Two Sketchy Cards!

Hi, crafty friends! Just popping in today to share two cards I made for challenges at My Favorite Things and the Deconstructed Sketch!

I finished both cards over the weekend, and took pictures of them this evening. My first card is for the Wednesday Stamp Club on My Favorite Things’ Splitcoast forum.

I used MFT’s “Miss You a Latte,” from the a la modes collection:

Supplies: paper – Basic Grey PB&J, Copic markers, Spellbinders circle die, Brilliance Graphite Black ink.
Here’s the sketch that inspired my card:
To check out the other entries, enter the keyword “MFTWSC92” at the Splitcoast Stampers gallery. For all the details, visit MFT’s Splitcoast forum!
My second card is inspired by Deconstructed Sketch #72, and features “Broomstick Lucy” by Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps:
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Supplies: sentiment – Impress Rubber Stamps, image – “Broomstick Lucy” – Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps, paper –  American Crafts “Pumpkin Patch”, Copic markers, Stickles, silver gel pen, star punch, mini brads, Brilliance Graphite Black ink.
I made a few changes to customize the sketch based on the image I had selected. Instead of the two large circles, I added a smaller star accent and moved the sentiment to the right.

Here’s the original sketch that inspired my card:

You can find all the details on this challenge at deconstructing jen!
Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs,
Supplies used:

Am I Odd Enough?

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I’m pinching my nose, closing my eyes, and diving in to apply to the Guest Designer call at Some Odd Girl!

Hmmm….why would I be a great Guest Designer? Not only am I super cool and slightly quirky, I love to share all the fun cards I make with Some Odd Girl stamps and digis! I discovered Some Odd Girl’s digis a while ago (in the olden days before the clear stamp releases) and fell in love!

As for my design style, it’s best described as one part “fun and cute”…with a pinch of “less is more” and a sprinkling of  “clean and simple”! Not really an easy thing to figure out, by the way!

I believe that the two stars of any of my cards are the image and the paper (which is probably why I sometimes have trouble adding details and embellishments!), but the most important thing for me when I’m creating is making sure that each card will make you smile!

So, I’d like to present you with (TA DA!) my three favorite projects featuring Some Odd Girl images (I could have picked many more)! I’ve included a link under each photo to the original blog post, where there is one:

My first fave is the card I made for my niece Caroline’s 5th birthday, featuring Tiny Baker Tia:
I love the bright colors in the paper and in the main image! So much fun and perfectly sweet!
(Click HERE for the original post.)
My second fave project wasn’t published on my blog, but was published in the June/July issue of Designed to Color magazine! 
I love this card for its crafty homespun appeal, and the stamping on twill tape…I’m also pretty fond of the nose shading I did on the main image! 😉 The images and sentiment are from the “In Stitches Tia” clear stamp set:
My third fave card features “Foxy”…a cute clean & simple card (I drew and fussy cut his bow tie). I am totally in love with all the SOG critters!
Click HERE for the original post.
So there you have it…three of my favorite creations with Some Odd Girl stamps! 
Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope my creations made you smile!

Christmas Card Challenges #45

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Happy Sunday, crafty friends! Hope you had a wonderfully creative World Card Making Day yesterday! I spent the day crafting with one of my best friends…a perfect way to spend the day!

And, now, I present you with a new Christmas Card Challenge! This week, we’re inspired by a very non-traditional holiday color palette: yellow, orange, blue, and ivory:


Yes, I was totally stumped for this card!!! 
But, I kept my card design simple, and am happy with how it came out:


I die-cut the main panel, and layered it with foam tape over some ivory card stock. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment strip, and then mounted the panel over some dark blue cardstock.

To work in the yellow, I colored a clear rhinestone with a Copic marker and adhered it to the center of the snowflake on the ivory layer.


Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our October guest designer, Deonna!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Your Next Stamp #18: Brown, Orange and Yellow

Happy Thursday, crafty friends! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp! This week, we’re inspired by the colors of brown, orange and yellow!

Yesterday was my birthday, and I had a wonderful time celebrating the day with my husband! Although I had a brief doctor’s appointment in the morning, we went to lunch afterward and I got to do a bit of crafty shopping..all in all, a fun, relaxing day!

And now, here’s my card, which uses YNS’s super-sweet “Ellie Loves Sunflowers” set, perfect to pair with  fall colors:

Our new challenge guidelines make it even easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc18)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get:
  • a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Annie Rose, at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

A few challenge cards!

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Hi, crafty friends! Just stopping by to share a few sketch challenge cards I’ve made!
My first card uses the sketch from last week’s challenge on The Greeting Farm’s Splitcoast forum:
Supplies: main image stamp [Yoga Anya – The Greeting Farm (retired)], sentiment and flower stamps [Me Time Anya set – The Greeting Farm (retired)], paper (My Mind’s Eye – The Sweetest Thing “Tangerine” mini pad), glitter brads, foam tape, Copic markers, seam binding ribbon, Martha Stewart border punch.
My second card is for Deconstructed Sketch #71:

Supplies: image and sentiment stamp (Your Next Stamp – “Apple Cutie”), glitter stripe and brown patterned paper (SEI – “Mirelle” 6×6 pad),  wood button (Basic Grey), twine (Trendy Twine), orange grid paper (American Crafts – “Pumpkin Patch), kraft card stock.

My third card is for the current Wednesday Stamp Club sketch at My Favorite Things’ Splitcoast forum:

Supplies: stamps (My Favorite Things – “Snow Adorable”),  patterned paper (Basic Grey Jovial), twine (Whisker Graphics), Copic markers, kraft card stock, Fiskars decorative scissors, Brilliance Graphite Black ink.

Don’t forget, you still have time to play along with a few challenges: a new Christmas Card Challenge (chipboard inspired), the “Confessions of a Shopaholic” challenge at Drunken Stampers (use images of a purse or shoes on your card), and we’ll have a brand new month of challenges at Your Next Stamp starting Thursday…until then, there’s still time to play along with our current sketch challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Christmas Card Challenges #44 – Chipboard!

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Happy Sunday! It’s time for a new Christmas Card Challenge! This week, we’re inspired by chipboard!


For my card, I chose a chipboard snowflake and button to accent “Ice Skating Chloe” by Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps! I added Stickles to the snowflake to make it sparkle!
Other supplies: patterned paper (Basic Grey Jovial), Twine (Trendy Twine), die (Spellbinders Labels 28), Copic markers, opaque white marker, ribbon (Pebbles), Liquid Applique.

Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our guest designer, Natali!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!

Drunken Stampers #99

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Happy Saturday, crafty friends! It’s my team’s week to post at Drunken Stampers, and this week, we’re inspired by:


On an unrelated note, my husband & I are celebrating our 6th anniversary today! We went out last night and had a wonderful, relaxing gourmet steak dinner! It’s amazing how time flies by!

On to my card…I used super-cute “Shopping Emily” from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps:


Don’t forget, to celebrate the re-launch and re-design of the Drunken Stampers blog, we’re giving away some crafty goodies from “Spike’s Trunk”!

To be eligible for the prize, you must:
  • play in all the challenges for September (#95, 96, 97, 98, 99)
  • your card must be new, no back-links
  • your card can only be combined with a sketch challenge (which is not necessary) but no others
  • enter your card in the Linky Tools link on the Drunken Stampers blog for the appropriate week (all challenges are open for one week)
  • send us an email when you’ve completed all the challenges


To play along with us, all you need to do is link your project on the Drunken Stampers blog using the Linky Tool, and add your blog link, gallery link, etc. (for more info on how to participate please click How do I participate? tab) 

Please add the link directly to your project (any generic blog links will be deleted from the list) and leave us a comment! (if Linky Tools isn’t working or just misbehavin’, just leave a comment with the link to your card) You have until  Friday, October 5 at 11:59 PST to post your link for this challenge!

You can check out what the other members of Team Mojito (and maybe some members of Team Flirtini) have created for this challenge by visiting the Drunken Stampers blog!
Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Hugs,

Your Next Stamp #17: Sketch Challenge

Happy Thursday! It’s time for a new challenge at Your Next Stamp! This week, we’re inspiring you with this fun sketch designed by our very own Peggy Toole:

Here’s my card, featuring YNS’s “Baseball Boy“, which is on sale this week in the YNS Store for 40% off:

Other supplies: paper (Echo Park), Copic markers, brads.


Our new challenge guidelines make it even easier for everyone to play along and to have the chance to be our next YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!

Here’s the scoop:
  • Every Thursday we post a new YNS Challenge 
  • You have the entire month to play along
  • Link your challenge entry to the YNS Blog post and/or to the SCS challenge thread 
  • If you would like to post your challenge card in the SCS gallery please use the code provided for that challenge (for this challenge, the code words are yns, ynsc, yournextstamp and ynsc17)
  • You don’t have to use YNS Stamps, but if you have some of our stamps we’d LOVE to see you ink them up!
  • Every month we will pick a lucky participant to be our special YNS Rockin’ Guest Designer!!!
Our Rockin’ YNS Guest Designers get:
  • a NEW RELEASE YNS Stamp package! (You get the new goodies before anyone else!)
  • to join us for our new release blog hop and sneak peeks
  • the entire month of challenges in advance to play along with the YNS Challenge Team
  • a rockin’ blinkie for your blog!
For added inspiration, check out what the other members of the team created for this challenge: Julie, Kelli, and Wendy! (Or you can see all of their creations, including the creations from our ROCKIN’ Guest Designer Tonya at the YNS blog)!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create for this week’s challenge!

YEE-HAW! It’s a western challenge at SCRS!

Well howdy, my crafty friends! I’m moseying in today with two cards for the western-themed challenge at Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps!

I completed Intermediate Copic certification this weekend in Vancouver, BC with my friends Thanh and Naomi, and have been practicing some of the lighting techniques that I learned.

Both cards feature SCRS’s “Cowgirl Chloe“! The first card was colored before I went to the certification class:

and the second was colored after the class:

The main difference in the way that I colored the second image was that I used a lighting placement guide to figure out the highlights and shadows. I also used a different color combination for the skin on the second image (E11 + E21) versus the color combo I used on the first (E00 + E02).
Thanks so much for stopping by!

Christmas Card Challenges: Photo Inspiration

Happy Sunday, crafty friends! Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend! I’m finishing up a fun weekend with some of my friends. It’s so funny how you wait and wait for something you’re looking forward to, and then it’s over before you know it!

This week’s Christmas Card Challenge is inspired by this photo:



Here’s my card:



I decided to keep the overall design fairly simple. I stamped an ornament image from Gourmet Rubber Stamps three times in different spots and then used a ruler and a Copic multiliner to extend the “string” to the top of the card stock.

After coloring the ornaments, I added a layer of Stickles. When that dried, I followed up with a layer of Glossy Accents.

Although all of our challenges are optional…the only “real” rule is that you must create a new Christmas, Holiday or Hannukah card, then link it up on the CCC blog so we can stop by and leave you some lovely comments!

We also don’t require that you use Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps on your cards, but if you have them, we’d love to see you ink them up when you play along!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the CCC team to take a peek at the beautiful cards they’ve created this week: Alanna, Brigitte, Candace, Corinne, Dee, Katie, Leesa, Margo, Michele, Pat, and Stephanie…and our guest designer, Natali!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you have a fabulous week and don’t forget to link your entry on the Christmas Card Challenges blog! See you there!