Just Because

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!! Hope you all are having a great week so far! Still plugging along here with a bad camera. Thanks to everyone yesterday who kindly said my pics are not that bad, I appreciate it. I know they are not up to the point I like tho.

Today's card is one I made yesterday. I had seen this card by Nancy on her blog. I wanted to try my hand at that fabulous center element.

My card is a 5 inch square. I started with PTI white card stock. The layers are all pink passion and the DS paper is the Sweet Always. I just got this paper last month during the buy 3 get 1 free promotion. I really love the colors in it.

The Stamp set is the soon to be retired, Heartfelt Thanks. The sentiment comes from the Best Yet hostess set. I used two of the pumpkin pie flower brads, I have been hoarding those for some time. I added a clip and some pumpkin pie striped ribbon. The card is so bright and pretty!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Hello There

Good Monday afternoon Peeps!!! I am still having camera problems, I need a new one but with me being un-employed, it really is not in the budget right now, If you have one for sell or know of one for sell, has to be very reasonably priced, please let me know! I really hesitate to even post my card, because my pictures are on the "awful" side, but I don't want to not update my blog.

My card today is made for the Weekend Sketch Challenge #84, hosted this week by the Fabulous Laurie Schmidlin.

I wanted top use some of the retiring in-colors, I started with some pacific blue cardstock, 4-1/4 by 8-1/2 inches, folded in half. Followed by some summer sun that I used my lace edge punch on the bottom. My three strips are made with kiwi and Good Morning Sunshine Paper. I stamped the bird from Cheep Talk with pacific point and I used my summer sun marker to color the legs and beak.

stamped the "Hello There" was stamped with pacific and cut out and mounted with a dimensional. The "My Fabulous Friend" is from the Really Retro set and was also stamped with Pacific Point ink and punched out with the word window punch. I added two white brads at the top corners. The bird and summer sun mat was cut with my nesties and cuttlebug.

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

Vicki

Enjoy Your Day

Good Saturday Afternoon Peeps! Sorry for my missed and late posting. Please bear with me as I have some computer and camera issues.

Today's card is made for the Stamps and Smiles Sketch Challenge.

I was looking to make something fun and whimsical, so I finally landed on this stamp set, Penguin Paradise. It is an older retired set, but I just love it. I used some of the fun Pink Flamingo DS paper. I used tempting turquoise for my card base and whisper white ot mat the DS paper. The penguin is stamped with black stazon and water colored with my aqua painter and various inks. I also stamped the fist three times and water colored it as well. I used the SU set "Riveting" for the sentiments, it also a retired set.

Well, that is all for today, I hope to be back soon with a new card for the weekend sketch challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

You're Absolutely Fabulous

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!! It has been quite a week so far. Yesterday I took a tumble in my kitchen, I stepped on an ice cube and turned my ankle. I tried to keep myself from falling and grab hold of a bar stool and hurt my arm and hit my head on the wall! I think un-employment is not for me!!! LOL!!!

Well, onto today's card. I used this sketch on splitcoast. I tried several times yesterday to make something I liked. I finally came up with this one this morning. I like it alot better since I made the card smaller. It is a 4-1/4 inch square. This card also fits the Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast. To create an image.

I had saw this card awhile back and wanted to try those flowers. I made them by using my scallop edge punch and crimper and then attaching them to a 1-1/4 inch circle.

My card stock colors are whisper white, chocolate chip and summer sun. The DS paper is Good Morning Sunshine. I stamped the sentiment with black and used the curly label punch to make my fancy end and mated it with chocolate chip. I stamped and colored and cut out a bee from the "Just Buzzin' By" stamp set and attached it to the end of the sentiment. Both of the flowers are on dimensionals and the sentiment strip is added with dimensionals too. I found three tiny little buttons that matched the summer sun in my stash. I added tiny little strips of chocolate chip to the middle of the buttons and added them to the top of the card with glue dots.

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

Vicki

P.S. I still don't have a camera that works very well, so excuse my picture quality.

Thinking of You

Good Wednesday morning Peeps! It is day three of un-employment, I am already losing it. Yesterday I went to the grocery store with my shirt on backwards, probably has nothing to do with me being jobless, but what the heck!!!

Well, on to today's card. I made this one for the color challenge on Splitcoast. It was to use tangerine tango, kiwi kiss and riding hood red. All month is a salute to the retiring "in colors", altho there was an announcement on SU that said the More popular in colors could be making a reappearance sooner or later, I hope it is baja and my other favorite from the year before groovy guava. Love them both!!!

Anyway my card is started with a base of tangerine followed by whisper white and then riding hood red and some DS paper from the Haiku pack. The main image panel is made by sponging, blush blossom, pumpkin pie, tangerine and really rust. I used the grass from Inspired by Nature and stamped it with some basic gray ink. I highlighted a few stems with my white gel pen. I added some black brads and tangerine ribbon. The sentiment is a rub-on.

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

Vicki

Sweet Thank You

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps! Hope your week started out well, it has gotten so hot here the last few days! YUCK!!! I really hate the heat!

Today's card is made with the Sweet Sunday Sketch on Karen Giron's blog. I was inspired by the colors in this card made by Jodi Collins. I often look at others cards for color inspiration, I think that is one of my hardest things in card making, colors.

I used kiwi kiss and basic black and some DS paper from the Rockabilly pack and of course whisper white. The set I used is God's Beauty and is a Level 1 Hostess set in the current cattie. I stamped all the images in black pigment ink and embossed with clear embossing powder. Colored the butterfly and flower and leaves in with my aqua painter and ink from the lids of my ink pad, kiwi and riding hood red.

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

Vicki

SFYTT You're A Friend

Good Monday Morning Peeps!! Hope You all had a great weekend! I had some fun stamping time on Saturday with some good friends. We stamped, we ate, we laughed.....three of my favorite things!!! Today is my official first day of being un-employed!!! Seems really strange....but I will get use to it I am sure and when it is time to get out and really hunt for a job, I will be scared to death!

Well, on to today's card. It is made with Jen's Sketch for You to Try. I was greatly inspired by this card made by Connie Collins.

I started with a base of riding hood red, followed by so saffron and baja breeze. The DS paper is the Sweet Slumber Textured Pack, one of my favorites from this catalog, I just love baja and riding hood red, I will hate it when they retire.

The stamp set is the Great Friend set from the mini and I used the Birds and Blooms sizzlet to make the flowers. I don't have a Big Shot, just the cuttlebug and it is just about impossible to get those little sizzlets to work in it. If any one has any tips for using the cuttlebug with the sizzlets and getting it to cut well, please let me know.

I added sticky pearls to the flower centers and on the corners of the squares. No ribbon on this one.

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

Vicki