Artsy Addicts Challenge No. 1

 

Welcome to the Artsy Addicts "Time Challenge"

 

This month's Challenge is all about TIME. You interpret it any way you like.

The Rules:

All you need to do is create a 4x4 mini album cover using this theme

Upload a photo of your album cover to your blog or online gallery

Submit a DIRECT link to your entry on this blog post

The Contest:

Marion, Karla, and I will pick our Top 5 entries at the end of the challenge term.

We will then randomly select a winner who will WIN A PRIZE FROM MARION.

The challenge will end on May 1st.

That's all folks. Easy as pie. (Is pie easy?? I don't normally do pie..he he)

 

As submission come in I will do a weekly round up of the posts and repost pictures and links back to your blogs and galleries here for all to see.

Don't forget to link up on our facebook group page as well.

Don't forget to leave your link in the comments below.

We can't wait to see them.

Update: In addition to the prize pack from Marion Smith you will also win a 12 month subscription to Paper Crafts Magazine from me. Yay!!!

Collecting Buttons + more...

Hi all.

Daddy Update: He is doing better now, still a few things to check out and make sure are ok before he gets a completely clean bill of health but we are very optimistic. He's out of the hospital and back home being a retired old man (hardly!). And yes, he's my daddy and always will be. Love you Daddy!!! (Can you tell I'm a spoiled non-brat?...he he)

Anywhoo,

So last week I posted a card I made for a Embellish Magazine Masculine challenge. I loved it so much I decided to do another. Once I get going........WATCH OUT NOW!! Lol. I'm on a roll.

 

 

Here's a card I made for the Totally Hues Challenge # 4

 

Everything you see on this card is handstamped. There is no patterned paper. I used to be a paper hoarder but I've moved away from it a bit (although I love love LOVE the Crate Paper Portrait Collection......it's currently in my cart though).  The more I get into the habit of creating cards, especially for challenges, I really get into stamping. Really loving stamping right now.

What I like: I'm loving the pink damask paper in the background. It's the Impression Obsession Reverse Damask Cover-A-Card stamp. It gave the most beautiful even covered stamped image. Definitely one of my favs. I stamped it in Melon Mambo ink by Stampin' Up! The Gingham paper is another IO Cover-A-Card stamp in, what else, Gingham. Super cute right??

The lady image is from the March 2011 Unity Stamp Co. monthly stamp kit club. She is so super cute. I can see getting a lot of use out of this stamp. Oh and the sentiment is from PTI - Studio Style Stamp set.

What I'm not feeling: The distressed paper behind the floral paper. Not so sure about that one. Liked it initially but not feeling it anymore.

Speaking of collecting things, I'm currently awaiting my second order from PTI this month. I ordered basics earlier last week and then ordered from the new release a few days later. As I was preparing my labels for my CD cases I realized that I've collected quite a few PTI stamp sets. I absolutely love their products because they go with my style so well, and I feel like they are so versatile. I'm not a big collector. I don't have any other collections of anything in my house but my craft studio is a whole 'nother story. Between PTI stamps, the Greeting Farm stamps, and Copic.....I've got quite a few collections going on.

What do you collect?

Well that's it for now. I need to call my Daddy and make sure he's doing ok. He has another doctor's appointment on Monday.

Sweet Stamping,

Angee Lee

Embellish Color Trends: Masculine - # 1 Dad

Last week was spring break for me. I didn't get a whole lot of crafting done, like I'd planned, because I was at the hospital all week with my dad. He had a allergic reaction to either some bad seafood he'd eaten or some medication he'd taken. It caused his throat to begin to swell. All the swelling woke him up in the middle of the night and he got up and drove himself, DROVE HIMSELF, to the VA hospital. (Crazy man. He said he didn't think he'd make it if he waited for an ambulance. The doctors said he made it to the ER just in time. Can't even imagine driving myself to the hospital while my throat is, essentially, swelling shut. Scary...)

Once he got to the emergency room they went to work right away giving him epinephrine to open his airway and stop the swelling. Well, the epinephrine reacted with another one of his medications he takes and sent it heart into tachycardia, or super fast heart rate (it was at over 120 beats per minute). So they gave him another medication to counteract the epinephrine. Needless to say 2 days later his blood test indicated that he'd has a small heart attack (probably from the Tachycardia), so they did a angiogram to make sure there wasn't any blockage in his heart.  Luckily there was no blockage in his arteries around his heart but the tachycardia did send his heart into fibrillation, which means your heart doesn't beat normally it quivers which is very dangerous. (As you can see spending 5 days at the hospital will teach you a bit of latin) To fix the fibrillation they had to perform a cardioversion (shock to the heart) to stabilize his heart rate. So he had the cardioversion and everything went back to normal. They will be monitoring his heart rate over the next month to make sure everything stays on track.

All that happened in a span of 5 days and I'm glad to say that he got out of the hospital on Friday and is doing well.

While I was awaiting the phone call that he was going to be release I happened across Sarah Martina's blog via my google reader and her entry to the latest embellish color challenge and I decided to give it a go.



Took me about 20 minutes to get this one together. And I like the result. Definitely will be doing more challenges as they are so much fun (and definitely live up to their name sake).

So hop of over to the Embellish Mag Blog to take a look at the design teams cards and submit one of your own.

 

So how did I do? I couldn't quite figure out how to get all the colors to go together so I just went with texture. All of the cardstock has some type of texture from the woodgrain pattern from the PTI Background Basics: Woodgrain stamp to the herringbone pattern on the Mat Stack 4 stamp from PTI. I also stamped the card base in IO Canvas Cover-a-Card stamp, but you can't really tell.

This challenge was so much fun and definitely a challenge. Masculine cards walk a fine line between fussy and streamlined. I hope my dad like this one. 3 Month's until Father's Day but I'm just glad that my dad is happy and healthy and at home.

Sweet scraps.

Angee Lee