Channelling Jimmy Buffet....

(*Edited: I am also submitting this card to the Creative Paper Artists

March challenge "Take Me Somewhere Tropical".)

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Today is the first Heart2Heart Challenge of 2011!

I'm so excited, as this is my first post as a member of the design team. I must thank Mary again for inviting me to be on this awesome team!  I have been so inspired by the creativity of the former Design Teams and by all of the challenge entries, so to be invited to share my favorite CTMH products as part of the DT is a very big honor.  (Ooh, I just felt my face flush as I typed that! I do believe I am nervous!)  Ahem, on to the challenge...

It's a color challenge!

Create a project using CTMH colors:
 SKY, PEAR, COLONIAL WHITE
plus a touch of SORBET if you wish.






Did you ever have a craving for a Margarita at 9:00 AM after running the kids to school? Ok, it was a rhetorical question... no seriously.... I can't be the only one!?  I will admit to humming Jimmy Buffet songs the entire time I made this card. 

This is the happy place I go to when I'm doing yoga:

All supplies used are listed in the recipe at the end of this post,

and here is the summary of what I did to create this card.

First, I masked the setting sun and horizon, and brayered and sponged the scene using Sky, Pear, and Sorbet inks. I didn't take pictures of this process, but I will refer you to the master, Michelle Zindorf, who has literally hundreds of easy to follow tutorials on her blog illustrating this background technique step by step.

Then I tore some Colonial White scrap cs, and inked the edges a bit with Sorbet to look like sand.

For the beverage, I free handed a margarita glass onto some vellum, inked it with Pear ink on the reverse side, then scored and folded the edges under. I ran a bead of Liquid Glass along the rim, and sprinkled it with Prisma Glitter, cut a slit in a lime wedge image and stuck it on too, then let the glue dry while I  made myself a margarita  browsed my Google Reader blogs.  I added mini glue dots to the folded under vellum edges, placed the left side down first, squeezed it a bit so it curled out before sticking the right side down.

Here's a closeup that shows how it is attached to the card, you can just barely see the folded vellum edge:

Then I stamped the sentiment, and matted the card front in sorbet cs, sky blue cs, pear B&T paper from the Olivia Level 2 paper pack, and finally mounted it on a Colonial White card base.

Honestly, the brads and pearls kind of took on a life of their own, plus after 2 margaritas I could no longer pierce a straight line, and I thought they looked like beach pebbles and seashells, so I just kept randomly placing them on the "sand" border mat until I ran out of room.

Then I looked out of my window at this scene:

And I looked back at my finished card, and

now I really want another a margarita, and my toes in the sand...

It's 5:00 Somewhere.

Amen Jimmy!

For some more fabulous inspiration using these colors, check out what the talented gals in the H2H design team have come up with!  When you're all inspired, please play along! Remember, you must use mostly CTMH products, and please list all the products you use.  Link your project to the Heart 2 Heart challenge blog for a chance to win yourself an awesome prize.  Your entries could also be chosen for our January Top Ten, where you may be invited to be an upcoming Guest Designer! Speaking of Guest Designer, you have to visit our January gal Vicki's blog, she's a wizard at crafting paper!

The awesome prizes this month are courtesy of  our very generous sponsors  Haley Dyer and Susan Winter.  Do pop over to their blogs for a visit and leave them some love! 

Thanks for visiting!

Lorrinda

Recipe:

All product CTMH

Stamps: D1228 Chillin' (sentiment)

             B1351 You're Sweet (lime)

Inks: Pear, Sky, Sorbet

Paper: cs in Sky, Sorbet, and Colonial White

           Pear B&T duo paper from Olivia Level 2 pack

           Vellum

Brads: Spring, Summer and Basic Assortments

Opaques in Pearl and Mocha

Liquid Glass

Prisma Glitter

Tools: Piercing Tool Kit

            Rubber Brayer

            Sponge

            Bone Folder

            Paper Trimmer

Techniques: masking, brayer and sponge backgrounds,

                     paper tearing, edge distressing

Life is like a box of...cherries!

Kim over at P3 has come up with a fabulous new challenge for June!

The challenge....make a treat container!

The rest of the design team has come up with their usual fantastically talented submissions, pop on over to Paper Cubed to check them out! If you click on the links, you'll go directly to their blogs...be sure to leave them each a comment!  Who knew treats could be so cute?

Here's what I was inspired to make.  I chose a picnic basket, because what's a better treat than a summer picnic?

I'm on a bit of a cherry kick, and I just love this paper! It's a new paper pack from CTMH called Cherry-O. I used a picnic basket template and layered it with cs and dp from the Cherry-O collection. The tag was cut on my Cricut using the Tags, Bags, and Boxes cartridge. I used chocolate embroidery floss for the stems and a cool dome shaped red bead for the cherries. See the lacy border around the top of the basket? I threaded cranberry velvet ribbon through the scrap of eyelet lace to make this cute accent.

I had so much fun I made two, here is another little picnic basket shown beside the original one to show the difference in size:

Why did I make two? Because they are so easy to make and because treats come in different sizes! Here they are open so you can see what I put inside:

Don't ya love the cherry tissue paper?

It's just plain old tissue paper(and by old I mean reused) random stamped with cherries to make it new again! These baskets are super cute without the tissue paper, but doesn't it just add something special?

Before you all start emailing me for the template for this adorable picnic basket, I must apologize for not being able to share, I wish I could...but, it is a copyrighted template and I don't want the blog police after me.  It is the "Pack a Picnic" template from PTI's My Timeless Templates. Yes, I (gasp) purchased it. But, I think it was worth it, they're easy to make and just look at them! How cute can you get?

But, since I love you all, I will share this... you can go HERE to get the Pack a Picnic template for your very own! OR....you can play along with us at Paper Cubed this month, for a chance to win a gift certificate to get some of these templates!

RECIPE:

All product available online from my CTMH site:

X7123B Cherry-O Level 2 Paper Pack

X5810 Creative Basics Cherry-O Collection

Z1320 Tulip Mini-Medley Accent collection

Exclusive Inks in Chocolate, Sweet Leaf, Tulip

Cardstock in White Daisy, Crystal Blue, Chocolate, Sweet Leaf, Tulip

Embroidery Floss in Chocolate and Tulip

My Acrylix Stamps: C1409 Beary Busy ,  

                               B1306 Cottage Floral ,  

                               B1351 You're Sweet

Z1114 Piercing Tools

Z338 Paper Trimmer

Z341 Mini Glue Dots

Other products used:

Pack a Picnic template by Lauren Meador for PTI My Timeless Templates

MS Scallop Border punch

Red bubble beads on the tag are from my daughter's bead drawer

White eyelet lace is a scrap from my ribbon bin

White, Blue and Green tissue paper is recylcled from my gift wrap box (Yeah, I never throw anything away)

Cherry muffins by moi (that's the only French I know)

Chocolate Cherry candy (my hubby's FAVE) by Hershey Canada Inc.

Please join us at P3 and play along by entering your treat container in our June challenge! I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Lorrinda