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Color Throwdown #36, a Great Contest, and a Copic Creations Challenge!

Greetings everyone!  I've got a slightly jam-packed post for you today but I'll try to keep it brief!

Today is Color Throwdown #36 and the challenge today is being sponsored by Our Craft Lounge!  We have two great stamp sets from OCL and some Sparkly Fluff to give away to one lucky participant this week, too!  Be sure to stop by the Throwdown blog for all the details, and to see the cards from the other designers!  My card was made using the Pat the Bad Dog stamp set I got recently!  Isn't he ornery?  Here's a picture of what's inside the card...  

Second, we're having a Guess That Baby Challenge over at Paper Craft Planet!  Be sure to check out all the details and get yourself entered for the chance to win some fabulous prizes... a great stamp set from Clear & Simple Stamps, and a $100 Amazon gift certificate!  Hello???  Told you they were fabulous prizes!  Additionally, I'm going to offer a 6x6 pad of Basic Grey Marrakech paper to the first person to leave a comment here and correctly guess which photo is me!

Finally, my girls over at the Copic Creations blog have their first challenge posted for today!  I was unable to participate in the debut of this challenge this week since we're so busy with Anne being here with us, but please be sure to check out their fabulous creations, and make some time to play along if you can!  Up for grabs to one random participant is a Momento Tuxedo Black ink pad, 5 Copic Sketch markers and a Stampavie stamp, all donated by 7 Kids College Fund!

We're still having a great time with Anne visiting us, and are heading to Amish Country on today for some sight-seeing!  Anne was able to hook up her web cam and headset today and talk to her boyfriend back home through Skype, so that made her very happy!

Hope you have a great day!  Happy stamping!

 

Stamps:  Pat the Bad Dog (Our Craft Lounge)
Cardstock:  Pink Passion, Tempting Turquoise, designer paper (Stampin' Up!), orange (Bazzill), white (Gina K)
Inks:  Momento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Nestabilities (Spellbinders), brads (Stampin' Up!), Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder (ProvoCraft), ribbon (Creative Impressions).

Color Throwdown #35

This week's Color Throwdown is being hosted by Danielle, and is it ever a bright combination of colors!  I didn't know what I was going to do with it at first, but I pulled something out of my hat after I found this scrap of designer paper in my piles that I thought went well!

Remember to leave a link to your creation on the Color Throwdown blog so we can see your card.  You could be chosen as the Featured Stamper next week and have a chance to be our Guest Designer for a week in April!  Also, be sure to stop back for the Throwdown next week as the challenge is being hosted by me and sponsored by Our Craft Lounge!  We're going to have some stamp sets to give away to one lucky participant!

For my card, I chose to use this sweet Head Over Heels Huggabugg from Stamping Bella!  She was just too cute to resist for these bright colors!

(Speaking of Stamping Bella... remember a few weeks ago when I won a $50 gift certificate?  My new Ketto stamps came yesterday, so be watching for me to get them inky real soon!)

Check out these fabulous creations from the other Throwdown designers!

Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders (and don't forget to go to SCS and cast your vote for Barbara in the MFT Stamping Idol contest!)

I can't wait to see what you create with these colors!  C'mon... get creative!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

 

 

Stamps:  Huggabugg, sentiment (Stamping Bella)
Cardstock:  Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango, Purely Pomegranate (Stampin' Up!), white (Gina K), designer paper (unknown)
Inks:  Momento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  ribbon (Stampin' Up!), Threading Water border punch (Fiskars), Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder (ProvoCraft), Angel Wings Shimmerz.

Color Throwdown #34

It's time for another Color Throwdown, and this week it is Barbara's turn to be our hostess!  She has chosen a color combo that I would have never thought of, but wow does it make for some beautiful cards!  Be sure to check out the cards made by my fellow Throwdown Team members on the Throwdown blog, or by clicking the links down below!
 

For my card, I chose to get a new Penny Black stamp inky with these "Fireworks" flowers!  I was fortunate to find some old Stampin' Up! designer paper in Blush Blossom too, to use for the challenge.  Lucky me, because you know I have trouble making a card without some designer paper!  :)

We'd love to have you play along with these colors today!  Upload to your blog or any online gallery like Paper Craft Planet and be sure to tag your photo with CTD34.  Leave a direct link to your creation on the Throwdown blog, too!  Remember to please leave a direct link, not a link to your whole blog.
 

Check out these awesome samples from the other Throwdown designers!

Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato

Also, we're so honored to have our Throwdown designer Barbara Anders as a finalist in the My Favorite Thing Stamping Idol contest being held over at Splitcoaststampers!  Check our Barbara's first round entry here, and then be sure to go vote for Bar on this thread!  The voting closes at 10:00 p.m. EST Wednesday night!  VOTE FOR BAR!  VOTE FOR BAR!

I appreciate your awesome comments and visits to my blog!  Thanks for always making my day brighter!

 

 

Stamps:  fireworks flowers (Penny Black), sentiment (Kitchen Sink Stamps)
Cardstock:  Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Blush Blossom, designer paper (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin)
Inks:  Not Quite Navy, Old Olive, Blush Blossom (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories:  Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Swiss Dots embossing folder (ProvoCraft), ribbon, brads (Gary Burlin).

Color Throwdown #33/Our Craft Lounge Sketch

It's time once again for a Throwdown!  Cathy is our hostess for this week, and she chose some fun, bright colors that you can really do a lot with!  And you've got the liberty of choosing whatever shade of green you want to use with this combo, so let your imagination run free!  We also have a Guest Designer on the Throwdown blog today, so be sure to visit and check our her cute card, too!  Anna doesn't have a blog, but she has a rockin' gallery over at SCS if you want to see more of her creations!

For my card today, I decided to combine challenges.  Yesterday, I was reading Cambria Turnbow's blog, and see where she has decided to have a sketch challenge using Our Craft Lounge stamps!  So I decided to play along!

This awesome new paper I just got from My Mind's Eye was perfect for this challenge, along with this pretty celery twill ribbon that my awesome friend Anita gave me for my birthday!  (Thanks, GF!)

Check out the creations from the other Throwdown designers by clicking their links below!  We hope you'll join in!  Remember, if you upload to an online gallery like Paper Craft Planet, please add CTD33 in the tag line.  Remember, one person each week is chosen as Featured Stamper and is then put in the running to be Guest Designer for a challenge the following month!  I'd love to see it be YOU!

Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe

Thanks for stopping by today!

 

Stamps:  In His Name (Our Craft Lounge)
Cardstock:  Tempting Turquoise, Confetti Cream (Stampin' Up!), Sweetheart (Bazzill), designer paper (My Mind's Eye)
Inks:  Elegant Eggplant pigment ink (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories:  flowers, brad (Creative Impressions), orchid Dew Drops (Robin's Nest), clear embossing powder (Ranger), Nestabilities (Spellbinders), ribbon (Stampin' Up!)

Color Throwdown #32

It's time to Throwdown some color again this week, and this time it was Broni's turn to challenge us!  She picked some beautiful, springy colors that make me yearn for warmer temperatures!

I turned once again to my Ducky Days stamps from Our Craft Lounge for today's challenge!  I just LOVE this duck!  I also used Jen del Muro's Sketch for you to Try from this past Saturday!

The Throwdown team would love to have you join us this week in the challenge!  Stop by the blog for all the details, and to link your card when you're done!  And see what the other team members have created by visiting their blogs!

Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese

I thank you for stopping by today, and hope your day is fabulous!  Happy stamping!

 

Stamps:  Ducky Days (Our Craft Lounge)
Cardstock:  Regal Rose, Pretty in Pink (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (Paper Salon)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), Barely Banana (Stampin' Up!), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Nestabilities (Spellbinders), brads, punches (Stampin' Up!), ribbon (craft supply).

Color Throwdown #31

It's week #31 of the Color Throwdown, and it's my turn again to chose the colors!  Sometimes when I see a color combo I like, I go into the Notepad feature on my phone and put the colors there for future reference.  So I noticed one day that this combo was in my notes, and decided to use it for the Throwdown.  I don't know where the inspiration came from, but hope you'll like the colors, too!  They'd be great for a more masculine card, which is what I did here!

This is Fergie-the-Frog from Stampendous, and I thought he'd look just fabulous in Kiwi Kiss with his giant lily pad!  I've seen this lily pad idea on other cards, so decided to give it a try today!  You can't tell from the photo, but I added some Angel Wings Shimmerz to the lily pad he's sitting on, too!

Check out all the challenge details on the Throwdown blog, and be sure to see some awesome samples from the rest of the team!

Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese

I hope you'll play along!  I can't wait to see what everyone creates!

Have a great day, and thanks for stopping by!

 

Stamps:  frog and sentiment (Stampendous), background swirls (Art Impressions)
Cardstock:  Night of Navy, Kiwi Kiss, Bashful Blue (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin)
Inks:  Adirondack Pitch Black (Ranger), Versamagic Night Sky, Versamark (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories:  Cuttlebug embossing folder (ProvoCraft).

Color Throwdown #30

It's Wednesday again, and that means its time to Throwdown another color challenge!  This week we're back to the top with LeAnne choosing our colors, and I'll tell you what... I love LeAnne dearly but she's trying to kill me with these colors!  LOL  This was such a struggle for me!  Yeah, yeah, yeah... I know!  That's what a challenge is for, right?!  OK, so you all better come up with something, too!  If I did it, then you can also!

I was actually thinking about (and dreading!) these colors while I was at work today and figured the best way to get the mojo going would be to buy new stamps!  So I grabbed Smells Like Cake! from my stamp department and bought it before I headed for home!  (I {heart} my employee discount!)  And here's what I came up with...

The other Throwdown girls came up with FABULOUS designs using these colors, so be sure to stop by their blogs to check them out!

LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy

And be sure to stop by the Throwdown blog for all the challenge details, and to link your creation using Mr. Linky!  Remember, you could have a chance at being Featured Stamper next week, which also gives you a chance to be our Guest Designer next month!

I also quickly made up another version of my card when I was done tonight!  Since the first one uses Stampin' Up! products, I can't display it at the store.  So I made another card using things I know I have in stock at the store so I can add it to my displays!

 

Thanks for stopping by today!  I appreciate your visits and comments!

 

 

Stamps:  Smells Like Cake (The Cat's Pajamas)
Cardstock:  Card #1 - Tangerine Tango (Stampin' Up!), designer paper (Bo Bunny); Card #2 - Parakeet (Bazzill), designer paper (Bo Bunny)
Inks:  Momento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko), markers (Copic)
Accessories: ribbon on card #1 (Stampin' Up!), ribbon on card #2 (Creative Impressions), glitter (Gary Burlin).

Color Throwdown #29

This week, the Color Throwdown is being hosted by Danielle, and she picked some fabulous colors!  These were so much fun to work with!  I hope you'll check out the Throwdown blog for all the details, for samples from the Throwdown team members and a rockin' sample from our February Guest Designer, Maria Gurnsey!  You can also check out all their samples by clicking on the links I have below!

This new stamp set from Hero Arts this year, Friend is one of my favorites so I decided to use it for the challenge today!  The Design Team over at Papercraft Planet also has a great album this month with a friendship theme, so this card will also go into that album!  Be sure to stop by the Planet and check out the creations from the whole team!

Here are direct links to the Throwdown team members blogs...

Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Maria Gurnsey, February Guest Designer

I hope you'll make time to join us in the Throwdown!  It's been awesome each week to see all the fabulous creations, so keep 'em coming!

Have a great day!

 

 

Stamps:  Friend clear set (Hero Arts)
Cardstock:  Regal Rose, Kiwi Kiss, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Au Chocolat Designer Series Paper (Stampin' Up!)
Inks:  Regal Rose (Stampin' Up!), Versamagic Jumbo Java (Tsukineko)
Accessories:  Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder (ProvoCraft), Nestabilities (Spellbinders), brads (Gary Burlin), ribbon (Stampin' Up!)

Color Throwdown #28

Wednesday brings another Color Throwdown, and this week it was Barb's turn to choose the colors!

Be sure to stop by the Throwdown blog to see the creations from all the team members, or just visit their blogs by clicking the links below!

Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe
Cathy Indelicato 

For my card, I chose to semi-CASE my friend Maria Gurnsey's card here where she used that cute gingham for the tree tops!  (GLG... that's code for Gotta' Love Gingham!)  I used this sweet pink polka dot paper to piece my tree top, but it doesn't show up very well!  No worries... Maria enabled me to order that Spring Trees set from CHF today anyway, so I'll just copy her card completely once it arrives!

I hope you'll make time for the Throwdown sometime today or later this week!

Many, many, many thanks to all of you who have left me such wonderful comments about my health and weight loss goals!  Many of you brought tears to my eyes, and all made me smile!  I won't go into a lot of details, but if I'm truly going to lose all the weight I *need* to lose, it totals 150 pounds.  So as you can well imagine, a healthier me is definitely something that needs to come about!  Again, thank you from the bottom of my heart, pumping for all it's worth beneath all this fat!  I appreciate it so much!

Have a great day!

 

Stamps:  tree from Making the Grade (Kim Hughes collection by Cornish Heritage Farms), sentiment (Impression Obsession)
Cardstock:  Chocolate Chip, Pink Pirouette, Riding Hood Red (Stampin' Up!), designer paper (Lasting Impressions)
Ink:  Momento Rich Cocoa, Vesamagic Jumbo Java (Tsukineko)
Accessories:  ribbon (Offray), Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder (Provo Craft), Threading Water punch (Fiskars).

Color Throwdown #27

Another Wednesday has arrived, and it's time for another Throwdown!  This week it was Cathy's turn to pick, and she decided to torture me with these colors!  LOL  I don't do primary colors very well, but that's the point of a challenge, right?  It was hard for me to not want to do something Patriotic, but as you can see I finally came up with something!  Check out what the rest of the Throwdown team members did for inspiration, too!

Cathy Indelicato
Barbara Anders
Danielle Kennedy
LeAnne Pugliese
Broni Holcombe

For my card, I decided to pull out my 3-Step Get Well Teddy bear stamp set from Kitchen Sink!  Instead of actual Real Red cardstock, I added some Bo Bunny Double Dot paper in red instead, 'cause you know I can't do anything without a bit of designer paper!

We've been thrilled with all the Throwdown participants these last few weeks, and are especially enjoying picking one to be a Featured Stamper each week!  I hope you'll make time to play along!  Maybe next week, the Featured Stampers will be YOU!

Have a great day, and thanks for visiting!

 

 

 

Stamps:  3-Step Get Well Teddy (Kitchen Sink Stamps)
Cardstock:  Black/White duplex (Hollo's), Brocade Blue, Night of Navy, Real Red (Stampin' Up!), white (Gary Burlin), designer paper (Bo Bunny)
Inks:  Momento Desert Sand, Momento Rich Cocoa, Versafine Onyx Black (Tsukineko), Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa (Stampin' Up!)
Accessories:  red grosgrain (Gary Burlin), brads (Stampin' Up!).