For You...Nacho Tuesday

Happy Nacho Tuesday Stampers! Hope your week is going well.  We have a fun new color combo for you at Nacho Average and it has so many possibilities. Make sure you check out the color inspiration from my fellow designers. And of course, we hope you will play along with us.

I made a simple card for our challenge this week. I didn't think Midnight Muse would stand out as the main color, but it did...sometimes my creations have a mind of their own, lol.

Thanks for stopping by today, until next time. 

New Nacho Sketch!

Happy Tuesday friends! Hope your week is going well!  I'm back today with a new sketch challenge with my fellow Nachos. Thanks to all of you who are playing along with us, we love to see your creations! Make sure you come check us out.

The sketch inspired me to create a Halloween card. I inked up the largest stamp from the Layered Labels stamp set onto Basic Black and embossed it with white embossing powder. I also used a strip of washi tape from the Witches' Brew Designer pack to create a rosette.  This is a fun sketch, I know I will be using it again! 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Magnificent Maple

Happy Tuesday fellow Stampers!  Time for a new Nacho Average Challenge!  Thanks to you who played along, great creations ladies. This week we have an awesome color challenge.  I think the colors evoke the feeling of fall, what do you think?  If you haven't had a chance to play along with us, I invite you to play along.  You can check us out here!

Stamp Sets: Magnificent Maple, A Fitting Occasion and Oh, Hello

Ink: Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, Island Indigo and VersaMark 

Cardstock: Soft Suede, Island Indigo, Pear Pizzazz

Other:  1 1/4" scallop punch, 1" circle punch, Ovals Collection and Apothecary Accents framelits, Regals Designer Button (Island Indigo), Tea Lace Paper Dollies, 3/4" Chevron Ribbon and Essentials Paper-Piercing Pack. 

Thanks for stopping by, until next time. 

Flower Shop Swap

Hello Stampers!  I have another creation to share with you from the organized swap I participated in. For this card, I used the new Flower Shop stamp set and the coordinating Pansy punch. I love it when our Stampin' Up! products coordinate so well.

For this card I used one of the first techniques I learned when I first started stamping, "stamping off". I inked up the flower with the new In-Color Strawberry Slush, which once I paired it with Daffodil Delight and Basic Gray, it was a cool color combo. Anyhow, once you ink up your stamp, you "stamp off" getting different shades of the ink. Strawberry Slush is a new fave color of mine. The new Ruffle Stretch Trim is so much prettier in person! I love it.  It layered so perfect beneath the apothecary accents frame lit. You know how much I love to use our paper piercing templates! I punched out one of the flowers with the Pansy punch and used two dimensionals to pop it up. Using the Boho Blossoms punch, I punched out a small scallop circle using the Polka Dot Parade DSP in Daffodil Delight. I finished it off with a pearl basic jewel. The thinking of you sentiment is from Sassy Salutations.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  Hope you have a super cool Saturday! Until next time.

The Paper Players challenge...

Happy Monday stampers! Hope you had a good Sunday.  I came across a cool color challenge from The Paper Players that I wanted to try out.  Late last week I received my Stampin' Success magazine and in it I read about a cool technique that I wanted to try out.  In three easy steps you can create a cool background.

First step, you gently drag ink pads over card stock. I used baja breeze, island indigo and a little bit of crumb cake. I think it looks cool.

Second step, depending on which stamp set you use (the magazine suggested a background stamp), you ink it up and then, third step; stamp onto the decorated background.  I instead chose the sentiment from You're Amazing and inked it in rich razzleberry. I also sponged the edges with rich razzleberry. So what do you think of this technique? I like it and can't wait to try it out with other colors.

The base of my card is rich razzleberry and I layered the island indigo DSP from Summer Smooches onto the baja breeze card stock. I also layered my apothecary framelits onto crumb cake card stock.  

So make sure you check out the other creations at The Paper Players blog, lots of inspiration. Thanks again for stopping by.  Hope your Monday is great. Until next time. 

You're Amazing...

Hello Stampers! So day three of my challenge and still going strong! What's my challenge you ask?Well, as a member of the design team for the Sunday Stamp blog challenge, we all take turns hosting a color or a sketch challenge. I'm hosting my first challenge and the deadline to participate is this Friday, March 1st. The colors I chose are whisper white, daffodil delight and basic black. So I personally am challenging myself to create all week long with that color combo. So far so good. What do you think?

I came home today and I don't know about you, but I knew I wanted to create for myself-for me. Had a stressful day at my other job working on a project that is due tomorrow. I know it will get done but I'll be much happier once it is done! I got to creating on this card and it cheered me up ASAP! Went for the chalkboard technique again and my inspiration for this card came from my friend Rhonda Morgan, who is also my Upline/Sideline. Sometimes, you have to be your own cheerleader in life.

So, with that, I'll call it a night. Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have sweet dreams and wish a blessed day tomorrow.  

Until next time.

Dynamic Duos Challenge #39

Hello Stampers!   Hope your week is going well!  I made some time tonight to create a card for the Dynamic Duos Blog Challenge.  I hadn't a chance to play along with their challenges until now. It's amazing how using two colors can be so inspiring.  Check out the other creations here.

I kept my design simple.  Can you guess which items I used again on my card?  The stamp set "For the Birds" is such a fun set. The base of the card is very vanilla. I paper pierced the mail box with pool party dsp. The cute buttons on my card, those are the exclusive SAB buttons only available until March 22.  

Thanks again for stopping by.  Until next time.