Curtain Call...Thanks for all you do.

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!

Today's card share is made with this weeks Curtain Call Color Challenge.

I haven't gotten to play in Stacey's color challenge for a couple of weeks and was sooo glad I found a bit of time yesterday to play. This weeks colors are, Bashful Blue, whisper white, night of navy and certainly celery. Great combo right?

I started the card with a base of whisper white and then I followed that with night of navy and then more white that was embossed with the Swiss dot EF.

My main image is from the Awash with Flowers set. I stamped with bashful blue and then used black stazon for the outline stamps of the stem and flower. I colored the stem and leaves in with my aqua painter and certainly celery ink. The sentiment comes from the Absolutely Fabulous, retired, stamp set. I added a bit of bashful blue DS paper and the ribbon is 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon. I pierced all around the top and sides of the image panel. It is matted with night of navy card stock and added to the base with foam tape.



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

Vicki

SSSC72....Celebrate!

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING PEEPS!!!! My favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample

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




I made this card on Monday, so I had Memorial Day on the brain and I pulled out this old, old SU set, Thankful Thoughts, I believe is the name, there is not a name on the box but I am fairly sure that is the name. It is a set I bought off of e-bay a few years back. I just love it and can't seem to part with it!

I did know that I didn't want to use the traditional Americana colors on this one so I finally decided on pretty in pink and basic black.

My card base is basic black and I followed that with a layer of pretty in pink. The next layer is a piece of dotted acetate that comes from the retired Night and Day DS paper, I had never used this particular piece from the pack, I really didn't know what to use it for, but I think it looks great on a colored piece of card stock.

The main image is stamped with black stazon onto the pretty in pink card stock and is matted with basic black. I pierced all around the edge. The side piece is again pretty in pink and basic black, I used the swiss dot embossing folder on the pretty in pink card stock. I added some basic black satin ribbon and bow. The square brads where some I purchased a long time back, I thought I had picked up round ones but when I got them home and opened them up I see they are square. The are kinda of a nice contrast against all the dots here.

My sentiment comes from the "On your Birthday" set and I masked off the 'let's" and just inked up the "celebrate" and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp it out three times.

I am working on a set of these cards with the same colors and stamp set, so Look for those in the next few days.

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 has in store for us this week:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Joanne Basile



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

Vicki

MTSC76.....Celebrate You

Happy Thursday Peeps!!!


Today's card share is made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge.

I started my card with a base of white and I followed that with a layer of chocolate chip card stock that was embossed with this fun circle EF, I don't know the name. I thought it was cute with the DS paper, which comes from the retired Sweet Pea DS pack. I also used some Sweet Pea felt flowers, oh how I hate to use them since they to are gone, but I am hoping we get something like them in the new catalog.

The sentiment comes from the retiring set, A Little Birthday Cheer. The mats are made up of old olive and rose red. This was a really quick and easy card, very little stamping and turned out cute, well, I think so anyway!!

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

Vicki

OCC....Here for You

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with this weeks challenge on the Our Creative Corner Blog. This weeks challenge is color/texture challenge. The challenge is to make a black and white card with lots of texture. And as a bonus, use text as your focal image rather than a coloured image.

You know, I have had my Spellbinders Shapeabilities Pendants, Fleur De Lis, for a long time and I hadn't even taken them from the package! This challenge was the perfect opportunity to break them out.

The base of my card is basic black card stock. I then followed that up with some white that I ran through my cuttlebug with my Swiss dot embossing folder. I then cut out the fluer de lis layers, with black and white card stock. I layered and added some dimensionals to the canter piece. I then cut two scallop circles with the petite scallop nesties. The sentiment comes form the "Friends 24-7" stamp set. I stamped it with black stazon. I then added some of the beautiful SU black satin ribbon! Love that satin ribbon.




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

Vicki

PPA44......Thanks so much

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made yesterday, with the sketch on the Pals Paper Arts Blog.

I just got this great stamp set from the mini, "Watercolor Trio". This is a fun set. I stamped the leaves and flowers with real red and night of navy, stamping a few times with out re-inking. the sentiment, from the same set was stamped with night of navy ink too.

The base of the card is night of navy and then I followed that with whisper white and the DS paper is from a retired hostess print pack.

I used the pinking heart border punch across the bottom piece and then layered more night of navy card stock. The ribbon is some I have had for ever in my stash. I added four white mini brads to the corners. I can't believe I didn't use any dimensionals on this one.



Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki