Friday, April 11, 2008

Oh What a Night!!

If you didn't make it to the pj party tonight, you missed a great time!!! Charmaine hosted three fantastic challenges and Christie made a big announcement!! Christie has asked me to join their design team and be an official Prettie Girl!! YAYY!!!! She asked if I wanted to finish my guest designer term and I told her it was up to her! She officially promoted me and found herself another guest designer. The new guest designer is Jackie Rokowski and she is super talented, be sure to check her out in the guest room!! Also, be sure to read the note about shipping on the front page of the Paper Pretties site when you go shopping. There are a few glitches, but I assure you Christie will make it right!!

On to my challenge cards!! The first challenge was to make a card with Bold and Bright colors-gaggg!! I loathe the Bold Brights, but I sucked it up and eeked this card out. I tried to make myself feel better by using mostly purple since it is my favorite color. The colors on this are Lovely Lilac, Orchid Opulence, and Gable Green. I colored the image from Simply Special with my SU markers and blended it with my aqua painter. I then outlined the whole image in Prismacolor Cool Grey marker. To make it pop out, I covered the whole thing with Crystal Effects. To offset the bright colors, I used mostly white on this and added some texture with my Swiss Dots embossing folder.
stamps-Simply Special and Warmest Regards(SU)
paper- Orchid Opulence, Lovely Lilac, Gable Green and Whisper White
ink-Black Stazon
tools- SU markers, crystal effects, perfect pearls, swiss dots folder, cuttlebug, narrow organdy.


The second challenge was to make a card using glossy cardstock. You could use any technique you wanted, so I chose to use the faux linen technique. I got the instructions for this from a wonderful tutorial over on SCS by Beate. She really is a master at that stuff!! I started with my glossy paper and then stamped the Filigree background stamp in Rose Red. I sanded my paper going in both directions(up and down, and across) and then sponged on some So Saffron ink. I then sanded it again to soften it. I was surprised, but it really does feel like linen, who knew!!LOL!! I then stamped Cuddle Me Sophia in Black Stazon on Whisper White and colored her with my SU markers. Lucky me, my oval Nestabilities got here today, so I used them to cut her out.
stamps-Cuddle Me
paper-Rose Red, So Saffron, Whisper White and Glossy White
ink-Black Stazon, Rose Red and So Saffron
tools-Cuttlebug, Nesties, SU markers, wine organdy, gold brads, sanding block



The third challenge was to make a long card. I have to say, this one hurt a little!! I started with this paper that I was dead set on using. I picked colors to match it, and then COULD NOT get it to work the way I wanted. I ended up some how keeping the colors of the paper, but not using the paper. You only have an hour to finish these challenges, so I really didn't have time to scrap it and start over so I had to make it work. So what did I do, I covered it with ribbons and white brads and called it good!! This card is HUGE by the way, 4x9. It will fit in a business sized envelope. I colored Lexi with my SU markers and silver pen and cut her out. She is layered on Real Red, So Saffron and Regal Rose. I used some Real Red and So Saffron DSP too. Thanks for looking and have a great day!! I have a bunch of RAK's to post, but they may have to wait until tomorrow!!
stamps-Made With Love
paper- Real Red, So Saffron, Regal Rose, Whisper White, Prints Pack and So Saffron DSP
ink-Black Stazon
tools-SU markers, silver glitter pen, rose grosgrain, white taffeta, white brads

12 comments:

  1. Jess! I loved your crds tonight it was lovely getting a chance to chat with you too. Congrats on the promotion and thank you for the compliment, you are super talented yourself :)

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  2. CONGRATS PRETTIE GIRL !!!! Christie is so-o-o fortunate to have you on her design team! Not to mention that you're keeping some pretty good company over there at Paper Pretties too!

    Your cards are BEAUTIFUL, as always, Jessie!

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  3. Congratulations! You sooo deserve it! Wow! I just love visiting your blogs and seeing your latest creations. Thanks so much for sharing your creativity and your news with us :)

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  4. Woo hooo - what awesome news!!! I'm so sorry I missed the PJ party that much more. I just couldn't make it home on time. I'm just so tickled pink for you - huge hugs friend and thanks for showcasing such amazing samples of these sets...you really sold me on the stamps.

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  5. Wow, congratulations!!!! That's awesome. I was at the Pajama Party and I missed that..I must have been loading my shopping card {grin}. I can see why she picked you as a permanent DT member. You're work is great!

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  6. CONGRATS, CONGRATS, CONGRATS!!!! I'm so sorry I missed the party, some of the down side of being on a road trip!! But waaaaaaay to go my friend!!! No surprise either, you are so awesomely talented!! Just LOOK at these challenge cards!!! WOWZERS!!!! Even the color family you hate.....produces a stunning card!!! And the linen bg is now something I will have to try!!!

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  7. Congratulations on the design team--woohoo!

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  8. Congratulations, Jessie!! What fabulous news! And I received the most beautiful RAK in the mail today with my favorite (that's been released -- I have a new favorite being release next month, though, for very personal reasons!) MFT set... I love it! Thanks, friend! : )

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  9. CONGRATULATIONS!!! What smart people they are snatching you up before you are asked to be on 10 more DT's!! Way to go Jessie! You are remarkable talented, incredibly sweet and a shining star in all ways! Love ya girl!!

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  10. OMGosh, Jessie...I go out of town for a couple of days and look what I come back to...YOU GO GIRL. It was really just a matter of time before someone snatched you up for a design team! I'll bet you can barely contain yourself between this and the MFT guest spot. Woohooo!

    Laura

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  11. congratulations, Jessie! seems like you had fun stamping in your jammies - love all your cards

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  12. OMG! Jessie, I don't think I congratulated you on your official promotion to Prettie Girl!! Fantabulous!! You so deserve this. You are super talented and just seem downright sweet too! :)bwque

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