TsunamiRose Designs Blog Hop - Day 2

Thank you for joining us from the Tsunami Rose Designs Shabby Chic Blog Hop Day 2! Thank you for joining us today. Today we will be showcasing the "Rose Paint Crackle" Papers in our sketch challenge of the day!

   

The papers that are available at the Tsunami Rose Designs Shop are all digital downloads that will be emailed to you. They all print at high resolution regardless of the printer used. The files are sent as PDF which is a standard for printing high resolution pictures, however JPGs and PNGs will be happily provided upon request. Printables give you more bang for your buck as you can print your favorite papers any time they fit your project!!

We also have a wonderful Facebook TRD Group! Join us and be inspired daily with a new sketch and a new card posted by the fabulous I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose Design Team!

Today's sketch is #16

I love using sketches from TsunamiRoseDesigns to complete cards. I used a piece of fushia cardstock that was 10 X 5 folded in half. The patterned paper mat is from Bazzil Vintage Marketplace and is 4 X 4 3/4. I cut a half circle out of the Bazzil Vintage Marketplace paper and added it to the left side of the patterned paper mat. I cut a 2 inch banner out of the Rose Paint Crackle paper you can find here. I added some yellow cardstock to mat the banner and placed it behind the half circle. I used a large white flower from iamroses.com that I inked with some Colorbox Razzberry ink so it would match the card and then I added a ribbon flower in the center that I got from here. I added some pink and black paper flowers from Stampingscrapping in front of the banner. I took some Recollections white plastic flowers and colored them with my Copic RV14 and Flex Letraset M965 markers. When I finished coloring them I placed them on the paper flowers. I used my McGill Vintage Label punch to punch out a piece of cream cardstock that I stamped the sentiment "Thank You". The sentiment came from my SP&Company Ultimate Sentiments II stamp set. Thanks for looking.

The prize for is $25 to spend in the Tsunami Rose Designs Shop and a copy of October 2012 ILS by Tsunami Rose! To qualify you must become a follower of all participating blogs and leave a comment! I will pick a random commenter from each day from a random participating blog! The winners will be announced November 1st.

Vanessa Toro and Rhonda Ratliff are both offering their own prizes!!

The Blog List:


1. Daisy Collins- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com/

2. Violet Foskey- http://allthatscrap4him.blogspot.com/

3. Rhonda Ratliff www.flowersbyrhonda.blogspot.com

4. Marla Howell - www.craftymarla.blogspot.com

5. Kimberly Pate- http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

6.Vanessa Toro- http://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/

7.Lynne Kirsch- http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com

8. Linda Gold- http://lindainsweden.blogspot.se/

We have a treat for you! 
You can see a full  preview  @ the  TRD facebook page! So  make sure you check them out, and definetly get your copy of Tsunami Rose Designs first Printable Journal Kit, "Life Abloom."

Remember the "Life Abloom" Printable Journal Kit will be available November 1st (12:00am EST)! Also if you are among the first 20 customers to order you will receive $5 to spend in the Tsunami Rose Design Shop!

Daisy is offering 3 free "Life Abloom" Printable Journal Kits, subscribe to her blog and comment on this blog post to be eligible!!

TsunamiRoseDesigns Blog Hop

Thank you for joining us from the Tsunami Rose Designs Shabby Chic Blog Hop! Thank you for joining us today. Today and tomorrow we will be showcasing the "Rose Paint Crackle" Papers in our sketch challenge of the day!

   

The papers that are available at the Tsunami Rose Designs Shop are all digital downloads that will be emailed to you. They all print at high resolution regardless of the printer used. The files are sent as PDF which is a standard for printing high resolution pictures, however JPGs and PNGs will be happily provided upon request. Printables give you more bang for your buck as you can print your favorite papers any time they fit your project!!

We also have a wonderful Facebook TRD Group! Join us and be inspired daily with a new sketch and a new card posted by the fabulous I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose Design Team!

Today's sketch is #3

I love the sketches that you can find at tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com. Today we were to use sketch #3 to complete a card. I used a piece of yellow cardstock that was 10 X 7 and folded it in half. I then cut a piece of fushia cardstock that was 6 3/4 X 4 1/2 to use as a mat. I chose to use a piece of patterned paper from Bazzil vintage Marketplace on the top and the bottom is a piece of wonderful paper from tsunamirosedesigns that is called "Rose Paint Crackle" and you can purchase it here. I used a Prima flower from the Whisper collection in the bottom right hand corner of the card. I placed a flower from StampingScrapping with a Recollections flower brad in the upper left hand corner of the card. I stamped the sentiment from my SP&Company Ultimate Sentiments II stamp set on some yellow cardstock that I distressed the edges using my Tim Holtz tea dye ink. I punched a butterfly border out of the yellow cardstock using my Martha Stewart punch. Thanks for looking.

The prize for is $25 to spend in the Tsunami Rose Designs Shop and a copy of October 2012 ILS by Tsunami Rose! To qualify you must become a follower of all participating blogs and leave a comment! I will pick a random commenter from each day from a random participating blog! The winners will be announced November 1st.

Vanessa Toro and Rhonda Ratliff are both offering their own prizes!!

The Blog List:
(And make sure to remember to join us tomorrow too!

1. Daisy Collins- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com/

2. Violet Foskey- http://allthatscrap4him.blogspot.com/

3. Rhonda Ratliff www.flowersbyrhonda.blogspot.com

4. Marla Howell - www.craftymarla.blogspot.com

5. Kimberly Pate- http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com/

6.Vanessa Toro- hhttp://wwwpaperkraftsunlimiteddesings.blogspot.com/

7.Lynne Kirsch- http://slasewcraftiness.blogspot.com

8. Linda Gold- http://lindainsweden.blogspot.se/

We have a treat for you! Here is a preview to all the pages that are in the journal as well as all the pockets and ephemera!

You can also view these @ TRD facebook page! So  make sure you check them out, and definetly get your copy of Tsunami Rose Designs first Printable Journal Kit, "Life Abloom."

Remember the "Life Abloom" Printable Journal Kit will be available November 1st (12:00am EST)! Also if you are among the first 20 customers to order you will receive $5 to spend in the Tsunami Rose Design Shop!


Daisy is offering 3 free "Life Abloom" Printable Journal Kits, subscribe to her blog and comment on this blog post to be eligible!!

Craft Us Crazy challenge

I found a fun challenge from an email I received from here and decided to give it a try. I used a sketch from TsunamiRoseDesigns that was from May 2012 and was Sketch 16. I used some white cardstock that was 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 folded in half. I cut a piece of black cardstock to 3 3/4 X 5 1/4 and placed it down onto the white cardbase. I added two Recollections rhinestone stickers and an arcyllic flower from papermart.com to the upper right corner of the card. I cut a piece of "Paris girl" Carta Bella patterned paper to 2 3/4 X 3 and then I rounded the two right corners of it. I placed in on my card about 2 inches from the top left hand side. I then added a 1/4" strip of script patterned paper from the "Paris Girl" Carta Bella paper stack and also a border that I cut from that same paper pack which I placed under the fleur de lis paper. I added some pink Michaels ribbon top of the fleur de lis paper. I stamped a cute girl image from the Stampendous clear stamp set called "Love Buds" with my Menmento Tuxedo Black ink on some pearl white cardstock. I stamped the image again on some pink paper from the "Paris Girl" Carta Bella paper stack and paper pieced the heart. I used my EK Success real estate sign punch to punch out a piece of cream cardstock. I stamped in Colorbox Razzleberry ink the sentiment from SP&Company called "Bold Sentiments III". Thanks for looking.

Digi Darla Challenge

As most of my blog readers know I am a BIG fan of DigiDarla and her wonderful images. They showed us how to make an explosion box here and challenged us to make one ourselves. I love a challenge so thought it would be fun to try. I used the tutorial and found it super easy to create. I used a piece of 12 X 12 bubblegum pink American Crafts paper for the bottom and then you need a 7 X 7 piece of the same paper to create the lid. I used some eyelet trim that I had purchased last year from Craigslist and some beaded flower pearl trim that I purchased online to go around the lid of the box. I added 3 Digi Darla images on the side of the boxes that I had colored with my Copics, Flex Letraset and Bic markers. The first image that I used was the Glorious Cupcakes that I colored in and the background is actually a recycled greeting card.

The next side and image that I used is called "Lil Duck and Daisy". I colored this in with my Copics, Flex Letraset and Bic Markers. I used some pretty pink polk dot paper from DCWV for the background.

I also used a freebie baloon image that I received from participating in their challenges on one side of my box. I enjoyed stamping some of them twice and popping them up on pop dots to give them more dimension.

Here is a view that shows how the box works and what it looks like partially open. Thanks DigiDarla for another great challenge!!!

Layout Challenge

I learned about a new challenge blog for layouts from a blog I recently started following. I thought it would be fun to enter the challenge which was a "Photo Inspiration" challenge. You can see the photo here. The parts of the photo that stood out to me were the bright green and turquoise colors. I also chose to add a banner because of the way the paper lanterns were hanging. I started with a piece of moss colored American Crafts cardstock that was 12 X 12. I added a piece of patterned paper from my stash that was cut to 11 X 11. I then cut a piece of teal patterned paper from my stash to 5 3/4 X 4 1/2 for a photo mat for the one picture. I added some Colorbok "Truffle" paper punchouts under one of the photos in the top left and in the center of all the photos. I stamped some hearts from the Stamps of Life "Hearts2love" stamp set in the top left corner and the bottom right corner is a frame from that set. I wil use this as a journaling area. I also stamped hearts from this set and added them to the bottom of my lace and ribbon trim! The inks that I used to stamp these images were Tim Holtz distress ink in Seedless Preserves and Peacock Feathers. I also used some stamps from the Lawn Fawn set "Say Cheese".

I decided that because the paper lanterns in the photo were hanging that I wanted to create a banner for my page in the upper right hand corner. I used the SP&Company stamp set called "Stitchery Doo Banners for the penants and the SP&Company set called "Mix and Match Kids" for the words on the penants. I used some string that I received from a friend on a package. I used two purple flowers from my stash on the end of the banner with some Recollections pearls in the center of them. Thanks for looking.

Progressive Challenge

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I love using digital images on my cards and I have found this fun group that offers the best free digital images here with the requirement that you make a project and post it. The image is from Digistamps4joy and they have a challenge this week on their blog that is "Anything goes" so I am entering their challenge as well.

I chose to use a kraft cardstock (7 X 10) folded in half. I chose some patterned paper (slightly smaller) from the Echo Park "This and That Christmas" pack to add on top of the cardstock. I then took a smaller piece of light blue cardstock and ran it through my Cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder. I colored the image with my Copic and Flex Letraset markers. I decided to try something that I have never done before and that was to print out 2 of the same image and then pop up parts of the design using Pop Dots. I chose to do that with one of the mushroom tops and 2 of the Daisy flowers.

I cut out one of my Spellbinders Francy Framed Tags 2 dies in glitter yellow cardstock and plain yellow which I stamped the sentiment on and pop dotted it up onto the glitter paper. I added some Queen and Company pearls to the bottom of the sentiment.

I added some washi tape under the sentiment along with a piece of cardstock that I punched out using my EK Success Scroll border punch. Thanks for looking

Digi Darla weekly Challenge

I love the fun digital images that Digi Darla offers and they have a great challenge here each week. This week the challenge is ABC's. I used a piece of kraft cardstock 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 which I folded in half. I then added a piece of patterned paper (slightly smaller) from Echo Park "For the Record 2" to the front of the folded card. I used my Spellbinders Label 22 die to cut out the digital image. While the die was still around my image I used my Tim Holtz stormy sky with the blender tool to give the background some color. I colored my image in using Copics, Letraset Flex markers and Bic. I love how you can use so many different markers to blend together and get the effect you desire. I added an arrow which I stamped onto patterned paper from the Stamps of Life "Cars2drive" stamp set which is very masculine in nature. Hope you enjoyed my card.

Scrap It Girl October Challenge

I enjoy scrapbooking but seem to be a year behind in photos right now. I love a good challenge which helps me complete my pages. I enjoy finding them online and here is a great place to find a wonderful monthly challenge. This month the challenge was to use 12 buttons. I do LOVE buttons and have a wonderful stash of them that I seem to hoard and use occasionally so this was a perfect challenge. I looked through my photos that need to be made into layouts and found just the one that I thought would work with some buttons.

I chose a light blue cardstock (12 X 12) from my stash to compliment the blue in the photo. I had a beautiful piece of patterned paper from Websters Pages that had some wonderful clocks on it and script writing. I chose to fussy cut the clocks out and paste them in the upper left corner. I placed a green button in the center of one of the clocks. I used the script part of the paper (7 1/2 X 6 3/4) as a backdrop for my photo that I matted on brown cardstock (6 1/4 X 4 5/8). I also used a piece of DCWV "Linen Closet" stack to punch borders using my Martha Stewart Scroll Heart punch and EK Success scroll and hearts punch and then I adhered them underneath the script paper.

I took a piece of eyelet trim that I bought from Craigslist last year and I sprayed it with my Lindy Stamp Gang Starburst Stains in Creme Brulee Cream and Dark Chocolate Truffle. I then adhered the eyelet with hot glue to the bottom of my page as a border. I added some brown and aqua trim that I bought at Hobby Lobby. I also adhered 5 aqua buttons to the trim using my hot glue gun. I used some aqua and pink paper flowers from my stash with buttons (3) in the center and placed them in the lower left corner. The gold fan that I placed by the flowers is actually a button. I added an American Crafts tag with a button covering up the hole. I added a couple of white and cream flowers and placed a vintage button in the center of the cream flower which I added underneath the tag.

I used a ClubScrap Alphabet stamp set that I found at my local Goodwill store and stamped it out to spell the title "Family" using my Tim Holtz distress ink in Peacock Feathers. Thanks for looking.

DigiDarla weekly challenge

I love the digital images that you can find at DigiDarla. They have a wonderful challenge each week and sometimes their are prizes or you receive a wonderful image free for playing along. If you LOVE digital images you really should check them out. This week the challenge was "Fancy Folds" and I loved the "Cascading card" that Lisa on the design team made so I followed her link and tried one of them for myself. I used a really cute little boy from DigiDarla. Thanks for looking.

SP&Company New Stamp release

I always LOVE this time of month when the SP&Company releases their new stamp sets. I am a member of their stamping monthly club and LOVE the new Echo Park paper pad that I get every month along with a new stamp set. When they do their monthly release they always have a challenge and this month the color is "Black". I used the fun "Mini Card Creations I" set to stamp the border and the saying "Be Happy". I then used a butterfly set from my stash to stamp out and color in with my Distress markers. I used some DCWV "Black Current" paper stack and some black cardstock. I handmade a flower out of some lace that I recently found at my local Goodwill store. Thanks for looking.

Great new Paper Collection from Webster Pages

If you LOVE Webster Pages as much as I do you will want to check out their newest addition called Best Friends. You can find all the information on this great collection here. I love the trims and the beautiful cameos in this collection. I hope you enjoying learning about this new collection as much as I did. Thanks for looking.

Sweet & Sassy Digital Challenge

The digital challenge this week here is a Tic-Tac-Toe board and you need to pick at least three of the things to use on your card. I love their adorable little mouse images. I chose to use the one in the cocoa cup with the marshmellows and candy cane except I decided to cut of the candy cane because the red/white wouldn't fit in with the colors I used. I used the DCWV Linen Clost paper stack and my adorable sketch came from tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com. I chose to emboss, use a die-cut and button. I used my Spellbinder die called "Teardrop Circles" for the scalloped background. I cut a banner out of the paper and then placed the adorable mouse image on top. I used a Fiskar stamp set for the sentiment and punched it out with my Fiskar scalloped oval squeeze punch. I added a button and some dew drops by the sentiment. TFL

Sweet n Sassy Digital Challenge

If you LOVE digital images you really should check out this cute shop to buy adorble images. They are called Sweet'n'Sassy and they offer challenges on a regular basis. I love using digital images so I like their digital challenge blog. The challenge for this week is "Hip to be Square". I decided to use the adorable "Fenton" frog image. I colored him in with my new Letraset Flex markers that I am LOVING. They have brush tips and are very similar to the Copics except they are a whole lot cheaper. I used patterned paper from the Echo Park "This & That Christmas" paper stack. I punched out the squares using my scalloped EK Success punch and my square Fiskar squeeze punch. It was a very fun card to create. I used my new Spellbinder tag dies for the sentiment. I added some bling that I had in my stash that was purchased at Tuesday Morning. Thanks for looking.

DigiDarla Weekly Challenge

The challenge this week at DigiDarla is "add a little sunshine" and you need to add some red, oranges and/or yellows to your projects. Here is the card I created using this adorable flower image from DigiDarla. I used the Echco Park "This & That Christmas" patterned papers. I used my Spellbinders Label 5 and 8 to cut out around the image and the background papers. I used my Fiskar Upper Crest border punch to add a punched border along the bottom. The sentiment is from a Hero Arts Friends clear stamp set along with the butterflies. I used a Dress It Up butterfly button to embellish the flower image. I used some washi tape and orange floral decorative tape under the label and above the border. TFL

Digital Progressive Challenge

I love using digital images and this site has such fun challenges with adorable images that are ongoing. Please check them out and join in the fun. I loved this particular image because this last year was my daughters first time to raise a pig for our county fair. I will enjoy using this fun image again on projects and especially when I make up the scrapbook pages for her adorable pigs. I used patterned paper from the DCWV "Linen Closet" stack and I used one of my EK Success "Real Estate sign" to punch out just a small corner that I added on opposite corners after inking with some distress ink. I loved this cute heart scalloped border punch and thought it would be cute under the image and as part of the dirt. I used a label die and I printed out the sentiment from my computer. Thanks for looking.