Christmas Break for Color Chef Challenges

Hello everybody!
I have decided to take a "christmas break" from my color challenges. Like everybody else, the next couple of weeks are pretty busy so I'll resume in January with the color challenges! I hope you'll come back and play in January!

Color Chef Challenge #32

Since Christmas in on the brain, I thought it only appropriate that we do Christmas Colors for this weeks challenge.

Color Chef Challenge #32
Red (CTMH Cranberry)
Green (CTMH Olive)
White or Cream

I will upload my card details tonight.

**Remember you can use any brand ink colors (I happen to be using CTMH). Upload your card using Mr.Linky. If you have issues with uploading, feel free to link to your card by leaving a comment!

Color Chef Challenge #31 winner

Your ladies cards were beautiful last week! Thank you for playing along.

Shelly D (her name is a link to her blog) was drawn to win this week. P.S. If anybody knows how to show the random.org thingy that selects the number on a blog, please respond to this post!

How cute is that!

Have a Happy Monday!

Stampin Up- Do you know the names of these sets?

I could use your help identifiying the name of this stamp set by Stampin Up.

This set is from 1997.

This alphabet set is from 1998


Truth be told, I plan to sell them on ebay and I'd like to correctly name the listing if possible! I'd really appreciate your help if you know what they are called!

Just Us Girls Sketch Challenge

I am new to Just Us Girls and let me tell you, I love what I see!
I'm feeling crafty today, so I immediately ran to my stamp room to whip out a card for this weeks challenge.

Here is the sketch
And here is my card. I left the ribbon off but otherwise stayed pretty true to the sketch.

I trimmed the pattern paper slightly smaller than the base of the card. Then I took a piece of scrap stock that is the same as the baes and stamped Merry Christmas in brown, then the flourish in green and inked the edges in pink to give some depth.
Mounted that piece and then took the green and pink circles and stamped snowflakes accordingly, inked those edges and finished them off with e rhinestones!
Then, I scattered two teeny tiny rhinestones on the flourishes

Card Recipe:
stamps- Merry Christmas-Hero Arts, Alpine Frost- SEI
paper- cream from my paper stash, patterned paper- The Paper Studio
ink- garden green, hollyhock and chocolate- CTMH
other- Kaiserkraft rhinestones, 3m foam mounting tape

Have a great weekend! I love this month!!

lotsa buttons

Here is a card I submitted to Cards blog for a button challenge. My card wasn't chosen but I love the color combination and thought I would share with you!



Card Recipe
Stamps- Happy Birthday- CTMH
paper- SEI patterned paper, Brown Kraft Paper- Hobby Lobby
other- buttons, waxy flax- CTMH

color chef challenge #31

I just love this color combo. So fresh and clean!

Color Chef Challenge #31
Aqua (CTMH Ocean)
Red (CTMH Cranberry)
White

Well, truth-be-told, I am not one of those people who already has my Christmas Card design ready to go yet...I'm working on it and this card is a contender! I love how clean and simple it is and I've been leaning toward this color combo for a few months now.

If I really get my act together, there is a really nice sentiment (in a very cool font, I might add) that would be fun to send out to kick off the holiday season and wouldn't it be great to get the cards done EARLY for a change! I know you're all on the edge of your seats wondering what the sentiment is, so I might just post a card using it this week!

My card for tonight was simple, really. So on to the details~ I layered the same stock for all layers and I think that helps keep it crisp! I ran a layer through the cuttlebug as well as through the nestabilities shape.

Card Recipe:
stamps- Alpine Frost- SEI, Festive Thoughts- CTMH
ink- cranberry and ocean- CTMH
other- Hero Arts Adhseive Gems, cuttlebug, cuttlebug tiny dots folder, Nestabilities Label 1



**Remember you can use any brand ink colors (I happen to be using CTMH). Upload your card using Mr.Linky. If you have issues with uploading, feel free to link to your card by leaving a comment!

Color Chef Challenge #30 winner

Check out the awesome card that Emma made!




You can check out her blog by clicking HERE!

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color chef challenge #30

WOW!!! 30 of these challenges! I hope you've enjoyed them like I have. I can't believe how dependent I've become on challenges to help spark the creativity!

This weeks color challenge comes from a can of shave cream that my husband brought home from the grocery store.

Color Chef Challenge #30
white
grey
black
turquoise

For my card, I created a background by stamping the border stamp in grey on either side of black. Then I stamped a flower image on a scrap piece of stock (the same as the card base) and mounted it on top of the border image. Then, because I smudged some black under the thank you sentiment, I decided to stamp that on scrap as well and mount that. I like how it turned out! Clean and fresh. And SIMPLE!

Card Recipe
stamps- boutique borders, tickled pink- CTMH, Anna Griffin Darcey Collection
paper- textured white, grey wool- CTMH
ink- grey wool, ocean-CTMH
other- Pearl brad from The Paper Studio

**Remember you can use any brand ink colors (I happen to be using CTMH). Upload your card using Mr.Linky. If you have issues with uploading, feel free to link to your card by leaving a comment!