Kristina Werner Color Challenge #55

I wanted to do this challenge all week, but was so busy preparing for a class tonight. I even went as far as to pack up all the supplies to take to work today to try to put this together there, but of course I couldn't. I was really disappointed because I absolutely love these challenges. I also make an effort not to look at everyone elses submissions because I don't want to make something like another one I saw, so if this is similar to someone elses, it's only because of "karma" LOL.


I used one of the new stamp sets from the new catalog called Autumn Days. These colors really lent to that set, even though we are just beginning summer. I used all the colors in the challenge.... the fun part was using my paisley texture plate from Stampin' UP! I also used one of the new punches, can't remember the name of it; but isn't it so cute? The word window punch fits inside perfectly.

Happy Stamping everyone!!!

Kristina Color challenge #54 - No #2

I didn't see that we are limited to only one entry any more to the Color Challenge, so I had to do two.
The second one is really basic, but this is the one my husband liked the best. I used the Cheap Talk for the birds and stamped them on scrap paper, cut them out and attached them with dimensionals to the top of the fence. The fence was made using scraps of paper, ran them across my basis black stamp pad and cut the top at an angle. I also make a couple cross boards using the same technique to make a it a "fence". The grass in the background was using the Inspiration by Nature stamp in Galore Green. The sun is using a circle template and sponging the sun with Pumpkin Pie.... sort of a "hazy" look in the sky. The sky is sponged with Bashful blue, leaving spaces to sort of show clouds in the sky. The birds are stamped with Taken with Teal and cut out and placed on the fence with dimensionals. Enjoy!

Kristina Werner Color Inspiration #54

Kristina chooses really fun color challenges each week. I loved these colors.... Taken with Teal, Sky Blue, Pumpkin Pie, Galore Green and Whisper White. I had so many different ideas with these colors. I'm glad we're not limited to one entry; because I had about ideas, but limited myself to two to show you. This is the first one. I used all of the colors. I covered a "retired chipboard circle" with whisper white craft ink" and heated to dry.... then I heated with my heat tool to help dry since it takes a long time by itself to dry; the I stamped the flower image on the chipboard with the flower from the "Simply Said" Stamp Set. I colored the flowers with Taken with Teal and bashful blue and the leaves and stems with Green Galore. I set different papers from from the retired East Coast Prep DSP on the Galore cardstock first, then the stamped chipboard next. I threaded the bashful blue through the card and tied in a knot. I also stamped "A Friend is someone who makes it easy in "Taken with Teal" ink on the side. I don't think it shows up, but I also stamped a few flowers on the DSP with Taken with Teal just to break up the "nakedness" of the right side of the card. Hope you Like it.

Kristina Werner Challenge #51

So, Kristina Werner is having her 51st color challenge; I'm getting so hooked on doing these, it's fun to see what everyone comes up with. OK, I tried many ways to include Rose Red into this combination, and finally came up with JUST the butterfly being this color. I think rather than trying to include too much of that color, just this little bit was genious (LOL). I used the fun Good Morning Sunshine Designer Series Paper mounted onto Chocolate Chip cardstock. Using the Horizontal Slot Punch, I created a very small slit at the card fold to pull the 5/8" Chocolate Chip Grosgrain ribbon through and tie in a knot. Then I stamped the hedgehog from the Fun and Fast Notes stamp set and colored him in using the watercolor crayons. I layered this piece onto more mustard and then colored the butterfly with the Rose Red marker.

Kristina Werner Challenge #50

Can you believe this is Kristina Werners 50th Color Challenge? That's a lot of viewing and choosing for her to pick the best pics. I love to do these challenges... like I said before it makes me be creative for myself. I did case another demonstrator's card, but changed the colors, stamps and accessories, but what can work better for this challenge but the Sock Monkey and all the fun colors you can use with him?
I used Riding Hood Red for the Basic card and then I embossed the Summer Sun cardstock using the Harliquin texture plate from Stampin Up and attached to the side. I stamped the sock money on whisper white cardstock and colored him with Close to cocoa and then highlighted him using a blender pen and Riding Hood Red classic ink. The balloon is stamped on the whisper white cardstock and then again on scrap paper, colored, and attached on top of the original stamp with dimensionals. The whisper white cardstock was attached to Close to Cocoa cardstock and attached to the card using dimensionals. Then using my most FAVORITE new punch I punched a piece of turquoise cardstock with the scallop oval punch and then stamped a greeting on whisper white cardstock, punching it out with the large scallop punch and attaching to the oval scallop piece. I attached that piece to the card using dimensionals again. To finish the card and give it more appeal, I went around the riding hood red with a white gel pen using a stitch technique.

OK, OK, OK ONE more Try at the Color Challenge #49

Ok, I had to try ONE MORE TIME. I don't know what has me so obsessed with this particular challenge, but it's kicking me and I wanted to be in charge; make sense? I do like this one the best out of the three. It's so hard for me to do these challenges because I case so much better, but when there's nothing to case, then I have to do it on my own. These challenges are good for me to try my own hand at being creative, not relying on others........

Second Attempt at Kristina Werner's Color Challenge #49

Since I wasn't too happy with my first attempt at Kristina Werner's Color challenge #49, I thought I would try again. This one is totally different, but the black on the outside is not showing up in the picture very well.

Kristina Werner Challenge #49

OK, so I decided to try one of Kristina Werner's color challenges again....... This is the first one I tried, not sure how I feel about it. I used the Cheeap Talk stamp set, I LOVE those cute little birds. I had trouble incorporating the Rose Red into the mix, seems to make it a little juvenile, but it's growing on me :)

Kristina Werner Challenge #44

Here I am, back for another Kristina Werner color challenge. These colors were a little easier for me to put together; however, I apparently Love, Love, Love this Sale-A-Bration stamp set as it's always the one I keep going back to when I think of "soft" pinks. I started with my card base being the Close to Cocoa, then I adhered the Bella Rose DSP for the chocolate Chip and the pink. I also used the eyelet border again on the chocolate chip Bella Rose paper and tied some pink Taffeta Ribbon around the top. I stamped the flower from Botanical Blooms on whisper white cardstock, then stamped two more blossoms on scraps of whisper white paper and cut them out in different sizes and layered on top of each other. The blossoms were colored in with Pink Pirouette classic ink using a blender pen. Then I took one of my small pink rhinestone brads and spread the legs apart to release the gem so I could attach that to the center of the blossom without making the flower bulkier. I stamped the sentiment from Holidays & Wishes in Chocolate Chip classic ink.

Another Kristina Werner Challenge #43

Since I had so much time to participate, I decided to try one more entry. On this one, I used my Texturz plate on the basic card front. I stamped the blossoms from the two step Botanical Blooms (Sale-A-Bration 2009) set in basic black, then stamped the second image in Ruby Red on the blossoms. I also stamped the leaf outline in basic black, then re-stamped the second image to color them in in Old Olive. I strayed outside the parameters and used some Chrystal Effects in the center of the blossoms and added some pink beads from the Bead Duos set. I adhered the piece with the flowers onto some Brocade Blue cardstock. Then using our new Eyelet Border Punch, I punched out strips in Pumpkin Pie, Ruby Red and Old Olive and adhered all of them on top of each other, then on the back of the blossom piece. I took the 5/8" Pumpkin Pie striped grosgrain ribbon, found a thread in the center and pulled to smock the ribbon. Then I attached the ribbon to the back of the blossom piece and attached the whole piece to the main card front using dimensionals. It's a little different, but I think it turned out pretty cute too.

Kristina Werner Challenge #43

I love doing Kristina's color challenges; but it seems like I'm always a day late and a dollar short in getting them done in time for the deadline. This time it worked out great because she extended the time to Monday since she's out of town for the weekend.... what luck for me LOL. These colors go so great with each other. I used the Old Olive for the basic card, then used the Bella Rose DSP along the side and a strip of Ruby Red along side of the chocolate chip. The star was inked with Brocade Blue, then embossed with clear embossing powder. After I inked the chipboard star, the color looked much darker than the Brocade Blue, but it really is that color. I punched a piece of the Old Olive using the Scallop Circle Punch, then a piece of white using the 1 3/8" Circle Punch. I stamped the cat from the Zoofari Stamp set and colored it with my Pumpkin Pie Marker and highlighted the spots with Basic Black. I hung the star using Hemp Twine and adhered with a staple. The Sentiment is from Warm Words. I think this turned out really cute.

Kristina Werner Challenge

I wanted to do Kristina Werner's color challenge and made this card a couple of day ago, but I know it's missing something dramatic..... can't quite figure it out, but time's up so I'm posting anyway. the flowers were made by daubing on Pumpkin pie on the flower center, then pretty in pink on the petals and a little Rose Red on the ends of the petals. I used a color not in the challenge and daubed on some Old Olive for the stems and leaves. The card base is Pumpkin Pie and some stripes of Rose Red on the side with a Pretty in Pink butterfly from the Flight of the Butterfly stamp set. The flower were then covered with crystal effects glue to make them stand out and shine. Also on the side, the flowers were mounted on Rose Red cardstock, where I punched out the right side using the Scallop Edge Punch.

Are you all ready for the NEW SPRING/SUMMER catalog?????? I can hardly wait to order; I want the Texturize plates in the worst way..... Maybe the next time I post on the color challenge I will have my plates.... I LOVE that lookd!!!!!!

Enjoy!!!

Kwerner Color Challenge

Kristina's Color Challenge was perfect for the new Raspberry Tart paper and the new Sweet Stems embosslit. I also stamped the Sweet Stems image on the Rose Red cardstock underneath the embosslit image. Enjoy

Another Kwerner Challenge

The colors Kristina chose for this week go together really well and all I could think of was Fall and Thanksgiving. I used Lovely as a Tree Stampin' Up stamp set to stamp the Oak Leaves on the So Saffron cardstock, then I colored them in using So Saffron, Pumpkin Pie and a little Close to Cocoa classic ink pads with the aqua painter. The Big Tree in the center I also watercolored with the Aqua Painter using the same colors as the leaves. then I roughed up all the edges with the distresser tool making the card a little more masculine and out-doorsey. I wrapped the Elegant Eggplant grosgrain ribbon three times around the card and adhered them to the back of the So Saffron cardstock. After I was done, I thought it looked a little plain, so I inked up my main tree image in VersaMark and stamped it on the tree again and embossed with clear embossing powder. I tried to get a picture of how the versamark looks, but it's much prettier in real life. The "Happy Thanksgiving" is also stamped using the VersaMark, then stamped into the Elegant Eggplant and embossed with clear embossing powder. To help tie in the colors, I spritzed on some Elegant Eggplant ink using the stampin write marker.

Kristina Werner's color challenge

I have really enjoyed doing the color challenges Kristina Werner has thrown out. As I said last week, it makes me actually use my own imagination, which is "sort" of getting better. I still tend to copy others except for these challenges, which makes me more confident each week. I love the colors this week, they are so soft and feminine, the sort of colors that are relaxing. in fact, the paint in my house is called "herb

ivore" which is close to these two greens combined. I also have absolutely loved the Organic Outlines stamp set, so this was a good challenge for me. I made this a 6" X 6" card, which is unconventional for me, but I love the look. After I stamped the images on the Whisper White, I cut out three areas and propped them up on dimensionals to stand out to be 3 dimensional. I also added the Old Olive ribbon and some White Ribbon for dimension as well as a clear round button with some of the DSP paper I used on the card as well as a certainly celery button on top of the clear button attached with some natural hemp twine. The greeting is from the Chit Chat Rub-ons and I added some half pearls from the Pretties Kit. I think this card turned out pretty cute.

I have had so much fun trying out the color inspirations from Kristina Werner's challenges. I am pretty famous for just copying other peoples creations, but this is actually teaching me to challenge myself and come up with some of my very own creations; that's pretty exciting. I'm sure my customers would like to know that I can actually use some creativity and help them with theirs. These colors were extremely challenging for me; it seemed like the Pacific Point and the Taken with Teal sort of clashed, but I do like them together. One of my favorite colors, Elegant Eggplant is easy for me to put together with other colors. I actually used all of the 5 colors and water colored, layered, embellished and even used a rub-on. Even though this is meant to be a "Christmas Card", it's sort of unconventional, but I like it, do you?

I decided to try Kristina Werner's color inspiration today. I really liked how it turned out and I absolutely love the color combination. What do you think?

kwerner challenge

I have never done a challenge before, but thought I would try this time because i LOVE polka dots. I used a retired set from the Three for You Punch box for the polka dots stamp on whisper white CS and embossed using the white embossing powder, then used the Big Shot to cut out the letters using the Naturally Serif Sizzlets Decorative strip die. I used a sponge dauber to color each of the letters with the challenge then punched out of the strip. I used some of the felt flowers from the last campaign and set up on dimensionals and attached apricot appeal ribbon to the chocolate chip paper embossed with white embossing powder using the canvas background stamp.