SMC Challenges – #5Wk .. Sketch

The challenge this week at Sew Many Cards is a Sketch. Feel free to join us using the sketch, you are welcome to flip it, turn it, or mirror it, but please keep your creation as close to sketch as possible.

Our sponsor this week is Inktegrity Designs, Joni has been generous enough to donate a $10 Gift Certificate to Inktegrity Designs for winner of this weeks challenge!!!

Here is the Sketch for the challenge:
 
 

A friend of mine just had her sixth child last week (5th boy) so I decided to use Jaden in Baby Carriage to make her a card. Colored image with copics and added some sparkles to the patches with gel pen. Cut him a little out of the circle. I used a coluzzle to make my circles. I used DCWV Nana’s Nursery Baby Boy design paper and green cardstock. Simple piece of matching ribbon to divide up the card layered overtop of a yellow piece punched with a border punch. And Graceful Words “blessings” as my sentiment stamped in green. Both image and sentiment is on dimensions.


Card also qualifies for the Limited Supply260 on SCS. Use of ribbon and trim (border punch).

         Thanks for stopping by!

                     Amber

Our Craft Lounge Blog Hop with Candy

Welcome to another Our Craft Lounge Blog Hop. I hope you have enjoyed all the Valentine sneaks the past few days.

I have a fun set to show you today and to give away! The set I used is Life Is. This is great for scrapbooking but also works great for cards.

For my scrapbook page, I used 4 different stamps from the set on just the title! If you look real closely you’ll see what I used by comparing it to the panel below. I’m not going to tell you right now what I used. I also used the ‘circle dot’ from Life Is and the two ‘circles’ from The Journey (also a new release from Our Craft Lounge that works great with Life Is) to make my own design paper on the brown cardstock.

To get my shapes, I traced a ClearScrap shape onto the brown cardstock and cut it out. I then used another stencil (Lotus) on the Mulberry design paper. Cut that out also and added faux stitching to all the layers. Made a scallop frame for the picture.

I just love this picture of my kids and I during my pregnancy with #4 (in '06) and hence the title of the page {Life Is Precious}. So, have you figured out what stamps I used for the title? I used Life Is, Precious, the row of dots and this symbol {. Yes, there is a label in the set that already uses those images but I wanted mine just a little bigger. That’s the beauty of this set, you can make the label any size you want. (of course you don’t have to use the pieces that way too) The title is attached to the page with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to give it some dimension.



I also did a card using Life Is and The Journey. (told you these sets work great together!) The words “You are” are from The Journey. The label and “Fabulous” is from Life Is. The Limited Supply247 was posted way early as Long and Tall cards. I decided to do a quick small tall card.

I used design paper from My Mind’s Eye. It’s double sided so I used both sides and added ribbon to the middle. Stamped the wording/label in Distress Ink worn lipstick and cut it out. Layered it onto brilliant blue that was cut with the oval nestabilities. Added some crystal stickers to the top and bottom edges.



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Leave a comment if you would like to be in the drawing to win this set, Life Is. Time has expired for the blog candy. Thank you for your comments.

We have a winner! Kimmie come on down! Give me a holler with your contact info. Contact me at hillmanfam@woh.rr.com and CONGRATULATIONS!

Here is the list to the other ladies in the blog hop. Don’t forget they have blog candy too!

Bird and Groom – Beth
Hang it Up Cupid - Carol, Vicki
Hearts & Hugs - Holly, Joy
The Journey – Charmaine
Life Is –Amber
Love Notes - Heather, Beate
Out for a Spin – Pam
Fairy Dust is a Must - Cami, Broni
Granny's Truffles – Val
Jungle Love - Deb, Kendra
Shamrock Blessings –Cindy
Sweet on You –Kisa
Wanted - Lila

A few Christmas cards

For today's Featured Stamper136, I pulled out Jolly Ornaments from Our Craft Lounge. I cased this card of the featured stamper, Shannan. Changed the images, color and added embossing to the background. The paper tree is popped up with the help of Helmar's Liquid Scrap Dots. The ornaments were stamped in Silver, cut out and strung on silver cording. The star was stamped and embossed in iridescent ice to give it some shine. I did have to make my card a tall card to accommodate my tree. This card also fits for the Inspiration Challenge197. We were to use CWKids for our inspiration and I picked this outfit.



Close up of the tree:


A few weeks ago, the limited supply236 was to make scraplings. This is using the scrap piece left over when you make a 4x4 card. It ends up measuring 4 x 1.5. I used Jolly Ornaments then too. Stamped two different color ornaments and colored in the black one with copics. Using gold cording, I strung the ornaments on and placed them on pop dots to keep them from moving.


Stuff I used: Jolly Ornaments by Our Craft Lounge, white, burgundy, green, vanilla cardstock, black, silver, versamark ink; silver/gold cording, clear embossing powder, iridescent embossing powder, Helmar Liquid scrap dots, Helmar quick fix runner, ribbon, xacto knife

Fishin’ on the Beach

I have a friend who is taking a vacation soon and plans on fishing the entire time. Thought I’d make him a card using the Limited Supply 224 (shades of blue, grays, greens and sand colors, ribbon/hemp/twine, brads and piercing) and sketch232 from this week over at SCS.

Of course I had to use Bear-ly Fishin’ from Our Craft Lounge. This time though I wanted to change it up a bit as I wanted my bear to be really outdoorsie. So I made him a fishin’ pole from a stick and some hemp twine. The twine is attached to the stick with Helmar Craft Glue. I completely cut the bear’s arm right up to his shoulder so that I could put the pole under his paw. It is attached with a little bit of Helmar Craft Glue to his paw.

Cloud stencil was used for the clouds and MuddPuddles was used for the ‘beach’. I used Montego Bay ‘sand’ for the bear to sit on.
The bear himself is attached to the paper with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots. The shoe is attached with Helmar Liquid Scrap Dot just to keep it from floating in air. And the twine is held down in the middle with a little bit of Helmar Craft Glue.

The sentiment is stamped on both squares with the ending “day workin’” on the inside. Piercing is done in the corners of the fish strip and brads finish off all the corners.

Design paper is from Cosmo Cricket’s Snorkel line.

Stamps: Bear-ly Fishin'
Paper: Cosmo Cricket, chocolate chip, white
Ink: black, bashful blue
Accessories: spellbinders, prismacolor pencils, odorless mineral spirits, brads, piercing tool, Helmar craft glue, liquid scrap dots, acid free glue, MuddPuddle sand, cloud stencil
Techniques: blending with odorless mineral spirits

Butterfly Kisses

Still playing catch up with my cards that i have managed to make here and there.

Butterfly Kisses by Treehouse. I made this card for a friend who was in the hospital at the time. It also qualified for the Limited Supply209, Sharon (NoTimeToStamp) blog challenge76 of making a spring card and Card Positioning Systems' sketch104. I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots for the butterflies so they are all at different dimensional sizes. Used the butterflies and the flower to make my own background paper (Limited Supply challenge). I thought it turned out springy and cheery and hope it made my friend feel just a little better when she received it.

Another valentine card with a tutorial

For the limited supply 204 we were suppose to use black cardstock as our main card. I had found a card in my stash a while back that I decided to case for today. And then I got a crazy idea that I would make it into a tutorial too! So here is my card:
stamp: Framed Friends by Asela Hopkins by Gina K Designs; paper: real red, black, white, shimmer; ink: black stazon, versamark; accs: helmar liquid scrap dots, brads, prismacolor pencils, gold embossing powder, crystal effects

Score a 5 1/2 x 4 1/4 piece of cardstock at 6 inches and 2 inches. Fold both sides in at the crease marks. Your shorter folded side will be the top.

Cut all four corners at a diagonal. I am cutting the bottom flap here. I just eyeballed it so you can cut off as much as you want or as little as you want. Depends on the look you are going for and how big your image is.

This is what it will look like after you have cut your corners. I placed a white top note cardstock inside so you can see the cuts better. (The ruler is just keeping it shut instead of my fingers! lol) Now decorate the front as you would like. I used the small heart from the Framed Friends by Aesla Hopkins by Gina K Designs on my black but did it in versamark so it is hard to see.

The closure can be any shape you wish. I went with a square as it fit my image. The image is colored with Prismacolor pencils. There is crystal effects on his nose and on the heart on his tag. As you can see, the dog and trees are popped up. I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots for that. (Don't forget the Helmar blog candy is still going on) I didn't attach it to the black with the brads as I don't like to see brads on the inside of my card so I used double sided tape.

close up of the Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots

I put a piece of real red cardstock for the inside my card. (don't know why it looks blurry, try clicking on it to bring it to bigger size) The sentiment says "Will you be mine?" At the bottom it is "XOXOXOXO" and then i stamped the heart twice on either side in versamark and embossed in gold.

Finished card.

2 Cards in one post!

eSorry I haven't been around for awhile. Kids have been home since Thursday!!! Snow days on both Thursday and Friday and then today is Martin Luther King day. Kids are happy for the 5 day weekend but mom is ready for them to go back to school so she can stamp!! Well I can stamp but it takes me all day to make a card since the little munchkins think they need to eat all day long and only mom can fix their food!

So here are a few cards that I got to make at the end of last week but didn't get a chance to post.

Limited Supply 203 was to make a non-cheesy Valentine that you could replicate 30 times if needed for your kids valentines, limited layers/embellishments, limit hand cutting. With using ONLY Kraft, black, red, pink and white as the colors! It didn't have to be a kid image but that's what I went with.

I used this sweet Dragon Flower image that I got from through Treehouse Stamps (Yes, Ashley now sells other products besides Treehouse images! If you haven't been there lately, I urge you to go check her out.) I also used my new (72) Prismacolor Pencils that I had won off of ebay.

I stamped him on Kraft cardstock and then colored him in with different shades of pinks/reds. I didn't use anything to blend the colors but the pencils themselves this time. I made a faux layer of black around him by using a black marker on the Kraft cardstock. I just happen to have an extra piece of black that I had used in the nestablitie for another card that I didn't use so I used it here. The red piece was cuttlebuged with the heart folder (also found at Treehouse Stamps).

For the sentiment, I used JustRite's Brayton Font. I also combined this with the week's before Featured Stamper 100.... JulieHRR!! I cased this card of hers but changed a few things obviously.
stamp: Lelo-Dragon Flower - Treehouse Stamps, JustRite's Brayton Font; ink: black stazon; paper: real red, black, white, kraft; accs: ribbon, prismacolor pencils, white gel pen, heart cuttlebug folder

Card #2 PB Teen Inspired IC163

If you follow my blog faithfully, you will notice I don't usually do the Inspiration that is held on Saturday's on SCS. For some reason I just can't wrap my brain around the inspiration pieces but am vowing to try them once in a while.

During the week sometime my oldest sent me a link to PB Teen stating which bedroom sets, etc she would like (keep dreaming kid!). I thought the site would make a great Inspiration so I sent it on to Stef. Imagine my surprise when she pm'd me back and said that it was the same link that she had been looking at and thought it would make a great inspiration and was planning on using it this past weekend! Guess great minds think alike! lol

I went with this room for my inspiration as I had this fabulous pok-a-dotted dsp I knew I could use. I used "Live Life Passionately" from Treehouse Stamps as my main focal point. Stamped in black and then distressed with blue inks. Green ribbon ( the other set of sheets) added to give a little contrast and some blue buttons added with glue dots. My layout comes from Taylor's cupcake blog sketch.

stamp: live life passionately - Treehouse Stamps; ink: black stazon, blues; paper: black, white, Nana's kids dsp; accs: buttons, ribbon, glue dots

Old Olive snowflakes?

The Limited Supply was a LIMITED SUPPLY challenge this week. Here was the list we were given:

1. The only image stamps/embossing you may use are snowflakes. Yup! Only snowflakes (or something that looks like falling snow). No snowmen, snowwomen or anything, just snowflakes! The same goes for patterned paper . . . it must be snowflakes!! (Get the idea?)
2. Your creation must be monochromatic.
3. You need to add some sort of “bling” or sparkle to your card. Stickles, rhinestones, shimmery paper or ribbon . . . make it sparkly!!
4. Last, but certainly not least . . . sentiments may be ONE WORD only!

I pulled out Rubbernecker Snowflakes and JustRite Harmony Classic Oval stamper. I wanted a different color for my card so I went with Kiwi Kiss! I embossed the snowflakes with Iredsecent Ice after stamping them in Olive Craft Ink. I sponged on Old Olive on all the vanilla pieces. I wanted the flowers on the JustRite stamp to be more like snowflakes so I filled them in with a glitter gel pen. Added bling in the corners by Mark Richards.

I used Sketch 205 for my layout.

stamp: Rubbernecker snowflakes, JustRite Harmony Classic Oval stamper; paper: kiwi kiss, vanilla; ink: craft old olive, classic old olive; accs: mark richard's cyrstal stickers, kiwi kiss ribbon, coluzzle, glitter gel pen, iredescent ice embossing powder

Flourishes in the house!

I finally got some Flourish stamps. Just had to use a few of them for the Limited Supply194 (acrylic stamps only) last Friday. I also added in the Color challenge192 and Ways to use it 192 (watercolor paper). The sketch comes from Beate's blog sketch challenge.

I used Certainly Celery, Not quite Navy and Basic Gray cardstock plus Watercolor cardstock. The flowers were stamped in Basic Gray and then watercolored Not quite Navy and Certainly Celery on for the sky and ground. Pulled out the distressing tool again!

The faux brads are acutally Basic Gray cardstock with cyrstal effects added on top. The cardstock is attached with glue dots.

stamps: Flourished Elements & Summer Botanicals; paper: certainly celery, not quite navy, basic gray, watercolor paper; ink: certainly celery, not quite navy, basic gray; accs: crysatl effects, distressing tool

I haven't forgotten about my blog candy. Should be up by the end of this week. :)

Checkered Birthday Chef

I wasn't planning on making a card today as I have a Stamp Camp I needed to be getting ready for tonight BUT dh tells me this morning that he needs a birthday card for his BOSS/friend like today!! So I grabbed the SU catalog and turned to Violia as I liked that card. Of course I had to change it some so that it would fit within the Limited Supply challenge which was to use a circle AND a rectangle on your card.

I used retired SU design paper for my rectangle and also for the chef's jacket that I paper pieced. His hat and neck tie are paper pieced with Kiwi Kiss cardstock. I layered the rectangle on chocolate chip and so saffron. Using my coluzzle, I cut a circle ring out of So Saffron. The chef was stamped on white and also cut into a circle stopping at the hand and hat. As I cut around them to make them coming "out" of the circle. The birthday cake was stamped on another piece of cardstock and adhered with a glue dot. I colored it with markers.

We were allowed ribbon ONLY as an embellishment for the limited supply. So I used Kiwi Kiss striped ribbon. I thought it turned out pretty cute for as fast as I had to come up with it.

stamp: violia; paper: retired SU dp, kiwi kiss, so saffron, chocolate chip, white; ink: black stazon; accs: ribbon, makers, coluzzle

I did add stickles to the candle AFTER I had taken a picture for the Limited Supply Challenge but of course didn't get a picture of it with the stickles on it as dh had to run out the door.

Merry Christmas Ranch

I asked a dear friend if she wanted to buy any Christmas cards from me this year. She jumped at the chance and told me what she was looking for: Outdoorsie or horsie Christmas cards. I sent her one idea but still wanted to try another idea with a horse stamp that my mom has.

Last week's Limited Supply gave me the oppurtunity to make the card even though I should have been packing as we went away for the weekend! The Limited Supply was to use the color blue somewhere, one piece of design paper (only one side if it was double sided), any stamps but we had to have eyelets/ribbon as our only embellishments. It was okay to leave the ribbon off but we had to have the eyelets!

I stamped the horses and masked them, taking the tree from Lovely as a Tree, i stamped off and off and off. Used the cloud stencil for the sky. Took a versamarker and made 'snow' that is white embossing powder. And of course I had to destress as I wanted that country feel too it! I managed to sneak the eyelets in on the 'ranch' sign: Merry Christmas. The design paper is 2 layer and is blue.

So what do you think? Would you be proud to hand this to your friends and families for Christmas? Now to figure out how much to charge for 25-30 cards.. any tips/ideas??

stamps: Lovely as a Tree, Rubber Cottage Horses at a Fence, Treehouse "merry Christmas"; ink: distress ink, always artichoke, chocolate chip, bashful blue; paper: chocolate chip, always artichoke, design paper; accs: eyelets, versamarker, white embossing powder, cloud stencil

Like I said, we went away for the weekend. I will be posting pictures of the weekend some time this week. Will probably be a slide show as I took over 200 pictures but don't worry, I won't put all of them in the slide show! lol

New MFT Challenges

I'm happy to announce that I am one of the hostesses for Friday's challenge in the MFT forum. Joanne and my challenge is "Oldies Plus Goodies" where some weeks we will be featuring specific sets and other weeks will be an inspiration challenge featuring either a card from one of the Design Team members or even a card from the MFT gallery.

This week we picked "Hearts Galore", this is one of the sets that is on Limited Edition status at MFT. If you play along on SCS, please add the keyword MFTOPG1 so that we can find your entry as one lucky participant will receive a $5 credit to the store and be entered into a monthly drawing for $25 as well!! You've got from not until Monday (Sept 22) 9am EST to get your card uploaded on SCS to be available for the drawing.

For my first card, I used MFT's Thursday Sketch Challenge as my layout. I used the happy together birds from the Hearts Galore set. Colored the image with Prismacolor makers. Yes, the birds are colored, I used "Wheat" color as i didn't want them too strong. But then I pulled out the distress inks and went a little crazy! hehe And the distressing tool found itself into my hands so I had to use that too. I used the SU scallop punch on the strip, distressed the design paper and notched the corners.

One thing I LOVE about acrylic stamps is that you can cut them apart if you cut straight and still be able to use the stamp whole or in pieces. The sentiment I used on the strip actually is the last line in the poem that comes with the set. Instead of inking up just that line as I was using black distress ink and didn't feel like masking, I simply cut the last line off of the poem and inked it up separately. Cleaned it and put it back with the poem as if nothing was wrong with it! How cool is that?

This is to be my husband's anniversary card as it will be 15 yrs next month! (I know, I'm a little early now just don't let me forget I have his card made!)

stamp: hearts galore - MFT; paper: barouqe burgundy, chocolate chip, creamy caramel, design paper; ink: distress inks; accs: scallop punch, distressing tool, ribbon, notched punch

For today's Limited Supply 186, Wendybell had us going with a White Out! Only white cardstock with a black, any brown color or gray was allowed plus only ONE other color! No SPONGING (how could she do that to me??!!) allowed on the white at all! OH!! And only ONE image and ONE sentiment was allowed too!!

So I used Hearts Galore again! :) This time I used the cup that has a heart attached to it in the steam and then postioned the sentiment above it. Being acrylic, you can bend them however you would like to position them, so I made the sentiment go around the image just a little. Background white is cuttlebugged with the hearts folder. Image is colored in with only Real Red as you had to ink that matched your cardstock! I did add a little crystal stickles to the heart which was allowed. A simple but striking card.

stamp: hearts galore - MFT; paper: real red, black, white; ink: real red, black; accs: stickles, cuttlebug, scallop regtangle punch, ribbon

Friends & Lattes

I am forwarning you now, you may want to grab a cup of coffee now because when you are done with this post, you will be wanting a cup! :)

Treehouse Stamps is releasing a set every Friday this month and tonight's release is a coffee set called Friends & Lattes.

This set was perfect for the Limited Supply challenge today which was to make a card using any color of orange and a coffee image! I decided to make a Criss Cross Pocket card. I embossed coffee beans in clear on the Pumpkin Pie cardstock and then sponged on tons of distress inks. I used a coluzzle to cut out my circles and a corner punch to make the scallop edge. The coffee cup is stamped in distress ink and embossed in clear. After coloring it with Prismacolor pencils, I used distress inks again and went wild! lol For the inside, I only inked up the first part of the sentiment and stamped that, added some doodles and once again distressed with distress inks.


I made this card during the week for the sketch192 and color challenge 182 (Monochromatic). Of course that was also the same time my batteries decided to die! Once again I used the Friends & Lattes set from Treehouse. The coffee cups were masked and embossed in black. The coffee beans and Thanks a Latte were stamped in distress ink. Now the fun part, I distressed each piece with distress ink. Only the main image was stamped on white cardstock (not that you can tell now). Used decorative scissors for the mat.
stamp: Friends & Lattes - Treehouse Stamps; ink: distress inks - browns, black; paper: chocolate chip, close to cocoa, creamy caramel, white; accs; ribbon, black embossing powder, decorative scissors, sponges

All this posting about coffee has made me want some. Even though it is after 8:30 pm, I think I will go make some coffee and add a scoop of ice cream to it too! YUMMM

Hoo-ppy Birthday!!

Oliver Owl is back with a Hoo-ppy Birthday card. Today's Limited Supply was to make a birthday card with limited layers of 4 and ink/paper/ribbon only!! I paper pieced Oliver right down to his little beak! I used Helmar Scrap Dots on his beak and the branches/leaves... which if you look closely you'll notice that the leave moved off the image.. that is why you let the scrap dots DRY before handling!! lol

I made the card a Joy Fold card with the sentiment holding the brown "card" shut. In making the Joy fold card, Oliver also qualifies for last weeks Limited Supply of different folded cards! :)

stamps: Oliver Owl, Hoo-ppy Birthday - Treehouse Stamps; ink: black, paper: brown, river rock, DCWV Old World mat stack; accs: small rounder punch, glue dots, dimensionals, scrap dots (Helmar)

Now I am head out to my jungle Vegetable garden that wasn't weeded while i was gone. If you don't hear from me in a few days, you may want to send out a search party!!

Fish-a-Rific

Here are a couple of cards I made last week that I hadn't had the chance to post.

First up is the card I did for the Sketch challenge. I used the set "American Dream" from Treehouse (remember, from now until July4th use promo code:july4thspecial and get 20% off of this set). I used markers to color the kids, white ink for the stamps that were used in the background and added details with white gel pen.


The second card was for the Limited Supply challenge where we had to use brads only within our image. I used an image and saying that will be released from Treehouse on July 10th. Colored with reinkers, some sponging and made a scallop piece for waves. I used brads in place of the bubbles that are a part of the image.

I've been Published!!

You might remember this post I did back on March 18. Well now I can show you the card that was published! First some background on why I submitted and how.

Now I had made a card for the Limited Supply challenge where we had to use only numbers on our card. (in Oct. '07) Well I don't own number stamps so I came up with the idea to use a fish from Rubbernecker and make him into a number. I picked the number 9 as my nephew's birthday was coming up so being a good Tia (aunt) I made him a birthday card. I masked the little fish until I had a 9 shaped from fish! A little watercoloring with distress reinkers and I was good to go. But then I saw a contest on RubberStampMadness on numbers, and thought why not enter it. So I sent my nephew's birthday card to RSM (and not by email, they like you to send in the actual card), deadline was Nov.15th! Months went by and I never heard a thing. I started kicking myself for not including a SASE so they could send the card back as I figured I hadn't been picked.

March 7th rolled around and I got an email from Galilee saying that "my artwork was chosen to be in the RSM Numbers centerfold (didn't know I was a centerfold, huh?? lol) - issue 160 (July/August 2008)" I think I fell out of my chair!

So now I'm excited to share with you some pictures of my card in the magazine. Go check out RSM and see what themed art they are looking for next. They also except artwork that is not on a specfic theme. So send in your cards, you never know, you just might get published! Just don't forget that SASE!! lol

Issue 160 July/August 2008 (sorry for the flash on the cover)

School of Fish
Amber Hillman of St.Paris, Ohio sent in our final number. "I went way outside my comfort zone," says the artist. "I didn't have any number stamps so I had to come up with a completely different way to get a number stamped on my card."
To make her number 9, Hillman first sketched a light outline of the number on paper. "Then maksing the fish, I stamped him over and over on the outline," she says. "Then masking the bottom fish, I stamped the seaweed twice and once on a piece of white."
She used watercolors with distress inks on them, cut them out and popped up the middle section of seaweed for dimension. More dimension comes from the Crystal Effects she added to the bubbles. "I stamped and cut out one fish and added google eyes to him."
Hillman has been stamping for five years, and used two of her favorite techniques for this project: masking and watercoloring. Although she says she leans towards the number seven being her favorite, this card would be perfect for a nine-year-old's birthday. "Any time I stamp I have fun," Hillman says. "I really enjoyed this challenge because my card turned out exactly how I had envisioned it." (stamp credits: Fish, seaweed- Rubbernecker.)
By Karen Sweeny-Justice

Hey Melon Head!

A sneak peek from Treehouse Stamps, these stamps are due to be released on June 12th. This set is called Life's a Picnic. I combined 8 challenges here! Limited supply which was to make 3 cards using the same set, colors, ribbon, hardware, etc. Inspiration challenge which was to find a dress from a movie and be inspired by it. I used the one that was put up in the thread as a sample. (didn't feel like looking all over for a dress) Beate's, Amy R's and Toy's blog challenge sketch. Sharon's color theme sketch and two old Ways to use it challenges (ribbon and stamp-a-ma-jig) that I had never done.

close up of card i did for Toy's sketch challenge

close up of card i did for Amy R's sketch challenge

close up of card i did for Beate's sketch challenge

The earth laughs in flowers

This weeks challenge with my sassy friends was to case one of the newest member's card. That new member is me! They picked out this card that we had to case. I was told i could sit out since it was my card but i decided to play anyways as it was only fair that i did.

Lo 'n behold, my card fits in with the limited supply challenge which is a long tall card and Sharon's (notimetostamp) challenge which is black accents! I even squeaked in the ways to use it challenge which was acrylics. (of course it feels like cheating as the only acrylic i used was my block that my stamp was clinging to but we were told that still counts.)

I just got the new sets for Treehouse Stamps that will be available April 25th so I decided to use one of the sets for the card. I wanted a simple color scheme and not much on my card other than what i had to case. In keeping with the LSC, I omitted some of the layers that is in my orginal card.

I watercolored the flowers with purely pomegranate ink and added some crystal stickles to the middles. Layered them on dotted swiss cuttlebug piece that i had ran off at mom's. Added my three little brads and stamped the wording straight on the card itself instead of making a tag. Card measures 8x4.

I really like the striking look of the colors even if I keep thinking of Cruella Divel! lol

stamp: Home Grown by Treehouse Stamps; ink: black stazon, purely pomegranate; paper: black, white, purely pomegranate; accs: aqua painter, stickles, ribbon, brads, cuttlebug, acrylic block

I can't believe I forgot!!

No, I didn't forget anything. That is the title of my card I made late last night. I did the Limited Supply that was to make our own 'designer' paper using stamps.

Still on that High Hopes kick! I used the peanut to stamp on Going gray with Going gray ink to make my designer paper. The elephant is colored with Prismacolor pencils/gamsol and shaded with prismacolor markers. The bow has glitter pen outlined on it. I colored my brads with a Prismacolor marker and sponged around the elephant and the saying.

Layout is for Shadowcatcher's Mojo Madness sketch.

stamp: High Hopes; ink: black, going grey, real red; paper: black, going grey, real red, white; accs: prismacolor pencils, prismacolor markers, gamsol, glitter pen, brads, dimensions, corner round punch

A rainy card

Once again I'm late on my card that I do with my Sassy group of friends. The challenge this time was to make a rain themed card.

I combined three different sets from Treehouse to make my "rain" card. I even added a little sunshine to my rain card... at least in the sentiment! stamp: Farm-tastic, Everyday Sentiments, Spring Blessings all by Treehouse Stamps; ink: black, garden green, bashful blue; paper: pink, green, black, white; accs: watercolor pencils, baby blue stickles

I had too much fun with the Limited Supply that I had to make another card with only White and one other color. (yes, i know my image is stamped in black... didn't even hit me until a few hours had passed, oh well, too late now) I used Happy Mother's Day from MFT, masked the lady and used Behind the Scenes to get the dotted wall. Watercolored the dress with ink and added white gel pen dots. Watercolor crayons were used for the flowers and pot.

Mini scallop scissors were used on the square and circle coluzzle used for curved flap. Berry Bliss design paper is used in the background. This card is called a flap card and directions on how to make it can be found here on Splitcoaststampers. I made the flap close by using velcro.

stamp: Happy Mother's Day by MFT; ink: pretty in pink, black; paper: pretty in pink, white, berry bliss dp; accs: aquapainter, watercolor crayons; white gel pen, mini scallop scissors, velcro