SSSC71......Thanks a Gazillion

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:



Now don't fall off your chair in shock, but my beautiful stamped image is NOT a SU stamp!!!!

This fabulous image comes from the Unity Stamp set called Moments in Bloom. When I saw this set and this stamp in particular I had to get it! It is my first Unity stamp set and probably won't be my last, I love them!

My card base is chocolate chip and I followed that with whisper white and the DS paper is from the retired Good Morning Sunshine pack. I distressed the edges of the white on the first layer with my distressing tool. I then pierced all around the edge and added four white brads to the corners. The next layer is more of the same DS paper matted with more white that I used my apron lace punch on. I pierced this layer as well.

The main image was colored with markers and then stamped onto whisper white card stock. I used the Labels 4 nesties to cut the image out. I then stamped the sentiment from the "Really Retro" set onto some scrap white with timber brown stazon I added a summer sun corduroy button and then mounted to the card base with dimensionals.

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

OCC....Glad we're Friends

TGIF Peeps!!! Do you have big plans for the holiday weekend? Not much planned here, yet anyway!

Well, here it is another card, {and my last, for awhile anyway} with the fabulous Georgia Peach DS paper. This card was made with the sketch challenge on the Our Creative Corner Blog.

Now this is a square card instead of the standard 4.5 by 5.5, all the sketches I looked at when I was starting to make this final card in the series was square, so I just went with it! The base is white and I followed that with regal rose and then the DS paper. The stamp I used for the main image is from the "Friends 24-7" stamp set. The sentiment comes from the retired "Best Yet" hostess set.

The rest is pretty self-explanatory but if you have any questions just let me know. I will be back on Sunday with my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge card. It is NOT made with this DS paper....LOL, I promise!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by today and if you have time leave me a comment I love to hear from you! HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Fabulous Friend

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing the third card in my series aptly named...."I LOVE this retired Georgia Peach Designer Series Paper"......what a name huh......LOL!!!! You can see one of them here and the first one here.

I started this card based on this week's sketch on Splitcoast, but I ended up varying the sketch too much for it to fit.

My card base is regal rose and I followed that with old olive and then the DS paper. The stamp set I used is "Thoughts & Prayers and the sentiment comes from the retired set "Really Retro". I added the butterflies and mini white brads.

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

Vicki

MTSC#75.....Hello

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge! You know I love Mercy and I certainly love her sketches, week after week she supplies us with incredible sketches and amazing inspiration from her design team!

I can not stop playing with this amazing designer paper from SU, Georgia Peach. It is retired, I purchased a pack from the clearance rack, and I wonder why I never had gotten it before now! Great colors, some of my fave, regal rose, old olive, so saffron, pretty in pink and of course whisper white!

My base is white and I followed that with regal rose and then the DS paper. I used some rick rack I had in my stash, and BTW it is almost a perfect match to the regal rose. The stamp set I used for the flower image is from the "Close as a Memory" stamp set. I used markers in regal rose, so saffron and old olive to color directly onto the stamp and then stamped the image onto the card stock. I matted the main image with regal rose and then pierced all round the panel.

OK, I did vary the sketch just a bit, I put the circle element to the bottom of the main panel, the sketch had it at the top. It just worked better for my stamped image at the bottom, I hadn't intended to do that when I started but it just worked out that way. The sentiment comes from the fun little set "Hello Again" stamp set. I stamped it with regal rose onto the white and matted with old olive and then a scallop circle of regal rose. I added two so saffron butterflies to the card along with silver pearls.

Thank you so very much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Curtain Call........Thanks so Much

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with the color challenge onStacey's Stamping Stage. I also used the sketch challenge over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog.


The color challenge this week are whisper white, night of navy, pretty in pink, garden green and almost amethyst. Stacey certainly challenges us with her color combos and since I have been struggling lately this really was a challenge for me!

The base of the card is white and I followed that with some night of navy and the DS paper comes from the "Tea Party" paper pack. The stamp set I used is the "Awash with Flowers" double set. The garden green is in the stems and the sentiment. The sentiment is from the "Tiny Tags" stamp set and I used the tag punch to punch it out. I added a photo corner with silver sticky pearls. The BG is split with two pieces of DS paper and a night of navy scallop between them, I added smaller silver pearls to the scallops.

The flowers are stamped with almost amethyst and pretty in pink. I stamped a second flower with the amethyst and added them over the first with some dimensionals.

This card certainly didn't go as planned, when I was putting it together, IE layering up and gluing, I got a couple of smears of the garden green on the main panel, so the ribbon was added across the bottom to hide one of the smears and the silver brads on the flower panel to hide another!!!! So frustrating!!!!

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

Vicki

SSSC70.......For You

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:



Isn't this a fun sketch? I love the swirl element on it!! I did take a bit of creative license with this one.

The base of the card is baja breeze card stock, one of my all time fav colors! I followed that with chocolate chip card stock. The next layer is the first place I varied it a bit, I wanted to use the chocolate chip DS paper that is on one side but didn't have enough of it left, so I added the flowered side piece with a piece of card stock punched border in between them. My original intent was to have my butterflies on squares like the sketch, but they didn't really look the way I wanted so I added them to the card without the squares and I like the look much better. The butterflies are made with the Sizzix Embosslits Beautiful Wings. They are in baja and chocolate chip and layered up with some pearls in the middle. The sentiment comes from the "Great Friend" stamp set and is stamped with timber brown stazon onto white card stock and punched out with the small oval punch. I added directly to the base and added a very small butterfly to the corner. The pretty swirl element is half pearls.

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

MTSC74 Friend

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I know I said yesterday that I might not post much this week, but after taking a long walk and then coming home and checking out Mercy's sketch I was inspired to make this card. I think I misspoke yesterday when I said I haven't had the WANT to create, truthfully the WANT is still there it is just the ability to make something acceptable. I think they go hand in hand tho, and I think maybe it is best to not push this kinda thing, the more bad things I make the more I don't want to try.

Any way I do kinda like this card. I used some whisper white for the base and the DS paper is the retired, I got a pack from the Clearance Rack recently, Georgia Peach. I matted each layer with regal rose card stock. The stamps used on this card come from the "Great Friend" and the "Baroque Motif" I stamped the swirl with regal rose after stamping off once. The sentiment is stamped with black stazon over the swirl. The old olive panel under the circle piece is embossed with EF. I used some regal rose ribbon to make the bow. I added a little decorative pin through the bow. I finished it off with a couple of small butterflies in so saffron with tiny little pearls in the center of each one.

Well, thanks so much for coming by and thank you to all who sent e-mails and commented about how they would miss me if I don't post for awhile. It really lifted my spirits. HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki