Monday, August 30, 2010

Sketch Our creative corner
One card two challenges..Our Creative Corner 29 using their sketch.. All that scrap using crinkled ribbon.. My ribbon is crinkled but I noticed so much of it got covered but it is there and boy having crinkled ribbon I found out was really hard for me, I wanted it nice and smooth and no wrinkles..is that why most of it is covered? with out me really realizing I was doing that ;) hummm
Paper: pumpkin pie SU, big lot's paper pad, cryagon Paper temptress
Ink: black memento, broken china Ranger
Stamp: party girl CC Designs
Accessories: ribbon from my scrap pile, flowers ? glitter, Copics

Unscripted Sketches
Sketch challenge Unscripted Sketches #70... Thought she looked like she was walking in the forest or belonged in the forest so used this designer card stock as the card base.
Paper: club scrap card base, GP, chocolate chip SU
Ink: black memento, scattered straw Ranger
Stamp: Victoria Case SCACD collection, words? not sure who they are by
Accessories: Viva pearl pen, glitter, Copics

Sketch Clean and Simple
Challenge sketch FTL105 at Clean and Simple... Wanted to make another birthday card and thought this little scallop allowed the perfect place for this HB stamp, it's one of my favorite stamps..
Paper: Tuesday morning card base, GP white, DCWV designer
Ink: black memento
Stamp: love to stamp, Denami design
Accessories: PTI scallop die, white pen, copics

Sketch Stamping 411 One card two challenges...SSC166 sketch challenge at Stamping 411 and C4C52 using lattice... Well of course had to use one of these cute little CC design stamps and the lattice work behind her kind of making it a little fence behind the scene.
Paper: melon mambo, rich razzleberry, SU - and I think the lattice is a designer paper from SU, DCWV
Ink: black memento, broken china Ranger for clouds
Stamp: Heidi among the flowers CC Design
Accessories: SU flower punch, butterfly die, scallop punch, MS lattice punch, glitter on her wing and on the butterfly, my cloud template, Viva pearl pen, copics.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Sketch One card Two challenges..Sweet Sunday SSSC82 sketch challenge, Kelly Jo's #60 color challenge, brown, light blue, red, cream or white... the background for the long piece was made with a stamp set from PTI just altered the stamps, the sponged red around the circle for some reason looks orangish in the photo but it is real red from SU (tricky lighting)
Paper: kraft, bashful blue, very vanilla SU
Ink: chocochip, bashful blue, real red SU
Stamps: fairy tales Verve, guide lines PTI
Accessories: ruby slippers Pure Glitz, corner chomper, embossing folder Quickutz, Spellbinder circle die.

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Sketch and theme One card two challenges...SSS70 The Sweet Stop using the sketch and school theme, and once again for Stampin' Royalty using the school theme... Thought the little cheerleader was a good school theme my little granddaughter is a cheerleader in elementary school and so thought this fit really good.
Paper: kraft SU, report card October Afternoon
Ink: black Memento, broken china Ranger
Stamp: cheerleader PI MFT
Accessories: spellbinder die, stickles (on the pompoms) Viva pearl, copics


Sketch Sketch challenge I{heart}2 stamp.... Here I go again with these little kid stamps. As I said before I love coloring them and Ian is no different and he looks in love.
Paper: card base pumpkin pie SU, DCWV
Ink: black memento, spiced marmalade, vintage photo Ranger
Stamp: Hello Ian TGF
Accessories: brads ?, chip board ? colored with spiced marmalade, heart punch, copics



Sketch
Sketch challenge CRC51 Crazy 4 Challenge... Love this old witch so had fun making my card. Love the greens, purples and oranges some of my favorite colors.
Paper: card base pumpkin pie SU, pressed petals, recollections
Ink: memento, peeled paint Ranger
Stamps: visual image, art impressions
Accessories: corner chomper, circle punch, copics

SketchOne card Three Challenges, Sketch challenge at Our Creative Corner.. and fruit theme at All that Scraps & School theme at Stampin' Royalty... This little Emma had a basket of apples by her feet and some apples on the ground on the other side so I just cut her out and made a purse (die cut) and made it look like a book bag for school and it covered a small portion of the basket handle that was covering her dress. Now she looks ready for school and an apple for the teacher.
Paper: Kraft SU, boyfriend Cosmo Cricket, report card October Afternoon
Ink: black memento
Stamps: CC designs
Accessories: ribbon Michaels, button Basic Grey, floss, purse die, Copics

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Sketch
Sketch challenge Stamping 411 SSC165... In need of some male birthday cards so this is what I came up with. I think it will pass as masculine...
Paper: kraft, black SU, DCWV
Ink: black memento, grey Marvy, vintage photo, broken china, spiced marmalade Ranger, Always artichoke SU
Stamps: wild animals SU, stampscapes, Happy birthday PTI
Accessories: spellbinder die, ribbon Michaels, SU punch, leaves Club Scrap, Copics

Sketch
Sketch challenge at Unscripted Sketches #69... Love these little kids and another birthday card we can never have too many..and instead of using the flowers in the sketch I used the flags to represent the Happy Birthday, and the center of the flower I put the 2 U.
Paper: pumpkin pie, tempting turquoise SU, K& Co, DCWV
Ink: black memento, fired brick, scattered straw Ranger
Stamp: sprinkles on top, letters MFT
Accessories: Prima flower, Stickles, cording from Michaels, 2 U ?, die MFT & Spellbinder, Copics

Sketch
Sketch challenge at Clean & Simple FTL104... Gee this card there is no stamping it's just paper and a ribbon now that is simple.
Paper: kraft SU, family time KI memories
Accessories: crushed curry SU

Sketch
Sketch challenge at Our Creative Corner OCCSC29... Once again Halloween, it was fun looking through my holiday box and digging out some of these great stamps, others I look at and wonder what was I thinking when I bought them..anyone else done that?
Paper: rich razzleberry SU, white Paper Temptress,
Ink: memento, spiced marmalade, peeled paint Ranger
Stamp: Peddler pack, cat ?
Accessories: paper ribbon Black Dress Design, skeleton embossing Cuttlebug, sticko letters, Spellbinder die, Copics

Sketch
Sketch challenge Taylored Expression TESC125... Thought with Halloween just around the corner :( I better get some cards made. I am not ready for fall as summer has been very short lived in Washington State this year.
Paper: pumpkin pie SU, Recollections Halloween, Pressed Petals
Ink: memento, peeled paint, spiced marmalade Ranger,
Stamps: Mostly Animals, Art Impressions, Visual image
Accessories: spellbinder dies, viva pearl pen, copics

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Sketch ONE card FOUR challenges..The Sweet Stop SSS69 sketch challenge & OCC & MFT & Stampin' Royalty --theme challenge / school... I picked out some school papers but once I got it all together most of them are covered up by the other layer ;( but doesn't she look like it's the first day of school kind of shy, not sure what to expect look?
Paper: kraft PTI, report card October Afternoon, cork ?, white GP
Ink: black memento
Stamp: little angel MFT pure innocence
Accessories: ribbon from stash, three flower punch SU, letters ?, buttons craft store, PTI die, corner chomper, quizzle tag template, copics

Sketch Diva Coffee Break Design DCBD189 sketch challenge... once again using those precious little girls from My favorite thing line of Pure Innocence stamps.
Paper: Tuesday morning card stock, DCWV design papers. GP white
Ink: black memento, scattered straw Ranger
Stamp: bunch of blooms PI MFT, words from Hero arts
Accessories: PTI die for flowers, spellbinder for scalloped die, MS leaf punch, Viva Pearl pens, Copics.



Saturday, August 14, 2010

Sketch Taylored Expression TESC124 sketch challenge... this is a large stamp but I cut the girls apart to make it work for this card. It really looks better in person I wish it would of looked better on the blog. Oh well I will keep trying to get better photos.
Paper: certainly celery, black SU, DCWV designer paper
Ink: black Memento
Stamp: Paula Best
Accessories: EK punch, Viva pearl pen, Copics



Sketch One card two challenges... I {heart} 2 stamp sketch challenge & C4C50 Crazy for Challenge..using music.... This card is a lot better looking in person, it really looks washed out on the computer. I do not know what we are doing wrong in taking photos I use a light box and the daylight bulbs and camera Nikon P90 set on museum but not getting the look I want. If anyone has suggestions please let me know in the comment area or email me. Thanks
Paper: burgundy card stock got years ago at paper zone, designer paper Card Makers
Ink: black Memento
Stamp: Judi Kins, stamp Francisco, Verve budding blooms
Accessories: azure embossing power for music notes, MS bird punch, Copics, silver glitter pen for highlighting

Sketch Stamping 411 SSC164 sketch challenge... I have used this medallion before and it's not often that a sketch will allow such a large stamp so thought this challenge was perfect.
Paper: black SU, white GP, orange DCWV
Ink: taken with teal SU, black Memento, broken china Ranger
Stamp: medallion, whimsical words SU
Accessories: EK punch, SU punch (cut the black in half to make it fit the label punch) MFT die, butterfly SU, Viva pearl pen

Sketch Unscripted Sketches #68 sketch challenge... Figured with fall coming it's time to break out those stamps. I have always loved this stamp it is fun to color and with my new copics it was even better and at least I had the right markers or close enough to make it work.
Paper: club scrap card base, DCWV designer paper for tag, black SU, white GP
Ink: black memento, broken china Ranger
Stamp: PSX, local king rubber
Accessories: little black dress paper ribbon, MS bird punch, Marshmallow glimmer mist, my cloud template, EK tag punch, copics



Sketch Clean and Simple FTL103 sketch challenge... I decided not to use the center paper but use score lines instead. I like the look it gave
Paper: kraft PTI
Ink: tempting turquoise SU, brown Memento
Stamp: club scrap railroad tracks, Simple travel ?
Accessories: ribbon local craft store, MS score board



Thursday, August 12, 2010

Color challenge #59 Kelly Jo's blog using cranberry, honey, white and black.... I kind of pictured this but it did not come out all that I wanted. It seems to be missing something not sure what?

Paper: barley banana, K& Co, club scrap
Ink: white pen, ranger
Accessories: corner chopper, flower I made using flower dies from PTI, craft store pearl, Thickers U

Sunday, August 08, 2010

Color challenge
SketchColor challenge at The Cats Pajamas using denim, kraft, candy apple red & Sketch challenge #30 The greeting farm... this little cowboy looked sad so thought I would make it a missing you card. I used the background paper levi jeans from a card I made few weeks back and did not care for the color blue at the time, it needed to be darker and of course I save most of my mistakes and sure glad I did as it made a nice background paper for the boy card.
Paper: card base Kraft PTI, designer paper on the right I don't remember who from the jean on the left from Judi Kins stamp
Ink: black memento, choco chip SU, broken china, vintage photo Ranger, gray Marvy
Stamp: Hugh- TGF, always on my mind Verve, levi Judi Kins
Accessories: spellbinder die, craft hemp string, Copics




Saturday, August 07, 2010

Sketch One card three (3 woohoo) challenges..SSC163 Stamping 411 sketch, C4C49 use a cupcake, OCC use embossing..... I love the colors for this card. It really looks better in person vs. on the computer. The background paper is embossed with a cuttlebug embossing folder number collage, and the cup cake just happened to be a good idea for Tess extended hand.
Paper: elegant eggplant SU, designer paper from I think Big lots, green and tan Club Scrap
Ink: memento black, dusty concord, peeled paint Ranger
Stamps: tote-ally tess SU, PTI just the ticket happy birthday, cup cake (?)
Accessories: numbers collage embossing folder Cuttlebug, black dress design paper ribbon, Viva pearl pens, Spellbinder die, PTI die, stickles, EK punch, Copics.



Sketch Sketch challenge #67 Unscripted Sketches... This card wow I had a hard time, made one ended up not using it as it just did not come out how I pictured it..why does that happen it seemed so cool so stepped away worked on another card challenge then this one popped up as I was going through some paper pads. I like the way it came out.
Paper: card base creamy carmel SU, life's a journey K&Co
Ink: memento black, vintage photo Ranger
Stamp: simple thoughts travel (?)
Accessories: club scrap leaves, flower free from stamp order