Celebrate Liberty

Hi my friends.  Happy Monday.  This is my final assignment for the Squigglefly design team.  It's hard to believe it's been six months already. 

With Independence Day just a week away, our challenge this week is Red, White & Blue.  I'm using sketch challenge #338 on SCS for my layout.  I decided to make my card using Fancy Flowers, again.  This set is so versatile.  Although I have flowers on my card, they have been made with a leaf image.  I colored the images with copic markers and then cut them out.  The flower centers are punched with SU's itty bitty punch pack.  I layered three together, so they are raised a bit from the flower petals.  All the faux piercing is done with black marker. 

For the partial circles, I traced around a CD and a cream cheese container. 

The sentiment is computer generated, punched with an oval punch and edged with copic marker. 

We'd love to have you play along with the challenge this week. Although you may use any images on your creation to enter the challenge, in order to qualify for the prize you must use at least one Squigglefly image! You may combine SF images with non-SF images to qualify! If you don't have any Squigglefly images, there are many to choose from, or help yourself from the FREEBIES available.  Be sure to also check out all the new images.

You have until Sunday evening to upload your new creation to your blog or any on-line photo gallery. Please use SFC104 in your keywords.

Please add a DIRECT link to your project in the InLinkz box on the SF blog, so we can find it -- (new creations only and no back-linking please!). If you have more than one entry, link each one separately.

The winner will be announced at the same time the new challenge post comes up next Monday, so be sure to check back to see if you are a winner!

Be sure to stop over at the Squigglefly blog to see what the rest of the design team has done for today's challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful week. 

a sketch challenge

Happy Thursday my friends.  It feels wonderful to have cooler temps today.  It's about 60, so welcome after being in the 90's for the past few days.  Last night we had some thunderstorms and quite a bit of rain.  I have some lavender in pots, waiting to be transplanted in front of my porch (after I dig out the poppies).  To make it easy to water the lavender right now, they are sitting in a couple of old metal dishpans.  This morning, though, I had to empty the pans, since I really didn't want them sitting in that much water.  In other garden notes, my yellow squash and zucchini are already up.  The seed package said 10-14 days & they were popping up after only a week.

Yesterday, was the sketch challenge on SCS.  It was such a simple one, I just knew I wanted to play along.  I made a piece of faux woodgrain by swiping my ink pads down the cardstock (mellow moss, more mustard, creamy caramel, really rust and chocolate chip).  To go along with the wood theme, I pulled out a happy birthday stamp that the letters look like wood.  I think it's a Rubbernecker stamp, but not sure.

Using a bordering blue card base, I glued the smaller piece of woodgrain on, stamped the sentiment, and then added the longer piece of woodgrain.  I used my mat pack plastic guide to add some faux nails and then used a black marker to add a little bit of dimension to the letters.  It's a very simple card and would be so easy to change the paper and sentiment for a completely different look.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a blessed day.

busy girl

Hi my friends. I've been a busy girl today. I made five cards. The first one I made is for the next Squigglefly release, so I can't show you that one yet. But I'll let you see the other four.

Last night was the February stamp release at Gina K Designs, and there was a party at StampTV. There are always challenges and questions, which will have random drawings for prizes, so I like to participate. You just never know when your name might be drawn.

My first card is for a color challenge - yellow, green and neutral. I used a fun technique called embedded embossing. I punched out some little flowers, sponged the edges, glued them to my white cardstock and then ran it through a cuttlebug embossing folder. The butterfly is from Take Flight (GKD) and the sentiment from Cornish Heritage Farms.

The next card had to use twine. I used the same butterfly set plus a stamp from Notably Ornate (SU) and painted them with twinkling H2O's. If you've been reading my blog for awhile, you know that I'm not a pink lover, but I do use it once in awhile. This just happens to be one of those times. I used a border punch on the black and happened to have some pink hemp twine that was a perfect match. Of course, if you're using pink, you have to have a little bling.

My next card is for a sketch. The sketch was a square card, but I prefer A2 cards, so I just stretched it out a bit. The DP is from a small pad from provo craft and I embossed both pieces with my textile embossing folder. The circles were cut with nestabilities dies. The stamp is from Gina K's Signs of Autumn and colored with markers. The flowers were punched from the DP and sponged with brilliant blue ink. The 'ribbon' is faux, with faux stitching. The leaves are a Martha Stewart punch.

My last card is for Saturday's inspiration challenge on SCS. I chose a simple design for my inspiration. The flourish (Inkadinkado) and sentiment (SU) are embossed in ivory. The flower (Delight in Life - SU) is stamped three times in timber brown stazon and colored with watercolor pencils and blender pen. The brad is from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

turquoise

Hello, my friends. I hope you're having a pleasant week. It snowed again this morning. I went out around 1:00 to shovel. I think we had about 3 inches.

I wanted to enter cards for this week's sketch and color challenges on StampTV. Since the color challenge was due today, I pulled out some turquoise, chocolate and white cardstock and ink to see what I could come up with. I also checked the ways to use it challenge on SCS and found that it was to use rainbow colors. I ended up making a card for the WT and StampTV sketch challenge first, but had plenty of time to make one for the color challenge as well.

I wasn't planning on making two cards that were turquoise, but after I brayered some cardstock with ink from my kaleidacolor calypso pad, I thought turquoise would be a good background. I stamped freesias (Cornish Heritage Farms) in black stazon over the rainbow colors and then die cut a circle with a nestabilities die. The black layer behind it is die cut with eyelets pendant die. After gluing them together, I inked the piece with versamark and embossed with iridescent ice ep.

To follow the sketch, I pulled out a piece of summer sun and stamped it with a wheat stamp from Signs of Autumn (Gina K), again using the calypso pad. When I pulled out a piece of black to layer behind it, I found it was a bit too short, but I decided to use it anyway and just change the way the layering looked. I used the same type of layering for the sentiment, which is from Stampendous.

My second card is for the StampTV color challenge. I stamped the Hero Arts flowers in chocolate chip ink and then colored the centers with colored pencils and blended them just a little bit with gamsol. I added some white highlights with a white gel pen. Then I die cut the piece with petite scallop circles nestabilities, with a layer of chocolate chip.

The fancy lacy bits are a die cut called Decorative Butterfly Border (Spellbinders). The card base is chocolate, with layers of white and turquoise. Some white dots in the corners and inside part of the lacy pieces complete the card.

Thanks so much for stopping in today. Be blessed.

StampTV challenges

Hi my friends. I have had a number of non-stamping days for the simple reason that my mojo has been hiding somewhere. Today, however, I think I made up for it. I made FIVE cards.

StampTV is having some year-end challenges with the possibility of winning some goodies, so of course, I needed to join in. The first card is for 'adding shimmer with stardust pens'. Not all of my glitter pens are stardust brand, so I just used what I had. I colored the image with the glitter pens.

The stitched circle is called spirelli. I had a couple of these already completed, so I decided to use one for this card. Although it may look complicated, it only takes about 10 minutes or so to make a full circle. I like to use regular sewing thread, because it looks so delicate.

All the brads are little black dots punched from black cardstock.

The next card is a faux window. I decided to add a bit of 'curtain'. I edged punched a piece of dp and then ran it through my crimper.

The next card is a shimmery background. This is done by embossing a piece of cardstock in an embossing folder and cuttlebug. Then you highlight the embossed areas with glitter pen. I added a bunch of white dots with a gel pen as well.

Another card, using the same stamp from Signs of Autumn (Gina K), uses the cracked glass technique. This is done by covering your image piece with UTEE, heating, and then repeating a couple of times. I think I may have used 4 layers. Then you put it in the freezer for about 10 minutes. When you take it out, you immediately bend it and the surface will crack. The first time I cracked this, some pieces actually fell off, so I remelted it with my heat gun and did the freezing, cracking procedure all over.

The lacy circle layer is a new nestabilities die that I received for Christmas, so I had to use it today. This card also has some faux brads. This card doubles for the sketch challenge this week on SCS.

My last card is for a challenge of adding a button to a bow. When I first saw that challenge, I wasn't sure I was going to do it, because.... in order to add a button to a bow, I first need to tie a bow. This is something I usually avoid, since they usually don't turn out very nice. Then I thought about it and figured if I used raffia and made a more rustic card, I could do it, so that is exactly what I did.

I already had the image from SU stamped, colored and die cut. I just added some white gel pen dots and sponged the edges.

I also had this piece of faux woodgrain, and that was a perfect background for a rustic card. The button is one from my stash.

I'm always happy when I can utilize previously stamped images and backgrounds, etc. on a card.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Blessings to you.

A double challenge day

Brrrrrr... It's cold in Wisconsin today. Only low 20's all day. I'm glad I didn't have to spend time outdoors.

Hi, my friends. Are you glad it's Monday? I like Mondays, because I usually get to have some 'me' time with no one home to interrupt me.

Today I made a card for the technique challenge on SCS and combined it with a sketch challenge on StampTV. I'm also using it for my class this week.

The technique challenge was one of my favorite techniques, embossing resist. You emboss your image and then sponge ink over it and the embossed areas resist the ink, leaving your image white. Although I don't use it often, I love the results I get with this technique.

The background on this card is some digital paper I got from computerscrapbook.com.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great week.

Merry Christmas

Well, I do hope you have one, but not just yet. My card today is a Christmas card. I decided to make a card for this week's sketch challenge on Stamp TV.

I started by stamping the cardinal image (SU - a cardinal Christmas) with tuxedo black memento ink. I colored it with copic markers and used a spellbinders dahlia nestabilities die to cut it out. I added some gable green sponging before I took the image out of the die. I also added some faux stitching with a black marker.

At this point, I tried a number of different colors and papers for the card base and nothing seemed to fit. So I started playing with another spellbinders die (eyelet pendant), thinking I could put something behind the image. As it turned out, I ended up going a completely different direction with that, so I'm going to use that on another project. Sooooo..... then I was sort of back to square one.... After playing around with it for quite awhile longer, I finally found something that worked.

I used river rock for the card base, and stamped another image from the same set randomly in river rock ink to form a backgound.

The sentiment is also from that set. I added some more faux stitching and some faux brads.

The image is raised on dimensional tape.

I do so appreciate you stopping by today. For those of you celebrating Thanksgiving this week, have a blessed day. I hope you get to spend it with someone you love.

busy stamping

Hi my friends. Yes, I stamped today. I made three cards. Thursday evening was another Gina K release party on Stamp TV, and there are always challenges with random drawings for free stamps, so I like to play along. You never know when your name might get picked. I didn't get a chance to create anything yesterday, because I was out of town attending a funeral for one of my aunts. Even though the occasion was a sad one, it was nice to get together with cousins that I hadn't seen in years.

So to make up for getting nothing done yesterday, I got busy today and did all three of the challenges. I combined the sketch challenge with the inspiration challenge on SCS. I chose this wheat illustration as my inspiration. I love the look of wheat, so I used silhouette grass (hero arts) as a background - stamped off once prior to stamping on my vanilla card base in more mustard ink.

I decided to use one of my sizzix (tim holtz) on the edge dies (ornate) for the first time. I've had these since... ahem.... well, you get the idea. I cut a piece of vanilla (yes, it was) with the die and then sponged vintage photo distress ink on it rather heavily and completely changed the color. That wasn't what I was planning, but as I was sponging along the edge, I kinda messed up, so I had to cover that up and just kept on going. Then I inked up houndstooth embossing folder with the same ink and embossed it. I love how that turned out -- so much texture.

For the main image, I die cut a partial oval with nestabilities classic ovals (spellbinders) and then stamped the flowers from signs of autumn (Gina K) with tuxedo black memento and colored them with copic markers. All of the edges are sponged with vintage photo ink. I also black marker to define the edge of the layers a bit more.

I stamped the hero arts sentiment on top of the wheat in black.

I decided to use on of the flowers from the bouquet for the accent piece, so I stamped that portion again and colored with copics and cut it out. I used a martha stewart leaf punch and punched a few from old olive cardstock. I added some vein lines and sponged the edges with always artichoke. The flower and leaves were popped up on dimensional tape.

My second card is for Theresa's challenge That's Odd - meaning that we were required to use an odd number of design elements on our cards (& one didn't count). So I used three -- three leaves & three brads.

Everything on this card is stamped in jet black stazon. The bare tree is a penny black stamp. The leaves are part of signs of autumn (gkd). I colored them with sponges, using summer sun, old olive and tangerine tango ink. Each leaf is attached with dimensional tape. I sponged around the edges with chocolate chip ink and added some faux stitching and added some black brads.

I stamped autumn (SU - season by season) on a piece of old olive and attached some chocolate grosgrain ribbon and a corduroy button with black crochet cotton. This piece is also raised on dimensional tape.

My third card is for Lee's Non-traditional Holiday Colors challenge -- no red, green or blue. So I decided to go with chocolate, because what's Christmas without chocolate?

I die cut, embossed and sponged create a flake one (spellbinders), using vanilla cardstock and creamy caramel & chocolate chip ink. I made two sets (one of each color) and then layered them, alternating the colors. I put them together so that both sides are fronts, so that you will see a finished snowflake from the inside of the card also.

The hole is made with spellbinders classic circles and classic scallop circles nestabiliites and is through all of the layers on the card front. The snowflake is suspended between the layers with white thread.

The sentiment is from hugs and wishes (SU).

Thanks so very much for visiting today. I hope you're having a wonder-filled weekend.

Happy Saturday

Hi, my friends. I made two cards today. It's a wallyball night for the rest of the family, which meant I could leave my stuff out longer, allowing me more stamping time. Since I was teaching classes yesterday, I didn't get a chance to do any creating, so I was playing catch up today. I did double challenges on both cards.

The first card is for yesterday's Hope challenge on SCS (handmade embellishments), as well as the ways to use it challenge of using fabric. On the card base, I stamped my denim background (Cornish Heritage Farms). The background image on the next layer is silhouette grass (Hero Arts) stamped in cherry cobbler.

I die cut a denim flower and then crocheted the center. Then I embossed a paper fastener with dark denim embossing powder to put in the center and hold the flower layers together.

The leaf is a new set I bought last weekend at a stamp expo in Milwaukee. It's a set from Heartfelt Creations called Open Falling Leaves. This is one of their stamp sets that has matching dies you can get. I didn't get the die set to match these stamps, but I will probably get it sometime. But for now, I just cut out the leaf. The diagonal strips are navy and cherry cobbler. The sentiment is from Endless Creations.

The second card is today's Hope challenge and this week's sketch challenge. We had to use 3 different pieces of designer paper. I seldom use dp, because I guess I'm intimidated by all the different patterns and colors. I really shouldn't be, since I use that kind of thing in quilting all the time. I guess the difference is that each piece of fabric is just a very small part of the whole quilt, but on a card, each paper is a large section of the card. But every so often, a challenge like this forces me out of my comfort zone. I used a 6" pad called Indian Summer by Basic Grey. It helped to have papers that coordinate well with each other.

The flower image is from Local King Rubber Stamps. I stamped it in tuxedo black memento ink and colored it with copic markers. I've been trying to use those more often, but I'm finding that I am seriously lacking a nice variety of colors. I decided that I should buy a few every month or so, slowly building up my collection. So today I went out and bought five more. Not so many when there are over 300 colors.

This challenge also required two different embellishments, so I added some brads and pearls. The last requirement was ribbon, so I tied a small piece of black grosgrain ribbon around one panel.

Thanks so much for stopping in for a visit. Have a wonder-filled weekend.

another fun butterfly

Hi, my friends. I'm finding it hard to believe that it's the end of September already. I don't know where the month has gone. It seems to have just flown by.

Today was the 300th sketch challenge on SCS. So, in celebration, there are going to be some prizes given out through a random drawing. So, of course, I had to make at least one card. The sketch just called to me for a bunch of flowers. Since I already had a number of these flowers from Fast & Fabulous (SU) colored and cut out, I decided to use them.

I started by making the faux wood panels using creamy caramel, really rust & close to cocoa on vanilla and adding the board & nail marks with black marker. The panels are all distressed on the edges and layered on black.

For the flowers, I made a grouping of five of the flowers. Then I punched a bunch of leaves with a Martha Stewart punch. I cut off the stems, sponged the edges with always artichoke and added some veins. Then I just tucked the leaves in and around the flowers until I was satisfied.

Some time ago, I was playing around and had die cut a butterfly from some wide shimmery gold ribbon and added some turquoise glitter along the edge. I decided to use it on this card. I die cut another butterfly from yoyo yellow cardstock and then sponged a lot of ruby red on it. Then I tied them together with black crochet cotton, creating a body for the butterfly. I just drew in the antennae. Here is a closeup of the butterfly, so you can see all the shimmery goodness.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Be blessed.

and the morning flew by...

Hey everyone. I sat down to make a card this morning and the morning just flew by. I really didn't think it was going to take me that long - and the card wasn't even complicated.

The sketch challenge on SCS was a really simple one today, so I decided to play. I pulled out a new set that I received free in a random draw for a challenge I participated in for Gina K. It's called Signs of Autumn and has a nice variety of images relating to fall, which is a season that I really love. I decided to use the sunflower image, although I have a tendency to make my flowers something other than what the stamp might indicate. I colored the image using SU markers, added some sponging and doodling around the edges and mounted that on black.

The card base is dusty durango (I think - didn't check, and SU's colors lately have been close to, but not quite, another color in the palette. I used to know every one without double checking, but not anymore with all the in colors that are only around for a year. ). I stamped the maple leaf randomly with dusty durango ink and sponged and doodled the edges with chocolate chip.

The bar across the bottom is some designer paper from a JoAnn's stack, mounted on black. I stamped and colored each of the flowers, then cut them out and added some chocolate chip on the tips of the petals.

The sentiment is from Think Happy Thoughts (SU). I wanted to use the same flower again on that, so that meant one more to color and cut out. I think that's where the morning went - cutting out flowers.

Thanks for stopping by for a visit today. I hope the rest of your day is filled with wonder.

How about some blue?

Hey, everyone. It was a beautiful day today - temps in the 70's, partly cloudy and a little breeze - my kind of weather.

Today I actually did the sketch challenge on SCS. It's been awhile since I've managed that. I decided that I could use one of the flowers from Fast & Fabulous, a new SU hostess set. I stamped the outline with brilliant blue ink on watercolor paper. Then I stamped the solid part of the flower, also in brilliant blue, but stamped off once first. I wanted the flowers to have more variance in color, so I added some along the outer edges of the petals with a marker and then blended it a bit with a water brush.

Rather than adding a lot of extra layers of cardstock, I sponged the edges on every layer.

Since the image only filled the center of the watercolor paper, I added some eyelets in the corners and was going to tie some ribbon through them, but I really didn't like how it looked. After fussing with different ways to put the ribbon for quite awhile and just not liking any variation, I finally snipped the ribbon and removed it all. Then I took my scissors and cut off the corners with the eyelets and re-sponged those edges. I still wanted to keep the rectangle shape, so I added another layer of cool caribbean with some blue jewels in the corners --- oh, this is so much better!

The card base is cool caribbean, with layers of brilliant blue and a dotted turquoise which I bought at a local stamp expo quite a few years ago.

The sentiment is from Very Versatile (SU), punched with my word window punch. Both the image and sentiment are popped up on dimensional tape.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you enjoyed your visit.

It's VSN Olympics

Hey bloggers. Yesterday was a sewing day and a stamping day. I think I accomplished much.

My niece is expecting a baby in a couple of weeks, so I wanted to make some bibs for her. I had them all cut out and pinned, so yesterday I sewed them up.

Since the Basement Fabric Shop didn't have anything even remotely resembling cute little bunnies, chicks, and lambs, I went with completely non-traditional colors and fabrics. Here are a few of them. I made twelve altogether and they are all reversible. I hope she likes them.







This weekend is virtual stamp night (VSN) with an olympic theme on SCS. The challenges started last night with 5 challenges, and there will be 11 more today starting at 11:00 CT. My family was at the athletic club playing wallyball, so that meant I could stamp without interruption and managed to get all FIVE! (Yay!) challenges completed and uploaded. If you've never played VSN, you should give it a try. It's fast-paced and fun. You have 45 minutes to complete each card, which, for me, forces me to stop dithering and get something together. Given that time frame, you know these are not going to over the top kind of cards, but it is still possible to make something acceptable.

I was definitely in a blue mode (not mood, just in case you're wondering at my spelling), since 4 of the 5 cards is blue or turquoise. You can find all the challenges here.

So with that being said, here are the five cards I made last night. Enjoy and thanks for stopping by.

pink and purple

Pink -- Look what I received on Tuesday! Along with a set of texture plates and a whole bunch of dies from Sizzix. Now, if you've been reading my blog for awhile, you know I don't care for pink, but this was such a great deal (a weekend clearance sale - it was 60% off - yay!), I decided I could live with the color. This is the Hello Kitty line, with a cute kitty, jewels, & lots of PINK! I've played with it just a bit and I like the way it feels with the bigz dies - very sturdy, but it does take up a lot of counter space. Since I already have a cuttlebug, the biggest reason I wanted this was to use the longer dies, so now I will have to get the long cutting pads to go with it.









Purple - That's the ways to use it challenge today on SCS. Purple is another one of my not so favorite colors, but I figured if I can get a pink Big Shot, I could certainly play along with a purple challenge. And to make it easier, I used yesterday's sketch challenge for the layout.

I decided to use some paper that I picked up for pennies when a local craft store was closing. I got a whole stack of it and it doesn't match my inks very well. I paired it up with elegant eggplant and pale plum cardstock. First I used friendly words jumbo wheel (SU) in eggplant along the bottom of the pale plum card base. Along the top edge of the wheeled strip, I placed a narrow strip of eggplant cardstock. Then at the top, I put the smaller pieces of designer paper backed with eggplant. I sponged eggplant all around the outside edge of the card.

For the main image, I stamped a flower (Inkadinkadoo) twice on white cardstock in jet black stazon and colored it with mustard in the center and the petals with lavender lace. Since the lavender didn't really match, but neither did any other color, I sponged perfect plum over the petals to get a better color match. After cutting out the flowers, I sponged eggplant around the edges. I stamped both flourishes from priceless (SU) in always artichoke on white, sponged the edge with eggplant, and adhered the flowers, popping up the one in front. I backed the white panel with eggplant and added a knotted eggplant ribbon and popped up the panel.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Be blessed.

a triple challenge

Hi everyone. I love fall, and my cards lately reflect that. Today I made a card for Rubbernecker's Wacky Wednesday, as well as the sketch and inspiration challenges on SCS. The inspiration one kinda happened by accident. After I finished the card, I thought I'd go back over there and check if it fit any of the inspiration and I didn't even have to go to the website. One of the chosen samples was perfect.

I started with a sunflower from Rubbernecker, stamped twice on watercolor paper with black stazon. I colored them with a water brush and ink pads. I cut out the flower and leaves from one and popped them up over the first image. The edges are distressed and sponged with chocolate chip ink and layered on rich razzleberry.

For the middle layer I ran a piece of pumpkin pie through my cuttlebug with distressed stripes embossing folder, did some distressing and sponging and again backed it with rich razzleberry.

The card base is old olive stamped with a background stamp in chocolate chip and sponged along the edge.

I added some twine and buttons. My camera battery was dying, so the picture is sort of washed out.

What's in it?
stamps: rubbernecker
ink: chocolate chip, jet black stazon, summer sun, pumpkin pie, old olive
paper: old olive, rich razzleberry, pumpkin pie, watercolor
other: twine, cuttlebug, distressed stripes ef, buttons, sponge dauber, foam tape, water brush

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be blessed.

Another butterfly

Hi everyone. Today I made another butterfly card. Gina K had another release party last week and the deadline for challenge cards is today, so I managed to get one done. I made a card for the sketch challenge.

In my scrap pile I found the black and vanilla circles already die cut, so rather than pull out my cuttlebug and dies, I just used these. I first stamped the butterfly on another piece of vanilla and colored it using gamsol magic technique and cut it out. Then I stamped it again on the vanilla circle and stamped over that with SU's linen background in caramel. For the flowers, I colored with markers, huffed and stamped. Brads were added to the centers. I sponged around the edges of the scallops with chocolate chip ink and matted on black.

The ruby red background is stamped with SU's French filigree background stamp in ruby red. The designer paper strip is Basic Grey.

For the smaller circle, I pulled out one of my crocheted flowers, added a button and backed it with a scalloped circle punch, sponged around the edges.

What's in it?
stamps: linen, French filigree (SU), take flight, peace & comfort (Gina K)
ink: jet black stazon, creamy caramel, ruby red, old olive, chocolate chip
paper: basic black, very vanilla, ruby red, naturals ivory, dp (Basic Grey confused)
other: black brads, cuttlebug, circles nestabilities, scallop circle punch, sponge dauber, crochet flower, button, foam tape

Thank you so much for visiting. Have a wonderful day.

corrugated friendship

Hi there. It's sketch time. My card today is for the sketch challenge on SCS. I had a little fun and added some corrugated cardboard.

I started by stamping the little birdie from cheep talk 3 times in ballet blue on ivory. Then I punched them out with a 1-1/4" square punch and punched the corners with a ticket corner punch. I added some faux stitching in navy. They are layered on scalloped squares.

The card base is ivory with navy faux stitching. The cardboard is swiped with my white craft ink pad to lighten up the brown. I attached the birds with foam tape and added a piece of navy ribbon and then glued the cardboard to a strip of navy.

The sentiment is stamped in ballet blue.

Photo corner punches were added to fill in some empty space. I finished it off with some white faux stitching.

What's in it?
stamps: cheep talk, wonderful words (SU)
ink: ballet blue, night of navy marker, white craft
paper: night of navy, naturals ivory, corrugated cardboard
other: 1-1/4" square punch, scallop square punch, ticket corner punch, photo corner punch, white gel pen, navy grosgrain ribbon, foam tape

Now I'm going to go find some lunch and then it's time to do some quilting.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Be blessed.

four challenges - whew!

Hello everyone. Happy am I. I just managed to fit four challenges into one card. AND it didn't take me all day either. The challenges are inspiration, color, sketch, and ways to use it on SCS this week.

What really made this easy is that there were certain parameters from each challenge that just meshed together. A blue bird for the inspiration, which fit the sketch and the colors nicely and the colors already worked for the ways to use it, which was bold and bright.

I used my new hostess set wings of friendship, did a little bit of paper piecing, some cuttlebug embossing, added a crochet flower, button and some pearls.

The deets:
stamps: wings of friendship (SU)
ink: pacific point, tangerine tango, summer sun
paper: pacific point, tangerine tango, summer sun, whisper white
other: cuttlebug, cb textile embossing folder, nestabilities labels one die, corner rounder, sponge dauber, crochet flower, button, half pearls, foam tape

Thanks for stopping by. Have a blessed day.