Color Challenge Time at Lily Pad Cards

I was thinking Spring with a love theme when I saw the color palette for the new Kathy's Lily Pad Palette challenge.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Bugaboo Stamps and I had a pretty digital stamp to work with called "with love".

I started by opening the image in Microsoft Publisher along with a digital paper by Sande Krieger called Grapefruit from the Farmers Market Digital set. I layered the image over the paper and changed the image color from black to white. Then I re-sized it and printed it out on white card stock. Next I trimmed the image (it had another outline), rounded the corners and layered it on a piece of the brand new Lawn Fawn patterned paper. After punching a hole and tying the twine I set it aside and created the background with another piece of Lawn Fawn paper. I wrote out a Bible verse (1 John 4:7-8) several times in messy script using a white gel pen.  I made a top folded 4.25x5.5 card base and wrote the same verse on it with green pencil then distressed and added color with a blending tool and Shabby Shutters Distress ink. The flower border is a strip of LF paper. Once all the pieces were layered I finished the card with some pink and red gems.
Make sure to head over to Lily Pad Cards to see the rest of the cards by the Design Team...they are pretty awesome if you ask me. I hope you'll join us in this new color challenge.

My CHA 2012 adventure continues- Day One:

Sunday I spent the day with Ivy. We explored all the new products, took notes, did make n takes, met new friends and got some great ideas to share with the Stamp Fever Design Team. Sunday night I took a workshop with instructor Donna Downey using Faber-Castell Gelatos on Canvas. Unfortunately I have no photos because as soon as we got started my fingers were covered with glue and paint. Suffice it to say I had a great time and came home with a whole set of Gelatos to play with at home.

The Stamp Fever team stopped by the Hero Arts booth first thing so we could meet Karen Rider (born2scrap775 on Flickr). From left- Karen, Jennifer, Ivy, Shari, Gina, Sally, me and Linda.

I met Kim Hughes, the creator of Paper Smooches. She's so sweet and her stamp designs are so fun and playful. They will be fun to use on cards and layouts for Uriah.

 Next we did a make n take with Jill Foster at the Faber-Castell booth. I love Jill, she's such a genuinely lovely person and such a talent too!

Ivy snagged some "Tim Time".

Then it was back to Lawn Fawn land where Chari was holding court at the make n take table with Vera. They are 2 of the sweetest people...love them both!

Ivy and I found lots of fun products and ideas; we'll be using them in some upcoming classes.

blessings,

nancy

I survived CHA.....just barely!

Let me just start by saying I had a great time at CHA. Now I need about a week to recover.

My adventure started on Friday afternoon January 27 with a phone call from Kelly Marie asking if I could lend a hand with a presentation she had scheduled. Well, sure I said, I'd love to help. The rest is a blur until this morning when I woke up feeling like someone twice my age (that'd be about 110 in people years).

On Saturday I was back to help with the final set up for Lawn Fawn land, the stamps and samples hanging on the clothesline were my handiwork. It was not as easy as it looks and took a few hours to get just right.

Once the booth was set up, Kelly and I filled a pitcher with little paper pinwheel pins. I hope everyone who got one enjoys it....making them made me want to swear and I don't swear.

We finished the day with yummy Mexican food at Ricardo's with new friends.

from left: Jenny Suchin, Ayana Posadas, Chari Moss, Laurel Beard, Vera Yates, me and Kelly.

Oh yeah, did I mention I started Saturday at 5am with a Yard Sale....yep, how's that for great timing! 

I'll be back with more CHA pics tomorrow along with another Lily Pad Cards post.

blessings,

nancy

1 John 4:7-8

It's a Patterned Paper Challenge at the Pond!

Time for another Simon Says Stamp sponsored challenge. This month it's Patterned Paper so go through your stash of paper and have some fun with us at Lily Pad Cards!

That's just what I did with some of my favorite Crate Paper 6x6 papers from the Farmhouse, Random and Portrait sets with an assist from a scrap of yellow gingham from the Girl's Paperie. The star of the show is the charming new Lawn Fawn set, Love n Breakfast.

There's a whole lot of paper-piecing going on with the breakfast tray, each element was stamped and cut out from different paper scraps. A bit glossy accents adds some shine to the egg yolk and the flower vase.

I can't wait to see what you do with patterned paper, I'll be looking for your cards in the challenge gallery at Lily Pad Cards!

I'm so excited about CHA, just a few more days! If you will be there I'd love to meet you, stop by the Lawn Fawn booth on Monday and say hi!

blessings,
nancy
Titus 3: 4-8

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Lily Pad Cards has a new challenge!

Apparently the Hero Hostess Blog Hop used up all of my creativity because my mojo has been on an extended walk-about. I hope it returns soon, refreshed and ready to work; I really miss it!

I did manage to wring out some mojo essence to make a card for the new Lily Pad Cards Challenge: Virginia's View. Yes, that Virginia, my friend from the land to the north.

Our sponsor for this challenge is Penny Black so I grabbed my favorite paisley background stamp and got to work with some white embossing powder and Distress inks.

I guess I was in a light-hearted mood because this is so different from my usual style (do I really have a usual style? she asked). Anyway, this gave me the perfect excuse to use these Jewelry Box Thickers from American Crafts that I've been hoarding for some time now.

Make sure you stop by Lily Pad Cards to see all the lovelies from the DT and to join us in this brand new inspiration challenge. You just may recognize some new faces....you never know.

blessings,
nancy
Isaiah 26:3

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Hero Arts Hostess Blog Hop Day 2

It's my favorite time of the year...Hero Hostess Blog Hop time!! It's so much fun to share this wonderful camaraderie with all of the talented hostesses. This is a group I feel very privileged to be a part of.

Hero Arts will be awarding prizes from randomly drawn comments. For a chance to win, simply comment on ANY of the stops along the hop on ANY day, including each day’s starting post at the Hero Club Blog. The more comments you leave, the better your chance of winning!
If you find a broken link, you'll find a master list of the hop links at the Hero Club Blog. Also, please report broken links to Tami.

You should have arrived here from Living the Dream, my sweet friend, Judy's blog. I hope you left her lots of comment love!

I just love everything in the new 2012 Hero Arts Catalog...my wishlist is a mile long! I love anything text and collage-y so I used that theme to make some Thank You cards. Check out the inlinkz links at the end of this post for all the products I used.

This card uses some Sticky back canvas and an old product in my stash called Shimmering Pearls. They work like Twinkling H2Os. Hero Arts stamps used: Newspaper Background and Greeting Cling set.

Next I tilted the butterfly collage stamp vertically and got all inky:

I used Distress inks to watercolor the butterfly, add splatters and distress the edges of the panel. The background is the Newspaper Eiffel Tower...I love this stamp! I left the background as is so the distressed panel would take center stage.

This time I stamped the Butterfly Greeting image on a patterned paper die cut label:

I stamped the Newspaper Background with Stormy Sky Distress ink on white cs then over-stamped the butterfly portion of the stamp with brown ink. I cut out just the wings and paper-pieced them to the panel. To finish the panel I added some more inky splatters and white dots with a gel pen. I also outlined the label with the white pen. The background is an old favorite from Hero Arts, Old Letter Writing.

The final card features the Newspaper Background and a great frame and sentiment clear set called Sending You Love:

I stamped the Newspaper Background once near the top of the panel using Stormy Sky Distress ink and again on the bottom with Art Print Brown ink. The sentiment frame was stamped with Stormy Sky, cut out and hole punched. The flourishes are from the Hero Arts/Sizzix Floral Stamp and Die set. A few gems and it's done.

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Now I'm sending you off on your blog hopping way to see the lovely Robin. Have fun and don't forget to comment to win some fabulous Hero Arts goodies!

blessings,
nancy
psalm 16:11