Tuesday Morning Sketches #135

Good Morning!  I hope you're all doing well.  I ended up staying home yesterday, I just couldn't breathe or sleep.  Ugh!  Do you have any idea what it's like to be home and not be able to sit at your craft table for more than 30 minutes?  Ugh!!  I actually got up at my normal time and showered, but I went right back into pjs and made the necessary calls - 1st to my carpoolers, 2nd the call in line and 3rd to my boss.  Then I went back to sleep and slept until 10:00.  Another ugh!  I don't like sleeping that long.  Now I had a sleep and Benadryl hangover.

Anyway, let's get to this week's challenge at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  We're sponsored this week by Digi Doodle Shop.  What a fantasic digi shop - this one meets both the cutesy, fun tastes to beautiful, vintage tastes.  This beautiful image I used today is from Digi Doodle Shop and I just want to say thank you to Judy for giving it to me to play with.

This baby girl is soooo adorable!  She was so easy to color and she fit in well with my sketch.  I used some sweet papers from the Country Drive pack by Echo Park (my favorite papers!) and then added some hand-made embellishments, texture and a little sweet sentiment.

Here's my hand-made flowers.  You know, when one you're home sick you just want to lay around and veg in front of the TV?   Well, there's nothing ever really one, but I did manage to see a couple scrapbooking shows on PBS.  One of them is called Scrapbook Soup.  Well it inspired me to come back to my card and add some little hand-made flowers.  I am really pleased with how my card turned out.

Please join us this week over at Tuesday Morning Sketches.  Enjoy your day!

Supplies:
Image: Baby Girl (Digi Doodle Shop)
Cardstock: Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette, Gable Green
Paper: Country Drive (Echo Park)
Stamps/Ink:  Baby's Circus (SNSS), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Copics: E000, E00, E02, E04, E30, E33, G00, G02, R00, RV000, RV10, RV02
Tools: Cuttlebug, Paisley embossing folder, flower punches
Embellishments: mini-brads (Queen & Co), button (StampingScrapping), baker's twine (SNSS)

Love to Create Challenge #4

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a great weekend.  Mine was very busy and on top of it all I got hit with something.  I don't want to all it a head cold, but I don't feel sick.  I just haven't been able to breathe in and out of my nose.  Not fun!  So because breathing seems to be an important function in life, it's been very difficult to rest lately.  So I don't have a Paper Pretties card to share, but fortunately I finished this card a few weeks ago, so I do have something to share with you.

This week's Love to Create challenge is....

Stitching (real or faux)

My Monthly Card Traders group's challenge was to create a double pocket card.  So this is what I came up with an adorable image from this week's sponsor Robyn's Fetish.

Now is this not a happy card?!  I saw this daisy and knew it was perfect for this particular card style.  My stitching was accomplished by paper piercing and white gel pen.

And here's the piece that slips out to reveal it's message.

I hope you join us at Love to Create - we love seeing what you create.

Supplies:
Image: Daisy (Robyn's Fetish)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Certainly Celery
Paper: Prints Tempting Turquoise, Prints Certainly Celery
Copics: R11, W-0, W-3, Y06, YG00, YG03, YG06
Tools: Paper Piercer, Tag punch, Arch Lattice edger punch (MS), Triangle embossed edger (MS), oval cutters (CM), white gel pen
Embellishments: Lemonade seam binding (The Beary Scrap), daisy (unk)

MTME Pretty Patterns #49

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Hi! Thanks for coming back.  It's time for another Pretty Pattern for My Time Made Easy.  I really like using words as a focal image so I am really pleased with this card.  I also just discovered this AWESOME digi paper pack in the MTME collection.  So pretty....

As you know, I struggle with photographing purples.  Trust me, this is a beautiful card in person!  I just can't seem to get my lighting right!  Urrggh!!!  I created the main image a bit bigger than intended so my focal image sort of hides some of the other elements - but I still like it.  I hope you do, too.

Come play with us at My Time Made Easy - there's still time to play along with Pretty Palette, too.  Pretty Palette and Pretty Patterns are a winning combination.

Supplies:
Images: My Little Friend, So Fortunate
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Perfect Plum
Paper: Plum Pretties
Copics: G99, V91, V93, V95
Tools: Cuttlebug, Fantasy Floral emb folder
Embellishments: white satin ribbon (Offray)

Delightful Challenges

Good Morning Everyone.  I hope you're all doing well.  I had a day off yesterday, of course it was spent running a child from the orthodontist to the dentist back to the orthodonist, but hey - it was a day off.

This week's Delightful Challenges challenge is a fun one....

Use Patterned Paper

This is the perfect opportunity to use the wonderful digi papers that Digital Delights by Louby Loo has to offer.  That's the opportunity I took and my features a fun pattern from the recently released Fabulous Fifties paper pack.

I haven't made one of these cards in awhile.  The tutorial is on SCS for a flap card is here.  I also added ticket sentiments and then (not pictured) and little strip of more patterned paper to create a pocket.  The idea here is to slip in a gift card.

I created the flower myself.  Let me just say this blunty, I stink at making ribbon flowers.  I watch so many You Tube videos and I still can't get it.  But this one turned out better than many of the others I attempted.  Buh-lieve me.

Anyway, I hope you join us at Delightful Challenges this week.

Supplies:
Image: Fabulous Fifties digi paper, Ticket Sentiments
Card stock: White card stock, Pink Pirouette
Tools: Cuttlebug, Swiss Dots emb folder, Coluzzle circle cutter, Dots border punch (MS)
Embellishments: Pink satin ribbon, ribbon rose

Tuesday Morning Sketches #134

Good Morning!  It's Tuesday so it's time for another sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches and this week's challenge is sponsored by Pixie Dust Studios.  DT member Kathy created our sketch for us.

I'm really disappointed in my card and I really should've made another, but time wasn't on my side.  So this is what I have to share with you....

I did incorporate the color challenge from My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette.  The colors are gorgeous, I just think I should've done more with the layers than I did.

Supplies:
Image: Catching Your Heart
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Kraft, So Saffron, Chocolate Chip
Paper: Everyday Blessings (PTI)
Copics: B00, B02, E000, E00, E02, E30, E33, E34, E37, E53, E57, G99, R02, Y06, Y11, YG63, YG67
Embellishments: Roses (Michaels), Kraft grosgrain ribbon (Offray)

Paper Pretties Monday

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Hi again!  Thanks for coming back for the Paper Pretties Monday post.  This week's challenge is called...

Spring

I think the word itself is open for interpretation.  It may lead you to play with flowers or plants images.  It may lead you play with pastel colors.  So with these thoughts in mind, you may be confused with my card.  I am playing along with challenge that said to do black and white with a splash of color.  Well, I wanted my splash of color to be yellow.  Yellow screams Spring to me, so I wanted everything else to only enhance and make that color pop!

This adorable image and sentiment is part of a new set called Rosebud.  He is sooo cute peeking out of the center of that rose.

I did use a sketch from The Sweet Stop to help me put the card together.  Their spin this week is to use punches or dies.  And as I mentioned earlier, the black and white with a splash of color came from Our Creative Corner.

Supplies:
Image: Rosebud
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Black, Sahara Sand
Paper: Black & White digi paper by JPDesigns (ACOT)
Copics: R02, R11, W-0, W-2, W-3, Y06, Y11, YG63, YG67
Tools: Circle cutters (CM), small and large oval punches

Love to Create Challenge #3

Good Morning!  I hope you had a great weekend.  Mine was too short, but it was good.  I leave this morning listening to my children softly snoring in their beds and they enjoy a day off.

Wow!  We had over 30 players for the second Love to Create challenge.  Thanks for joining us.  This week's challenge is sure to be a hit, too!  We have a color combination this week...

Pink, Navy + 1 Color

This week's challenge is sponsored by Michelle's Scrapbooking & More

Michelle's Scrapbooking & More is home to The Pixie Cottage stamps. In addition to our stamp line we carry many other popular lines of stamps, Copic Markers, Spellbinders, punches, paper and more. Michele is offering a 20% off discount to Love to Create followers. Stop by and visit Michele and use Coupon Code: "LoveTo" and you will receive 20% off your order.

My card is featuring a sweet image called The Cafe.  It's so cute!  The artist is none other than ARTish who also designs for Paper Pretties.  Love her amazing talent.

I also participated with another challenge to help me create my card.  The layout is a sketch from Unscripted Sketches.  This week is their piggyback challenge where they have an added twist.  Stitching.

Supplies:
Image: The Cafe (Michelle's Scrapbooking & More)
Stamps/Ink: Mixed Messages (ATS), Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Card stock: Neenah Classic Crest, Pink Pirouette, Night of Navy
Paper: Sunburst Sky (Chatterbox)
Copics: B95, B97, B99, C5, C7, E33, E53, RV000, RV02, RV10, Y11
Embellishments: blue grosgrain ribbon (Offray), Buttons Galore & More (StampingScrapping)