Tuesday Morning Sketches #378

Hello! Thank you for stopping by.  I always love it when you visit.  The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and I really love this one.  It's so cute!  And it's a great map for some really cute cards.

Our sponsor is All Dressed Up - such cute images.  I just love Wendy's images.  I am featuring A Star is Born.

A lot of my used this image and although we were thinking somewhat the same color scheme, each of our cards is very different and you're just going to love all the ideas.

My card is white - I promise.  It was very gray yesterday and I just couldn't get good lighting.  The frame is a beautiful blue glitter paper.  I embossed the sentiment using white pearl embossing powder.  It looks almost silvery on the black card stock.  In real life, it's really pretty.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #377

Good Morning! Thank you for stopping by.  The sketch is up at TMS and this one is inspired by Jessi.  She's still on hiatus - I do hope her doctor's can get her mended so she can come back soon.  Sending you happy thoughts Jessi.

I really like her sketch, it's such a great one for scraps and to have some fun with layers.  Here's my card featuring a sweet set by CTMH - I'm sure it's probably retired by now, I've it forever.  Our sponsor this week is Jennifer, an independent CTMH demonstrator.

The stamp set has 3 balls for the snowman build but that would be too big for this layout.  The challenge was to get all the masking done correctly.  This little guy was fun to color, too.  I just used a few Copic markers.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #376

Hello! Thank you so much for stopping by.  I'm sure all the glitter and shine from my card is what caught your eye and brought you here.  LOL

The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's another great go-to sketch by Debbie.  This one is full of possibilities.

Grab your sunglasses....

This card started with the base being from a pack of thank you notes from Big Lots - 20 of them for $1.  They even came with gold matte foil lined envelopes.  I kept the gold frame from the original card and worked inside it.  That set the gold tone.  Before I started this card I had visions in my head of this being a red ornament white snowflakes and big green ribbon.  But as you know, cards take on lives of their own and they decide how they want to dress up.  First, I couldn't find red foil in my stuff.  Second, I used toner paper, so the white opalescent foil wouldn't be white in the end.  So from there the card took on a different look.  I pulled out gold, silver and mint green foils.  I should have glued the hanger part of the ornament up a little higher or made the ornament a little smaller.  But overall, I love this card.

I made the bow from Heidi Swapp gold glitter paper and my 1-2-3 Punch Board.  Does your hands itch after playing in glitter or glitter paper?  Mine sure do!  Anyway, I embossed the black piece with snowflakes embossing folder which you can barely see in the photo.  But what you can see is that I sprayed that panel with silver shimmer spray.

I am loving this card more and more.  I hope it brings you a small measure of inspiration and that you'll join us at the TMS blog.  Oh and don't forget to visit the DT's blogs, too.  Talk about some gorgeous inspiration!  I don't hold a candle to them!

Have a great day.

Tuesday Morning Sketches #375

Hi! Thank you for stopping by, I'm so glad you're here.  The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and it's a really easy one.  Debbie is sponsoring and it's a beautiful stamp set by Graphic 45.

My card features a poinsettia I cut from the Silhouette Online store.  I like this one, it's a little different....

I think my card is a little busy.  I shouldn't have added the patterned paper as the base.  I like it on the flower.  This was an easy card to make and would be an easy one to mass produce.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #374

Hi!  I hope you're doing well.  Thank you for stopping in - I am so glad you're here because I have such a fun card to share with you today.  I am so excited it turned out really well!  The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and I got super creative with it.  Our sponsor this week is Jenee and she's offering a great prize so be sure to head on over to TMS to check it out!

My card features embossing, punches, dies and glitter.

Isn't this lovely?!  I hope you like it as much as I do.  I picture this door being at the front of a lovely townhome.  I used for my base a brick embossing folder by Darice.  My door is made from this beautiful red card stock I picked up at JoAnn's when it was on sale a month ago.  The bottom layer measures about 2 1/2 inches wide and I barely touched the edges with a bit of Barn Door Distress Ink.  For the 2nd layer I deepened the red a bit with more Barn Door Distress Ink and then the top layer I, again, barely inked the edges.  This gave it the depth I was looking for.  The wreath I made from circle dies and a holly leaf punch that I have had for forever and a day.  Then I decorated it with Candy Cane red Stickles and a bow by Mama Element (die).

The card measures 5 x 7 so I had to emboss 2 pieces of card stock to make the brick panel.  There was a slight seam but that was easily covered with gold glitter "garland" which is an old die from MFT Stamps.

I created the door frame with strips of white card stock that I embossed lines into using my Scor-Pal.

Finally the inside of the card has my sentiment - a die from Pink & Main using some Heidi Swapp glitter paper.

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Tuesday Morning Sketches #373

Good Morning! Thank you so much for stopping by.  I am so glad that you're here.  The sketch is up at Tuesday Morning Sketches and our sponsor this week is A Day for Daisies.  My card is featuring a very sweet image called Playing in the Pumpkin Patch.

I had a lot of fun creating this card.  I didn't work in foil like I was originally thinking, but I do love how this card turned out.

I colored the image with my PrismaColor colored pencils and gamsol.  I'd forgotten how much I love the look of blended pencils.  I am using some great fall colors, a burnt orange for the base and some pretty colors that I picked up when card stock was on sale at JoAnn's.  The leaves are from a die set by MFT Stamps.

You simply have to go visit the TMS blog and see the design team's creations.  They are Ahhh-maze-ing!  Wow!   I know I have the best team around and they really outdid themselves this week.

Have a fantastic day!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #372

Hello!  Thank you for stopping by.  The sketch is up at TMS and it's another great go to sketch by Debbie.  Our sponsor is Bugaboo Digi Stamps.

I decided to keep my card pretty clean and simple.  I also tried to do some embossing using some great dies from MFT Stamps, but for the life of me I couldn't get the sandwich right to emboss correctly. So it's very subtle.  I apologize for the lighting, too.  I couldn't get that right either, it started getting gloomy outside.

I'm using some Kraft cardstock for my base that came in the Fall Hero Arts kit.  I didn't like it, it's more a light layering weight than a base weight.  I also used some beautiful copper card stock that came in the kit as well and I do love this!  The image is Fall Fence by Bugaboo.  I did some simple coloring with Copics.  I think it's a cute, pretty much a single layer card that will be great for a notecard.

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