Hip-Hip Hooray

There is another color challenge over at Krista's Cards & Things Challenges.
My basic gray cardstock was dusty on my paper rack. I knew this was going to be a challenge for me. LOL I'm a pink girl--definitely not a blue! Ohhhh boy....

Here's my Hippo Card:

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Pun Fun

Cardstock: Baja Breeze, Whisper White, Night of Navy

Ink: Basic Gray

Accessories: Whisper White Satin Ribbon, Colored Pencils, Gamsol, Scallop Border Punch, Sewing Machine and White Thread, Pearls

Sweet Little Skunk

It's time for a TERRIFIC color challenge over at Krista's Cards & Things. This week's colors were so much fun to work with!

Go on over and play along.....

I had a great time stamping after I decided what stamp set I was going to use. I think choosing the stamp set I will be using for my challenge cards is the hardest part! :) I have a few new sets from the 2010-2011 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog, but none of them spoke to me like this little skunk! There's something about this sweet skunk that makes me smile everytime I see him. Isn't he adorable?!

Card Recipe:

Stamp Set: Pun Fun

Ink: Basic Black

Cardstock: Whisper White, Crumbcake, Not Quite Navy, Rose Red and Bashful Blue

DSP: Rose Red (this DSP is retired, but there is GORGEOUS brand spankin' new DSP in the catalog)

Accessories: Sewing Machine and Thread, Word Window Punch, Aqua Painters, Watercolor Crayons, Non-SU! colored pencil (cheapy brand from my kid's school leftovers!), Gamsol, Dimensionals, Not Quite Navy Brads, Mat Pack and Paper Piercer, Bashful Blue Taffeta Ribbon, Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder and a Glue Dot (good grief that's a LONG LIST!)

SU! LNS Challenge #32

The challenge for this week was to take a project in the current SU! Catalog CASE it just a little different. I'm a professional CASEr so this was just the challenge for me. My first challenge and my first try at watercoloring...I might add!

I took the scrapbook layout on page 90 of the catalog using the Sock Monkey set.

- I used the Pun Fun set.

- I changed the colors (pumpkin pie, bashful blue, old olive and close to cocoa)

- I flipped the layout over

- I left the old olive rectangle as a journaling block

- I used stars, a rhinestone brad and bashful blue and pumpkin pie ribbon.

AND FINALLY

- I used the CUTEST LITTLE BOY'S Photos. Mr. Evan! :)