Basic Grey - Peachy Keen - Quixotic Challenges All in one

I completed three challenges in just one card!  Woohoo...first time for me :)  The Challenges were:

Basic Grey Week 17 - a sketch by Martine (using Basic Grey paper)

Peachy Keen #26 :

The challenge is to create a card using all of the items/colors/methods listed below:

Stitching (either by sewing needle or hand-drawn)

White and Orange (card could have more colors, but must include these two in the card)

Contain one upcycled item (something that could be thrown away but instead will make its way onto your work of art!)

Any Peachy Keen Stamp

Quixotic Challenge #20 :  The Joys of Spring - Create a spring themed card or project!

So...I used Basic Grey Sugared paper collection, Peachy Keen's PK-259 Shower Peepers and the orange checked ribbon is the "up/recycled item. It came from a gift box.  

Thanks for visiting and taking a peek at my blog :) 

New Recipe Card Challenge

This week's Recipe Card Challenge is to create a recipe card that holds a full meal. It'll inspire you to create
outside your little comfort zone...out of the box :)  Here's mine.  I made a dinner for April Fool's Day :)

The base holds the tags and looks like a shirt or dress bodice. The corsage in the Menu tag.

Original Dress card

This is my first dress card with my template.

Supplies:
SU stamps: Carte Postal. En Francais background, French Flair background, Summer by the Sea, Bloomin Beautiful-


Tim Holtz: French Market-

Inkadinkado: Baby Dear clear stamps-

Luminarte: Twinkling H2Os: Garnet, Pink Cloud, spiced pumpkin.jade. soft beige

assorted ribbons-

red self stick gems-

Ranger: Gold Super Fine Detail Embossing powder
 

ISC Weekly Challenge card

This  the weekly challenge at InspireSwapChat. 

"You must have white on white meaning all card stock, embellies must be white. You can, for a sentiment or image, use black ink only! The only Ribbon or cord or yarn or brads, ect. must be white, silver, gold or black. If you use any "bling" it must be clear or diamond bling."

Okay...here it is...I saw the words silver, gold, bling and made little silver heat embossed flowers...oops...THEN, I remember seeing glitter, or diamond bling...and I had some Stickles Ice Crystals...which looked pretty clear in the bottle. It dried and has a...well...not really clear tint when you angle it in the light. I used different CB embossing folders, and some white.semi-transparent vellum for the "apron", assorted Sizzix and Bosskutz dies...Su sentiment across the bottom of the dress...IN black I made the dress template to use in another challenge swap I'm in and decided to use it for this one. Oh, also used SU Scallop punch and MS butterfly punch.

My "Row House" village

My "village" is done.  (I'm no doubt going to build another).  These were soooo much fun to create!  And I have all kinds of ideas for more floating around in my head :)  I got some new Tim Holtz clear stamp sets today and used some of them on these.  I posted pics of a couple of them, but some of them had been remodeled :)  Plus, I decided to get off my lazy behind and use my camera so you could see the golden shimmer background. The Rose house underwent some slight renovations and I wanted to show the golden shimmer when it's tilted in the light. 

You can go here to find out how to make your own Shimmer Mist:

http://timholtz.typepad.com/my_weblo...technique.html

I have Pearl Ex powders and made my own using floor wax, water, Pearl Ex and an SU reinker.  I used equal amounts of water and liquid floor wax, added a small amount of PE, then enough drops of the reinker to suit my taste.  I mixed them in a mini mister so it doesn't take much at all.  When I stamped the sentiment over it in the Rose house, the shimmer can still be seen through the black India ink I stamped with.  I may use a bit less PE powder next time, although I'm quite happy with how it turned out on the house :)

Row Houses

Some of you may have heard of these already, but I just learned about them...and I absolutely LOVE them.  They are simply decorated pieces of chip board or cs, cut into a point to resemble a roof.  Here are a few of the ones I've done:

For more examples, visit Trishbee's place

Peachy Keen Challenge 25

This card is for Peachy Keen's Chalenge #25...a sketch challenge.  I just got this set in and loved the little chick with the broom (spring cleaning, no doubt).  It's PK-259 Shower Peepers.  The papers are some assorted pieces from my scrap stash.