August 2015 ~ Cupcake's Creations

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Mona Pendleton | Friday, August 28, 2015 @ 11:45 PM | Cuttlebug , Papertrey Ink , Spellbinders

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! Today I have a rather clean and simple card to share featuring a beautiful dream catcher. My sweet daughter Angie loves dream catchers so I surprised her with this card :)

To create this card, I embossed a piece of water color paper then added pink and blue inks from my stash then embellished with the Spellbinders die cut dream catcher. The sentiment is from PTI.

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the Pals Paper Arts challenge:

and for color inspiration, I joined along with the color throwdown color challenge:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great weekend!
Be Sweet ;)

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Mona Pendleton | Wednesday, August 26, 2015 @ 10:23 PM | Canvas , ColourArte , Mixed Media , Prima

Hi there! Today I have a mixed media style project to share featuring a variety of some of my favorite products:

while joining long with the current Mixed Media Place challenge where we are challenged to create a project based on one of Finnabair's tutorials called “Art Recipes”:

Here's the Art Recipe I used and the tutorial can be found here:

I created a page in a small canvas book featuring lots of Prima embellishments and ColourArte Silks Acrylic Glazes:

Many thanks for stopping by ~ I hope you like my project.
Be Sweet ;)

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Mona Pendleton | Tuesday, August 25, 2015 @ 9:00 AM | Mixed Media , Prima , Tag

Hi there! Today on the Prima blog, many members of the Prima family are celebrating Prima's CEO and woman extraordinaire Pom's Birthday!

We were challenged to create a 4" x 6" tag for the special occasion:

I layered and distressed pretty paper from the Royal Menagerie collection and added texture using the Forget Me Not stencil along with Heavy White Gesso. For a splash of color, I randomly applied Glistening Waves Color Bloom Spray:

Once the background was complete, I embellished with pretty blossoms from the Royal Menagerie collection:

Thanks so much for stopping by! Please be sure to visit the Prima blog and wish Pom a Happy Birthday!
Be Sweet ;)

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Mona Pendleton | Saturday, August 22, 2015 @ 10:54 PM | PTI

Hi there! I hope you are having a great weekend! I have been looking at my long time neglected PTI stamps and decided to create a non-mixed media style card. With 3 children now living out of state: Jerry and my DIL April working in San Francisco, Connor attending college in Los Angeles and Meredith attending college in New York City, I thought a card featuring PTI's fun suitcases would be great to have on hand to send anyone of them :)

For color inspiration, I joined along with the ColourQ colour challenge:

And for sketch inspiration, I joined along with the current Freshly Made Skteches sketch challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ I hope you have a great Sunday!
Be Sweet ;)

Dream...A Fond Farewell 28

Mona Pendleton | Wednesday, August 19, 2015 @ 9:30 PM | ColourArte , LO , Mixed Media , Prima

Hi there! Today it's my turn to share my last project as an official DT member along with a step by step tutorial on the ColourArte blog. It's been an amazing 6 months! Before I get to today's projects, I would like to take a moment to thank you all who took the time to visit my blog as well as the ColourArte blog. I really appreciate your kind and supportive comments! I would like to thank Leslie Ohnstad (the Owner) as well as Terri Sproul (the DT Manager) for the wonderful opportunity to represent the awesome line of ColourArte products and for Leslie's endless generosity. It's been an honor to be on a team with an uber talented group of designers. Please be sure to visit the ColourArte blog to see my tutorial along with all the fab inspiration from the DT!

I also have a layout to share featuring one of my favorite ColourArte products: Radiant Rain Sea Foam Shimmering Mists:

I scrapped a photo that Scott snapped when we were visiting Venice several years ago:

I never tire of the Venetian scenery:

I added lots of texture and design using a brick wall stencil along with modeling paste. Once dry, I splashed on Sea Foam Shimmering Mist.

I randomly stamped several coffee stain images using Prima Coffee Stains stamps then embellished with a variety of flowers, metal trinkets and die cut foliage:

For sketch inspiration, I joined along with the Sketchabilities sketch challenge:

For color and the travel theme inspiration, I joined along with the August Scrap Around The World challenge:

Thanks so much for visiting! Please be sure to visit the ColourArte blog to see my tutorial along with all the fab inspiration from the DT!
Be Sweet ;)

Bloom where you're planted...Guest Designing 43

Mona Pendleton | Tuesday, August 18, 2015 @ 6:45 AM | Mixed Media , Prima , PTI

Hi there! Today I'm so honored to be joining along with the wildly talented group of designers at the Try it on Tuesday challenge blog as their guest! Thank you so much ladies for the fantastic invite!

The current challenge theme is "Sending you Flowers":

I created a mixed media style card for my sample featuring a variety of beautiful blossoms lots of texture and splatters of paint:

For color inspiration, I'm joining along with the Sketchy Colors color challenge where we are to use Purple, Grey and Blue:

and for sketch inspiration, I joined along with the Cardabilities sketch challenge:

Thanks so much for stopping by ~ I hope you like my card. Please be sure to visit the talented group of designers at the Try it on Tuesday challenge blog and join along in the fun!
Be Sweet ;)

Prima Products used:
573744-Iris Color Bloom Spray, 573942- Glistening Waves Color Bloom Spray, 961374-Heavy White Gesso, 961411-Prima Modeling Paste

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Mona Pendleton | Monday, August 17, 2015 @ 8:30 AM | Mixed Media , Prima

Hi there! Today it's my turn to share a DT project on the Prima blog focusing on Prima cling stamps and stencils. I made a greeting card featuring a variety of beautiful Prima products. Please be sure to visit the Prima blog to see all the fab DT inspiration!

For color inspiration, I joined along with the August Prima's Product Pick color challenge:

I love the versatility of projects that may be created using a combination of Prima’s vast collection of cling stamps and stencils. Whether simple or layered, the effects can be rather fabulous.