Unscripted Sketches #76

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Welcome back for another weekly challenge at Unscripted Sketches! This is Arielle’s third sketch, and I found it very fun and versatile to work with!

for my card, I used papers by KaiserCraft and some of my favorite aMuse stamps:

I used Stampin’ Up’s Soft Suede, Real Red and Basic Black to stamp the images and sentiment. The three black gems are by Queen & Co.
Thanks for stopping by! I can’t wait to see what you’ll create with this week’s Unscripted Sketch!
Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Alanna, Angy, April, Arielle, Becky, CherylAnn, Debbie, Gardenia, Jenny, Lelia, Linda, Marcy, Sarah Kaye and Stephanie!

Next week, we’re doing a blog hop for Breast Cancer Awareness Month…Don’t forget to stop by and see all the perfectly pink creations the Unscripted team has created and get ready to get HOPPING!

Stampin’ Celebration #23

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This week’s Stampin’ Celebration challenge is all for fall…lots of autumnal inspiration in this week’s set of challenge photos:

Here’s my take:
I had a lot of fun with this challenge! I used some Lawn Fawn stamps for the images and the sentiment. The paper is from Basic Grey’s Pyrus collection…it’s so perfect for fall cards! I colored the images with gel pens, and stamped everything in SU Soft Suede ink. I used a permanent marker to recolor a metallic brad for the flower’s center.
Thanks for stopping by to look at my card!
The Stampin’ Celebration team has lots of inspiring projects to show you! Check them out!

Get Sketchy #58

After looking at this week’s Get Sketchy challenge, I thought it would be a great inspiration for a Christmas card!
This is what I came up with:
Supplies: Paper (Basic Grey – Jovial, Crate Paper – Snow Day), Leaf Punch (Martha Stewart), Stamp & Ink (Stampin’ Up! – Real Red and Occasional Quotes), Other: Ribbon, adhesive gems, glitter gel pens.
Instead of making a square card, I adapted the sketch for an A2 size card and extended the strips in the sketch to the edges.
To make the wreath, I punched out lots of leaves in a few shades of green. Then I drew a circle on the card where the wreath would be placed, and layered my leaf punches around the circle. I glued rhinestones around the wreath and finished the card with a bow and a sentiment made to look like a tag.
Thanks for stopping by to look at my card!
There’s lots more inspiration over at Get Sketchy! Check it out!

colourQ #53

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I’ve been a bad, bad cardmaker! I’ve been slacking over the last few weeks with getting my cards posted on time for the colourQ challenges!

This time, I made the deadline! These were some pretty challenging colors, too, but beautiful just the same:

Here’s my card! The only color I had to substitute for is the Pacific Point, but what I used is pretty close to the screen colors; I don’t have any Pacific Point cardstock for a true reference point.

The cardstock is all from Stampin’ Up! The sentiment stamp is by aMuse and the image stamp is by CraftSmart (these can commonly be found in the dollar section of a nationwide craft store that starts with M). I spiffed up the cardstock panels with an embossing folder, some watermark ink, and a Technique Tuesday image stamp. SU Chocolate Chip ink was used to do all of the stamping.
Thanks for stopping by to look at my card!
You can see more fantastic entries and examples for this challenge at the colourQ blog!

Caardvarks "Sensational Stickers" Challenge

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The latest Caardvarks challenge is to create a card based upon one of the Crew Caards featured in the October 5 blog entry (to see them, click HERE). The winner will receive a collection of SRM stickers! You can find the rules and all of the contest details by visiting the Caardvarks blog!

I based my entry on Michelle’s card:

For my card, I shortened the length to a standard A2 size, but kept the rest pretty similar in placement to hers!
The paper I used is from Sassafras’ Nerdy Bird collection. I used an SRM sticker for the sentiment (I LOVE these). The flower was made by stacking two felt flowers and securing them with a custom brad. I used four coordinating glitter brads and some sheer red ribbon to complete the card.
Thanks for looking!

Unscripted Sketches #75

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Welcome back for this week’s Unscripted Sketch! Glad you could stop by! And…Happy World Card Making Day!

Some background about this holiday:

World Card Making Day began in 2006 as National Card Making Day. Founded by Paper Crafts magazine to bring card makers together at the beginning of the busiest card-making season of the year, it was first held on October 7, 2006. The initial celebration involved the Paper Crafts magazine audience only; however, due to the positive response it received and the worldwide popularity of card making, the holiday became known as World Card Making Day from then on.



Celebrating its fifth year in 2010, World Card Making Day is celebrated annually on the first Saturday in October. It’s a day for the card-making community — hobbyists, retailers, and manufacturers — to unite and celebrate the connection and creativity that is the heart of card making.

What better way to celebrate World Card Making Day than with another fun sketch challenge at Unscripted Sketches? So…let’s check out this week’s sketch!

I used the sketch to make a birthday card (because October 3 is my birthday!) with some cute papers from Sassafrass’s Indie Girl collection!
I colored the cake image, which is from Savvy Stamps, with colored pencils and some gel pens, and added stitching detail around the image with a micro-tip felt pen. I die-cut the scalloped circle and accented it with a gel pen.
The ribbon and border strip design are also from Sassafras. The sentiment stamp is by Stampin’ Up! SU Night of Navy and Chocolate Chip were used to stamp the image and sentiment.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you’ll have fun playing along with us this week at Unscripted Sketches and I wish you a creative and fun World Card Making Day!
We’ve got a special Breast Cancer Awareness Month blog hop scheduled for October 16…The Unscripted Team has been working on some pretty in pink creations for the occasion! Mark your calendar to join us!

Don’t forget to visit the rest of the Unscripted Sketches Design Team: Alanna, Angy, April, Arielle, Becky, CherylAnn, Debbie, Gardenia, Jenny, Lelia, Linda, Marcy, Sarah Kaye and Stephanie!

SCIC #22

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I’m making a slight disclaimer on my card for this week’s Stampin Celebration challenge…I love the theme for the challenge, but circumstances beyond my control hampered my creative mojo a little bit on this one…

Before I made my card, I was out on the deck taking pictures of myself for a special blog post. I was holding the camera up above my head, and between clicks I felt a hard pin prick under my arm…I got stung by a wasp! Luckily, it doesn’t seem like I’m allergic, but it hurt like crazy! Today, it’s very itchy…it’s just in a bad spot.
So, when it came time to make my card, I used the bee-like colors, a flower stamp, and even found a cute little bee to put on the card…it seems that this one was a challenge of another kind for me! OUCH!
The flower and sentiment stamps are by Stampin’ Up! The diabolically cute bee was cut from some Imaginisce patterned paper. I embossed some Bo Bunny Double Dot for the card background and a scrap of paper by Three Bugs in a Rug for the dotted strip that goes across the embossed section.
The buttons are tied with baker’s twine.
Thanks for stopping by to check out my card!
The Stampin’ Celebration Design Team has some bee-utiful examples for this challenge! Check them out here!

CPS #186

Fall is my favorite season…I love the changing of the leaves, the cool weather and the sights and tastes of the season (pumpkin spice latte, anybody?), so I was in a fall state of mind when I came up with the theme of my card for Card Positioning Systems challenge #186!

Here’s the sketch:

and here’s my card!
I didn’t follow the sketch literally, but I did take inspiration from the positioning of the three octagons.
I stamped the three apples with an Imaginisce clear stamp, then used the apples as templates to draw the caramel. I used scrap strips of cardstock for the sticks and used a corner rounder on the top of each one. The background is a scrap of Pink Paislee paper. The sentiment stamp is by Memory Box.
Thanks for looking at my card!
There are lots of great design team examples and other entries at the CPS blog!

Operation Write Home & SRM Stickers Challenge

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SRM Stickers has teamed up with Operation Write Home to celebrate OWH’s birthday this month, and SRM is sponsoring a card sketch challenge as part of the celebration!
 

About Operation Write Home:

Operation Write Home began in 2007 with just a few cards made by friends on a message board; what began as an outlet for a hobby has become a much larger mission to help heroes keep in touch with home – and the effort has been joined by thousands of cardmakers!

OWH receives handmade cards donated by crafters across America (and beyond!). Cardmakers range in age, location, and level of skill; cards are provided by individuals and groups, schools and scouts, companies and churches. All have one primary thing in common: a desire to serve those who defend our nation!

Cards are mailed to one of our volunteer shippers in quanities both small and large. The shippers process, sort, repair, and document each donation, and then pack and ship boxes of over 300 cards each to our contacts. Our heroes request cards (families may also request on their behalf; we serve all branches in all deployed locations.

Here’s the contest sketch:

For my card, I embossed some Stampin’ Up cardstock for the background, added some patterned paper and Double Dot from Bo Bunny, and paper pieced the stamped image from Imaginisce.

The sentiment is from SRM Stickers, of course!
This contest runs on the SRM blog until September 30th at midnight (Pacific Time). All cards made for the contest must follow OWH’s guidelines, found here.
For more information, or to check out the SRM design team’s samples or the other entries, visit the SRM blog!
Thanks for stopping by!

Get Sketchy #57

For this week’s Get Sketchy challenge, I was finally able to use a cute bubblegum machine stamp by aMuse that I bought a while back…it seemed to fit right in with this week’s challenge sketch:

I flipped the sketch and used lots of Bo Bunny’s Sun Kissed collection on this card…the polka dots and bright colors seemed to fit!
The sentiment stamp is by Memory Box. I colored the image with glaze dimensional pens (even the gumballs). I left a few gumballs white to match the colors in the paper, and used a clear glaze pen to accent a few dots in the top layer of patterned paper (which probably doesn’t show up well in the photo).
Thanks for stopping by to look at my card! You can see more entries for this week’s challenge, as well as the design team’s creations at Get Sketchy!