PP100 - Celebration Party 100th at Paper Players

The Paper Player is having their 100th Party Challenge, PP100 and as you can see, you can choose any of your favorite past 100 challenges. Therefore anything goes this week and how cool to see which ones are people's most favorite.

For me, it's hard to select just one favorite, so instead, I looked at it with fresh eyes and went through all of the previous sketches they had and loved Challenge #40, since I love punches and this sketch gives me the perfect opportunity to do just that.

Here is the sketch:

Since my DSP Twitterpated was out and about, I went with that and for contrast used Real Red. The funny thing was, I realized in the end, Riding Hood Red is one of the coordinating cardstock for it, but Real Red works just as well.

For this card, I pulled out the Owl Punch which is so fun to play with and made a girl version with it. Colors used were: Early Espresso, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight and Lucky Limeade for the leaf. The Doily was from the now retired DSP (Flirtatious Specialty)

For these cute little flowers, the stamp set: Language of Friendship was used along with the Boho Blossoms Punch and Island Indigo ink. Stampin Dimensionals were used to pop them up and placed at random. For the side, Dotted Scallop Ribbon Border Punch was used in Whisper White.

For the sentiment, used now retired set: Perfect Words since I'm giving this card to my sister and thought it was perfect for her aside from the fact it was super late at night when I finished this card and this set was right next to me. She loves Owls.

If you haven't stopped over yet, click here to go directly to The Paper Player website and if you want to see Challenge #40 and get some other ideas, click here. Hope you Enjoy and have fun!!

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PPA105 - Color Challenge - Perfect Words

Another week at the Pals Paper Arts with this week being a color challenge. If you would like to join the fun click here to go directly to their website. It's quite easy, all you need to do is create a project using this week's color challenge and link it up to their website.

Here is mine

Tried to focus on a quick but easy card and at the same time wanted to get a quilted look that I've been seeing alot of. Therefore, I punched out 3 square using DSP Island Indigo, Lucky Limeade, and Daffodil Delight and adhered them to the card first.

Next, I took the new embossing folder called Houndstooth and not only once but twice ran it through. First, facing up and than I turned it backwards and ran it through again.

I got an interesting result as you can see in the close up photo.

I added a punched out flower for the focal point using the Blossom Bouquet Triple Layer Punch, which I did not run through the embossing folder, but did use stampin dimensionals, so that it would pop out above the rest.

Added Basic Pearls on top of the squares and flower. Finally added, Pear Pizzazz ribbon (since I didn't have the new ribbon Lucky Limeade...next on my wish list)

Last but not least, added sentiment using Island Indigo with a new set: Perfect Words (hostess set)

Here is a tip......use a stronger adhesive when laying down cardstock that has been embossed through a folder for it to hold down alot better unless you use stampin dimensionals. In this case, I use sticky strip to hold down the main base (3 1/2" x 4").

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