Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge – Our First Color Challenge!

Happy Tuesday!  Twilight Tuesday has a really cool thing happening for today – our very first Color Challenge!  The challenge colors for this week feature the colors of lovely Edward’s features.  Alison is our hostess this week; check out her description below: 

The first color is Butterscotch for his eyes (when he isn’t hungry!), second is Alabaster for his pale, pale skin, and third is Reddish-Brown for his fabulous hair!

As always, be sure to visit the lovely members of our Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team to see what they have in store for this week’s challenge! 

Alison ~ Beth ~ Dani ~ Donna ~Erica ~ Jen ~ Jodi ~Margie ~ Rebecca

And here is my project for this week – an ode to Edward.  Hehe.  It seems that every so often I need to do an ode to Edward, and this is my New Moon-era version. 

This card looks better in person – I could never get an accurate photo of all the glitter!  But see that glitter cardstock there?  This stuff is the nicest glitter paper EVER.  I transported this stuff home with me all the way from Texas!  (Tonya!  Hey girl!)  During my visit with Tonya,  of course we had to do a little crafty shopping, and I found this glitter paper at a store local to her.  It’s the BEST – it’s sort of soft to the touch and the glitter does not fall off of the paper.  I don’t know how they do it – you’re usually covered with glitter when you use paper like this! The paper is made by a company called Best Creation – look for it!  Trust me – it’s amazing stuff – SO bright and sparkly! 

I only wish you could see the glitter better on this card!  It is so very bright and shiny in real life that I had to stop myself from embellishing the card any further!  I used a gold glitter cardstock (covering the Butterscotch for Edward’s eyes) and a bronze glitter shade (for the Reddish-Brown of his hair).  Some Bazzill Bling paper in an “Alabaster” shade called String of Pearls stands in for that pale Cullen skin tone.  That is the shade of the embossed background of the card.

I was absolutely THRILLED with this sentiment (Beauty is Soul-Deep) for Edward – does that capture him or what?  He doesn’t seem to fully comprehend his beauty, nor does he really believe (at some points in the books, at least) that he is capable of having a soul.   But we, the readers, know better, don’t we?  Of course we do!

Thanks so much for visiting – have a great day!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Creamy Caramel cardstock; Best Creation glitter cardstock in gold and bronze; Bazzill Bling in String of Pearls

Stamps:  Artful INKables from the Fictionally Inspired set (Edward name stamp); sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms

Ink:  Brilliance Ink in Coffee Bean, Papertrey Ink Vintage Touch distressing inks

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Sizzix embossing folder, Cuttlebug tag die, Cuttlebug Vintage corner die, Spellbinders Fancy Tag die, and Spellbinders Nestabilities petite oval die; brad; EK Success corner punch.

Photo of Robert Pattinson from The Twilight Saga: New Moon, property of Summit Entertainment

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 51 – Edward Cullen’s Greatest Hits

Hello everyone!  It’s Twilight Tuesday time – I have been away from my blog for a few days and it’s so nice to be back!  Today’s challenge has a really nice theme – it’s all about Edward.  We have covered Edward so many ways in so many different challenge themes, but we had yet to do a theme solely focused on his character. 

As always, be sure to visit our awesome Design Team to see what they have to display for this week!

Alison ~ Dani ~ Donna ~ Eve ~ Jacquie ~ Jen ~ Julie ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

(Erica is off this week and will return next week.)

So Jen issues the challenge for this week:

So for this challenge I want you to focus on your connection to Edward. What does his character mean to you?

For the creative challenge: Create a project that focuses on Edward.

For the comment portion: How do you feel about Edward’s character? Is it like, love or disdain? Have you read the partial draft of Midnight Sun? What did you think about reading the story from his point of view?

So what does the character of Edward Cullen mean to me?  Edward IS the Twilight saga to me; that is all there is to it.  I have worked Edward into as many of the past Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenges as you could imagine, so I just had to do a little retrospective of the projects today.

Here is my very first entry to the world of the Twilight Tuesday challenges – here is TTIC3, about “Edward’s meadow.” Another early challenge – "Whose Team Are You On?"  And my answer – so obvious. This challenge (TTIC12) was to choose our favorite Twilight quotes, so I just had to turn to Midnight Sun, which, although incomplete, is still my favorite part of the Twilight Saga.  Again – me = Edward-centric. Here is my project for the "Twilight Music" challenge – I had to go with Edward and Bella’s Lullaby. And for Twilight baseball? Yep, went with Edward again. Here is his baseball "scouting report;" the vampire baseball league was very interested in recruiting him. And this one was for the challenge on "Our Favorite Twilight Things" and I continue with my super-obvious choices and went with this guy — And I saved this one for last because it’s one my faves.  This digital layout was for the challenge on the ballet studio scene from Twilight.  I really like the story this one tells – I used small images at the bottom of the layout to show the process he goes through in that scene.  I think that Edward’s ability to save Bella from James’ venom is a serious turning point for the character.  After this occurs, he seems to realize that he won’t be able to hurt Bella after all since his love for her outweighs the temptation.  Sigh.  Oh, Edward.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 37– A Little Romance

Happy Tuesday!  Our lovely and talented guest Design Team member Donna brings us this week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme  – the romance of the Twilight saga.  to get your imaginations working, Donna quotes this excerpt from Wuthering Heights, a book that plays a role in the story of Edward and Bella:

"If he loved you with all the power of his soul for a whole lifetime, he couldn’t love you as much as I do in a single day."

Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights

For the creative portion of the challenge — do you have a favorite Edward and Bella, Jacob and Bella, or an Alice and Jasper romantic moment? Create something that celebrates their love.  Or you can create something for, or inspired by, a special person in your life that you love.

For the comment portion of the challenge — tell us about your most favorite romantic moment…be it in the books or real life.

For all of the details on the challenge and how to play along, please visit Twilight Tuesday.com and join in!  As always, stop by the blogs of the Twilight Tuesday Design Team to see what they’ve come up with for this week:

Dani ~ Eve ~ Margie ~ Rebecca

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna

Note:  Tonya is sitting out from the challenge this week, but she’s working on something interesting that you’ll see soon!  You’ll see some other names missing from the list as well; they are sitting out this week.

For my project, I wanted to focus on the meadow scene in Twilight.  It is the scene of Stephenie Meyer’s dream that inspired the entire story, after all!  The meadow is the turning point for Edward and Bella – after this, they are a couple.  I love all the conversations that Edward and Bella have in the book that bond them together, especially in the meadow scene.  (It seemed that they didn’t really have time to fit those in to the movie, unfortunately.)

I found a photo from the movie with Edward in mid-sparkle and used the new Artful INKables “dazzled” stamp from their new Into the Moonlight set.  A big thank you goes out to Tonya, who gave me the clever idea of using paper piecing on the heart stamp when I was stuck!  I can’t tell  you how many photos I took of this card – I just could not get a good shot of the card.  I finally settled on one, but it’s not so great.  It’s a very shiny card – the background is a silver metallic, the green paper in the foreground is a shimmery green color, and the “dazzled” heart is really glittery with the help of Stickles.  And the ribbons and the Dew Drops are metallic as well – I think that these things just don’t photograph well.

Card details:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock, Stampin’ Up! Baja Breeze cardstock, Bazzill Bling in Sparkle; The Paper Company silver cardstock

Stamps:  Artful INKables Into the Moonlight set

Ink:  Ranger Archival Ink in black, Encore Metallic Ink in silver

accessories:  Cuttlebug – floral fantasy embossing folder, Nestabilities Long Rectangle dies; Stampin’ Up! ticket corner punch; Dew Drops in metallic silver; dimensionals; ribbon; Stickles in Diamond; EK Success border punch

Special Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge: Featuring Artful INKables

Heard the big news yet? 

We at Twilight Tuesday are so excited to announce that we have a partner for today’s challenge — Artful INKables!

To celebrate the release of their two new stamp sets called Into the Moonlight and Fictionally Inspired, Twilight Tuesday is working with the Artful INKables team on today’s challenge!

Visit Artful INKables‘ store to check them out and get your own sets! You’ll also want to check out their beautiful new Vampire Romance-Themed Pewter Charms Set.

And you have got to get yourself to Twilight Tuesday to check out the amazing blog candy we have to offer.  Artful INKables has donated three sets of stamps and one set of charms for us to give away. 

And finally, the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme this week —

The theme for this week’s challenge (TTIC36) is 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.

And of course, this week the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge Design Team has used Artful INKables’ new stamp sets for their projects. Check out today’s projects:

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

And Our Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

And we’ve been SO inspired by these new stamp sets that our Design Team has created lots of additional projects with them this week! For this special occasion, we will be featuring these projects here (and on the Design Team members’ personal blogs) for the next week! Can you tell we’re excited about all of this?

Don’t forget that today’s challenge is a team effort, with members of the Artful INKables Design Team playing along with these new stamps as well!

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

Finally, my own project.  I am still on the Bind-it-All kick, and now that I’m into making books, I HAD to make one for TTIC!  I’ve been dreaming this one up for a long time now.

And as for what says Twilight to me – Bella and Edward.  It’s all about them for me (really, it’s all about Edward, but I am trying to be fair).  This book is my little tribute to Bella and  Edward – the heart of the Twilight Saga.

This 6-page, 6x 6” book is covered with fabric and features an Artful Inkables stamp, from the Fictionally Inspired set, on each page.   I love using quotes and am so thrilled to now have these quote stamps!   I am sorry that some of my photos are not the best; there are so many sparkly, metallic elements to this book that they just don’t work well in a photo.

Quote stamp:  If I could dream at all, it would be about you.

Quote stamp:  Look after my heart, I’ve left it with you.

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 33, Quotes from New Moon

Hey everyone!  It’s nice to be back for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge!  I really  missed doing last week’s  challenge, so I’m happy to get back into the swing of things for this week’s theme.  Our theme was chosen by the awesome Beth, and it is to make a project based on our favorite quote from New Moon.  And I’m really happy that this week is New Moon-related, because then it gives me a chance to post the gorgeous movie poster! 

As always, visit the talented members of the Twilight Tuesday design team to see what they have created for this week:

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

The quote I chose for this week is:

I would never want anything but him, no matter how long I lived.

Bella Swan, page 451

I was clear for this week that I did not want to focus on the angst of New Moon (just not up for that at the moment), so I chose something from the moment when Bella sees Edward for the first time in Volterra.  (Click to enlarge the layout.)  What a great moment – one that I am really looking forward to seeing on the screen in November.  What scenes are you looking forward to seeing in the movie?  My list is too long – there are so many huge, dramatic scenes in the book that could work really well on film.  I can’t wait.

Layout Details:

Paper & Frame – RetroDiva

Diamond Heart – Graphx Fairy

Quote – in the font Pablo, from New Moon, page 451, by Stephenie Meyer

Photos – property of Summit Entertainment

Looking for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge?

I am sorry to say that I have to sit out the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge today.   Edward wanted to let you know that I’ll be “out of town for a couple of days, for personal reasons.”

You can find all of the details for this week’s challenge here, and please visit the other Design Team members to see what they’ve come up with for this week:

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

I’ll be back soon and will hopefully catch up with this challenge – see you all soon.

Mini Cards!

After seeing the beautiful, and small, cards sent to me by my friends Tonya and Beth, I became inspired to try myself and made these three 4×4” size cards.  (Thanks so much, ladies – for both the cards and the inspiration!)  I have to say, I love this size – cards like this come together more quickly than others and I think they’re just, well, cute.

First up, a card made with really gorgeous paper given to me by the very generous Tonya, an S.E.I. designer paper called Cherie in the Chocolat line.  It’s so beautiful in person, but I’m not sure the glitter photographed so well.  The sentiment is from the Stampin’ Up! set called Best Yet, and that is layered on Nestabilities circle dies.  The striped paper is another S.E.I. Chocolat, called Nougat.

Next up – ROB!  This one is for the winner of a contest we held at Twilight Tuesday – it just seemed appropriate to use a photo of Rob Pattinson for the winner’s card!  I happened to have this sepia-toned photo of him around from an earlier project (what? that’s not weird…), so I went with browns to match it all up.  I die-cut the photo and its frame from the new Nestabilities Label 4 dies, which I am loving.  I really love that graceful shape!  The background is embossed with the Cuttlebug paisley embossing folder.

And, finally, a card that I made for my daughter, who loves the color orange.   This is very simple – the background is embossed with the D’Vine Swirls Cuttlebug folder and the sentiment is from an Inkadinkado set.

Card components:

To You From Me Card

Paper:  Stampin Up! Pretty in Pink and Chocolate Chip cardstock; Papertrey Ink white cardstock; S.E.I. Chocolat-Cherie and Chocolat-Nougat designer paper

Stamp: Stampin’ Up!  Best Yet set

Ink:  Stampin’ Up! Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Spellbinders Nestabilities circle and scalloped circle dies; dimensionals

Rob Pattinson card

Paper:  Stampin’ Up Kraft and Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream cardstock

Photo:  property of InStyle Magazine

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Paisley embossing folder, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Four dies; Kaiser pearls

Love You Card

Paper: Papertrey Ink Melon Berry and White cardstock; Bazzill peach cardstock

Stamp: Inkadinkado Love Letters set

Ink:  Papertrey Ink Melon Berry

Accessories: Cuttlebug: D’Vine Swirls Embossing Folder, Spellbinders Nestabilities oval and scalloped oval dies

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 25 – Our Fave Twilight Things!

Happy Tuesday, everyone!  This week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge  theme is a really cool one, chosen by the also-really-cool Jen.  Jen asks us to create something inspired by our favorite aspect of the Twilight world.  All of the challenge details can be found on Twilight Tuesday.com.   And while you’re surfing around, be sure to visit the other lovely design team members and show ‘em some love!

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

There are a bunch of cool things going on at Twilight Tuesday.com right now!  Today is the final day to join in on our two March giveaways (our blog candy and our scavenger hunt contest), so head over there and join in for your chance to win!

So….my favorite aspect?  I didn’t even need to think about this one.  As he says in the movie, “it isn’t hard to guess” – Edward Cullen.  Of  course.  Somehow I doubt that I will be alone in my choice.  And conveniently, this allows me to fill my post with photos of Rob as Edward, so, yay!  Enjoy!

The card that I made for Edward falls in line with other cards I’ve made for the Cullens (as recently as last week’s Carlisle card).    I like keeping those somewhat consistent – someday maybe I will have an entire set of cards for the whole Cullen/Hale family!  I did this card in golden and brown tones, in keeping with those golden Edward eyes. (And I just realized how much the embossed background on this card resembles the sidebars of my blog.) I had found topaz-colored gems months ago and have been hanging on to them for use on an Edward card, so they finally came out of their package.  And,  of course – the (fake) diamond heart.  And speaking of favorites – the scene in Eclipse when Edward gives Bella the heart for her bracelet is one of my favorite moments in the entire series.  Sigh.  

For the comment portion of the challenge, Jen asks us to talk a little bit about how Twilight has affected our lives – and that affect for me has been huge!  Participating in the Twilight challenges, and subsequently being invited to be on the Design Team (thank you, Tonya!) were very big factors in my even starting this blog.  I have been so very inspired by Twilight and have truly loved doing these challenges and working on Twilight Tuesday.com. 

And the people!  Before reading these books, I NEVER would have guessed the way that they have brought people together.  I am truly grateful for the friendship of the entire design team – it’s been amazing to work with such a diverse group of talented and lovely people.  Much love to you guys! 

And the many, many awesome Twilight sites – the reverential, the funny, the snarky – soooo many great sites.  [Lauren, themoonisdown, and Unintended Choice - I’m looking at you!  Get on over to Lauren’s Bite, and you can find moon and UC at Letters to Twilight and Letters to Rob.  And prepare to laugh.]

I love it all, and feel that I owe a huge thanks to Stephenie Meyer for all that her books have inspired.

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Card components:

Paper:  Bazzill Bling in Blank Check (beige) & String of Pearls (ivory); Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream; The Paper Company gold metallic; Stampin’ Up! Chocolate Chip

Stamps:  none.  Photo property of Summit Entertainment; font used – Porcelain

Ink: none

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: textile texture folder, Fiskars texture plate in lines; K & Company adhesive gems; adhesive heart gem from Michaels; Dew Drops in metallic gold; dimensionals; ribbon; EK Success deco corner punch

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 24 – Carlisle Cullen

Happy Tuesday, Twilighters!  So, does everyone have their DVDs (or is that a dumb question)?  And have you gotten through the movie, the extras, the commentary?  Rob made me laugh out loud many times in the commentary – funny boy!  Be sure to listen for his declaration that Mike  Newton’s dance is “saucy.”  That was one of my favorite moments.  But enough about Rob – it’s time for this week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge theme! 

This week our theme, chosen by the very sweet Dani, is Carlisle Cullen.  Isn’t this a great topic?  I love this character – and who doesn’t love Carlisle?  There is so much good about him.  And I would really like to hear more about him – it would be really very cool if Stephenie Meyer decided to write more about the Cullens and explore their history.  I’d love to read about Carlisle’s early days!  I really do hope that she is not done with these characters.  Dani asks us to create a project about an aspect of Carlisle’s history; you can get all of the details on the challenge here.

And be sure to look around on Twilight Tuesday.com while you’re there – we have a TON of things happening right now – there are lots of ways to get involved!  Check out this stuff –

• Scavenger hunt contest 
• Blog candy giveaway
• Monthly sketch challenge
• Visit us on Facebook to become a Twilight Tuesday fan
• Visit our forum to chat

And as always, be sure to visit the blogs of the design team members, who always have beautiful Twilight projects to display!

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

For my project, I made a little tribute to Carlisle.  I have done cards a few times for other Cullen characters, much in the same style.  In particular, I modeled this card after one I made for his wife,  Esme.  I was thinking that one of the most important events in Carlisle’s history was when he met and changed Esme – so I thought that making a matching set for them was appropriate.   I used a a bunch of blingy elements to bring out the sparkly nature of those beautiful Cullens, like Bazzill Bling paper (my Twilight card stand-by), metallic silver cardstock, metallic silver Dew Drops, metallic ribbon, Stickles – you get the idea!

And as with the other Twilight character cards I’ve made – Carlisle got his own keyword – his  is “compassion.”  In Twilight, Edward told Bella that :

“Carlisle has always been the most humane, the most compassionate of us… I don’t think you could find his equal throughout all of history.” (Twilight, page 288). 

What a lovely thing for him to say about his “father.”

Card components:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white; Bazzill Bling in Diamond (white) and Prince Charming (blue); The Paper Company metallic silver cardstock

Stamps:  none.  Photo property of Summit Entertainment; fonts used: Zephyr (Carlisle and Porcelain (compassion)

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: textile texture and Swiss dots embossing folders & Spellbinders ribbon slide die; silver metallic Dew Drops; ribbon; dimensionals; EK Success deco corner punch; Stickles

A Twilight Gift — Bookmarks

Here is a set of Twilight bookmarks that I made for a friend for Valentine’s Day.  I have NO idea why I had never thought of making these before! 

On the bookmarks, I used a quote from each of the four books.  The longest part of the process was choosing the quotes, but once I did that, these were made really quickly.  (Against my impulses, I didn’t do a bookmark for my favorite, Midnight Sun, since I kept it to those that have been published.  Sigh.  I guess we can just hope for that one.)

Here are the quotes that I chose; all four from Edward:

Twilight:  "You are the most important thing to me now.  The most important thing to me ever."

New Moon: "I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second that I was away."

Eclipse:  "…the sound of your heart – it’s the most significant sound in my world."

Breaking Dawn:  "I am purely full of joy, because I am missing nothing. No one has more than I do now."

I was actually really surprised to find that quote from Breaking Dawn; isn’t it lovely?  That is the book that I have re-read the least, so I didn’t even recall that one (unlike the other three quotes, which are really familiar to me).  I really hope that the New Moon quote shows up in the screenplay, word for word.  And also "the blackest kind of blasphemy" line — that needs to be in the movie as well, verbatim.   Now that we’re all so familiar with Rob as Edward, the idea of him actually saying these lines?  Swoon.

The bookmarks were made with black cardstock that I embossed with the Cuttlebug textile texture folder.  I scored them, folded them in half, and rounded the corners on the top of the bookmarks.  I punched a hole at the top of the bookmark for the tassel, reinforced that with an eyelet, put the tassel and..almost done!  I used a deckle-edged scissors around the quotes, matted them with red metallic cardstock..and now, done!  As I mentioned – very easy to make.  It was actually a little difficult to not embellish them a little more, but I figured that I needed to keep them flat.  I want to make bunches more of these; my only issue now is waiting for another order of tassels to arrive.  They are strangely really hard to find.  {I tried making my own with embroidery floss, but they didn’t quite cut it.}

Components:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink basic black and white cardstock; Bazzill Bling cardstock in red carpet

Quotes: Computer-generated and are the property of Stephenie Meyer

Accessories:  Cuttlebug and textile texture embossing folder; EK Success corner rounder; Crop-a-Dile and black eyelets; bookmark tassels; Fiskars deckle-edged scissors