Card Sharks Continued (Week One)...

Told you I'd be back!  Just checkin' back in here quick on this Wednesday night to share my other card challenge for the week with the Nook's Card Sharks competition.

This challenge is called "Solataire"!  For this one we are to create a special card to "cheer up the lonely"! This can lend itself to a wide range of themes really... a miss you card, a thinking of you greeting, or an encouragement type of sentiment, which is just the direction I went with my, "Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining" card. 

(Remember to click on the photo to view it larger)!

And did you know that Core'dinations now has some awesome... and I do mean AWEsome new embossed Modern Prints cardstock designs to match back up to the Pink Paislee Nantucket collection? 

I used a bit of both right here on this card and if you want to see some more awesome projects with these papers and cardstock AND if you'd also like the chance to WIN some of your very own, then head straight to both of the Core and Pink Paislee blogs all this week long for some fabulous product swapping!  I will also have a layout posted to the Core blog later in the week with these super cool lines. 

Here's some more upclose detail of this card...

check out the silvery shimmer that the clouds have been outlined with!  I used a Liquid Silver DecoColor opaque paint marker along with some Tattered Angels Glimmer Glaze in "Sassy Silver"!  I LOVE this stuff... so fun to use, just like finger nail polish for card making and scrapbooking! I also used the Liquid silver and Glimmer Glaze on the small Studio Calico chipboard clouds.  My larger clouds were cut out using the Cricut Serenade cartridge.

Thanks for stopping by! ;)

More Rain, More Core'!

Another rainy day here in PA!  Days like this, all I want to do is stay inside and snuggle up on the couch! I never seem to get much at all accomplished around the house when it's raining cats-n-dogs! So at least for today while I'm waiting for some sunshine to make it's appearance, thought I'd share a few other cards that I've made recently with lots of gorgeous Core'dinations cardstock.  Afterall, Core' is sure to brighten up any dreary day! 

So for this first card, I made a "Welcome Home"  theme for which I used some lovely Jenni Bowlin Studio Core Impressions in cream... it's the pretty floral print embossed cardstock in the background! 

 I love that the print is so vintage and subtle. 

I also used some Whitewash Core'dinations on this card for the pineapples... the yellow reverse side of a piece of Whitewash for which I debossed a diamond texture with a Cuttlebug machine and a Sissix Basic Grey design folder.  I used a Brilliance inkpad in Coffee Bean to color the diamond texture.  The green palm tops of the pineapples are also made with Core'... some Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions!  I cut the pineapples with the Cricut Serenade Solutions cartridge.

And, here's yet another card that I made using the nesting dolls embossing with Core' cardstock. 

For this card I used three different colors of Core Essentials cardstock.  I paired up 2 different shades of pink in the Pretty-In-Pink Color Family (St.Valentino, Fuchsia Fizz) with Deep Lagoon, from the Teal Blues Family. I created a double matted look to this card by embossing the nesting dolls pattern onto 2 panels of the Blue Lagoon cardstock, cutting one down smaller and mating it with the Fuchsia Fizz pink.  I then mounted the smaller panel onto the larger panel, making sure to line the dolls up evenly with their outlines.  I did sand over the embossed pattern with the Core Sand It Gadget, but then I wanted the pattern of the dolls and the texture of the Core' to be even more intense, so I shaded over the embossed cardstock with a white colored pencil. 

I only used this colored pencil technique on the smaller center panel, whereas the outer panel was only sanded.  To finish this card I added two extra pink embossed dolls to the middle of the card with foam dimensional squares.  I highlighted the flowers of these two pink dolls with a teal blue colored pencil and applied silver pearl accents.  Popped on a pretty pink Prima bloom  to complete the look!

In other crafty news this week, I was extremely giddy to have had a total of ten cards picked up for publication over the weekend!  I'll have a card set and one other card in the August issue of Cricut magazine and then seven more cards in their special Cricut Cards issue!  One of my cards for that issue will even be featured as a tutorial so that makes it all the more exciting for me. 

Okay, I need to get going... I have piles of laundry that need sorting.  I do really need to do something today since I work the rest of the week.  Hope everyone is enjoying their week, and as always... thanks for stopping by :)