A Sketchy Birthday Card

Today is my mom's birthday!  Happy Birthday Mom!!  I made her a card of course and thought I'd share it here, too!

I paired Stampin' Up's Sketched Birthday set and Chalk Talk Die-cuts with Pink Paislee's Hey Kid mini pad.  The colors are so fun in this collection!

I diecut the bread tag out of some chalkboard patterned paper and stamped the cake with Versamark ink.  I embossed it using white powder and then added a doodle around the outside edge of the tag as well as a splattering of white mist.  The sentiment is also heat embossed with white on red cardstock and cut out.

I wish I was spending the day with my mom instead of just sending her a card and gift!  Sometimes it's so hard living far away from family and friends.  Luckily I've made some pretty great friends here in Virginia, too and that makes it a little better...

Anyways, hope you are having a great day and thanks for stopping by!

-tessa

Coffee and Friends Warm the Heart Card

Hi!  It's Monday but it doesn't feel like it- my girls are home from school because of the icy weather we woke up to.  Snow days are always fun and we are definitely enjoying it!

Today I wanted to share a card I made over the weekend.  I pulled out my newest goodies from Reverse Confetti to play along with their December Sketch For You To Try.  Here's my card:

Great sketch, right?  I really enjoyed it!  I also enjoyed playing with the adorable Be a Barista set- being a coffee lover, it's right up my alley!

I paper pieced my coffee cup using some fun prints from the Pink Paislee Hey Kid mini pad.  I added some shadowing with my Copic markers and then added it to the center of my die-cut tag.  I added the sentiment last, die-cutting a banner to put it on.

I'm so glad I found some time to play along with their challenge!  Pop over to the Reverse Confetti blog to see the original sketch.

Thanks for stopping by today!

-tessa

Epcot's China Pavilion Layout

Hello!

It's Friday!!! Yay!!!  And it's a three day weekend- even better!  We have some fun things planned starting with dinner out tonight :)  I'm already looking forward to the enchiladas at our favorite restaurant!  Hee!

While I'm waiting for my hubby to get home from work, I thought I'd pop on and share my layout I created for Inspired Blueprints this week.  This is inspired by sketch #109:

I loved this sketch and chose a couple of my Disney photos to scrap.  These are from Epcot Center.  I mixed papers from Echo Park, Pink Paislee, and Elle's Studio on this one.  The stamps are by Lawn Fawn.

Pop over to the Inspired Blueprints blog to see the original sketch!   Check out what my teammates made, too- they are such an inspiring bunch!

Hope you have a great weekend!!

-tessa

Love You To The Stars...

Hello!  I had a little extra time between folding loads of laundry today so I decided to play along with the most recent Lawnscaping Challenge!  The challenge is to use a sentiment as your focal point.  I picked out one of my favorite Lawn Fawn sentiment sets- Lucky Stars to use!

I stamped the sentiment and some of the stars onto a panel of black cardstock and embossed them with white powder.  Next, I colored over some of the stars with a yellow Copic marker.  I added a doodle border and then brushed over my card with some white ink to give it that chalkboard look.

I kept my card simple so the chalkboard piece would stand out.  The paper is from the Hey Kid 6x6 pad by Pink Paislee.  I just added a bit of pink twine to finish off the look.

Hope you're having a great day!  I think I'll have time to make another quick card, too! :)

-tessa