Good morning everyone! Thank goodness it's Friday! Are you ready for a great weekend? I am going to be visiting my friend Sherry this weekend! I know we are going to have a great time! Well, I hope you are ready for a great sketch from the Sketch Frenzy Friday team! This week's sketch was provided by Patrice Herrera. Take a look at this cute sketch!
A lot of different elements that took me a while to figure out what I might do. But then an idea came to me and here is the result!
I have seen quite a few projects that have these cute banners on them made from designer paper. So I went with that! I used the Everyday Enchantment designer paper to make my banners and attached them to linen thread and then to the card base of Very Vanilla. I ran a piece of Calypso Coral through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder and attached that to the card. Then I stamped the greeting from Outlined Occasions onto Very Vanilla in Soft Suede. I colored in the images with Pool Party, Calypso Coral and Poppy Parade markers. This is popped up onto the card. I cut two stars using the Stars #2 die and Pool Party card stock. I put a silver brad through the smaller one and both are popped up onto the card. Super simple!
Click 'here' to see what Jennifer did with this sketch. Then continue through the tour to see what the other designers came up with using this sketch. I hope you find time to play along with us this week! Be sure to upload your creation to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so that we can all take a look! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps: Outlined Occasions; Paper- Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral, Pool Party, Everyday Enchantment designer paper; Ink- Soft Suede, Pool Party, Calypso Coral, Poppy Parade; Accessories- linen thread, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, Stars #2 die, silver brad, dimensionals
Good Friday morning! We are on the road again! Finishing the drive to Phoenix! Tomorrow bright and early will be the first game. I do hope the boys play well! I am so excited for them!! Sketch Frenzy Friday has a new sketch challenge for this week! This week's sketch was designed by Kim Innis. Take a look at this very interesting sketch!
At first glance, the three panels on the left reminded me of road signs - lol! But that is not what I wanted to go for. So take a look at what I finally came up with!
I wanted to use product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. I used the words from the Outlined Occasions stamp set. I stamped them in Soft Suede onto a card base of Very Vanilla. Then I colored in the greeting with a Lucky Limeade marker and the stars with a Pool Party marker. The three panels are pieces of from the Everyday Enchantment designer paper pack. You can't see it from the photo, but I made my vertical strip with my Simply Scored tool by scoring lines 1/2" apart. I die cut two stars from Pool Party using the stars #2 die. I sponged the stars with Pool Party ink and added a gold brad to the smaller star. These are popped up on the card. Super simple!
Continue on the little blog tour by clicking 'here' to see what Jennifer did with this sketch. Keep going along through the tour to get inspired. I hope that you will be able to play along with us this week! Be sure to upload your project to the Sketch Frenzy Friday blog so that we can all see what you did with this sketch! Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Outlined Occasions; Paper- Very Vanilla, Pool Party, Everyday Enchantment designer paper; Ink- Soft Suede, Lucky Limeade, Pool Party; Accessories- Stars #2 die, gold brad, sponge, dimensionals
Good morning everyone and Happy Valentine's Day! I woke up to a big vase of flowers, two boxes of Girl Scout Tag-a-Long cookies and an iTunes gift card! Woohoo!! I love my family!! Nothing romantic around here but that's o.k. with me. There will be some great basketball games on tonight and that suits me just fine!
Today's card was inspired from a sketch in the recent PaperCrafts magazine. I decided to turn it into a Valentine's card just for today! My card base is Pool Party. I took a strip of the designer paper from the Everyday Enchantment designer paper pack and attached a strip of Calypso Coral that had been punched with the dotted ribbon scallop punch. Then I glued it to the card. I stamped the words from Outlined Occasions in Pool Party and colored in the "love" with a Pool Party marker. Then I used my Fashionable Hearts embosslit and die cut some hearts from Pool Party, Calypso Coral, and Very Vanilla. I also die cut a heart from Very Vanilla using the Scallop Heart of Hearts. The other larger heart was punched from Calypso Coral using the Full Heart punch. I arranged them on the card popping up the largest heart and added a rhinestone. Thanks for stopping by and have a super Valentine's Day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Outlined Occasions; Paper- Pool Party, Very Vanilla, Calypso Coral, Everyday Enchantment designer paper; Ink- Pool Party; Accessories- Scallop Heart of Hearts, Fashionable Hearts embosslit, Full Heart punch, dotted ribbon scallop punch, rhinestone, dimensionals
Good morning everyone! Well, we are home once again! We got home late last night. Well, not real late but late for old people who don't like driving in the dark - lol! We would have stayed another night but a storm was forecasted to come in and we didn't want to drive in the snow. When I woke up this morning I see that it is very cloudy and wet looking. So that probably means snow in the mountains. I think we made a good choice. Nick's basketball team was able to win their last game so that was exciting for them! And all the games were very exciting and close! Not bad for a team that has only been together for two months!
Today's card was inspired by an older card that my friend Becky did in her card class. It is super simple!! I took a piece of Basic Grey and ran it through the Big Shot with the edgelits die to make the scallops. Then I glued a piece of the Twitterpated designer paper to that. I tied a piece of Whisper White taffeta ribbon to cover the seams. I added three white brads just above the ribbon and glued this to the front of a Whisper White card base. At the bottom of the card I stamped the greeting from Outlined Occasions in Basic Grey and colored the hearts with a Riding Hood Red marker. Then I used the heart to heart punch to punch the three hearts from Riding Hood Red card stock. I glue dotted the smallest one down and the other two are popped up. Done! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Outlined Occasions; Paper- Whisper White, Basic Grey, Riding Hood Red, Twitterpated designer paper; Ink- Basic Grey, Riding Hood Red; Accessories- Whisper White taffeta ribbon, neutral brads, heart to heart punch, edgelits dies, dimensionals
Hello All! Another week seems to be flying by! It's Thursday already and time for another fabulous challenge from the Create with Connie and Mary team! This week we have a sketch challenge! Take a look!
What a very fun sketch!! And simple, too! Love that! Here is what I came up with!
I truly do not have many Valentine sets but this little greeting from the Outlined Occasions set is just too cute! The greeting here is actually two separate stamps! These will be stamps that you can choose for FREE from the upcoming Sale-A-Bration brochure! That will start on January 24th! Back to the card... So I took a piece of Whisper White and stamped the two greetings from Outlined Occasions. I colored it in with Blushing Bride and Riding Hood Red markers. Then I glued down a thin strip of Basic Grey. I added six hearts from Riding Hood Red that were punched with the Heart to Heart punch. I glued this panel to a piece of Riding Hood Red that was scalloped with the scallop edge border punch. This panel is popped up onto the a card base of Blushing Bride. The last thing I did was to punch a heart from Blushing Bride card stock with the Heart to Heart punch and pop it up onto the card with a rhinestone! Really easy!!
Be sure to visit the Create with Connie and Mary website to get more inspiration from the other designers! While you are there, why don't you sign up for the Create Occasions Edition? You will not be sorry!! I hope that you will find some time to play along with us this week! We love to see what you come up with! Thanks for stopping by and have a super day!
Card Recipe: Stamps- Outlined Occasions; Paper- Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey, Whisper White; Ink- Blushing Bride, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey; Accessories- Heart to Heart punch, scallop edge border punch, rhinestone, dimensionals
