FMS and Seize the Birthday........Warmest Wishes

Hello Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using a couple of challenges. I used the sketch this week from Freshly Made Sketches

I also incorporated the challenge this week at Seize the Birthday

The toppings option this week is "Tag It".

I wanted to make a red flower in honor of Poppy Days for Memorial Weekend. So my flower is not a poppy but is bright red. I love how it turned out! I stamped the flower for Stampin Up's Peaceful Petals onto some PTI card stock with Memento black ink and colored using my copic markers. 

The sentiment is from the Blooming with Kindness stamp set and I used my stamp a ma jig to break apart the sentiment and stamp on my tag. All the DSP is from the Fresh Prints pack, that polka dot paper is some of my all time faves!!

 Our Sweet Sunday Sketch team is taking a break this week so there will not be a new sketch tomorrow but will be back next Sunday.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend. Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki 

Birthday Wishes for the Paper Players and Seize the Birthday

Happy Monday Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using a couple of challenges.

First up is the challenge at The Paper Players, this week the challenge is "Clean and Simple Floral"

and then the Challenge this week at Seize the Birthday, which is Anything Goes with topping option of Flowers.

Most of you know that CAS is not my style but I do find myself gravitating towards this style a bit more lately. I decide I would pull out this great Memory Box die I got ages ago and have not used much and make my floral card.

I made several die cuts of the Poppy and layered them up, I like the dimension you get by layering this type of die cut. I started with just some white and then I used old olive for the stems and then real red for the flower. I sponged the flowers with some cherry cobbler ink at the base.

The base of the card is some PTI white card stock and then another layer of white that I embossed with the stripes EF. The sentiment is from the Stampin' Up Blooming with Kindness set. I stamped with Black stazon onto the white card stock. I added a small bow with a pearl center on the end of the sentiment flag.

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Vicki

Splitcoast color Challenge.....Birthday wishes

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card using the color challenge this week on Splitcoaststampers.

I pretty much CASED a card by my friend Narella.

 I changed up the colors and DSP and used white for my base, but I used the same layout and flowers and sentiment she used, I LOVE her card and I wanted to try my hand at it.

The flowers come from the Stampin Up Secret Garden stamp set and I used the matching framelits to cut out the flower and leaves. The sentiment is from the Blooming with Kindness stamp set.

I love this color combo and think the card turned out really nice.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

Warm Birthday Wishes

Happy Hump Day peeps!!!

Today I am sharing another card I made awhile back using a tossed aside image found in my scrap pile.

This flower comes from the Stampin Up Blooming with Kindness stamp set. 

The flower was stamped with crumb cake ink onto some very vanilla card stock.

The sentiment is from the same set and stamped with early Espresso ink.

The base of the card is Crumb cake and the DSP on here is from the Festival of Prints pack.

I added some very vanilla satin ribbon and three brown brads to finish it up.

Hope you like it!

Thanks for stopping by today!

HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Dynamic Duos...Sympathy

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made using this week's colors on the Dynamic Duos Blog.

I used the pretty flower from the Stampin Up "Blooming with Kindness" stamp set.

I first die cut out a shape from the Apothecary Accents Framelits and used the negative piece over a piece of very vanilla card stock and sponged some crumb cake ink around the edges.

I stamped the flower using early espresso ink over one of the sponged edges. 

The sentiment is from the retired "Close as a Memory" stamp set and was stamped with early espresso ink as well. I used my stamp a ma jig to line it up. I used one of the new piercing templates to pierce around my sponged shape.

The base of my card is a 5-1/2 inch x 11 inch piece of early espresso scored and folded in half.

 I then used two pieces of crumb cake that I embossed with the chevron EF.

 I added them to the top and bottom of the base. 

I then matted my image piece with more early espresso card stock and added it to the base.

 I used some retired very vanilla satin ribbon across the bottom. I couldn't believe that my roll of this ribbon is almost gone and I don't have another, I stocked up on some of the satin ribbon when it retired and somehow missed this one. :( 

I added some basic pearls to the corners and called it done.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and 

HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Cajun Craze Birthday Wishes

Happy Tuesday Peeps!!!

While waiting for my pre-order goodies from the upcoming Holiday mini to arrive later today, I am sharing a card I made awhile back.

This card uses the beautiful Stampin up set called "Blooming with Kindness".  I stamped the flower with cajun craze ink but stamped it off once onto scrap paper to make the image a bit softer. I used very vanilla card stock and stamped the sentiment with black stazon

The image is matted with cajun craze card stock and then with some crumb cake card stock the I embossed with the square lattice EF. I then matted that with more very vanilla card stock.

The DSP is from the Comfort Cafe paper pack. The base of the card is cajun craze card stock and the DSP is mounted with more cajun craze card stock.

The main panel is mounted onto the base with dimensionals. I added some very vanilla satin ribbon and a couple of gold brads.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki