H2H "Poppy Color Challenge"

I haven't participated in an online challenge for awhile, so I decided today's the day.  This challenge is from the Heart 2 Heart challenge page.  Here was the inspiration photo:

 

And here's what I made:

 

Obviously, I added a lot of black accents to the suggested colors.  I started with black cs for the card base, then added a CTMH Lagoon cs base mat, then a white cs mat, then a CTMH Sunset cs mat. I ran the final and top piece of white cs through my Cuttlebug for the embossed dots. I added white doodled dots around the black border to make the card more whimsical.  The poppies and sentiments are from CTMH's stamp set "Wavy Blooms." I colored the poppies with Copic markers (YR04, YR68, & R05). The flower centers are CTMH large black sparkles.

The Sunset cs, bottom left poppy, and "happy" are all attached with dimensional adhesives.

I have a friend who loves orange who has a birthday coming up, and this just might be her card!

Bowwow Birthday / H2H Challenge

I decided to play along with the Heart 2 Heart Card Challenge this week:  "Dog Days of Summer."  The challenge was simply make something with a dog in it.  I hadn't used CTMH's "A Bowwow" stamp set yet, so I started with that.

The dog image is obviously from the Bowwow set.  I colored him with Copics and added a little bling to his dog collar, using the sparkly Spica pens for the nose and eye.  The butterfly is from CTMH's Delight stamp set.  The body of the butterfly is glued down, but the wings are popped up with dimensional adhesive.  "Happy Birthday" is from CTMH's Card Chatter-Birthday stamp set.  For the background, I used B&T paper from CTMH's new Dakota paper pack.  Lastly, the grass was cut with a MS punch.

Here's the sentiment inside--also from CTMH's Bowwow set.

H2H Paper Lantern card

I made this card for this week's H2H challenge.  The paper and color inspiration is from the Wings B&T pack.  The stamp set is Paper Lantern. The lantern on the right was stamped in vineyard berry ink, cut out and attached with a pop dot, then embellished with "pearls."  TFL!

Beach Card / H2H Challenge

This week's H2H Challenge was a sketch:

I turned the card horizontal and took the word "image" literally for this beach card--the photo is from my 2010 gulf coast vacation.  I used papers from CTMH's Magnifique paper pack and stamps from CTMH's Daydream stamp set.  The umbrella is paper-pieced and fringed with paper from Magnifique.  The top of the umbrella is raised.  I used watercolor pencils to color the shovel & pail image and the sun.  All the papers are edged in CTMH's Pacifica ink.

Pool Scene H2H challenge

This week's H2H challenge was to create a scene using at least three different stamps.

I made this pool scene with Paper Lantern (lanterns); Play Day (boy and sentiment); Adorning Corners (waves); and Surf's Up (surf board).  The background is the B-side to one of the Fanfare papers, and the water is Pacifica CS.  The yellow CS is Sunny Yellow.  The surfboard has clear sparkles along its length, and the flowers and lanterns all have pearl embellishments.  I used dimensional adhesive on the little boy.  If this looks a little familiar, I made a similar card in July 09, but I think the lanterns, which weren't available then, work great.

Pensacola Beach Layout (H2H Scrapbook Challenge)

I tried the H2H scrapbooking challenge for the first time.  The layout was simple, but it turned out perfect for the few pictures I had.  I used the reverse side of the CTMH Wings paperpack--a totally different look than the front side, for a very "beachy" color palette.

Here's page one (in a horrible photo--sorry for the lighting).  The shells, palm tree, and sandcastle are cut from my cricut.  I think it's the second time I've used that thing, and the other time was for the shells too.  The top paragraph of the journaling tells what we did on our day trip to Pensacola.  The second paragraph are Jimmy Buffett lyrics to Frank and Lola.  (The song is about Pensacola and we ate at Frank & Lola's restaurant in Buffett's hotel (left pic).)

Here's page 2 up close.  I used my favorite alphabet, CTMH's Delightful Alphabet for "Pensacola Beach."

Here is the challenge's sketch of the layout:

Happy Mardi Gras card / H2H challenge

This week's H2H challenge was to use gypsy, creme brulee & black.

They reminded me of New Orleans and Mardi Gras (which is this coming Tuesday), so I added a little green and came up with this Mardi Gras Card:

I'm not sure exactly what happened with the upload of this picture, but the card is actually square.  Also, the gypsy cs looks blue in the photo, but it really is gypsy.  The background creme brulee cs is tone-on-tone stamped with small fleur-de-lis images CTMH's Legendary Moments stamp set.  The large fleur-de-lis on the bottom left is also from this set.  The fence and moon & star (representing the crescent city) are all from CTMH's Fright Night stamp set.  (I'm always proud of myself when I find an alternative use for a holiday set--this one was a Halloween stamp set.)  The umbrella is from the Springtime stamp set, and I paperpieced the top and added bling, some old sassy strands, and one of the punched out fleur-de-lis from the background edge punches (by EK Success).  The small green B&T paper strip at the bottom is from the Lucky paper pack.  Here's a look at the inside of the card:  I used CTMH's small Friendship alphabet and Be Yourself stamp sets.

  TFL! and Laissez les bon temp rouler!

H2H Challenge: Stamp Kissing

The latest Heart 2 Heart Challenge is to use the technique called "stamp kissing."  Instructions can be found on the H2H blog.  Here's what I came up with:

I used the stamp kissing technique on the cupcake paper to add the stars.  The cupcake is from the CTMH Cupcake Sprinkles stamp set, the whale is from the new Down by the Sea set, and "Happy Birthday" is from Say It in Style.  I had to do some masking for the "Have a Whale of a Time" because the sentiment (also part of the Down by the Sea set) said "HavING a Whale of a time" so I masked off the "ing" and stamped, then re-masked everthing except an "e" and added it.  The B&T paper is from the Miracle CTMH paper set.

"Happy Birthday" and the whale are raised on dimensional adhesive.  There are tiny pearl embellishments on the whale, the cupcake paper, and the candle flame.

Birthday Boy Card for H2H Challenge

I made this traffic-themed card for the H2H challenge sketch.  I used the CTMH stamp set Birthday Boy with cardstock (Black, White, Holiday Red, Sunny Yellow, and Topiary) and ribbon.  I colored the three little cars with my copics.  The cars are all raised with dimensional adhesive.