Fabulous Friday

Good Morning!  Actually as you're reading this I am on way to Michigan visiting my cousin.  Please pray for safe travel for me.

Anyway, I got to cheat a little... my daughter participated in my friend Joni's challenge blog Raise The Bar and was selected to be a Guest Designer.  Yay for Hollyanne!  She was so excited.  But since she's the Guest Designer and I'm her Mom, I got to see the challenge a little ahead of time.  I'm so glad, too, because I rarely get to play.   So here's what I did with the sketch...

Continuing my week's orange theme, I pulled out one of my favorite stamp sets - the Spring Kit from All That Scraps and did a little paper piecing.  I am totally loving this card!

Please head on over to Hollyanne's blog and leave her a little comment love.

Supplies:

Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Pumpkin Pie

Paper:  Orange polka dots (Recollections)

Copics:  E00, E02, E29, Y17, YR16, YR20, YR23

Embellishments:  twill & grosgrain ribbons, flower (Recollections), button (my stash),

  embroidery floss

I had so much fun making this card!  I hope you enjoy it, too.  Thanks for stopping by!

Thursdays with Lindsay

Good Morning!  Are you enjoying my fun week of orange?  I sure hope so.  I never knew just how much fun this color could be.  OK so continuing with the theme of the week, I had to have Lindsay's Stamp Stuff play along.  Here's what I did...

First of all, let me say that I think I need to be on a Thorazine drip for taking on this card in the manner in which I did.  Do you see that flower?  It took me an hour to do all that cut work!  Crazy!!  Several years ago I attended a crop.  At this crop there was a young couple there, it was really cool to see a husband and wife tag-teaming the scrapbooking while taking care of their baby.  This man amazed me.  Not that he was into scrapbooking WITH his wife, but the wonderful things he created with his X-Acto knife!  That man could do precision cut work with his craft knife that would compete with any laser cut piece I've ever seen.  I thought he was nuts!  But did admire his work.  I can't do near what he could, but I am pleased with how this turned out.

I did use the sketch from Sketches by Tamara.  Great sketch!  Where I put the flower is supposed to be a sentiment, so I'm not sure if this will qualify for her challenge, but it was fun anyway.  Edit:  I missed the challenge on that sketch anyway!  I keep forgetting to look at my dates!!  And thanks to a friend to point me into another direction for a different challenge, I submit this to My Time to Craft Challenge.

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Black
Paper:  Basic Grey Ambrosia (Mandarin), Uptown Houndstooth (LSS)
Image:  Doodle Flowers (tulip)
Copics:  100, Y17, YG03, YG67, YR16, YR68
Tools:  Craft knife, Magic Matter, eyelet setter, Coluzzle circle cutter
Embellishments:  Eyelets

I do hope you like my card.  Lindsay released a brand new set call Seaside Sketches and it's beautiful.  Be sure to head on over to Lindsay's blog to see what she has in store for you and I know the team has some great stuff to share with you, too.  Thanks for stopping by!  And be sure to come back to my blog later on today for Soft Pencil's Anniversary blog hop.

Sweet Sketch Wednesday #51

Good Morning!  It's another Sweet Sketch Wednesday!  Arlana has another great sketch for us to play with this week and we have a new sponsor (new to me) this week, Roberta from Prairie Fairy Digital Stamps.  She's offering a prize of 5 single images of the winner's choice (db image counts as two). 

This is also my orange week - a week I'm setting aside to play and ponder the color of orange!  But first, here's the sketch...

An easy sketch with so much room for interpretation!  And here's my card...

Yep!  This is the same paper/color combo I used yesterday for my Tuesday Morning Sketches challenge.  I don't have a lot of orange in my collection, but I'm determined to use it!

Supplies:

Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Gable Green, Bazzil Bling

Paper:  The Paper Co - Paws & Claws Kitty Argyle

Copics:  C8, RV000, RV10, W-3, YR16, YR20

Tools:  Cuttlebug, Nestibilities, pop dots

Embellishments:  Prima flowers, Flower brad (Making Memories Spring colors)

I hope you enjoy my card.  Thank you for stopping by!  Head on over to Sweet Sketch Wednesday so you can join in the fun.  Be sure to leave lots of comment love for the design team - they are wonderful.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #47

Good Morning!  Yesterday I posted that this week is going to be my orange week.  I really like the color orange and it's not something I use very often.  So keeping with that idea and my sketch challenge over at Tuesday Morning Sketches, here's my card...

I love this paper!  I got it at Michaels on clearance.  It's actually a scrapbook page base paper and had a border of cats along the bottom.  I cut that off and am just using the pattern.  I also added Bazzil Bling paper and I don't know what the color is really called but I've been calling it Mango.

This week's sponsor is Melissa from MelJen's Designs.  I was thrilled when the DT Coordinator contacted me for sponsoring Tuesday Morning Sketches.  I've been admiring the wonderful designs drawn by the very talented Melissa Jenkins and was more than happy to have them sponsor.  This image was provided by MelJen's Designs and you all know how much I love sunflowers.  I also pulled out a very neglected QuicKutz die, a collection I believe is called Sunshine.

I am also entering this in to The Pink Elephant's challenge which is to use orange.  Do you think they'll let me enter everyday?  Heehee!!

Supplies:

Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Bazzil Bling, Gable Green

Paper:  The Paper Co Studio - Paws and Claws Kitty Argyle

Copics:  B000, C8, E29, E57, RV29, Y06, Y15, Y17, YG00, YG03, YR16, YR20

Stamps/Ink:  Mini Messages (PTI), Rich Cocoa (Memento)

Tools:  Cuttlebug, QuicKutz dies, corner rounder, MS border punch, pop dots

Embellishments:  Pearls (Recollections), Ribbon (Offray)

I hope you'll join me all week for my celebration of orange.  I also hope that you'll head on over to Tuesday Morning Sketches and join in the fun there.  There's a great prize to try to win!  Thank you so much for stopping by!

A Week of Orange!

Good Morning!  Happy Monday to you.  It's the beginning of a new week and a long holiday weekend.  I, for one, am looking very forward to it!!  I am off this weekend to visit a cousin I haven't seen in 15 years and I can't wait to be able to give him a great big hug!!

So I thought I would do something kinda fun this week.  After spending some time on the phone with a very good friend of mine that I haven't talked to in weeks, this idea came to me.  This very dear friend of mine loves the color orange, a color I am very afraid of in my papercrafting endeavors.  So to push me out of my box, I am celebrating orange this week.  Here's the card I made to kick it off...

I started with the inspiration from this week's Crafts 4 Eternity challenge.  The recipe is the sketch, gingham and add some food.  So I set off to work on finding gingham.  I snagged this digi-paper kit from MyGrafico and that turned out to be the easy part.  The hard part was finding an image in my stuff that had food.  Well, what I had really doesn't go with orange, except for the Kiki La Rue image that I have that is holding an ice cream cone - but one of the C4E DT members used that image, so I needed to be original.  OK... do I totally sound like I'm justifying that I bought a new image from All That Scraps?  Good, 'cause I am!  I bought the newest Kiki La Rue Cupcake and isn't she sweet?!

I have decided that I want lime green tights!  I'd probably never find them in my size, but they are the cutest!!  I also used some old stuff, too.  I found these loopy brads in my stash - totally forgot I had them and they worked out perfectly!

Supplies:
Card Stock:  Neenah Classic Crest Solar White, Green Galore, Black, Gable Green
Paper:  JD Digi Designs Cute Animal Backgrounds & Borders
Copics:  E00, E02, E53, Y17, YG00, YG03, YR16, YR20, YR23, YR68
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Candy Stripes Embossing Folder
Embellishments:  Loopy Brads (Making Memories), Ribbon (Offray)

I hope you liked my card and that you'll join me all week for my ORANGE celebration!