MTSC81.......For You

Happy Hump Day Peeps! Hope your week is going well so far!

Today's card share is made with the wonderful sketch on Mercy's Blog, I always love Mercy's sketches, they are so easy to work with!

I wanted to use the new set from the new catalog called "Studio Sketches". They have a Thanksgiving feel, well, to me anyway. I stamped the image onto water color paper with black stazon. I water colored the pitcher with some dusty durango, I wanted it to look like a clay pitcher, uh......maybe. I used some kiwi kiss and certainly celery for my pears. I then used some bashful blue all around the image. Very easy peasy!

I then went looking for the BG papers and again I went for this great, now retired, DS paper Autumn Meadows. I so love the hounds tooth pattern in this pack. I paired this DS paper up with some very vanilla and the new color from the neutrals collection, Early Espresso.

The sentiment comes from the "Elements of Style" stamp set and I used some circle punches to punch out and mat. I added vanilla satin ribbon , gold brads and gold sticky pearls.

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

Vicki

Mojo Curtain Call.....Let's Celebrate

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

I combined two challenges for today's card share. I used the sketch challenge at the Mojo Monday Blog and the color challenge at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

The colors this week are Tempting Turquoise, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, & Whisper White, it is also Stacey's birthday week, so I used both for my inspiration! The base of the card is white and I followed that with some chocolate chip card stock and then I used melon mambo that I had embossed with the square lattice EF. The DS paper on my card is from the "Island Oasis" paper pack from the summer mini, you NEED this paper, sooooo pretty!

The main image, the stack of presents, is from the retired SAB set "Happy Moments". I stamped with black stazon onto water color paper and colored with my aqua painter and turquoise, melon mambo and barely banana. I added the ground with some chocolate chip. I stamped the sentiment, from the "On Your Birthday" stamp set onto some scrap watercolor paper with chocolate chip ink. I used my nesties to cut out the main image panel and the sentiment.

For embellishments I added some silver pearls, and chocolate chip twill ribbon. I added a button, from my stash, with some jute twine to the bow.

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

Vicki

SFYTT....Birthday Bird

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Jen's sketch for you to try!

Don't you just LOVE SU's two step bird punch? I know I do! I teamed this sketch and my bird up with some of my new stuff, I don't have much new yet, but hopefully soon. I used the new DS paper "Greenhouse Gala" and the the card stock used, beside white is pear pizzazz and daffodil delight. The pumpkin pie dotted DS paper used on the bird's wing and the side strip is from the "Island Oasis" DS paper pack in the summer mini.

The sentiment comes from another set from the summer mini, Watercolor Trio. I just love the mixed font sentiments from this set. I added a small spiral clip, non SU and some Pumpkin Pie striped ribbon, retired.

I used the top note die to make one of the edge elements, I used the DS paper and matted it with the daffodil delight. The base of the card is white and I followed that with some pear pizzazz. I pierced all around the edges of the pear using my piercing tool and mat pack.

I bright and summery card for all those Summer Birthdays come up! Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

SSSC76......Happy 4th of July!!

GOOD SUNDAY MORNING PEEPS and HAPPY 4th OF JULY!!! It's 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 kept my card fairly simple, as those who follow my blog know I have been doing a theme this week, patriotic! It has been so much fun to come up with Americana type cards this week, especially since my patriotic stamp sets are nil. I did borrow, mid week, a couple of sets from a friend. This is the fun set from the summer mini called "July Fourth".

The base of the card is whisper white and I followed that with some night of navy. I used one of the firework stamps and versamark to add a design to the navy card stock I also added a few of the small stars to the navy as well.

The main element is made with whisper white and I stamped the sentiment with night of navy ink. I then inked up the firecracker with real red and summer sun markers and stamped it beside the sentiment. I then added some stars to the corners with real red and navy ink. I used the corner rounder punch on one side and matted with real red. I added a strip of real red under the main image panel with two white brads at one end. The large star is from the same set and is stamped in red and punched out and added to the main panel with some foam tape. I finished off with more white brads an a bit of 1/4 inch grosgrain red ribbon.

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 (on vacation this week)

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Joanne Basile



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

Vicki

PPA49......Let's Celebrate

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Here is another star spangled card. I used the inspiration challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog I have had the best time this week making nothing but patriotic cards! It has been great to find so many challenges this week that fit my theme week! You don't think they did that just for me do you?? he he!!

Here is the inspiration photo they had to inspire us:




This card has almost no stamping, just the sentiment. I used a base of white and then I followed that up with some night of navy with more white over the top part of that. I added a strip of real red that was pierced and brad-ed. LOL! Is that a word? I used the large and small star punch for the stars in real red, night of navy and white. I added two red brads and a tiny navy button with some white embroidery floss knotted in it.

I am keeping this post short as I have alot to get done, be sure and come by tomorrow for the final patriotic card of the week made with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

Thanks so much for stopping by and if you have enjoyed this theme week leave me comment and let me know.

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

CCMC.....Stars & Stripes Forever

TGIF Peeps!!!!!

Today's patriotic themed card in my week long celebration is inspired by the challenge on Create with Connie & Mary. Of course their challenge fit my theme week perfectly, Fourth of July! I also used the color challenge from Stacey's Stamping Stage again.

I am not sure about this one, I don't do distressed well. I like clean and crisp. The base of the card is kraft, I mean Crumb Cake and I followed that up with a layer of real red. I embossed the real red with a star embossing folder, I then used my distressing tool all around the edges and then I just crumpled it all up. I then took a sponge with real red ink and sponged all over, this step is not really showing in the photo. I folded the corners and tore a few places on the edges.

The sentiment and the flag come from the Red, White & Blue jumbo wheel, I borrowed from a friend. She had bought this wheel and cut it all apart. I am soooo doing this myself. I stamped the flag image onto the crumb cake card stock and then distressed the edges. The flag was colored with my real red and night of navy marker. The sentiment is stamped with night of navy ink.

I added some vintage brads and some twill ribbon and a red button with a cotton thread bow.

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

Vicki

MTSC80.....Let's Celebrate

Happy Thursday Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge # 80

The base of my card is PTI white and then I follwed that with some real red and night of navy. I used the scallop edge punch on the night of navy piece, I also ran it thorugh the cuttlebug with the Swiss Dot EF. The red star piece I created by using a piece of whisper white and a 6x6 star template made by the crafters workshop. This template came in the kit I bought from Taylored Expressions. It looks like this:



I laid the template/stencil over my white cardstock and sponged with real red ink. I LOVE how this came out, it looks like designer paper huh? LOVE IT!!

I added a strip of real red between the star BG paper and the night of navy. The sentiment on this card comes from the "On your Birthday" stamp set. I stamped with night of navy ink and cut the circle and scallop circle with my nesties. I pirced all around the circle. I then added some white satin ribbon to finish.

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

Vicki