My card for today has a more CAS (Clean and Simple) look than some I have done lately. A wonderful woman who works at my older son’s school is putting together a “Pink Ribbon” donation basket to auction off later this year. Knowing how time can get away from me, I figured I better get to work on some cards for her basket. When I purchased this Ribbon of Hope stamp, I knew it would be something I would want to have on hand. This is my first card with it. I must confess that this isn’t my favorite card but I think that is because a card for such a great cause should be amazing. When I saw the Our Creative Corner Sketch for this week, it seemed like the perfect way to focus on the ribbon stamp. I pulled out some retired Pink Pirouette DSP and paired it with Close to Cocoa. Out came the Big Shot and popped out some ovals, tied on the beautiful Organza ribbon and here it is:
Hopefully I’ll be back to posting a bit more often. Thanks for stopping by today. Let me know what you think!
Have you ever had a card that was almost right? I mean, you like it but it just needs a little something. Well, that is how I felt about my last post. I really like the card but it was just missing that special something. I am teaching a Watercolor 101 class this week and really wanted to use this preview of the new set Elements of Style as an example. So, back to the drawing (or coloring) board I went. I reworked the colors and used Kraft (soon to become Crumb Cake) and Chocolate Chip. Really, who doesn’t like cake with chocolate chips, after all??!! I brightened up the colors a little bit to match the richer feel of the Chocolate Chip. As a final touch, after distressing and sponging the edges, I used my new Smooch Spritz that will be available in the new Summer Mini. This one is Log Cabin and has a bronze look to it. I thought the satin ribbon with the linen thread finished this card off right. It is, of course, another take on the Our Creative Corner Sketch 10, except this time I stayed with the sketch orientation.
Thanks for dropping by to see the new version! You comments are always appreciated.
Stamp: Elements of Style (Summer Mini); Paper: Kraft, Chocolate Chip, Watercolor; Ink: StazOn, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Not Quite Navy, Sahara Sand, Chocolate Chip; Accessories: Log Cabin Smooch Spritz, Chocolate Satin Ribbon, Linen Thread, Sponges, Dimensionals, Blender Pen
Well, if you haven’t heard by now, let me be the one to share the great news!! Stampin’ Up is having a Color Revolution and there is quite a shake-up going on. Some of my favorite old In Colors are returning, namely RIVER ROCK!!! Sorry to yell, but I am really, really, really happy about that! I have resisted using River Rock with my Soft Suede (even though they are amazing together) because I had to hoard my River Rock. Well, no more! I can use it with reckless abandon knowing I can get more. Yea! I just received my pre-order for the upcoming Summer Mini (be on the lookout, it starts on May 1st). The first set that simply had to be ordered was Elements of Style. I love it!! There were a couple of challenges that I wanted to try today and the first is the Pals Paper Arts challenge 37, Flowers. Well, Elements of Style is all about flowers so that was easy enough! Now to the layout. I headed on over to the Our Creative Corner Sketch blog for their OCCSC10.
This seemed to have plenty of room for the big flower stamp! I (sadly) don’t have any River Rock ribbon left, so I just did a little piercing in place of the ribbon. I stamped the image with Soft Suede ink on Whisper White and colored in the flowers (using a blender pen) with So Saffron, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, Night of Navy, and River Rock. These are all part of the core colors that are remaining. I distressed the paper and sponged with Soft Suede. The small rectangle was created with the swirl and sponging with Soft Suede. I popped the image panel up on dimensionals then created a matching inside. I did find that flipping the layout worked better for me (it didn’t start that way though!).
I hope you like this as much as I do. Thanks for stopping by!
Stamp: Elements of Style (Summer Mini); Paper: Soft Suede, River Rock, Whisper White; Ink: Pretty in Pink, So Saffron, Rose Red, Night of Navy, River Rock, Soft Suede; Accessories: Piercing tool, Mat Pack, Dimensionals
Happy Monday to you all! I hope you had a beautiful weekend. I know my family had a wonderful Easter…what a blessing! I actually have two cards for you today. The first is a birthday card for a 7 year old boy who is a friend of one of my sons. The second was a card for a swap that I did with Stampin’ Addicts. I received my swaps on Saturday, so I feel safe in finally posting my card.
The first card uses a sketch from Stampin’ 411, their sketch challenge 145. I also followed this week’s Our Creative Corner challenge to “Break out the buttons”. The sketch seems to lean towards using a button so this was an easy combination.
I had some left over DSP from the Hand Drawn hostess bundle that has been retired. It is such a kid-friendly paper so I seem to always use it on cards where I need something quick and easy. This sketch is perfect for that Happy Birthday paper in the bundle! I used the lined paper to stamp the hat and words from Party Hearty. The celery ribbon is from the ribbon bundle in last year’s Sale-a-bration. Sometimes it is nice to use up some of those oldies but goodies!! The button is from the Sherbet button set.
My card for the swap uses a variation of a sketch from Taylored Expressions. Her sketches are always wonderful. This swap was for thank you cards and the cards I got back are just super. For swap cards (especially a demonstrator swap), I like to stick to one stamp set and one DSP. In this case, the stamp and the paper are all from the Lovely Flowers level 3 hostess bundle. I hope they are as happy with this card as I am with theirs!!
Easter break has begun with the kids and the weather remains perfect in Northern VA. My garden is sprouting with spinach, peas and sugar snap peas! Yea, yea, and yea!! Hope you have a great day. Thanks so much for stopping by!
I had so much fun with my last Nouveau Chic card, I wanted to make another one. This time, I used a sketch from Our Creative Corner chosen by the very talented Silke Ledlow. I love the big scallops in this layout!
I tried to stay true to those scallops by using my 1 1/4″ and 1 3/8″ circle punches. The stamps are all retired SU stamps but they remain some of my favorites! I just planted some poppy seeds (along with loads of other flowers) so I was reminded of this set. This is another anniversary card for another special couple in my family. I used the same ribbon treatment as this card, and all the details on it are there. Without further discussion, here is my take on this sketch:
It is a glorious day here in Northern VA and I am off to play outside with the kids! Hope you are having spring weather too!!
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