Sweet Halloween

TGIF Peeps!!!!

Well, I finally got some time to play with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. I know it is a bit early for Halloween cards but I couldn't help myself, I just recently got this DS paper and had to use it! I love Halloween so I am sure you will be seeing alot more in the next few months!

This card turned out to be fairly big, it is 4 inches wide by 8 inches long. I had to make it that size to accommodate the sketch and the stamps I wanted to use.

I started out with a base of basic black and followed that with some pumpkin pie cardstock and then some of the new Cast-A Spell Ds paper.

I was very much inspired by this card by Nancy Riley. Isn't is just adorable!!!
I used the same cardstock colors and DS paper she used. I just changed it up to fit the sketch and the stamps I used.

I stamped the pumpkins from Autumn Harvest on watercolor paper. I stamped the small pumpkin first and then made a mask for it with some sticky note paper and then stamped the large pumpkin. I colored them with my aqua painter and used the following inks, more mustard, pumpkin pie and really rust. I also used some chocolate chip ink for the stem and ground.

The sentiment comes from the retired SU set Autumn Apparitions, which I love and wish it had never retired! I also used some pumpkin pie corduroy brads and button. I used my Martha Stewart Drippy Goo Punch and the SU scallop edge punch.

I don't know what you would mail this in, I don't have any envies this size. Since it is very large, It could be just added to a gift or tray of treats or used for decoration, I guess!

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

Vicki

Wonderful Nestie Flowers

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!! Hope you all are having a good week so far. It is almost the weekend!!!

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

Again I am trying to use some more of the new in-colors, instead of rich razzleberry. This time I chose Bermuda Bay, I haven't gotten my new ink pad yet so I knew I would have to co-ordinate another color with it. So, I went to my new DS pack Thoroughly Modern and chose some colors from there.

On the first card I did sneak in a little bit of rich razzzleberry! I started the card with a base of Bermuda Bay and followed it with some GP white, (I use some of that cheap white cardstock when I am just layering, not for stamping on) I then followed that with some of the DS paper from the Thoroughly Modern DS paper. The next strip layer is made up of rich razzleberry and then more of the DS paper. I tied some of the Bermuda bay polka dot grosgrain ribbon arond the middle.

I stamped the sentiment, from the All Holidays Stamp Set, with rich razzleberry onto some PTI white cardstock, it is layered with more Bermuda Bay and Rich Razzleberry cardstock. I pierced all around the edges with my piercing tool and mat pack.

I used my scallop circle nesties to make my flower for the circle element in the sketch. I cut two scallops out of the Bermuda bay and one small circle out of some scrap Shara Sand. I then ran all of those through my cuttlebug with the swiss dot embossing folder. I used some tempting turquoise ink to sponge around the edges to add a bit of depth. I used my paper snips to cut in toward the middle of the flower at each scallop. The center Shara Sand circle was glued on before cutting the petals. I put the two layers of the petals together with a few dimensionals. The flower was then glued directly to the base.

I mounted the sentiment piece over the flower with more dimensionals. I then added some sticky white pearls to the corners.

This next one is made in just the same manner but I change the colors to Rose Red for the flower and ink for the sentiment.



I added some very small sticky pearls to the center of this flower.

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

Vick

Mercy's Sketch Thoughts & Prayers

Happy Hump Day peeps!!! Hope your week is going well, we are on the down hill slide to the weekend!

Today's card is made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. When I sit down to make this card I knew I needed to use something other than Rich Razzleberry, So I chose Dusty Durango, another fave of the in-colors, but I don't have any DS paper to match it yet, so I reached for an old favorite, chocolate chip, I knew I had DS paper to match it!!!

I started the card with a base of chocolate chip cardstock cut to 5 by 10 inches and folded in half. I then followed that with some dusty durango and then some textured DS paper from the now retired Parisian Breeze pack.

The two middle strips are chocolate chip and dusty durango. I used a small cuttlebug embossing folder for the design on the dusty durango. The center element is made up of chocolate chip, dusty durango and PTI white. The stamp set is Thoughts & Prayers. I inked the tree up with dusty durango and then used my chocolate chip marker to go over the trees limbs and trunk. The sentiment is stamped with dusty durango as well. I used my corner rounder punch on the white and dusty durango pieces. I added the chocolate chip button to the side to cover up an ink smudge that some how happened when I was using my stamp-a-ma-jig for the sentiment!!! :(

The upper corner of the image panel has a spiral clip and some durango polka dot grosgrain ribbon.

I then added some antique copper brads and 1/4 inch durango punched circles. to the upper left corner.

On a personal note, one of my older brothers was diagnosed recently with hepatitis C and is really not doing well, I am very worried for him and would appreciate any thoughts and prayers sent up for him! The whole time I was making this card he was on my mind.

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

Vicki

Mojo Monday on Tuesday

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps. I was up early and out for my walk before it got toooo hot!! It was still nice just a Little after 7 this morning.

Today I am sharing my Mojo Monday Sketch Card on Tuesday. I know I have been using the new in color, rich razzleberry, way to much lately and I promise I will try to move on soon! My intention yesterday was to get two cards done, the mojo one and also the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, but I had a bit of a headache most of the day yesterday and I struggled with this mojo one for ever, I walked away and left it and then finally came back to it last night and finished. I do like the end result but it took me the longest time to pull it together. I had originally wanted to use the lattice die but after an hour or two of struggling with it I gave up on that notion.

I started with a base of PTI white cardstock and followed that with some rich razzleberry and then some Cottage Wall DS paper. I then layered more white and razzleberry and Cottage wall DS paper for the next layers. The center element is made up of white and richrazzleberry and then a white scallop circle cut with my petite scallop circle nesties and cuttlebug.

I stamped the butterflies from the Verve set, Fluttering By, on scrap PTI white with rich razzlebery ink and cit them out. they are mounted to the circle with some mono adhesive liquid glue just in the center, so I could pull the wings up just a bit. I added some silver sticky rhinestones down the center of each butterfly. I stamped the sentiment that also comes in this set with black stazon. I added three more silver rhinestones under the sentiment. Oh, and one to each corner of the layer below the sentiment!

I used some of the rich razzleberry polka dot grosgrain ribbon at the side. I made a stylized bow and attached it to the ribbon with some scor-tape.

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

Vicki

SFYTT Thank You

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!! Hope you all had a great weekend. It is really heating up here in southwest Missouri again!

Today I am sharing a card with you that I made with Jen's sketch for you to try.

I started the card with a base of my very favorite color at the moment, rich razzleberry. I then used a piece of Papertrey white card stock and used my scor-pal to score it in diagonal stripes, 1 inch apart. I then cut the piece into three even peices and mounted it to the razzleberry. I punched small circles with my 1/4 inch circle punch and glued them to the places where the score lines meet. I used my nesties to cut a razzleberry scallop circle and white circle and then cut out two little leaves with the sizzix die. I stamped the butterfly from the "Great Friend" set with razzleberry and cut it out and mounted it to the circle element. I used some silver sticky rhinestones in the middle of the butterfly. The sentiment comes from the Garden Greetings set and is stamped with razzleberry as well.

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

Vicki

Gift Set

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!!!


Earlier in the week my sister had asked me to make a birthday cake for one of her friends, well, one thing lead to another and I ended up making the cake, a super yummy carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, and I made a couple of candles to match a card and little gift bag I had made earlier.

We filled the bag with some chocolates and the candles are super easy to make. Just tamp onto some tissue paper and use a heat gun and some waxed paper to attach the tissue directly to the candle. If any one is interested I will try and do a tutorial on this later next week.

For the candles here I used two favorite sets, one an oldie and one new, Happy Harmony and For All You Do. I used sentiments from Small Sayings and Garden Greetings. I stamped the flowers with some rich razzleberry and Orchid opulence. The sentiments are both stamped with black stazon.

Another look:




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

Vicki