Grillin' and Chillin'

Hallo,
I am preposting this monday evening for ya - TS Ida is coming to visit, although she's looking more like just a big thunderstorm, you can never tell.
I did this for the challenge in the My Favorite Things forum at SCS - SYTYCSWK5 - the challenge was for a modern look with clean and simple lines.....I am not sure I managed to hit any of those with this card but I do like how it turned out!!!



I used 2 different MFT sets.
I doodled in the brick wall and the pattern and fringe on the blanket.
I rediscovered doodles from a tutorial on the Flourishes blog by 'One Krafty Kat' Look here - www.flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com and here - www.onekraftykat.blogspot.com Colored with copics.
This card started out simpler and then I added and added.....I planed to just use one main image but couldn't decide which - I spose I would have come closer to 'clean lines' with only one image but.....I like it anyway!!!!!
The grill has silver metallic pen for the top with the coals showing through it - which turned out pretty cool IRL.

All for now - Hurricaine party - my house - tomorrow - movies and popcorn all ready.....
Take Care
Tera

Pink Believe

Hallo,
Another 8X10 picturre for you today - this is the pinker version of fridays post.
The poem is a stamp from Cornish Heritage Farms and you can find it and a ton of awsome stamps here - www.cornishheritagefarms.com
All other stamaps are from another of my favoritest stamp companys - My Favorite Things and you can find them here - www.mftstamps.com
I used a modified version of the same sketch as on friday from my friend Vicki - www.vickichrisman.blogspot.com.
Lots of layers here - cuttlebug, nesties, ribbons....
All for today - I have family coming in next week and need to finish getting my house cleaned and the yard work done - not to mention do some stamping....
Take Care
Tera

White Believe

Hallo,
Happy Friday morning to ya'll. I am at work today so will leave you a little something to look at....
This is an 8X10 picture to frame. I started this from a challenge in the MFT forum over at Splitcoast Stampers and had the stamp sets, cuttlebug folders, and nesties all picked out and then was stumped - good thing I had a great sketch from my friend Vicki just waiting for me to put it to use.
Pop over to Vicki's blog to see what everyone else did with this great sketch - http://www.vickichrisman.blogspot.com/
The challenge at the My Favorite Things forum was to use mostly white and stamps from MFT. I don't have any MFT Christmas or winter stamps so I decided to use one of my mostest favoritest sets called 'We're in this together.' You can find their great stamps here - http://www.mftstamps.com/
The base of this picture (on top of heavy weight chipboard) is white cardstock embossed with 4 different cuttlebug folders and then lightly brushed with embossing ink and glittery gold powder.


Next I cut several nestie labels layers and ran them through the cuttlebug folders, and edged all with gold mettalic pen.
I cut a ribbon slide also, edged with gold pen and stamped on it and slide some pink ribbon through it.
There are 3 different white and cream ribbons, a couple cream flowers, and some pink rhinestones.
The MFT stamped layers are colored with copics and some pink spica glitter pen for the ribbons on their shirts.
The poem is one I really love from Cornish Heritage Farms - called 'Cancer is so Limited' and you can find it here - http://www.cornishheritagefarms.com/
Whew - lots of typeing today.....I really like how this turned out!!!!!
My Mom was diagnosed with Breast Cancer 2 years ago - had surgery but they caught it early so no chemo or radiation. 2 years and counting!!!!!!
Have a great weekend!!!!!
Tera
P.S. This was accually sortof a second attempt as I did another one with more pink on the bottom layer but liked this one best for the challenge. Will show you the pink version on Monday.....

Flourished Sepia

Hallo,
I am at work today but managed to get something done yesterday to show ya - I decided to do the challenge over at Flourishes from tuesday - FTTC40 - you can find it here - www.flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com
The challenge was to use neutrals and a colored image. Well this challenge was perfect for a technique from my last months Technique Junkie called Sepia technique.
Chose my image easy enough but then couldn't decide on which cuttlebug folder to use and then couldn't decide which ink to use - white or brown - soooo I did 4. 2 with brown ink on the cuttlebug backround and 2 with white, and I used 3 different cuttlebug folders.
All for today - Take Care
Tera

Oriental Box

Hallo,
Just a quick little post today - another cigar box, this one a long and narrow one. I used some more of the oriental Faux Desinger Paper I made using that technique from Technique Junkies.
I had planned something different but while scrounging around my desk I found the leftover piece of black felt sticker and the little red dominos and they looked perfect just as is....



I am making a few long narrow cards to fit inside which you have seen 2 already and should have a couple more to come....
All for today - chores and craftin'....
Take Care
Tera

Hip Hop Blog Hoppin'

Hallo,
I got this done in the nick of time last night - got it posted to Splitcoast but didn't get time to blog it :)
This was done for this weeks 'So you think you can stamp' challenge in the My Favorite Things forum over at Splitcoast - the challenge was Hip Hop pop - hoppin poppin colors for me and of course she is Blog hoppin on the couch after work just like yours truely... :)
All stamps on the card are from MFT.
The backround is done with the Burnished Backround technique from Technique Junkies and I also used a little paper piecing on the skirt.



I burnished the backround with Adarondak inks - carmel, stream and current.
The focal image is colored with copics and a little spica glitter pen.
I made a couple faux layers with a my black copic and edged the label die from Spellbinders with gold mettalic pen.
All for today - I have a few chores to do this morning and then I am going to try and get another challenge done for this months Guest Designer challenge - also found in the MFT forum on Splitcoast.
All for today - Take Care
Tera

Flourished Waterlily

Hallo,
Wow last week really got away from me - I had hoped to do this challenge on friday but ended up going into work (in exchange for Sunday off :) but even so 4 - 12 hour shifts in a row just slap wore me out!!!! I didn' t do a whole lot but lay around yesterday - walk the dog with my DH, out for lunch, nap, and a bit of craft table time.
This will be first of hopefully 2 posts today as I had this challenge and one other that I had wanted to do and the other one is due today too....



This challenge - FTTC39 - was hosted by Flourishes and it was to use a border punch.
The backround is stamped with a technique called Faux Designer Paper from Techniques Junkies - www.patstamps.com
and it uses stamps from Inkadinkado, Another Stamp Company and a couple unknowns.
The focal images are all from Flourishes. I gold embossed the phrase and the waterlily anf goldfish are stamped and colored with copics and then I added spica glitter pen on top - and a little white gel pen for the lily. The border punch is from EK success.
You need to check out the Flourishes blog - lots of great inspiration to be found!!! www.flourishesnewsletter.blogspot.com




All for now - I have some yard work to get done and a couple errands before I can head to the craft table....
Take Care
Tera