BWC#22 Jolly Snowman

This is for today's BrainWave Challenge presented by Treehouse Stamp Companies owner ASHLEY BOWEN. This weeks challenge is a cool color combo of Riding Hood Red, Kiwi Kiss, Kraft, and Chocolate Chip. I stamped one image of the snowman on a sticky note and cut it out to use as a mask. Then I stamped the snowman in choc chip and placed the mask on top to stamp the tree in kiwi kiss. I colored the scarf and cap with a blender pen from the ink in the top of the pad. I applied a glitter glue and after I did I wished I had not bc it has specks of red in it. Guess it is OK since the challenge also includes some red but it looked funny to me. The main image is matted on kiwi kiss. The sentiment is stamped in riding hood red on kraft and matted on riding hood red using Fiskars oval punches. The snowflakes are small and large punches from shiny paper. This creation is a sneak peak of a set called Jolly Snowman and can be found begining Friday at TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. This is a really fun and cute set of red rubber stamps with cling mounted onto them ready for attaching to an acrylic block and stamping away. Hope you like it.

BWC - Not Today

For those of you who have been following the weekly Brainwave Challenges from Ashley Bowen from Treehouse Stamp Co there will not be one this week due to power outage. I received a pm from Ashley on Tuesday that the mayor of her town is predicting another 5 days before power can be completely restored. A lot of down trees and power lines from the storms Sunday evening. So sorry for Ashley and that area. Hopefully it will not take them that long but who knows. Anyway check back on her blog next Wednesday and hopefully she will be back up and in full swing. Keep them in your prayers as well.
(((((((((((hugs to ya Ashley)))))))))))

Sweet Birthday Celebrations

This is for Sunday's FEATURED STAMPER - CardCrazy Denise and today's BrainWaveChallenge presented every Wednesday on ASHLEY BOWEN'S BLOG. I just loved Denise's dress she made and the one on the challenge as well but mine just did not turn out the same way, sorry Denise & Ashley. I used a different shirt top and made my dp for the skirt with the smaller cupcakes. should have used the smaller ones for the shirt top too. Oh Well. The colors here are pretty in pink, regal rose, taken w/teal, certainly celery and choc chip. I moved one of the photo corners from hers while CASEing her HAPPY 4TH dress card. I also doodled on the photo corners.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Inkadinkadoo - Sweet Celebrations
Paper: choc chip, pretty in pink, white
Ink: pretty in pink, regal rose, taken w/teal, certainly celery
Accessories: ribbon

Espress Yourself with Friendship

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Coffee, Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Specialty Paper, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Monochromatics and Ashley's Bowen from TREEHOUSE STAMPS BRAIN WAVE CHALLENGE for my sketch. I created my own specialty paper by stamping the coffee beans in choc chip, coloring them with close to cocoa and applying stickles on the inside of each. I also appied stickles to the steam. I FINALLY got some nesties and used the large square scallop for my matt. The coffee cup was stamped twice on vanilla and colored, one was cut out and popped up. The nestie layer is also popped up. I think I like how this turned it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Espress Yourself
Paper: Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Choc Chip, Vanilla
Ink: Choc chip, close to cocoa, only orange
Accessories: stickles, diminsionals

BWC#19 Oliver

This is for today's Brain Wave Challenge presented by ASHLEY BOWEN. This image was recently released and can be purchased from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY. I am so excited that Ashley has asked me and Shannon to extend our Guest Design reign for another month. There are some really fabulous stamps coming out in September so stay tuned and look for those Sneak Peaks to come your way here on my blog and the other DT Members Blogs as well as on SCS. This image was stamped in choc chip then colored with Close to Cocoa, ruby red, green galore and pixie pink markers. The vanilla cs was distressed with a sponge using choc chip ink pad. I used some CS I have had for awhile. I used last weeks SKETCH CHALLENGE for my layout. Feel free to play along with this weeks BWC by using a brown, pink and vanilla color combo and uploading with BWC19 in the keywords. Ashley does love to see everyone's creations.

Happy Fall Y'all Sneak Peak

Hello Wednesday, hump day,LOL. Have a really early day today so needed a quickie. This is for today's BRAINWAVE CHALLENGE # 18 presented every Wednesday by Ashley Bowen from Treehouse combined with Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Farewell In-Colors. These images are from a set soon to be released from TREEHOUSE STAMP COMPANY called Happy Fall Y'all. I has the mose adorable images and sentiments in it. I colored my images with prismacolor pencils then blended w/gamsol. I used my blender pen and wild wasabi pad to make the grass sprigs. The river rock base layer is stamped with one of the leaves in the set using river rock. The sentiment is also stamped with the leave after stamping off. The ribbon arrived last night just in time for me to try it out this morning.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Happy Fall Y'all - Treehouse Stamp Co
Paper: River Rock, Wild Wasabi, Vanilla
Ink: Wild Wasabi, River Rock, blue Bayou
Accessories: Prismacolor Pencils, cotton, Fiskars circle template, markers, blender pens, ribbon
Techniques: Gamsol Magic