Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge - Anything Goes

Today marks the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge 1st Anniversary!

What a fabulous year it has been!

Let's celebrate with an Anything Goes challenge!

photo source:  decoritdarling.net

and that's not all!

We have loads of sponsors for the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Anything Goes!  Check out all of the amazing prizes that our sponsors are giving away to YOU, our randomly selected challenge participants!  A LEAD and several SHOW STOPPERS will also be named from the Anything Goes challenge gallery!

Sugar Pea Designs

$15 Gift Certificate

Newton's Nook

$20 Store Credit

Neat & Tangled

choice stamp set

The Cat's Pajamas

$25 Gift Voucher

Lawn Fawn

Say Cheese Lawn Cut Die

Paper Sweeties

$20 Gift Cerfificate

Pretty Pink Posh

$20 Gift Certificate

Uniko Studio

£15 Gift Certificate

My Favorite Things

$25 Voucher

Linnie Blooms

12 x 12 Scrapbook Kit

Paper Issues

Swag Bag

Clearly Besotted Stamps

 £15 Gift Card

Taylored Expressions

$25 Gift Certificate

Reverse Confetti

$15 Gift Certificate

Verve Stamps
$30 Gift Certificate

Another Faux Shaker card!

The other day I made a faux shaker card, HERE. I decided to make another one for my card today. I will still make shaker cards, but these are so fast and easy and the sequins stick because you glued them down. My card started off with inspiration from Laura Bassen for a card that she created using Four Square for the January Papertery Release. I adhered a piece of acetate behind the square and over the hole, then I adhered some sequins to the card base, popped up the square and then popped up the flower and adhered it on top of the acetate. It looks awesome in real life.

Curtain Call Crew

Amber Kroening

Amy Kolling

Amy Tsuruta

Gayatri Murali

Kim Singdahlsen

Laurie Willison

Lisa Henke

Marisa Ritzen

Maureen Plut

Monika Davis

Sheri Gilson

Sarah Gough

Stacey Schafer

Tenia Nelson

Tracey McNeely

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Anything Goes for the challenge details and to play along with us!

LOTS OF SPONSORS!

RIC #62

A card for Runway Inspired Challenge #62!
Isn't this a gorgeous dress? I wish I was tall enough to pull this one off.

Inspired by the navy blue and pops of white I used a flourish to try and create movement from bottom right to top left as it is on the dress.

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colourQ #223

Happy Tuesday and time for the first colourQ of the new year!
Here is this week's palette:

Isn't that the sweetest little eyeglass case?

Drop in to the colourQ today to see what the rest of the team has for your inspiration.  We hope you come and play with us this week. 

Cardstock:  White (Papertrey Ink) Summer Starfruit (Stampin' Up)

Stamps:  Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink: Smokey Shadow (Papertrey Ink) Strawberry Slush, Cherry Cobler (Stampin' Up)

Dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inker)

other:  grey mat sequins

A Heartfelt Thank You!

Today's card is for all of you. Yesterday was my birthday and Joyce of Cards-by-the-Sea hosted a linky party for my birthday. Joyce is a sweet sweet friend and virtual party planner extraordinaire.  I can't even begin to tell you how overwhelmed and honoured I was yesterday to receive birthday wishes from so many of you!  Blogging started out as a way to enter some card challenges while I was exploring what type of card marker I really am.  In the almost two years that I have had my blog I have made so many wonderful friendships from around the world.  I hold each and everyone of those friendships close to my heart. Which brings me to today's card. This is my way of saying thank you to all of you for for making yesterday a truly special occasion for me. I blog because of all of your encouragement and support so this heartfelt thank you is for you!

Using autumn colours and of course stitched mats for my card.

Cardstock:  Canyon Clay, White (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps:  Mums the Word Papertrey Ink)

Ink: Simply Chartreuse, Canyon Clay, True Black (Papertrey Ink)

dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)

Dynamic Duos #68 and Simon Says Stamps

Happy Saturday!

It's time for this week's new colour duo at Dynamic Duos.

This week is a mix and match week.  We pick Perfect Plus and you pick ????

For my card this week I chose green as my choice to create a sympathy card I am sending out to a friend. I think that plum and green are a good choice for sympathy cards.

Hope that you come and play along with us this week!

We would love to see your creations!

I am also submitting this card to this weeks Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.

Cardstock:  White, Winter Wisteria, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Fresh Florals (WPlus9) Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink: Winter Wisteria, Plum Pudding, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink)

VersaFine Onyx Black (Tsukineko)

Dies: Fresh Florals (WPlus9)

other: foam tape

With Sympathy

Sympathy cards are never easy to make especially when you need to make one. Typically sympathy cards are made more feminine than masculine. The card I made today is actually for two young men who lost their father to cancer. I chose to use a more subdued palette for this reason making the card more masculine.  I am in love with my new Hero Arts Leafy Vines cling stamp. Perfect for full card coverage.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend. 

Come back at noon EST for this week's Dynamic Duos post!

Cardstock:  Vintage Cream (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Leafy Vines (Hero Arts) Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink: Antique Linen (Ranger) Dark Chocolate (Papertrey Ink)

other : wood leaf

Muse #19

Sharing a card this morning for this week's  Muse challenge.  Michelle Williams is our Muse this week and I just had to play along with her fabulous card!

Here is my card:

Cardstock:  White, Simply Chartreuse (Papertrey Ink)

Stamps: Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink:   Simply Chartreuse, Hawaiian Shores, Summer Sunrise, Hibiscus Burst, Terracotta Tile, True Black (Papertrey Ink)

Dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)

colourQ #191 and CAS(E) this Sketch #29

Happy Tuesday friends, it is time for this week's new colourQ palette.

Don't you just love this purse?

Arielle you are are finding the best purses.

Had some fun with these colours and broke out another, new to me, Verve set called Good Friends.

I also played with my Silhouette and created die cuts for my new stamps.  I just wish I was better at lining them up when stamping.  I used the sketch from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch too, I never tire of these sketches.

We hope that you come a play with us this week at the colourQ and while you are there make sure to visit the blogs of the rest of the Design Team to see their fabulous creations. 

Cardstock:  White (PTI) Grey (Michael's) 

Patterned Psaper: Smokey Shadow Patterned Paper Pack

Stamps: Good Friends (Verve) Flowers Friends (Simon Says)

Ink: Harvest Gold, Aqua Mist, Pure Poppy (pti) VersaMark (Tsukineko)

Dies: cusom (Silhouette)

other: white embossing powder, foam tape

colourQ #188

Happy Tuesday!

Time for this week's colourQ palette and it is based off a beautiful spring dress.

So excited to break open my new CAS-ual Fridays 'Mums the Word' stamp set.  

This is my first CAS-ual Fridays stamp set and I have to say that they stamp beautifully!  The big flower is stained pink now, but I am getting better at dealing with that.  Such a lovely set to create Mother's Day cards with!

  

We hope that you come a play with us this week at the colourQ and while you are there make sure to visit the blogs of the rest of the Design Team to see their fabulous creations. 

All supplies are from Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.

Cardstock:  White, Harvest Gold

Stamps: Mums the Word (CAS-ual Fridays), Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink:  Melon Berry, Sweet Blush, Harvet Gold , Spring Moss(PTI)  Memento Tuxedo Black (Tsukineko)

other: corner rounder (We R Memory Keepers)

Joyce's Birthday Blog Hop

Happy Birthday Joyce!

Today is my good friend Joyce's birthday and Kim has organized a birthday blog hop in honour of her special day.  If you don't know Joyce I would be so surprised.  She is such a thoughtful crafter and is always leaving such lovely comments on people's blogs.  That is how I met Joyce, through commenting.

  Over the past couple years we have become closer through commenting, emailing, being shipping buddies, sharing orders and sharing supplies and not a day goes by that we do not connect by email or Facebook. She is truly the sweetest.  I hope that you join us in wishing her the happiest of birthdays today by following this blog hop and leaving her some birthday wishes on her blog.

Participants:

Cathy

Darnell

Jeanne

Kara

Kim

Marybeth

Renee

Tracey (that's me)

Sharron

Joyce

Cardstock:  White, Winter Wisteria (Papertrey Ink)

Patterned Paper: Bright Side (Lawn Fawn)

Stamps: Stylish Sentiments Birthday (Papertrey Ink) Flower Friends (Simon Says Stamps)

Ink:  True Black, Winter Widteria (PTI) Butterbar (Heo Arts)

Dies: Stitched Mats (Lil' Inkers)