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

New Moon Blog Hop – Today’s the Day!

Welcome, welcome, blog hoppers!  If you came here from Monika’s blog, you are in the right place!  

Today to keep us all in the mood, I’m sharing a New Moon-related project that I made for a past Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge about the villains of Twilight.  And why am I sharing a previously-made project?  Because I am in a hotel room in Austin, Texas, as I type – and heading to the movie theater on Friday morning with Tonya and Beth!  WHOOHOOO!  Cannot.wait.

With this digital layout, I tried to sort of illustrate one of the scenes from the book, when Bella encounters Laurent when she revisits Edward’s meadow.   I had to include Edward as the figment of Bella’s imagination – you just HAVE to get Edward in there – and there is a nice reference to Jacob in there as well.  (Look for the wolf paw prints on the lower right hand side.)  I can’t wait to see this scene on the big screen!

Now, keep on hopping – it’s time to visit one of our very special guest designers, Beate Johns! 

Have a great time at the movie, everyone!

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 Special Limited Supplies Challenge

Hey!  Twilight Tuesday is doing another special Wednesday challenge!  That’s been happening pretty often – we’ve been busy over there.

Today, Club Scrap is sponsoring this challenge and they have generously provided the Design Team with their Greetings to Go – From the Heart kits to use.  And today’s theme is a Limited Supplies Challenge!  Now, I am generally not one to limit supplies, so I found this one a bit tough.  (And I’m sure that Tonya’s laughing as she reads this, since the challenge theme was my idea.  But sometimes you have to stretch a little, right?) 

To get all the challenge details (so that you can play along!), visit Twilight Tuesday, and also visit these members of the Design Team to see their creations for today:

Design Team Members:  Jen – Tonya 

Guest Design Team Members: Jacquie – Donna

We’ll be doing a second Club Scrap-sponsored challenge next Wednesday, August 12th, and the other members of the Design Team will be designing projects for that challenge.

And here is my card.  Club Scrap’s kit included this lovely grey cardstock frame that I used as the base for this.  And truly, the supplies were limited for my card.  But, of course, while I limited the supplies, I went overboard on the stamping, as you can see!  The flourish stamp is from Inkadinkado’s Bohemian Flourishes set, and was stamped with Brilliance Ink in platinum.  The “true love” sentiment was stamped on Club Scrap’s red cardstock, also included in their kit.

This is how the frame looks in the inside of the card – a little bit of stamping is in there as well.

What I Used:

Paper:  Club Scrap’s Greetings to Go – From the Heart kit

Stamps:  Inkadinkado Bohemian Flourish set; Autumn Leaves clear stamp set (sentiment)

Ink:  Tsukineko Brilliance in Platinum Planet and Graphite Black

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 41 – The Love Triangle

Twilight Tuesday time!  I am actually taking a day off from the challenge today, but wanted to make sure you could find the info. anyway.  This week’s theme, from Eve, is the love triangle of Bella, Edward, and Jacob.  Click here for all of the challenge details, and visit the Design Team to see what they’ve come up with for this week!  (Please note – only those listed are participating this week; some team members are taking a break today.)

Dani ~ Eve ~ Jen ~ Rebecca

with Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Erica ~ Jacquie

I’ll be back soon with a new post – see you then!

Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge 7: Be Safe

Hello everyone!  Here is a card for the latest Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge.  Dani has been coming up with great sketches to work with, and I really love this one.  Click here to get the challenge details and play along!  Our sketch challenges have gone so well lately that we’ll be doing them more often going forward.

For this card, I was in the mood to use red and white for a Twilight feel, but but…I wasn’t up for using the classic black.  The black was just too heavy for this feminine-looking card, but  Chocolate Chip was just right.  I really like this red and brown combo. here.

I combined two stamps on the circle – an Inkadinkado flower and Edward’s famous “be safe,” from Artful INKable’s Fictionally Inspired set.  The flowers were given a little Cullen-style bling from Stickles. 

This card was for the lovely and sweet Jacquie, one of my fellow members on the Twilight Tuesday Design Team.  I hope she likes it!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Bella Rose designer paper

Stamps: Artful INKables from the Fictionally Inspired Set (sentiment); Inkadinkado from the Bohemian Flourishes set (flower)

Ink:  Stampin’ Up!  Riding Hood Red

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Sizzix damask embossing folder and Spellbinders Nestabilities petite circle and petite scalloped circle dies; ribbon; dimensionals; Stickles in fruit punch; gems by K & Company

If I Could Dream At All: Twilight Sketch Challenge

Here’s a card that I made for the Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge (TTSC6).  Dani has provided a great sketch for this month – check it out here and play along!

The challenge is to make a Twilight-themed card with the sketch, and I was a little liberal with that since the card is so very bright and not all that Twilight-like.  But they can’t all be red and black, right?  I was really in the mood to use this designer paper that matches very well with Stampin’ Up! Rose Red.  So I brought it back to Twilight by using a quote stamp from the Artful INKables set Fictionally Inspired set:

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you.” 

Oh, swoon-worthy Edward.  What a way with words he has.

Card components:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Stampin’ Up! Rose Red cardstock; Anna Griffin designer paper; Hambly Screen Prints transparencies

Stamp:  Artful INKables Fictionally Inspired Set

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Rose Red

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Birds & Vines embossing folder, Spellbinders Nestabilities long oval dies; ribbon; dimensionals; Kaiser pearls

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 34: Celebrate Summer

Happy Tuesday! Today’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge comes to us from Jen.  She has the clever idea to focus on summer – we can explore the ways that the Twilight characters might have spent their summers (not included in the books),  or just celebrate summer in general.  Click here for all the info. on this week’s theme.

This is a big week for the Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge – it is the debut of our three new guest design team members!  Be sure to visit them, and our other design team members’ sites, to see what they have to display this week!

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

Guest Designers:

Alison ~ Donna ~ Jacquie

For this challenge, I wanted to tell you about a trip that I made one summer, to Washington and Oregon!  The only problem is that the trip was long enough ago to be before the days of digital cameras and I could not track down my photos.  So, I could not share those with you, but I’ve found some others to show you the places I visited in the Northwest.  First up – Seattle!

Seattle is a beautiful city, situated right on the water and very close the the Olympic Mountains.  Check out that view (above)!  I did take the elevator to the top of the Space Needle (also in the pic above), despite my fear of heights.  I guess my fear is not that bad.  Here’s the famous Pike Place Market – where they throw the fish to customers – a really fun thing to see.

After Seattle, I headed to Oregon to visit a college friend, who lived in the Mount Hood area (pictured to the left).   The beach photo on the right is from Coos Bay, Oregon, where I stayed.  It’s just absolutely beautiful there.  I was happy that I had been to the area when I read the Twilight saga for the first time – it really helped me to imagine the setting.  It’s just as rainy and cloudy as it was described to be in the books, too.

Thanks for taking my little tour; I only wish I had my own photos to show to you!