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

Thinking of you...

Just building up my card stash again. I like to get card ideas from Catalogs and Idea Books. I have not done that in a while but I keep running across this card from an old CTMH Occassions book and I decided to make my own version. Do you use idea books to get ideas for cards?

I also used my new color pencils on this and did some fussy cutting on the butterfly. Her wings are popped up. I stamped the flower directly on the gray woven paper and I like the way the flower ended up looking textured too.

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. :)

Summer Daze Challenge #4 - Home

Welcome back to our Summer Daze Crop I hope you are finding some time to play along.

The last card I shared on my blog was for my daughter and this one happens to be for her as well. I love that she calls me for cards. It also keeps me up to date on her friends from school that are now all grown up. The latest card she needed was for a new home, one of her friends (and hubby) just purchased their first home.

I knew when I saw this Central Park - Cardmaking stamp set and Central Park paper packet in the new Close to my Heart Occasions mini that I had to have this set. I always love little house stamps and houses that I can color are an added bonus.

I used the blue grid paper to mimic the sky and the green paper to mimic the grass. Then I stamped all the houses in black and popped up one that I colored. Their house is a light brown so I went ahead and colored this one the same. I added a few yellow sequins and walla a quick card ready to drop in the mail box.

I kept this card pretty simple and here is the inside.

Here is the sketch for Challenge #4 I hope you can play along with Sketch #26 we would love to see what you come up with.

Limitless

A long long time ago I was planning on doing the Scripture Challenges over at Triple the Scraps. I did a couple and forgot all about it. Then I cam across Bible Journaling. I made some Pinterest board but just thought about it and then I made a page this past winter. I loved it but again set it aside. Well Triple the Scraps is still doing scripture Challenges and I thought that would be a great way to combine my desire to do some Bible Journaling and play along with the Scripture Challenges. They are on challenge #4 but I am starting a the beginning with challenge #1 Limitless.

Patter has a lovely little study and then she shares her art work. It isn't always the same it is just whatever has inspired her. Here is what I came up with

 

As I read through the study and read through my Bible that I journal in and my NIV Life Application Bible I decided that I wanted to express myself using a well and just how limitless the bottom of the well is. When I looked up wishing well photos I mostly found decorative ones and a few that had a different perspective of looking up. Well I wanted to look down into a well and do you know what...I couldn't find anything with that angle out there.

 

Then I stumbled upon this album cover from Jennifer Knapp. I really enjoy her music so I was even more excited at how that was coming together. I missed the perspective a little in my version but it has been a long time since I have drawn freehand.

 

I added some words from the bible study that kept repeating in my own study into the well and repeating at the bottom as well. sort of running off and down the page.

 

 

For this challenge I just used my colored pencils, some alphabet stickers, and a cute little Illustrated Faith sticker that I recently got.

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.

Wonderful Beautiful Day

Hi everyone happy March 1st. My grandma always says in like a lion out like a lamb or in like a lamb out like a lion...so we shall see what today brings and how March makes it's exit.

I have had these photo's for a while now, well since 2011. They are special and I have been trying to find the perfect way to scrap them for a while. I am actually in August and this is from April...so see I skipped it. Until I started working on today's sketch and with the new Buzz and Bumble Workshop on the Go Kit. It was a perfect match!

I used Sunset for the base and Cocoa and then I trimmed the pattern paper. I fancy cut the embellishments from the stamp set that comes with the kit. I colored the flowers in with my very neglected Prisma Colored Pencils.



Supplies - CTMH Buzz and Bumble WOTG Kit, Brown & Tan Sparkles, Cocoa & Sunset Ink, Prisma Colored Pencils

I can't wait to see what the rest of you come up with using this sketch!!

Create~

So I have been creative again and it feels good to sit down at the end of a long day and just get lost in art supplies. With this card I am still working with the White Out paper from an old PS Kit. This paper is just fun and funky and screams create with me create with me. I have also been wanting to use these cute paint brushes on a card. These brushes are from the PTI stamp Friendship Jar Fillers. It is a great set that is very versatile and it is just fun to work with. Speaking of fun have I mentioned yet that I broke out my colored pencils that have not seen the light of day in over a year! I have been coloring with my Copics for so long I forgot my roots. LOL Anyway I used my Prisma's and some Gamasol as that is always a fun technique.

I hope you enjoy the card as much as I enjoyed making it.

 A close up of the brushes

And I always like to make the inside pretty too. 

And wala the whole card. 

The good time's is on a piece of chip board with a rub on. The rub on's that came with this White Out paper are by far the best that I have ever used. I have some scrapbook pages to share with you soon where I also used these and you can see the fun bold colors on top of the colored cardstock and it doesn't get lost at all. The rub ons also come off the sheet so easy even though they are a few years old as I am pretty sure that this kit is from 2008.

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow for my BIG announcement! :)

A little peek

I wanted to stop in today and show you what I have been working on. It is cold and snowy/icy here so I hope you are all keeping warm.

I used CTMH new Key To My Heart paper on my daughters first birthday invatations along with the Nursery Bash stamp set. I have been dying to use this set for ages and have not found the time.

I just adored the little piggy's so I chose them and finally got to break out my prisma's and gamasol. I have also been dying to do this technique but when you are pregnant or nursing you can't, so...yep it has been a while.

One of my other new fun things is the majic of the clear glitter pen. I got to use my friend Susans durring a fun stamping day and I knew I had to have one. I spent the next month searching high and low, near and far, then one day I thought I finally I found one Archiver's, which is where she got hers, but nope I accidently bought clear gel pens. Oh no! My friend Patti a.k.a. the enabler said I can have one of hers as she had an extra. Then Susan said she had an extra pack too! Whoo hooo....lots of glitter pens. I was so happy to have friends looking out for my needs.

So anyway enough about how I got the pen and the addiction to said pen. I glittered up the cup cake after I did the gamasol and color pencils and topped it off with some liquid glass. I also added some liquid glass to their nose so it looks all wet and shiny.

I just love the way the card came out. It is fun, it is playful, it is perfect for my little one year old. Here is the card in all of its glory. I am so sorry for the bad angle. I just couldn't get the right lighting so I will see if I can get a better shot of it and repost.

One last thing that I did was used the Simple Stitches set to make it look like I had sewn on the card. I love how it looks and I was going back and forth on this set as I used to have one from Hero Arts and I never used it but now that I can see right through the stamps...well I was able to line it up and go to town. This set just went on my wish list.

Have a great day and if you are in the winter weather zone stay safe and stay warm!