Hello Beautiful

Who wouldn't want to receive a card with this sentiment!

 I wanted to play along with the CAS(e) this sketch for this week and so I created this card.  I buy my watercolor paper in a tablet that I tear the sheets out of and so there is always this edge that gets cut off when I cut my paper to the sizes I want. I love to use it, especially with the tears in it.  I had cut out the word "hello" from from Lawn Fawn outof this piece of paper and it was just sitting on my desk so I decided to play with it and some Distress Stains.  It just seemed right to become part of a card, I cut the bottom edge with a die from Mama Elephant.  The perfect accent seemed to be this word "beautiful" cut from metallic gold paper.  That die is by Paper Smooches.  

 I decided sewing it onto my card would be a fun look so here is a closeup of my sewing lines and the strings I left hanging off the card.  A tiny little flower completes the look.

Here is the CAS(e) this sketch.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

A bit of this and a bit of that

This post covers quite a bit of ground so I didn't even know what to call it!

First off, the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger.  I love the shape of this adorable little creation so I could have gone with a shaped card but I wanted to go with the country look of the materials and that it is a craft project.

I picked out some patterned papers that went along with the colors in the little creation and I punched them in small punched squares to create a quilt like look.  Plus, I thought this piece of Core'dinations embossed cardstock also had a craft look to it and I added some machine sewing.

The add the "house" or "cottage" part to my card, I used a chipboard house from Maya Road. I painted it with a very simple cream color paint and then sponged the outside edge with brown Distress Ink.  Next I stamped it with a woodgrain stamp by Hero Arts.  And, of course, the twine from The Twinery also added a homemade look to the card. 

For this card, I used a flower digital stamp by Hero Arts plus I just found out some really great news, it was a winner in the February contest at Hero Arts for a digital card!!!  The background paper is a digital paper available at 2 Peas in a Bucket, the stamp is available there too. I opened a Microsoft Word document and inserted the piece of paper and sized it to the size I wanted. I then opened the little grouping of flowers. I copied that and pasted another set of the flowers and placed them close together to look like one big bunch of flowers.  I printed this out all at once.

I added little black rhinestones to the middles of some of the flowers and I added white Liquid Pearls to some of the other flowers. The sentiment is a stamp by Hero Arts.

Last up, my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. Lil' Inker is the sponsor so that is where I got this most adorable mouse. 

The patterned papers are by Echo Park from a mini pad.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Colour and Unscripted

I got to play along with Colour Q this week.

I usually love every single combo they come up with and this weeks was no exception. 

Now this is interesting because I think the paper and the card match the colors in the combo really well, but for some reason the photograph is a little off.  Oh well, I love the card anyway. I just picked up a paper pack by Recollections at Michaels and this particular print was the main reason I wanted it. It is an entire page of a chevron design but I just cut a portion for my card.

The two layer butterfly was cut with a Cricut cartridge.

 Now for this weeks Unscripted sketch. 

I combined some papers and stickers by Simple Stories for my card. I love collections that coordinate so well.

 Notice my two little Liquid Pearl dots, LOVE that stuff.

And, while I had out my Simple Stories papers I put together another card. I want tons of that great, brown gingham!

 It just seemed that these papers needed a distress look so I machine sewed around the one square and used my paper distresser on the edges.

I cut the flowers out of one of the prints and distressed the edges of that too.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Flowers and Rain Drops

For my first card, I wanted to play along with the Lawnscaping Challenge since it was being sponsored by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooking, because I love Lawn Fawn stamps and I love to use sketches. Do I need anymore reasons!!!

Here is the sketch.

Oh yes, it also let me use my 903 Kreaxions 4-in-1 punch that I love, my new Cricut and my brand new Cindy Loo cartridge!!!

Notice this close up of the punched border on the glitter, green cardstock.  I love these punches because of the different kinds of punched looks you can get out of one punch just by using different plates. 

This view gives you a close up of my flower and stem that was cut with the Cricut Expression and the Cindy Loo cartridge. I cut it three times so I could create the different layers. 

Now for my project using the Unscripted sketch for this week.  I just knew I needed to create a layout with this great sketch.

I took advantage of the space and used three photos. Notice how cute this It's Raining, It's Pouring collection of papers by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker is with these rain related photos.

This big flourish design is cut with the Cricut Expression (Storybook 5"). I find it amazing at how easy it is to cut any of the designs about any size you want. 

The title letters were also cut with the Cricut Expression  (Stamping 2") and after I had them glued to my page, I coated them with Aleene's Paper Glaze.  

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

 

FRIENDS…FLOWERS card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Max and Mollie collection/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Punch – Kreaxions/Just Imagine Crafts Sentiment stamp set – Lawn Fawn
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Cricut cartridge – Cindy Loo (2”, cut three times)
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Machine sewing

SKETCH 112 – GOOD TIMES layout
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – It’s Raining/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Cut sentiment – Cricut cartridge/Stamping (2”) and Storybook (5”)
Corner punch – Fiskars
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Foam tape – 3M

Butterflies, Buttons and Easter Eggs

First off, I want to share my Card Positioning Systems sketch card for this week, this is where the butterflies come in. 

What made this card particularily fun was mixing these Cosmo Cricket papers and stickers together. 

Notice I gave both of the butterflies on the patterned papers a coat of Aleene's Paper Glaze. It gave them just the right amount of added accent. 

Do you love those corners!!! I used a Martha Stewart order punch to make my card fit the CPS sketch.

I also want to share a super quick and easy card. All I did was pull out some of my new Echo Park papers and stickers.  The row of buttons are a sticker!

And for some Easter photos...

This is how he was dressed for church on Easter morning.  We did a little photo shoot when we returned home.

Yes, you are seeing this correctly! A dressy shirt, tie and vest and DIRT!!! We could hardly keep him out of it while we finished taking pics!

Now for the annual egg hunt.  We hide plastic eggs all over the yard and they have MONEY in them! Yes, they are both going for the same egg but actually the shorter one spied the egg on the banch of the tree and the taller one is helping reach it!

This was his first year to really get the "hunting" part of the day.  Everything in his life right now is about dinosaurs, thus the cute shirt!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 215 – ONCE UPON A TIME card

Materials:
Cardstock –Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned papers and stickers – Togetherness Collection/Cosmo Cricket
Corner punch – Martha Stewart
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Machine sewing
Sand It Gadget – Core’dinations

HONK! HONK!

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and die cut stickers – Sailboats/Echo Park
Divine Twine
Sanding block – Core’dinations

My Core'dinations Creative Frenzy

For awhile now, I have had the amazing opportunity to work with Core'dinations Cardstocks.  I  am pretty sure there isn't a project that I work on that doesn't include it in some way.

I love the texture, I love the colors, all of the Core Impressions designs that have embossed designs on them already that they have released are wonderful and so fun to work with but my favorite part is what happens when you emboss this paper. The core that is revealed when you sand the paper makes for a great look and all of the embossing folders that have been introduced by a variety of companies make this technique even more fun.  SOOOOOO...are you ready for my entry as I reapply for the team!?

For my first layout, I discovered this amazing piece of Sable Core Amour that somehow I missed before! It just seemed that it needed to be paired with a beach photo and theme. 

I hand wrote the word "beach" and then cut it out for my title. 

My little sun accent was created with a punched circle and hand cut rays that were cut from a larger circle. 

For my pleated border, I took a piece of Cosmo Cricket Neutrals Core Impressions that has a notebook kind of embossed design it in . I cut a strip and then hand folded it on some of the lines that are embossed in it. It was so easy and I love the 3-D look of it. 

This layout highlights a couple of the very newest cardstocks by Core'dinations. The pink piece is from the Teresa Collins collection and then I used a piece of silver Glitter Silk. Wow is this combination "girly"!!!  I had just picked up some pieces of Teresa Collins patterned papers so I used them for accents. 

The flowers were cut out of one of the patterned papers. And, the photos are actually ME!!!

Can you see that great embossed pattern in the Core'dinations Core Impressions and I wanted to also try to show you the wonderful glitter of the silver piece. 

Next, a card using four colors from the Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions collection. 

This collection comes with that great embossed design in it already, all I did was sand it a little bit. And, when it comes to sanding, you HAVE to get the new Sand It Gadget! I have never found anything that sands like this thing. I use it on all of my Core but on every other kind of paper that I sand too.

I pleated a strip of patterned paper for an accent and the sentiment is a rub-on by EAD Designs and Paper Smooches, Martha Stewart border punches. 

One last card, here I wanted to show how great these cardstocks look when you used embossing folders.  I used three different ones by Cuttlebug and Sizzix.  I used Card Patterns for my inspiration.

The labels are cut with a Spellbinders Nestabilities and the sentiment is a sticker by SRM stickers. 

Thanks for visiting and looking around, Linda (lbpost)

Unscripted and CPS sketch time

Yeah, another week and more sketches to share with you.  Saturday means a new Unscripted sketch, Sunday means a new Card Positioning Systems sketch. 

The first card I will share in this post is the card that I created with the newest Unscripted sketch.  I just picked up a mini pad of patterned papers by K&Co at Michaels and so I pulled that out for this card. 

I actually love fussy cutting so I cut out the flowers and leaves from one of the papers.  I even cut out some additonal pieces of the flower so that I could layer the flower.  The oval is cut using a Spellbinder Nestabilities and then sanded. 

And this card uses the newest CPS sketch and these really cute stamps.  We got to play with an adorable Unity set of stamps and I paired them with brand NEW Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker papers from the Max and Mollie collection. 

The scallops are stamped with brown ink and they are part of the set as is this really cute little chick. I added a glitter, heart to the middle of her tummy. 

Plus, I want to share this layout.  I was able to play along with a Becky Fleck PageMaps sketch for February and I used another brand NEW Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker collection, It's You Day.  The row of cupcakes are on the bottom edge of one of the patterned papers. 

The piece with the names of the months of the year are on the die cut sheet. I thought it made a fun little accent and then I highlighted the month of his birthday. 

The candles are also part of the die cut sheet, I just used two of them since this is his 2nd birthday.  I accented the flames on the candles with Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 92 – A BIG THANK YOU card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned Papers – Sweet Nectar Collection/K&Co. (flower cut from one of the papers)
Spellbinder Nestabilities label die
Scallop scissors – Family Treasures
Rub-on sentiment – Deja Views
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Machine sewing
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

SKETCH 204 – SWEET THOUGHT OF YOU card

Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Banu Honnavara and Unity
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
White Copic Xpress paper
Patterned paper – Max and Mollie collection/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Brown Distress stamp pad
Black Versafine stamp pad
Detail Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic markers
Glitter heart sticker – Recollections
Self adhesive rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper