Stampaholics 10 Minute Challenge

This just might be my last post - especially if  my daughter Amber sees I used one of her wedding pictures for the 10 minute challenge this week!! Well, we actually get 20 minutes for a scrapbook page.  Did I make it in 20 minutes??  Not a chance.  It took me 55 minutes and it was worth every minute to make this page.

Since Big Tex is not allowed in my stamping/computer/guest room, I had to use the clock on my computer to keep track of time.  I used My Digital Studio for this challenge.

Okay, so here's the sketch we were to use - Thanks, Sage, I copied this from your blog... hee...hee...

And here is my scrapbook page...

This is just the bride's side of the family.  I'll have to do another page for the groom, but I'll have to find that other CD of pictures, first!!  LOL  I was planning to do a scrapbook for my sweetie for Christmas last year, but I didn't get it done - too little time - and no, I didn't procrastinate.  I was having designer's block and other issues...hee hee..

Ok, that's it folk.  No humor, no funny stories...just the facts ma'm, just the facts!  Thanks for stopping by.

Leave me a comment to let me know what you think!!

Stampaholic's 10 Minute Challenge

I think Master Blaster got his feelings hurt last week.  I couldn't find him.  I looked on the table, I looked in the kitchen, and I looked in my stamp room.  He was no where to be found. So, I had to recruit Big Tex to fill in for this week's 3D challenge with the Stampaholics. So, meet Big Tex:

For the 3D challenge, we were given 30 minutes which I blew, of course. 41 minutes and 31 seconds

My niece, Jenny, graduated from college Friday, so I decided to make this gift card holder for her.  I used one of the skinny tins that Stampin' Up! had on the Clearance Rack earlier this year.

I was at 27 minutes and 40 seconds, when I decided to stamp the image again, color the flowers and mount them with dimensionals!  But you gotta understand, it's for J-E-N-N-Y, and I would say she is my most favoritest niece except that one of my other nieces might see this post and get their feelings hurt! LOL... I used the Elements of Style stamp set on the outside.  I also decided to add some dazzling diamonds and use a little Melon Mambo marker to add a few darker spots to the flowers.  Can you see the pattern from the lattice embossing folder I used on the whisper white pane?

The inside of the tin looks like this.

I took my own pictures this time so some of them didn't turn out too good. Sorry.  This was really pretty on the inside.  Jenny loves pink, and I really love the way the melon mambo, basic black and whisper white look together.  The little pocket on the inside is where I tucked her gift card from Barnes and Noble.  She loves to read, so I'm sure she will find something she wants! (I hate to tell you that I stopped Big Tex from ticking after I finished the front of my project.  I didn't want to EMBARRASS myself by taking 2 hours again.  So all of the inside was done off the clock, umm... I mean timer.) I used Rough Type to spell her name, Elements of Style on the pocket and Well Scripted for the greeting.

I thought you might want to see what my work space looks like after I finish a project so I took this picture for you.  Pretty messy, huh?

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 I have two more pictures to share with you of my project.

 

I've been a little under the weather this weekend, so be kind and leave me a comment.

And YESTERDAY, was my BIRTHDAY, so you need to be extra, extra nice to me, cause I spent almost the whole day in bed!  I have a few things to share later this week so be sure to check back!

Thanks for stoppin' by!

I'm BAD and 10 Minute Challenge

Well, I guess I better start with the confessions this week.  I was bad. I was REALLY bad! I didn't time my card this week...and I had help... Master Blaster got SO much attention last week (and just for the record, Master Blaster is my timer, not my "hubby") that I made him sit in the corner and just "watch" this week!  And my mom is here this weekend, so she was my help! (She ran one of my scalloped circles through the crimper and helped me decide the colors to use.)  Hee hee....

Okay, so the challenge this week was an inspiration challenge chosen by the fabulously talented Sandi MacIver,  and I was bad again 'cause I just copied this picture from her blog without asking... (Is that okay?  I am still making my Saturday confession here!) Besides, she has an event going on right now and it's not like I'm going to call and interrupt her event!!!!!! (hee hee - I'm sure I'll hear about THAT one!) LOL

And here is my card....

Card Base: 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 (top fold) Sahara Sand CS

Stamp Sets:  Short and Sweet, Sweetheart

Mat Panel: 4 x 5-1/4 Taken with Teal CS

Old Olive Panels: 1-1/2 x 3-3/4

Embossed Panels: 1-1/4 x 3-1/2 Brilliant Blue CS

Bird Panel:  3 x 1-7/8

Mat for Bird Panel: 3-1/4 x 2-1/8

Punches:  Modern Label, Word Window, Bird Punch, Scalloped Circle Punch

Other Supplies:  Versamark Ink, gold embossing powder, old olive ink, old olive grosgrain ribbon, vintage brad

I punched the branch out twice: once in old olive and once in close to cocoa.  I cut the leaves off the close to cocoa one and glued in on top of the old olive branch.  I popped up the matted bird panel, the bird's wing  and the matted greeting panel.

I took my inspiration from the birds in the dark blue curtain panels and the two-tone bird in the pillow on the far left (they are there, you just have to look closely!). I also included a flower in place of the fluffy pillow.  Just don't look too closely or you might see all my imperfections! LOL

I'm still tweeking my blog and learning how to do stuff to my photos, so just be patient and let me know if I break any rules!  hee hee

I had fun, and I hope you did too.  Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to wish that special someone in your life a Happy Mother's Day!

10 Minute Challenge

I just earned my place in the Stamper's Book of Records for the longest 10 Minute Challenge card EVER.  I think it took me 2 hours to make one card. I know! That's really bad, but give me a little credit here. 

This is the first challenge I have ever entered and it's not like I have all my supplies in one place! I stamp on the kitchen table.  My paper and stamps are in the office/bedroom, and my punches are in the closet.  My stamp pads have their own storage tower, and all my tools are in the basket (except for the ones I forgot to put back after the last workshop I attended.) 

Of course, I needed those tools and had to hunt them up, find a new refill for my tape runner, figure out what size to cut the paper, eat some chocolate ice cream, etc.  (You get the picture?) So, I'm pretty sure it took me about 30 minutes to gather my supplies (yeah, that sounds good).  Then I had to clean and condition the stamps 'cause they're made of rubber (that took another 30 minutes).  I dropped the paper on the floor 3 or 4 times, had to go to the bathroom, find the cardstock I just cut out and immediately lost, answer the phone, and be pestered by the boys...So I REALLY just spent about 30 minutes on the card.  tee hee

Anyway, Sandi and Carole'Anne have the neatest challenge and I decided to join in this week.  So here is the sketch we were supposed to use for our card.  Easy you say?  Well if you've been stamping for ten years it would be, but I've only been stamping for three.   So, I say I deserve a little more time - yeah!  Ok, so here's my card:

Stamp Sets:  En Francais, Vintage Vogue

Ink:  pale plum, perfect plum, mellow moss

Card Stock: pale plum, perfect plum, very vanilla

Other Supplies: circle ice rhinestone brad, mellow moss taffeta ribbon, eyelet border punch, perfect polka dots impression folder

The card is really much lighter and brighter in real life, but I have to depend on my son to take my pictures.  I wanted to add extra light and he kept insisting the flash on his camera was enough light.  Go figure  - he's 31 and thinks he knows it all!

I hope you enjoy my card.  Go check out the other entries and meet the new design team.  You'll be impressed.