Sweet Sunday........Birthday Wishes

Happy Sunday Peeps!!

Sorry for the lack of post lately, I was gone for a couple of weeks on vacation.

 Had a great time with a some good friends in Pennsylvania. 

Now onto my card.

It is Sweet Sunday Sketch Day!

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

While traveling to Pennsylvania, we drove, I was surfing around the net on my tablet and saw the sweetest card made using this new stamp set from Taylored Expressions and was instantly in love, I ordered it while driving down the road and it was at my house 6 days before I got home!! So as soon as I could after getting home I made this card. I colored the flowers using my copic markers. I love flowers and Zinnias were my Grandmothers favorite flower, she had some in her garden for cutting every year!

I started my card with a base of the Stampin Up Natural Composition paper, this sheet has a wood grain BG. I then wrapped another piece of the paper with some Bakers twine. Next is a layer of Tangerine Tango and then the DSP is from the Retro Fresh pack. Then I added another strip of the Composition paper. I die cut a circle of white and a scallop circle of tangerine to mount my bucket of flowers on. this stamp set has a matching die cut to cut the bucket and flowers, love that! Both sentiments come from the stamp set as well.

I am also linking this card to the Seize the Birthday Summertime Challenge

Now let's see what the rest of the girls did with this fun little sketch:

Karen Giron

Barbara Anders

Jenny Peterson

 Dana White

Jackie Pedro-off this week

Karen Motz

Lori Telcer

Lynn Put-off this week

Sarah-Jane Kale

Tracy Clemente-off this week

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Thanks for stopping by today

Vicki

Can I get a Woot, Woot!!!!

Hello Peeps!!!

I am back with a second post today, I am super excited, will almost in tears here, My card here, made with Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge #121. was chosen as a Top Crop Pick!!!

I am so honored to have one of my little cards picked by Taylor herself as a top card for that week! Thank you all who come by and leave bits of encouragement, by commenting or e-mailing or just looking, to keep me creating! Love you all!!!

Here is the card:




HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

PPA53.....Baby Congratulations

Good Saturday Morning Peeps! Are you staying cool where you are at? It is like a miserable sauna here, sooooo HOT and HUMID!!!

Today I have a fun little card I made using thePals Paper Arts Challenge. This week the challenge is a Monochromatic Color Challenge using purple, any shades of purple!

I used the new in color Concord Crush and the retired Pale Plum, this is one color I will miss alot, I stocked up on it tho so I have a good stash. I used the new single stamp called "Baby Steps", I think it is soooo cute!! I love those little elephants. I used last weeks sketch from Taylored Expressions for my layout on this card. I am too late to link up over there but I still like this sketch alot.

The base of the card is concord crush and then I followed that with whisper white and then more concord crush that was embossed with my Swiss Dot EF. I stamped the elephants with concord crush ink onto whisper white twice. I cut out the ears and added them over the the stamped image with some dimensionals. The hearts are punched with pale plum and the Heart to Heart punch and added with dimesionals too. The "baby" is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes and is stamped with Concord Crush ink onto the heart. I added some silver cording and silver pearls.

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

Vicki

TESC......Celebrate Freedom

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with the sketch challenge on Taylored Expressions Blog.

This fun little Americana card is made with the kit I purchased from the Taylored Expressions Store. The base is a 5 inch square of blue and I followed that with the pretty red from the kit and then the DS paper is also from the kit. I stamped the fireworks with SU riding hood red ink and then applied some glue and glitter. The sentiment is stamped with night of navy ink.

I added a star to my sentiment panel, punched with the large star punch with blue and then using the small star punch I added a cream one over the blue with some foam tape. I then topped both stars off with a pretty blue star rhinestone that is also from the kit.

The bottom element is the blue punched with the scallop edge punch and then I added the cream Ric-rack. The small sticky stars was purchased locally.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by and check back tomorrow for another fun patriotic card!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

SSSC73.....Happy July 4th

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 was sooooo inspired by this card by Karen, that I ordered three patriotic stamps and paper kit from Taylored Expressions. This is actually the first card I made when the kit arrived at my doorstep on Monday. You can see another one I made with this set here.

Everything on this card came in my kit except the EF I used on the red BG piece. The stamps, the paper the ribbon, the ric rac and the DS paper all coordinate so well oh and the pretty star gemstones, so cool!!!

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

Mojo....Happy July 4th

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

I have some new non SU stamps I am playing with and I have too tell you I am totally loving them. The 4th of July is one of my favorite holidays, I LOVE making patriotic cards. Last week I saw this beauty made my Karen and it totally sent me over the edge. I ordered a kit from Taylored Expressions that included stamps, paper, DS paper, ribbon glitter, and rhinestones. Awesome kit!!!!

My card today is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch. The base of the card is the blue from the kit. the next layer is the red from the kit and I used the SU large flower punch to make the scallops across the bottom. I punched a couple of flowers out with the cream from the kit and cut them apart to make the scallops. The next layer is a piece of the DS paper. I stamped the image twice with backaroo blue and real red ink. I matted the image with red and added the ribbon on the side. The sentiment is over stamped with black stazon. I cut out the two stars in red and added them over the blue with some dimensionals. I then used the SU large and small star punch in red and cream. I added a blue star rhinestone that comes with the kit. I added the red rhinestones, from my stash, across the bottom.

I really like this kit and I think you will probably see a few more of these type cards. :)

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

Vicki