Project Life!

Hi Everyone,

It's time for another fantastic sketch over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge this week.  Please take the time to swing by the blog and check out the rest of the Design Team's fabulous creations.  While you are there, make sure you take a minute to play along with us.  We would love to have you!!

Here is this week's sketch:

I have been working on a special birthday project for a friend of mine - a Project Life album of a trip we took out west to the Rockies a couple of years ago.  This is my first time playing with PL stuff and I am absolutely in love.  It is so much fun and so easy to get your scrapbooking done in a more main stream way.  I will definitely be doing more of this!!

Here is my project for the week:

Card Recipe:

Card Stock: Night of Navy, Coastal Cabana (Retired), Real Red, Whisper White, Maritime DSP (Retired)
Stamp Sets:
Inks: Night of Navy, Blendabilities - Coastal Cabana & Cherry Cobbler
Tools/Techniques: 6x8 PL pocket pages, basic rhinestones

Thanks for stopping by, I'm so glad you did.
Steph

A Calm Sea....

Hi Everyone!

Happy Monday!  I do hope you all had a fantastic weekend - I did.  Movie and dinner with some lovely friends on Friday, wine and a book on Saturday and crafting with a wonderful friend on Sunday night - I don't think it gets much better.

During crafting last night, I decided to get inspired by some fun and fantastic challenges - I know, I know, big surprise!!

Here are the challenges I will be playing along with:

1. Stampin' Celebration

I have been wanting to use the Adventure Awaits stamp set for some time now and the sketch from Stampin' Celebration this week was a great one that would be wonderful to showcase the stamps.  So very fun.

2. Color Throwdown

I loved this week's colours for the Color Throwdown.  I interpreted them to be Coastal Cabana, Night of Navy, Crumb Cake and Real Red and thought they would be perfect for a nautical themed card.

3. Just Us Girls

This week is word week over at Just Us Girls and the word is "masculine".  I thought it would be fun to add to my guy card stash and for once, create a card that wasn't a birthday card that screamed masculine.  I think the colour combination and nautical theme works here.

4. Stampin' Royalty

I love having a chance to try new techniques or ones that I don't use that often.  This week over at Stampin' Royalty the technique to be used is embossing.  I both wet embossed the stamped image on the Adventure Bound DSP stack and dry embossed on the Real Red accents.

Here is my card tonight:

Card Recipe (all products used are Stampin' Up! products unless otherwise indicated):

Card Stock: Crumb Cake, Real Red, Adventure Bound DSP Stack, Maritime DSP
Stamp Sets: Adventure Awaits
Inks: Versamark
Tools/Techniques: Big Shot, Arrows Embossing Folder, Black Embossing Powder, Little Labels Framelits, Heat tool

Thanks for dropping by, I'm so glad you did!
Steph