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TTIC #57: Celebrating!

Posted on 08-12-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Challenges, Copics, Nestabilities, Spica Pens, StampInsanity Stamps, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration

Tags: Cards, handmade, StampInsanity Stamps, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge, vampires

We are getting very close to wrapping up the year for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge! I can’t believe a year has gone by!! Wow!! Thank you to all of the participants who make this challenge so much fun!

Be sure to check back next week when I’ll have a Christmas message to wrap up our year and give you some previews for what is to come!!

Ok, let’s get down to business!

This week’s challenge has been issued by the

supernova rockstar, Margie!

<– That’s Margie…

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m still celebrating the release of New Moon!

And with my b’day in just a few days! I’m in the mood to keep on celebrating in every way possible!

… sigh… wouldn’t it be nice to receive a handsome vampire as a gift?

This week’s Challenge is to create a “Celebrating” project for the vampire-lover in your life! You can choose any holiday or event i.e. birthday, Christmas, Valentine’s, etc.

Have a ton of fun with this one!

Comment portion: There’s no denying that we all have wish lists! Especially with the holidays upon us! Some lists are a little more practical than others… What’s on your “not-so-practical” wish list??? Please share!!!

Note to self, remember to wish Margie a very happy birthday on Thursday, Dec. 10th!!!

..duh…yes it would be nice to receive a handsome vampire as a gift…

(sorry Donna, I forgot to put my card up first…)

This handsome “vampire” would be nice…

or this one…

(Is it getting hot in here????)

or this one…

(Yes, I think it is…)

Or this non-vamp:

I bet no one guessed I’d list Justin Furstenfeld in my “not so practical” wish list, huh?? See CB back there? He’s hot, too!!

Here’s the ring Justin can buy me:

(Yep, it’s a Tacori)

And then we can go to Fiji and stay at the Poseidon Undersea Resort:

And I want to look like this while I’m at it!!!

Dude! It’s my “not-so-practical” wish list—I can have what I want!!

Ok, back to Planet Reality.

I made a celebrating project for the vampire-lover in my life, Beth.

The celebration part is two-fold. 1. It’s her Christmas card (sorry there’s no surprise there Beth!) 2. It celebrates her Morgan stamp set and all the hard work she’s done!

I apologize for the lighting.

The sketch I used is Mercy’s Tuesday Sketch Challenge #50.

I used Petty Cash In the Pink, and Strawberry Daiquiri Bazzill Bling cardstock. I also use PTI white and designer paper and brads by Doodlebug Design Inc. The ribbon is Soft Suede from SU!. The image is from Naughty or Nice and I colored Morgan with Copics and Spicas.

Copics: RV04, RV10, R29, R37, YG03, E57, E55, VG 17, E00, B000, N0

This is on the inside of the card. The sentiment is from the same set and is stamped in Vintage Sepia Versafine ink. The Morgan image is stamped in Black Onyx Versafine.

Ok, you know the drill! Check out the other designer’s projects:

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~ Erica

Jen ~ Margie ~ Rebecca~ Tonya (Me!)

Where in the world is Tonya?

Posted on 26-08-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Big Shot, Cards, Coloring Techniques, Copics, Die Cutting & Embossing, Events, Nestabilities, SH Shop, StampInsanity Stamps, Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamps

Tags: Cards, Copics, halloween, handmade, StampInsanity Stamps, Twilight, Wildflower Kids Rubber Stamps

Kind of sounds like Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego or Where’s Waldo, huh? That’s about how I feel this month. Let me tell you a little secret…Stamp Happens is releasing it’s own stamp line called Wildflower Kids on September 11th!! Shhhhhh… (yes, please feel free to tweet the secret to the whole world!)

The premiere collection features Ivy and her friends getting all dressed up for Halloween.

I got the sets yesterday and stampers, they are so flippin’ cute you will have to get them!! Today, I’m going to hide out in my craft cave and cut the rubber and make samples.

So this past month I’ve been working really hard and way deep undercover on this little secret. But wait!! There’s more…

Stamp Happens will also exclusively carry another new line of stamps—StampInsanity Stamps. These stamps are edgy and bold. These will release on September 4th!! Again, I’ll be making samples of these today too!

So bear with me friends. It’ll all be worth it!

And because I haven’t given you any Twilight love this month, here’s a card I made that I’ve been waiting to share!!

This card features some gorgeous Bazzill card stock and that wonderful Martha Stewart punch (thanks for letting me borrow it, Mary Lou!).

I used Copics to color the image. Now, my very dear friend Dani asked me which Copic color I’m using for the blue outline that makes the image look white. Well, now I have to confess that the color is not available in Ciaos! It’s B000-Sketch Pale Porcelain Blue. I think I’ll order some of these today so if you want one, it’ll be in stock by next week.

Hopefully, I will be back tomorrow!

Special Bonus Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge: Collaboration with Dragonflycurls

Posted on 29-07-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Challenges, TTIC Special Challenge

Tags: Cards, dragonflycurls, edward cullen, etsy, handmade, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

Are you confused with the days? It’s not Tuesday!!! Well, you’re right. Yesterday I was on a vacation from the TTIC and today is a special challenge day. I can’t miss a special challenge, now can I?

Eve was kind enough to set this special challenge up so let’s see what she says:

Today we are so excited to tell you we are doing an EXTRA challenge today! Graciously sponsored by Audra at Dragonflycurls. She makes some amazing handmade Twilight themed stamps. Make sure you go and check out her site!

Here is the link for her etsy store.

And here is the special bonus challenge for you: What team do you play for? Team Edward or Team Jacob? Are you still loyal to your original team? Or have you switched sides? Or do you play for both teams now? Let’s show some love for the boys ladies! Fangs or fur, vamp bites or dog breath? Have the trailers for New Moon maybe changed your opinion of who you used to like? Come on now…be honest!

Sincere thanks to goes out to Audra from all of us at Twilight Tuesday. We’re really happy to collaborate with dragonflycurls for this fun challenge! Our Design Team has played along with challenge today – visit their blogs to see their creations!

Alison ~ Beth ~Dani ~Donna ~ Eve ~ Jacquie~ Jen ~ Julie ~(Filling in for Margie is…..Erica)

So let’s see what I made! This is a hand carved stamp that Audra made. She was kind enough to share her stamps with our design team!

This is Audra’s lion and lamb stamp. I’m so glad I got this one since I am, always was, and forever will be…TEAM EDWARD!!! Even though Taylor Lautner makes Jake look undeniably hawt, I am and always will be devoted to Team Edward.

Stay tuned for tomorrow! I have more to share!

TTIC #37: Romance!

Posted on 30-06-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Challenges, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration

Tags: ttic37, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

Hi everyone! I am having to sit out this week on the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge.

Instead, I’ll be bringing a very special interview to TTIC this week to celebrate the romance theme of the week. I think you’ll really enjoy it.

In the mean time, please continue over to everyone’s blogs to see what projects they’ve made this week!

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

and Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

June Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge

Posted on 29-06-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Artful INKables, Big Shot, Challenges, Coloring Techniques, Copics, Die Cutting & Embossing, Scrapbook Pages, TT Sketch Challenges

Tags: Artful INKables, craft, handmade, scrap page, scrapbooking, ttsc, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday

This is our last day to feature Arful INKables’ new releases Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired.

So today, we are featuring the June sketch challenges that used these awesome sets! Be sure to check out Twilight Tuesday to see the other challenge projects.

I get to share my project with you today! I made a 6×6” layout to be used when the future Breaking Dawn movie is released.

I colored the image with my Copics. The paper came from my friends Eve, and Julie.

I thought I’d show you the different levels in this layout.

The pawn and “romantic” are both popped up with dimensionals.

Tomorrow, I will be sitting out of the normally scheduled Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge. Instead, later in the week I’ll be bringing you a very special blog post on TTIC that will positively WOW you!

Coming up, black ink on Stampin’ Up! Whisper White paper…

TTIC #36: What Says Twilight to You? And Secret REVEALED!

Posted on 23-06-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Artful INKables, Big Shot, Blog Candy, Cards, Challenges, Events, Nestabilities, PaperTrey Ink, Promotions, SWMs, Stamp Co. & Products, Stampin' Up! Stamps, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration

Tags: Artful INKables, fictionally inspired, into the moonlight, ttic36, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

Well the secret is OUT!!

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge & Artful INKables are in cahoots!

TTIC is partnering with Artful INKables to bring you a special week long celebration of this week’s challenge.

You really must run, not walk, to check out Artful INKable’s new Twilight inspired stamps!

The Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team has used these new stamp sets to create this week’s projects. Check them out!

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca ~ Tonya

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

With the Artful INKables Design Team:

Kristin, owner of Artful INKables ~Joy ~Elena ~ Holly ~ Joanne ~Velta

OME! You need to go to TTIC so you can see the super fabulous blog candy being given away over the next four weeks!!!

On to this week’s challenge!!

TTIC #36: What Says Twilight To You?

So many things say “Twilight” to the multitudes of Twilight fans. What images do you think of when you think about the Twilight books and movies? For some, Twilight means an apple, for some, the chess piece on the cover of Breaking Dawn, and for others, Bella’s truck conjures up the Twilight mood. Many fans love to express their Twilight love by choosing a “team” to root for, and others have favorite quotes from the book that are near and dear to them.

For the craft portion of the challenge: create a piece that expresses what comes to mind when YOU think of the Twilight saga.

For the comment portion of the challenge: Many people often say that reading the Twilight saga has been life-changing. Please share how the saga has changed your own life or made you view life in a different way.

For me, I conjure up a million things when I think of the Twilight Saga. I think about the book covers and those are the images my children are constantly pointing out to me! So I am celebrating the book covers this week…because I’m a Fanpire!

I used a lot of gifts for this project. The red paper (and that is some very, very luscious stuff) is from Eve, the black flocked paper is from Julie, and the FANTASTIC image is from Artful INKables. Thank you all!!!

I used my trusty SWMs to color the image. I sponged the edges and stamped Fanpire in Riding Hood Red SU! ink. I used my nestabilities for the circles and the oval and eyelet punches are from SU!. The rhinestones are from Close to My Heart. The white paper is from PTI. I’m hoping I got everything there!

Be sure to check back all week to see more projects made with Artful INKables’ new sets. I’ll have projects all week and Monday too!

TTIC #35: Renesmee

Posted on 16-06-2009 | By: Tonya

Category : Cards, Challenges, Projects, Stampin' Up! Stamps, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration

Tags: baby, brag book, handmade, ttic35, Twilight, Twilight Tuesday, Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge

And here we are back for another Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge!

Before we get started, did you know Twilight Tuesday (TT) has a new program called Sites We Love? Each month, TT is honoring a special Twilight related site. For the premier, Lauren of Lauren’s Bite gets the special honor! Lauren created the highly enjoyable Pocket Edward series and it’s hilarious! You should totally visit her blog!! Click the badge on the left to go there!

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Ok, back to our regularly scheduled program. This week, our challenge was issued by the super-fantastic Jacquie! Jacquie has decided to challenge us to explore Renesemee Cullen:

Today’s challenge is taken from Breaking Dawn, we learn that Bella is pregnant and she makes it through the birth and we meet her and Edward’s baby, Renesmee or “Nessie” as she is called by Jacob. She is amazingly talented, gorgeous and immediately becomes the focus of ALL the main characters in an individual way.

Renesmee is half vampire/ half human, she has the gift of being able to transmit her thoughts through her touch. She grows fast and as we find out later in the book she will stop growing at 15 and she is immortal. We learn that Jacob has imprinted on her also. She shimmers in the sun, has her mother’s brown eyes, Charlie’s curly hair, likes blood over food, she learns at an amazingly fast pace and easily wins over anyone that comes near her. I love how she is so charismatic, I love her character!

“She’s like nothing else in the world,” he told me… Bella Swan Breaking Dawn pg. 428

“The stranger-child in Rosalie’s arms had to be weeks, if not months, old…Her shiny bronze-colored hair fell in ringlets past her shoulders. Her chocolate brown eyes examined me with an interest that was not at all childlike: it was adult, aware and intelligent”….Bella Swan Breaking Dawn pg. 438

Challenge Portion: There are so many options for this challenge, you can focus on the relationship between Renesmee and Bella, Edward, Jacob, Charlie, Rosalie, Aro. You can think of her powers, or just her looks. Anything goes!!

Comment Portion: She has so much power over everyone right away, is there anything or anyone that has pulled you in so swiftly, a friend, a spouse? Do you know a sweet little girl like Nessie without the being half vampire of course . Tell us a little about it!

So. Renesmee. I’ve decided to go with a congratulatory baby card and photo album I made:

I don’t have an apostrophe so please forgive the spelling error! Maybe Rosalie dug this up to give to Bella. She was the most excited after all!

I made this photo album brag book using Corinne Somerville’s Clear Envelope Brag Book tutorial. I absolutely love this tutorial. It makes a fast, cute gift.

And as always, our Design Team has fantastic projects to display for this week’s challenge – please go and check them out!

Beth ~ Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

with Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie