An August Core Colour Challenge and More!

Are you all ready to play along with another colorful challenge with Core? 

Here is the inspiration piece for this month from Pinterest that Debbie Standard pinned for us from the shepaperie.blogspot.com.

Isn’t it beautiful?

SIX gorgeous colours to play with…..

For the Colour Lover’s Challenge you must use a noticeable amount of Core’dinations Cardstock

on your project. And since we are technique junkies here…we wanna see some technique, too! Sanding…embossing…sky is the limit!

Link your submission to THIS post or post on our Facebook account by August 30th for a chance to win some fabulous Core’dinations Cardstock!!!

And here is what I did with the combination of all these delightful colors...

For my card I used several colors of Core Essentials and some fabulous WhiteWash which I fringe cut for added texture.  The stamps used are from the BasicGrey Marjolaine collection and I also created that super plaid edging with my favorite plaid EK Success border punch! And thank you, Ellen... for letting me use your favorite American Crafts Charcoal Pigment ink-pad for my stamping!  It really is a wonderful gray ink ;)

Next up, Core is also pleased to be partnering with Paper Trunk this month!  This is the first time I had the pleasure of creating with their pretty paper designs, and I must say that they are beautifully textured! 

Core'dinations is so excited to bring you some fun Paper Trunk projects over the next few weeks.

Make sure you head over to their blog today for some awesome inspiration, too!

Keep commenting on both the Core and Paper Trunk blogs and you just may win some cool prizes for yourselves! Just sayin'!  ;)

And here is a card that I made with Paper Trunk patterned paper and alpha stickers and some BasicGrey Core Impressions and Core Essential cardstock...

The chandelier embossing is from a Sissix folder... definitely a cool one to add to the ever growing collection of folders! 

In other goings-on here at home, must say it's been a very productive week since the hubs has been home on vacation!  We decided to stay home and get some projects done around the house so now the garage doors, the porch banisters/railings, the window shutters and both the front and side doors have all been re-painted now.  It's amazing what a fresh coat of paint can do!  But we still have plenty of rooms to paint inside and I don't even want to think about starting them now, lol!  Think we will wait till the weather cools down a bit.  After two days of sprucing up around the home we took the day and went to one of our favorite local amusement parks, Knoebel's!  We had a beautiful day of bright blue skies and we took my mom along too.  She hadn't been to the park in at least 15 years, so I was glad to see her enjoying the day there as well! Now tomorrow we may escape to Lancaster for the day... the QVC outlet is calling my name, lol!  Have another wonderful weekend, everyone!

My Core'dinations DT Into...

it's up today on the Core blog!  You can see it HERE!

For our first assignment/challenge we were to create an "all about me" page to go along with our dt profile introduction, so here is what I did...

For this I used some beautiful Teresa Collins Core Amour cardstock, "Posh Flowers" from the Prince and Princess collection. The photo itself, I printed out onto a sheet of Vanilla Cream Core Essentials cardstock.  I also did some sanding of the photo and spritzed on some Mister Huey's Calico Cream mist. The Large circle area of roses on the corner I painted on some sparkles with some Glimmer Glam paint in Chandelier and I painted the gray leaves green with Glimmer Mist spray. Those other roses are cut from Sassafras paper and I added pink glitter foam paint from DecoArt to those.  And there's also some pink Vintage Core used on here too for matting the photo.   I've also been playing around with one of my new favorite punches lately... the Plaid border punch from EK Success.  I used it here along the bottom edge of my photo because I thought it worked well with the look of the  woven texturing in the Teresa Collins Core Amour. 

I guess that's really all I have to share with you today.  It's Monday, so I've been doing a lot of catch-up chores from the weekend... got the laundry hanging on the line, and I am finishing up a DIY paint job that I started on our fireplace front this weekend.  It's coming along pretty good, so I'm satisfied.  I'll probably share pictures of all that sometime soon.  I've got so many rooms that I want to paint here at our house but I just hate the thought of actually putting it all into play.  DH has a week of vacation coming up in August so hopefully we can both kick it into full gear! Enjoy your week, everyone! 

Paper Crafts Magazine Newbie!

That's me!! Finally! 

I've been submitting my card projects to Paper Crafts magazine for quite a few years now... not consistently, but still... it has been a good number of years.  I've never had any luck with getting anything published with them, but now that unlucky streak has come to a halt.  Yesterday I came home from work and checked my inbox to be pleasantly surprised with a request for one of the 4 cards I submitted for their upcoming special issue, Go-To Sketches for Card Makers!  What a cool thrill... esp. since I read on their facebook page that there were 2,750+ submissions for this and only 288 acceptances! Plus, I am among 38 newbies to be published with this issue! So that was a great ending to my otherwise wasted and just plain awful week.  Yep, I caught the flu... and it was a doozy too.  Guess that's what I get for going back to work at a Daycare/Preschool.  I haven't been this sick since previously working in Preschool back in the 90's.  But, I'm on the mend aside from the sniffles and sneezing of a cold that just won't go away! 

So today, I am supposed to be working on some assignments for CX, but instead I've been piddlin' around here at home doing much of nothing.  I did create a card though for the Jenni Bowlin Studio crop that's happening this weekend.  JBS has added forums... did ya know?!  If not you need to register and check them out.  Lotsa fun challenges there for the crop, and I've been wanting to do more, but like I said, I've been piddlin', lol!  Anyway, here is the cute card that I did get made...

This was for a challenge to use a JBS Bingo card and at least one punch on a card design. 

I have had this bingo card and house diecut for quite some time now so I was happy to put them to good use at last.  No better feeling sometimes than to use that stash! I also added some personality to the house diecut with a paper doily which I cut, folded and inked to add texture to the roof.  I used my favorite large embossed Curve EK punch to add grass layers, and the heart I added is a Maya Road chipie, which I inked with a Latte color and added a scrap of the JBS red floral "Hotel Lobby" pp behind.  I attached it to the card with a JBS pearl rhinestone stick-pin.  Also used some denim and fabric scraps to make a shabby lil' sun accent and the stamp sentiment is a Kolette Hall stamp from Michaels.

Thanks for looking!

Hope you are finding sometime this weekend to do something fun and crafty along the way!