Warm and cuddly

Good morning! Here is a card that I came together pretty easily using two different challenges.

I started off picking the colors using the inspiration photo below from The Paper Players. Then used the sketch from Sweet Sunday to put it all together.

Bear stamp and sentiment come from the former Angel Company. He's colored in Copic's and I added some dimension to the dots on his scarf using some glossy accents. He is cut out using a circle nestie and layered with a stitched circle die from Lil' Inkers.

To create the ribbon in the back, I first colored a piece of white satin ribbon with the G24 Copic marker and let it dry. Added the polka dots using the Polka Dot basic's II stamp set from PTI in Memories delicate rose ink. It is a very dark ink color and matched the color of Copic's that I used to color the image. Score!

Copic colors can be seen below. I had to lay then flat since I used a mixture of Ciao and sketch markers. Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Birthday balloon bouquet

Hi everyone! My boss has a birthday coming up and she deserves something special. Using this weeks CAS(e) this sketch, this is what I came up with.

Balloons were cut out using the die from Papertrey, Ink and then stamped using the Balloon Bash stamp set. I used Colorbox wild cherry ink from MFT to stamp as it gives a nice coverage for solid stamps.

Sentiment is from Birthday Bash sentiments. I had no idea that these sets were both called "bash" until I sat down to write up this blog post. Funny! Anyway, added the flower border using the small flowers in the set that match the flowers in the balloons. Even added a few on the inside using white pigment ink.

Red and white bakers twine used for the strings and then I tied a tiny bow using the Bow Easy. Everything on this card except for the ink I used is from PTI.

Here is the sketch.

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Happy Birthday

Hi everyone! I was inspired over at the Tag you're it! blog to make this card.

The sweet pea stamp is from the former There She Goes. I stamped it in versafine, heat embossed with clear embossing powder and then colored the two sets with Copic's in R81 and R85. 

I fussy cut the three bigger petals out and then attached them using tiny pieces of foam tape to pop them up. Love the dimension it gives.

Tag die is from Quickutz (Lifestyle crafts). I ended up layering the tag with both pink and black cardstock to make it stand out a bit from the big argyle designer paper.

I ran the pink cardstock through a new embossing folder I just picked up from cricut for the cuttlebug called gingham.

Finally, I took a section of white satin ribbon and colored it with the R81 Copic marker, then tied on some black scrappers floss. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Let it snow

Hey everyone! Love this weeks sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches! Here is what I did with it!

In a Christmas mood today and wanted to put something together with red and kraft. Ended up making a snow scene out of a tree stamp (Stamps by Judith) and the snow back ground stamp from MFT.

Sentiment is from PTI from the set Two feet deep. I used white ink from The Stamps of Life made by Colorbox to stamp both the sentiment and falling snow.

Cut out a snowflake from one of my numerous dies in my collection and added some tiny pearls to give it a bit of umph!

Red satin ribbon is colored using the R29 Copic marker and tied with the bow easy.

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Walking the dog

Hi everyone! I just got this really cool new stamp from Stamping Bella and had to ink it up and color it right away!

Not that we get a lot of snow in Washington state, but if we did this would be me and one of my Malamutes. Except they would probably be jumping for joy instead of half covered with the stuff.

Copic's used to color. Faux stitching courtesy of Lil' Inkers designs dies. Decided to use the green in her scarf for the layer and then adhered it onto a dark navy card base.

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Happy Brrrr-thday!

Hi everyone! Here is a tag I created for the Addicted CAS challenge.

I used the tag die from PTI as a starting point and cut it out using rustic white cardstock. The snowflakes are inked up with Fresh Ink in Sicilian Blue and then sprinkled with clear embossing powder and heat set. I stacked the bigger two together and using a tiny piece of foam tape gave it a 3D effect.  Added some light blue pearls to finish it off.

The sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. I colored the white satin ribbon to match the snowflakes using a Copic Marker. Snowflake dies are from Penny Black.

Off to do my Sunday chores! Hopefully I'll get a few minutes in between to get inky! Thanks for stopping by!

Holiday greetings

Hi all! Here is my take on the color challenge over at Less is More, which is to use non-traditional Holiday colors with NO red or green.


I used Kraft cardstock and the snow background stamp from

My Favorite Things. Using colorbox white ink, I stamped the snow then added the sentiment. Which is from Papertrey, Ink and so ink stained I'm surprised it still works.

Lamp die is from Memory Box and cut out twice and layered to give it more depth.

I tried using a light blue cardstock to initially make this card, but it just wasn't working for me. It was hard to see the snow flakes even when I embossed them.  If I could have used red, I would have tied a tiny bow our of ribbon and put it in the center of the lamp post.

I think I'll add that later when I send this out to someone! Wink! Thanks for stopping by!