Royal Blog Tour......Welcome to my castle! Silhouette Sentiments

I want to welcome everyone to the Fall Royal Blog tour and to my castle!

This is the first time I have participated in the tour; although I have enjoyed visiting many castles in the past. Hope you have enjoyed the tour so far.

The stamp set I have chosen to profile for this tour is one of the hostess sets in the current Stampin"Up Idea Book and Catalogue called Silhouette Sentiments. I found it to be a very versatile set and fun to use.It can be found with the level two hostess sets in the front of the Idea Book and Catalogue, page 11.

First up I have created a note card gift set using:

Paper/Card Stock: Poppy Parade, Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait, DSP is from the InColor Paper Stack.

Inks: Poppy Parade, Daffodil Delight, Peach Parfait, Pear Pizzazz, Early Espresso Stampin'Write markers

Accessories: Bigshot, Square Lattice embossing folder, Big Shot FrameScalloped Oval die, Twill Ribbon in Poppy Parade and Peach Parfait, 1/8 inch Taffeta ribbon in Daffodil delight and Early Espresso, Extra Large Oval punch(wide oval) for the handles, Scalloped Oval Punch, new Medium 3/4 x 15/16 inch oval and the Decorative Label punch from the Holiday Mini catalogue, 1inch Circle punch, Basic Pearl Jewels, Beautiful Wings embosslit, linen thread

The pearls are colored with the Stampin'Write markers to give them a different feel/look it is very sutle but pretty. I put a white oval, from the center of the Big shot Frame Scalloped Oval on the inside of each note card so there is a nice place to write a note. I appologize for the poor photography, we've had a very dull dreay week here and the pictures are not as clear as I'd like.

Next I did a more masculine flavor using an Early espresso base for the card, I ran a piece of Very Vanilla card stock through the Big Shot with the square lattice embossing folder that was inked on one side with Crumb Cake classic ink, I used the Scalloped Oval and Decorative label punches for the focal image and stamped it in Early Espresso Classic ink. The images on the bottom of the card are Stamped in Crumb Cake ink on Crumb Cake card stock and embellished with some 1/8 inch Early Espresso Taffeta Ribbon

Using the Marker technique this set is perfect to create inserts for the Simply Adorned Charms; this one is the 1x2 inch pendant.

And lastly my favorite project! .....I have been seeing all kinds of holders, covers etc for purse items on many blogs so I thought it would be fun to create a purse gift set with all of these things in it. I used:

Paper/Cardstock: Concord Crush, Very Vanilla and Blushing Bride, DSP - Lap of Luxury

Inks: Concord Crush, Blushing Bride

Accessories: Antique Brads, Big Shot, Bigz die Scalloed Squares Duo, candy wrapper die, new in the Holiday Mini catalogue, Tag punches, large and small, Mini tag punch, large oval and scalloped oval punches, Concord Crush and Blushing Bride Twill ribbon, Rhinestone Jewels, Beautiful Wings Embosslet, scallop border punch, large scalloped circle punch, wide oval punch



Inside are an emery board holder/cover, TicTac holder, tissue holder, a postit note holder and pen, a chapstick/lipgloss holder, I extended the new candy wrapper die to hold a small tube of hand cream, holder for gum and another for chocolate......every girl needs chocolate in her purse.





I hope you have enjoyed this leg of your tour and if you have please leave a comment.

If you send me (sharri@rogers.com) your email address and are Canadian you will be eligible for a random draw for blog candy........ I have for you..... A Day of Gratitude Stamp Set in Clear Mount.

Thanks for spending time in my castle.

Sharri.

More Challenge projects.....

I continued to play all day; while doing my laundry. I was able to complete 6 of the 8 challenges that Christina issued during the day. The first 2 being featured in the previous post.

Challenge#3 was to make a Christmas card and #5 was to make a gift card or a gift tag. These are my submissions for these two challenges:

 This card uses Always Artichoke Cardstock for the card base The DSP is Desk the Halls from the new Holiday Mini. The image is from Bells and Boughs also found in the mini. I stamped it on Crumb Cake then colored it with my Stampin'write markers and highlighted the holly berries with Illuminate Smooch Top Coat
The sentiment, also from Bells and Boughs was stamped in Early Esspresso on Crumb Cake Punched out with Scalloped Oval, then a Cherry Cobbler Wide Oval and the new Decorative label in Always Artichoke. Finally some Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding to anchor everything.

 When Challenge 5 was to make a gift tag or gift card. I couldn't resist using my Big Shot and my two tags die to make this gift card insert. I used the same DSP as is on the front of the card and two real red glimmer brads to pick up the red in the paper. The sentiment is from the set Just Believe

 Well I figured that was cheating so I made this cute little tag to match It is actually Cherry Cobbler for the base but the camera really made it look like a purple. Again I used Deck the Halls DSP and a Real Red Glimmer Brad. The sentiment comes again from Just Believe and I used a stamped off image of the holly from the Bells and Boughs set. The ribbon is the 1/8th inch Very Vanilla ribbon that has been colored with my Always Artichoke marker

 The inside is from the Tags 'til Christmas set from the Holiday mini inked in Always Artichoke and then I went in with my Early Esspresso marker and colored the pine cone; I used the Decorative Label Punch to punch it out and adhered to the inside of the tag.
Very Simple

 Challenge #6 was to make a card with a fall image or stamp on it. Fall to me; living in the north east; means falling leaves and Thanksgiving. In Canada we celebrate our Thanksgiving in October. I went directly for my Autumn Splendor set. I used sponge daubers to add the colors ( Cajun Craze, More Mustard, Sift Suede and Old Olive) directly to the stamp randomly. The center leaf was stamped first and then I masked it and stamped the others in the same manner. This is a one layer card with the exception of the sentiment. I used a mask of the Pinking Heart border punch and sponged Cajun Craze Ink onto the top and the bottom of the card. The sentiment comes from A Day of Gratitude, stamped in Cajun Craze and punched out with the wide oval punch then placed on a Cajun Craze Decorative Label punch which was all popped up on dimensionals. The acorns were stamped off after being colored with More Mustard and Soft Suede markers.
It's really pretty in real life though as an after though I would have left off the acorns.

Challenge #7 was to make a birthday card but we were not allowed to use the Happy Birthday sentiment. I Love the Wordplay set so that is where I went. I stamped Wish Big in Real red on Very Vanilla then placed it on a circle made from 2 Round Tab punches in Old Olive that were cris-crossed, this was all placed on the 2 3/8th inch scalloped circle punch in Tempting Turquoise. The card base is Tempting Turquoise with some DSP from Play Date set, Old Olive satin ribbon and a punched scalloped border of Real Red created from the Dotted Scallop Ribbon border punch.I finished it off with Rhinestones that dot the "I" in wish and at the bottom of the card. (opps! I see they are not straight, ugh! Those suckers stick so well I can't even fix it with out tearing the paper)


Well I think this is a lot of  playing for one day, I hope you enjoyed my creations.

Thank you for visiting.

Sharri