Enjoy Your Day

Good Saturday Afternoon Peeps! Sorry for my missed and late posting. Please bear with me as I have some computer and camera issues.

Today's card is made for the Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge.

I was looking to make something fun and whimsical, so I finally landed on this stamp set, Penguin Paradise. It is an older retired set, but I just love it. I used some of the fun Pink Flamingo DS paper. I used tempting turquoise for my card base and whisper white ot mat the DS paper. The penguin is stamped with black stazon and water colored with my aqua painter and various inks. I also stamped the fist three times and water colored it as well. I used the SU set "Riveting" for the sentiments, it also a retired set.

Well, that is all for today, I hope to be back soon with a new card for the weekend sketch challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

You're Absolutely Fabulous

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!! It has been quite a week so far. Yesterday I took a tumble in my kitchen, I stepped on an ice cube and turned my ankle. I tried to keep myself from falling and grab hold of a bar stool and hurt my arm and hit my head on the wall! I think un-employment is not for me!!! LOL!!!

Well, onto today's card. I used this sketch on splitcoast. I tried several times yesterday to make something I liked. I finally came up with this one this morning. I like it alot better since I made the card smaller. It is a 4-1/4 inch square. This card also fits the Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast. To create an image.

I had saw this card awhile back and wanted to try those flowers. I made them by using my scallop edge punch and crimper and then attaching them to a 1-1/4 inch circle.

My card stock colors are whisper white, chocolate chip and summer sun. The DS paper is Good Morning Sunshine. I stamped the sentiment with black and used the curly label punch to make my fancy end and mated it with chocolate chip. I stamped and colored and cut out a bee from the "Just Buzzin' By" stamp set and attached it to the end of the sentiment. Both of the flowers are on dimensionals and the sentiment strip is added with dimensionals too. I found three tiny little buttons that matched the summer sun in my stash. I added tiny little strips of chocolate chip to the middle of the buttons and added them to the top of the card with glue dots.

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

Vicki

P.S. I still don't have a camera that works very well, so excuse my picture quality.

Thinking of You

Good Wednesday morning Peeps! It is day three of un-employment, I am already losing it. Yesterday I went to the grocery store with my shirt on backwards, probably has nothing to do with me being jobless, but what the heck!!!

Well, on to today's card. I made this one for the color challenge on Splitcoast. It was to use tangerine tango, kiwi kiss and riding hood red. All month is a salute to the retiring "in colors", altho there was an announcement on SU that said the More popular in colors could be making a reappearance sooner or later, I hope it is baja and my other favorite from the year before groovy guava. Love them both!!!

Anyway my card is started with a base of tangerine followed by whisper white and then riding hood red and some DS paper from the Haiku pack. The main image panel is made by sponging, blush blossom, pumpkin pie, tangerine and really rust. I used the grass from Inspired by Nature and stamped it with some basic gray ink. I highlighted a few stems with my white gel pen. I added some black brads and tangerine ribbon. The sentiment is a rub-on.

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

Vicki

Sweet Thank You

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps! Hope your week started out well, it has gotten so hot here the last few days! YUCK!!! I really hate the heat!

Today's card is made with the Sweet Sunday Sketch on Karen Giron's blog. I was inspired by the colors in this card made by Jodi Collins. I often look at others cards for color inspiration, I think that is one of my hardest things in card making, colors.

I used kiwi kiss and basic black and some DS paper from the Rockabilly pack and of course whisper white. The set I used is God's Beauty and is a Level 1 Hostess set in the current cattie. I stamped all the images in black pigment ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. Colored the butterfly and flower and leaves in with my aqua painter and ink from the lids of my ink pad, kiwi and riding hood red.

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

Vicki

SFYTT You're A Friend

Good Monday Morning Peeps!! Hope You all had a great weekend! I had some fun stamping time on Saturday with some good friends. We stamped, we ate, we laughed.....three of my favorite things!!! Today is my official first day of being un-employed!!! Seems really strange....but I will get use to it I am sure and when it is time to get out and really hunt for a job, I will be scared to death!

Well, on to today's card. It is made with Jen's Sketch for You to Try. I was greatly inspired by this card made by Connie Collins.

I started with a base of riding hood red, followed by so saffron and baja breeze. The DS paper is the Sweet Slumber Textured Pack, one of my favorites from this catalog, I just love baja and riding hood red, I will hate it when they retire.

The stamp set is the Great Friend set from the mini and I used the Birds and Blooms sizzlet to make the flowers. I don't have a Big Shot, just the cuttlebug and it is just about impossible to get those little sizzlets to work in it. If any one has any tips for using the cuttlebug with the sizzlets and getting it to cut well, please let me know.

I added sticky pearls to the flower centers and on the corners of the squares. No ribbon on this one.

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

Vicki