Sweet Friend

Good Monday Morning Peeps!!! Hope ya'll had a great weekend!

Today's card is made with this weeks sketch on Jen's Blog, I heart to Stamp.

I am so in love with the colors in this card. The DS paper is some of the new textured paper from SU. This one is called Sweet Slumber. I am just a country girl at heart and these colors are so warm and homey together, everything I make with it just seems so "country".

I started of with a base of ruby red and followed that with some so saffron and some striped paper. I pierced all around that layer with my piercing tool and mat pack. The vertical layer is baja and some polk-a-dot DS paper.

The next layer is ruby red and so saffron with ruby red brads in the corners. I stamped the main sentiment piece onto some PTI white cardstock and cut it out with my circle nesties and my cuddlebug. I then cut a scallop circle to mat the sentiment with. I of course pierced the scallops. I used my slit punch to punch the slits for the ribbon to go through. The ribbon is from the SAB ribbon bundle in so saffron and I tied a big ol' bow. mounted my sentiment with some dimensionals and added a pretty punched butterfly.

I have to take a moment here to send a shout out to my cyber friend Nancy, she does a weekly pick of her favorite cards and projects on her blog iStamp and this week she picked one of my cards. Thanks Nancy, your the bestest!!!

Well, that's all I got for you today. Thank you so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Trendy Trees Weekend Sketch

Good Saturday Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made for Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. This weekend Sharon is the hostess of the challenge.

I love this sketch! I used my new set "Trendy Trees". The stamp-a-ma-jig is a must have tool with this set!

I again used some of my new paper as well the DS paper called Good Morning Sunshine, i think that is the name, I guess I should check these things out better before I start typing! LOL!!!

The tree tops are stamped in kiwi kiss ink onto PTI White cardstock. Then this is where you need your stamp-a-ma-jig, to line up the tree trunk stamp. It is stamped with chocolate chip ink. I used my aquapainter to color in a little ground under the trees. I layered that onto a piece of CC cardstock. I used dimensionals to mount that onto the DS piece, which has a layer of kiwi behind it and it was punched with one of my new Fiskar edge punches. I used some big ol' white brads on the side. This layer was also put on with dimensionals.

The next layer is some summer sun DS paper from that above mentioned pack and it was also layered onto some kiwi cardstock. then the whole thing was layered onto a base of chocolate chip.

My sentiment is from the set also and was stamped with cc ink onto some scrap white and punched out with the word window punch. I then used a slightly larger piece of CC to make the mat for the sentiment piece and I used the corner rounder punch on it. I then punched out a flower with kiwi and added a small white brad to the center of it. The whole sentiment piece is also mounted with dimensionals to the base.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and Have a great weekend and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!


Vicki

Hello There

TGIF Peeps! Hope you guys had a great week and are looking forward to an even better weekend!

Today's card is made with some new stuff! I just got the set Cheep Talk. It is adorable, those birds are tooooooo stinkin' cute. I got some matchy DS paper "Good Morning Sunshine" I think is the name.

The card is fairly easy and straight forward. I did stamp the birds onto some scrap paper and cut out and pop up.

I added some silver brads I got from Hobby Lobby and the other corner element is made up of kiwi satin ribbon at an angle with an angled piece of pacific layer in. I added some piercing, of course.

I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to add the sentiment, and I got just a touch of ink on the paper from the stamp where it doesn't belong, just pretend you don't see that. I did toy with the idea of adding some doodled musical notes to cover it up, but in the end decided not to because I wasn't sure it would look right and I didn't want to have to start all over if I flubbed it up!!!

Be sure a stop by my my friends blog where I am guest blogging for her while she is out of town.

Well, that is all for today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Hoppy Birthday Dad

Good Thursday Morning Peeps!

Last fall I saw this cute frog card made by Heather on her blog Stamp with Heather and made a mental note to try it someday.

Well that frog has been calling to me lately, actually there is a reason, My Dad loved frogs and collected all kinds of them, ceramic, glass, stuffed, big, small, whatever, if if was a frog he liked it. He had a huge collection. He passed away a few years ago, in 2000, but his birthday is coming up, it would have been March 8th, so I decided to make this card in his honor.

When I sit down to make it I had no idea about the card, I just made the cute little frog first. He is made with punches, the head is the wide oval punch, eyes are made up of the 3/4 inch, 1/2 inch and 1/4 inch circle punches. The belly is made of the 1-3/8 inch and 1-1/4 inch circle punches. His legs are the small oval punch and his feet are made from the Three Flower Punch. Super simple and ohhhhhhh so cute. I followed Heathers directions to make the waves using the slit punch. I made two sets to put on my card. I then cut a piece of baja cardstock to use as my base it is a 4-14 inch square.

As I was digging through my stash of DS paper looking for something that would look well with my frog, I had a light bulb moment, I could make some cattails for the BG with the grass from the "inspired by Nature" set. That would be really cute for my pond scene I was trying to create for my little Froggy!

I cut a piece of whisper white card stock 4 x 4 and stamped the grass with old olive ink. I then found a scrap of chocolate chip cardstock and punched out a few cattail heads with my slot punch and glued them onto the grass.

I added my first layer of the pond waves onto the white. Then I made the lily pad my frog is sitting on with a small nestie and cut a slit type opening and sit my frog onto the pad. I put a couple of dimensionals behind his head. I then layered the second set of pond waves over the top with some more dimensionals.

I don't have any frog type sentiments so I just printed the "Hoppy Brthday" out with my printer and punched it out with the word window punch and glued it down.

So there you have a "Hoppy Birthday" Froggy card. I think he is really cute. I know my Dad would have loved him!

Happy Birthday DAD, Love you and miss you!

So that's all for today, I can't type anymore because the tears are welling up, thanks so much for stopping by today, HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Just Buzzin' By

Good Morning Peeps!

Today's card is made with the Sweet Sunday Sketch on Karen Giron's Blog The Sweetest Thing.

The card is made with the fun SU set "Buzzin' By". I stamped one of the little bees onto my white circle, that I had cut out with my nesties, and colored him in with my aquapainter and some more mustard and blush blossom ink. I added just a hint of bashful blue to his wings and then covered the wings with some stardust stickles.

The sentiment is stamped onto some scrap paper and then I cut out by hand the words I wanted to use and mounted them onto some more mustard cardstock and then cut that out and glued to the circle.

The base of the card is made from more mustard card stock, that just seems like the bee color to me, I know they are probably more like yo-yo yellow, but I am afraid to pull that color out, it hasn't seen the light of day ever and who knows what might be growing in there with it!!! LOL!!!

I then used some basic black and some more mustard print patterns paper. I added some black satin ribbon I found in my stash and some black brads to the corners of both layers.

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

Vicki

Celebrate

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today's card was made for the OCC Sketch Challenge and I was heavily influenced by this card on Chat's blog Me, My Stamps and I she is a fabulous talent and so very sweet!

I just love black and white cards don't you? This card uses the SU "inspired by Nature set and I stamped the grass in kiwi, the only other color on this card .

This next card is the same sketch just flipped and I used my new set "Quilt Quips".



Not much chit-chat today, I have alot to get done and I think all my cards are pretty self-explanatory anyway. If you have any questions just let me know!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

2 Cards 1 Sketch for you to try

Good Monday Morning Peeps! I want to start off with the winner of my card posted on Friday seen here. I used random .org and it picked # 9. That would be:

Debbie McPherson said...
This card is awesome! You do some great cards. I wish I had your talent


Thanks Debbie, I will get you the card and goodies ASAP. If you want to shoot me an e-mail with your addy I will get them out to you.

Now onto today's card. I have been so jealous of all the great cards I have been seeing lately with SU's new set "Friends 24-7" I love that bird, and since I don't have that set......yet, I decide I would pull out my almost never used set, "Touch of Nature" and use the bird from it for my card.

I started with Jen's Sketch for you to Try. I first stamped the bird onto some watercolor paper with black stazon and then again onto some scraps of watercolor paper and I also stamped the leaves with berries onto the scraps too. I watercolored the bird very lightly with some baja blue and my aquapainter. I used old olive for the leaves and some bravo burgundy for the berries, again keeping it all very light as I wanted a soft aged effect. I also lightly inked in my BG around the bird with baja. I cut out the bird and the leaves and berries from my scrap and mounted the onto the main panel letting a few go outside the box. I pierced the edges with my piercing tool and mat pack, can you see where I got off a bit on one side, I didn't want to start over, so I just added a few more leaves hoping it would make the boo-boo less noticeable.

Te base of the card is baja, followed by shara sand and some DS paper I got at Hobby Lobby, that matches baja perfectly. The bottom dotted piece is from the SU sweet slumber pack.

The sentiment is from the retired set "Best Yet" and is stamped onto watercolor paper and cut out with my 1-3/8" circle punch and mounted onto Shara sand that was punched with the scallop circle punch and of course I pieced the scallops. I added some baja ribbon and a Shara strip that was edge punched.

This next one is a manly card I think, and they are hard for me.




I used the same sketch as above, with the top note die and the SU set "Branch Out".

The base of the card is kraft followed with some always artichoke DS paper. I really didn't know what to use for the sentiment on this one, so I just ended up with this simple one. The addition of the flower is probably the only non-manly part of the card. I found some twill tape ribbon in my stash and used it along with some 1/4" artichoke grosgrain. Tied a knot onto the layered ribbon with some more artichoke and a silver ribbon slide. The bottom is two layers of kraft and artichoke punched with a MS zig-zag edge punch.

Well, that is all for today, Thank you so much for stopping by and Happy Stamping!!!

Vicki