Getting Ruffly w/The Play Date Cafe Challenge

So I was at my LSS, New England Scrapbook Co. the other day and saw the American Crafts Dear Lizzy Ruffled Crepe paper.  How I could work there and not have known it was there is beyond my capacity to understand, because it has been there for quite a while and is quite unique.  But when I saw the colors, I knew they were perfect for The Play Date Cafe Challenge and I was compelled to find a use for this interesting product that had escaped me for so long.

So the inspiration from The Play Date Cafe was . . .

 And the Dear Lizzy Ruffled Crepe Paper looks like this . . .

When I first saw this . . . I laughed.  I toyed with buying a few and using my Tim Holtz Tiny attacher to fashion me a skirt.  It was actually the bottom rung that was just calling to me for this challenge.  So, here is my design . . .

Love the "champagne" colors for this challenge.  It all came together quite nicely, and I can't wait to make more ruffles (I ended up buying the yellow and white version of the ruffles as well).

And the inside of my card . . . 

 The sentiment is under the vellum.

And I liked this card yesterday . . . but I love it today!  I don't always LOVE my stuff.

Thanks American Crafts!  That was fun.

Supplies Used:   Bazzill Cardstock, American Crafts Dear Lizzy Pattern Paper, Ruffled Crepe Paper and Vellum, Stamps from Cas-ual Friday, Ink from Close To My Heart, Ribbon from my stash. 

The Play Date Cafe #153

Playing along tonight with The Play Date Cafe.  Stress relief for me . . . cut, paste, stamp, embellish!

The inspiration . . . 

And my design, using some Flirty items from Close To My Heart . . .

Stamping those flowers to make the background just made me happy!  So fun. 

 

The Play Date Cafe #148

This week's challenge at the Play Date Cafe was Peach, Navy Blue, and Stone.  The colors were a bit daunting for me.  I picked out some patterns from Basic Grey which included the peach and navy, and then I added the stone by using a dark gray ink and some gray cardstock and button. 

Now the inspiration photo had some netting within, and that gave me the idea to use my new hexagon die from Papertrey Ink.  I had never purchased their stamps, but hexagons have been all the rage and I just had to have this die and stamp set for my collection.  I cut the base of the die in the peach toned Basic Grey, and then cut some inner pieces of navy and the second Basic Grey pattern paper.  I then pieced the background together.  What's nice is that the die is an A2 card size, so it fit perfectly on teh card base. 

Hmmm . . . in regular light that button looks grey, and in the picture it has a green tinge.  I may be performing a button transplant a bit later in the evening. 

Supplies Used:  Paper from Bazzill and Basic Grey; Hexagon Die, Outline Stamp and Sentiment from Papertrey Ink; Fiskars Circle Punch; Button from my stash; Ribbon from Close To My Heart; Ink from Stampin' Up;

So Not My Colors; But They Work!

The real challenges for me are working with color combinations that are just "not me."  Nine times out of ten, I end up likin the colors in the end.  This was one of those times . . .which just proves that the experts who pick these inspiration photos know what they're doing!

Let me preface this by saying that the colors in the photos don't really do them justice.  

The inspiration from The Play Date Cafe . . .

My design . . .

I used an upcoming Mojo Monday sketch for this design.

Supplies:  Bazzill Cardstock, My Mind's Eye Pattern Paper (miss caroline), Stazon Ink Black, Copic Markers, Close To My Heart Color Ready Seam Binding, Unity Stamps June 2012 KOTM and Neopolitan Bisque Soup (Jillibean), Buttons from my stash, Stamping Up Scallop Border Punch.

The Play Date Cafe #124

Tough colors for me . . .

I recalled a paper pad with those colors . . .

And a little splash of color on the inside (the bird is on the inside too, but you can't see him in his pic) . . .

And the ribbon revolt in my crop room continues with my twine usage. I can hear the spools singing their own version of Barbara Streisand and Neil Diamond right now . . . "you don't use your ribbon anymore" . . . with sniffing sounds.

No worries ribbon!

Supplies

Cardstock - Bazzill/Pattern Paper - KaiserCraft/Stamps - Unity Stamp/Ink - Stazon/Markers - Copic/Ribbon - The Twinery/Punch - Fiskars Border and Stampin' Up Word Window