My BFF's Color Challenge

My wonderful friend Joanne is the hostess of the Color Combination challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers.com.  What an honor, but she so TOTALLY deserves it.  So, in honor of my friend, Joanne, who TOTALLY deserves this honor, I've used Tote-Ally Tess and the Morning Cup sets.  The color challenge is Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, and Blushing Bride.  At first I didn't quite know what to do with it and then I got this idea to make Tess into an espresso waitress.  After cutting out the oval and frame from Very Vanilla, I sponged the frame in Crumb Cake and then spritzed it with Log Cabin Smooch Spritz from Stampin' Up!  The serving tray is the smaller oval, cut down a bit and sponged on the edges.  I also cut the top half of the apron off of the Tote-ally Tess apron.  A few brads and retired DSP and this girl is ready to serve!  Hope you like her!

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Blessings,
Julie

Auction Baskets....

 Our school had an auction last night.  Since I'm scheduling this post, I'm not sure how successful it was, but they usually do really well!  As 2nd grade parents, we put a Coffee, Tea and Chocolate basket together for a silent auction item.  After we were all done gathering the items, a light bulb turned on in my head.  (got the visual there?  great in cartoon format, isn't it?!)  Here's the conversation that went on in my head....

"Hey, I have stamps for the coffee and tea theme!  Duh!  I really need to make some cards to be included in that basket!  Why was I only thinking about the real coffee and tea?  Double Duh!"
So, I quickly went home and whipped up some cards with cardstocks left over from workshop projects.  I also included the coffee card that I showed you yesterday as one of my swaps. 

And as usual, I wrote to Stampin' Up! when the auction was being planned, asking for a donation.  SU! outdid themselves this year and sent almost $500 worth of retired merchandise!!!!  I made 4 silent auction baskets with the merchandise and threw in some free Totally Hands On workshop certificates as well.  What an awesome way to support the local schools! 

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Blessings,
Julie

Most of the DSP and colors on these cards are retired.

Portland Regionals Swaps

 Yahoo!!!!  We leave for Regionals today.  I've been working on these cards for awhile and have been wanting to share.  It's so hard to hold back on you all!  This first card is my general swap.  I cut out 30 of those mugs and watercolored 30 percolators!!!!  Let's hope that it's good enough that people will want to swap with me.  Sorry that the color is a bit off on this one.  I couldn't get them "just right".  Colors should look like Naturals Ivory, Riding Hood Red, Basic Gray and Basic Black.  The percolator was colored with an Aquapainter and Watercolor Wonder Crayons.

And this is my WOW swap for some sidelines.  I sponged with my daubers over the Vintage Frame stencil with Cajun Craze, Marina Mist, and Crumb Cake.  The centers of the flowers are Crumb Cake cardstock, covered with Versamark and Iridescent Ice embossing powder.  I love how that emb. pdr. melts and looks so sparkly!  the leaves are a sizzlit and the butterflies are an embosslit.  Ok.  Now you know all of my secrets for Regionals.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and I hope that I have lots of wonderful swaps to share with you next week.

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station!

Blessings,
Julie

What a "Tea"rific Stamp Set!

When I saw this stamp set in the new catalog, I knew it was a "must have - gotta have it" stamp set! It has tea fixin's and coffee fixin's ... perfect for just about anyone. I used Stampin' Addicts' Sketch Challenge 54 as a start, but adjusted it to the stamp set. I love the new Marina Mist color, show on the bottom of this card. This will be one of the cards that we make at tomorrow night's workshop. My stamping buddy Bri is hosting. Speaking of Bri, come back tomorrow to see the adorable thank you card that she sent to me.

Thanks for stopping by the Stamping Station.

Blessings,
Julie

Recipe: Morning Cup Stamp Set; River Rock, Marina Mist, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, and Whisper White cardstocks; SU! markers, Elegant Lines Embossing Folder, Ribbon Punch and 1" Circle Punch.