Octoberfest with an Oddball Twist

It is Tuesday and time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz.  The Oddball twist this week is to recycle something onto your card.  I used cardboard to cut out my gears with my Tim Holtz sizzix die cut.  And of course I used his distress ink to ink up the edges of everything. 

I used this darling image from Bugaboo, our October sponsor.  The prize for the month of October is 7 digi stamps from Bugaboo. How fabulous is that?!!  I used Deacon Wings and cut him out.  I didn't want the heart on my card. The background is from The Cutting Cafe, Monster Love Background and the sentiment is fromSpooky Square Sentiments.

 And here is your color inspiration for this weeks challenge. 

You will want to take the time to play along this month for your chance to win.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Craft your passion has use Kraft paper.

Crafty Cardmakers has Cute with a dark twist. 

iCopic has black and orange as its challenge.

Make it Monday with the Kraft Journal has Anything Goes.

Make My Monday has black and orange as its challenge. 

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws Sept 6th

Hello, did you all have a fabulous Labor Day Weekend?  Gene and I headed out camping this weekend.  We actually left Thursday.  We were lucky enough to find a camping spot that someone had canceled for the weekend.  Or so we thought!!  We ended up sharing our camping spot with the group behind us and beside us, so lots of traffic back and forth and through our spot.  Normally I wouldn't care because when my family goes camping there are lots of us!!!  But this time it was only Gene and I.  We decided to only stay Thurs and Fri night and head back Saturday.  Saturday and Sunday I primed my family room walls so they are ready for some paint.  OK, what has all this to do with todays challenge?  Well, I forgot to take my color inspiration so I texted Guylou for the colors and she sent me the color inspiration picture.  I totally mistook what the color fog was. I was thinking a light brown color, nope grey!!  Anywhoooo, here is my card!!

Thank goodness there is some grey in there!!  I used this fun image from Phindy's Place.

This image is called Lot's of Luck to you.  Phindy's Place is sponsoring our color challenge for the month of September. The winner will get a $15 gift cert to her store. Now, wanna see the inspiration photo?

The photo is the one I got on my phone.  It matches I think!!!  You will want to be checking out the Outlawz. We are working on a party!!!!  Plus there are so many fabulous sponsors this month.  You will want to check it out!!!!

Outlawz Color Challenge ~ August Week 5

It is that time again.  It is time for another Color Challenge over at the Outlawz.  Guylou picked our colors for us this week.  

 

Artistic August: Add a bird image, embellishment or paper

These are fun bright colors, hmmmm what to create with these colors?  How about a baby boy card.  You know my next grandchild is going to be a BOY!!! 

I made a center fold card.  I got this little stamp set from the clear dollar bin.  I used my copic marker to color the buttons to give them a brighter color.  This type of card is really hard to photograph.  The paper is from a DCWV stack, I am sure you have one of these!!!  

Remember our sponsor for the month of August is http://disdigidownloads.blogspot.com/

Have you been over to the Outlawz lately?  I hear a rumor that we are about to have a big PARTY!!!  A 1000 member party.  And we are almost there!!  I just checked and we are only 50 members away!!  Have you joined the fun yet?

Another Tuesday Color Challenge

Welcome to another Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz.  I had so much fun with these colors. I decided to do another layout with one of my favorite pictures of Gunner.  This was Gunner last year with a little cast on his arm getting into the pool.  Gotta love how he is losing his pants!!!  This is a 6X6 page that I am working on in a mini album. I am putting it together with my bind it all so you can add parts to your layout that are not quite attached but pop out of nowhere!

The paper is from Echo Park Splash collection.  The stamps from CTMH.

I cut out the shaped piece with a  Tim Holtz Sizzix die cut.

Now, for the colors!  This week was my choice. 

And your inspiration photo.  Don't you just want to jump into this picture? I do!! Make's me want to make a trip to the Coast.  However this water looks much warmer than our Oregon Coast.

My husband and I recently made a trip to the Oregon Coast.  We had fabulous weather.   I am going to add an inspiration photo from our trip.

There were so many starfish on the beach here. I don't think I have ever seen so many at one time.

When I loaded my pics onto the computer I realized I had a spot on the center of the lens. Uggh! That is so annoying!!  We also hiked a very short hike at Cape Perpetua.  Just gorgeous.  I thought I would share a pic of my hubby sitting on a stump.  It is just a little stump!!

Thanks for bearing with me while I shared some photo's!!!  Don't forget to head over to the Outlawz and check out this weeks Color Challenge.  We have fabulous sponsors!!!

Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge August 16

Today over at the Outlawz starts another Color Challenge.  This week I got some gorgeous new papers from My Mind's Eye from the Lost and Found 2 collection.  Oh my goodness they are yummy!!!  I decided to do a little 6X6 layout of my grandson Gunner.  I will be adding to this layout to make a mini album of my grandbabies.  We learned last week that our next one will be a BOY!  That will bring it to 3 boys and 4 girls.  Who woulda thought in 6 years we would go from first time grandparents to grandparents of 8.  Are you counting and 3 plus 4 doesn't equal 8?  Well our oldest daughter also informed us that she is having another baby!!  Our two girls 6 years apart are pregnant together. Too fun!!  Do you see the need for simple small layouts?  This is Gunner and these are a couple pics of him at 1.

Todays colors are brought to us by Jenn.

Artistic August: Use shells or gems

Another reason I did a layout is to show you that you don't have to make a card. You can do a layout, a mini-album, any other project using our color inspiration.  

We have some fabulous sponsors to our challenges this month.  In the Color Challenge we have 

Di's Digi Downloads

Paper Temptress.

As well as our Main sponsors.  You can check them out on the main page.

What do you think? You gonna play along?  Come on over!!

Color Challenge August 9th

 Just a reminder that it is Tuesday again and time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz. 

 I picked out this weeks colors. I hope you like them. 

And the inspiration picture:

Artistic August: Use transparent embellishment

I used my R-89 and a little copic blender solution to color my seam binding and then heat set it to get the color of my cherry red card stock. I used a stamp from CTMH that includes both the sentiment stamp and butterfly. I stamped the butterfly with Stazon on some plastic packaging and cut it out and pop dotted it. Hint: don't throw away that heavy plastic packaging, it is perfect for stazon.  I sewed the 16 paper squares on like a quilt for the Our Daily Bread Challenge that is Notions/Seamstress.  That was a challenge!!

Don't forget our sponsor this month is  Di's Digi Downloads.

Check out the main page to see all the fabulous sponsors. 

I am going to add this to the challenges at:
Cupcake Craft Challenges is sewing.
Paper Creations ink has stitching.
Pink Elephant Challenge is use at least 1 butterfly.
Pollycraft challenge is to recycle. I recycled some plastic packaging for the butterfly.
Card Cupids Blog has ribbon and buttons.
One stop Craft Challenge has make your sentiment the main part of your project.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws August 2nd

Every Tuesday I want to sing a "It's Tuesday, Tuesday, Gotta get down on Tuesday." Why isn't there a Tuesday song?  Anyways it is time for another Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlawz.  Our colors were picked by Rox this week and they are fun, fun, fun! Very summery colors.

Artistic August: Add frame or slide mount

Makes you think limeaid, lemonade, margarita-aid.  I took the colors literally and found this gorgeous paper from DCWV in the Citrus Stack.  Love it, such fun gorgeous colors.

My stamps are from Ippity.  From my very own Ippity Chick Rona.  I love saying that! hehehe

Oh my gosh, another card without copics!!  Don't worry, I have been coloring! 

Isn't this a fabulous set of stamps?  OK, now don't forget to head on over to the Outlawz and check out the challenge.  We have our very own Sara as our guest designer for the month of August.  And don't forget to check out Guylou's lovely creation as well!

As always we have some amazing sponsors.  Our very own sponsor for the month of August this month is  Di's Digi Downloads. 

Check out the main page for the monthly sponsors. So many goodies up for grabs!!

And don't forget my blog candy, available until August 13th.  Link it up.


Challenges to enter:
The Emerald Faerie Garden has use lace.
Sir Stampalot has anything you fancy.
The Craft Garden has bold, bright and loud.
Crafty Cardmakers has butterflies or flutterbies as its challenge.
Make it Monday has anything goes.

Tuesday Color Challenge at the Outlaws July 26

Can you believe it is Tuesday again!!  You all know what that means.......Time for another Color Challenge at the Outlawz!!  And such a fun color palette too! Our colors are brought to you by Guylou this week.  

Oh my gosh, isn't this a gorgeous color pallette?  The Juicy July twist is to add doodles. 

I used a new stamp this week.  Oh my gosh, I had so much fun coloring this image.  In my mind as I am coloring this I am thinking, "which one am I?" hehehehe

Do you see my doodles? I mimicked waves on the blue My Mind's Eye paper.  The yellow paper is from Echo Park splash collection.   This fun image is Girlfriends by Art Impressions.  Isn't this image just hilarious?  

So you have from now until next Monday at Midnight to upload your card to the color challenge.  Don't forget your doodles!

heheehee, just had to add a close up of these gossiping gals!  I also added polka dots to 2 of the suits.  Check out how many copics I used.  Crazy, huh?

OK, now the deets of the challenge.  The sponsor this month is Happileigh Scrappins Designs.

You will want to check out the Main page of the Outlaws to see the many sponsors we have in July. 

That is a lot of reason to join in our challenge! Hope to see you there!

OK, now to add this to some challenges:

The Pink Elephant has Fun in the Sun as their challenge.

Opus-Gluei has beat the heat.

Paper Sundaes has Beachy or Summer.

Craft Your Days Away has Summertime.

Crafty Emma's has humor/funny.

Just Some Lines has easel card.

Card Makin Mama's has food and drink. I hope this qualifies, as they are all drinkin!!

Ok, that's enough!!  

Tuesday Color Challenge

It is Tuesday again!!  You all know what that means.......color challenge at the Outlawz!!!  And such a fun color palette too! Our colors are brought to you by Jenn this week.  

What a yummy inspiration photo.  Now, you would think I would use a watermelon image.  But I didn't, I used a new stamp I received this week from Some Odd Girl.  I told you they were my new addiction, didn't I?!!

This is Tiny Baker Tia. I used one of the sentiments that comes with her. The frame is an addition to the Sweet Thinkin Mae stamp.

I was driving this week and I looked up at the sky and there were these rolling clouds, with dark sky in between. I decided to try to replicate that with my ink and a sponge. The pink paper is from Echo Park. It is hard to see on camera, but I machine stitched in a hot pink thread as well. Look close!

And of course you know I had to do a little something on the inside!

Can you see the sprinkles on the cupcake/

OK, now the deets of the challenge.  The sponsor this month is Happileigh Scrappins Designs.

You will want to check out the Main page of the Outlaws to see the many sponsors we have in July. 

That is a lot of reason to join in our challenge! Hope to see you there!