Happy Birthday : Sisterhood Challenge

For the Sisterhood of Crafters Challenge this time around, we had birthday creations. I know I have my mom's birthday next month, so I decided to get a head start.

 

 

Using her favorite color as a base (purple), I went with some of this great Basic Grey Wisteria paper that I had yet to cut up and a layout from SCS. Other than my sponge being apparently a little grubby (which resulted in more of a peachy color than the light purple), I was happy with how this CAS creation turned out. I hope she likes it, too.

 

The sentiment stamps are both Verve, of course :)

 

Over the weekend, we headed down to Calgary for a sweet wine tasting at a fabulous wine shop (Bin 905) with some friends, then Saturday it was out to Lake Louise for some time on the skis/snowboards. What a blast! I definitely notice a difference in my ability from when I started last year.

 

Anyways, head over to The Sisterhood of Crafters to show us your Birthday crafts!

 

Happy Birthday : Sisterhood Challenge

With some birthdays coming up and it being my turn to host the challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters, I figured I better get my butt in gear and pump out some cards :) Luckily, I had some Viva La Verve sketches to catch up on, so this was the result...

 

First up, Sept Week 1 {8/31/12}. I thought this would work perfectly for my sister in law's birthday early next month. The Rich Razzleberry and Baja Breeze worked beautifully together, I thought.

 

 

Next up was the Sept Week 4 {9/21/12} sketch. I went with the new Midnight Muse and some old paper that I think is Soft Sky?!

 

Finally, the Sep Week 3 {9/14/12} sketch in Real Red, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery & Wild Wasabi.

 

Dustin Pike of Doodle Dragon Studio is sponsoring this challenge, so be sure to head to The Sisterhood of Crafters for a chance to win :)

SNB Birthday Cupcake!

This time I went with the VLV October 2011 Week 1 Sketch to create a little Birthday love for the Sisterhood of Crafters challenge, which is sponsored by Stretch N' Bubbles. Again, the winner will receive four images of your choice from the shop, which has some super cute ones...including this Strawberry Cupcake!

Finally choosing a non-pink scheme, I used my favorite neutral, Sahara Sand, and some Perfect Plum to create this clean and simple card.  I used the title sentiment, Big Wish from Verve and a little bling to sweeten the deal. I added a whole lotta sparkle via my spica litter pen (as you can see above) and voila....

Now if I can get caught up on the rest of the Verve challenges before we head off to San Francisco, I'll be laughing =)  Down to six sleeps and I'm officially counting down!

Mojo Birthday

A little sketch design inspiration from the Mojo Monday 210 challenge, plus my Sisterhood of Crafters Stretch n' Bubbles sponsored Birthday challenge and I was ready to rock and roll with this card....a vision in Kraft, White & Purely Pomegranate if you ask me ;)

Well, you didn't, but I'm telling you - I quite like the color combination. LOL I used some of my previously uninked PTI stamps (How did this happen?! I guess that's a story for another day...and another card!) Anyways, the stamps (candles & sentiment) are from Birthday Bash Sentiments, which are absolutely a joy to stamp with. I added a little glitz in the form of some rhinestones and a whole lot of Spica Glitter pen. I colored the candles with the glitter, highlighted the nestie-sponging and did an edge of glitter on each of the pomegranate panels of the sentiment. They don't show up all that well, though. Darn sparkle!

Speaking of not showing up well, the scalloped kraft layer is embossed with script folder and that doesn't show up all that well either. My photography skillz are lacking. What can I say?!

At any rate, it's sparkly in person and it's on it's way to a friend as a little celebration of the day we were blessed with her presence =)

Join us at the Sisterhood of Crafters for some more birthday brilliance!

Birthday Celebrations

The challenge over at the Sisterhood of Crafters this week? Birthdays, baby!

That's right....and I'm pulling out the pink this week, it seems. Everything's coming up Pomegranate these days!

We've even got Stretch n' Bubbles Digital Stamps sponsoring this week with a choice of four stamps of the winner's choice!

Onto my creation for the challenge. Or should I say "One of my creations..." Yep - I'm saving them for a few posts this week. Don't wanna give you pink eye ;) The first is a little monochromatic creation that I did for the GYDO Challenge in September. It was the first time I'd used my new banner nesties, which made for some fun sponging and bling additions.



I added buttons to my Hope Blooms flowers, which were stamped in Purely Pomegranate and Pretty in Pink. I absolutely love that sentiment from the same stamp set. It's one of my favorite for birthdays. A little Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon, some dimensionals and I was set. What do you think? Sickly sweet or just right?

Stop by tomorrow for a peek at another Birthday creation (or take a sneak peak when you upload your Birthday eye candy at The Sisterhood of Crafters for your chance to win!