PPA321, Love and Hugs

It's color challenge week at the PPA!  Beautiful fall colors:

So, dig out those pretty fall sets, or whatever floats your boat and come join us.   I couldn't tell you just what mine is, but someone is going to get plenty of love and hugs!  We always know someone who could use those, don't we?  While I love to make cards special just for the person, sometimes time doesn't allow so it's good to have a few things on hand.  The challenges are very good for doing that.

I wasn't sure I liked this embossing folder, however I bought it and I've found it to be so usable. It's turned into one of my favorites. I'm sorry to have to say, but the Eggplant Ribbon is retired.

Please see the links below to see what I used on this card, if you would like to order or just check out the sets or anything else further, just click on one of them.

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$37.00

Flourish Thinlits Dies

$29.00

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Bundle

$59.25

Sunshine Sayings Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$23.00

5/8" (1.6 Cm) Burlap Ribbon

$7.00

Petal Burst Textured Impressions Embossing Folder

$7.50

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Global design Project color Challenge #045

One of the really popular sets in the new 2016 annual catalog is Flourishing Phrases.  I used a tiny part of it on here. There are several gorgeous thinlits, and the stamp set has a ton of neat sentiments and some great stamp images as well.

Here I cut 2 of the little leaves and 1 each of 2 dies and put them together.
Here are the colors for this week.

I decided that the Melon Mambo had to pop off the black, and the Smoky Slate is in the middle of the sandwich.
That said, I had a terrible time editing this photo so the colors were right. Sometimes it is just really hard.  The sentiment is stamped onto Smoky Slate even tho it looks more white. And I have to appologize, but the ribbon I used is retired. I just didn't have a piece that was right otherwise.

I love this sentiment.  It is so all purpose and can be used for all kinds of reasons.

Thank you so much for looking.
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Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Bundle

$59.25

Tags & Labels Framelits Dies

$27.00

Rhinestone Basic Jewels

$5.00

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Stampin Up, Pals Paper Arts challenge #309, Just a Note

Welcome to my blog and the latest PPA challenge. This week our featured artist is Katy McGloin. Such pretty colors she has picked.   I have not used this new incolor much yet, it sure turned out pretty.  Here is Katy's colors for this week.

As you can probably tell I embossed my flourish, but then instead of sponging I did something different. It's a subtle difference but I like it better.   I used a round (mop) brush, a big one, brushed it lightly over my ink pad and then on my paper. You do that repeatedly until you have the color you want.

Then I used the grungy dots, I started with my Whisper white ink pad hoping I would get white over my color.  But that didn't happen.   I do love what happened instead, the dots with white turned to sugarplum, but a bit darker.  I also added just a few Island Indigo dots.

I am loving the Tags and labels set, it did a great job here for my sentiment. Then I cut the border in the flourish set and added my ribbon on top for a subtle effect.

Thanks for checking out my project for this week!

Flourishing Phrases Clear-Mount Bundle

$59.25

Tags & Labels Framelits Dies

$27.00

Timeless Textures Clear-Mount Stamp Set

$20.00

Versamark Pad

$8.50

White Stampin' Emboss Powder

$5.00

Heat Tool (Us And Canada)

$30.00

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