VSN - One True Love

Here is a second card I have made for VSN. This challenge is called One True Love and we all know my FAVORITE COLOR IS CHOCOLATE. So here is the challenge:

My challenge for you is to celebrate your ONE TRUE LOVE by making a monochromatic card. Your card can use several shades of the same color, and one neutral, too.

I used a set I havent used before from Stampin Up, its called Inspired by Nature. I really love this set!!! I think I did pretty good with only being able to use browns for this card!!! I also added a tag for the sentiment. By doing this, I combined the Our Creative Corner challenge with this VSN Challenge. The OCCC challenge this week is to add a tag!!! You can find that challenge here:

http://ourcreativecorner6.blogspot.com/2009/02/occ-challenge-use-tag.html
What do you think? Let me know, leave me some love!!! Thanks for looking!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: All Stampin Up: Inspired by Nature, Fundamental Phrases, Thoughts & Prayers
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel
Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate Chip Designer papers
Accessories: Key Tag Punch, Corduroy Buttons, twine, polka dotted brown ribbon (from my stash, dont have a clue who made or where to get more)

VSN For the Love of Chocolate Challenge

This weekend is VSN again over at the Splitcoaststampers.com site. Challenges posted every hour on the hour until 11:00 PM tonight!!!

This is my first card I have finished. The challenge is to use Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral and Apricot Appeal in a card. I LOVE this color combo, so it wasnt too hard to do. I did go for a more simplistic view on this challenge. No designer series paper, no glitz or glam. But still very effective.

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: All Stampin Up Polka Dot Punches, Flight of the Butterfly
Ink: Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Cameo Coral and Apricot Appeal
Accessories: Flower Brads, 5/8th" Grosgrain Ribbon, Choc Chip Brads

Nestibilities Valentines

Ever since I got my Nestibilites Hearts Die Cuts, I've been wanting to make one of these. There are 2 sets of Die Cut Hearts. One with a plain edge and another with a scalloped edge. The scalloped edge is just big enough to frame the straight edged hearts allowing you to frame each of them. So I made this card using 4 layers of hearts alternating Riding Hood Red and Pink Pirouetee and framing them in Whisper White. It looks more tedious then it really is. The bigger hearts, I did have to cut each seperately but once they were small enough, I was able to cut 2 at a time.

I used the I (heart) u stamp from Stampin Up's A Happy Heart set. The white images on both sides of the heart are actually Rub-Ons. The Designer Series paper I used is from The Valentines inspired Candy Lane Designer Series paper.

The reason I made this to begin with was for the VSN Challenge that asks you to make a card inspired from your favorite holiday. Valentines Day has long been my most favorite holiday. I am a hopeless romantic plus I got to make my girls Valentines card for their school holiday parties. This is sad to say, but my girls never got to go and pick out those cheesy Valentines Days cards from the store.

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VSN Weekend - Challenge #1 - Scraplings

This weekend is VSN, Virtual Stamp Night (but really its all day). A bunch of people from around the world gather for VSN to take part in challenges issued every hour of the day (today) starting at 11:00 AM to 11:00 PM. The very first challege was posted last night as a warm up, but I didnt do that challenge until today which is the card above. Not your usual 5 1/2" X 4 1/4" card. The reason its called a scrapling is because its the piece left over when you take a full sheet of cardstock and cut it for a square card. So why not make it its own card??? This is my very first scrapling I made and it was quite a challenge just figuring out what will fit on a 2" wide card. You can find these challenges here:

http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=411763

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have a great day!!!

Recipe: All products are from Stampin Up

Stamps: Sweet Stems, Bella's Bloom, Itty Bitty Backgrounds
Cardstock: Tangerine Tango, Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Kiwi Kiss
Ink: Tangerine Tango
Accessories: Sweet Stems embossing sizzlet, Kiwi Kiss Striped Grosgrain ribbon