Challenge WIN -- Summer Camp and FUN!!!!

   Yaay!!   What a difference a day can make!!   I'm feeling sooo much better today and it's such a great feeling.   We are back to gorgeous Summer weather -- lots of bright blue skies, sunny days and nights that are comfy and cooler for sleeping -- sweet!    My favorite kind of day and another day that I have spent a lot of time in my Craft Room.

    My focus as you know for the past three weeks has been very much in the Summer Card Camp and I do admit that I am loving every day of Camp and will miss it, when it ends next weekend.  It's been so much fun and I have totally spend almost all of my time trying new ideas and creating the new techniques we learned in camp and those I have also learned in classes at my LSS.

    I know that I have missed out on almost all of my favorite challenges for the past couple of weeks, but  I also know I will have more time to get back one Camp is over!   If you are wondering where I have been, I'm attending an online Summer Card Camp and we have only one more full week before it's over.   I have been trying to fit in a few challenges here and there, but it's been hard.  I will be back to Challenges soon and look forward to making all kinds of fun new things, with all that I'm learning,

   I have two new cards to share today and both were card that were started yesterday and feature the main colors we've been working with all week.   Every Friday we receive a new selection of colors and I am loving the colors we have to work with this weekend!!  

   My first card was one that I was not happy with earlier this week, so I took apart what I could and turned the old card into this card, which I like much better --

    I also have a second card today and this is a very simple card, but one I like.  It was created based on yesterday's Camp Class which focused on using Sentiments as a main focal point on our cards. 

   Now, I am working on some new cards with these wonderful new color options and I have to admit, these are some of my favorite colors.  Here are two of my favorite new combos that I'll be using for my card creations this weekend. 

  I think the top swatch with the two purple shades, is going to be one I'll LOVE to use again, I have always like using lavender and purple with opposite colors and the lime green and the light grey, both are great contrast colors.   I also really like the  blue/green combo and hope started on a background with those colors today too.  I am working with Ranger Distress Stains, Perfect Pearls Mist along with one of my new Hero Arts Background Stamps and Watercolor paper.   I'm following along with this fabulous tutorial by Jennifer McGuire, that you'll find over at Ellen Hutson's - Classroom Today!!!   I was very excited to see it and having had some Distress Stains for awhile, I finally now know of some great ways to use them.  I LOVE the card that Jennifer created with the Purple and green and I'm hoping to try and CAS something similar as my next Stamp Camp Card. 

  Please be sure to stop back by this weekend to see the end results of the cards with this new technique.  I also have a little Gift Card project that I tried for the very first time and it was for a Challenge over at The Outlawz Group.   I found this fun little Tutorial by Kristina Werner and I created mine using her template and some scraps papers.    This is my end result, which I think is kind of cute!  I'm sure with some wonderful new holidays papers and some extra embellishments - I could make some really nice card holders and I'm going to be sure to keep this template and tutorial in my files.

   And lastly, I was very happy and excited to find out that I WON a challenge today over at the Through The Classroom Door!!

    I am the very lucky winner of a Gift Certificate to shop at Michelle's Perkett's wonderful Etsy store, which you'll find HERE!  Michelle is a fabulous artist and I already own quite a few of her awesome images - now I'll have even more.    Thanks to Michelle and TTRCD for hosting the challenge!  Sandi and Kerry, each won a digi of their choice from Michelle's Store.  That wonderful RAK was given to them by Melanie the DT Coordinator -- how sweet is that!!

   I would also like to invite you ALL to play along in the brand new challenge with started today!  This month we have a fun little Recipe Challenge and you can find all the details HERE!   Note:   The Through The Craftroom Door Site and Challenge is open to ALL and the group is FREE to join.  You do NOT need to be a subscriber to play along and every one is eligible to enter!  If however, you are also a subscriber, you'll also have additional access to a Subscriber ONLY section on the site!!

   I'm off now to work start working on my newest cards for Summer Card Camp.   The backgrounds that I stamped earlier are almost all dry now, so it's time to come up with my design and start putting it all together!

    Wishing you all a wonderful weekend, and as always -  Happy Crafting!