Mojo Pretty in Teal Snowman

Good Thursday Morning Peeps! Hope you all are having a great week so far!

Today I am sharing a card with you made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

Boy did I struggle with this one!!! I made the base and layers up fairly quickly, knowing I wanted to use this beautiful "Holiday Lounge" DS paper. The problem came in when deciding what to use as my main element. I tried several different things before finally landing on this one. I have seen people use just the head from the "Simple Seasonal Thanks" around in several places and so I decided to give it a try for this card. I stamped the head onto some whisper white card stock and cut it out. I stamped it again onto some of the DS paper and cut out the hat and scarf and pieced them onto my snowman head. I colored in his nose with my pumpkin pie marker and I also used some liquid applique on the hat.

Well, that is all for today, gotta keep it short, lots to get done today! Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

MTSC Let it Snow

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card with you made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge Don't you just love this sketch?

I wanted to make a very non-traditional Christmas card for a very "non" traditional friend. I was inspired to use these colors by this cutie made by Pam Speidel.

I used the stamp set "Big on Christmas" and the "Snow Buddies" stamp set. I stamped the "Let it Snow" onto some whisper white card stock and then stamped it again onto some scrap white and then stamped the large snowman from "Snow Buddies" onto scrap. I colored in the S-N-and W with my sage shadow marker. I then cut out my large snow man and mounted it over the snowman head on the main image panel with some dimensionals. I cut out the hat from the original image and added it to my big snowman. I then stamped the large snowman onto some of the DS paper and cut out the scarf and added it to the snowman. I used my black marker to color in every other square on the scarf and also the hat. I hand cut out holly leaf from some scrap garden green card stock and added it to the hat. I added a couple dots of red stickles for the holly berries on his hat.

The base of the card is basic gray and I followed that with some sage shadow and the DS paper is from the Nouveau Chic pack. I added some sheer white 7/8 inch ribbon and three snowflakes to the top corner. After all was put together I added some stardust stickles to the snow letters.

Detail shot:



Very sparkly IRL!!

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SSSC47 Thank You

Good Sunday Morning Peeps!!

It is my favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Here is the sketch we are working with this week:



Last week while checking out Jen's Sketch for You to Try I saw this adorable card made by Leigh O'Brien. I loved those scruncy flowers. She had a link in her blog to where she had seen the flowers and a link to a little tutorial on how to make these.

I wanted to make some right away, so I pulled out some of the fabulous Night & Day DS paper and my scallop circle punch and went to work. I used some scraps from that Night & Day DS paper that was in my pack and punched out 9 circles and hooked them together with a brad and started pulling up and scrunching the circles and this fabulous little scruncy flower emerged! So I tried it again and made another, so easy peasy, lemon squeezy. I loved them so much I wanted to put them on a card so I pulled out Karen's Sketch and this is what I came up with.

Not much stamping on this one, just the sentiment from the "Thank You Kindly" stamp set. The leaves are cut from the "little leaves" sizzlits die. The rest is just layering up of basic black card stock and the DS paper.

I sure hope you can find some time to play along with us this week. Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!




Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this weeks sketch!



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene




Well, that is all for today, Thanks soooo much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

BAH HUMBUG CASE

Good Saturday Morning peeps!

The card I am sharing with you today is not for and challenge, awhile back I saw this adorable card by Carrie Gaskin. I knew right away I had to make one and who I would send it to. I have a friend who always says "Bah Humbug" all through the holiday season. She works retail and really dislikes this time of the year.

My card is pretty much identically to Carrie's card. My base is always artichoke followed by basic black and the DS paper is from the Nouveau Chic pack.

Scrooge is made with punches. The face is made up from the large oval, 1/4″ circle punch. The hat from the small oval punch. Scarf from the small oval, large oval punch. Body is the large tag punch, and the word window punch for the arms, gold brads, and the hair is from the Leaves #2 die.

I used letters from the Naturally Serif Sizzlet strip and cut out the words “BAH HUMBUG” and adhered them along the bottom of the card. The oval sentiment is from the "Christmas Punch" set, and is stamped with black stazon onto whisper white and cut out and mounted onto a punched wide oval of real red.

Well, that is all for today, be sure and come back tomorrow for another Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge card.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

WSC Beary Merry

TGIF PEEPS!!!!

The card I am sharing with you today is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge.

I think I followed the sketch pretty well, I did have to add a popped up piece for my sentiment, because my BG paper was a bit to dark to show and my sentiment was a bit to long to go right beside the image panel.

I used a few things from that retired Winter Bright Scrappin' kit again. My DS paper and the strip across the top are from the kit. My base card is wild wasabi card stock and I also used some real red card stock.

The image is from the cute little single stamp "Bearing Gifts". I stamped the image onto some watercolor paper and colored it with my aqua painter and some wold wasabi, real red, so saffron and close to cocoa ink. The sentiment comes from the "Berry Christmas" stamp set. I used the word window punch to punch it out and added with s piece of a dimensional. The ribbon is wild wasabi and the button is one I had in my stash.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

MTSC Take Care of Yourself

Good Wednesday Morning Peeps!

The card I am sharing today was made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.

I needed to take a bit of a break from Christmas cards, and I had just gotten this fun little set called "Whoo's your Valentine?" Don't you just love that adorable little owl. The owl has a saying under him, but when I mounted my set I cut it off and mounted it on the side of the block. That way I can use him without stamping or masking off the saying.

I stamped him with black stazon ink onto some watercolor paper. I used my aqua painter and some close to cocoa, riding hood red and more mustard ink to color him in. I added a bit of ground with tombow gray marker. I dug out some retired DS paper, Candy Lane and used some riding hood red card stock, also retired and some very vanilla card stock for the layers and matting.

This could pass for a Valentine card but also just for a general "thinking of you/caring card I think.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Season Greetings

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

I started my card with a base of Melon Mambo and followed that with some blush blossom and the some white that I ran through the Petals a Plenty embossing folder. I made my center circle element to be an ornament. I cut out a large scallop circle with my nesties in melon mambo and then a large circle with nesties with blush blossom and white. I ran the white through the cuttlebug with the petals a plenty embossing folder also. I hand drew the curves for the snowy hills and cut it out and mounted it to the blush circle. I stamped the trees from the "Patterned Pines", a level 1 hostess set, onto white with melon mambo ink and cut them out. I glued the two on the sides directly to the blush circle, tucking their trunks under the snowy hill. The middle tree was mounted to the base with a couple of dimensionals. I added a few sticky rhinestones to the trees. I used the Round Top punch to make the ornament hanger. I stamped dots onto the punched piece with a stamp from the "For All You Do" set, and added a white bow. I mounted the "ornament" to the base with dimensionals. The sentiment comes from the "Four the Holidays" set.

Well, that is all for today, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki