Play Date Cafe #182

My all time favorite teal and red is making an appearance this week at the Play Date Cafe! Woohoooo!!!!

This week's colors are Maroon, Poppy, and Soft Jade

There were year-old photos from last summer's trip to Chautauqua that matched this color story pretty well. And thus a layout was born

This was also a good excuse to use the Little Yellow Bicycle stamps that my teammate, Donna, sent me :)

This layout has sequins, ribbon, splatters, and paper from DCWV "My Sunshine" stack and BasicGrey "What's Up?" pad.

We'll be taking a two week vacation back to Chautauqua this summer! I have been waiting for it alllll year

Our sponsor this week is My Creative Classroom... link up your project at the Play Date Cafe for a chance to win!

Hope you love the color story as much as I do! :)

<3 Rachel w k

Child and T(w)een Birthdays

Ooh happy hump day. My hubs had a verrry intense cold and I'm afraid it has just gotten passed along to me. Sharing the love!

I have my final two submissions to Paper Crafts Gallery Idol 2013: Child and Teen Birthday Cards. 

First up is my ever-so-hip Hipsterpotomus. Perfect for too-cool tweens and teens :)

I asked the hubs if the sentiment should be "a little birdie told me it's your birthday" or "hippo hippo hooray it's your birthday". And he came back with "how about 'hipster hippo hooray'" and I thought 'dammit! why didn't i think of that?!'... he's so smart ;)

The hippo is paper pieced with Dear Lizzy paper and the hat and birdie are paper pieced with Echo Park "Springtime" pad. The washi tapes are from Recollections and Freckled Fawn.

This sentiment took five different stamps from three stamp sets to put together: Avery Elle "Hipsterpotomus", Papertrey Ink "Tweet Talk", and Lawn Fawn "Here's the Scoop". Enamel dots are from My Mind's Eye.

The next card is a sweet children's birthday card...

This card uses stamps from My Cute Stamps "Circus Animals", Paper Smooches "Chit Chat", and Papertrey Ink "Tweet Talk". The elephant is paper pieced using October Afternoon "Cakewalk" pad. The little banners are from Dear Lizzy and the enamel dots from My Mind's Eye.

That's the end of my Gallery Idol submissions! I've maxed out my three entries. Good luck to everyone who plays along! My first teen birthday card entry was posted here.

<3 Rachel w k

Teen Birthday

The Paper Crafts Magazine Gallery Idol 2013 has begun, and open auditions are, well, open... until the end of May. The theme is kid and teen birthday cards. The very first idea I had for this theme was to use a cool cassette tape, so here it is...

It's a perfect teen card because teens 'these days' have most likely never used a cassette tape. But then also that makes this card so ironic. And teens love to be ironic. So yes, it's perfect.

I used my Silhouette to cut the cassette SVG file (you can find the entire 'Love Rocks' SVG set here). I like to cut my layers in all white cardstock and then color them how I want. For this image I colored the layers with Copics N2, 110, YG07, BG13, RV09, and RV25.

Let's be honest, it needed some glitter. I used Stickles "Black Diamond" and "Glam Pink" to accent different parts of the cassette.

The sentiment was printed with a font called "boogie down", and anchored with some pink washi tape on the card base. I also did some slight splatters with Dylusions inks in "Fresh Lime" and "Vibrant Turquoise". The teal enamel dots are from My Mind's Eye.

And not one flippin' stamp was used on this card.

Hope your birthday ROCKS!

<3 Rachel w k