Happy New Year

I spent Jan 1&2 making a few new cards. Need to get a few completed before I go back to work on the 5th. Oh my break is almost over. 

The first card was from SFF010215 and PPA234. SFF was a sketch challenge posted 1/2/15 and 

PPA was a color challenge posted 1/1/15.  I am a little disappointed in the way the colors turned out on my card. The "Best Wishes" is stamped in Wisteria Wonder but it looks gray. I layers the 3 colors of ribbon to accent and add some pop.

Stamp: Best Year Ever

Ink: Wisteria Wonder

Paper: Night of Navy, Wisteria Wonder, Whisper White & Shimmery Silver, scrap of Flirtatious DSP

Accessories: Night of Navy seam binding ribbon, Wisteria Wonder ruffled ribbon and Silver ribbon, a fishers border punch, 1 3/4 x 7/8 oval and scalloped oval punch, dimensionals, Wisteria Wonder marker

This above cards is a sketch from OWH245. I absolutely love their sketches and an going to try to make another box of cards for them again in 2015. Hopefully they will get in the mail in the next 4-5 months.

Stamp: Crazy About You (new for sale on 1/5/15)

Ink : Calypso Coral

Paper: Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana, Whisper White & Best Year Ever DSP (new 2015)

Accessories: Calypso Coral Ruffled Ribbon, Tag Maker Punch, New Flower Medallion Punch, 

Decorative Dots embossing folder, dimensionals

This last card is also from OWH244. Another wonderful sketch. Always need cards for the SCS BRAK.

Stamp: Butterfly Basics (also new 2015)

Ink; Basic Brown, Calypso Coral, Coastal Cabana

Paper: Calypso Coral, Crushed Curry, Soft Suede, Whisper White & Best Year Ever DSP (new 2015)

Accessories: Crushed Curry Polka Dotted Ribbon, Blender Pens, Small Butterfly Punch, 

dimensionals, tiny Pearls, Sponge Daubers

Thank you so much for leaving comments, they are very much appreciated. Also sorry I am not on my blog as much as I would love to be. I am going to try to post more in 2015, each year I get to do more.

Freshly Made Sketches #145

My last card for a few days is for FMS145. I wanted to use the Blackberry Bliss & Mossy Meadow together and this sketch worked perfectly for that combination. Thanks Clean Team for a great card.

Stamps: From My Heart

Paper: Blackberry Bliss, Mossy Meadow, Whisper White, In Color 2014-2016 DSP

Ink: Blackberry Bliss

Accessories: Stitched Satin Ribbon In Color 2014-2016, Big Shot, Labels Framelit Dies, Dimensionals

Thanks for taking time to look and leave a comment, they are very much appreciated.

Three Challenges Card

Last evening after having a tooth pulled yesterday I finally got in the mood to create. I was doing some looking at different sites and blogs and came up with this card. It fulfills three challenges on one card. The first  is for WT487 on SCS to use lots of textures. Then it fits the HSS189 Color challenge and thirdly, the CCMC311 Sketch. I loved all three challenges and came up with a card I will need in the future for a fall themed swap.

Stamp: Gently Falling (2-step stamping) and Hey There Buds

Ink; Crisp Cantaloupe, Tangelo Twist, Hello Honey, So Saffron

Paper: Colors to be used Hello Honey, Lost Lagoon, Tangelo Twist, Whisper White

Accessories. Big Shot, Embossing Folder, Pearls, Satin Ribbon, Butterfly Punch

My many textures are the Lost Lagoon layer is embossed and hard to see, Another texture is the hand cut leaves and curled on the edges, added a ribbon bow and pearls to the butterfly.

Thanks for looking, I hope I have inspired you. Any and all comments are greatly appreciated.

More cards for swaps

This evening I made a couple more cards for some of my personal swaps. The top is for a Sketch challenge SC451 and the bottom one is for Freshly Made Sketches #144. I am not sure if I will be playing much tomorrow as I have to have a tooth prepped for a crown and also my last wisdom tooth pulled - finally. 

Stamps: Hey there Buds

Ink: Markers in Always Artichoke and Rose Red. AA to die the ribbon also.

Paper: Always Artichoke, Rose Red and Very Vanilla. Springtime Vintage DSP

Stamps: Amazing Birthday

Ink: Pacific Point & Soft Sky

Paper: Pacific Point, Whisper White & High Tide DSP

Accessories: Argyle EF, Big Shot, 1/2' & 3/4" Circle punches

I appreciate any and all comments. Thanks for sharing and looking.

My idea of camping

We went camping last week in Montana and I spent a lot of time making cards. Only took a few sheets of cardstock - Basic Gray, Whisper White, Lost Lagoon, Blackberry Bliss, Hello Honey and Sahara Sand; 3 stamp sets - Sea Street, Post Collection and Pretty Postage, one punch, and the new paper stack Moonlight.  Also took my big shot and embossing folders to use on the quilted designs - they make a big difference with the added texture. Made 4 each of the first three and tenth designs, then 2 of each of the other 8 quilted cards = total of 28 cards in 3 days . Add the embellishments to the quilted cards yesterday after I was at home. Off to OWH.

Thank you so much for looking and taking time to leave a comment or two. I appreciated it very much and I may even visit your blog and leave you a little something to smile about.

Wetlands Birthday

Whipped this card up really quickly before I left for work this morning. I love the Wetlands stamp set and needed a masculine birthday card. Really like the way the background paper turned out. I inked one side of the embossing folder and then inserted very vanilla paper and ran it through the Big Shot. Wanted a card that was simple and quick yet elegant, therefore, I used the Try Stamping on Tuesday sketch for the week.

Stamp: Wetlands

Paper: Baked Brown Sugar, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke

Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Early Espresso

Accessories: Soft Suede Polka Dotted Ribbon, Starburst Framelit Dies,  Wood Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Circles Diecuts, Small oval punch, Dimensional.

Thanks for looking and leaving any comments. They are much appreciated.

So far Behind

I will post more details when I get home from church. I am so far behind and this is a card for a swap and also The Paper Players Challenge #201. Been a long time since I really had time to play and make cards.

Stamps: Baby We've Grown

Paper: Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango, Whisper White and 

Watercolor Wonder DSP

Ink: Island Indigo

Accessories: 2" scallop Circle, 1 3/4 " circle punches. Dimensionals

The above card is a case from Stamping Rox my Fuzzy Blue Sox that I found on Pinterest. I wanted to use this paper from Sweet Sorbet DSP and the colors for a swap challenge that were Crisp Pistachio Crumbs. I also made a few extra to add to my Operation Write Home box that I hope to be able to mail by the 1st of Jult.

Stamp: See Ya Later

Paper: Crumbs Cake, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding, Whisper White

and Sweet Sorbet (Sale-A-Bration) DSP

Accessories: Apothecary Framelit Dies, Small Pearls, Arrow Embossing Folder, 

and the Big Shot

Another case from Pinterest thanks toKathleen Stamps. I am  loving the ideas for all of the Sweet Sorbet DSP. Sorry about the crooked ribbon but I fixed it on the card. Might get caught up yet.

Stamp: You Are Loved

Paper: Pool Party, Basic Black, Sweet Sorbet DSP, Whisper White.

Ink: Markers in Crisp Cantaloupe and Pistachio Pudding, Basic Black

Accessories: Label Punch, Ruffled Cantaloupe ribbon, scallop embossing folder

Big Shot and dimensionals.

Thanks for looking at my blog and leaving comments. They are very much appreciated.

More Operation Write Home cards

Today I made 4 of each of these cards using the Sketch Frenzy Friday Sketch #SFF013114 and made 4 portrait and 4 landscape. It is just like taking pictures I get hung up in forgetting to turn the camera. I received a card today made with these colors, one of the stamps and paper about 4 hours after I had picked out and started to cut my papers for the sketch. Her sketch was really close to this one. Thanks Roberta.

Paper: Crumb Cake, Coastal Cabana, Real Red and Whisper White. DSP is the Fresh Print from the Celebrate the Everyday catalog. Really loving these colors together and this paper is cute, cute.

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Real Red

Stamps: Love You to the Moon , Really Good Greetings

Accessories: Arrows and Scallops Embossing Folders. Big Shot ,

 Stampin' Dimensionals, Petite Petals Punch and Word Window Punch

Thanks for all of your comments, they are greatly appreciated by this Stampin' Up demonstrator.

MOJO 330 Thinking of You

MOJO 330 Thinking of You is another 4 cards for Operation Write Home. My box will soon be full and ready to send. I am trying to make more  masculine cards and loved the sketch at MOJO and the sweater weather paper seems to fit quite nicely.  I decided to ink the edge to make the piece standout more here.

Paper: Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Sahara Sand, and

DSP Sweater Weather

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Stamps: Countryside, Peaceful Petals (Occasions)

Accessories: Corner Rounds, Big Shot, Circles Collection Framelit Dies, 

Stampin' Dimensionals and Sponge Daubers

Thanks for all of your comments, they are greatly appreciated by this Stampin' Up demonstrator.

Flower Power

I spent a lot of today going through sketches and color challenges to decide what I wanted to do for some Operation Write Home cards and some swap cards. Finally decided on the CCMC287, really liked the layout and found some perfect papers to complete project. These two cards use most of the same products.

Stamps: Petite Petals (new Occasions), Flower Shop, Express Yourself

Paper: Crumb Cake, Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red, Blushing Bride, Springtime Vintage DSP

Ink: Always Artichoke, Rose Red

Accessories: 5 petal flower punch, petite petal flower punch, BS Ovals framelits dies, build a bird punch, dimensionals, candy dots

Thanks for any and all comments, they are really appreciated.