Get well soon - TSOT#664

Hello and welcome to another sketch challenge at Try a Sketch on Tuesdays.  Here is the card I made and the sketch for you to use.

 

The sun ray is blended using bright yellow ink from Pink Fresh studio.  All the dies are from different companies that worked well together to create this get-well card.  The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.  I used Copic markers to highlight the clouds and popped them up using foam tape. 

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Have a fintastic day

Hello! Playing in the Freshly Made Sketch tonight.

I decided to stamp something other than flowers for a change. 

Stamps and dies are from Lawn Fawn. I used a Tim Holtz thinlits die on the lefthand side to represent bubbles.  Then I backed it with some darker blue water-featured scrapbook paper, which you can’t see anyway. Pft. 

The wave embossing folder is an old one from Provo Craft that the orca is riding on. He is cut out several times and stacked together for dimension.

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Mixed media Christmas tag

Hello. I'm playing in The Paper Players tag you're it challenge today.

I created a mixed media tag using distress inks, and a few stamps from Park Lane and Lawn Fawn. The dies are a mix of Tim Holtz Sizzix and Simon Says Stamp. I finished it off with a splatter of rustic wilderness re-inker and tied on a few bows made from twine.

The background is a sheet of music that was heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

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Simon Says Stamp

#caffeineplease

Hello! Second card today - this is another one for the Spring/Summer Coffee lovers blog hop.

Coffee cup stamps are from Art Impressions. The set is made to use for gift cards. The sentiment is from Planner Stamps and the "pull here" that I stamped on the tag is from Lawn Fawn. 

Flowered cardstock is from Joann's Park lane brand and is paper pieced. Copic markers used to color the cup.

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Birthday Balloon

Hi there. Playing in the sketch challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches today.  I turned it on it's side and turned it into a balloon.

Die, stamp and green cardstock are all from My Favorite Things. The twine is from Lawn Fawn, recycled from the packaging they send you when you order from them.

I used fresh ink in mojito to stamp the birthday sentiment and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Kept this one clean and simple to use in my masculine card stash. Thanks for stopping by.

Hello - FMS377

Hello - playing in this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

Crocus stamps are from Pretty Pink Posh and colored with Copic's. I fussy cut them out and popped the front one up with foam tape. Quilted cover plate is from Lawn Fawn.

Have a great weekend!

Yappy Birthday

Hello. Playing in the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge today - the theme is Animal Antics. I created this for one of my co-workers who is a dog lover.

Dog stamps are from My Favorite Things and colored with Copic's. Pop up card die is from Lawn Fawn.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Just saying

Hello. Playing in The Paper Players sketch challenge today. This also uses "bits and pieces" from my bits box that works for the challenge over at Less is More.

I literally had the frog, the leaf background panel and the leaves cut out in my recycled MFT box that sits on the right side of my stamping desk. I used the sketch to put it all together.

The green leafy background started out with just distress oxide inks, then I stamped the leaf BG stamp onto it with versamark and heat embossed with clear powder. Well.....that covered the whole card, not just the leaves. It was kind of cool to look at an angle, but it really didn't show up. So, I stuck it in my stamp platform and stamped it again with dark green ink and embossed it again. Liked it and it went into my bits box, and now to use on this card. Frog is from Your Next Stamp, colored with Copic's and cut out with my Brother Scan N Cut and then popped up using foam tape. Sentiment is from Lawn Fawn.

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CAS shaker card

Hello. Playing in the Just Us Girls wild card week, and they're looking for CAS.

I used distress oxide inks to create the background. Chameleon is colored with Copic's. All stamps are from Lawn Fawn.  Stitched window frame die is from My Favorite Things.

ETA: adding this into the Cropstop Challenge.

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Hello, spring

Hello!  Playing in the TGIF Challenge of card in a box today.

I used the Lawn Fawn scalloped box die as the base for this.  The back of the box disappeared in the background in this photo. Sorry about that, it's dark and gloomy here today.

Cut out 5 tulips and colored them with Copic's. (tip, color both sides) and used thin double sided tape to adhere them. I have no idea who makes this die, tried to find it on numerous websites. I think it might be retired. I really don't like the white accent dots that I put on the tulips now. Grr...Oh, well. It is what it is.

Grass die is from Hero Arts. It is also colored with Copic's on both sides. The Hello is from My Favorite Things. Gingham paper is from A*muse.

This is very bright and spring like in real life. Thanks for stopping by.

Hi! from the pack

Hello. I just got this really super cute stamp from Whipper Stamper Designs and couldn't wait to color it up. It just so happens to fit in with this weeks Simon Says Stamp Furry Friends challenge this week.

Stamped in Lawn Fawn jet black ink and then colored with Copic's. The Hi! sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh.

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OLC stars

Hello. Playing in the one layer card challenge over at Less is More. They're looking for stars!

I dug out an old Papertrey, Ink set called Around and About. Kept it clean and simple with a lot of white space!

Inks: Hero Arts red and blue, Lawn Fawn Butter.

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Stay cool

Hello. Decided to play around a bit with the Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop challenge. 
The sentiment is pretty accurate right now in most of the US with this heat wave we're having!


I used a lot of different companies products to create this card.

Coffee cup die is from Paper Smooches. Sentiment and tropical foliage is from My Favorite Things.

I used a sponge and the butter ink pad from Lawn Fawn to create the halo around the coffee cup. Icut the cup three times and layered them one on top the other to create some dimension. The flower is crape paper, which I thought went well with the "summer" theme.


Off to get some more drugs in me - I some how caught a summer cold. Hope it's short lived. Thanks for stopping in.

Color week #389 at Just us Girls

Hi everyone. It's a color challenge this week over at Just Us Girls, and I'm still guest designing for it...so here is my take.

I had to dig around to find some peach ink, luckily I had a mini cube from Hero Arts. The pink and green ink is also from HA but from the Kelly P line. I used Butter from Lawn Fawn for the lemon. It's pretty close, huh?

Flower and leaf stamps are from Stamplorations. These stamps are designed by Dee's artsy impressions. Love this little set and I've used it in so many ways.

Die is from Pretty Pink Posh. After cutting it, I used some foam tape to pop it off of the white card base. Sentiment is from Avery Elle.








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Project of the week - stamped notebook cover

Hi everyone. It's my turn (Laurie) to offer up a project of the week over at The House That Stamps Built and I came up with this cute little notebook. It's actually one that I picked up at my Local Stamp Store for $1 and I recovered it.

Here are the supplies that I used:
I saved the flimsy kraft cover and used it as a template.
Stamps and Ink
Bone folder
Red line tape or super sticky tape of your choice (you'll need it to tape the paper pad back into your new cover)
Magnets (torn off of the old cover)
Glue dots (to adhere magnets back onto your new cover)
Die - just a note from Lawn Fawn

After measuring out how wide and long my cover needed to be, I added a decorative border using a stitched die. I then measured out where the folds needed to be. I just copied it off the template and marked it with a pencil, then scored it on my score board.

I used one of the stamps from the flower power set (10207-E, Flower Cluster Solid) with some bright pink pigment ink to randomly stamp the cover. Then I used Fabrika Decoru in dark night for the flower centers. Adhered the magnets back on and finished it off with the sentiment.

I always have one of these in my car and use it all the time to jot down things I need to remember. I've gone through quite a few over the years and when I found these at my LSS, I was happy that I could make my own and inexpensively. Some of the fancier one's get kind of pricey.

I hope this inspires you to check at your local stamp/scrapbooking stores or even the $1 stores for these little gems and stamp up your own.

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