SSSC54 Kind Thanks

Good Sunday Morning Peeps! It is my favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!!




Here is the sketch we are working with this week:



I LOVE sunflowers, they are some of my favorite images to color, so when I saw these nesties, I HAD to have them! I just got them in the mail this past week and knew I wanted to use the sunflower for my circle element on the sketch.

The sunflower is fairly large by itself, almost 4 inches across, so my card is fairly large. It is 5-1/2 inch square. The base is made from kraft card stock, I followed that with some chocolate chip card stock. The DS paper is from the new SU Sweet Pea Pack. I used Crushed Curry card stock to cut out two of the sunflowers, I sponge with chocolate chip while the die was still on the paper. The sentiment is from the "Thank You Kindly" stamp set. I stamped it with black stazon onto white card stock and sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink. I hand cut the end and curled it a bit to make it "wave". I added a strip of chocolate chip card stock to the side with a line of gold brads.

Well, that is all from me, let's see what the rest of the Sketch Team has for you today.

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!



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

Vicki

Friend

Good Friday Morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with the Fall to Layout #76 on the Clean & Simple Blog.





I love the clean & simple or CAS style, but I find it hard to achieve, well achieve and be something I like. Which leads to my card today.

You know I had to add an extra layer and I am still using all the papers from my last post, hey they where still out.....LOL!

Base is real red and then I followed that with some kraft card stock. The squares are 1 inch and are cut from the "Sending Love" DS pack. I used the "With All My Heart" stamp set in real red. The squares are added with dimensionals and I added some 1/4 inch real red grosgrain. The little flower was punched out with my three flower punch. I added a white brad to the center of the flower and added it to the card with another bit of dimensional. I still thought it "needed" something, so I added the piercing in the top corners.

So what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Love Ya!

Good Thursday Morning Peeps! Hope your week is going well.

Today's card is one I made with the sketch challenge over on the CCEE Stampers Blog.



I saw the sketch last night on Cindy Haffner's BLOG and started thinking about it. I thought the circles would look cool recessed and you know I have been loving me so kraft card stock lately. I started my card by cutting a 4-1/2 inch square of kraft. I used a 1-3/4 inch circle punch to punch out the circles in the kraft. I added four different pieces of DS paper from the Sending Love Speciality Pack, behind the circles and then another layer of kraft cradstock. When it is all sandwiched together like this it almost looks like chipboard. I used a circle piece of plastic canvas to do the piercing around each circle.

The letters are cut with my naturally serif sizzlit die strip with real red cardstck. The heart in the corner is from the "I {Heart} Hearts stamp set. I added some real red grosgrain ribbon. The sentiment panel is mounted to the card with dimensionals and the circles panel is on dimensionals too.

Well, that is all from me today, we are expecting some bad winter weather later today and tomrrow, with possible power outages, so if I am gone for awhile, that is why.

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

Vicki

Mojo123 I Love You

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today's card is made with the sketch over on the Mojo Monday Blog.



You could pick round or square or both....I picked round! I love making these round cards....they are so much fun!

After seeing this BEAUTY, made by blogging friend Marisa, I had to run to Michael's to find that fabulous sentiment stamp! My card is very much inspired by Marisa's beautiful card!!!

I used my circle scallop nesties to make the base out of PTI white card stock. I followed that with some DS paper from the "Sending Love" Speciality Pack and some more swiss dotted embossed white on the left side. I added some edging under the sentiment panel and to the side with my new scallop trim edge punch. The hearts are from the "I {Heart} Hearts stamp set and punched out with my heart to heart punch. I stamped the hearts in both real red and pretty in pink ink. I added the hearts to the card with dimensionals. Lastly I added a red bow with a white button and another stamped heart in the center.

Well, that is all from me today, Hope you find time to do something that makes you happy today!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

MTSC58 Thank You

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!! Can you believe it? The last Tuesday of January, the last Tuesday for me as Mercy's Guest Muse! I have had such a good time working along Mercy and all her uber talented design team. It has been an honor....Thanks girls!!!

Now onto my card......which is a "Thank You" to all! I am so in love with this flower stamp, it comes from the "Abundant Hope" set from the new Occasion mini.

My card base is made with PTI white card stock and I followed that with some so saffron card stock and then more white that I ran through my cuttlebug with the swiss dot embossing folder. The flowers are stamped with black stazon onto some 140# weight watercolor paper. I colored it with my aqua painter and certainly celery, so saffron, apricot appeal, barely banana and pumpkin pie ink. I used my largest rectangle nestie to cut out the flowers with. I then sponged bashful blue all around the flower while leaving the nestie in place. I matted with so saffron and added a edge at the bottom with my Fleur-di-lis edge punch. The sentiment comes from the "For All You Do" stamp set. I stamped it onto some scrap watercolor paper with black stazon. I sponged the edges with more bashful blue and pierced along the bottom. I added a button, from my stash, with some crochet twine through it.

Well, that is all for me today, be sure and check out the rest of the Muses' and see what they have created.

Pam Speidel

Cindy Haffner

Pam Varnell

Julie Lacey

Crystal Birr

Jessica Diedrich

Shannan Tuebner

I hope you can find some time to play along with us this week. All you have to do is create a card or scrapbook layout using the sketch above, and link your creation to Mister Linky on Mercy's Blog

Thanks again for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Hello Friend!

Good Monday Morning Peeps!! Hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for the week!

Today's card was made for 2 challenges, first up Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 14 and the sketch challenge this week at Our Creative Corner.

Don't you just love this yummy color combo? Bashful Blue, whisper white, orchid opulence and almost amethyst. Beautiful, soft colors, made me think spring. My card is based on this one by Dana Grothaus. I wanted to try and create the same sentiment, but with the supplies I have, mostly SU! :)

The card base is whisper white and I followed that with bashful blue and the DS paper is from a retired Hostess Print Pack. I added white strips, that I had embossed with a dot strip, across the top and bottom. The bottom one is wider than the top and I used the new scallop trim border punch on it too.

I cut the letters for the "Hello Friend" from bashful blue card stock using the naturally serif sizzlit strip die. I used the stamp set "For All You Do" for the flowers. I stamped them with orchid opulence and almost amethyst ink, and cut them out and mounted them with some dimensionals. The stem was stamped with old olive ink onto the white circle before the sentiment was glued on. I added some silver sticky rhinestones to the center of the flowers. I finished the card with some orchid opulence 1/4 inch grosgrain ribbon.

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

Vicki

SSSC53 Kindness

Good Sunday Morning Peeps! It is my favorite time of the week, time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!!

Here is the sketch we are working with this week:

I have to say I was inspired by Nancy's Sweet Sunday Sketch Card from last week to pull out my Cottage Wall DS pack. I used it alot when I first got it and then hadn't used it lately. So that was my starting point for this card. I chose the DS designs I wanted to use and then I also used rich razzleberry and whisper white card stock.

The stamp set I used is a new fave of mine "Herb Expressions". The sentiment comes from the "Heard from the Heart" set. I inked up just the "kindness" on the stamp, by using some post it note paper to mask off the rest of the words. I stamped the flower or herb with black stazon and used my aqua painter to lightly color in the leaves with old olive ink and the tops with rich razzleberry ink. I used my new Border Scallop trim punch, which is from the SAB catalog, for the bottom edge of the second layer. I used my blossom and circle nesties to cut out the main image panel. It is attached to the base with some foam tape. I added some old olive buttons and some piercing under the sentiment to finish the card.

Well, that is all from me, let's see what the rest of the Sketch Team has for you today.



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

Come join in on the fun and create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen's blog and link your card using Mr. Linky so all of us can see your creation!



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

Vicki