BLS Paper & 7Kids Challenge

I went a little picture happy on this meander book!

The front cover I used a stamp from Autumn Leaves and then the little Bumblebee from last Friday's Freebie Friday.

I am entering this book into the 7kidscollegefund's new challenge blog. The first challenge is to use Pink and Dots. I used a polka dotted pink paper for the cover!

I used an Ippity or Unity stamp for each page instead of allowing for more journaling area on this Meander Book. The paper I used for this book is from Black Leaf Studios. It is called Olive Patterns Set 2!

OSW & Stamp Something

A OSW is a One Sheet Wonder. This is where you can take one sheet of paper (usually double sided) and make all the embellishments for so many card layouts. This one is by VerveGirl at SplitCoastCrafters and it is using a 6X6 sheet of paper to make all the designs on the paper before you put your focal on.

I found this at SCS and used it as a guide for a color challenge by Stamp Something. The Color challenge this week was to use BLUE, YELLOW, and GREEN.

Now, I don't have any DP (design paper) that is two sided, so I used two sheets of single sided DP. For this reason, I ended up with 8 cards instead of just 4, 2 cards for each sketch.

Here is what the 6X6 looks like before you cut it up:
And here are the sketches for each of 4 cards, along with my interpretation of the sketch directly after each sample sketch, along with the color challenge using the green, blue, and yellow:
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These cards used the SU (Stampin Up) stamp set called Year-Round Cheer for the sentiments.
TWOThese cards used the SU sets Merci (the flower) and Be Happy (sentiment Laugh Play Share).
THREE The 3rd chicken from the left is raised on a dimensional. I tried to get a close up, but nothing would cooperate and it was way to blurry to really see what I wanted you to see :(These cards have the Studio G stamp for the Chickens.
FOUR These cards sentiment is from SU's Season of Friendship set.

Mojo 78

Here is my latest entry for Mojo Monday.

Not so wonderful close up!:

Supplies: Stamps ~ Be Happy SU, Year Round Cheer SU
Accessories ~ Cuttlebug folder Traffic Jam, Martha Stewart Boarder punch, Cricut

Request Fullfilled

A fellow Blogger asked me to post some of the cards I have made recently... So Here They Are! I also posted some cards before, in October 2008.

The blog Titles are

(1) Just Another Saturday, &

(2) Some More Creativity.

Most of the new ones were not original ideas since I went to some websites that have examples of what other people have done with the stamps I own... So it is a copied original since with doing this stuff, each person rubs off on their work, and I don't have some of the "company" paper & ink colors that many people use because they all match and they don't have to spend time getting the paper and stamp ink and and and and... to look good together! (I think that was a bit of a ramble!)

Hope you all enjoy my crazy hobby!

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This technique is called "black magic" - saw this technique on a demonstrators website and followed her lead, but the stamp used and the look was all my own!

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This was an original thought I had all by myself!