SFYTT Happy Easter Tulips

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!

Today's card is one I made with Jen's Sketch For You to Try.

I have been seeing these tulips all around that are made with the wing from the large two step bird punch and I wanted to give them a try myself. They are so much fun and cute. Just punch three wings and sponge the edges and layer together to make the tulip. I used the leaf/branch from the same punch for the stems and leaves. Now, I know, in nature the tulip does not have this kind of leaves, but I took a bit of artistic license with this because I wanted to use the punched leaves.

I used pretty in pink, so saffron, certainly celery and almost amethyst for the colors on my card. The DS paper is from the "Tea Party" paper pack. I had really overlooked that pack in the past, but I finally ordered some and I really love the colors, very springy!!!

The sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set. I wish I had a "Welcome Spring" or something like that sentiment in that set, this card really needs a Happy springy sentiment, but it could be a pretty spring birthday card or a Mother's Day card or whatever.

I used the scallop trim edge punch and added some pretty pink checked ribbon at the base of the tulips. The sketch had an accent in the top corner of the circle element so I added some of the pretty in pink satin ribbon on a spiral clip for that.

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

Vicki

SSSC59 Thinking of You

Good Morning Peeps!! It's Sunday which means it's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch!!! The card that I have for today using the SSSC#59 was created using the stamp set "Kind & Caring Thoughts"

The sketch:




The base of my card is basic black and I followed that with some melon mambo and the DS paper is from the retired "Night & Day" paper pack.

I stamped the flower with melon mambo ink three times without re-inking the stamp. I pierced all around the image and added a spiral clip with a little melon mambo ribbon. The sentiment is from the same set and stamped with black stazon. I added some piercing to this piece as well and then finished it off with three black sticky pearls.

Let's see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers have created with this weeks sketch:


Karen-the Sweetest Thing

Jen-JenTapler Designs

Karen-Paper Playhouse

Laura-Scrapnextras on vacation

Lynn-The Queen's Scene

Nancy-iStamp

Sarah-Jane-Janeybell

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.

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

Vicki

PPA Spring Challenge Cards

TGIF Peeps!!

Today's cards are a CASE of mine own card seen here. I made that card back in January. I was thinking spring then, and still am!!! LOL!

When I saw the challenge this week at Pals Paper Arts was a Spring Theme, I knew I wanted to make some more of that card with the beautiful daffodils in the "Abundant Hope" SU stamp set. Love, love, love those flowers and they are one of the first signs of spring, mine are coming up and they make me smile every time I see their little green stems and buds.




The Sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" Stamp set. I used the Fleur-de-Lis edge punch and the buttons are from my stash.




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

Vicki

SC270 Lucky Duck

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made with this week's sketch at Splitcoast.

A really great sketch but my main image of the cute little ducky from the SU retired set, "Wagon Full of Fun" covers up part of the BG, which it shouldn't if I stuck true to the sketch but I wanted to use that duck, so..........

The base of my card is riding hood red and I followed that with some whisper white. I stamped my sentiment, from the same set and then ran it through my cuttlebug with the swiss dot embossing folder. The DS paper is from the also retired "Washington Apple" paper pack. I matted the DS paper with some riding hood red. I used my apron lace edge punch at the bottom. I put a couple of narrow strips of pumpkin pie card stock at the top and bottom of the DS paper and them pierced them.

The Duck is stamped onto white with some black stazon, twice. I colored in the beak and feet with pumpkin pie ink and the bow with riding hood red ink. I cut out the bow and the wing and mounted them with some dimensionals. I added some riding hood red ribbon across the center.

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

Vicki

MTSC63 Happy Easter

Happy Wednesday Peeps!! Hope your week is going well so far!

Today I am sharing a card I made with Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge. What a great sketch huh? I am sure I will use this one again and again.

I love the daffodils in the "Abundant Hope" set, they are so pretty and perfect for water coloring. My card base is a 5 inch square. I used so saffron card stock for matting the DS paper, which comes from the "Tall Tales" paper pack. I used my oval nesties to cut out the main image, I left the nestie in place to do a bit of light sponging around the flowers with some bashful blue ink. The sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" set. I stamped it with black stazon onto some scrap watercolor paper and cut it out. I rounded the corners of one end and used the edge of the curly label punch on the other end. I pierced a bit under the sentiment and mounted it to the main image panel with some dimensionals. I added some silver sticky rhinestones on the corners of the second layer and the end of the sentiment piece. I used old olive grosgrain ribbon around the card under the flower panel.

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

Vicki

Mojo & Curtain Call Set

Good Tuesday morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card and a petal box set that I made using Stacey's Curtain Call Color Challenge Act 19 and also the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

The color challenge is for rich razzleberry, very vanilla, bashful blue and pink pirouette. I had to dig a bit to find the pink pirouette, I finally found a couple of scraps. I made the petal box first:



I cut out four petal cards from the sizzix die with rich razzleberry and joined them together to form the box. I layered each side with very vanilla and then some bashful blue that I had use the swiss dot embossing folder. The flower is created with the large flower punch. I used the pink and then stamped it with the French script BG stamp in razzleberry. I sponged the edges and snipped them into the center a bit. I did add another color to the mix with the leaves, in certainly celery, done with the 5-petal flower punch. The center is from the boho and three flower punch. I added a very vanilla brad to the center and tied the box up with some vanilla satin ribbon.

Next came the matching card:



The card is made with all the same colors and the same flower. The sentiment on the card comes from the "Kind & Caring Thoughts" stamp set. I stamped that with razzleberry ink onto the vanilla card stock. I added to razzleberry strips above and below the sentiment, I punched the edge of those with the Scallop Trim Border Punch.

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

Vicki

SFYTT Wonderful Friend

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 used some retired DS paper on this one, it is from the retired Sweet Slumber paper pack. It is one of my all time favorites, and even tho I bought 2 packs the beautiful blue gingham print is almost all gone from both packs, boo hoo!!!!!

I started this card with a base of Shara Sand, I matted both pieces of the DS paper with baja breeze card stock, also retired. I used another fave of mine the "Wonderful Favorites" Stamp set. I stamped with both riding hood red and baja breeze ink. I used the Sizzix Embosslits Beautiful Wings for my butterfly with some riding hood red card stock. I added some silver sticky rhinestones to the butterfly and to the top corner. Also, do you see that cute little baja punched border peeking out from behind the circle, it is a new MS punch I got on Saturday, toooooo flipping cute!

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

Vicki