Basic Grey Challenge #28 - Sketch Challenge

Its Friday night at 12:41 AM and I am posting my Basic Grey Challenge!!! I think I may be the first person this week!!! I have a lot of work to get done this weekend, so I worked hard tonight to get some of my chores done but saved some energy so I could play in the NEW Basic Grey challenge this week.

I used Marrakech papers and brads. The stamped image of the elephant is also by Basic Grey to match these papers. These are BRAND NEW for me and I was excited to be using them together!!!

You can find this challenge here: BasicGrey Challenges

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog!!!

Basic Grey Challenge #27 - Texture

I did it!!!! I finally completed a card for a challenge!!! The last 2 weeks have been rough on me. Tax season was fine up until two weeks ago. Then I was gone for an entire weekend, that didnt help either. But I am back stamping and it feels good.

I made this card for the Basic Grey challenge this week, one of my most favorite challenges!!! The challenge for this week was to create texture on your card and using at least ONE Basic Grey product. I used Basic Grey Mellow papers on this card. I love the bright colors in this collection and the base color is: Did you guess??? Chocolate!!!!

I used the flower from the Stampin Up set called True Friend and used felt flowers in place of the stamped image for the flower. I punched the ovals with the Mega Oval punch and the scalloped backing with the Giga Scallop Oval punch. The green panel was embossed with my Cuttlebug embossing folder Swiss Dots. The striped panel was embossed with the circles (dont have a clue what this embossing folder is called, sorry)!!! I then embellished the green panel with brown dew drops. The words on the ribbon were mounted on a piece of chip board covered with Mellow Juicy. The words were then stamped in Chocolate Chip onto the orange paper. The ribbon is from Stampin" Up!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!! Make it a great week!!!

Danita

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Stampin Up True Friend, Stampin Up Great Greetings
Cardstock/Papers: Stampin Up Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey Mellow
Ink: Stampin Up Chocolate Chip and Old Olive
Accessories: Flower Fusion (felt flowers)by Stampin Up, Bling Brad (in the center of flower) by Stampin Up, chipboard and ribbon both from Stampin Up, Dew Drops by Sweet N Sassy Stamps.

Basic Grey Challenge #23

This weeks challenge is:

Challenge 23 - Colour Combo

Well its time for another challenge and this time its a colour combo, we would like you to pick one of the following colour combos for your creations (Skin and white card colours are allowed too),

Pink and Green

Pink and Brown

Blue and Brown

So what are you waiting for, pick your favorite combo and get crafting :), but of course not to forget to use at least one item from BasicGrey on your creation

I chose the Brown and Blue color combo. I found the brown/blue polka dotted paper in the Figgy Pudding Collection. I knew I wanted to start with that as my base. From there I used my Nestibilities Labels dies and the stamps are from Stampin Up, Thoughts and Prayers. I had to search high and low to for ribbon to match. When I couldnt find any, I used some wide brown grosgrain ribbon and snapped a picture of it. The ribbon just got lost because it blended in too much. So I finally got some tonight and I get to enter this challenge!!!

Thanks for the great challenges on the awesome Basic Grey Challenge Blog which can be found here: http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

Basic Grey Challenge #21 - Let's Mix It Up

Ok, so the challenge this week is:

"This week we would like you to mix it up, we would like you to use at least two different BasicGrey ranges in your creations, for eg Blush papers and Boxer Brads or Archaic chip stickers, Sultry papers and cupcake fibers, the possibilities are endless, so what are you waiting for lets mix it up."

I dont have any other Basic Grey embellishments, I only have their papers, so I used 3 different paper Collections. They are Blush Collection, Sugared Collection and the Bittersweet Collection.

I struggled with this card but I think it was because of the sketch I chose to use.

Here is the recipe for this card:

Stamps: SU Inspired by Nature and Always
Ink: Bravo Burgandy and Regal Rose
Papers: SU - Bravo Burgandy, Pink Pirouette, Whisper White, Regal Rose
BG - Bittersweet, Surgared and Blush
Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, Bravo Burgandy grosgrain Ribbon, Rectangle Nestiblities, Classic & Scalloped, Eyelet Border Punch

Thanks for stopping by and looking!!! Make it a great day!!!

Basic Grey Challenge #20 - A Sketch Challenge

Here is my card for this weeks Basic Grey Sketch Challenge. I used Basic Grey Mellow papers this week. I used these papers because I just got a new stamp set from Stampin Up called Trendy Trees that matches one of those papers. The piece with the trees all over it. I love this paper, its sooooo bright and colorful.

You can find this challenge here:

http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

This sketch was kind of hard for me, it has so many layers. But in the end, I am happy with the results.

Here is my card recipe:

Stamps: All Stampin Up: Trendy Trees and Best Yet
Ink: SU Riding Hood Red, Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin Pie and Kiwi Kiss
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White and the rest is all Basic Grey Mellow collection
Accessories: SU Certainly Celery (Sale-A-Bration) ribbon, dew drops (I have no idea who makes these, some of my friends sent them to me) Su Chocolate Chip Cordoroy brad


Thanks for stopping by and looking!!!

Basic Grey Challenge 19 - Recipe Challenge

Hello everyone!!! I worked on the Basic Grey Recipe Challenge today and this is how it turned out. I made this card for my first born, Kelsey, who will be turning 19 on February 7th!!! Where in the heck has all that time gone, Im not old enough to have a 19 yr old daughter lol. Ok well, I guess I am.

So the Recipe Challenge was:

For this weeks challenge we would like you to follow a recipe, you can of course add more embellishments etc to your creations but please make sure to use all of the ingredients in the recipe on your creations, and of course not forgetting to use at least one item from BasicGrey.


Ingredients:

2 Patterned papers

1 Button

1 Ribbon and Bow

3 Brads

So for the patterned papers I used 2 from the Urban Prairie Collection. I used Bountiful and Bonnet. I used a Stampin Up Baha Blue buttton laced with yellow embroidery thread tied in a bow to echo the yellow grosgrain ribbon/bow on the long panel. I used 2 pink flower brads (brand new from Stampin Up!!!) on the very top and very bottom corners. Then I used 2 gold heart brads on the other side of the long panel. So that takes card of all of my ingredients!!! This was a SUPER FUN challenge!!! I love these papers, they are soooooooo fun to play with, this card to me just oozes with Spring!!! Where oh Where is our Spring!!! Still a few months away Im afraid.

Basic Grey #18 - Digi Print Challenge

This afternoon I played in the Basic Grey Digi Print challenge that was posted on Saturday. I started this once and got into the challenge and when I tried to water color the image, the printer ink smeared into the color and totally messed up the image. So I thought oh well, I will sit this one out. Then I was talking to a friend and she totally jogged my memory into printing it on Vellum Cardstock and then coloring the image on the back. That way the printer ink wont smear when I color her. So thats what I did and then I mounted it onto a piece of Whisper White cardstock. Then the issue of attaching it is always there, so I used little red heart brads to hold the pieces together.

There is another difference I think between mine and everyone elses. Mine looks so big and the others all look smaller. I tried resizing the images but it didnt seem to work. I would have really of loved to used the Graffitti Valentines words too but could not get them to a smaller size. I didnt think I was that technically challenged with this kind of stuff, but I guess I am.

I used Basic Grey papers from the Two Scoops Collection. I love the little cherubs on this paper!!! You can find this challenge here:

http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and looking!!!

Basic Grey Chipboard challenge #17

This weeks Basic Grey challenge is to use chipboard, any chipboard. This week I used the Infuse collection of papers. The top piece of my sketch is actually a piece of chipboard with the 4 circles taken out of it. I thought that would make perfect windows for my Buzzin Around bees. They actually fit perfectly.

I mounted a piece of Infuse Lace paper on top of the chipboard. Then with an exacto knife, I made X'x in the circles of the paper. Then also with the exacto knife, I cut out the circles from the holes. Then with a round file, I filed down all the rough edges. I stamped my bees and flower in Jet Black ink by Staz-On onto Whisper White cardstock. I watercolored the bees with Pink Pirouette, Tangerine Tango and Kiwi Kiss and the flower in Regal Rose. I then taped them to the windows of the chipboard. I mounted that piece onto Garden Green cardstock leaving that piece a bit longer to put the words underneath the focal point. My base card is 5 1/4" square of Chocolate Chip with Regal Rose and then a piece of Infuse Breathe. All stamps are by Stampin Up!!! Then to finish the card, I used a piece of pink organza ribbon on top.

You can find the challenge here: http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!

Basic Grey Challenge #16

Today I wanted to share with you a card I made Sunday night. I was Blog Hopping (one of my most favorite past times) and found this site that hosts Basic Grey Challenges each week. Boy the wheels in my head started to spin a little bit faster!!! If you know me personally, you would know I am a Stampin Up demonstrator and have been for over 10 yrs now. I love Stampin Up, thats why I have been a demonstrator for so long. But, even if you do know me, you may NOT know that I am a closet Basic Grey Lover. Oh my, I said it out loud!!!! The colors and patterns are just sooooooo beautiful, its hard to resist.

So the 1st challenge in 2009 from this site is a sketch challenge. You can find the site/challenge here: http://basicgreychallenges.blogspot.com/ The only requirements to enter are to use at least ONE Basic Grey product. Well that wasnt hard to do. I have 5 paper collection packages and rarely use them. I guess that would be considered a horder of the goods!! So with these challenges, I can test my skills with the new goods and use up some of the stash I have here.

This card I made above, I used Basic Grey's Blush collection which is one of my most favorite paper collections because it has the pinks and reds with the browns that I just love. I did use Stampin Up's Love You Much stamp set. This is a brand new Valentines set that will be out in the new catalog on January 19th. So consider this my first try on the challenges and you will be seeing more of these!! I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy them!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!!