Hello - SSC384

Hello and welcome back to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.

I went with the pinks and gray in the color palette.  The cherry blossom stamp is an old one from Flourishes, who are no longer in business.  The hello sentiment is from MFT stamps. colored with Copics. 

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Light it up!

Hello. Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today.

This is an old retired set from the flourishes company designed by Marcella Hawley. I colored the Chinese lanterns using Copic markers.  

I was looking in my birthday sets for a banner to go with the sketch and came across this oldie but goodie. 

Love how it turned out. Thanks for stopping by!

Just because

Hello. Playing in a couple of challenges today.  I used the Freshly Made Sketch as a jumping-off point for this one.

The cherry blossom stamp is from the former Flourishes stamp company. I colored the flowers with Copic markers. The sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.  I used the same Copic markers to color the white washi tape. 

Adding this to the flower challenge over at CAS on Sunday challenge too.

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Cherry Blossoms hello - TSOT #508

Hi there. It's Tuesday and that means there is a new challenge over at Try stamping on Tuesday.  

This card turned out to be a 5 x 7 card due to the fact that the cherry blossoms are so huge. They are from Flourishes stamps. Colored with Copic's. Designer paper is from PTI. 

Have a great day - and thanks for popping in. 

You're in my thoughts

Hello. Playing in the Less is More one layer Buds or Petals challenge today.

Cherry blossom stamp is from Flourishes. I stamped it in versafine ink, heat embossed it in clear embossing powder and then colored with Copci's. Sentiment is from WPlus9.

Have a great day!

You are simply amazing

Hello. Playing in this weeks Freshly Made Sketch today.

Gerbera Daisy stamp is from Flourishes and colored with Copic's. Sentiment is from Reverse Confetti. The Butterfly and lattice dies are from Gina Marie.

I found some coral cardstock in my stash that matched the colors in the daisies and used that on the right side.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day.

Also adding this into the SSS Anything goes challenge.

 

to a wonderful friend

Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch and I also used the color combo over at Color Throwdown too! It appears that I was also inspired by the daisy in the picture!

Daisy stamp is from the Flourishes gerber daisy set. Which appears to be only available in a cut file now. I stamped it in MFT hybrid black ink and colored in Copic's.  I decided to add a sentiment to on top of the daisy panel because it looked a little bare. It's from the poppy stamp set from My Favorite Things.

Cardstock is from Bazzill and layered in black. I added the tiny black satin ribbon to coordinate with the sketch.

That is it for today - thanks for stopping by.

FMS135 - spring thank you

Hello! Here is my take on this week's Freshly Made Sketch. I've also added in the Spring Flowers challenge over at Simon Says Stamps.

I think my head or body was slightly tilted when I took
the picture of this card.

Sentiment is from Flourishes. Oval nesties used to cut it out and the yellow layer behind.

I used the fresh daisy die from Simon Says Stamp to create the flowers. I cut them out several times using light yellow cardstock and doubled them up using tiny foam tape. I did add a bit of ink to the edges to highlight them a bit. The leaf die is from Memory Box.

Designer paper has been in my stash for at least 10 years and I have no idea who makes it. It's a 6 x 6 pad that I've had stuck together with a binder clip because I lost the cover to it.  Does that ever happen to you? I think I need to clean out my designer paper cupboard, or at least organize it a bit.

ETA: just saw that the challenge over at Addicted to CAS is off the edge and since I'm off the edge on the leaf...

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Nasturtiums

Hi everyone! I've had this stamp from Flourishes for a while now and really haven't used it all the much. I got this stamp because it reminded me of the my grandmother. She always had nasturtiums growing in her flower garden and they got huge! I wish I had her green thumb.

I stamped this is Versafine and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I find that this combination allows me to get the best detail out of some stamps that you wouldn't get using memento ink.

Colored with Copic's using G21, G24 and G28 on the leaves and Y35, Y38 and R17 on the flowers.

Orange and white cardstock from PTI and the green designer paper is from Memory Box. This card ended up being a 5 x 5 square due to the large stamp.

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You're amazing

Hi everyone! Here is the card I put together for the LIM color challenge. The colors are yellow and green.

The flower stamp is from Flourishes and colored with Copic's. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

White satin ribbon is colored with the same shade of Copic green and tied around the big banner. Banner die is from My Favorite Things.

My last card for LIM didn't have as much white space as they would like; I think this one qualifies. :-)

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Wherever you go

Hi everyone! What an exciting day yesterday! The talented and very sweet Darnell over at Djkardkreations CASED one of my past cards and posted a whole story about it on her blog. Thanks Darnell, and if you haven't seen her work/blog hop on over and take a look here. If you are a new  new subscriber and/or follower, thank you as well!

OK, on to my card for today. I was a little intrigued by this weeks CAS-ual Friday's challenge.

The challenge was to create a  farewell card that is long and NOT a traditional A2 card.

So this is what I came up with. This ended up measuring 4 x 8.5 and will fit into a legal sized envelope.  Vintage cream cardstock used as the card base and the main panel. Stamps are from Flourishes. I stamped them in Versafine and then clear heat embossed them so that I could color with Copic markers.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful weekend! 

Enjoy

Hi everyone! I was playing around over the weekend and trying to come up with some sort of sketch to use with this adorable ice cream cone.

I finally ended up using the deconstructed sketch #114.  However, I turned it on its side.

Ice cream cone stamp is from Flourishes and colored with Copic markers. I decided to use a plaid embossing folder that sort of resembles the markings on the cone on a piece of kraft cardstock. I love how it turned out!

My favorite things fishtail die and circle nesties used to create the award ribbon. Sentiment is from The Paper Studio. Finally, all cardstock is from Papertrey, Ink.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Have your cake

and eat it too! 

Here is my take on two challenges today. Freshly Made Sketches #98 and CASology - Dessert!

Cake and sentiment stamps are from Flourishes. I've had the piece of cake colored (with Copic's ) and sitting in my "to make into a card" pile for a couple of weeks. Glad I finally go to use it!

I made the roses with scrap paper and used a glue dot to adhere them to the card. Leaves are done using scrap paper as well and the Martha Stewart leaf punch. Border punch up top is from Fiskars.

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

Mojo #303 - Enjoy

Hello! I like to stamp up a bunch of images, color them and then they sit on my desk until creativity sparks to make a card. That was the case with this one and this weeks Mojo sketch fit it perfectly!

The Dahlia is from Flourishes and colored with Copic's. I think yellow is so challenging to shade with when it comes to Copic's. Anyway.....

Designer paper is from Provo Craft, yellow and green cardstock is from Bazzill. I used the Martha Stewart leaf punch to create the leaves. The flower tag is a die from Papertrey, Ink and so is the string, lastly the fishtail die is from My Favorite Things.

Thanks for stopping by!