411 Sketch x 2

Good Sunday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I made using the sketch this week on the Stamping 411 Blog.

Of course my card is not exactly like the sketch:

But you can see the basics of the sketch on my cards.

The first one uses Concord Crush and Wisteria Wonder card stock along with Whisper White.

I used the Stampin Up "Mixed Bunch" stamp set

This one I used Melon Mambo and Pretty in Pink card stock along with the Whisper White. 

I stamped and embossed the BG pieces and added to the bases. The flowers are stamped with the two colors respectively and I used the Blossom punch to punch them out. The centers are punched with my 1 inch and 1-1/4 inch circle punches. 

I added a silver brad to the flower centers, and also to the top corners and to represent the element in the bottom corner of the sketch.

The sentiment on the Concord Crush card is from the "Curly Cute" stamp set and the pink sentiment is from the "Occasional Quotes" stamp set.

I used the Build a Blossom punch for the leaves.

Can you believe NO ribbon? I know not my normal, but I like how these cards turned out, simple but oh so pretty IRL. The colors are so rich!

Well, that is it from me for today, thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

OCC....BINGO

Top of the morning to ya and Happy St. Patty's Day!!!

It is Saturday so that means a new challenge at Our Creative Corner. Our hostess this week is the fabulous Anita Houston from the The Artful Maven Haven and she has a fun challenge for us this week. Here it is in her own words:

 As luck would have it today's challenge falls on St. Patrick's Day! Ah, the luck of the Irish, or so some say. Make a card or tag with some sort of bingo card on it, and use the color green somewhere on the project. 

 I searched online a bit and found a Bingo card that I could print out and went from there. 

I thought since it was St. Patrick's Day I would just make a card with that theme.

I made my shamrock using the Fashionable Hearts Embosslits Die and the clover flowers are made using the bird punch.

I added some rhinestones to the flower and shamrock centers and used some white satin ribbon across the bottom. The DSP is wild wasabi and from the patterns pack. the sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge. 

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

A Cutesy Sneaky Peeky

Happy Friday Peeps!!

Today I have a fun sneak peek for you!

One of the fun new products that would be available to purchase in April.

 A fun new suite of products that will be in the 2012-2013 catalog called Summer Smooches. 

  Well, as a demonstrator I was able to preorder that product at the beginning of March so I can play and make some samples to be ready when it is available in April. 

 I was so excited to play with this new die.

The Petite Purse Bigz Die

Cute!!

The Summer Smooches Suite also contains some pretty new DSP, fabric covered brads, fabric, daffodil delight seam binding ribbon, as well as a new stamp set. More on all those later, I just couldn't bring myself to cut into the new DSP yet.... it takes me a few days!! LOL!

I just grabbed some paper and card stock from my scrap folder to make these two little purses!

Well, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

411 Sketch---Thank You

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I whipped up last night using the sketch challenge on the Stamping 411 Blog. Well, that is what I started out with, I strayed just a bit from the sketch. 

I think you can still see the basic sketch on my card. I tilted the main panel a bit but the rest is  pretty much all there.

The base of my card is confetti cream card stock and then I followed that with some peach parfait and the DSP is from the SAB Everyday Enchantment pack.

The flowers are from the Stampin Up "Field Flowers" and this time I stamped the flowers with some black stazon and used my markers to color. I used lucky limeade fro the stems and for the flowers I used Peach and tangerine and also some pumpkin pie. The centers are crumb cake, soft suede and early espresso.

I added just a bit of a punched edge with some lucky limeade and the scallop trim edge punch.

I used some peach parfait ribbon and basic pearls for the accents.

The sentiemnt comes form the Occasional Quotes stamp set.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Paper Players Color Challenge

Happy Monday peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the gorgeous color challenge on the The Paper Players Blog.

The challenge colors are Crumb Cake, Wisteria Wonder, Pear Pizzazz and Pool Party.

You all know I love this Stampin Up set "Bordering on Romance", I had not yet colored those pretty flowers with Wisteria so when I saw the color challenge I knew right away that I needed to give it a try!

I used Pear Pizzazz on the leaves and Pool Party on the buds. I did sneak in a small amount of Daffodil Delight on the little daisies and flower centers. I then shaded all around the image with crumb cake.

I cut the main image out with the labels framelits and then the layer under that is wisteria that I embossed with the square lattice EF.

The sentiment comes from the Occasional Quotes hostess stamp set.

I used the doily die, I made two cuts. Love that die!

The DSP on the top comes from the Beau Chateau paper pack. I added some pear pizzazz scallops and used crumb cake seam binding. I colored a couple of basic pearls with a marker. I slid a bit of the second doily under the scallops and ribbon for some added interest at the top.

Kinda a busy card, just the way I like 'em!!!

Thanks for stopping by today and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SSSC154.....Happiest Birthday

Happy Sunday Peeps!!

It is time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the SWEET sketch Karen has for us this week:

I took a little liberty with the sketch by not using a square for my main image piece.
I stamped an image from the Stampin Up Apothecary Art onto very vanilla card stock with some timber brown stazon. I colored using my aqua painter and ink pads. I had cut out the image following the outside line. I die cut a label framelit using pool party for the mat.

I used soft suede card stock for the base and then followed that with pool party card stock and the DSP is from the Attic Boutique paper pack. I embossed a piece of soft suede with the square lattice EF and cut the "V" in the bottom. I used some daffodil delight satin ribbon across the middle and tied a bow. The main image is added to the card with some dimesionals. The sentiment is from the same set and is stamped with soft suede ink and cut out and added with dimesionals to the main piece.

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week, I would love to see what you come up with, create a card or scrapbook page with this sketch and then go to Karen's blog and link up your project for all of us to see.

OK, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Team, and Guest Designer has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing 

Jen-JenTapler Designs-

Karen-Paper Playhouse-

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Dana-Dana's House of Cards

and this week's Guest Designer:-Shannon White

Well, thank you for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

OCC.....Tic Tac Toe Challenge

Happy Saturday Peeps!!! 

It is time for another Our Creative Corner Challenge. 
This week our hostess with the mostest is the fabulous Holly Kean and she has a fun challenge for us:

"Tic Tac Toe Challenge"
Play along with us in a game of papercrafting tic-tac-toe. Choose "three in a row" on the Tic-Tac-Toe board and make sure you work those elements into your papercraft project.

I know you can guess what "three in a row" I choose.

I love flowers and pink and brads!

I decided I wanted to make one of these bags I have seen around that uses two die cuts from the Fancy Favor Box die.

I used Pretty in Pink for the bottom and the top die cut is made using some DSP from the Attic Boutique pack.

I used some pretty flower roses from the Stampin Up "Flower Fest" stamp set. I stamped with versamark onto some pretty in pink card stock and used white embossing powder on them. The leaves are done the same way onto wild wasabi card stock.

The sentiment comes from the SAB set Elementary Elegance stamp set and I used Early Espresso ink to stamp it into the oval. I added some silver brads to the corners of the main element.

Be sure to check the Our Creative Corner Blog 

to see what the rest of the design team came up with for this fun challenge. 

I hope you can find some time to play along and if you do, don't forget to link it up over on the Our Creative Corner Blog so we can all see it!

Thanks for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki