Tie Dye Techniques Challenge

I'll admit it:  I was afraid of the shaving cream.  I was sure I was going to choose to use the Copics and rubbing alcohol or the ink and water.  But that paper dyed with the ink refills and shaving cream was so pretty.  So that's the one I tried.  I did have the sense to move to the kitchen for this one.  :)

I used the only two reinkers I own (other than the tea dye duo -- which could be kind of cool...) -- Papertrey's Simply Chartreuse (the hybrid kind -- not the current one) and Stampin' Up's Blue Bayou.  I've got to say -- this was so easy and so much fun.  AND it gave me a new use for my Pampered Chef handy scraper.  Now I want to order every ink refill Papertrey has so that I can make lots of cool marbled papers. 

Limited Supply Challenge

This is the last one for today.  I need to go to bed before it's time to get up for church tomorrow morning.  The challenge was to use only the supplies listed on Nichole's blog.  I decided to turn to Pinterest for my inspiration.  A few days ago, I had discovered this card on Pinterest.  It was created by Pamela (spookiee on the forum) for the most recent PTI Blog Hop!  I loved the layout, so I decided that I wanted to try the same layout with the Natural Beauties set. 

Here it is!

That's all for tonight.  I'll have to jump back on these challenges tomorrow after church. 

Paper Beads Challenge

Okay, I'll admit that I cheated planned ahead a little bit on this challenge.  I made my paper beads a while ago because I just couldn't resist using that die when my Stamp-a-faire box arrived.   Tonight, I'm really glad I did that because time is awfully short for all these videos and challenges!  One day I'll find time to go shopping for some pretty beads like Nichole has in her example, but this one is good for now.  

Mini book

My "Memory Preservation" badge is well-earned tonight.  I still have a few pictures to hunt down and add (for instance, the first day of school!), but what I do have is complete.  I used a combination of lots of Papertrey sets, Papertrey card stock, and Stampin' Up designer series paper and even My Digital Studio (cover) and my Silhouette.  I love it when all of my stuff works together!

It's late, so the pictures are even worse than they were today.  But here it is!

Whew!  I wonder if I can get any more challenges in tonight! 

Another ribbon technique

Good grief!  It's almost 3:30 in the afternoon and I'm still working on ribbons!  I may have to work all night and into tomorrow at this rate.  But I loved Erin's technique, so I had to try it.  Here it is:

Must keep working!

Pretty Bow!

Here's my card using Dawn's guidance to tie a pretty bow! 

You'll see I awarded myself a knot-tying badge for that one.  Unfortunately, I'll have to play that video every single time I try to tie a bow forever-and-ever because as soon as Dawn's comforting voice goes away, I panic. 

Ribbon flowers

Here's my take on Betsy's singed ribbon flowers.  Wow!  I never expected to be lighting a candle and melting ribbon so early in the day!  Forgive the bad photography.  I used Hawaiian Shores for my card base and my ribbon flowers, but you certainly can't tell that on my monitor.  ...On to more ribbon videos!