Friday, July 31, 2009
Raspberry Suite Color challenge 13 and a HSE Sale!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Page 37, a sketch card and a SALE!!
Sunday, July 26, 2009
HSE Cupcake Inspiration #17
Disclaimer: my card DOES NOT do these cupcakies justice AT ALL! I seem to have peetered out on making cards today after all the DTGD challenges -whew!
OK so, after admitting that this is not my favorite card of all time, here it is...
The whimsical image is called Butterfly Trail and is a sneak peek of the soon to be released Inkadinkado $1.99 series stamps! Rachel is expecting them in the store SOON!! The felt flowers are from Zva Creative and the gem brads are Basic Grey's Lemonade glazed brads. I was completely drawn to the bright pink and green of the cupcakes and I thought PTI's Raspberry Fizz bitty dots paired with the New Leaf were perfect! For my layout, I used the Weekend Sketch Challenge #90, hosted this week by my fellow Verve Diva, Lauraly!
After much fiddling on this, I thought it needed something at the top, so I pulled out and dusted off my SU corner punch. Remember when we used corners on EVERYTHING? I haven't put corners on a card in AGES and thought it would be fun to do so.
Everyone is welcome to play along! Just link your card to Mr. Linky on the HSE blog. Each week, Rachel will showcase the Top 5 picks!! Now it's time to check out my fellow HSE Sweetie's cards and see how they rocked those cupcakies!!
Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Bonnie - The Lucky Clucker
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!
Card Deets:Stamps - Butterfly
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White, new leaf and raspberrry fizz bitty dots (PTI)
Accessories - Oval nesties, BG Lemonade glazed brads, Lemon Tart twill ribbon, SU Corner punch, Zva Creative felt flowers, copic markers
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Gettin' Dirty!
I used some of my DCWV citrus paper for the colors. I think get well cards should be bright and cheery!! I covered some chipboard for the corner. I made the flower embellishment with my Blossom nestabilities. The button and cord are from PHH.
The texture cardstock is DCWV metallic matstack in copper, the pattern paper is Basic Grey Cupcake, the Oregon Raindrops are the Denim bottle from PHH, and the lovely angels image is from Crafty Secrets their Fairy Enchanting stickers!
Card Deets (Triple challenge):
Card Deets (Cindy's sketch):
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Fun packed Thursday
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Lots of cards to share
This next card is for today's SCS sketch challenge. I needed a bright fun card for a special someone's upcoming birthday!! This sunburst image from Verve's Wishful Elegance set. I colored them with copic markers and put little buttons in the center. The dew drops at the bottom are from Heidi's Sunburst Oregon raindrops. Each button is tied down with some burlap string -LOVE this stuff, I use it with ALL my buttons!! fun fun fun!
These next 2 cards are from last month during my guest designer month with Unity. Oh my! In looking at this card now, I see it has most of the same elements as my sketch card today! Isn't it funny when that happens?
For this card, I used the Tiny Giggle Grove set for the uber cute tree, which I pieced with PTI's Lemon Tart bitty dots. The sentiment is from the June KOTM, Perfect in Every Way. It also uses some of that fabulous Martha Stewart punched border cardstock. Each of the punched flowers have a little yellow Kaiser bling in the center. They are also tied in with the tree and the sentiment oval.
This next Unity card also uses the June KOTM, Perfect in Every Way. I used one of my favorite images - the owl! I stamped the image in Memento Rich Cocoa and colored it with some copic markers. The DP and matching chipboard border are from MME's Laundry Line, Flirty. Cute huh? The top part of the border is the negative space of the border pack. I posted pics on this post.
Couple things before I go. First, the Verve Project Parade is going on and this month's theme is "Divine Details". All the Divas gives you a peek at our card making process and details! My turn is tomorrow, so stay tuned for my "process"!!
AND, tomorrow also starts the annual Dare To Get Dirty challenges with the SplitcoastStampers Dirty Dozen Girls! The challenges run this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. I am hosting a challenge again this year and my challenge is tomorrow, so stay tuned and I hope you play along!!!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
HSE Sunday Cupcake Inspiration challenge
I was drawn to the awesome circles on the background, aren't they fun?!? Of course I pulled out my Basic Grey Lemonade Chipboard stickers for my card!! I remember seeing the TCP Tuesday sketch this week had lots of fun circles, so I used it for my layout. I pulled in the blue on the frosting with the Baja Breeze cardstock. I used my Score-Pal to make score lines every 1/4" for some interest. To finish I added a touch of Zva bling to the birdie. The sentiment is from my go-to Verve sentiment set, Circular Sayings.
Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Bonnie - The Lucky Clucker
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck
Here's a detail pic of the little birdie and all the dimension going on.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Raspberry chipboard cherries
Card Deets:
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Fun with Junebug X's 2!
This first card uses some of the flower chipboard stickers. I found the white panels a bit too stark, so I added a scored line frame using my ScorPal. Gives it that little extra something. You can't see in the picture, but I also added some Stickles to each flower.
Thanks for stopping by.
P.S. Check out the new Rob picture I posted! Man oh man, what a smile!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Some Verve and a chance to WIN some HSE!!
Sunday, July 12, 2009
HSE Cupcake Inspiration Sunday!
The cute little felt flowers are Zva Creative from both the Cozy and the Cool mix! The centers are the totally addictive silver pearls from Michael's. If you recognize the layout, it's AmyR's sketch from last week.
Carolina - Carolina's Creative Pad
Rachel - Hope Stamps Eternal
Colleen - Glitter Ink
Bonnie - The Lucky Clucker
Tammy - Stamp Happy
Natalie - dougnat diaries
Jessica - Shamrocks and Seashells
Kelli - Yard Sale Kind of Luck
Thanks for stopping by!
P.S. I am cleaning out my stash of cards and having a Garage Sale over at my Etsy store. Lots of discounted and reduced prices on my cards. If you're interested, check it out -see my sidebar for the link!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
A baby shower for a new oodabug!
There’s a new baby Diva on the way, and today we’re celebrating with a suprise shower hop! So come along with us and do the shower blog hop to help celebrate the arrival of Charmaine’s new little oodabug, Isabelle! The shower started at the Verve Stamps blog, so if you’ve just happened along, head back over there to see what Julee made!
My card uses Verve's Practically Perfect set combined with this week's Mojo Monday sketch. The bunny is pieced with some Lemon Tart bitty dots DP and colored with copic markers and highlighted with a Stardust pink glitter pen! The ribbon is PTI's Sweet Blush (which I discovered is a perfect match for SU! Pink Pirouette) and the pink background strip is from the Pink Pirouette's DSP. I went CAS again, I am lovin' the clean look and hope Charmaine enjoys it too!!
Thanks for stopping by! Now hop on over to Shannan's blog for some more cuddly goodness.
Card Deets:
Stamps - Practically Perfect
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black
Paper - White, lemon tart, lemon bitty dots and bitty squares DP (all PTI), pink pirouette
Accessories - light pink kaiser rhinestones, Sweet Blush twill ribbon, circle nesties
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Some Verve and NEW BASIC GREY!
The cool pattern paper is from Mark's Paper Co, from their Old Fashion Courtship collection. This paper has a texture/cloth look to it, but it is actually smooth! I used my mega curvy rectangle nestabilities for the layers and frames, and some of my silver pearls from Michael's.
Next is a double challenge card. I did the SCS CAS challenge to make a birthday card and this week's Fall To Layout sketch 49. The DP is from the new June Bug 6x6 paper pad and the chipboard is from the June Bug Chipboard stickers! Yep! I got the "BUG"-LOL!! Each flower has some Kaiser pearls on it. The sentiment is from a Paper Studio Co. clear stamp set and inked with VersaMagic Night Sky chalk ink -the only kind that sticks to the cheapo clear stamps!
The last card also uses new Basic Grey - the Lemonade 6x6 paper and cute little Gamma stamps, Owls!! Basic Grey has stolen my heart once again -me likey!! I followed today's SCS Sketch challenge. I had some trouble with this one, I ended up changing the proportions of the panels to get it to work for me. Sorry Rox!
I colored the owls with Copic markers and put a tiny rhinestone in one eye. You know, from a distance their bottoms look like mouths -ack, creepy! There is some scoring around the edges of the panel and at the bottom of the card. The rhinestone embellishments are from Zva Creative, Coffee & Chocolate -love these things cause you can cut and stick them in any arrangement!
Speaking of the Zva crystal flourishes, don't be afraid to do this ----->
Heehee! I cut and rearrange on my card like crazy!
Be sure to stop by Rachel's store, Hope Stamps Eternal to check out all the new Basic Grey goodies!! AND, she stocked up on lots of my FAV Zva Creative stuff too!
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great evening.
P.S. I am cleaning out my stash of cards and having a Garage Sale over at my Etsy store. Lots of discounted and reduced prices on my cards. If you're interested, check it out -see my sidebar for the link!!
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Sunday's Cupcake inspiration challenge 14
Check out these delicious cuppies!!
Everyone is invited to play along. Just post a link to your creations to the HSE blog (linked above) and be sure to use keyword CIC14 on SCS.
Here is my card. It's actually a triple challenge card. I combined it with today's SCS Featured Stamper challenge. This week we are honoring B-Gin-R! What a fantastic gallery she has! It took me quite a while to settle on this lovely card. I kept the same general layout and the use of a Greeting Farm image, but changed the papers and some key elements -like adding lace at the bottom. I used Miss Anya Stamp Set -love these images. I usually don't care for images without noses or mouths, but for the most part she is always looking down, so I kinda forgive it! LOL!
This is also for the Copic Creations challenge 7-to color brunette hair. I colored this image with Copics and used, seriously about 15 markers on it!! Whew! But, I love this copic challenge blog because has such inspiration. The lace is from my granny's tin, the rhinestones are Kaiser in Light Green and the sentiment is from Verve, Circular Sayings.