A CAS PPA40 Monochromatic Blues

Yay It's Friday Peeps!!!

Today's card is made for the Monochromatic Blue Challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog.

This card turned into a long tall sally.....it is 7-1/2 inches tall by 3-1/4 inches wide. I used the Baroque Motifs stamp set and the stamp a ma jig to line the square up. I turned the stamp at an angle to make the sqaures more diamond shape. I added a sticky back half pearl to the center and the sentiment comes from the Great Friend stamp set. I stamped with night of navy ink onto whisper white card stock. I then matted with night of navy card stock and then another mat of white. The base of the card is night of navy too.

The card is very simple, CAS, the most time was used lining up those squares with the stamp a ma jig, I wasted at least one sheet of paper trying to get them perfect and then in the end I settled for almost perfect. LOL!!!

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

Vicki

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Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!

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

I loved this sketch! My card is a 5 inch square. The base is rich razzleberry and I followed that with whisper white. The squares are rich razzleberry, kraft, chocolate chip and pale plum. I embossed each with my Swiss Dot Embossing folder. The stamp center image stamp is from the "Friends 24-7" set and is stamped onto whisper white with pale plum ink. I used a sentiment from the "Kind & Caring Thoughts" stamp set. I stamped it with black stazon over the damask image. I matted with rich razzleberry and pale plum. I pierced the corners and added the silver pearls to the image. The ribbon is rich razzleberry turned to the solid side. I finished it with four silver pearls in each corner.

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

Vicki

MTSC71 Thanks so much

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card is made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. This card is also 3rd in a series of a set I have been working on. See the first one here and the second one here.

There will be one more in this set and I am also working on a "tote" for them, so stay tuned for those.

This one I made with a square element in the middle, like the sketch. I did flipped the sketch to put my bow on the opposite side and I used a butterfly at the top for the element there in the sketch.


I used my new jewelry tag punch and the Tiny Tags stamp set for the sentiment. The base of the card is rich razzleberry and I followed that with a layer of whisper white and then a layer of perfect plum, (a fave of mine that is retiring). I stamped the main image onto whisper white card stock with rich razzleberry ink. I then went back with my aqua painter and quickly colored the flowers in. I added a bit of summer sun into the middle of some of the flowers and some old olive for the leaves.

I used some whisper white satin ribbon, if you have not used this ribbon you should try it out soon, It ties up like a dream! The DS paper used come from the Cottage Wall paper pack and I added white mini brads to the corners and three little sticky pearls to the butterfly center.

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

Vicki

Curtain Call...Wishes

Good Monday Morning Peeps!

My card today is made for Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge-Act 27. The colors this week are Melon Mambo, Pink Pirouette, Certainly Celery and Whisper White.

My card base is white, followed by another layer of white that I embossed with my Swiss dot EF. I mounted that to the base with foam tape. The layers across the bottom are made up of pink pirouette and melon mambo. I used a new MS punch I got from a friend, a little birthday prezzie, I love Prezzies!!! I added a row of piercing and some pink pirouette ribbon.

The main image is made up of some buttons and the stem is from an old retired SU set, "Big Blooms". I was going through some old sets to sell and came across this set and it had this stem/leaves stamp. Perfect for making some of those button flowers I have been seeing around. So cute huh? I stamped the stems with certainly celery ink and then "doodled" in some grass across the bottom with my certainly celery marker. The pink button comes from the Sherbet Designer buttons and the melon mambo ones are some I had in my stash. I attached the buttons with some white embroidery floss. I added the sentiment across the top with melon mambo ink, it comes from the "Heard from the Heart" stamp set. I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to center it up. I then added some melon mambo and pink pirouette mats. I then added this square panel to the base with more foam tape. I finished it off with three silver pearls.

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

Vicki

SSSC66 Hello

Good Sunday Morning Peeps!! It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch!!!

Here is the fabulous sketch we are working with this week:




Does my card look a bit familiar this week? It is very similar to this one I posted a few days back. I am working on a set for a neighbor, using the same stamp set and colors. OK this is second in a series of hopefully at least 4.

I used rich razzlebery card stock for the base and I followed that with some whisper white and then pale plum. (So sad to lose that color.) I used a cuttlebug EF on the pale plum. The DS paper is from the Cottage Wall paper pack. The stamp set is the new "Elements of Style" that will be in the new mini. I stamped the flowers onto whisper white with rich razzleberry ink and then quickly went in with my aqua painter and swirled around the ink on the flowers. I then added a bit of summer sun to the flower centers and some old olive to the leaves. I added an old olive grosgrain bow and the sentiment tag is from a sizzlits die, "Round tags". I used a sentiment from the "teeny Tiny Wishes set and just inked up the portion I wanted and used my stamp-a-ma-jig to center it on the tag. I add the tag with a bit of twine and then added white brads to the corners.


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

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TGIF Peeps!!!

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

I have to say I struggled a bit with this one, not sure why, the sketch is not complicated at all. I have been struggling alot with my creating lately, if you read my blog much you know I say this from time to time and I am sure that this kind of thing has its ebbs and flows. I have been trying really hard to push through it, which is how I have always handled the loss of mojo in the past, but this time it seems to be hanging on. You would not believe how long it takes me to make something, and how much paper and card stock I waste!! UGH!!! What do you all do when you are struggling with this kind of thing?

Oh well, onto this card. I started with a base of soft suede. The DS paper is from the "Write Stuff" Specialty pack. I used crushed curry and ruby red card stock as well. The stamp set used is "A Flower For All Season". This is my favorite image from that set, I love the little ladybug and the sunflowers!

I stamped the image onto whisper white with black stazon. I used my aqua painter and ink from squishing my pads together, to color in the image. The sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" set. I inked up just the "hello" from the stamp that is "hello baby".

I used some soft suede ribbon and some ruby red buttons with some twine for the accents. I also used the scallop trim edge punch along the ruby red strip.

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

Vicki

MTSC70 Big Yellow Tulip!!

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

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

I used the SU stamp set "Pick a Petal" to make my big ol' yellow tulip....whatcha think of it? I really LOVE this set and I seldom use it and it is probably going bye-bye in the up coming catalog. That is just a guess on my part, but if you like it and have wanted to get it, I would do it soon. I think it is a good one to have and keep in you arsenal of flower stamps. It makes the cutest sunflowers and have you seen it used to make a face.......toooooo cute!!

I used some summer sun craft ink to make the petals. I stamped out 5 of them, cut them out and glued them to some chocolate chip card stock and then cut them out again, leaving a small chocolate border. I layered them up with the pointed end up to make the "Tulip".

I added some old olive 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon to make the stem and a bow. The base of the card is PTI white and the DS paper is from the retired Good Morning Sunshine paper pack. I matted each layer with chocolate chip and pierced around the image layer and the yellow DS layer. I used some chocolate chip satin ribbon across the middle with some gold sticky back pearls. The sentiment is from the "Great Friend" stamp set.

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

Vicki