Color Me Creative Challenge - Anything Goes

Hey Everyone,

First I would like to say Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms out there!!! I know my mom sometime pops ever here, so I wanted to say Happy Mother's Day again!!! I couldn't have asked for a better mom:)

 Well I wanted to show everyone a gift bag that I made for the newest challenge at Color Me Creative. The newest challenge is Anything Goes and is sponsored by the great stamps at Chelsea Le Designs!

For the challenge I colored the Lexi with Balloons with all Shinhan Touch Twin markers and also added stickles to the balloons. I then wanted to give the stamp a glitzy look so I added Sheer Shimmer Spritz spray in frost and diamond.

I then decorated the gift bag with all handmade flowers and a sentiment.

 So make sure you check the current "Anything Goes" challenge at CMC!!

--Shannon

The Paper Shelter Challenge #111 - Love is in the Air

Hey Everyone, 

Well today starts a new challenge at The Paper Shelter, and this week's theme is "Love is in the Air". 

 For this challenged I used the love letters to create a love scene. I colored this stamp with Copic markers and also added flowers soft to give the flower box more dimension. I also added Martha Stewart punch doily, spellbinder dlite, ribbon, lace, and handmade flowers. 

So make sure you check out this week's love is in the air challenge at The Paper Shelter for a chance at a $30 gift certificate if you use a TPS stamp, if not 3 digi of your choice prize.
--Shannon

Happy Birthday Suzanne Hop!!

Do you know this beautiful person????

Oh wait... ooops...wrong one. Sorry. Do you know THIS beautiful person???? 

 Arrrrghhhh... that's NOT her!!!! Wait wait... let's get this right!!!! Do you know HER?????

THAT'S her!!!!!!! YES!!! The BIRTHDAY GIRL!!!!! Oh and honestly... yeah... those pics above... yep... those REALLY are her too!!! If you know Suzanne J. Dean... you KNOW this!! 
Today is Suzanne's birthday and well, we ALL KNOW, Suzanne would NOT want to celebrate a birthday any other way than with her favorite country star AND a favorite sports star!!! Right???!!!

And also today, Suzanne's, Color Me Creative Design Team wanted to take a little of her time to show her how much we enjoy, appreciate and love her by hopping along to share a little birthday fun and creativity with her. Join us in wishing her that the next year is filled with even more memories and love than anyone could ever hope for!

The design team went with a "Teal/Aqua" theme today. Suzanne had mentioned her desire to "look like a mermaid"... LOL... so heck, we'll play along. (Old age is old age, peeps... just smile and say... "that's nice, honey." LOL)

 

So I wanted to show everyone the card I made to celebrate the fabulous Suzanne. I used one of the new stamp from Mo Manning, April and she is colored with a mixture of Copic markers and Shinhan markers. I also added a sentiment that just had to be about Copic since Suzanne is our Copic Queen.

To complete this card I added handmade flowers, ribbon, lace, and a metal corner flourish. Now I wanted to give the metal a distress look so I added Tim Holtz distress crackle paint.

Suzanne, I hope your birthday is filled with happy memories and lots of love! So Happy Birthday to our “Copic Queen” Suzanne!!

Now hop along with us to enjoy more of the Design Team's creations for Suzanne.
Tina Gilliland
Brook Guinn
Anary Baumgarth (guest DT)
Melanie LaBelle
Marie Gamber
Pat St. Martin
Jenn Cochran
Michele Spera
Andi Murdock (guest DT)
Shelby Goolsby
Marti Wills Linda Payne
Julie Price
Karen Gauthier
Shannon Kromeke (You’re Here)
Kim DeRuosi

Thanks for sharing Suzanne's day with us!! We KNOW you all love her as much as we do and we couldn't be happier to be working with such an awesome lady!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SUZANNE!!!!!

*HUGS*

Wee Stamps - Summer Fairy

Hey Everyone,

Well April is coming to an end and that means my time as April Guest Designer for Wee Stamps is also. I have had a fantastic time working with Sylvia Zet’s Wee stamp and wanted to share with everyone my last card as guest DT. But first I would like to thank both Sylvia and Mariska for all their hard work that this ladies do at the Wee Stamp blog.

Now on to the latest card that I made using the Summer Fairy stamp. When I sat down to color this stamp I wanted to keep it mainly with just two colors. I choose the two main colors of blue and pink, and colored almost all the stamp with Copic makers but I used Shinhan Touch Twin Markers for the hair. Man do I wish my hair was that long:)

I wanted the card to look nice and girly so I add lace, ribbon, crystals, flower and of course butterflies.

So make sure you check out Wee stamps, they are available as digi and rubber stamps!

--Shannon

Color Me Creative 3rd Birthday Bash

Hey Everyone,

Today Color Me Creative is celebrating its 3^rd Birthday with a fabulous blog hop with all the talented ladies of our design team.  CMC will also be having other fun events every day and there will be prizes and winners for each challenge. Also Suzanne is running a special BOGO sale on classes, for more details on the fun and any restrictions please check out  CMC's 3rd Birthday Bash Event Site! So I hope that everyone will join in for this fantastic event!!!

Now if you are hopping along the fantastic blog hop and you just came from Kim DeRuosi, and you are on the right track. One of the events for celebration is an ALL ABOUT CELEBRATIONS challenge, and this is sponsored by Saturated Canary! I wanted to show everyone the card I made to celebrate CMC’s birthday. The front of the card I decorated it with a mixture of handmade flowers, purchased flowers , metal sentiment and lace.

I also used great Saturated Canary’s Ellie’s Birthday stamp and colored her with Shinhan Touch Twin Markers.

For the inside I added Ellie’s Birthday stamp not colored and “Happy Birthday” noted in various languages also including  embossed flourishes.

If you would want an extra chance at a prize, make sure you leave a comment at each DT member’s blog hop post for a chance to win (1) of TWO crafty online store gift certificates.

Now the next stop in the hop is Andi Murdock (guest DT), also here is a complete list of the hop in case you get lost.

Suzanne Dean
Tina Gilliland

Marie Gamber

Karen Gauthier

Melanie LaBelle

Jenn Cochran

Shelby Goolsby

Linda Payne

Dana Joy

Pat St. Martin

Julie Price

Marti Wills

Kim DeRuosi

Shannon Kromeke

Andi Murdock (guest DT)

Michele Spera

Brook Guinn

Hope you enjoy the great events at Color Me Creative 3^rd birthday bash!

--Shannon

Wee Stamps - Rosetta

Hey Everyone,

Busy day today this is my second post for the day, well I wanted to share with everyone a new Wee stamp. The Rosetta stamp is part of the new April release and is available as a digi but you prefer rubber stamps, you can purchase it through Whimsy Stamps.

 For this card I cut the fabulous stamp with the Spellbinder Floral Oval then colored it with Copic markers. I then added a mixture of flowers, pearls, and ribbon to create this card. I also used the Spellbinder grand labels twenty –three to add some shape to the bottom of the card.

 

Hope everyone checks out the fabulous collection of stamps by Sylvia Zet.

--Shannon

The Paper Shelter Challenge #109 (All About Boys)

Hey Everyone,
Today starts a new challenge at The Paper Shelter and this week’s theme is All About Boys. I don’t make many male inspired projects but TPS has so many great masculine stamps and I had a hard time picking which stamp to use. For this project I decide to make a tag/bookmark, and I used the great Soccer Star stamp.

I colored this stamp with Copic makers and Shinhan Touch Twin Makers, then added the Memory Box Starry Wreath die around the stamp.

So make sure you check out this week’s All About Boys challenge at The Paper Shelter. As always you could have a chance at winning three stamps of your choice but if you use a TPS stamp you could a $30 gift Certificate.

--Shannon

Supplies Used:

Stamps: The Paper Shelter – Soccer Star

Paper: DCWV Cardstock, Kraft Paper, My Mind’s Eye – Hattie Pap : Shella Rose by Jenn Allyson, DCWV – Metallic Texture Stack, Copic X-Press It

Tools : Copic Markers, Shinhan Touch Twin Markers, Spellbinder : Classic Ovals, Memory Box – Starry Wreath, Tim Holtz Distress Tool

Embellishments: Ribbon, Sticko – Letter Stickers, Memory Markers – Star Brad

I am entering this card into the following challenges:

Divas by Design Challenge : Inspired by a movie (Air Bud 3)

Pennys Challenge : Pennys challenge 124 - Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Challenge : Simon Says,,,,,,,Anything Goes :)

The Sisterhood of Crafters : It's a FREE FOR ALL . . .

 

Wee Stamps - Flower Fairies

Hey Everyone,

First I wanted to tell everyone that the lovely Sylvia Zet of Wee Stamps has created two new fabulous stamps. Now today I am showing everyone a card that I made with the Flower Fairies set.

 I colored this great stamp set with a mixture of Copic markers and Shinhan Touch Twin markers. I also accented the flowers on the stamp with liquid pearl. To complete this great card, I used all handmade flowers, lace, doily  and some flashy glitter ribbon!

Tomorrow I will be showcasing the second new stamp named Rosetta, both stamps are now available as digi from Wee Stamp. Now if you love to work with rubber stamp, both stamp will be available through Whimsy Stamp starting April 24, 2013!

Hope to see everyone back here tomorrow for another great Wee Stamp!

--Shannon

Little Darlings {Saturated Canary} - Blanche

Hey Everyone,

This week is going to one busy week for my blog, I will featuring 2 brand new Wee Stamps, a new challenge at The Paper Shelter and on Friday Color Me Creative officially start the Birthday bash!!

Today I wanted to show everyone a door hanger that I made. I recently found this great laser cut wood frame at A.C. Moore and thought it would make a great door hanger. I decide to pair it with the great Blanche stamp from Saturated Canary, this stamp can be purchased as digi and as a rubber stamp from Little Darlings.

 I colored this stamp with Copic markers and then added liquid pearls and enamel accents around the stamp.

I finished the hanger off with little ribbon and Momenta Metal Butterflies.

So make sure you check tomorrow for a card with a brand new Wee Stamp!

--Shannon