collection – Sliced Leek!  This paper is so much fun.  I love the bright primary colors and fun design of the paper.  I’ve also use last months Unity Stampin’ Store kit – Everything Extraordinary.  The gingham ribbon is from Bazzill.

Now the fabulous part of today’s sketch/product challenge is YOU!  We would *love* it if you played along with us  To help encourage you, we’ve got a fabulous prize for a random participant!  Here are the deets:

**Use the sketch above and try to incorporate your favorite BUTTERFLIES!!
**Key word for SCS upload is LLPC033.
**Post a comment with a link to your card on MANDY’S BLOG by this Sunday night
**One lucky winner will receive the stamps: Mod Dot Butterfly and Ruffled Butterfly!

Don’t forget to check out the rest of the Limelight Papercrafts Design Team:

JenMarie Taylor

Lisa Henke

Amy Castellano

Sarah Martina Parker (Guest DT)

Don’t forget to enter the code BOO in the Comments section at checkout at Limelight Papercrafts to receive 20% off of your entire purchase! Through Saturday only!

Limelight Papercrafts – 20% OFF!!

Through October 31 – enter BOO at checkout to receive 20% off your ENTIRE order at Limelight Papercrafts!

Brads – Clean and Simple

This week’s Clean and Simple challenge (CAS38) at Splitcoaststampers is a fun one – use brads or eyelets!  I know they are both severely neglected by me, so I decided to make brads the focus of my card.

To get the evenly spaced placement I wanted, I first stamped PTI’s Polka Dot Basics onto my card base. I then used large brads to cover the stamped dots! Easy peasy

Stamps: Polka Dot Basics (Papertrey Ink); Tree Trimming Trio sentiment (Papertrey Ink)

Cardstock: Papertrey Ink (white)

Ink: Memento (tuxedo black)

Accessories: Doodlebug Designs crushed velvet brads

Papertrey Ink October Blog Hop!

Hello and welcome!  With today’s hop in mind, I finally sat down today and figured out my holiday cards for this year.  The beauty of this design is I can easily swap out for different colors, so I will probably make 4-5 per color.  This one uses Raspberry Fizz. I’m thinking of doing some in Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist, Berry Sorbet and maybe Plum Pudding.  I love mixing non-traditional colors in with more traditional images like a Christmas Tree!

Typically I would have used buttons for the ornaments but I tried to leave off anything bulky since the plan is to mass produce these.  I couldn’t resist a little Dark Chocolate satin ribbon though

Thank you for stopping by and taking a peek.  I hope you find lots of ideas and inspiration in today’s hop!!

Stamps: Tree Trimming Trio (Papertrey Ink)

Cardstock: kraft; white; dark chocolate (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: 2008 Bitty Dot Basiscs – raspberry fizz (Papertrey Ink)

Ink: soft suede; melon mambo (Stampin’ Up!)

Accessories: dark chocolate satin ribbon (Papertrey Ink)

Other: dimensional adhesive