SBS24 Blog Challenge #1

Stamp: High Hopes
Paper: Lavender Lace; Certainly Celery; DSP by Quick Quotes
Ink: Staz On black; Lavender Lace; Lovely Lilac; Eggplant Envy
Other: rhinestones from Joann's; MM brads; grosgrain ribbon; White Sharpie; Nestabilites; aqua painters; pop dots
Card Measures 5x5


These Are a Few of My Favorite Things....I hope that you sang that like Julie Andrews in The Sound of Music! ;)

My SBS24 sisters and myself have decided to start doing weekly challenges. The first theme is A Few of My Favorite Things. Each participant is suppose to make a project/card that shows off some of their own favorites. Favorite colors...favorite stamp...favorite embellishments...whatever. I decided to start off with my favorite color: Purple (Lavender Lace to be exact). But you know what? I don't actually have a lot of purple patterned paper! I found a few, but they were pretty BUSY. And I had nothing to coordinate. Finally I came across this lavender harlequin paper. The nice thing was it had celery colored stripes running through it and I had celery paper that coordinate and celery is my second favorite color. In fact, this card reminds me of my bedroom. I have celery-ish (slightly darker) painted walls with Lavender accents, like my comforter. When our bedroom is really cleaned up and dusted and the shades are open to let the sun in and there are fresh sheets on the bed...I {heart} my bedroom. The colors and furniture and all is totally me. And I even let my dear husband in there to sleep each night. hahaha! (hey! his favorite color is green!)

Hmmmm....I got off on a tangent there...sorry. Anyhow, I'd say my VERY FAVORITE brand stamps are Whipper Snapper, but I didn't have any WS stamps that I wanted to use with this paper. I started looking through all my images that I have gotten from friends and came across this Elephant from High Hopes. High Hopes is right up there in my top 5 stamps and I thought he would look cute colored purple! I wanted to include as many of my favorite tools and embellies as possible so I needed to use one of my scalloped Nestabilities, bling, brads and ribbon. And of course I couldn't make a card of my faves without Star Dust Stickles! So I painted some in the ears.


Some other favorites that didn't make it onto the card:

• Bella Rosa by SU! cut into little patches like on this card
• Just about any Imaginisce paper
• Riley Moose Stamps
• More glitter :)
• a Cuttlebug embossing folder
• a fall themed card with fall colors
• Halloween paper

By the way-do you need to get yourself some Nesties? Sign up for a newsletter at Cut@Home and they will send you a monthly email with a 40% off coupon to purchase Nestabilities!


ATTENTION SBS24: If you have not received an invitation to the SBS24 Yahoo Group and would like to join please contact me at luv2craft @ charter.net (no spaces)



Have a Sensational Sunday!