Moxie Fab Jewel Tones Challenge

MOXIE FAB WORLD

is celebrating Card Maker's Week
" JEWEL TONES COLOR CHALLENGE "

Sugar Cookie, Sunshine, Pansy, and Blue Calypso
The challenge is to use only these colors in a New Project

COMPLETE DETAILS
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I have no clue why I cannot seem to take a decent photo to save my life!! I actually held my cardstocks up to this computer monitor before I began to verify that my colors matched! They DO, however, my photos LIE!!!

Here is a close up of the clouds I created out of FOAM. I got the idea to cut them out using the Spellbinders Scalloped Oval Dies from Jacilynn. I then embossed them with one of the Stampin Up embossing folders. Pretty cool huh? The large cloud is popped up on foam squares. My SUN was created using a Spellbinders "Lacey Circle" Die

How PERFECT was this Gina K "Friends" Sentiment for the inside of my card?

CHALLENGES I USED:
Moxie Fab: Jewel Tone Color Challenge
Crafty Creations: Heat It Up (I'm thinking warm sunny thoughts)

.................Supplies I used.................
Stamps: Paper Trey Ink (scattered showers ), Gina K Designs (friends sentiment stamp set)
Ink: Momento (tuxedo black)
Cardstock: Stampin Up (pacific point, elegant eggplant, very vanilla, so saffron)
Tools: Stampin Up (big label die, Ttxture plates backgrounds 1), Spellbinders (lacey circles, lg oval scallops, lg scallops squares)

Misc: Ribbons from my stash

Moxie Fab Neutrals Color Challenge

MOXIE FAB WORLD
NEUTRALS COLOR CHALLENGE

The challenge is to use this color combo EXACTLY: French Vanilla, Twig, Smoky
There are some serious prizes being offered for these color challenges ie: Cricut Prize Package Bundles valued at $1000, being published AND receiving the coveted "I'm a Moxie Fab Challenge Winner" button for your blog. (I've got just the spot for that sucker)

Complete Details
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Close up of that delicious crochet lace, the Tim Holtz Chipboard Heart that I painted and distressed along with a peek of the inside

Challenge I Used:
Moxie Fab: Neutrals Color Combo
Simon Says Stamp & Show: Childhood Memories (my mom actually had one of these vintage doll carriages and on rare occassions my sister and I got to use it when playing house)
Tuesday Throwdown: Distressing
Paper Sundaes: Distressing

...................Supplies I used................
Stamps: Paper Trey Ink (Just Hatched, Anniversary bonus stamp set)
Ink: Tsukineko Momento (tuxedo black), Tim Holtz (antique linen)
Paper: Stampin Up (very Vanilla), The Paper Studios
Tools: Martha Stewart border punch, Spellbinders (Fair Isle)
Misc: Wrights Crochet lace, Vanilla acrylic paint by Delta, Tim Holtz (heart grungeboard basic elements), 7 Gypsies (vintage stroller decal)

Baby It's COLD Outside

HAPPY NEW YEAR

This month the ABC Toys & Crafts Design Team challenged each other using this theme

" BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE "

(click on blinkie for complete details on how you can join us)

A couple days after Christmas one of my neighbors came by bearing gifts that she had purchased on her trip to the outlet malls. What a wonderful treat to have been the recipient of her wonderful finds!! I thought this cute Penny Johnson (Shopping Chic) stamp would be the perfect image to use on my thank you card. Pretty sure that is what Mary looked like while out on her shopping expedition!!

Since our theme is "Baby It's Cold Outside" I decided to share some of my very SECRET, Very FAMOUS Sicilian Soup Mix. I used the Hero Arts (Ledger) stamp and two stamps from the Crafty Secrets (Sweet Stuff) stamp set to create a custom recipe card.

CHALLENGES I USED:
ABC Toys & Crafts: Baby It's Cold Outside
MelJens Thursday Challenge: Cold & Snowy
Fussy & Fancy: Card and a 3-D Gift
Little Red Wagon: Leftovers (I use leftovers for just about every project because it kills me to make that first cut into a brand new sheet of paper!!)
Mark's Finest Papers: Use something New (my rhinestone snowflakes are new)
Paper Sundaes: Something New (rhinestone snowflake)

SEW EASY a kid could do it

This month's ABC Toys & Crafts challenge has been CHANGED up a bit but our theme is
" SEWING "

We want to see "stitching" on your projects - Sewing Machines optional, Hand Stitching, Cross Stitching or even FAUX Stitching let's get creative

Moving back to the United States has been so rewarding by allowing me to take a more active part in the lives of my nieces - Alaina and MacKenzie. During a recent Fall Break from school, I was able to keep them for an entire week. One of the days we decided it would be a great idea to mail cards to their mom. Not only was I able to share with them all the fun tools available but it was the perfect opportunity to teach them how to thread a sewing machine and SEW!!!

Here are the girls hard at work creating their cards

ALAINA ((age 9))

MACKENZIE ((age 12))

PLEASE JOIN THE DESIGN TEAM of ABC Toys & Crafts in
November's Challenge

Teacher Appreciation Gift Sets

New Year, New School, New Teachers,
one thing remains the same
our
APPRECIATION
for
TEACHERS

At the end of the last school year, I made little gift sets just like these!! ABC Toys & Crafts along with Little Red Wagon, Stamp Something, The Pixie Cottage AND Shirley's 2 Girls are all having "BACK TO SCHOOL" Challenges and these were so much fun to put together that I decided they would be a great way to start of this school year.

Each set includes:

10 - note cards in red, blue, yellow, purple & orange

FRONT of Note Card ---->

BACK of Note Card ---->

20 - "This Book Belongs To The Library Of " stickers

1 - Personalized paper clip

CHALLENGES I USED:
ABC Toys & Crafts: Back to School
Stamp Something: Back to School & a DT Search
The Shabby Tea Room: A Little Bit of Metal along with a photo inspiration (I liked the shabby colors which I used in my packaging & I used a metal paper clip)
Little Red Wagon: Back to School
The Pixie Cottage: Back to School &/or their sketch (I chose just to use the theme)
Shirley's 2 Girls: Back to School w/a "Twist to use Letters or Numbers" (I used both on the belly band of my packaging )
.....................Supplies I used..................
Stamps: Crafty Secrets (book lovers ), Paper Trey Ink (teachers apple)
Ink: Momento black, Stampin Up (real red, close to cocoa)
Cardstock: Stampin Up (real red, elegant eggplant, yo yo yellow, pacific point, tangerine tango, whisper white)
Patterned Paper: Autumn Leaves (Hall Pass)
Tools: Marvy Uchida (large scalloped circle punch), Spellbinders (Nestabilities Labels 7 die)
Misc: Paper Trey Ink (small wax bags, 8 1/2" x 11" adhesive sticker sheets), K & Co (blank tags), metal paper clips, ribbon scraps

Takin out the Stash Tuesday & a "Sketch Challenge"

"Takin' Out the Stash & Sketch Challenges are my Favorite"

ABC Toys & Crafts
has a wonderful
"SKETCH CHALLENGE"

Seriously has that not already got your creative brain churning out different ideas? Feel free to combine our sketch with other challenges ( I sure did: Cupcake Crafts, Wild Flower Patch, Pixie Dust, The Pink Elephant)

Bare with me over the next couple of months while I am transitioning back to the USA because you will probably hear more than once that I am having to think WAY outside the Rubbermaid. The 3 embellishments on top and then 5 "somethings" along the bottom had me reaching DEEP into MY STASH (KEEP IN MIND, MY ENTIRE STASH IS CONTAINED IN ONE RUBBERMAID!!) Absolutely EVERYTHING becomes a possible embellishment and you learn just how creative you can be. MY FLOWERS for example: I actually had a few flowers but none that coordinated with my project, so I TRACED THEM and cut them out. I have four stacked in two different sizes. I then used my Stylus to curl them. EASY PEASY!!!

Would you like to WIN THIS?

CLICK ----->>> HERE <<<----- for complete DETAILS

CHALLENGES I USED:
ABC Toys & Crafts: Sketch
Pixie Dust: Round & Round (I have 5 round rhinestones, 1 round button & I rolled my petals around my button)
The Pink Elephant: Gotta Wear Shades (create using bright colors)
Cupcake Craft Challenges: Summer Delights (do something that represents summer, I chose cool summer colors)
Wild Flower Patch: Monochromatic

Supplies I used:
Stamps: Hero Arts (Exotic Elephant, Stencil Art, Truly Appreciated out of stock), Gina K (Vintage Backgrounds by Nina B)
Patterned Paper: Basic Grey (Lemonade), K&Co (textured mat stack), Martha Stewart (stripes), Paper Trey Ink (bitty dots in aqua mist)
Cardstock: Stampin Up (whisper white, always artichoke, teal), Bazzill (textured green)
Ink: Paper Trey Ink (Aqua Mist), Momento (tuxedo black)
Tools: Spellbinders (Nestabilities Labels One, Large Deckled Recktangles), Martha Stewart (doily lace border punch, branch, )
Misc: Hero Arts (teal gem stones)

PATRIOTIC Creative Challenge - FREE Image

"The Few, The Proud, The Marines" and VINTAGE IMAGE CRAFTS are "Looking for a Few Good Men" "To Aim High", "Get an Edge on Life" and "Be A Part of the Adventure" by Enlisting in our PATRIOTIC CHALLENGE because "It's A Great Place to Start" and "Opportunity Awaits You". "Be All You Can Be" where "It's Not Just A Job, It's A Way of Life" so "Stand Up, Stand Out" and forget "The Army of One" by CLICKING HERE because "WE WANT YOU"....................

Enter, and your artwork will be on display at VintageImageCraft for your friends and fellow artists to view and comment on! Non-U.S. artists are encouraged to leap national borders and use your imaginations.
FREE patriotic vintage images will be posted on Facebook for download, or you can purchase ready-to-print patriotic Image Books from our VIC Store!

The top three winners will share adulation, international acclaim, and PRIZES!

SUBMISSIONS

• Projects can be cards, tags, ATCs, altered books, scrapbook pages, jewelry, boxes or other crafts.
• Use a patriotic vintage image, free or purchased, from Vintage Image Craft as the central focus, and of course, red, white and blue.
• Incorporate techniques of collage, assemblage, altered art, stamping and/or distressing. Digital artwork is welcome.

Submit your entry by June 16, 2010 by sending

• 1 photo/scan of your artwork
• description of the techniques, materials and products you used

CLICK HERE TO ENTER!

Damn the torpedoes! Rise to the
Patriotic Creative Challenge June 2010
and make us all proud!

READY TO GET STARTED???

HERE IS A FREE IMAGE

(Thank you VIC for supplying my readers with this FREE image)

Flannel Flower instructions

Today's project was inspired by NINA's Inspiration Challenge
----> HERE <----

I'm so glad that creating your own Embellishments is so HOT right now! Makes me not feel so bad that I cannot just run over to my local Michaels and pick something off the shelf. NOT TO MENTION, my last two little jaunts to the states had me scratching my head as to why someone would pay for some of the items. SEE THAT BUTTON???? That IS my hot embellishment purchase from the states. Ok part of me was completely overwhelmed by having so many choices but HONESTLY, I purchased a pad of paper, 6 buttons, 2 packs of seam binding, 2 punches, 3 $1 stamps, and some $1 spools of ribbon. THAT IS ALL !!!!!!!!!! And to think, I've always thought I was missing out. Guess NOT I was thrilled with how fun and easy my homemade flower was to create. I simply started out with a scrap strip of OLD flannel, made a RUNNING STITCH along one edge, PULLED the stitch, TWISTING it as I went then STITCHED my Button on to hold it all together. OK and if you have severe ADHD like me, you don't even really make all the stitches. I kind of FANFOLD my fabric and PUSH my NEEDLE through all of the layers then HOLD onto the NEEDLE and that last end of the fabric, THEN PULL the STARTING end in the OPPOSITE direction. MAGIC!!!
CHALLENGES USED:
Crafting in Croatia: Inspiration
Creative Card Crew: April Showers bring May Flowers
The Crazy Challenge: Buttons, Bows & Brads (I used a button)
The Shabby Tea Room: Comforts of Home (FLANNEL, as I sit here in my flannel pj's)
A Spoon Full of Sugar: 3-D (I think that flower counts for sure)

...........Supplies I used.............
Stamps: Hero Arts (Truly Appreciated)
Ink: Tim Holtz (vintage photograph)
Cardstock: Stampin Up (bravo burgundy, pink pirouette,
Patterned Paper: DCWV,
Tools: Martha Stewart (doily lace edge punch), Spellbinders (Nestabilities circle)
Misc: button, scrap fabric, thread, DCWV (ribbon)

There's a New Boy in Town

ABC Toy's & Crafts
"RECIPE CHALLENGE"
1 - Punch
2 - Stamps
3 - Embellishments

I recently challenged the ABCTC Design Team to the above "RECIPE CHALLENGE" and we would LOVE for YOU to JOIN IN ON THE FUN. Click on the STORE LOGO for Complete Details


I've got a Wonderful friend (shhhhh! Don't tell Meagan) that is due to have a Sweet Little Boy in approximately 14 days so I was thrilled to get my hands on the Crafty Secrets "Baby Boy" stamp set. Limiting myself to only two of the stamps was CHALLENGING!!! OK ya got me, I cheated but only on the INSIDE and the back. Here is a peek at the inside of the card:


Not sure whether or not I would be considered cheating in the number of embellishments used. Let's count: 1-chipboard "b", 2-scrap of fabric, 3-button (surely we aren't counting the chipboard frame that I painted to frame my "TWO STAMPS", Right?) Now I behaved myself and used ONLY 1 Punch BUT I could have used it over & over (ya' know, layered them)!! ;o}

CHALLENGES I USED..........
ABC Toys & Crafts: Recipe
Crafty Creations: Distressing
The Pink Elephant: Color Challenge (AQUA) (I used Aqua Mist as my base)
Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge: Anything Goes
Flourishes: Vintage (my definition of Vintage is taking anything, distressing it and making it appear to be old. Of course I prefer the real thing)
Prairie Fairy Fridays: Distressing (I inked the edges & roughed up some of the edges & sanded around my chipboard "B")
Hand Full of Stamps: Use up that Stock (idea is to use 2 different patterned papers. Mine is reversible)


..........Supplies I used.........
Stamps: Crafty Secrets (Baby Boy)
Ink: Copic Markers, Stampin Up (close to cocoa), Paper Trey Ink (dark chocolate)
Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink (aqua mist), Stampin Up (confetti, very vanilla)
Patterned Paper: Bo Bunny
Tools: Martha Stewart punch, Spellbinders (Nestabilities Scalloped Squares)
Misc: Stampin Up (scallop square chipboard), Delta (ivory acrylic paint), Prima (chipboard "b"),
Scrap fabric, Paper Trey Ink (aqua mist button)

Have you seen my.............MOJO

Perhaps it isn't exactly my MOO that is missing but more so the hours in the day?? Everytime I return from a trip stateside, it takes forever to get my body clock back in alignment with whatever continent I happen to be on. Coming back home and being on Spring Break from school DID NOT HELP!! I mean seriously, why can't I stay up until 4am and then sleep until noon?? OOOOOO because I have to go back to work IN THE MORNING? Stinks to be me.......
Here is a closer look at today's card so that you can see the details in my "BOOK". Doesn't that Nestie Die just scream BOOK? I would be interested to know what other ideas some of you have for Spellbinders (Nestabilities Die #7)...........

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CDAJ2010
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..........Challenges I used...........
Stamp Something: Layers (layered papers, embellishments & even stamps)
Pile It On: Spring is Finally Here
The Crazy Challenge: Don't Call Me Flat (first I love the name. The idea is to bring your artwork up off of the page (3-d'ish)
Creative Belli Challenge: Die Cut Shapes (I created a book)
Paper Makeup Challenge: Use 5 Embellishments (2 brads, 1 chipboard, 1 flower, 1 ribbon)
Scrappy Frog Challenge: Pick 3 (I chose: die cut, no coloring & sponging)

...........Supplies I used............
Stamps: Penny Black (Nature Flowers), Stampin Up (french script)
Ink: Tsukineko (dew drops Momento), Stampin Up (always artichoke)
Cardstock: Paper Trey Ink (sweet blush), Stampin Up (naturals)
Patterned Paper: K&Co. (Bailey)
Tools: Spellbinders (Nestabilities die #7)
Misc: Making Memories (metallic brads), K&Co.(chipboard), Delta (light pink acrylic paint), satin ribbon from Italy, Prima flower, foam squares

**SPRING is in Full BLOOM CHALLENGE**

It's Challenge Time
at
ABC Toy's & Crafts

"SPRING is in Full BLOOM"

Can't wait to see your interpretation of that "theme". Feel free to combine it with other challenges but make sure to link your project --------- >>HERE<< ---------- Need Inspiration? Each day one of the ABC Design Team members will showcase their "SPRING" projects over on the ABC Design Blog

With so many exciting products arriving at ABC I decided to combine some of the new "HERO ART" stamp sets with you. (as usual click on the highlighted names in the supply list or on the icons to find the products at the ABC Store)

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CHALLENGES I Combined:
ABC Toy's & Crafts: Spring is in Full BLOOM
CPS: Sketch #159
Crazy 4 Challenges: Spring cards
Shirley's 2 Girls: Pastels (no more sketches just TWISTS)
Simon Says Stamp: A Splash of Green (I'd say my ribbon is a "splash of green")
Little Red Wagon: Copics
The Pink Elephant: Spring

............Supplies I used..............
Stamps: Hero Arts (exotic elephant, stencil art, truly appreciated)
Paper: Basic Grey (lemonade), Stampin up (
Tools: Martha Stewart (loop punch),
Ink: Copic Markers, Momento (tuxedo black),
Misc: Hero Arts (light green pearls, black pearls), Stampin Up (certainly celery ribbon, buttons), foam squares