Time to celebrate

Hi all. I'm playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today with this card.

The Roman numeral clock die is from The Frantic Stamper. I did cut it twice and doubled it up for dimension.  The sentiment is from My Favorite Things, and the gingham designer paper is from A Muse Studio.  I cannot for the life of me remember where the medium scalloped border die is from.  I plan on using this as a retirement card, but it could be used for many occasions. 

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Thinking of you - TSOT#669

Hello, and welcome to another sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.  So many possibilities to use up some designer paper on this one.

The designer paper is from Moda Scrap that I've been hoarding for a while. ;-) The flower bud is from Altenew, with a few Marth Stewart leaf punches behind it.  The sentiment is from the Stamp Market. The rectangle dot stitch dies are from Jillian Vance Designs. 

Here is the sketch and you can link up your cards here!

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Happy Bee-Day

Hello. I'm playing in the sketch challenge over at The Paper Players today.

I recently picked up a new set of clear stamps at Michaels (their Recollections line) that mostly featured bugs. I was drawn to the bee and dragonfly in the set. Anywho, here is the bee stamped and embossed so that I could color it with Copics. I fussy-cut it out and popped it up on top of the honeycomb with foam tape.  

The designer paper is from Moda Scrap, and the sentiment is from Woodware. 

Thanks for popping in to take a look.  

Thank you very much - SSC359

Hello and welcome. We have a new sketch challenge up over at Sunday Stamps today.  Here is what I did with it.

The flower dies are from The Ton called radiant roses.  I used neenah solar white cardstock to cut the layers out.  Next came some coloring using simon says stamp inks and a blending brush.  The sentiment is also from The Ton.  The background is an unbranded script embossing folder. 

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Sending a little note

Hello. I'm participating in the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches today. What I had in mind and what I ended up with were very far apart. LOL.

The eucalyptus paper is from Concord & 9th.  I cut apart the distress brick die cut from Picket Fence to work in both squares.  The leaf branch is cut from both black and eucalyptus paper and layered together so it stands out a bit more.  The sentiment is from The Stamp Market, and the small dragonfly is an oldie but goodie from Memory Box.

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Happy Easter TSOT#668

Hello and welcome to another sketch challenge over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday. 

The bunny is a stencil I picked up from A colorful life stencils (I think).  The sentiment is an old one from the former Angel Company.  I added some cute clay pastel swirl mix from Pretty Pink Posh to mimic Easter Candy. 

Here is the sketch and you can link up here.

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Just a note - TFC#101

Hello and welcome back. I'm sharing another card for the The Flower Challenge add spring colors challenge #101 today.

The stencil is from Papertrey, Ink and I used Simon Says Stamp inks to blend the colors.   The just a note sentiment is also from PTI.   The rectangle dot stitched die is from Jillian Vance Designs.

Hope you join us! Thanks for stopping by.

Hello - SSC358

Hello. Welcome back to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps. We have a sketch challenge this week and here is what I did with it.

The small hello sentiment is from Altenew.  Designer paper is from Echo Park and the flower dies are from Sizzix. The scalloped tag die is from Jillian Vance Designs - it's called the Mini Pearl tag die set. 

Thanks for stopping by and you can link up your cards here.

Take care of yourself

Hi all. Playing in the Just Add Ink Swirls challenge today.

I used Tim Holtz's Baroque swirl stamp from Stampers Anonymous to stamp the swirl onto watercolor paper. I really loved how it came out, so I decided to cut it down into sections to fit onto an A2 card.  I used dark navy cardstock to layer the panels.  The sentiment is from Pink and Main.  

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Happy Easter

Hello. Playing in two clean and simple challenges today with this Easter bunny card.

The Bunny stamp is an old wood block one from Great Impressions.  I stamped it in Versafine, then heat embossed it with clear so that I could color the bunnies with Copics. 

The sentiment is from Echo Park. I chopped the card down to 4.25 x 4.25 to accommodate the image and prevent it from getting lost. 

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This is going into the following challenges:

CAS ocan Sunday - Easter

Addicted to CAS - Bunny

Hi there - TFC#101

Hello!  
Welcome back to another challenge over at The Flower Challenge. We are looking for you to use Spring Colors in your flower card.

I used a stencil that I picked up at one of my local craft stores. The spring colors are inks from Simon Says Stamp.  That wonderful word die is a CZ design from Simon Says Stamp. 

Hope you will join us!

Wishing you the best day TSOT#667

Hello and welcome back to another sketch challenge over at Try A Sketch on Tuesday.

The rainbow, cloud and sun dies are from Reverse Confetti and colored using copics. I used several layers of grass and popped a few of them up with foam tape to give it a bit of dimension. Same with the smaller cloud. 

Here is the sketch. Link up here.

Spread your wings

Hi there. Playing in the Tic-Tac-Toe challenge over at The Paper Players today.

I went with the middle column across. 

The dragonfly partial die is from Gummiapan.  I highlighted it with a bit of color from a Copic Marker that matched the cardstock I had on hand. 

The sentiment is from My Favorite Things and the stitched dot rectangle dies are from Jillian Vance Designs.

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Happiest of Birthdays - SSC357

Hello.  Time for another challenge over at Sunday Stamps. The challenge is a color or inspiration photo using the prompt below.  

I decided to go with the grapes and created a wine label using Bing A.I. I printed it out on 80lb cardstock and used a label die from PTI to cut it out. 

The grape leaf dies are from Memory Box.  I highlighted them with inks and a white gel pen. The happiest of birthdays sentiment is from The Stamp Market.  The inside of the card is below and the sentiment and wine bottle are from Hero Arts. 

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Happy Anniversary

Hello. I had a few minutes to put a card together for the latest Freshly Made Sketches challenge yesterday.  

The daisy die is made by Memory Box for Simon Says Stamp. I cut it three times, stacked it up for dimension and glued it down over the cut-out bricks.  The sentiment is from MFT stamps and stamped in hickory smoke archival ink. I used a dark gray as the cardbase on this to help make the flowers stand out a bit more. 

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You're in my thoughts - TSOT#666

Hi and welcome back to another sketch over at Try a Sketch on Tuesday.

The stamps and stencils are from Honey Bee and I used inks from Simon Says Stamp pawsitively saturated ink line to color the flowers.  The dot cover die is from MFT stamps.

Here is the link to the TSOT blog to play along.

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Get well soon - SSC356

Hello. Welcome back to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  

The rose is an old red rubber stamp from Gina K Designs. The set was called year of flowers. I used copic markers to color it. The bee is from Picket Fence stamps. I highlighted the wings with some shimmer from Wink of Stella.  The get well sentiment is from My Favorite Things. 

Here is the sketch.

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