Crazy 4 Challenges 109-Heat it up!

Before we get into today's challenge, as this week is a sponsored challenge, we need to introduce this month's sponsor which is Outlines Rubber Stamps. They have lots of fun stamps on there site, so if you haven’t visited them before you might want to head on over there to see their range. Outlines has generously offered a $25 gift certificate for one lucky person who plays this week's challenge. I was very lucky to be on their Design Team and I have to tell you, the stamps are VERY DEEPLY ETCHED and the Rubber, Buttery Soft!



Now it is time for our challenge, Tammy is back to challenge us all this week. The holiday season is heating up! So our challenge today is to create something for an upcoming holiday and to incorporate heat embossing in your creation!

For my card, I used this awesome Winter Owl  I stamped the owl onto White Cardstock with Memento Black Ink. I coloured my image with my Touch Twin Markers  ( you can see the colour map below, if you'd like to use a similar colour combination~

I then sponged the whole background with Not Quite Navy ink and embossed the tiny snowflake (Joy2Christmas-The {Stamps} of Life) with Silver Embossing Powder. See the Soft Fluffy Flower Soft on the Owls hat? This is the BRAND NEW ULTRAFINE WHITE. It just arrived in my mailbox yesterday. I can't believe how unbelievably soft and fluffy it is!

If you decide to play along with us, all you have to do is create a card/project and upload it to your blog and/or to your SCS Gallery using the keyword C4C109. Don't forget to go  back here and link it on Mr Linky so that everyone else can see it too.

 Follow the links on my sidebar to see what my favourite "crazies" have been up to all week and to see some more fun images from Outlines!

And Lastly, Here's my colour map!

A Fond Farewell to Outlines and Monday Challenge-to Bleach it or Not!

Hello everyone! Hope you had a fabulous weekend......it was chilly and rainy here for the most part, until the sun decided to peek out last night about 5 p.m. Sorry I'm late with my post, but my internet was wonky last night and for some reason, none of the browsers on any of the computers were working......things that make you go Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...........lol....... anyhoo, here I am with my final DT creation for Outlines Rubber Stamp Company.
I've thoroughly enjoyed designing for Outline and am going to miss my fellow DT members much! Thanks Outlines for the wonderful opportunity to showcase your gorgeous images. I have to tell you all that the stamps are of extremely high quality, with deeply etched soft rubber, mounted on cling!
Our challenge for today is called "to bleach it or not". I chose the "not" because even with ink alone, I'm a messy marvin and quite frankly, bleaching kind of scares me............hehe.............well not really, but I've tried it before without much success and well, rather than taking the risk and having to smell the yucky bleach, I decided to create a card with the spotlight technique, which works extremely well with the Bleach it or Not Stamps

For this creation specifically, I used the Tulip stamp. I stamped the image on Pale Plum Cardstock with Perfect Plum ink. For the spotlighted image, I restamped a portion of the image on white cardstock in the dark ink and punched out the section that I wanted to highlight with a 11/4" punch. I then layered it onto a 1 3/8" Olive circle, Do you like the plum, olive and eggplant colour combination? I do!

Be sure to continue to follow the Outlines DT's for the weekly challenges. You can win some of this delicious rubber by playing along. See all of the Details HERE. I'm going to keep the links up on the sidebar for the DT, so you can see what they are doing! I hope to play along sometimes too, because I {HEART} their stamps!

Thank you Jenny Gropp for making it possible for me to be a part of this great team and to Outlines for your kindness and generousity! It's been a wonderful six months and I'm truly blessed to have worked with you all

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Ribbons and Bows

 

This week, the design challenge is to use Ribbons and Bows on your cards!!!! Make sure you visit the OUTLINES BLOG  for all the details around posting your outlines cards and how to get a chance at winning some yummy Rubber! You can also get links to the very talented DT creations there!

As you can see, I created two card this week! That's because we have two new baby girl cousins in our Family...........Keira Baird and Eleanor Bacon. For my card I used Tall Pram. Because the wee girls are first cousins, I thought I should change up the colour combinations! Anyway, other than that and the copic colouring, the cards are pretty much the same...........be sure to head over to OUTLINES......they have some new product available including VIVA Papersoft

Happy Stamping and have a great week!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Pretty Colours!

 

This week, we were challenged to use Aqua, Brown and White. I was pretty heavy on the Aqua (well I used Turquoise actually) but I LOVE LOVE LOVE this colour combo!!! 

Do you want to win some outlines bucks? Head on over to the Outlines Blog to see how it's done!

The stamps that I used in my card are all from Outlines and include:

Indulgence Split Layered Collage Stamp, Large Dot Background and Heart Strip

If you have time, stop by and see my latest Ippity project (just click on the photo, it will take you to my ippity blog!)

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Black & White with a splash!

This week our task was to make a Black & White card, adding a splash of colour. I used this adorable little lamb image from a fun and expensive set called baby boy. This set includes 6 sweet little stamps for a wee little price of $4.00. Check out the unmounted overstock bin
you can find all sorts of adorable images there! What a great deal!

If you'd like to play along with the challenge, hop on over to the Outlines Blog. You could win a $25.00 Gift Certifcate just for playing along, using your Outlines Stamps.

If you're enjoying Memorial day, hope you have a wonderful and relaxing Holiday MondayH

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Make it Masculine!

Happy Monday Morning! If you're a fellow Canuck, here's hoping that you're enjoying this nice long weekend.........Our Challenge today is to created masculine themed Cards. I used this fun necktie image along with a celebrate your day sentiment, both which can be located on the Outlines Store Website

Guess what's new? You can also play along with this challenge, using your outlines stamps. For all the details in regard to the challenge, make sure you check out the Outlines Blog. Hope that you'll play along, you could be the winner of some Outlines Stamps!h

Have a fabulous Monday and don't forget to visit my fellow DT members blogs to see their creations!

Happy Stamping

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Focus on Florals!

Good Morning! Hope you've all been well. Things have been pretty crazy in my life lately and I'm sorry I've been scarce! Anyway, our DT task for this week is to make a card focusing on Floral Images. I chose this pretty image, as I thought it would be just perfect for this challenge. The sentiment is from the inner square of this stacked image: To you -sm square. I used a marker on only the words and then punched around the sentiment with the small tag punch from Stampin' Up! I coloured the image with Copic Markers, adding a wee bit more dimension with a Light Blue Viva Decor Pearl Pen as well as a touch of Sunny Yellow to the middle of the pink flower.

I embossed the card front using a Cuttlebug embossing folder and added a tiny bit of linen thread to attach the tag to the Hat image as well as a flower from Prima to ground the tag sentiment. The wee pearls are dollar store finds.

Hope you have a wonderful week and follow the links on my sidebar to check out the gorgeous DT creations

Happy Stamping!

Vicki

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Button Up!

This weeks challenge is to use buttons on your card! This new Spring Image MeadowBright was the perfect image to showcase buttons in the middle of the flowers. I coloured the cheery scene with Copic Markers and added some hemp twine tied buttons to the middles for dimension and variety! You can find the tiny sentiment here. I kept the card base simple with some Mustard and Chocolate cardstock!

Please follow the links on my sidebar to see what my fellow DT members have been up to!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Butterflies

Our DT task today? To create a card with Butterflies. I think that Natures Fairies is one of my favourite images from the new Serendipity Stamps line now available at Outlines. I also got to use a lot of product on my card this time including Smooch Ink in Ocean Soul and Moonlight and Viva Pearl Pen in Silver.

I used Up Up and Away DP from Kaiser Craft as the base for my card. This is also available in the Outlines Store while supplies last. The Beautiful Crocheted flower is from my Equally Beautiful Friend Andreanne! Thanks lady!

You really ought to check out these new Serendipity Stamps! They're absolutely Gorgeous , whimsical and tons of fun to colour!!!

Make sure to link to my teammates as shown on my sidebar to see their delicious creations!

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Birthday Bash

The Outlines DT are at it again! Our challenge for this week is to create Birthday Cards!!!! I used this fantastically fun image Split Layering Collage-Woof for my card, along with It could be worse. I coloured portions of the image with Copic Markers. The DP is from Basic Grey Max and Whiskers Collection. I used some black Viva Pearl Pen to Highlight the border around the "WOOF"!

Be sure to follow the links on my sidebar to see the rest of the Outlines DT creations! Hope you have a fabulous week!

Outlines Spring Blog Hop~

Outlines Spring 2011 Blog Hop!

Welcome to our very first blog hop! We are thrilled to be showing off some brand NEW stamps and designs today! This is a newly designed line of images named "Serendipity" and they just scream to be colored! The Design Team each picked a favorite image and we all are sharing something different. To celebrate this new release we are giving away two $25 Gift Certificates to the Outlines Store !

Here's how to win:

Please visit each Blog and leave a comment for each Designer.

Comments need to be completed by 8PM on Sunday, April 17^th.

Two random winners will be selected from folks that left comments on all the blogs.

Winners will be announced on The Outlines Blog on Monday, April 18^th.

For my card, I used this sweet image called Mini Fairy Ring. Isn't it adorable? I coloured the image with Copic Markers. DP is from Cosmo Cricket Salt Air Collection, Cardstock: Bazzill Pomegranite. I'm also playing along with Unscripted Sketches this week, from whence I got this fabulous sketch! The sentiment is also available HERE in the Outlines online store

Now… Where and who to go visit:

The Outlines Blog
Bev Gerard
Jeanne Strieff
Jenny Gropp
Lisa Silver
Robin Kirkpatrick
Sandy Hulsart

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Sparkle and Shine

This week, our lovely DT leader Jenny challenged us to Sparkle and Shine up our cards! I used this fun basket image from a set called Bunny Bunny. This set contains some fabulous spring images and is a steal at only $4.00 for 5 images mounted on foam. In order to really bling things up, I glittered all the flowers with Martini Glitter, added some Viva Pearl Pen accents with Ice White and Kiwi. Finally, I used the following Swazvorski Crystals in the Flower Centers: Olivine S 16, Jet S16 and Clear S30 . You can find the "Thinking of You" sentiment HERE. I love the Outlines Tiny Sentiment Stamps because they fit so nicely into the Word Window Punch.

The card is cut from a Tim Holtz Die and Embossed with a Sizzix Plaid embossing die.

Hope that you all have a most fabulous week! Be sure to follow the Links on my Outlines Sidebar to see the fabulous DT creations


Hugs

Go Green! Outlines Designer Challenge

This week, the Outlines Design Team was challenged to Go Green~ I don't have any St. Patrick Days Stamps, but I wanted to make my Birthday Card quite festive. I actually have a girlfriend with a St. Paddy's day Birthday and My Dear Grandmother will be celebrating her 90th Birthday from above, on the 16th of March.

For my card, I used Flower Balloon Square Large and Happy Birthday to you... both sweet stamps! Make sure you check out the DT creations by following the links on my sidebar~

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge-Furry Friends

Lot's of Layers! This week, we're challenged to create a furry friends card!. This sweet Kitty image is one of the upcoming releases from the Outlines Store. In addition, I used the Small Square Happy Birthday Stamp, which you can find HERE. I coloured the image with Copic Markers and added some Lime Green Smooch in the eyes.

DP is from Making Memories. I used some crystals in the middles of the EK Success punched border. Outlines carries a Huge assortment of Swarovski Crystals, which make your cards look absolutely yummy!!!!

Make sure you check the links on my sidebar to check out the fabby Outlines DT creations!!!

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge

This week, I'm featuring one of the latest release stamps from Outlines as well as the Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pads that they carry HERE in the outlines Store. The DP is from the Up Up and Away collection! Way too sweet. The challenge? To use stripes on your card.........so this paper was just perfect! The sentiment is also from Outlines

Please check out the rest of the Fabulous DT creations!

Happy Stamping!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge

Today, we have a fun colour challenge for you. Black Red and White........easy peasy!!! The stamp that I used to create this CAS card is Sketchy Cupcake. Cute eh? Make sure you check out the fabby DT creations by following the Outlines DT links on my sidebar!

Keeping it quick today..........it's been a crazy busy weekend and frankly, I'm pooped!!!

Happy Monday and Happy Valentines Day too!

Outlines Monday Designer Challenge and Product Focus-Liquid Metal Paint and Smooch!

Today's Outlines Design Team Focus is to use Sargent Liquid Metals on your card. I wanted to showcase a few of the products that Outlines Carries, so I also used Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink and Viva Pearl Pen. I'm really not much for using stamping techniques so it really was a challenge for me!!! I'll take you through the steps I took to make this card. I am sort of pleased with the results, but when I have a little extra time to play, i'd like to try it again because I think I could get an even better looking background with Practice~!

Supplies

Sargent Art Liquid Metal Paint
Smooch Pearlized in in Ocean Soul Sugarberry and Lucious Lime
Butterfly Collage Stamp
Brush
Versamark Ink
Black Embossing Powder
Viva Pearl Pen-Lilac
Black Cardstock

Step one:

With a Dry Brush, I painted some of the metallic paint onto plain black cardstock, making sure to leave some dark areas.

Step two

I then dribbled some of the smooch inks randomly onto the painted areas, working it into the paint with a dirty brush.

Just a little note: The Lime Ink took on a goldish appearence..........this is what the background should look like when done!

Step Three

Ink up your stamp with Versamark Ink, apply embossing powder and Heat with your heat gun

Step four

trim your image and complete your card. I would also say that the next time, I would take a fine brush and make sure all the embossing powder is brushed off the background so that it shows through a little better!

As you can see in the first photo, I added accents of Ocean Smooch to add a little more oomph to the image, I filled the Hearts in with Sugarberry and added some Viva Pearl Pen peals to the Butterfly wings!

As I said, I'm not usually all that into techniques, but this one was fun and now I'm challenged to perfect it!!!

Make sure you follow the links on the DT sidebar to get some other great ideas for using Metallic Paint in your stamping projects!

Happy Stamping!

What Inspires me? Outlines Rubber Stamp Company does!

I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining the Outlines Design Team for the next several months~ WOWEEEEEE, they have some Fine images!!!

Each Monday, we’ll be bringing you a challenge and I sure hope that you’ll play along with us!

Wait until you see the amazing lineup of designers that they have chosen as their first online Design Team. You’ll be pleasantly surprised and you can see their beautiful creations by following the links on my sidebar!

Our first challenge was to create a card that reflects what inspires us. I am definitely inspired by colouring, I adore using my copic markers and creating projects from my coloured images! It’s funny when people ask me if I start with an image or the papers, I would say that 95% of the time, I colour an image and then find papers and embellies that match the image.

I adore Snowmen, So I was over the moon to see some of the great Snowman images that are available at Outlines including this one Jolly Happy Soul which just happens to be 40% off at the online store. It is classified as a Christmas image, but I also think it’s just fine for a wintery themed card!

Hope that you enjoy the projects that we at Outlines will be sharing with you!