SSSC56 Happy Valentine's Day

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY PEEPS!!!! It's Sunday so that means time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! My favorite time of the week!

Here is our sketch for the week:



I have been wanting to make one of these fun little button hearts for awhile now and this sketch was the perfect opportunity, Karen said we could change up the circle to a heart or flower or whatever, so there!!!!

My card base is kraft and I followed that with some melon mambo and then white and the DS paper is from the SAB neighbors pack. All the buttons are ones I had in my huge stash of buttons, actually I inherited a huge box of buttons from my Mom along with all I had from years ago when I worked at a shirt factory, so I do have tons!

The little flag sentiment comes from the SU "A Happy Heart" set. I hand cut it out and attached it to the button heart. I added some silver sticky rhinestones and a spiral clip with some white satin ribbon.

The buttons are glued onto the white card stock with tombow multi liquid glue. I just made the heart free-form, trying my best to make it look like a heart....UGH, that was the hardest part of this card. Do you think it looks like a heart?

Well, that is all from me today, let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers have for us to drool over:

Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

I hope you can find some time this week to create with this sketch, be sure to link your creations over at Karen's blog
so we can all see.

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

Vicki

Valentine Treat Holders

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!!

I have some cute little Valentine Treat Holders to share with you today. I first saw these HERE.

I made mine with kraft card stock cut to 4 inches by 11 inches and scored at 5" and
6". I ran both sides through the cuttlebug with the dot embossing folder. The stamp set I used is "A Happy Heart". I stamped the heart in real red ink onto whisper white card stock. The sentiment is stamped with black ink onto white, I hand cut out the "Flag" and attached to the heart with a mini antique copper brad. The heart is then attached to the front with some foam tape. Inside these little cuties is a box, to hold 3x3 cards and envelopes or in my case some chocolate.

Side View:



The box is made with a 3-1/2 inch by 8-3/4 inch piece of kraft card stock. It is scored at 1/4", 3-1/3", 4-1/2 inch and 7-3/4 inch. Turned and scored at 1 inch. I attached the box to the outside bag with scor-tape. Cute and fast to make!

Close-up:



After adding some strawberry cream chocolate hearts I tied some red polka dot ribbon around the handle, BTW, the handle is just the large oval punch!

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

Vicki

SFYTT Make a Wish

TGIF Peeps!!!

I am late posting today, so this will be quick and short. This card is made with Jen's Sketch For You To Try. Not sure how I feel about this one. I do love the DS paper, but it is NOT SU, it is some Imaginisce that I got at a LSS. The card stock I used is retired, blue bayou and pretty in pink. The sentiment is a rub on. So what do you think?

Thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Wonderful Friends

Good Thursday Morning Peeps

Today's card share is another non challenge card. I made these for some "Wonderful Friends"......what would we do without wonderful friends? I have a group of wonderful friends, we get together and stamp, we laugh, we cry, we eat and occasionally we even fight, but we are all still "Wonderful Friends"!! Love them all!

Did I tell you we laugh? We laugh so much, we are silly, it is good for the soul!

The base of the card is pretty in pink and is a 4-1/4 inch by 8-1/2 inch piece of card stock, folded in half. I followed up the pretty in pink base with very vanilla and the DS paper is from the "Sending Love" Specialty pack. I tried to keep the layers and embellies to a minimum, because they are going out in the mail. The sentiment is from the "Wonderful Favorites" set. I stamped the 'wonderful' in chocolate chip ink onto very vanilla and the 'friend' is stamped with real red ink.

I used the new edge punch from the SAB cattie and the felt flower is from the occasions mini.

Here is a group shot:



Well, that is all for today, thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo 125 Miss You

Happy Hump Day Peeps!

Today's card share is one I made for this weeks Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

This sketch was a bit of a mind blower for me.....and I am still not sure I like what I came up with, but here it is anyway!

I started with a base of whisper white and then followed that with some taken with teal and then so saffron. The DS paper is from the Sweet Pea pack. The next layer with the circular bottom is more white that I ran through the cuttlebug with an embossing folder. I used some so saffron ribbon and used the large bird punch for the center element. I punched the bird with taken with teal and the wing is from the same DS paper that is used on the bottom. I punched the leaf with scrap of old olive card stock.

I used the curly label punch with some whisper white for the sentiment. The Sentiment comes from the "Three Little Words" set, I just used two words.....LOL!!! I added some silver rhinestones to the corners.

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

Vicki

MTSC60 Wishes

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. Before moving onto the card I wanted to share some devastating news. Shannon one of the wonderful girls on Mercy's sketch team, lost her husband on Sunday. If you click on her name it will take you to her blog where so posted about him. My heart just breaks for her and her family. She has two young boys who no longer have their father, life should just not be this way. If you would like to send her a card just let me know and I can get you her address.

Now back to the sketch:



You can see that my card varies a bit from the sketch, that is what happens when I rely on my memory. I looked at the sketch and then went off to work on it and didn't print it out, so my sentiment panel overlaps the side panel, which is not how the sketch is, but it's close and will be OK I guess.

The base of the card is a 6-1/2 inch piece of melon mambo card stock folded in half. This size card will fit in the small open end envelopes that SU sells, altho with my crinkly flower I don't think this card is going into any envelope.

The DS paper is from the Sweet Pea pack and is mated with some pumpkin pie card stock. I used the scallop edge punch on the side. The sentiment comes from the "Heard from the Heart" stamp set and is stamped with black stazon onto white card stock. These crinkly flowers are very popular right now and are really fun and easy to make. I added a big ol button from my stash with some crochet thread tied through it. The leaves are from the sizzix sizzlits little leaves die and are cut with old olive card stock.

Well, that's it from me today, thanks so much for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Krafty Valentine Love

Good Monday Morning Peeps!

Today's share is made with a couple of challenges in mind. First up is Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge Act 16 and this week's challenge at Our Creative Corner.

Stacey's Color challenge this week is Kraft, very vanilla and real red the the Our Creative Corner challenge is to make a Masculine Valentine Card/Project. I thought the colors from Stacey would work well to make a masculine valentine card. I have to confess I have a really hard time with "masculine", and this card is probably NOT the most masculine you have every seen, but I did keep the "girly" down to a minimum. It is a valentine, so some "girly is expected, right? LOL!

I started the card with a base of kraft card stock and then I used very vanilla and the real red. I used the swiss dot embossing folder on the red. The heart comes from the "A Happy Heart" set and the buttons are from my stash.

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

Vicki