For You

Hey all! I got a chance to play in this weeks SCS sketch challenge and here's my creation.

I decided NOT to use any Holiday stamps on this sketch (getting a littel burned out on them) and went with a generic use stamp.

I stamped the flower silhouette with versamark on vellum and embossed with glacier white embossing powder. The sentiment is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black and also embossed with clear. Blue brads that match the designer paper anchor down the vellum and I curled up one corner of it to be creative.

We are expecting another wind storm (#3 this week) to hit us tonight and into tomorrow morning. But right now - the sun is out and I see blue sky! Have a great week!

Supplies:
Stamps - plant silhouette by Artful Inkables, sentiment by TAC
Designer paper - Making Memories
Light Blue Brads
White and navy blue cardstock

Card Sketch Tuesday #155

Hello everyone! Today and last night it's been raining hard and the we've had wind storm warnings posted several times! I sure hope those big tall evergreen's stay firmly planted in the ground!

Anyway, here is sketch #155. This measures the normal A2 size. The panels measure 1 1/2 x 5 and the square in the middle is 2".

I just got some Kaisercraft designer paper from HSN and thought that I had bought a variety pack. Nope, it's all the same! 10 pieces of two sided paper in each pack - this is called Dash a way all - Vixen. I like that it's different on both sides and pretty thick paper. I added a few red rhinestones to the corners of the papers.

The snowman stamp and the sentiment are from The Angel Company and they're retired. It was a limited edition stamp from a few years ago. I colored him with Copic Ciao markers and got a little creative with the B00 frost blue marker. I colored on a piece of plastic and then used my colorless blender to pick up the blue and blended it in the snowman body. With snowman being all white, I wanted to do a little shading and decided to play around a bit. I kind of like the ice blue effect I ended up with. What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

ETA: Here's another spin on this card from Stef (glitterbabe)!

Angel Blog Hop

Hi eveyone! Welcome to our Angel Blog Hop - this time we had to produce and show off Holiday cards/tags that are done in 10 minutes or less. Here are my two cards.

Blue cardstock was used as the base of this card, with a white panel that was embossed using the swiss dot cuttlebug embossing folder. I used my deckled nestabilities to cut out the main panel and a layer of blue. The tag is also cut out using my nesties.

The stamps are rugged shadows (retired), ornamental snowflakes, and the sentiment is also a retired LE (Holiday) stamp. I stamped them all in Palette starry night ink. The shadows were stamped off once, by the way.

I used a stardust gel pen to outline the snowflake to give it some glitter and bling. The silver ribbon on the tag goes really well with this and adds a bit more bling! I did sponge around the tag with the same ink, as well.



This last one is super simple and quick, and subtle!

I used a dark blue cardstock base and a white layer that is stamped directly on and that's it, no additional layers. I reversed masked a labels 4 from my nesties collection and sponged on some Memento ink in summer sky. The sentiment is from the Simple Joys set and stamped in black. Again, Ornamental Snowflakes were used to stamp images on either side of the sentiment and highlighted with the stardust pen. I decided to use the Bind It All corner rounder on the corners of the white layer. Overall, this one is clean, simple and fast!

Here is a list of Angels participating in this blog hop! Please visit each and everyone because I'm sure that you'll get some great ideas for some quick cards and tags to use this Holiday season!

Angels:

Laurie W

Teresa

Jamie

Diane

Jen

Rita

Shirley

Kim

Kay

Melisa

Stacy

Thanks for stopping by and Enjoy the blog hop!

Christmas Cardinal

Hello everyone! I got the opportunity to design a few cards for Victorine Originals a few months ago. This is one of the images that I got to design with - perfect for Christmas!

The cardinal is colored with a variety of red Copic Markers. I also used the Copic's on the tree branch. In the above card: Designer paper is from Debbie Mumm, Burlap ribbon and burgandy cardstock from DCWV. All stamps from Victorine Originals.

The same coloring method was used on this card. The green designer paper is from Paper Pizazzz and the burgandy polka dots is from Victorine Originals, which can be downloaded. The button is from Oriental Trading Company, which is tied on with some scrappers floss. The sentiment is from The Angel Company.

You can find Victorine Originals store Here and her blog is here.

Hope you have a great weekend!!!

Card Sketch Tuesday #154

Happy Tuesday all! Here's sketch #154, measuring the nomral A2 size.

Here is my example.

The circle (Nestie) is 2 5/8 and then layered with another one at 2 3/4. The blue rectangle panel is 2 3/4 x 3 1/2 and the white rectangle is 2 1/2 x 3 1/4. I did add a layer of designer paper to the card base which measures 5 1/4 x 4.

I colored the girl with Copic Ciao Markers and then tried to add some shading by her feet to anchor her down. It didn't look good at all - so I ended up cutting her out and popping her up using foam tape. I cut out an oval and used that to reverse mask the white layer sponging Summer Sky ink from Memento around it - and then I just took it out to the corners from there.

I used some Atyou Spica pens to add some sparkle to the star, flame on the candle and her wings, but it does not show up all the well. I used a lemon and a clear one, but you can hardly even see it IRL. I know that these Spica pens are all the rage right now, but I have to say that I prefer the stardust pens for adding a bit of glitter and/or bling to my projects. I added some light blue Rhinestones to the circle to give it a bit more bling, since the Spica pens didn't work! LOL! BTW, I got the idea for this sketch as I was shutting off the lights downstairs to go to bed. The porch light was shining in my front door, which has that half moon leaded glass at the top. A light bulb went on - it's it funny how normal things can be a source of inspiration for us crafters?

Have a great week and thanks for stopping by! Check in next Monday when a few of us Angels will be participating in a Holiday cards/tags in 10 minutes or less blog hop! You're sure to get some great ideas for those last minute projects!



Supplies:
Stamps - TAC Fairy Birthday
Designer paper - Memory Box Dewfrost
White and Enchanted Evening cardstock - PTI
Light blue rhinestones - Kaisercraft
Copic Ciao Markers
Atyou Spica Pens
Memento inks - tuxedo black and summer sky

Silent Night

Hi everyone! Here's a card I completed for the "Clean and Simple" challenge over at Splitcoaststampers - and there is NO stamping on the front of this card! The challenge was to use White and one other color!

Shimmery paper is embossed with the new 5x7 snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder and used as the back ground for this card. The branch punch from Martha Stewart crafts was used on the same shimmery paper to make the tree.

I added a dusting of Perfect Pearls to the navy cardstock, which didn't picture well - but in real life it sparkles quite nicely. A satin bow ties this all together!

Shimmery paper is from Papertrey Ink and the Navy cardstock is from American Crafts.

Be back later with Tuesday's sketch challenge!