Color Throwdown 555 - hello

Hello.

I have my weekly Color Throwdown card to share with you featuring a dreamy combination of green, yellow, pink and lavendar. I'm not usually drawn to softer colors such as this, but I'm pleased with the results of my watercolored efforts. 

 foliage (99867) | hexagon (14228)

I also want to share the inspiration for my card which I came across on my "Cool Cards" Pinterest board. THIS card by Joy Taylor served as my literal inspiration but I used Silhouette cut files to recreate the shapes of her card and then stamped the teeny 'hello' from PaperTrey Ink's Desktop Design (I don't believe it's available any longer). 

#ctd555 | #ctd | CTD555

Click on through the rest of the team links below along with our guests for more dreamy inspiration with this week's colors...

Color Throwdown Blog

Amy Rohl

Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders

Broni Holcombe

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Vickie Zimmer 
Wanda Cullen
Lucie G, August Guest Designer, LucieG Cards
Kelly Schirmer, Guest Star Stamper - Gingham Girl

Administrative Professionals' Day - Thank You!

As is often the case (and I love an excuse to get crafty), I was once again asked to create cards for our Administrative Professionals for their big day this tomorrow. I enlisted the help of my Silhouette Studio software and personal printer.

Use your Silhouette files to print (no cut) customized cards and crafts.

Silhouette files:

typewriter

notebook paper

apple

Fonts:

Century Schoolbook

Halo Handletter

It's not too late to create a sweet card for the administrative professional in your life!

~Amy

Baby Shower - It's a boy!

We hosted a baby shower for our daughter over the weekend and I thought I'd share the party decor and games I created using my Silhouette Studio software. Above is a group shot of everything with close-ups of each below. Please let me know if you have any specific questions and I'll do my best to answer.

welcome sign 

banner flags|wrapped succulents

 it's a boy banner

 diaper dollars sign

scratch off tickets

thank you notes

 

I'll leave you with links to items and materials below and thanks for stopping by today!

~Amy

scratch off stickers
MFT Sweet Tooth card stock
Silhouette Design Store - baby elephant
Silhouette Design Store - baby bottle
Silhouette Design Store - onesie

Halo Handletter font

Sketch Block font

succulents

Oh, cheez. It's yer birthday, yah!

I have a fun one to share with ya today, folks, and I tink I'll be makin' a couple more a dese here cards fer my stash, yah. Ü

If you follow along here on the old blog, you probably know that my daughter is going to college in Alaska, so I decided to send her a little 'love from Wisconsin' for her upcoming 20th birthday...did I just say '20th'?! Where does the time go?! Kendra loves her 'Sconnie roots, so I think she'll get a big bang outta this one!♥

I started with a cream colored card base, stamped it with a row of polka dots from Paper Smooches Geo-Graphic, and then layered on a Die-namics Fishtail Flag, a Silhouette WI shape and a 100% sentiment from LLD Document It - Off the Chart. I used two different fonts (Impact & Learning Curve) that I typed and placed on top of the WI shape for the sentiment shown above. Then, I filled them in with color (yellow and black) as well as changing their outline color to the coordinating color. I'm going to refer you to this tutorial from the Silhouette Blog for further instructions on the Print & Cut feature that I used to personalize my card.

 

The card inside uses more fun products from My Favorite Things: Die-namics Fishtail Flags Layers STAX, DC Lollipops Additions - Love, LLD Document It - Captured Memories, and DC Just My Type. Love the mixy-matchy look of all the MFT stampage!

And with that, I'll sign off with a Happy Birthday to my beautiful daughter, Kendra! ♥
~Amy

happy birthday {stud muffin}

I've always gotten a kick out of the 'stud muffin' reference and finally got a chance to express it in paper. This one's for my 'stud muffin' nephew, Jens, who turned 17 last week.

Yep...he's a stud (muffin).

I started with a Silhouette Cupcake Card Kit and eliminated the cherry-on-top thereby transforming the cupcake into muffin. That's legal, right?! Before assembling the cupcake envelope, I ran it through the Big Shot with my Die-namics High-Rise Alphabet Lowercase letters to spell out 'stud' on the front. I added a layer of turquoise cardstock behind the negative space to add a punch of color and then stamped 100% from LLD Document It - Off the Chart and a double circle stamp from DC Lollipop Additions - Love.

Here's a view of my little 'stud muffin' all in one piece. I added a glassine bag 'liner' inside the envelope and baker's twine around the outside. Isn't he cute?!

The 'muffin' insert is simply stamped with a birthday sentiment from DC Just My  Type...love the simplicity!

I have a couple more stud muffin in my family with upcoming birthdays, so I'd better get back in my studio and bake up another batch of these cuties!
~Amy

Moose You in Alaska!

I'm always reminding myself to find the good in every situation...I'm a work in progress...it takes alot of reminding! Anyway, having my daughter way far away in Alaska has made me realize (here's the good) that her current location is serving for some fun inspiration: moose, trees, snow, more snow, more moose...you see, right? Ü

Here's the laundry list:

• moose from Silhouette
• YNS Tree Trio die (my new love)
• sentiments from Paper Smooches (Chubby Chum Pals & Word Salad)
• yummy paper (Fancy Pants Hopscotch 6x6)
• woodgrain embossing plate from PTI

Have a great weekend!
~Amy

YNS New Release Blog Hop

Welcome to the YNS New Release Blog Hop! If you hopped here from Susan's blog, you're on the right track, and when you're finished here, you'll hop on along to Jen's blog.

Meet Zina from Africa, now a member of the World Kids Collection! I've done my best to dress her up using Copic colors to match patterned paper from Daisy D's Autumn Collection (Fall in Love). The giraffes in the background were cut with my Silhouette and then placed in a row of die cut grass. The gold embossed sentiment is from Mixed Bag of Greetings, also from YNS.

Here are the official blog hop details:

Blog Hop Starts: Wednesday, February 8th
Blog Hop Ends: Monday, February 13th at midnight (EST)

Hop Prize – World Love stamp set – one of the YNS DT Members is a secret blogger, so leaving comments on each of the hop participants gives you the best chance at winning! The winner will be announced on the YNS blog on February 14th.

Hop Specials – 15% off entire order – online code is YNSFEB2012 (code valid until Feb 15th).

Thanks for stopping by and remember to leave a comment for your chance to win World Love (I'll be back with a card using that set on Friday).
~Amy

Odds & Ends Before 2011 Ends!

A few odds and ends to share with you as I tie things up for 2011...

Mustache by Silhouette accompanied by computer generated sentiment

 MFT die, TCP Admit One sentiment and Silhouette cuts

Sentiment from PTI and TCP CutUps Circus Panels

7 Gypsies tray with subway art by Kerri Bradford

Reindeer using TCP CutUps Pennant and Snowflakes Lace Paper antlers

Silhouette snowflake

Stocking and holly from Silhouette

And with that I'd like to wish you all a FAN{TACHE}TIC New Year!

~Amy