MTSC62 Thinking of You

Happy Hump Day Peeps, it is cold again here, only 4 degrees here this morning!!! YIKES!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. I love a sketch challenge challenge, don't ya know? Mercy's sketches are always fun to work with!!!

My card is made with a set I just got, "Asian Artistry" which is a level 2 hostess set. I stamped the image with black stazon onto some watercolor paper and used my aqua painter to color it with. I used some pumpkin pie, dusty durango and old olive ink. The sentiment comes from the "Kind & Caring Thoughts" set. I used so saffron, really rust card stock and the DS comes from a retired pack, Haiku, I believe. I added some so saffron ribbon and some rust and old olive buttons.

Well, that is all from me, but before I go, did you notice my watermark on my pic? Very cool huh? Got it from Karen she is awesome, she even has a great tutorial on how to use them. I just got photoshop elements too, that program is very intimidating, alot to learn there, but at least I figured out the layers thingy, well sort of!!!

Well, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

SFYTT Happy Easter

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with Jen's Sketch for you to Try. My card is very much inspired by this cutie made by Nancy Riley!

I loved her white BG and the use of the Prints patterns DS paper. For my card I started with a base of so saffron and followed that up with a piece of whisper white that I scored the BG with my Scor Pal. I scored at half inch increments diagonally starting at one corner and then flipping to another corner to go the other direction.

I used some bashful blue card stock with the Scallop Trim Border Punch for the edge. I cute four 1-3/4 inch squares of DS paper from a couple of retired hostess print packs. The stamp set I used is "A Good Egg? I stamped the chick three times, once on the white and then again on some so saffron and a piece of the DS paper. I cut them out and pieced them onto the chick. I used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut out the chickie and the mat. I mounted that piece with some dimensionals. I added some so saffron ribbon and the sentiment is stamped with black stazon onto white and then matted with so saffron. I hand cut the end pieces. I added a button from my stash with a bit of linen thread tied through it.

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

Vicki

SSSC57 You Crack me Up!

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

I have to pinch myself every week to believe that I am on this fabulous sketch team with some really talented stampers!!! This week's sketch is a dosey, and there has been alot of talk back and forth among some of the sketch team about this one!! LOL!!!

Here is the sketch:



I didn't know immediately what to do with this sketch but after thinking about it a bit decide on DS paper for those BG strips. I like the end result. Then the big dilemma what to use for my focal point. I knew it needed to be fun and funky to go with the DS paper, something I am not good with, give me some pretty flowers any day, but I am trying to break out of my comfort zone! I finally landed on this little ducky from the SU "Animal Crackers" set. He is cute right? And very fitting I might add as the sketch was a bit of a "quack up"!!!! :)

the inside:




Well, that is all from me I hope you can find some time to play along this week.

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this weeks sketch!



Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

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

Vicki

Hello

Happy Saturday Peeps!

Today I am trying out a new challenge, well new for me anyways. I do sketch challenges so much I wondered if I can even do a card with out one??? So I was surfing around a bit yesterday and saw this BEAUTY, by Karen Giron. She had made it for this week's color challenge at the Color Throwdown Blog. I so loved Karen's card so I wanted to try those colors myself. The colors are....light green, rust and burgundy.

Translated into SU colors, certainly celery, really rust and bravo burgundy. I cheated, well not really but I used the really rust just on my bird wing. The colors are really nice together.

The base of my card is certainly celery card stock and I followed it with some retired celery DS paper. I added a strip of bravo burgundy across the bottom that I had punched with the scallop edge punch. I used some certainly celery ribbon, from last years SAB bundle, across the burgundy strip. I cut out some whisper white with my label nesties and added the bird, brand and wing to it. The bird is bravo burgundy, the wing really rust and the branch/leaf is certainly celery.

Finally I used the "Hello Again" stamp set for the sentiment. I stamped it with bravo burgundy onto a scrap of celery card stock and used the curly label punch on one end. Edged it all around with burgundy ink and mounted it with a dimensional to the main panel.

Well, that is all from me for today, be sure and stop back by tomorrow for a very interesting Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge!!!

Thanks so much and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!!!

Vicki

PPA30 On Your Birthday....

TGIF Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made for the challenge on the Pals Paper Arts Blog. This week is a KISS challenge, Keep It Simple, Sweetie.

The base is kraft card stock. I then stamped the balloon from the "Crazy for Cupcakes" set three times onto another piece of kraft card stock using black stazon. I masked off the middle balloon to stamp the third one. I colored the balloons in with markers. I stamped two more balloons on scrap kraft and colored them. I cut them out and added them to the card with some foam tape.

The sentiment is from the SU "On Your Birthday" set. I stamped that with black stazon using my stamp-a-ma-jig to get it straight. The ribbon is some retired riding hood red taffeta. I layered this piece onto the base of the same color. I didn't want the back of the colored piece showing, I think it just makes the card look better.

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

Vicki

Sketch & Color Challenge Happy Day

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card is made with two challenges. First up is Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge, Great sketch huh? Next is Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge. The colors this week are chocolate chip, going gray, very vanilla, more mustard and so saffron. I have to admit when I saw this combo I was a bit skeered......I didn't think I could pull it off, I don't think I have ever used that many colors on one card.

The base of the card is chocolate chip and I followed that with going gray card stock. The next layer is some so saffron DS paper from the new Sweet Pea Paper pack. The squares to the side are more mustard DS paper from an old retired hostess pack, I matted those squares with very vanilla. The stamp set used is "Flight of the Butterfly". I stamped the butterfly first with so saffron ink and the flowers are stamped with more mustard, I did that twice and cut out the second butterfly to mount over the bottom. I glued it just in the middle so I could pull up the wings a bit. The sentiment is also stamped with more mustard ink. I used my oval and scallop oval nesties to cut the main image out. I added some chocolate chip ribbon and bow with a big very vanilla brad. I thought it still need something so I pulled out some yellow sticky rhinestones, added them to the butterfly center and the upper right corner.

I wanted to let you guys know, I very excited to say I opened and etsy store, to sell my cards, with the help of the wonderful Pam Speidel. She talked me through a couple of things and gave me great advice. The link to my store is on my sidebar. I only have a few cards up now but will slowly be adding more, so if you have the time, check it out and let me know what you think.

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

Vicki

SFYTT Birthday Celebrations

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps.

I am running behind with all my challenges this week and last, I got out of the swing of them a week or two ago and I am sure having a hard time getting back into the groove. Today's share is a card made with Jen's Sketch For You To Try.

I started my card with a base of rich razzleberry, 4-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches folded in half. I followed that with some pale plum card stock and the DS paper is from the cottage wall pack. I used the SU "Upsy Daisy" set, stamped with rich razzleberry ink onto whisper white card stock. I matted that with more pale plum. The half circle is also pale plum and rich razzleberry. I used my nesties and an cuttlebug embossing folder on those. I used my new sizzix "Beautiful Wings" Embosslit for the butterfly with pale plum card stock. I added some crystal sticky swirls for the butterfly trail and also for the butterfly body. I added the butterfly to the top panel with a dab of glue in the middle and pulled up the wings slightly. The "upsy daisys are mounted to the base with some foam tape.

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

Vicki