Sweet Sketch

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!

Today's card is made with the Sweet Sunday Sketch on Karen Giron's blog "The Sweetest Thing"

I based my card on the second one in this post on Dawn Easton's blog TreasureOiler Designz. Dawn is such a sweetheart she has given me alot of inspiration and encouragement. She has even e-mailed me a couple of times. I am so happy to have made a sweet friend like her from blogging! Thanks Dawn!

The card is 3-1/4" by 6-1/2" and will fit into the small open end envelopes from SU. I really like the size and don't know why I don't make them more often.

The paper I used is chocolate chip and baja breeze and of course the yummy Parisian DS paper. The butterflies are from the same paper and cut with the butterfly die from SU. The sentiment is from the Level 1 Hostess set called "Sweet Little Sayings", I think. Thanks to Lois for that set!

I used the SU lace edge punch and added some big ol' white brads, non-SU, and some sticky pearls in the butterfly center. I used my nesties to cut the rectangle scallop and white rectangle piece.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so mch for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Lucky Duck & A Box

Good Monday Morning Peeps! Hope you all had a great weekend!

Today's card is made with Jen's Sketch For You To Try.

I got to use my fun new set that is from the upcoming mini called "Wagons of Fun"!! I just LOVE this duck!!! It is just sooooooo adorable!!!

I started with a base of riding hood red and used some of the Washington Apple DS paper and also some bashful blue. The duck is stamped on watercolor paper and colored with my aquapainter and markers. I stamped him a couple of other times and just colored his wing and bow, cut them out and layered them up with some dimensionals.

The sentiment also comes from that same set and was stamped with black stazon and layered with bashful blue. I added a spiral brad and some bashful blue striped ribbon.

The flower is one of the dies and is cut with some so saffron and I added a build -a brad with a bashful blue center. I then finished it off with some white mini brads.

Now take a look at this fun little box:



Isn't it cute? It is made with the Movers and Shapers Die. The instructions can be found here.

I made the box at my friend and demo's house on Saturday evening. Everyone had left from the workshop and we had few minutes before I was getting picked up so we played a bit with this box.

I brought mine home and decorated it to match my card, well almost. This time I just left my cute little duckie white.

Here is a picture of the box slightly opened. It just slides like a match box.


And another view:




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

Vicki

P.S. To Carol and Debbie and Lois, I was not ignoring you yesterday, I have LOST my cell phone.

Sweet Friends

Good Morning Peeps! It's Saturday and it is raining and going to snow later!!! The calendar says Spring, but you would never know it here!!!

Today's card is made with Beate's Weekend Sketch. This week Charmine is the hostess with the mostest!!!

I am still loving the new Parisian Breeze paper! It has my fave colors. I started my card off with a base of chocolate chip and then followed that with some baja and some of the DS paper.

The stamp set is "Friends 24-7" I used timber brown stazon to stamp my bird and then stamped the damask design in baja that was stamped off twice first. The sentiment is from the same set and is also stamped in timber brown stazon. I cut it out with my coluzzle and the scallop is cut out with my nesties. I added some baja ribbon and a small flower from the three flower punch with a vintage brad.

The big brads on the main image piece are from Hobby Lobby. Please ignore that they are not perfectly aligned. The brads have an offset back post. And they are almost impossible to get straight, I swear I had them in and out of the paper at least two dozen times and have numerous holes n the paper behind them. Very frustrating!!!! Good thing they are large enough to hide all the holes. I finally called it quits and said "Close Enough"!!!

Well, that is all for today, We are suppose to have a workshop at my demo Lois' place today, but if the roads get bad , it will be postponed!

Thanks again for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Baja Rose

TGIF Friday Peeps!!! We are having some crazy weather happening around these parts today. We have snow predicted!

Today's card is made with the sketch at the Stamps and Smiles Blog. I love the sketches that Mercy creates. Also I was super excited to read that I had won last weeks sketch and a fabulous new stamp set. Cuppy Love! How cool is that! Another great reason to do sketch challenges, you might win something cool!!!

So now onto today's card! I just got this Parisian Breeze DS paper and I just love it!! Now I don't know if you would ever see a baja colored rose in nature but I am sure you can get one , I know they can dye them to any color you want. So let's just pretend mine is one I purchased from the florist!!!

The rose comes from the 5th Ave. Stamp set. I don't have it yet, but had stamped off a few images on watercolor paper when I was at my demo's house. This is the last of them, so I better order it or sneak a few more images out from her this week. LOL!

I used some baja breeze and my aqua painter to color the rose and darkened it a bit with a little teal ink. I added some diamond dust to the edges of the flower with my two way glue pen, it is soooooo sparkly IRL. Here is a close up so you can see the sparkle better:



The big ol chunky corduroy brads are some I purchased from Hobby Lobby, they are made by The Paper Studio. The sentiment I used comes from the retired hostess set, "Best Yet". Love that set!

Well, that is all I have for you today, hope you enjoy my baja rose and thank you sooooooo much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Taste of Textile

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!!! I am super excited to show you my cards today! Yesterday my favorite demo Lois delivered my order to me so I had new "stuff" to play with last night. I didn't even cook dinner, just ordered pizza and went straight to my stamping table!!!

The first card is made with this weeks card sketch on splitcoast.

I started with some pacific point and some dotted vellum from the cool "Taste of Textile" paper pack. I then layered on some more pacific and some pacific DS paper from the "Good Morning Sunshine" paper. It is followed with more pacific and some shimmery white striped paper from the textile pack.

The main image is made on whisper white. I used my new "Friends 24-7" Stamp set and stamped the damask image in pacific after I had stamped it off twice on scrap. I then inked up the bird with my black stazon and stamped it directly over the blue image. I then pierced the corners and added the spiral clip with some white taffeta ribbon.

The sentiment panel is from the Congrats SAB set and is stamped in pacific ink and then layered onto some more pacific. I cut the ends to make it look like a banner.

I mounted the image panel and sentiment panel with dimensionals to the BG pieces. I added some silver brads to the corners of the square panel.


I love to decorate the inside of my cards too, I don't always show you pictures of them, but this one I wanted you to see:




OK, one more for today with some more of the Taste of Textile, this pack is really AWESOME!!



I just love kraft and chocolate chip! Probably two of my all time favorites.

This card is super simple, I used the SU "Close as a Memory" stamp set. I wanted to keep it clean to show off the textured kraft.......can you see it?

Sympathy cards are always hard for me, but I like how this one turned out.

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

Vicki

Divine Design: Humble Yourselves

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card is one I made for the Divine Design Bible Verse Challenge on splitcoast. This is only my second time participating in this challenge and the goal of the challenge is to upload your card by the 9th, so you can see I am a bit behind!

I printed the verse from James out on cardstock and then used one of my fav SU sets "Live Your Dream" I really love the flower in this set. I stamped it in rose red and used markers to color in the stems an leaves ad the flower center. I then stamped the flowers once more on scrap paper and cut them out and layered them over the base ones with some dimensionals. I then add a sticky back half pearl to the center of both flowers.

The DS paper is from the Raspberry Fizz pack and is layered onto piece of Rose Red cardstock. I used one of my new EK Success edge punches in white to add the zig zag edge element. The pearll brads I got from Hobby Lobby awhile back when all the brads where 50% off.

The cameo coral card stock is ran through the cuddlebug with the Swiss dot embossing folder and then attached to the base card of rose red.

That's it pretty simple and straight forward card. I do love that bible verse.

Well, that is all for today, hope you all are having a great week. Thank you so much for stopping by and leaving a comment now and then, I do LOVE to read them.

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Make A Wish

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!! It is a stormy morning here in southwest Missouri, we even lost power very early this morning for about an hour or so!!! Spring always brings some severe storms here, they are calling for more later in the week too!

Well on to today's card.

I based my design on the the card in this post on Heather's Blog Stamp with Heather. Be sure and check out her blog, she is fantastic and makes such cute cards!!! I used Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch for my layout.

I used the same colors in the card made by Heather, Not Quite Navy, Kiwi and riding hood red. The cupcake is from the "Crazy for Cupcakes" SU set. The sentiment comes from the "Big Birthday Candle" Set. I stamped it once on each of the three colors and cut them apart to use one word in each color. The large cupcake is stamped on the PTI white cardstock and then onto the colors and cut out and pieced onto the main panel. I added some "doodles" around the edge with my black SU marker. I layered the main panel onto some riding hood red and then some kiwi kiss card stock.

The DS paper comes from last catties hostess print patterns pack. The base of the card is made with Not quite Navy. The side panel is made up of not quite navy with edges of kiwi and riding hood red.

I then layered some riding hood red over the panel and used a silver ribbon slide to add a "knot" bow to the ribbon.

The main image panel is added to the base with dimensionals.

So that's it for today, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki