Let's Go Shopping- Stamping Inkspirations Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

Hi all! Welcome to the Corner of Plaid and Paisley where we are taking a break at this cute little diner made with the Let's Go Shopping Bundle!

I am participating in the Stamping Inkspirations Tic - Tac - Toe Challenge today.  

We had to pick a row and use those items to meet the challenge. 

Earthen Textures - OSAT Pick Two and Something New Blog Hop

 Welcome to Corner of Plaid and Paisley where I have been creating cards with the new Earthen Textures Bundle for the One Stamp at a Time Blog hop!

This month's theme for the blog hop is Pick Two and Something New.   We are to be using two core colors and one new In Color for this challenge. (neutrals don't count!)

I choose to work with the Earthen Textures Bundle with the two core colors of Crumb Cake and Misty Moonlight and the new In Color of Copper Clay.

Fitting Florets Blog Hop - Birthday Card

 Welcome!  I am showing a card today made with the Fitting Florets Bundle that is a brand new offering for November with Stampin' Up!

I am joining in on a Blog Hop dedicated to this new product bundle!

Halloween Card - Stamping INKspirations Blog Hop/Sketch Challenge

Welcome to a slightly spooky version of Corner of Plaid and Paisley.

Today I am showing a card I made for a Sketch Challenge.

This is for the Stamping INKspirations October Blog Hop.

It is fun to take a sketch and see what you can make and then see what everyone else comes up with!  

All of the links to the other talented card makers will be at the end of my post.

Here is the Sketch for this Challenge!

By My Side - OSAT Blog Hop BFF

 Welcome to Corner of Plaid and Paisley where today is all about the BFF!

I immediately thought of the cute little characters in the By My Side stamp set.

I am participating in the OSAT Blog Hop today. 

 The theme this month is to create a card for your BFF!

So all those participating are making a wonderful card and 3D item fit for a best friend.

All of the links to the other creative card makers are at the end of my post.

Color Challenge Using Decorative Masks for the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop

 I am joining the Stamping Inkspirations Blog Hop today with a color challenge that I am really excited about!

It will be fun to see what everyone has created for this hop!

We are being challenged to make a card using three to five of the following colors:

Blushing Bride, Polished Pink, Fresh Freesia, Bumblebee and Garden Green.

So I pulled out the Butterflies & Flowers Layering Decorative Masks, my Blending Brushes and my inks and started playing.  I enjoyed this process so much - I need to do this technique more often!

After creating my layered flowers, I just fussy cut them out with a pair of snips.  I popped my flowers up with Dimensionals on a piece of textured white that I ran through the Ornate Floral 3D embossing folder.  My Sentiment was cut with the Ornate Frame Dies, stamped with the Best Wishes from Artistically Inked stamp set.  The embellishments are the Loose Flower Flourishes and a tiny bit of Polished Pink Open Weave Ribbon.

The inside of my card is stamped with a sentiment from Happiest of Birthdays stamp set.  I used the pink inks to create some more flowers with the masks in the corner and on my envelope flap.

I loved this so much - I went on to create a couple of wedding cards with these floral masks.

Now it is time to see what everyone else did with these colors.

If you are following along in order Annette is up next!

 

Angie McKenzie  ●  Leonie Stuart  ●  Aurélie Fabre

Rachael Merrick  ●  Jan Musselman  ●  Jo Blackman

Karen Egan  ●  Mo Rootes   ●  Robbie Susan Chandler

Danielle Kassing  ●  Gez Carpenter  ●  Ann Krucek

Annette Ball  ●  Susan Webster  ●  Karen Henderson

Elaine de Montmorency  ●  Chris Smith  ●  Tricia Butts

Teri West  ●  Linda Moore  ●  Marieke Bart

Vickie Littlewood  ●  Jill Chapman  ●  Susan Simpson

Terry Hamilton  ●  Cheryl Hamilton  ●  Sharon Hashimoto Burkert

I  hope you enjoyed seeing all of these wonderful cards!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Colonel Mustard, in the Dining Room with the Candlestick - Halloween Tablescape Hop

 Halloween is fast approaching, do you have a clue for your costume this year, yet? 

Well,  Clue just happens to be the theme of my Halloween Tablescape for Chloe Crabtree's fabulous Halloween Tablescape Blog Hop! I thought a little creepy murder mystery would fit the bill.

All of the links to the talented table stylist taking part in the hop will be listed at the bottom of this post.  Have a fun looking at these creative tables for so much more Halloween inspiration!

In the mean time we are going to have a little murder mystery fun with one of my favorite childhood games.

Do you remember trying to guess if it was Mr. Green with the Rope in the Conservatory?

Or perhaps Mrs. White in the Kitchen with the Knife!

I have had these blueprint plates for years, I bought them at Fishs Eddy in NYC when I used to travel to NY annually for the NYC Toy Fair.  Fishs Eddy was alway a must stop when we would get an evening off.  If you are ever in NYC - this is worth the trip if you are a dish lover. 

They always reminded me of the Clue game board, maybe because I worked for a toy company and spent a lot of time in the toy department!! Anyway, I always thought it would be fun to do a Clue table with them.

Aren't the names Colonel Mustard and Miss Scarlet iconic!

and let's not forget Mrs. Peacock!!

Did she use the wrench or the revolver?

Below is the list of all of the wonderful blogs participating in today's blog hop,

Be sure to take a peak at the other tables, you would not want to miss out on any Halloween fun!

Celebrate & Decorate

Home is Where the Boat Is

Panoply

Debbee's Buzz

Corner of Plaid and Paisley

Our Crafty Mom

The Little Yellow Corner Store

Belle Blue Interiors

Life and Linda 

At Home With Jemma

The Painted Apron

White Arrows Home

Sweet Sensations

Red Cottage Chronicles

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Have you come up with who did it?

There may be a little hint!

If you look closely,

Someone is being ratted out!!

I hope you enjoyed my little murder mystery table!

Have a fun and safe Halloween.

Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop September 2020, Our Favorite Season

 Welcome to Corner of Plaid and Paisley.  I am Ann from Ohio, USA.   I am part of the Stampin' Dreams Blog Hop today showing off cards that depict our favorite seasons. 

 I have a hard time choosing between Fall, Halloween and Christmas. But Halloween was so fun when I was a child that I think those memories have stuck with me the most.

This slimline card using the Coming Home Bundle reminds me of the fun we had Trick or Treating in our neighborhood.  Back then we went at night and it was spooky dark out!!  We had a blast running from house to house collecting candy in our costumes.

These houses were stamped with Momento Black Ink and colored in with Stampin' Blends.

The sentiment and the tree branch, bats and moon is from the Goulish Goodies Stamp Set.

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Since not everyone celebrates Halloween, I thought I would include the winter scene card I made with this same set as well.

The dimensions of my slimline card is an 7" by 8 1/2" piece of cardstock scored and folded in half to make it 3 1/2" X 8 1/2"  card that will fit in a legal size envelope. (At lease that is what we call it in the United States - I am not sure what it maybe called in other countries)

Same set, same idea, just very different colors give it a very different look!

The sentiment stamp is from the Poinsettia Petals stamp set. 

These were fun to build the scenes, especially with the slimline card since it gives you more space to fit a scene across the card.  

Take a look at the other cards that have been created by my fellow stampers by clicking on the Inlinkz link party below!!!

They are all sharing their favorite seasons as well!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

Dog Days of Fall - A Fun Fall Table

Welcome to my fall table full of K9 fun!

This table is part of Chloe Crabtree from Celebrate & Decorate's  Fall Tablescape Blog Hop. 

 At the end of this post will be the links to all the other talented table stylists with their inspiration for this fall season.  Be sure to click on the other links and follow along for lots of autumn goodness!

Mums, cornstalks, leaves, apples,  pumpkins and ornamental cabbage are some of my fall favorites!

But who can resist a few dogs in sweaters and plaid shirts thrown in with the autumn mix?!

I haven't been out much in the last 7 or 8 months, but I did travel over to my daughter's house to see my brand new little grandson, Quinn!!  There just happens to be a Hobby Lobby smack in the middle of the road trip to her house, and that is where I picked up these fun fall plates

I find shopping not to be fun these days - so the rest was stuff I had and a few goodies from the grocery store for my centerpiece.  I think the mum is a bit large for my table- but hey, I didn't want to cut it back!

I made some little doggie favors with my Stampin' Up! Autumn Goodness wheelbarrow die and the doggies from the Pampered Pets Designer Series paper.

My Lucy wanted to get in on the act - but she wasn't particularly fond of the bow. 

 I honestly give Mary from Home is Where the Boat Is and her pups a lot of credit because they make photo sessions look easy!!  And it is not for me and Lucy!!  

She is half St. Bernard and half Golden Retriever (although she looks more like a Newfoundland) and when she doesn't want to do something- she just lays down.  Then there is no moving this big dog once she lays down!  But she loves the cooler weather that fall brings and she sure brightens our days with her antics.

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Here are all of the links from all of our fabulous tablescapers- please enjoy the hop!

Celebrate & Decorate

  Design Morsels 

Mantel and Table 

Corner of Plaid and Paisley

 Home is Where the Boat Is 

 Belle Blue Interiors

Calypso in the Country

 Our Crafty Mom 

 My Thrift Store Addiction

 The Painted Apron

The Little Yellow Corner Store 

Sweet Sensations 

Living With Thanksgiving 

 Panoply

Life and Linda 

 Everyday Living

Bluesky at Home 

Life at Bella Terra 

Red Cottage Chronicles 

Cozinest 

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I hope you have a beautiful and fun fall!!

Stay safe, take care!

Tropical Nights Color Challenge - July 2020 Kre8tors Blog Hop

Welcome to our July Kre8tors Blog Hop where we are doing a Topical Nights Color Challenge this month.

I am Ann Krucek, from Ohio, USA where I am far from anything tropical!
The photo below is our inspiration, along with the color chart. It will be interesting to see what everyone comes up with.

  I struggled with the idea of palm trees and sand, so I chose to do the closest thing I can find to a tropical night around us and that is -  tropical cocktails from the Nothing's Better Than stamp set!

I had purchased the new Water Painters and decided to try my hand at watercoloring.
First I stamped the cocktail glass image with Gray Granite ink all over on Shimmery White Cardstock.  The shimmer paper takes the water a bit better than regular card stock.  There is less warping, although I did not soak the paper - I did not wash the paper with water as some people show - this would have smeared my gray ink.

I used my Clear Block as a pallet for mixing my inks.  You can see the different colors on the block and then I just mixed them lighter and darker.  I used the colors for the challenge - Rococo Rose, Night of Navy, So Safron - and I also added Pear Pizazz.  This was a fun process to gently paint each drink, squeezing out a bit more water on to my block with the Water painters when I felt I needed it.  Then when I had too much water on the piece, I just blotted it off with a paper towel.

I cut a few palm leaves from the Boho Indigo set from Pear Pizazz and Soft Seafoam scraps.
The sentiment was cut with the Ornate Frames Dies and stamped with the word Enjoy from the Pampered Pets stamp set. Like any good carmaker - I placed the sentiment over the top of what I felt was the least appealing drink!! I matted the water colored Shimmer White with a layer of Basic Black card stock and then a Pear Pizzaz card base.  I finished off the card with a few rhinestones from the Holiday Rhinestone Basic Jewels.

I hope you enjoyed my version of Tropical Nights!
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For more tropical fun check out all of the other talented card makers to see what they came up with!!
Anastasia is the next person up!

Here is the whole line up for you to enjoy!

Roll Call List

Melissa Tennison (USA)

Tricia Butts

Sandra Roberts (UK)

Nicole Mahler

Libby Fens

Tracie St-Louis - Ottawa, Canada

Jo Blackman

Su Mohr

Annette Elias - De kijkkast - NL

Jacqui Lawrence UK

Susan Simpson

Annette Ball - Canada

Ximena Morales

Cheryl Taylor(UK)

Jan Musselman - USA

Laura Mackie (UK)

Michelle Bryant

Janey Backer (USA)

Sharon Dalton

Ann Krucek - USA ** You are Here

Anastasia Radloff

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Here are the supplies I used for my card:

This was my first time water coloring - so don't be intimidated by it.  If you have an image you can stamp and water color in - and using our Water Painters made it pretty easy!!  

July is a great time to pick up some of your basic supplies or that set you saw in the new Annual Catalog that you found you just can't do without  - because Stampin' Up! is celebrating Bonus Days.

You will receive a code for $5.00 off in August for every $50 you spend in July.  This is just in time for the new Mini Holiday Catalog that will be coming out with new fall, Halloween and Christmas products for August ordering.

If you place an order from my online store over $35, I will send you a sampler collection of 6X6 Designer Series Papers when you use my Host Code for July/Aug E7EWR94D.  If you spend over $50 you will get the paper sampler along with the Bonus Days coupons for August.  Once you spend over $150.00 - do not use my Host Code and you get to pick your own Stampin' Rewards of 10% of your order in free products.