age is setting in...

I really don't know how it happened... but I totally spaced out and forgot to upload this vsn card to my blog. I will be honest here. I was not looking forward to this challenge. I've never seen the movie Princess Bride and that is what this card was to be based on. We were to take a line from the movie (good thing they provided a bunch!) and make a card from one of the movie lines. After reading the challenge rules, I checked out the movie lines that were provided. I had this Starving Artistamps Doodle Factory set out from the chocolate challenge and I knew I had to make a card with it. Call it fate if you will... I won the challenge!! YAY!

This is where I got inspiration for my card:

Westley: I mean, if we only had a wheelbarrow, that would be something.

Inigo Montoya: Where we did we put that wheelbarrow the albino had?

Fezzik: Over the albino, I think.

Westley: Well, why didn't you list that among our assets in the first place?

supplies

stamps: starving artistamps doodlefactory cart, pti green thumb
ink: memento tuxedo black
paper: su cool caribbean, apricot appeal, craft, georgia pacific 110# white
accessories: copic markers, prima flowers, ranger liquid pearls, marth stewart edge punch, su ribbon

new stuff...

This vsn challenge was to use all new goodies! If you know me at all, you know I can't keep my hands off this stamp set! This American Crafts paper is from Tuesday Morning ($2 for 25 sheets) and I got it at the same time I got that yummy fondant paper.

I rock n rolled the leaves in celery and ruby classic ink, the trunk is black because the paper is black. I am not sure I like that but what are you gonna do? I wanted to use the colors from the paper.

supplies
stamps: su trendy trees, pti faux ribbon
ink: su certainly celery, ruby red and memento tuxedo black
paper: american crafts sixth avenue gramercy park, su basic black, georgia pacific white
accessories: su black organdy ribbon, star dust stickles

l...l...l...love....

This vsn card is all about L's. Are you sick of VSN cards yet? LOL *snort*

This card has layers... letters... leaves... love... and (horizontal) lines

supplies
stamps: ctmh chocolate alphabet and boutique alphabet
ink: su baroque burgundy, soft sky
paper: american crafts sixth avenue gramercy park, su basic black, bazzil yellow
accessories: su canvas cuts

folded joy...

How great are these google eyes on this PTI Wise Owl? *love it!* This patterned paper is by scrapworks... wanna guess where I got it? WooHoo for using up old stuff! I can't believe how into this vsn challenge I was. Of course I had to do it landscape... FUN!

supplies
stamps:pti Wise Owl
ink: su regal rose, baroque burgundy
paper: su cranberry crisp, regal rose, scrapworks patterned papers
accessories: su cranberry crisp stitched ribbon, sponge dauber, piercing template and tool, google eyes

inching along...

Another VSN challenge. Inchies aren't my thing and I sure am glad that I have punches for the squares but I do like this sweet little 3x3 card :)

supplies
stamps: ginak basket of happiness
ink: memento tuxedo, su brocade blue
paper: su very vanilla, brocade blue, georgia pacific white
accessories: copic markers

an oldie but a goodie...

This card was made for the *long lost love* vsn challenge on SCS. I really love this set, and I doubt I will ever part with it. I bought the Stampscapes Migrating Bird stamp specifically for use with this set.

I think this is the same lighthouse. It's where I pulled my colors from.
http://www.lighthouse.cc/portlandhead/index.html

supplies
stamps: stampscapes migrating bird, su coast to coast
ink: memento tuxedo black
paper: brocade blue, basic black, soft sky dsp(?), georgia pacific white
accessories: su twill, copic markers, nestabilities

peeking into windows...

This vsn challenge was to make a window or acetate card. I need to get some transparencies because the ones I have are junk! They are so thin and flimsy... ugh!

I really wish this little lad was a wee bit bigger. LOL And I also wish I remembered who made this stamp set! I am thinking Inkadinkado... hum....

supplies
stamps: you know, i forget.
ink: garden green, memento tuxedo black
paper: su dsp, pretty in pink
accessories: copic markers

daytime tv...

Saturday's first VSN challenge is about what you're obsessed with. I don't know one paper crafter who isn't obsessed with everything that goes with it so I didn't want to go with that. That being said... Fine... I admit it... I watch soaps. Well, soap. I am a die hard Young & the Restless fan. I DVR every episode they air. That's four of the same episode every day... plus *all five* episode again on Saturday night. You just never know when the president will think whatever he has to say is more important than what Victor Newman is saying! If I am stamping when the soaps are on, I have to watch it again because I have to see every second! I told you I am obsessed!

supplies
stamps: studio g, ctmh classmate alphabet
ink: pti pure poppy, memento tuxedo
paper: su real red, su soft sky dsp, cheapo kraft
accessories: ribbon, michael's pearls, copic markers, staples

booted...

For this VSN challenge we were to "take a stamp set you don’t like, and incorporate it into a lovely, luscious card". This set is bittersweet for me. It surely is one I *had to have* the very second it was released but aside from the strawberry stamps I just can't ever get it to work for me... and I really don't think this car was any exception. I don't *hate* it. I just don't like it!

supplies
stamps: pti green thumb
ink: su pretty in pink, pti ripe avocado
paper: pti ripe avocado, american crafts a la mode fondant
accessories: star dust stickles, su so saffron twill, michaels pearls

a little sketchy...

Can you guess what this is? Did you say a VSN Sketch Challenge? If so, you're right! This red flower isn't really this fluorescent... it's more of a true red but I can't get it to photograph :(

supplies
stamps: pti faux ribbon
ink: pti ripe avocado, pretty in pink
paper: american crafts a la mode fondant, su pretty in pink, barely banana, georgia pacific white
accessories: primas, dmc floss, wooden button, nesties, sponge daubers, michael's pearl

split baby...

This baby has an identity crisis! LOL Really, another VSN challenge here. This one is called split negative. Usually this is done with embossing but I played with my SU pastels. I don't think they've seen the light of day since the last time I've played in VSN... what like two years ago???

supplies
stamps: no idea who makes this kiddo
ink: versamark
paper: su certainly celery, so sarrfon, pink pirouette, soft sky, dcwv nanas nursery boy and girl
accessories: su pastels, sponge dauber

chocolate loving princess...

Another VSN challenge. Good times. This challenge assigned a different color combination to chocolate varieties. We were to choose out favorite chocolate (Lindt milk for me please!) and use those colors. Fun!

I popped the heart up on a dimentional. The pearls on the princess were colored red with a copic.

supplies
stamps: ctmh classmate alphabet, starving artistamps princess winifred
ink: memento tuxedo black
paper: su close to cocoa, real red, always amethyst, gp white
accessories: copic markers, michaels pearls, su ribbon, ms lace punch

vsn makes difficult cards easy...

Last week a good friend's aunt lost her battle with cancer. It's always hard for anyone to make a sympathy card and I've been putting this one off too long but VSN to the rescue! I had this paper out because it's also from the scrapworks kit I was talking about yesterday. Isn't it purty? And I don't think I've put this stamp set down in the last three days! This challenge was to make a monochromatic card.

To get the textured look on the tree leaves, I first inked up and then patted my finger tip over the center of the image. You can use a cotton swab if you don't want to get your finger inky.

supplies
stamps: su trendy trees, warmest regards
ink: pti dark chocolate, berry sorbet
paper: pti berry sorbet, sweet blush, scrapworks ethan kate
accessories: pti satin ribbon, glitter glue, nesties

trendy thanks...

Do you even want to know when this paper is from?? OMG! I think it was from CKC in 2006 or 2007! See this is what happened:

I signed up for a scrapworks class, and they "forgot" all their class materials! Found out later that they were bought out or whatever but all they did during the whole class was give away prizes (everyone got one). They promised that we'd all get our class stuff in the mail but I never did, so I called the number they gave us and about a week later I got a box loaded with goodies :D No class stuff but at least the class fee worth of junk so I was happy! Plus, how pretty is this paper??! And this wasn't the first time I'd cut into it like that Piggy Tales goodness yesterday.

I did up the inside nice and purty so I thought I'd show it too :)

supplies
stamps: trendy trees
ink: su old olive, summer sun and real rust, brilliance graphite black
paper: scrapworks ethan kate, dcwv yellow, pti ripe avocado, georgia pacific white
accessories: sponge dauber, glitter glue, pti ribbon, copic marker