Tuesday Morning Sketches #82

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday which means there is a great sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches to play with and a great sponsor!  We have Tiffany's Doodles joining us this week and my card features one their beautiful images.

The image is one of my favorites - this is a dogwood branch.  Now the ones I have seen are more creamy in color, so I went more vintage colors.  I hope you like it.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Creamy Caramel, Always Artichoke, Very Vanilla
Stamps/Ink:  Mini Messages (Papertrey Ink), Desert Sand (Memento)
Copics:  B95, E30, E34, YG63, YG67
Tools:  Cuttlebug, Textile embossing folder, circle cutter (CM), border punch (Martha Stewart)
Embellishments:  gold grosgrain ribbon (Offray), pearls (Recollections)

Hope to see you over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  It's the beginning of a new week although many have the day off today - me included.  I'm looking forward to getting some stamping done today.  Speaking of stamping, be sure to join us for this week's Happy Monday Challenge.  We have a great sketch for you this week.  Here's what I did with it...

This is a great sketch with easy elements and so much possibility.  I had fun with this... I recently sold a bunch of my cards so I used that money to get some new matstacks and this was is called Hippie Chic - isn't it just.... groovy!  Haha!  I love these colors!  I used the super sweet dollar digi called In His Time.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie, Tempting Turquoise
Paper:  Hippie Chic matstack (DCWV)
Copics:  100, B95, B97, B99, BG05, G02, YG00, YG03, YR16, YR68

Anyway, I hope you join us!  Have a super great week.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #81

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday so that means there is a new challenge over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  It's time for the Judged Challenge and no sketch this week.  This week we're doing a super easy technique for a Folded Frame.  We're sponsored by StampFairy this week, you've seen Gerda's adorable images featured here on my blog.

I just love this folded frame look - it's like a present that was just opened and the image is the gift inside.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Whisper White (SU!), Black (Recollections)
Paper:  Girlfriend Kaliedescope
Copics:  E30, E34, E53, RV02, RV10
Tools:  Scor-Pal
Embellishments:  black satin ribbon (Offray)

I hope you join us over at Tuesday Morning Sketches - it'll be a lot of fun.

Happy Monday Challenge...

Good Morning!  Deedee Digis has gone through some reconfiguration and now I am exclusively part of the Deedee's Digis Happy Monday Challenge and I am soooo excited.  There are new and seasoned DT members on this team and I am so thrilled with the direction that Deedee has taken.  There's a new store, the Craft blog and the very own challenge blog.  This is so much fun!!  So are you ready for this week's Happy Monday Challenge?  It's a really easy and super fun one - All Buttoned Up.  This means you need to have buttons, real or faux, featured on your cards or projects.  I have both to share with you.

First... since its Valentines Day, this is what I made for Hollyanne to give to two of her friends.

This was so much fun and so easy to make - this is an envelope gift bag.  Inside is a lip gloss and 3 chocolate bars, just a pre-teen girl loves!

This is a close-up of the front of the giftie - I am featuring Valentine Tweet, a sweet little $1 digi set.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Neenah Classic envelope
Paper:  Love paper (Me & My Big Ideas), Dots paper (Chatterbox)
Copics:  E04, E29, E30, E34, E57, R00, R11, Y17
Tools:  Scor-Pal, Scor-Tape, Square Scallops Nesties (Spellbinders)
Embellishments:  white satin ribbon (Offray), button (my stash), brads (Bazzill)

And now for my card - this features a brand new $1 digi called Pocketful of Joy.  Now this is a cat I could actually like!

This card features soft sweet colors in shade of green, blue and lavender.  The brads didn't photograph well, they are actually really bold purple.  The layout came from a great sketch over at Sketch Saturday.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, Brocade Blue (SU!)
Paper:  Lavender Rosebuds (Paper Pizzazz)
Copics:  100, B95, B97, B99, R11, V93, V95, Y06, Y17
Tools:  Oval cutter (CM)
Embellishments:  flower (unknown), button (my stash), brown embroidery thread

I hope you join us over at the new Happy Monday Challenge and be sure to visit the new store.  There is a sale going on.  The coupon code is NEWSTORE for 50% off your entire order at checkout!!  Have a Happy Monday.

Love is in the Air Blog Hop

Good Morning!  Happy Saturday!  It looks to be a gorgeous day here in my neck of the woods, the sun is shining finally after 3 days of miserable gray.  Now yesterday was the start of a weekend long customer blog for Sweet n Sassy Stamps.  Everyone who wants to play along will receive an adorable free digi and a chance to win a $25 shopping spree!!  All you have to do is create a card or project that is love themed and use any Sweet n Sassy Stamps (stamps or digis) and link up.  So easy and so much fun.  Already there are some pretty awesome cards linked up so you're going to want to hop around and check back throughout the weekend for more links.  Here's my card....

I kept my card fairly simple - the same I feel that love should be.  Simple... plain... just out there with no embellishments.  My card features Cocoa's Heart and a sentiment from the Valentine's Sentiments digi set.

Now here's a close-up of the image and you can see that I did some pretty intricate cut work - again, another definition of love - love is complicated and intricate and has all these little details to it.  Love should be obvious but with a intricacy to keep it interesting.

Challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks - Valentines Day
Crazy 4 Challenges - Hearts
Card Patterns - sketch
Our Creative Corner - fussy cutting

Now to join in the hop visit the rules page here.  To link your project, you do that here.

I hope you like my card and thank you so much for stopping by.  Be sure to head on over to the SNSS Store, too, there's a clearance sale!!!

Happy Birthday Deedee Blog Hop!

SURPRISE Deedee!!

Good Morning everyone!!  If you're here because this is a favorite Friday stop for Stamp Fairy, please scroll down, but you're more than welcome to join us in wishing Deedee of Deedee's Digis a very happy birthday.

My personal message to you, sweetie.... My birthday wishes for you are... health, happiness, prosperity, devotion, love and friendship.  May these blessings be in abundance for you.  I am so thankful that you are my friend.  Happy Birthday!!

 I created this card to celebrate Deedee's birthday with her sweet set called Happy Bird-day. This sweet set features the sweet bird and cupcake as a single image, but I cut them apart and it also has 3 very sweet sentiments.  I did make this a fun, festive card by making a shaker card.  I did put too many micro-beads, but still it shake, shake, shakes.

Here's a close up to see all the little beads and the pretty glitter paper.  I hope you like it.
Thank you so much for stopping to by to celebrate Deedee.  Your next stop on the hop is Kelly's blog.  Now, if you've visited and commented each blog, your last stop is the Crafting with Deedee's Digis blog.  Leave a comment there and you have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate!!  Have fun!!

StampFairy Friday

Good Morning!  Well, you've only got a few more days to work on the Valentine's Day cards and treats, so I have a card that will hopefully inspire you.  This is featuring this week's freebie from StampFairy....

Isn't he so sweet?  I just love how he's peeking out of the heart!  I did use a sketch from IC Sketches again this week - I've really fallen in love with their sketches.  They're easy to use and so much fun.

Supplies:
Card stock:  Neenah Classic Crest, Real Red
Paper:  Red collection (Recollections), other paper unknown
Copics:  C8, C10, E30, E33, R27, R29, W-3
Stamps/Ink:  Sentiment from For Someone (TGF), Tuxedo Black (Memento)

I hope you enjoy my card, now head on over to StampFairy to grab the Toby freebie and see the other new releases featuring Toby.