Hip-hippo-Ray!

This week our featured Trendsetter Corinna is challenging us to create a card that Celebrates Summer! From ice cream cones to camping and everything else in between, the possibilities are endless! Have fun and we can’t wait to see what you come up with!

Despite all the crazy rain we've had this summer (we were beginning to feel a little like Noah here....) the last days have been so warm and sunny and dry and my kids LOVE to play in the water, from the sprinkler to water fights, to a pool.  So I thought these adorable hippos from the new TSG set Zoo-Pendous would fit perfectly for a summery challenge...

Isn't this pair just CUTE??? I so love their cute grins with those teeth and their googlie eyes!    You can probably also see that I stamped the rain drops from the set Under the Weather, cause I think they're so fun with their little smiley faces too, then I embossed the dotted embossing folder over top.  Lastly, some fun "waves" added with the dotted border punch along the designer paper (old SU DP).  

Brand new cardstock from SU as well, one of the new In Colors called Pool Party.   Yummy shade :)

So join us in some summery fun!

To be eligible for the giveaway, you are to create a card that celebrates Summer, and then come back to the TSG Blog to add your name and a link to your project in the InLinkz that is located at the bottom of this challenge post. This challenge is open until the winner has been announced on the following Monday (August 8). The winner will get a $5 gift certificate to use in the TSG Web store! 

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Hip-hippo-Ray!

Traveling Somewhere Exotic...

Travelling somewhere exotic...and a little out of my comfort zone! :)   This card is a sample for Edna's Dare To Get Dirty Challenge today!  It's a fun one so be sure to check it out.  For me -  this card sort of took on a life of it's own.  Once I started I didn't know where to stop.  :)

I wanted to make something that looked very old world and masculine, so I pulled out my Ranger Distress Inks and just went a little crazy.   I incorporated two Flourishes sets, Antique Map and the new Moments in Time set.  I wanted to give the feel of a very distressed map background with a rolled up edge, so I stamped the map in Vintage Photo Distress ink, then crinkled up the paper, and then just took lots of other Distress ink colors to sponge, rub on and distress.  Then I added the various map and time images over top.  

I rolled up the corner and tied it through with some twine adding the peek-aboo fancy brad underneath.  Then I thought a little punched border (Martha Stewart Quilt Edge) would look nice too.  

So....out of my comfort zone, but fun to play.  I hope you can join us in the DTGD Challenges.  If you're not yet a Fan Club member there's still time to join!  

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Traveling Somewhere Exotic...

Super Sneak Peek and Dare to Get Dirty

OOO today is a really fun day!  I have two special privileges....one is that I am a Hostess in a challenge today in the Splitcoaststampers Dare To Get Dirty week!  Woo Hoo!  It's that time of year again :)  Fan Club Members can participate in special challenges each day.  Please jump in!  Many of the Dirty Dozen Girls and Alumni are hosting challenges and making samples for challenges, it's our special gift to you Fan Club Members each year.  HERE is where the challenges will be listed each day, and you can find out the details of each challenge and participate!

And my second great privilege today is that for this challenge I get to SUPER Sneak Peek a set for you from Flourishes...Jan Marie gave me permission to show off this beauty before it will be release in about 2 weeks.  It's SO gorgeous!

YUM.  This is part of these beautiful new set that will be called Italian Garden.  SIGH!  I colored up these gorgeous tomatoes with Prismacolor Pencils and OMS to achieve a really vibrant depth, and then I did a lot of framing with Spellbinders dies, Square Nestabilities, and Fleur De Lis Square Nestabilities, as well as the Fancy Scalloped Borderabilities.   And then some texture with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder.  The card is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.   I can hardly wait for you to see the rest of this set!

I just love the sentiment!  I cut it up to spread it out over the card face, popping it up.  The designer papers you see peeking out are from Webster's Yacht Club paper and the ribbon is a gorgeous Ruffled Edge Sheer from the Flourishes Store. 

So be sure to check out the Challenge on Splitcoast today...I have two gorgeous sample makers in cindybstampin and Chupa as well and they're cards are gorgeous!  

Thanks for stopping by today friends :) I really hope to catch up on some commenting and visiting your blogs in the next days I'm SO behind!  

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Super Sneak Peek and Dare to Get Dirty