Praying for You

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!! It is a cold one here, I sure do miss Spring.....where did it go?

Today's card is made with a new stamp set I just got, "Thoughts & Prayers" by SU. So pretty, I teamed it up with some more of the Parisian Breeze Textured Paper, I don't think you can make a bad card with that paper, I just love all I have seen with it.

I used Jen's Sketch for you to Try for my layout.

I stamped the main image panel onto shimmer white cardstock twice. I inked the stamp up with baja ink and then used my old olive marker to go over the rubber of the leaves and stems. I huffed it alot and then stamped.

The second image was done the same way and I used my 1-1/4 inch punch to punch out the squares for the side elements. I then used the 1-3/8 inch punch with some chocolate chip to back them.

The sentiment is stamped with timber brown stazon onto more shimmer and cut out and I used some hardware from the stylized silver hardware kit to frame the sentiment. I don't have the punch to fit that piece of hardware, so I just hand cut it to fit.

My base is a 5 x 10 inch piece of baja card stock folded in half, followed by chocolate chip and then the designer paper.

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

Vicki

Hey Chickie!!!

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!! Hope you all had a great weekend!!!

On Saturday afternoon/evening I was at my friend Lois' house for SAS and a couple of us stayed to play afterwards!

I had seen this cute little chickie while blog surfing and wanted to give it a try. So we set out to make one on Saturday evening! Isn't he cute?

He is made with the SU Scallop Die. You can find all the instructions on the blog linked above. The only thing we did different, I think, was to pop up her wings with some pop dots. She is made with barely banana, sponged with so saffron. The ribbon holds the card together. I think she is adorable. I had to make a few more yesterday. Who knows where these might turn up!!

Cute little Easter card to send or tuck into some ones basket. I still make basket's for my family, even tho they are grown. I love it and I think they do too.

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

Gratitude

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!! Hope your weekend is going well, so far!! It is very, very windy here today, but is suppose to get warm, but then you know that wind is blowing in change. Back to winter like weather after today for a few days!!!

Well, onto today's card. It gave me fits!!!! I had nothing but trouble with this card and even now I am not loving it!

I started with a sketch, of course.
Beate's Weekend Sketch challenge, this week hosted by the uber talented Mary Jo Albright. You should check out her Blog, Beauty lies within, she is fabulous!

But back to my so-so card, I had an idea when I started what I wanted to do, but I couldn't get anything to work. I literally worked on this card for around 3 hours, trying several things and re-doing alot! I finally settled on what you see here but like I said, I am not to pleased.

I made another of the 6-1/2 x 3-1/4 inch cards, started with a base of kraft and then followed it with some riding hood red and some DS paper from the Candy Lane DS pack and the white at the bottom is from the Taste of Textile. I do love that white shimmer strip! The sentiment is from the "Define Your Life" set and is stamped in riding hood red on white and then layered onto some more riding hood red and then kraft. I pierced all around the outer edge of the sentiment panel with my piercing tool and mat pack. I added a strip of kraft between the top and bottom panel, I pierced that piece as well.

I made a folded fan flower with a strip of RHR pattern paper and added a circle of the shimmer white with a pearl brad in the center. The opposite corner is just a white button with some riding hood red taffeta ribbon tied through it. I added some silver brads and called it done!

So what do you think? Opinions please, good bad or indifferent, all are welcomed.

Well that is all for today, I am going to Stamp-a-Stack this afternoon, can't wait. Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Friend to Friend

TGIF Peeps!! So glad the weekend is upon us!!! It has been one of "those" weeks. On a positive note, I did finally find my cell phone this morning, in the bottom of the laundry hamper!!! How it got there I do not know!! But I am just glad I found it and it is still fine, just has a dead battery, it is home on the charger as we speak!!!

Today's card is dedicated to my friend Lois. She told me yesterday that I HAD to ink up another stamp from the "Wagon Full of Fun" set besides the duck!! So this ones for you Lois, Hope you like it!

I made it with this weeks sketch on the Stamps and Smiles Blog. You should check out the sketch challenge they have on Thursday's, if you haven't already, those girls post the cutest cards!!!

I started mine with a base of so saffron and followed that with some baja and then some DS paper from the "Sweet Slumber" pack.

The strip on the side is also baja and more paper from the same pack. I used my EK success wavy edge punch on both sides. The next layer is some more baja that I ran through the cuttlebug with the swiss dot folder. I added some so saffron ribbon, from SAB, and tied a "bow knot".

The main image is stamped onto watercolor paper and colored with ink from smashing my pad together and squishing some ink onto the lid of the ink pad. I used ruby red and baja for the flower petals. The center of the flowers are so saffron, the leaves and stems are old olive and the pots are really rust. I then cut them out and mounted them onto some PTI white cardstock and colored in some grass/ground with more old olive and my aquapainter. that piece is then mounted onto so saffron and added to the card with some foam tape.

The sentiment comes from the SU set called "Pocket Silhouettes" an is stamped with black stazon onto white and cut out. I added a ruby red flower with a silver brad to the sentiment edge.

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

Vicki

Egg-ceptional

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!! Hope your week is going well! We are on the down side of the week. It is rainy a cloudy and cold here today. Awwww Spring.......where did you go?

Today's card is made with this
weeks sketch challenge on Splitcoast.

I am still loving the "Wagon Full of Fun" Stamp set. This time I added the wagon and some cute little Easter eggs.

I first saw the idea for the duck pulling the wagon here on Becky Roberts blog. Her card is just too cute, so I sit out to make my own version.

I stamped the wagon, two eggs and two ducks onto watercolor paper and colored them with my aquapainter and markers. I then cut them all out, the second duck I only used the wing, to layer. On the wagon I cut out on the spaces between the rails and I cut off the handle to be able to move it to the other end for the duck to hold.

I made my grass border by just making small little cuts in my strip of certainly celery card stock. I added chocolate chip brads for the wheels and the handle connect. I also used brads on the eggs. The whole scene was glued onto PTI white card stock and layered with bashful blue and so saffron card stock.

The DS paper is from the Delicate Dots pack from SAB and so is the so saffron ribbon. I loved them both and stocked up on them while I could. I have to say I love these two pieces of paper from the pack the most.

The paper is split in the middle and mounted onto some certainly celery and the base of the card is bashful blue. It is all so "Springy". The sentiment is from the same set and stamped onto PTI white with black stazon and punched out with the word window punch and attached directly to the image panel.

The main panel s on dimensionals. I also added three so saffron brads in the upper left corner.

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

Vicki

You Got a Friend

Happy April Fools Day Peeps!!! I am not big on April Fools jokes so I will not try and pull off some clever little prank to fool all you into believing something that is not true.....if I was a little bit more clever I could come up with something, but my 50 something brain is just toooooo tired!!! LOL!!!


Yesterday while I was blurfing around, visiting some of my blogging buddies I found this sketch. I printed it out and thought I would give it a try.

I used one of my fave sets from SU called "Cheep Talk" and of course used some of the "in colors". I can't seem to leave them alone, almost all my cards lately have at least one of them in it. This card is made with kiwi kiss and pacific blue and the DS paper is "Good Morning Sunshine".

I stamped the branch by inking up the leaf section with some kiwi ink and then using my chocolate chip marker to fill in the branch. I stamped it onto PTI white card stock. I then inked up my bird with pacific and used my pumpkin pie marker to ink the beak, I fist wiped off the pacific ink from the beak with a Q-tip. The sentiment is stamped with pacific ink as well, I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up. I made the "nest" that my bird is sitting gin by knotting up some small strips of chocolate chip cardstock and then gluing it down with some mono glue. I pierced the edges of the main image panel with my piercing tool and mat pack.

I used some of the awesome kiwi satin ribbon to wrap around the card and to make the bow. I used a silver flower brad to hold the bow together and to attach it to the card. I punched a small photo corner and added silver brads to it.

The main image is up on dimensionals, and I made another 6-1/2 by 3-1/4 inch card. Love this size!!!

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

Vicki