SNS Card Sketch #170

More Pure Innocence for you today. I simply adore this little gals. This one is acutally not one that I own. It is from a pre-stamped bin that I had, and I have been trying to use up the images. I have had some of them for decades! I love that when I grab a sketch I can just make any image and any set of paper work with it. Literally endless possibilities here.

So do you know any gardeners? Have they planted their gardens yet? We have a flower garden at our new house but I have hung up my gardener gloves on the veggies. I love to plant them and watch them grow until the weeks come. Then I look up a lot or over...anywhere except those darn weeds!

I always like to decorate the insides of my cards as well here is a peek at that.

Here is the sketch that I used Sketch N Scrap #170

SNS Card Sketch #169

Today we have a fun card for you over at Sketch N Scrap!

Did you scrap your heart out over the weekend? I sure did. I was on crafty overload and might have even had a craft hangover on Monday. That is what I love about cards. They don't take as much time for me as a scrapbook page since I don't have to coordinate photos and journal and all that fun stuff.

Here is what I came up with today...though now that I am thinking about it I should have done something with a taco as I have a fun stamp with a taco...ok later my friends later. Until now you have ice-cream using one of my Pure Innocence girls.

Enjoy

Please join us all month long over at Sketch N Scrap we have a big birthday happening and all sorts of fun stuff. Hope to see you there :)

SNS Card Sketch #167

I have been organizing my studio since we moved into our new home in November. I have come so far but then I had to dig around and now it is a mess again. That tells me that I still have a lot of work to do as if it were more organized I wouldn’t need to dig for stuff I would know right where things are at.

I do know where my stamps are at as well as my coloring tools! I love coloring, I decided to pull out my prisma colored pencils and gamasol for this card. I pulled out one of my PI Girls. I love the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things they are just so sweet.

Isn’t this paper so adorable adorable? It is from Shimelle’s Never Grow Up lime from the March “Flavor of the Month” Kit. I was also able to pull out some ribbon from Stampin’ Up! That I have had forever and ever as well as some Nuevo Drops....should I tell you I used those because I searched and searched for my little gems and couldn’t find them anywhere? I did end up finding them. 

Next up is the inside of my card. I always try to coordinate the inside and often end up just adding some banners.

Here is the sketch I used from Sketch N Scrap

SNS Card Sketch #148 - Hello

Hello I hope you had a lovely spring ours was WET tomorrow is the first day of summer. Do you have any fun plans? We are planning on a lot of camping adventures this year.

Today I thought I would share this little card with you - I won this cute little 6" x 8" paper pad somewhere and completely for got I had it until a few days ago. As I was flipping through it I noticed how pretty the papers where and have been wanting to make a card with it ever since.

I added a few dies and some gems and ended up with a sweet quick card with zero stamping.

I always like to add some coordinating papers inside the card.

 I colored the hello with my copics and rolled that little flower with an old MFT die that I got many moons ago at a craft show.

We would love to see what you come up with using this adorable sketch from Sketch N Scrap, Card Sketch #148

Here is that paper pad I was talking about up above. 

Adventure is Calling SNS Card #129

Howdy y'all I hope you are having a great summer...it is still summer even thought is it September and everyone is ready for some good ole' fashion fall fun. A bit of news, I have changed over from the Sketch N Scrap social media design team to the blog design team. You will still see me at the crops and I hope you can still join us each month for the fun at both spots.

This summer has been a ton of fun and I have had a long list of activities on my calendar from camping in real life and virtually with the Reset Girl. I joined Camp Reset and it has been all about self care. It has been a blast, but I have fallen a little behind since I have has such a full calendar. One of the things I have been able to do though is complete my Postcard swap. I have always loved postcards and used to collect them as a child, so when this swap came up at camp I new I wanted to participate.

I love today's sketch it is so versatile I decided to turn and shrink it. Here is my postcard using card sketch #129

I used a sweet little set from My Favorite Things, Virtual cut-outs from Camp Reset, and several of my cardstock scraps. I also used my stitched circle thin cuts from Close to my Heart and colored in the girl with my Copics. 

We would love to see what you create over at Sketch N Scrap.

A whole lot of love

Hello back again with our July 5th Sketch I hope you love this sketch as much as I do.

Here is a little story about this sketch I really thought it was cute and so as I was working ahead on some projects (as a perk to being on the design team I see and sketches early) I really thought this was a super cute one and so I decided I would work on a card for my hubby for our first anniversary which was June 2. Now the funny thing is that the sketch date is July 5th which is the anniversary of our very first date 5 years ago...I guess it was just meant to be used for love.

Anyway I hope you are inspired by the sketch it has a lot of potential. I used up some paper I had from Simple Stores and stamps from My Favorite Things. I did some faux stitching, I had forgotten how much I adore that look. It really made the card come together. I also got to use some of my new prisma color pencils that I have been talking about over on my Facebook page.

One of my favorite things to do is color and I have been have a great time coloring images for cards. I thought this little raccoon was pretty cute next to the tree. I also used up the rest of these little black dots that I had laying around for a while.

I wrote int he card before I took a photo because I was just so happy with how it turned out so pardon the odd angle but I had to hide all the mushy love stuff ;).

Stop by our blog to link up with today's sketch and for a chance to win a prize through the end of June.

Let see what you come up with: Sketch #125

Just because

I like to have a could of Just Because cards on hand well because you just never know when you are going to need one.

Plus I wanted to play with my Prisma's and I have not used this fun little gnome set that I got from MFT a while back.

I feel like I am a little rusty on the coloring front but practice practice practice...guess I will be sharing more cuteness soon. :)

Colorful Card stash

I think one of the things I want to do each month is find one thing to bash in my stash. I have been eyeballing this sticker sheet from Echo Park for years! Years I tell you it is cute but I cannot even remember when I got it. Anyway I have already made one project with it that you will see next month, so those stickers are already missing but here is what it looks like now. Wish me luck in using it up.

Isn't it a fun little sheet? 

Here is my first project to share with you. A fun little card using my favorite little PI girls from MFT they are just adorable! I decided to go with this colorful one since the sticker sheet is so bold and bright.

Do you have anything in your stash that you are hoping to use up? Why not pick out one thing for the month of May and see what you can come up with project wise.

Happy Birthday to you

This is one of my go to sketches that I have used in the past. It is just so simple, so sweet and so fast work with. I have a goal this year to send out birthday cards to my friends and family. I need around 60 cards and I figured why not make one using this cute sketch. Hope you like it.

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 4th sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

Here is Sketch #90

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Miss You

I hope you have been able to join in our fun over on Facebook for the Queen of Hearts Crop... this is 2nd sketch challenge I hope you can play along.

I made this sweet little card as I was trying to use up some papers I had left over from a kit featuring this line of October Afternoon papers. What do you do with your left over papers? I make pages first, then cards or other projects and then finally I cut my stuff down to 4 x 6 or 3 x 4 pieces. If I really love it sometimes I cut some down to 2 x 3 but not to often.

Anyway we are here to talk about this sweet little card. I loved working with this sketch it is so versatile and perfect for valentines day. I went another direction and made a card that I will probably eventually send off to my MIL or one of the kids that live out of town.

I had a lot of fun making this card with old product. I also dug out my big shot and used some older dies that I have not touched in a good long time. I also got to color which is my favorite. I don't think you can see but I added Wink of Stella to her flower band and her shoes.

I would love to see what you come up with for this fun sketch!

Here is Sketch #19:

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A little Mummy Love

So you may or may not know this about me but I have a little soft spot for the Pure Innocence line over at My Favorite Things. I just cannot get enough of those little girls. They are just so stinking cute and when I saw this Mummy last year on sale I had to grab them. 

This card came together pretty fast I used my Copics who have been feeling a little neglected and I also used some crochet ribbon that I have had forever and a day. I again used my Frankie and Friends line of paper. 

I popped up the mummy and added some dots.

I used the pattern paper again. I love the look with that chevron. One of my favorite things to do inside of the cards is to pull in some banners from the paper that I designed with on the front.

 Here are all the cards that I shared over these last few weeks. I plan on sending them to my step-daughter and grandkids for Halloween. Hopefully they enjoy getting the happy mail.

Here is my sketch from the online crop over at Sketch N Scrap

Are you still here wondering what my good news is? Well I am the Guest Designer this month over at Sketch N Scrap!!! I used to be a team member over there when the site first opened but family obligations and life stuff was getting in the way of my crafty time so I had to step away. I am so looking forward to joining in on the fun this month.

Cards cards and more cards

Hello friends I hope you have been good. I have been having a blast this summer graduations, family reunions, traveling, camping...ELOPING.

It has been great. I also have Fridays of in the summer time. I have been playing with my Cricut Air 2...talk about fun! I discovered Vinyl and making shirts.

Wow my scrapbooking has suffered a little and I will show you some more of my vinyl projects soon but today I thought I would talk about cards and scraps and putting it all together.

I have been cleaning organizing my studio and ran across tons of prestamped images that I would "make into cards later"  Let me just say right now these are old! I would say they are from about 7-8 years ago. They also have already been colored. I dug through my paper scraps (yay me) I pulled out stuff I thought would match and started putting cards together.
 

Do you see all of the embellishments on this card? Yep that is because I am using them now that I have them sorted by color! I also pulled out some dies and used my big shot for the oval as well as the dots on the green paper.

 Next up some brads...and again old card stock scraps.

I have had this prestamped image the longest. I think it is from A-muse. Again more old embelishments.

This girl always made me laugh so hard. I also had some sentiments stamped with it. I had no way of using it so I just cut it apart and made up my own random little flower. I also used a die that is fringe for grass here.

 More old stuff ribbon and that bling spray.

Now I am bulding up my card stash as I get rid of my paper and embellishment stash.

Little Miss

I have always loved these adorable little ladies. They remind me of my girls. If I had my way I would have more than just two or three of them. Note to self: buy more!

I was rummaging around my things trying to use things that I love but that I neglect and that is when I saw this lady. I also had all this left over Tommy paper that I wanted to use up and so this is what I came up with-

What do you think?

Here is the inside...

Personally I love how it all came together. I hope the person that got her in the mail thought she was extra cute.

Supplies*:

Cardstock - Outdoor Denim, Honey, White Daisy
Ink - Cranberry, Black
Stamp Sets - Tommy WOTG Stamp Set, Pure Innocence Naptime by My Favorite Things*
Pattern Paper - Tommy WOTG
Other - Prisma Color Pencils, Artbooking Cricut Cartridge
*All supplies are from Close to my Heart unless otherwise noted.

Binky binky...where is my binky.

Hey everyone. Sorry this is a little late. Hopefully it won't disappoint. I was away at a Scrapbook Retreat this weekend which means I scrapbooked a lot and guess what I found there! My MOJO!!! I had so so much fun and I got tons of pages done which means I will be back to blogging on a regular basis. Yay.

Ok so Binky...Over at Scraptivations we have another great challenge. I was really not sure what I was going to do for challenge 5 which was to scrap something inanimate. Now I must say I was like huh...but I went and looked it up and saw that it was just something that doesn't move. Now most of my subjects are kids so you can see the challenge this posed for me.

Once I decided what to scrap I went around the house and collected the binky's and set up a photo shoot.

I finally had a chance to try a new technique that I have admired for a while.  Coloring with my copics on color paper. I was doing red letters with an outline alpha from PTI. I matched up the reds and did some shading.

Once I had them shaded the way I wanted I cut them out and layered them.

did a little strip journal and then moved on to paper peicing. Wow so many techniques on this page. I colored her face with my Copics and then stamped her on two sheets of pattern paper.

Here she is ready to assemble

and all together now. When my toddler saw this she said "Maidie" in her cute little voice. Funny thing is she looks just like this little PI girl.

I added some chip board and some other details.

A little more stamping under the embellishments and wala a finished page.

 

this paper is from an old Stampin' Up! kit that I had. I have been really been trying to use what I have.

Have you ever scrapped an inanimate object? Won't you join us?

Scraptivations Challenge 4 - Make your own embelishment

For this challenge we got to make our own embellishment. As a stamper this is something that I both love to do and sometimes find hard. I am getting better and better at it all the time and well really anything goes. Right now I have been making lots of flowers for my pages and my cards. I thought I would show you how to do a rolled flower today. You can do this with scissors or if you have a die you can use that. I tried it with scissors last year and it turned out pretty good, I don't have a of my flowers from last year handy but the die is a little faster for me anyway.  I got this set of dies from My Favorite Things.

Lay the die down on the paper that you select and run it through your die cut machine
 

Here is a group of soon to be flowers. I think it is fun to put them on pattern paper as you never quite end up with the same exact flower.

Once you have the cut outs you start at the outside of the flower and roll it tightly until you get to the middle. This can be a little tricky but you will get the hang of it as you do more and more flowers. The middle of the flower actually becomes the base of the flower.

As you can see it gets very tiny from the start to the finish.

Once you are done you can let it loosen up a little bit. I always add some crystal effects to the middle of the flower to hold it together. I set them aside and work on other parts of my project until it is dry.

I also like to add a little pearl or a little bling to the insides of the flowers.

Here you can see a bit of the card along with the adorable little flowers.

A bit more of the card this is a Pure Innocence stamp also from My Favorite Things. I love those little PI girls they remind me of my little girl. I also added a pearl to her shirt.

Here is the finished card. I used the paper from my February scrapbook kit from Personal Scrapper. February's kit featured paper from We R Memory Keepers Be My Valentine cardstock.

Here is another view you can see the pearl on her shirt better.

and the inside of the card. I wanted to keep it simple.

I also like to do Rosette Flowers but you have to use a strong adhesive or they will come apart. You can see an example of those flowers here. Sometimes I like to just fancy cut the pattern paper and add a little extra here and there like I did on this corn here. I also find myself combining several techniques such as the fancy cutting, watercoloring, and stamping like you can see here.

Well I hope you are able to join us the challenge 3 over at Scraptivations. Show us what kind of fun embellishments you like to make!