Child of God CBC31

This is a sampling of a stamp set that Chrissy Dickinson drew up for Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps to be released for the first time for purchase on September 1st. Go check them out on the 1st of September, she has two sets that will be for sale. This set is so adorable it has a boy and girl praying and a bunch of sayings. She also has another one coming out that is all Fall leaves and sayings. You can see that one on her blog today.

So the challenge this week was to add some baubles and bling. Be sure when you do Chrissy's challenge that you post on her blog for CBC31 and add that to your challenge piece either on your blog or SCS. You will be entered in a drawing for a prize from Chrissy.

Ok onto the card I made for this challenge. I used the little boy image for this one. And for my baubles and bling I used star bradlets. I also added some stitching with a white gel pen. Card stock is Bashful Blue and the designer paper is just some I picked up along the way, don't even remember where I got it from. Loved the look of it and it seemed to go with this so well. The little boy is colored in with gamsol and colored pencils. The designer paper is cut at 3 1/2 inch square and cut on the diagonal. Then off set on the sides of the card. This did not scan real well but you get the idea anyway.

Hope you all have a safe and fun Labor Day Weekend.

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Anniversary Roses

What a beautiful day today, the sun is shinning and it isn't to hot. I haven't been on to post. As many of you that comes to my blog know that my brother broke his neck. Well it didn't stop there my Mom had a stroke 9 days ago so I have been very busy with all this with my brother and now Mom. She is still in the hospital and will be until at least Monday.
A friend of mine needed a card to send to a old neighbor for their 60th Anniversary. This is the card I came up with. The Rose stamp is retired from SU. I stamped that in black colored in with colored pencils and gamsol. Then I cut out with an exacto knife. Put pop dots on the back to make it look more 3D.
I used Real Red card stock for my card. and for the panel I also used Real Red. With basic black I punches a scalloped edge on it and used a white gel pen to add dots. Layered the black under the real red panel and attached to the card. Then place your deemensional on the card to the left side. Stamp Verse in White Craft Ink.
Pretty easy and turned out so pretty. Hope you enjoyed today's project.
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Belli Challenge #30

Chris is having another Belli Challenge on her blog using coasters this week. I love working with these coasters and so do my kids. So if you want some thing your kids can get into with you on your craft this is the one. So many things you can do with coasters. As you can see mine is a note holder for this project today. I stamped some dog images, colored them in with gamsol and colored pencils and cut them out and mounted using pop dots. I added a dog to both sides of the box but left the back plain.

Supplies Needed:

Designer Paper cut 4 pieces @ 2x4

3 Coasters 4x4 cut 2 of them in half so you have 2 @ 2x4

Adhesive

Crop-a-dile

Ribbon

Crystal Effects

White Card Stock

Bow Wow Stamp set, Stamp images on White card stock in Choc. Chip Ink.

Gamsol

Colored Pencils, Color images in with gamsol and colored pencils and set aside.

Pot Dots

exacto knife

cutting mat

Directions:

Add designer paper to coasters and round off corners.

With Crop-a-dile punch 2 holes on each short side of your coasters. Do this on all 4 coaster pieces.

Measure in 1 1/2" from both sides on the top of one of the pieces. And down about and inch or so. Use exacto knife and cut out. This gives you the place so you can get at your notes easier.

Cut strips of ribbon and tie coasters together to form a box shape. With the 4x4 coaster place in bottom of box shape and use crystal effects to glue it in. Let dry for about 1/2 hour.

Put pop dots on back of dogs and attach as desired on note box. That's it pretty simple huh!

Hope you enjoyed today's project.

Check out the other projects from Chris's Design Team:

Holly

Rochelle

Shelly

Jennifer

Chris

Christi

Danita

Lorie

Ceal

I also have other things done with Coasters on my blog you can check them out here.

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Double Slider Card

I have been unable to get into my blog for 2 days. I had updated and it messed it up some how so I went back and un-did it. Frustrating!

These cards are fun to make, but do take some patience. Working with those plastic grocery bags is a challenge. They always looked so hard to make until I seen this tutorial on Dawn's Blog.

You might have to click on the cards to get a larger view they didn't show up to big, kind of hard to see.

Anyway, what I used was the following:

Non SU stamp sets, I got this angel set from my friend LuJean. Thanks Lu!!

Brocade Blue, Whisper White, Basic black card stock

Black stitched ribbon

Brocade Blue Ink Pad, Black Ink Pad

Gamsol and Colored Pencils

Stapler

Plastic Grocery Bag

Red liner tape and mono adhesive

Cutting directions so you don't have to watch the tutorial over and over again like I did before I caught on I didn't have to. LOL

Brocade Blue is cut at 5 1/2 x 11, then scored at 3 1/2, 7 1/8 and 10 5/8

Inside pieces that slide is Whisper White and is cut at 3 1/4 x 5 1/2. You will need two of these.

The plastic bag is cut approx. 1 to 1 1/2 wide by 12. You need it long enough to wrap around the card.

I pop dotted my image to the front of the card.

Hope you enjoy today's project and are able to use the link.

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CBC16 Let's Play Ball

Chrissy over at Creating with Chrissy is having her weekly Belli Challenge, you can check it out here. This week she has using eyelets. Here is what I come up with for you challenge this week. I use big eyelets on this one that I got at a dollar store.

I also used a sketch from iheart2stamp, I will include the sketch here for you to try to.

Supplies needed for this project:

Whisper White, Real Red and Choc Chip card stock

Black ink

Large Eyelets

Crop-a-dile or Big Kick

Stamp sets of choice

Gamsol and colored pencils

Directions:

Cut WW for basic card at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to form card. I stamp with black ink softballs over the background of the card.

Cut 3 strips of Choc. Chip at 1" wide x 4 6/8

Cut 3 strips of Real Red at 3/4" x 4 6/8, mount to CC strips

Cut 3 strips of Whisper White at 1/2" x 4 6/8. Mount on-top the Real Red strip.

Cut Choc Chip at 3 x 2 7/8

Cut Real Red at 2 3/4 x 2 5/8 mount to Choc Chip piece

Cut Whisper White at 2 1/2 by 2 3/8 and stamp image in black ink and color in. Mount this to the Real Red and Choc Chip piece. Add adhesive to the back and add strips evenly spaced behind this. See sample for placement. Then punch holes for eyelets with your crop-a-dile or Big Kick. Add eyelets and mount all this to your main card.

I thought this turned out cute and will make a nice card for either a male or a female that plays in sports also.

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Nobel Deer --MoJo18

I am really late on this sketch but I really like it. I got to use eyelets on it and use my crop-a-dile again. I love using both. This sketch is one of Poetic Artistry's you can find the sketch and other cards by going to her blog here.

Supplies used:

Nobel Deer Stamp Set

Patterned Paper (found at dollar store)

Brocade Blue Eyelets

Crop-a-dile

Choc. Chip and Very Vanilla Card stock

gamsol & colored pencils

Directions:

Cut VV at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to get basic card.

Cut a strip of VV at 4 1/4 x 1 1/8 and a piece cut to 3 1/8 x 3 1/8

Cut CC at 3/4 x 4 1/4 and one at 2 7/8 x 2 7/8

Patterned paper is cut at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and mounted to the VV main card

Now cut your another VV piece at 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 and stamp deer image on and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. Mount this to the CC piece that measures 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 and then to the VV that is 3 1/8 x 3 1/8. Mount this to the card as shown.

With the 3/4" CC piece mount to the VV that is 4 1/4 x 1 1/8. Punch with crop-a-dile every 3/8 inches you should have 11 brocade eyelets to add there. At least mine measured out to be 11. Mount to card on the right hand side.

Hope you enjoyed today's project. Stay tune this week I will be putting up some blog candy so keep checking back. You won't want to miss out on your chance to win.

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Ready to Pounce

I got this stamp at our local dollar store. This little kitty is so darn cute and ready to pounce and eat that lady bug. I believe it is an Anita Stamp.
Same directions as the one I posted a few minutes ago. But this time I have the sketch to go with it I hope. LOL, if blogger will let me this time. This sketch is one of Mary Jo's at Techno Stamper.
So this card is for Mary Jo's Sketch Challenge 15 and for Chrissy's Belli Challenge 15.
Hope you enjoyed both projects tonight.
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An Elephant Never Forgets...CBC15

Here is another card I did for Chrissy's Belli Challenge 15. In fact I made two more I will share the other one too. There is also a sketch for this but blogger isn't letting me do that right now so will try again on the next one.

I got this cute little Elephant in a image swap. Isn't he just adorable? And so much fun to color too. The patterned paper was given to me by a friend. I was up late last night and couldn't sleep so this is what I ended up doing. Creating what better way to spend a sleepless night!

Supplies needed:

Stamped Image of choice.

WW card stock cut at 5 x 10 fold in half to make a 5 x x card.

Basic Gray

Patterned Paper

Gamsol

Colored Pencils

White Gel Pen to do his toes.

Directions:

Color in image and trim around and mount to a basic gray piece. Not giving a size on this cause you may not have this stamp.

Cut WW pieces of patterned paper at 4 1/4 x 2. Cut WW at 4 1/2 x 2 1/4. Mount to back of image. Then with Basic Gray cut at 4 3/4 x 2 1/2 and mount to back of the white you just did. You should have two pieces identical.

Mount them to your 5 x 5 card. Then mount your stamped image piece to that and your done. Very simple and quick to do.

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SC172 Be Mine Mouse

Well we survived the snow blasting and the ice from yesterday. Didn't get as much as they said we would. Whew! So glad of that. But was so slippery today my dh got 2 miles out of town almost went in the ditch 7 times and said forget work. Called in and said he wasn't coming the roads was to bad. So he came home and later we snow blowed the drive way and in front of our house as the road plow still hasn't gone by. We are back drifted in the wind is really bad today. But we ended up with about 5 inches of snow and about 1/2 inch of ice. So today was a good day to stick around home and stamp.

This is the project I found for today. It is a sketch from SCS - SC172. I used a house mouse stamp again. This one is so cute, if you look closely he is cross-eyed. He has such personality.

Supplies needed & Directions:

Scrap pieces more or less of designer paper (patterned paper) You will need two designs. I got mine at that Dollar District in Alexandria. Love them both. Cut your pieces at 2 1/8 x 2 1/2 (2) of these and you will also need (2) cut at 2 1/8 x 3. Look at my sample for placement. So you end up needing one cut at 2 1/8 x 2 1/2 and one cut at 2 1/8 x 3 of one design of the patterned paper. And one cut the same of the other choice of designer paper.

WW card stock is cut at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 and folded in half. Mount the cut designer pieces to the card as shown in the sample.

Choc. Chip Ribbon (SU) cut at 5 1/2 inches and place in the middle of the card, covering that seam.

Stamp image with Stazon Black on WW card stock. Use gamsol and colored pencils on mine, you can use what you are most comfy with. Color in image and trim to size. Then with a piece of Choc. Chip card stock cut 1/4 inch larger and mount to the stamped image. I used pop dots to mount my stamped layered image to the card.

Pretty simple and quick. Hope you enjoyed today's project. And those of you that was in this snow and ice storm we got, I hope you faired out and didn't get it to bad. I heard some towns further north of us got 18 inches. Certainly happy it wasn't me.

Stay tune tomorrow for a SU image card.

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Mojo Sketch 33 Purple Hydrangea

Yesterday was a beautiful day here. I had a family reunion on my Mom's side of the family. Not many was able to show up but we sure had a good time the ones that did. I look forward to these family reunions every year. In July we have one on dh's side of the family. For this one we are able to camp out and I love to do that.

So on to the card. This one I had to make larger it is 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. I had to do this to fit the Hydrangea on the card. I love how it turned out.

Supplies needed:

Hydrangea SU stamp (retired)

Small dots background stamp also SU

Lovely Lavender, Lavender Lace, Whisper White and Basic Black card stock

3 black brads

Gamsol and colored pencils

Happy Birthday Stamp also SU from Warmest Regards Stamp Set

Basic Black Ink and Lavender Lace Ink

Directions:

Stamp image on WW card stock and color in with desired choice. I used gamsol and colored pencils. My image piece measures 3 1/8 x 4 1/8. Cut a black mat for this that measures 3 3/8 x 4 3/8. Mount image to this black piece.

Lavender lace was cut at 2 x 4, stamp with little dotted background stamp with lavender lace. Cut in half so it measures 2 x 2. Stamp Happy Birthday on one piece with black ink. Punch holes on the other piece evenly on the lavender lace and place your eyelets. Mount these each to a piece of black card stock that is 2 1/4 x 2 1/4.

With the Lovely Lilac, cut at 5 1/2 x 11 and fold in half to form basic card. Stamp with Lavender Lace the dotted background. Mount pieces as shown in sample to card and your finished. I love this sketch it is one of Julee's. You can find her card and sketch here . I will also include it here.

Thanks for stopping bye.

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Feathered Hope CBC13 & Techno Stamper Sketch Challenge

And she's back! Sorry everyone it was almost a week before I have been able to stamp. Heaven forbid!!! The weather has been fantastic here in Central MN the last day or two. Well all but the wind but you can't have everything.

As many of you know that has been with me for awhile now, that I do sketch challenges that I find on the net and send to a couple of groups. Well here is one of them. We did this one yesterday, well I did mine tonight but you get the idea. So my sketch this week for them was to do one from Techno Stamper sketch challenges she has such neat sketches. Although I am not sure on the Certainly Celery of my card for the background. But, it's ok, I can live with it.

This card is also a UFO project which Chrissy is having a challenge on her blog for UFO projects so this counts for that too. I have had this image stamped for awhile but never put to a project.

Supplies needed for project:

Whisper White, Certainly Celery, Basic Black and Read Red card stock

Scrap of designer paper

3 brads

Crop-a-dile

Stamp set of choice ( I used Feathered Hope) Retired SU Set

Gamsol and colored pencils

Black Stazon Ink Pad

Directions:

Cut WW card stock at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to make a card of 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut Black card stock at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Mount to the WW card front. Cut CC at 4 x 5 1/4 and mount to black.

Cut a piece of black at 2 1/4 x 5 1/2 and then with the designer paper cut at 2 x 5 1/4 mount on one an other and then to the CC on the basic card.

Next your going to stamp your image on a WW card stock piece that measures 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 with black ink. Color in with your gamsol and colored pencils or method of choice.

Cut RR card stock at 2 3/4 x 2 3/4 mount stamped piece to this. Then cut a piece of black card stock at 3 x 3 3/8. Punch evenly space 3 holes for eyelets. Place in eyelets and attach this to the bottom of your stamped image with the RR. Mount to the middle of the card as close to center as possible.

Your masterpiece is now finished and ready to send on or display for yourself.

Hope you enjoyed today's project and for your understanding of me being sick and not keeping up with my blog.

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Button Bear Celebrates

This card could be used for a few different things. Get Well Wishes, Birthday, Congrats for Baby. I really like how this one turned out. I used Julee's sketch from Poetic Artistry. What a neat sketch this one is. Julee is having a contest on her sketch, you might want to check it out. I have included Julee's sketch here.

I am also doing this one for the Ways to use it Challenge WT161 on SCS. I used eyelets and brads on this one and the challenge is for eyelets. The white dots on the black strip really made the card to add more dimension.

So on with the card you will need the following supplies:

Whisper White, Basic Black card stock

Scrap of designer paper

Button Bear Stamp set or your choice of stamp set

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

White Gel Pen

3 white eyelets and 3 balloon brads

gamsol and colored pencils

crop-a-dile

Directions:

Cut a sheet of Whisper white in half so you have a 2 pieces at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. Fold one in half to get your main card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut the other piece in half at 4 x 5 1/4 this will be run though with your embossing folder. Last white piece cut at 2 3/4 x 2 7/8. Stamp image on this piece and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. With crop-a-dile punch 3 holes on upper right hand side for balloon brads. Add your brads.

Cut basic black at 3 x 3 1/8 and mount image to this and set aside. Cut one piece at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and add to main card front. With your embossed white piece add to the black.

Cut a piece of designer paper at 3 1/2 x 3. Mount this to a black piece of card stock that measures 3 3/4 x 3 1/4. Add this to you card on top the white. Now cut another black piece at 1 1/2 x 4 1/4. Add dots with white gel pen around edges. Next take your crop-a-dile and punch 3 holes evenly spaced on the left side. Add white eyelets. Mount to the card. Then add your stamped image and your done. See sample for placement of these pieces if you don't understand my directions.

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April Showers

Wish it was showers we was getting but like earlier in the week we are getting more snow starting tomorrow according to the weatherbug news. I'll take the April Showers.

This is another creation for two reasons. 1. Chrissy's Belli Challenge #12. 2. A sketch challenge from Jen del Muro from iheart2stamp.com. Please take some time and check out Chrissy's blog and Jen's blog. Both are very talented lady's. And go ahead and take the challenges they both have going.

I used some of my scraps and a image I had stamped and colored in already but didn't know what to do with yet. Well both of these challenges made this card come to life.

Supplies used:

Read Red, Whisper White, Basic black card stock

Gamsol and colored Pencils

3 Black eyelets

crop-a-dile

Dotted Swiss Embossing Folder

Black Ribbon with white lines

Black Stazon Ink Pad

Stamp set of choice

Directions:

Cut main card with Whisper White at 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 fold in half to get your card at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. Cut Real Red card stock at 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 add to main card front.

Cut Whisper White card stock at 4 x 5 1/4 and run though with embossing folder. Use punch for corners and mount to front of card on the Real Red.

Stamp image on Whisper White with Stazon Black ink. Color in with Gamsol and colored pencils (Gamsol Magic). Trim down to 2 1/2 x 3 1/8. Cut Real Red at 2 3/4 x 4 1/8. Add image to upper half. Measure and put in eyelets with the crop-a-dile, just under image. Then add ribbon to the bottom. Layer this on a piece of black card stock that measures 2 7/8 x 4 4/8. Mount this in the center of the card and your finished. Very simple but cute card.

Hope you enjoy today's project and be sure to take the challenges on both Chrissy's and Jen's blogs.

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Button Bear is Back

I love this set and finally dug it out again as I had a bunch of scraps to use up and wanted something that would be easy to work with for my scrap papers. Be sure to check out Chrissy's blog for a Scrap Challenge. Her Challenges is posted on Wed. check them out and join in on the fun of the challenge.

So for this project I used a sketch from Poetic Artistry. MojoMonday22 Sketch Challenges. I love her sketches.

Supplies needed:

Remember now this is a good one for scraps

Designer paper scraps

Whisper White Scraps

Choc Chip card stock

Ribbon Scraps ( this piece was only 6 inches long)

White Gel Pen and Brown Gel Pen

Small Scallop circle punch

Gamsol and colored pencils

Stamp set of choice ( I used Button Bear SU Retired)

Pop dots

Crystal Effects

Directions:

Stamp image on White card stock and color in with gamsol. Trim to 2 3/4 x 2 3/4". Add brown gel pen dots around the corners. Mount to a piece of choc chip card stock that is 3 x 3.

Stamp the honey pot on small scrap of white. Color in and add Crystal Effects to the honey and then on the bear on his paw pads. Set these aside to dry while you work on the rest of your project.

Punch the small scallop and add white dots with the white gel pen to each scallop. You will mount your honey pot on this when dry with pot dots.

4 1/4 x 5 1/2" card will be use to mount the choc chip to, this is cut to card size of the front of the card. Next you will cut your designer papers at 1", 1 1/8", 1 3/8' and 1 5/8" wide and they are all 4 1/4" long. Mount in any order on your choc. chip piece. Add ribbon across middle and add to the basic card front.

Next make sure your Crystal effects is dry once dry you can mount to you card. The bear goes to the right of the card centered on the right edge in the middle. The honey pot is mounted to the small scalloped circle with pot dots and then pot dot the back and mount to left of bear upper area of image.

Your card is now complete and ready to send. Hope you enjoyed today's project and got some of those scraps used up.

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Friends Forever

Boy I totally missed yesterday, things got busy around here and I totally forgot. Plus I never got to stamp at all yesterday. Well today the weather in Central MN has been awful. Snow, then rain, then back to snow, rain. ISHY day for-sure here, so I stuck close to home and did some stamping. Roads are really bad, we had lots of roll overs in the area, the police scanner was just buzzing all day with accidents, roll overs, ones going in the ditch. We get nice weather and clear roads for a few days and everyone forgets how to drive in this stuff.

Anyway, I designed my own sketch today, don't have it drawn up yet but this is how my sketch turned out. If I can figure out my program I will do up a sketch for you all to see and hopefully some of you will try it and share with me.

Supplies needed:

Bashful blue, Basic Black and White card stock

Black Stazon ink pad

Bashful blue ink pad

Gamsol

Colored Pencils & Q-tips

Black Gel Pen for going around the card

Stamp of choice

black ribbon

Directions:

Cut White card stock at 8 x 9" fold in half so you have a card that is 4 x 9". Cut a black piece at 4 x 9" and add to the front of the card. Cut bashful blue at 3 6/8 x 8 6/8". With bashful blue ink stamp dots or a background on the bashful blue piece and mount to the black.

Stamp image on white card stock and color in with gamsol and colored pencils. My image piece is cut at 5 1/4 x 3 7/8". Layer on a black piece of card stock cut at 5 1/2 x 4 1/8". Layer this on your dotted bashful blue piece on the card.

Next with bashful blue card stock and bashful blue ink, stamp dots like you did for the other piece. This piece is cut at 1 1/2 x 3 6/8". Mount this to black cut at 1 3/4 x 3 6/8". Tie black ribbon around this piece and add to card on the left hand side. With black gel pen and a ruler draw a line around edge of card. You can see how to add your pieces by my sample.

Hope you all had good weather and a nice day. Happy Monday!

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Udderly Exhausted

Love how this card turned out and hoping my cousin that had heart surgery last week will too. He had to have several stents put in his valves to his heart. He must be doing pretty good cause he has been seen out and about since the surgery.

Supplies needed:

Whisper White, Basic Black and Pretty in Pink Card stock

Stazon Black Ink Pad

Craft White Ink Pad

3 white eyelets

White and black gel pens

Coluzzle

Crop-a-dile

Gamsol and Colored Pencils

Stamp sets used was Harlequin Background stamp (retired) and Farm Fever.

Directions:

Cut card stock at 4 1/4 x 11, fold in half to make your card. This card also opens from the top.

Cut Pretty in Pink at 3 1/8 x 3 3/4 layer on card as shown in sample

Cut Basic black at 2 3/4 x 3 1/3, stamp with White Craft Ink Pad with the Harlequin stamp. Take white gel pen and put dashed lines around the diamonds. Punch 3 evenly spaced holes for eyelets with the crop-a-dile. Add eyelets. Layer this on the Pretty in Pink.

Add black dots on the Whisper White card stock (main card) with black gel pen.

On Whisper White stamp cow image on and color in with choice of coloring. I did the gamsol and colored pencils for this one too. Cut out with an oval from the coluzzle. Next do the same with the black card stock only one size larger for the oval.

With white gel pen make squiggles and dots around the edge of the black.

Mount to card.

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WSC41 Hedgehog Happiness

This sketch was fun to do. I started it last night and finished up today. Some friends and I am in a chat conference room and we are having fun stamping. We are challenging each other on sketches. I will share my other card that we did tomorrow.

You can find this sketch on Beate's blog and I will also share it here. Hope you enjoy.

Supplies needed:

Stamp of choice Mine the Hedgehog is from Penny Black Designs

Designer paper

Dotted Swiss Cuttlebug embossing folder

Gamsol and Colored Pencils

Q-tips

Rectangle Nest-abilities

Whisper White, Basic Black, Pixie Pink Card stock

White Gel Pen

Directions:

On small scrap of Whisper White card stock stamp image and color in with gamsol and colored pencils or your desired choice of coloring. Trim around.

With Black make a 4 1/4 x 51/2 card. With the extra left die cut out a rectangle for the Hedgehog. And do a larger one for you layering for the designer paper piece. I just cut the last line of scallops off.

With White Gel Pen go around scallops and put in little u's and dots all around. Do this on both pieces of the rectangles.

Pixie pink you need a 1/4 sheet of and you will trim 1/4 inch off the short side and off one of the long sides. Mount this to your basic black card base.

1/4 sheet of Whisper White that has been embossed with the Swiss Dot cuttlebug folder. Cut this 3/4 inch off one short end and one long end. Mount to the Pixie Pink.

Cut designer paper to fit inside your rectangle. Mount this to your largest piece of black rectangular piece and then add your ribbon to this. I used Pretty in Pink Ribbon grosgrain. Then add to the White Dotted piece as shown in the sample.

Mount your image to the smaller black rectangular and add to the right of your designer sheet piece. Partly on the designer paper and partly off.

This card was rather easy to do once I found what I wanted to work with.

Hope you having a good day, thanks for stopping bye. We have snow coming later tonight again. They are saying 4 to 6 inches. YUK, I am so ready for Spring. What happened Mother Nature?

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Cured Yet? 2

I wanted to make a couple of these so I am ahead of the game, plus my Mom sometimes comes and raids my stash of cards and uses them too. This is the same sketch only different colors, but, I like this one too. I am really having fun with this set.

Tomorrow I will go to at least a different image. This one looks so much different than yesterdays to me that I wanted to share this one with you all too. I hope you like them both and are getting some ideas from me for you own stamping. This one to me looks like old fashioned wallpaper in the background. I love anything with an old fashioned look to it.

It has been really windy in Central MN today so I have stayed in as much as possible. What better time to stamp and enjoy yourself than with weather that you can't go out in. My stamping keeps me occupied and I always end up with something useful. Sometimes my house looks like a tornado hit it but, hey we can't have everything right?

Thanks for stopping bye.

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You Cured Yet?

This is a big card. My piggy turned out big and wouldn't fit on a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card so I made a larger one. I got a good deal at the dollar store awhile ago on some blank Greeting Card with Matching Envelopes in a package. They sure come in handy today for this card. What it is, is a 8 1/2 x 11 card stock folded in half. But they are hard to find envelopes for so if you run into something like this at your dollar store pick it up cause you just never know when your going to need it. This is a sketch challenge from Julee over at Poetic Artistry's blog. Love this sketch for this card.This card will be going to my 87 yr. old Aunty that is having back surgery soon. Her and her late husband used to be pig farmers. And get this one of the Presidents of the good ole US of A used to come to the farm. How cool is that? Anyway, I thought she would love a pick me up after surgery so this is for her.

Supplies Needed:

Full Sheet of card stock folded in half for basic card.Designer Paper cut at 4 1/4 x 8 1/4. Use punch to punch the corners.

Whisper White to stamp image and to stamp Better Get Better.
Basic Black, Pretty in Pink and Bashful Blue card stock.
White Gel Pen & Black Ribbon
Pop Dots
Gamsol and Colored Pencils
Q-Tips
Black Stazon Ink Pad
Coluzzle Oval one

Directions:

Stamp image with black stazon. Color in with colored pencils and gamsol. Cut around with the Coluzzle. Stamp on a small piece of Whisper White the verse, cut out. Take a piece of Black card stock and use your colluzle to cut out the outer trim for the pig. I just went one size larger for the trim. Mount your stamped, colored image on the black as best you can in the center. With White Gel Pen make dots and squiggly lines around the edges. Set aside. Cut a piece of Bashful Blue at 1 1/2 x 8 1/4. I stamped small dots on this with versamark. Cut Pretty in Pink at 1 3/4 x 8 1/4. Then the black cut at 2 1/4 x 8 1/4. Mount from blue down to the black. With White Gel Pen do the same as you did on the Oval for the pig. Add black ribbon to the center of this. Leaving the bow on the right side. Your little Get Well wording 2 1/8 by 2 is also mounted to black and cut at 2 1/4 x 2 3/8. You make this piece a little thicker so you can have it pushed under the upper layer ( see card for placement) Mount your designer paper to the main card. Add middle strip with the saying just under. Next add pop dots to the back of your image piece. I used one on the top and bottom and one on each side, then cut a strip to go in the center. Add to the left side of the card. Your card is now finished and ready to have someone enjoy. You can see my sample card here for placement on how to layer and add to the card. Hope you enjoyed today's project and hope to see you stop by again.

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A Hummingbird Morning Glory

I have got to have the prettiest Morning Glory stamps around. I love these. This one was a bit of a challenge but so fun to do. You know one of those stamps that has no colored image of it. Well once I got it done it seemed that it needed to be brightened up some. So I added sunlight to the whole card and it really made the hummingbird and Morning Glories pop.

Hope you enjoy today's project and get some inspiration from my creations. Hoping this brightens your Spring as well as it did mine. Gives you a warm feeling with the yellow glow.

Supplies needed for this project:
Gamsol

Crayola Colored Pencils & Q-tips

Whisper White, black and Lovely Lilac card stock

Stamp with black your image on the Whisper White card stock, color in with gamsol and colored pencils to what you like. In this picture the hummingbird has some green on him to but for some reason my scanner did not pick that up. When I was done I thought it had needed that light so I used Golden Rod for the Yellow sunlight effect.

Trim down and mount to black card stock.

My main card is 4 1/4 x 4 1/4, then mount the image with the black layer on that and you all finished with a really nice card.

Thanks LuJean for the stamp, I love working with it.

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