CSS Sketch Blog Hop



Hi there!  Wow, it has been awhile since I really sat down and stamped.  Well, as you can see my card for tonights hop is pretty simple.  My desk is still a disaster and Mr. Mojo was nowhere to be found.  I chose this adorable little jellyfish from the Gina K. Designs Make a Splash set because in two days I will be getting on a plane and heading for the land of sunny beaches.....Kona, Hawaii.  Hubby and I are going to be celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary and I can't wait to get on that plane and go.  It is supposed to rain here at home Saturday and Sunday (possibly even some snow) Egads!  Isn't this May?



Tonight I am hopping with some of my amazing friends from the StampTV Center Stage Design Team.  Our inspiration for tonights hop was this sketch that I created:

You should have arrived at my blog from Melissa's amazing blog, if you didn't you can go back to StampTV and start from the beginning.  Guess what?  Gina has offered up a free set for one lucky commenter.  Please be sure to stop by each one of the awesome blogs along the way and leave a comment.  Tuesday morning, Gina will pick one lucky commenter to win a free set valued at $24.95 or less.  Isn't that AWESOME? 

Well, I am not going to keep you any longer.  Please hop on over to my pal Linda's rockin' blog to see what  she has come up with. 

Celebrate in Style

Hello!  Whew, what a busy week this is going to be.  Coming up this weekend is the 10th Annual Great Yosemite Stamp Escape and we have been busy as hornets ordering, unpacking, pricing and repacking product and prizes for the weekend.  Whew, it is gonna be fun, fun, fun!  The teachers this year are amazing and the projects are fabulous!  There are still a few spots left, come and join us!

For my card today, I am sharing this adorable image from the Gina K. Designs Celebrate in Style set.  The colors used were from last Friday's StampTV Color Spotlight challenge. 

The layout was inspired from the Card Patterns Sketch 112 for this week.  I have never played along with them and when I saw this sketch, I knew I wanted to use it with the dressform image.  I used my new Spellbinders Parisian Accents die set for the fleur border and the scroll accent above the image panel. Finished off with a few rhinestones and it is ready to go! 

Recipe:

Stamps:  Celebrate in Style-Gina K. Designs

Paper:  PL White, PL Bubblegum-GKD, Buttercup Distressed Dots-Memory Box

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Rhinestones, Ribbon, Copics, Nesties Dies, Corner Rounder, Sakura Stardust pen

OBG Blog Hop

Well, here I am for the third day in a row.  Crazy isn't it?  Today I am hopping with some of my pals from the Design Diva's Facebook group.  You should have arrived at my blog from Angie's blog, if not you can o back to  Vicki's blog as she is starting the hop for us.  On the third Wednesday of each month we get together to share and Oldie, But Goodie with you.  What does OBG mean?  It means that we have used stamps and/or supplies that are at least 6 months old.  I think everything except for the white cardstock and the Lacey Square Nestie are 6 months old.  The stamp I used is another PSX Botanical from my collection.  

After I colored the image panel, I covered it with double sided adhesive sheet and yep, you guessed it......I covered it with microfine glitter.  If you click on the pic you will see all of the glittery goodness up close.  After the glitter was applied, I added a little more color to the apple and the center of the flowers with my Copics.  I know all of you Copic purest are probably squirming in your seats about that one.  I do know that Copics should be the topmost medium when mixing, but this microfine glitter is so, so fine that I don't have a problem doing it from time to time.  Afterall, I can always change the marker's nib if I need to. :)

Now, I am going to send you on your way to Mary's blog as there is so much more to see.

Enjoy the Sunshine

Hi there!  What a beautiful weekend we had.  I truly did enjoy the sunshine. I used stamps from the Gina K. Designs Enjoy the Sunshine STV kit.   My card is for two different challenges.  The first is last Friday's STV Color Challenge and the second is for last Friday's Copic/Promarker challenge over at the Outlawz Challenge Group.  The Outlawz Group asked that we use our markers and ground our image in some way.  The colors for the STV challenge are below:

I think that I achieved both goals.  As far as my layout goes I was inspired by Friday's CAS FTL 136 layout.  I turned it on it's side, but when I was finished with my card I felt like I missed the mark on the layout so I will not enter it for the challenge this week. 

Grateful for Friends

Happy, happy Sunday!  I hope you are all having a fabulous weekend.  I taught a fun class yesterday that I had called Spring has Sprung.......I am beginning to wonder about that one though.  LOL I really do have the nicest bunch of gals that come to my classes.  They are the best!   Late yesterday afternoon it snowed for a bit. Enough already!  Today is supposed to be sunny with some partial clouds.  Lets just go for the sunny part, okay?  The card I am sharing with you today is for last Friday's color challenge over at StampTV. Did you know that if you play along and upload a card to the gallery at StampTV you would have a chance to win some free stamps?  Good enough reason for me!   I really had fun putting this card together.  Everything just fell into place. 

I used some paper from the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl 6 x6 pad as it was perfect for the colors that Gina had chosen for us to use this week.  Love that!  I used one of my new Nesties dies too!  This die set is called Lattice Rectangles and I know I will use it over and over.  The sentiment is from the GKD Friends set.  I crocheted the flower using my flower pattern from this post.  If you make some flowers from my instructions, leave me a comment, I would love to see them. 

Recipe:

Stamps:  Friends-GKD

Paper:  PL Red Hot, Sweet Corn, Sweet Mango, White-GKD, Material Girl DP-Cosmo Cricket

Ink:  Ladybug Red-Memento

Extras:  Nesties Lattice Rectangles, Corner Chomper, Rhinestones, Midori ribbon, crochet flower, button, twine

Center Stage Spotlight Team Inspiration Challenge

It seems like it has been forever since I was able to participate in a blog hop with my fellow Center Stage Designers.  Tonight we have an inspiration challenge for you.  Carolina has picked several cookies from Better Bit of Butter to inspire us with.  You can check out our inspiration photo below my card.  You should have arrived at my blog from my friend Lori McAree's amazing blog.  If you didn't, you can go back to StampTV and start from the beginning. 





I was inspired by cookie #2.  I love the white on white look, I think it is so pretty and elegant.  The cookie looks like it has some gray or silver shading so I used some smokey slate cardstock along with the white cardstock to give my card  the same effect.  First, I embossed the white card with a dot embossing folder and then added a smokey slate panel that had been punched along one side with with a scalloped scallop edger punch.  The pretty flower image from the GKD Spring Basket set was stamped on white cardstock with slate ink and then attached to the smokey slate panel.  I stamped the biggest flower one more time and popped it up for a little bit of 3D.  I added some pearls and a sentiment fromt the GKD Inside and Out set.  A little bit of lace trim finished it off.  This card also used the sketch challenge (STVSKSP20) at StampTV this week.  I love it when things just fall into place like that!

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (April 12th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will get a stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!

Now, I am going to send you on your way to Miesje's awesome blog.  I know she has something special to share with you!

Recipe: 

Stamps:  Spring Basket, Inside and Out-GKD

Paper:  PL White, Smokey Slate-GKD

Ink:  Adirondack Slate

Extras:  Lace Trim, EK Scalloped Scallop Edge punch, Pearls, Dots CB EF, Nesties Petite Ovals and Petite Scallop Ovals, Stardust Glitter Glue

Happy Birthday Tulips

Hi there, we have had a couple of beautiful days here in Central California! Yeah for that!  We do expect a cool down and the possibility of snow at lower elevations later this week.  I sure hope the weather guy is wrong.  Doesn't he know that this is April for goodness sakes?

I have been busy helping to pull together the pieces for the 10th Annual Great Yosemite Stamp Escape that will be happening the last weekend of the month.  We have four amazing instructors this year, I can't wait.  There is still space available, if you would like more info click the link below:

The Great Yosemite Stamp Escape

Now, on with the card I am sharing with you today.  I created this for the STV Color challenge from last Friday.  We were asked to use the following colors:

I didn't have any of the Wild Lilac cardstock, so I had to wing it. It just hit me that the only black is from the ink pad.  I might have to change out the ribbon to remedy that.   The pretty tulip stamp is from the GKD Spring Basket set and the sentment is from the Floral Wreath set.  I colored the flowers with Copics (they photographed darker than they are though.  Hmmm....it must be my fabulous photography skills.......NOT!



See you soon,

Oldie But Goodie Blog Hop

Today, I am joining in with some very talented stampers from the Facebook Design Divas group.  Once a month  we get together to share a card or project that was created with stamps, paper or supplies that are at least 6 months old.



For my card, I am using a stamp and some paper that is old.  I used my MS Hydrangea punches to create the little flowers.  They were finished off with some little red rhinestones.  I am going to keep my post short as I don't have power at home (it has been out since Sunday night), and I am using the computer/internet at work to set up this post. I thank God because I have the best boss around! 



The next stop on the hop is the ever so talented Barbara Wibel.  Head on over and check out her amazing creation!

Wild Daisies

Hello and happy Wednesday!  Today I am sharing a card I created for two different challenges.  I used Monday's STVSKSP16 sketch challenge from StampTV along with Saturday's CR84FN18 color challenge . We were asked to use Kraft, Yellow and Orange.    The stamps I used are from two of my favorite Melanie Muenchinger illustrated sets for Gina K. Designs.  The adorable daisies are from the Spring Basket set and the sentiment is from the Wild at Heart set.  I have been having a blast designing for Melanie this month, if you want to learn a little more about me, hop over to Melanie's blog as we had a little Q and A session. 



Recipe:

Stamps:  Spring Basket, Wild at Heart-GKD

Paper:  PL Kraft-GKD, Yellow print-Memory Box, Orange Print-??

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Rhinestones, Nesties, Copics

Cased Eiffel Tower



Several weeks ago, I came across this beautiful red/black Eiffel Tower card  that was created by Teneale Williams for the Case Study 23 challenge.  It was love at first sight!  I knew it was the perfect inspiration for when my creative brain needed a little lift.  Today was the day! 

I created my card using the same layout, but added my own little twist. I knew that I wanted to use the colors of Black/White/Coral from this weeks Outlawz color challenge.  I used a Nesties die for the background panel which I embossed with the CB Textile Texture EF.  I stamped the Memory Box Eiffel Tower with black ink onto the backside of a piece of Bo Bunny Double Dot cardstock and cut it out with my Petite Oval Nestie die. I created the frame with two Petite Oval dies and then ran it through the CB with the same embossing folder.  Instead of using a big, beautiful bow like Teneale did, I added a spray of flowers to the bottom.  You can't really tell in the picture of my card, but I covered the tower panel with a coat of Versamark Champagne Dazzle ink and two layers of clear embossing powder.  The whole image has a beautiful sparkle to it.  I finished off the card with some little layered butterflies from a Martha Stewart punch.  If you get a chance, please pop by Teneale's blog and check out her amazing work.  You are sure to be inspired too!

Recipe:

Stamp:  Eiffel Tower-Memory Box

Paper:  PL Black Onyx-GKD, White-Neenah Solar White, Porcelain Dot-Bo Bunny

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark Champagne Dazzle

Extras:  Prima flowers, Sizzix Leaf die, MS Butterfly punch, Glitter Domes, Nesties Dies, CB Textile Texture EF

hugs,

Think Pink!

Good Morning!

Today I am sharing another card that I created with the sweet Spring Basket set from Gina K. Designs.  I choose to use this weeks CR84FN17 color challenge (did you see, I made their top 3 last week--squealing with joy) as my color inspiration and Monday's STVSKSP15 sketch challenge from StampTV.

I took a little creative liberty with the sketch and turned the squares on end.  I colored the beautiful daisy spray with Copics and then punched three 1" squares and layered them to some light pink, bright pink and chartreuse graduated squares.  The light pink panel was embossed with my very favorite Textile Texture Cuttlebug folder. Ribbon and bling were added to finish off the card.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Spring Basket-Gina K. Designs

Paper:  PL Passionate Pink-GKD, Lt. Pink-Stash, White-Neenah Solor White

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Ribbon, Rhinestones, Sakura Glitter pen

A good place for a nap....

Good Morning! 

Today I am sharing a card I made for last Friday's Outlawz Copic challenge.  The challenge was to: Add Depth to Hair (Fur is okay too).  I used this cute stamp from Shirley's Two Girls and went with the "fur" option.  I stamped the image with black ink on white cardstock and colored with Copics.  For the "fur" texture I just tapped the tip of the Copic blender pen here and there to give the effect of fur.  I love this image so much because my dog Abby looks just like that when she is in my hubby's big chair. 

 The sentiment says "never, never, never pass up a good place for a nap"....isn't that the truth! The older I get the truer it is.   I stamped it in black ink onto a piece of Bo Bunny paper from my vast stash.  Someday I will get it all used up........yeah right!  Never!!!!

Recipe:

Stamp:  Dog in Chair-Shirley's Two Girls

Paper:  Aqua, Black, Olive-Bazzill, Print-Bo Bunny, Neenah Solar White

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  CB Swiss Dots EF, Copics, Ribbon, Flower, Button

Go for the Icing

Happy Monday......is it?  I hope your weekend was a good one. On Saturday we went to Fresno to buy one of these and we came home to a bunch of that cold, white stuff that the weatherman said we were going to get.  Yuck!  It snowed off and on for a few hours, but we really only ended up with a light dusting.  Thank goodness! 

Yesterday, I found a little time to get into the studio and play.  I recently joined the Outlawz Challenge group and on Sunday's they post a new CAS challenge.  CAS is so hard for me to do, I always have good intentions of keeping my cards fresh and clean but tend to over layer or embellish.  I am pretty happy with how this card turned out though.  I combined the CAS sketch from the Outlawz with the TCPTuesday challenge for this week which is to use these colors:

which I paired with this sketch:

I stamped this sweet bunny from The Cat's PJ's Forget About the Cake set onto a scrap of white cardstock with brown ink and then colored with Copics (colors listed below) and paper pieced with some of the adorable new Stella and Rose line from My Minds Eye.  Want this stamp/paper?  You can get them here. 

Recipe:

Stamps:  Forget About the Cake-Cat's Pajamas

Paper:  Neenah Solor White, Stella and Rose-MME

Ink:  Memento Rich Cocoa

Extras:  Copics (BG72, R20, R30, R32,W1,W7 and Blender), White Glossy Accents, Diamond Dust Glass Glitter, Yellow Spica pen, Clear Glossy Accents

CSS Treasure Chest Hop

Happy Friday Y'all!

Tonight I have gathered together with several of  my fellow Center Stage Alumni to introduce you to our first Treasure Chest Blog Hop.  The idea behind this hop is that we will be digging into the Treasure Chest from time to time and pulling out treasures to share with you.  Tonight we are sharing stamps from the Animal Kingdom...........Gina K's Animal Kingdom that is.  The challenge was to use any of the GKD sets that had an animal in it.  I chose to use the beautiful owl from the Hope Grows set illustrated by the talented Theresa Momber. 

You should have arrived at my blog from the ever so talented Lori McAree's blog, if not you can go back to StampTV and start from the beginning.  Really you should, you don't want to miss a thing!

I chose to follow along with this weeks Outlawz color challenge to use Lime, Charcoal and White and some bling.  I kinda tossed in a bit (okay a lot) of black too!  In an effort to use up some scrap my card is sized at 3 1/2" x 6".  I colored this adorable little owl with C1 and C3 Copics and sprinkled in some Stardust pen for a bit of glitz.  I cut the leafy flourish from some lime cardstock and then added some shadowing with YG03 and YG09 Copics.  To create the blinged out edging, I used both the postive and negative sections from the edge die.  I love how it worked out, I guess you would call that "seredipity."

Now that you have made it this far, I want to let you know that Gina K. is going to give away a free set valued at $24.95 or less to one lucky person.  Be sure to stop by each of the blogs along the hop and leave a comment.  Entering to win is as easy as that.  On Tuesday March 1, Gina will randomly choose a winner.  It could be you!

I am sending you on to Melissa Shultz's blog, where she has created a fabulous project for you.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Hope Grows-Gina K. Designs

Paper:  PL Smoky Slate, Black, White-GKD, Lime Green and Dot Print-SEI

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Bling, Copics, Stardust pen, CPJ's Edge die, Sizzlets Leaf die, Octagon Nesties, CB EF

Flowers for You

Hello and happy Wednesday!  I hope the weather is behaving where you are because it isn't behaving like I would like it to here.  Rain and snow are on the way again.  Enough already!   I have a Spring inspired card to share with you today.  If only Spring would hurry up and get here. 

I am so excited to share today's card with you.  Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from the very talented Melanie Muenchinger asking me if I would like to guest design for her.  Of course, I got right back to here and said HECK YA!  I love Melanie's floral sets and this one is another hit! The set I have been blessed to work with is called Spring Basket and is available now at Gina K. Designs. The sentiment is from Melanie's A Year of Flowers set.  The sketch was created by the talented Suzanne Dean for one of the GKD Release Party challenges.  Of course, I am a couple of days late for the challenge, but that is how I roll these days!  I chose to work with the colors for this week's CR84FN16 Color Challenge.  The challenge this week was to use Light Pink, Medium Violet and Gray.  It is so hard to see in this pic, but the print paper behind the beautiful basket of flowers is some old, old light gray/white diamond pattern paper that I found while recently trying to "organize" my paper stash.  I glittered up the flowers with some Spica glitter pens, added some pink twine and called it good. 

For those of you who have been sending your thoughts and prayers for my Mom, I am pleased to say she is doing well after her surgery last Friday.  I am off to visit with her today. :)

Recipe:

Stamps:  Spring Basket, A Year of Flowers-GKD

Paper:  all from my stash-----yippee!

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Extras:  Twine, Copics, Spicas, Rhinestones, Flourishes

Hugs,

CSS Alumni Blog Hop

Hi there!  Tonight my fellow friends from the StampTV Center Stage Alumni were challenged to create a card using a sketch created by me!  You can see the sketch below.  Hopefully you have arrived at my blog from my pal Lori McAree's blog.  If not, you can go back to StampTV and start from the beginning.

I created this shaker card for my husbands parents who will be celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday. I started with a PL White cardstock and created a 5" x 7" card. Afterall, I think 50 years deserves a BIG card, don't you?  I used my Scor-It board to create the diagonal pattern on the card.  I used a Cuttlebug folder for the smaller embossed piece.    I used stamps from the Fanciful Tags and Block Greetings sets from Gina K. Designs.  Everything was stamped in gold pigment ink and embossed with gold embossing powder.  The filling inside the shaker is called Gala Glitz (it is a mix of German glass glitter and tiny micro beads).  The shaker is layered onto a nesties label panel and the card is finished off with a bow and some gold dew drops. 

Make sure to leave a comment as you hop along because on Tuesday morning (February 1st), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs who will win a Gina K. Designs stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95! 

I am going to send you on your merry way to my friend Melissa Schultz's blog, I know she has something awesome to share with you.

Happy hopping,

Friends

Happy Monday!

I have a fun little card  to share with you today.  I created this card for last Friday's StampTV Color Spotlight challenge.  I love these colors, they were a blast to work with.  The ribbon had a touch of lime green, so I threw that in for good measure.

This weeks colors are:

I used 3 of my favorite Gina K. Designs sets on my card.  On the Turquoise layer, I stamped the solid flower image from Pressed Flowers in Adirondack Aqua ink and then over stamped it with the coordinating open image flower from A Year of Flowers in Memento Rich Cocoa ink. I colored the center of the flowers with Prismacolor pencils to give them a little pop! I love how Melanie illustrates so many of her sets to work perfectly together.  I stamped the solid flower again on a white Nestabilities Labels 2 panel and added the sentiment from the Friends set.  I finished off the card with some Cinnamon Stickles, ribbon and pearls.

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have a great day,

A card, confession and confections!

ETA:  I just let the random generator pick the lucky winner and it is:



Amanda R said...



Just found your blog (you can thank Dorcas and her photo of your crocheted flowers) but I am lovin your cards too! My favorite color lately is red. Such a bright happy color!



Thanks Amanda!  I will be contacting you for your snail mail addy.  Thanks again to everyone who commented.  This was fun and I will do it again soon.

The Card:

I created this card for the VLV Week 3 Sketch Challenge.  Let me say, I love this sketch that my pal Tosh created, my mind was spinning with ideas.  I will use this sketch again and again.  I was also inspired by the colors of the sketch.  They are some of my favorites together.

I used stamps from Verve's Framed Wishes and Blue Skies sets.

The Confession:

I have lots and lots of Verve stamps that have been sorely neglected and decided that I would put them to good use in 2011.  While rummaging through them all, looking for inspiration I found out that I have two Kind Words sets and one of them had never seen ink! I guess I really liked it! 

This brings me to the Confections:

I am going to give my extra set of Kind Words and an assortment of goodies from my stash to one of my amazing blog readers.  All I ask of you is to leave me a comment on this blog post and let me know what your favorite color is.  I will create your goodie pack based on your favorite color.  I will randomly pick a winner on Tuesday, January 25, 2011.  If your blog/e-mail is not linked to your comment, please leave me some way of contacting you.

Hugs,