Hello TMS friends! Thank you for stopping by. The latest revisited sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and this one was originally posted May 2014.
Card features foil and flowers. Well, flower.
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #610 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
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I chose Lagoon, Flamingo and Peach. I did take a bit of liberty with these shades opting for more vibrant colors.
This card is simple but I think turned out so cool! Firstly, I took a piece of Not Your Mama's card stock from Brutus Monroe. This card stock is 130# and, although not watercolor card, can stand up to the moisture that is added when using Chroma Glazes that are also Brutus Monroe. I chose the pastel shades but when they dry their color is not so much pastel as it is vibrant and gorgeous! While the glaze was drying I die cut the cross hatch design using a die from a die set Tonic Studios released a month or so ago. I pushed the die cut pieces into the glaze. No need for glue! Then when completely dry I added the sentiment which was also part of the recent release from Tonic Studios. Originally my intention was only to impress the pattern into the glaze but I liked it so much that I just left it there.
I hope you'll join us at Color My Heart Color Dare. See you there!
Hello, hello, hello! So happy you decided to drop by. The latest revisited sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and this one is a good one by Debbie.
My card features a collection from Stamperia called Welcome Home (I think). It's been sitting in the corner of my craft room for so long, it was high time to pull it out. I got to make art journal pages, but I don't think I've even made one with it so far but this probably my 2nd or 3rd card.
No stamping, no coloring - just me and a pair of scissors. I cut out all the elements and just put my card together. It was that easy! It still took a long time to make, but only because I was listening to a thrilling audiobook and stopped to just listen. LOL!
I do hope you like the card and it inspires you to pull out supplies you may have forgotten or been hoarding. Please come on over to Tuesday Morning Sketches and leave the girls some love, too!
Hello friends! Thank you for stopping by. The next celebration sketch is posted and we're ready to have some fun.
My card features dies and paper from Brutus Monroe. I saw this really cute card in a recent edition of the newsletter from 12x12 Cardstock - this is a great shop. If you've never purchased from them, I highly recommend them. I placed an order and it was shipped the very same day! Wonderful service and selection. Anyway, the card idea is by their design team member Kate. I thought it would be perfect for this sketch. What do you think?
It's kind of fun, but honestly, I just felt it uses too much card stock. The top opens to the right and the bottom to the left. It would be really cute to make the bottom a pocket and slip in a gift card.
I hope you join us - see you at the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog.
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #608 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
This challenge is....
Hello friends! Thank you for stopping by. It's a special month at Tuesday Morning Sketches - we're 15 years old. I cannot believe I started this blog 15 years ago - time has just flown by. We're going to celebrate this whole month by revisiting sketches from 2014. I know, I should have picked 2015 - but I did this for a reason.
My card features the June Tonic Craft Kit. There's just something about citrus that makes me really happy. Now why did I pick 2014? It's because we still had the very talented Jessi Fogan with us. I miss her dearly. If you've followed TMS for a long time you'll remember her creativity and... ahem... sense of humor. Still she was so kind and loved her family so much, raising an autistic son. So we're starting off this celebration by remembering Jessi.
This picture isn't the greatest, but I had to take it outside early in the morning - which has been the only time we've had sunshine. Every day by mid-morning it's cloudy and by late afternoon the thunderstorms start.
I stamped the different citrus stamps that came in the kit on the base panel, matting to a piece of orange glitter card. Then I made the flags using scraps of paper, including the same orange glitter card. Then I made the orange using a larger circle die and then layering the dies that came in the kit to create a cut open orange. I added the leaves because I think it looks pretty.
I do hope you'll join us for the challenge and because it's our birthday - there's presents all month long!
Hello friends. Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your visit. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketch and I think you might find this one rather fun!
My card features svg cuts that I got from the Silhouette Design Store, foils from Brutus Monroe and card and wave die from Tonic Studios. Check this cutie out....
Here you can see the shine of the foil and a bit of glittery goodness on the sentiment. This card was a joy to create! I hope it inspires you to have some fun with stuff in your stash as it did me!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #606 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
This challenge is....
I used Journey, Royal and Capri.
My card features a stencil and texture paste from Brutus Monroe, the new Foil Fusion images from Tonic Studios as well as sentiments.
Hope you join us!
Hello friends. Thank you so much for stopping by - the latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a great one from Debbie. I used it 3 times. You will absolutely recognize it when you see the cards posted here or on Facebook and/or Instagram.
But first....
I hate making sympathy cards but they tend to be the prettiest. This one features the new Foil Fusion images from Tonic Studios as well as their new embossing folder called Botanical Beauty. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.
I hope to see you over at the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog - come join us!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a fun one. But honestly, I cheated. I created this sketch based on last month's Tonic Studios craft kit.
Check out my candy box card...
Isn't this cute!? I love how this turned out. I hope you love it, too. Please join us in the fun. We'll see you over at the TMS blog!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #604 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
This challenge is....
I'm using Flamingo, Ballerina, Clover and Limeade. I am also featuring foilable stickers from Brutus Monroe and flower/sentiment images from Crafty Meraki. This is a simple, single layer (basically) card that will only take a single stamp to mail.
I also recently purchased a Minc machine, so I pulled out some Poly-something card panels from GinaK. It's so hard to photograph the silver foil that I used on the butterfly and the background. It's there though and looks great in person!
Hello friends! Thank you for stopping by. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's really simple. It's a good one for washi tapes, die cuts or as I did, embossing folders.
My card was made using the 3D Pretty Petal Trellis embossing folder from Tonic Studios. This is not my idea, I totally CASE'd DT member Filomena's technique.
Filomena did bright colors on hers but I kept mine very light. This picture doesn't do it justice! The sentiment is from the brand new Foliage and Simple Sentiments die set.
I do hope you'll join us - c'mon, it'll be fun!
Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed a nice extended weekend. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's an easy one. But feel free to make it a fun fold like I did.
My card features BRIGHTS - yes, I played with brights. Not generally my go-to color palette. I actually started out my idea for a special little boy in my life who is turning 6 (gasp!) but the printed paper doesn't work - but I went with what I had and now it's just a bright greeting card.
I do hope you'll join us at the TMS blog and be sure to visit the design team and leave them some love. See you there!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #602 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
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What a great color combo! It's very hard to photograph purple. Royal (eggplant) looks black but hopefully you can see the difference of the frame which is eggplant and the sentiment that is truly black. My card features dies from Spellbinders, an embossing folder from Tonic Studios and a sentiment die set from Scrapbook.Com.
Hello friends! Thank you for stopping by. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a fabulous sketch by Debbie.
My card features products from Brutus Monroe and I am so pleased with how this turned out.
Isn't that pearl shine gorgeous! I just love it.
I do hope you'll join us at TMS. Leave some love for the team!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by! The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and we're collaborating with our friends at Double Trouble Paper Crafting. Please visit either blogs for details!
My card features Retro Rainbow papers from Brutus Monroe and Floral stamp from Tonic Studios. I'm not sure how this using anything old from my stash, but in my stash nonetheless and needed some attention!
The patterns of the papers remind me of crazy fun socks so why not use them!!
I hope you'll join us, you have plenty of time as this challenge runs 2 weeks.
Hello! It's time for another challenge at Birthstone Challenge. This challenge will run until June 15th. The birthstones are Pearl and Emerald and the twist is Engagement/Wedding/Anniversary.
My card for this challenge is made from a paper pad I have had forever! I don't know how long this has been in stash but it's perfect for this challenge. If you can't tell, I am showcasing pearl. I did pair it with with a neutral Kraft and it's absolutely beautiful!
All the dies are from Tonic Studios - some from different memory books sets and the big daisy is from the Blooming Bouquet set. This turned out so pretty... took most of the day to put it together, but the outcome was worth the time.
I hope to see you over at Birthstone Challenge.
Hello. Thanks for stopping by. I have a card I am so proud of for my Brutus Monroe card share.
Have you ever received a trinket or box or something that you absolutely cherished and it was displayed on a bookshelf? That's what my card is all about....
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I used the Brutus Monroe Die of the Month (April) Snowglobe. First off, I washed some Pearl Aqua Pigment over some watercolor paper. Once it was dry I die cut all the pieces from the die set. The base of the snowglobe was die cut from a piece of cardstock that I covered in embossing ink and then embossed with Bubbly embossing powder. This, if you can't tell by the name, is a champagne gold embossing powder that is absolutely beautiful!
Putting the snowglobe together to create this beautiful winter scene was accomplished with lots of dimensional foam tape.
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I created the base using woodgrain card stock from Lawn Fawn. It was white until I recolored it with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. I cut some strips and adhered with dimensional foam tape to create the shelves and then added some books onto those shelves using the Spectacular Spines washi tape. Before adding the snowglobe to the shelf, I had to make it extra special....
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I ADDED LIGHTS! I have always wanted to put lights in a card. I was on a design a couple of years ago for iCrafter. On this team was a super talented lady, Amanda Stevens, who also owns Pear Blossom Press which offers EZ-Light. These really are easy, you don't have to figure out anything except placement!
I hope you like my card and find inspiration from it.
Thank you for visiting.
Hey friends! Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your visit. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a fun one. I enjoyed the creative outlet this card gave me while making it.
My card features Tonic Studios Craft Kit called Boots and Bouquets. This is a lovely 2D set with stamps and matching dies. Although it looks gray in the photo, the card I used is Blue Frost Pearlescent Card. I enjoyed watercoloring with watercolor pencils and Zig Real Brush markers.
The background die I used is also in the kit. I stamped the image on Tim Holtz watercolor paper with embossing ink and used Raven detail embossing powder from Brutus Monroe. When I finished coloring the images I "washed" the background with watery Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide ink. I added some die cut leaves behind the oval cut image. I embossed the sentiment on the same Blue Frost paper.
I hope you can draw some inspiration from my card and that you'll play along. Please leave some love for the team!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #598 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
This challenge is....
Shades of Pink, Green and Yellow
My card for you today is so girly and so pretty. I am featuring flower dies and rectangle dies from Pink & Main and the watering can is from a Tonic Studios Craft Kit called Summer Garden.
Here you can see that shine of the metallic card I used. And to see those beautiful flowers and the stitched detail from the rectangle die I used.
I do hope you'll join us for this color challenge!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by! I appreciate your visit. Please leave a comment so I know you were here. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's such an easy sketch with simple elements that you'll use it again and again.
My card features some new products from Tonic Studios...
Okay, well maybe only one new product from Tonic Studios. This features the most gorgeous 3D embossing folder from Tonic that was released this past week - it's called Pretty Petal Trellis. I embossed it on some white card then I colored with pink and gold embellishment mousse. I also used Bubblegum Pink Classic Card and Glazed Chestnut Pearlescent card. The sentiment is also a Tonic Studios die that was gifted to me. I did add some gems that are from Brutus Monroe.
I do hope you'll join us for the challenge. We'll see you over at TMS.
Hello hello hello! Thank you for stopping by! I do appreciate you came by. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches - pretty easy elements.
My card features products from Brutus Monroe March 1 release.
This is the Sentiments of Wings stamp set and the Build a Butterfly stencil. I created the butterfly using Pumpkin Velveteen glaze and Black Pearl Chroma Glaze. After I colored I tried applying Opal Chroma Glaze to give it some sheen - it worked, but it picked up all the other colors and smeared a little. I'm not mad about it at all - it gave shadow and depth and interest.
I do hope you'll join us at TMS for the challenge. I think you'll enjoy it. Leave some leave for the team!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. Color My Heart Color Dare #596 is up and ready for your fun and creativity!
This challenge is....
BLACK, BROWN plus 1 OTHER COLOR
Interesting color palette and it was a challenge for me for sure! I have to admit I took to Pinterest for guidance. There wasn't much that inspired me, which was unusual, but it did remind me of a paper pack I have had for age.
I pulled out this paper pad which is black and kraft. I thought it was perfect for this pocket watch I made from the Clocks and Cogs Tonic Craft Kit - which was the first ever craft kit I got when I became a subscriber. The watch is actually made from cream card stock and Majestic Gold specialty card but this picture just doesn't do the card justice. It's been so ugly here, it's difficult to get a good picture.
I hope you'll join us for this color challenge. See you there!
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your visit.
For today's card share - this honestly was a labor of love. You see, I am not so great with a craft knife, but patience, perseverance and a sore finger, I created what my mind saw!
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This is actually a stencil! I traced the image onto some white card stock and then proceeded to take the next couple of hours to cut it out using a craft knife. We all admire people with knife skills - kitchen or craft room. I remember going to a crop years ago and watching a guy cut out a page for his wife's scrapbook. I'm telling you - this guy was a human laser cutter with that knife. I was so envious!
Anyway, after I cut out the image and put in LOTS of dimensional foam tape to section off the dragon from the book and filled it with sequins that I have had in stash for a lot of years! As I am organizing my craft room I am discovering a ton of supplies that I need to use.
I absolutely love the sentiment I chose for this card. It says "Growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional." Is that not the most perfect for a storybook theme?
Well, what do you think?
Hello! Thank you for stopping by. I appreciate your visit. The latest sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches.
My card features Brutus Monroe products, Inspirational Wreath and Vines A2 Pierce die.
I colored the image with various Copic markers. I love the A2 pierce plates from Brutus Monroe, they only have a couple and they are wonderful!
I do hope you'll join us at TMS for the challenge. Leave some love for the team!
Hello! Thanks for stopping by. I am so proud of my project that I am sharing with you today. I have recently discovered the art of folios. I am enamored by making these!! I recently made one for my cousin who just had a baby. That was the start. I'm currently working on one for my sister as sort of a yearbook but just for her 2nd grade class. The school's theme was Disney and my sister chose Mary Poppins. I am having so much fun with it!
Okay but back to this one... I actually started creating this folio about a week or so before the Mar 1 release. Christopher Alan had sneak peeked the paper pad and that got my wheels churning. I found this folio on MayMay Made It that Shannon designed. I really loved it but I needed a 6x6 size so I went about to figuring out those measurements. I had to do math! Eeek. LOL
Here's one photo but it's easier to see all the details on the video.
Here are some other photos, but please go to my Instagram page @stampedbym to see the video. Blogger won't let me post it here.
I love how this turned out and I am looking so forward to making more!
