Card Patterns Guest

What a fun surprise!

 I got to be the guest designer at Card Patterns sketch blog today. Since I love sketches, this was right up my alley.

 I wanted a girly, new baby card.  I don't create a whole lot of baby related cards so I thought it was time to try one.

I, of course, went to my Cricut cartridges to find just the right look. This is from the Paper Lace 2 cartridge. The sentiment is a stamp by Pink Persimmon and the pink patterned paper is by Bella Blvd.
And for a few photos...I was walking around my yard this morning and I wanted to share some glimpses!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Color yumminess and no color!

Another blog I love to play along with is Play Date Cafe

This color combo just got me and I had to play this week.

I pulled out ONE stamp from a set by Unity and Simple Stories. I love doily shapes so of course, I had to have this set of stamps.  I used some great Clearsnap stamp pads.

The little puffy flower is by Pebbles and I cut the sentiment with my Cricut. 

 And for another card, this one with a big lack of color but a wonderful white, silver and black color combo.

The leaf piece is cut with the Cricut, the silver glitter cardstock is by Core'dinations, the flower is felt and it is a My Favorite Things die and the banner is a Spellbinders nestabilities die.  I stamped the sentiment on it and that is by Pink Persimmon.

And for a few photos...

I was in my backyard this weekend and I found these cuties, first an adorable little flower. 

 Our older dog, Sadie.

And our younger doggie, K.C.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Babies and Butterflies

First off, I want to share my Card Positioning Systems sketch card for this week.  This is the "baby" part of the post.

I just love these particular sets of stamps by Pink Persimmon and so I created a little clothesline with some banners stamps from one set and a little boy outfit from another set.   

Can you believe those adorable little clothespins? I attached them with foam tape over the Divine Twine clothesline. 

Now for the "butterfly" part.  If you noticed the little banner on my sidebar, this week is Jenni Bowlin week at Core'dinations.  The embossed scallop card is cut from a piece of cardstock from the new collection of cardstocks in the Jenni Bowlin collection. 

This I used a bunch of goodies from Jenni Bowlin to finish off my card. 
And for a few photos...

This tulip is in my yard this week! I planted a few bulbs last fall and they opened this week! Are they unique?

Gotta share this photo of one of our grandsons. He and his brother LOVE to climb trees and they are experts, believe me!
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 212 – WELCOME LITTLE ONE card

Materials:
Cardstock –Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Fine and Dandy/My Mind’s Eye (mini pad)
Stamp set – Pink Persimmon
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Memento stamp pads
Divine Twine
Sand It Gadget – Core’dinations
Foam tape – 3M

Almost time for Santa

If you have a minute, will you vote for my card at Scrapbooks, Etc.? You can vote everyday this week, THANKS!!!

And I have just enough time to share a couple more projects with you. 

First off, my Card Postioning Systems card for this week.  I turned the sketch on it's side and used a brand new stamp set I have from Pink Persimmon.  I cut a little bit off of a piece of the "loopy" shaped paper for an edge. 

 I started out stamping the tree image on white cardstock with white ink and I embossed that with white embossing powder.  Now I could apply various color mediums over this stamped image and the image will act as a resist.  I rubbed it with stamp pads first.  Next I created a mask for the tree image itself and sprayed the paper with Glimmer Mist.  The reason I did this was that I wanted the area where the words were to be a lighter blue and the area around that to be a little bit darker blue.  The masking protected where the white words are and since my mask is in a tree shape, I helped further the thought that the words were in a tree shape. 

Another project I wanted to share is this very simple little accordian fold album.  We did a little photo shoot with our youngest grandson and of course, every photo was adorable!!

The album base was purchased, 4"x6" photos fit on each piece of the folds perfectly.  What is nice about that is that all that was then required was a very simple amount of additional accents. 

 I just added rub-ons and sticker letters here and there.

What a fun way to remember our Santa Baby. 

One more Disneyland Castle photo with the Christmas fireworks show.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

And may you all have an amazing holiday with family and friends.

Girly stuff, rhinestones, pearls and flowers!

Sunday is the day that my project is up for all to see at the Pink Persimmon blog for PLAID week. Be sure to check out all of the details but I will give you a peek here.  Plus, remember that you can win prizes too.

I used one of my absolute favorite stamps, this super cute Scottie Dog and created a little painted purse around her. 

  

                       

Here is a close up of the amazing Glitter Paint that I used from PLAID.  I gave the wooden purse a coat of a blue paint first and then painted over that with the Folk Art Glitter Paint. LOVE the amount of glitter look without loose glitter falling off.  Check out the Pink Persimmon blog for a full photo and details for winning a prize.  So GO THERE, PLEASE!

Plus, I want to share my Unscripted sketch card for this week with you. It might be one of my favs!!!

I just picked up a set of clear stamps by Me & My Big Ideas at Joann's store and so of course, I had to pull them out. The label and the border stamp are from that set.  The flowers are another one of my newest purchases, they are by Recollections at Michaels craft store. They come in several different color schemes, I will probably NEED more!

The border stamp is from that set and I accented it with Queen & Co.'s self adhesive pearls. Let me tell you, you NEED these pearls and their rhinestones in every color, they are so handy and the colors are just plain YUM!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 72 – BLESSING card

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Meadowlark/My Mind’s Eye
Label and decorative border stamp – Me & My Big Ideas
Fluid chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Epoxy word – Heidi Grace
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Flowers – Recollections
Ruffled seam binding – Etsy store
Sandpaper

Flower Soft Blog Hop brought to you by the color YELLOW!

Ready for a hop? How about a challenge too?

This week’s challenge – Use your favorite color (or colors) of Flower Soft!!!

We’ll be giving away TWO prize packages! One prize package will be given away on the blog hop and another will be chosen among people who make a card using Flower Soft and post it in the Splitcoast Gallery using the keyword FSC01. Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on September 8th. The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on September 10th!!!


As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post. There will be a prize winner chosen randomly among the blogs. The prizes (one set for Splitcoast players and one set for the blog hop!) :

Moments in Time Stamp set Man of the Match
Ultra Fine Toffee Flower Soft
Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft
Flower Soft Glue


The prize winner will be announced on the Flower Soft Blog on Wednesday September 8th. Good luck!


If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.


Now on to my card for the HOP.
When you ask me what my favorite color is I am going to normally say red but this time, I just have to say the wonderful Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft. 

I combined using the yellow on this little duck image and my card goes along with the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week. Flower Soft is the sponsor at CPS all week long. 

Look at this close-up of the duck. Is this just too much! The cupcake stamp is by Impression-Obsession. I colored it very softly with Copic markers and then gave the duck a coat of the Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft.  Not only can you win some Flower Soft through the blog hop today but also through CPS, all you need to do is make a card using the sketch. 


We are already talking about yellow so I wanted to share this card using the Get Sketchy sketch for this week. 

The circle designs are actually button stamps by Pink Persimmon.  Gotta love these BasicGrey papers with that yellow.

All I did for the button circles was to stamp then with black ink and then I embossed them with clear embossing powder.  I punched them out with a circle punch and then rubbed a Fluid Chalk stamp pad directly to the image and to the paper to completely color them yellow. 


From my blog, hop on over to Cibele Glazer's blog to continue the hop. 


Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANKS SO MUCH card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Pariffin and Revitalize/Origins/BasicGrey
Button stamp – Pink Persimmon
Sentiment sticker - SRM
Black Versafine stamp pad
Fluid Chalk stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Circle punch - Papershapers
Buttons – PaperTrey, Inc.
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

SKETCH 182 – SWEET, WONDERFUL, UNFORGETTABLE card

Materials:
Sunshine Yellow Flower Soft courtesy of Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s/Flower Soft
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Ducks in a Row/October Afternoon
Cupcake stamp – Impression-Obsession
Black Versafine Stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic markers
Self Adhesive Pearl – Queen & Co.
Loopy border punch – Martha Stewart
Machine sewing
Word stickers - Sticko
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M

The color might say it all

First off, Pink Persimmon is offering a 15% off coupon - how can you beat that!? Just go to their site and sign up for the newsletter.  You will then receive the coupon. 

Now for my first card, I just had to use the color combo challenge at The Play Date Cafe.

I really want to go there!!! But in the meantime, I used the color combo to create a card.

I have wanted to use this adorable stamp set by My Favorite Things for awhile now and I thought that color combo was the perfect way to color my little guy on the swing. 

I, of course, needed to add a few more colors to create my little scene but I still have the golden yellow and that great deep red the focal point.  The blue background was created with a spray of Glimmer Mist.  The card base is Core Impressions by Core'dinations from the Jenni Bowlin collection.  I love this embossed pattern for a "boy" look.  I did add some Aleene's Paper Glaze to the leaves and the wood swing just to add a little extra interest to my image although it was hard to show you that in the photograph. 

This card is my Card Positionin Systems card for this week. The sponsor is The Stamps of Life.  I loved using all of these pinks and blues to create a "girly" card with those cute flowers.  That loopy piece is cut from a piece of paper that started out 12" x 12". 

The flowers were colored with Copic markers and I added Aleene's Paper Glaze to each flower.  Isn't it neat the dimension that that glaze adds?

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SWINGING BY… card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Jenni Bowlin/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – October Afternoon
Versafine Black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Stamps – My Favorite Things
Border punch – EK Success
Copic markers
Glimmer Mist spray – Tattered Angels
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

SKETCH 179 – HAPPY THOUGHTS card
Materials:
Stamps courtesy of The Stamps of Life (flowers and sentiment)
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Olivia/BasicGrey
Loopy cut paper – KI Memories
Copic markers
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Butterflies and a Pierrot Doll

Yeah, another Saturday and another Unscripted sketch. I love getting to share mine with you. Here is the sketch (make sure you play along this week) and make sure you also check out what the rest of the team did with the same sketch.

When I looked at this weeks sketch, I wanted to think "outside the box" a bit on how to create my card. So, instead of using ribbon or string to "tie" the two accent pieces together, I created little rows of punched out circles and ran a line of machine sewing through each of them.

 Notice that cool embossed design? That is my brand new texture plate from PaperTrey, Inc. And the butterflies are my brand new stamps from My Stamp Box. I stamped them with white ink and embossed them with white embossing powder on white cardstock. Next I sprayed them with some Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. That bit of colors created some a soft look.

And, I just couldn't wait to share this cutie with you. This is a Pierrot Doll and it is from a brand new stamp set by Pink Persimmon and it isn't even released yet, so this is little sneak peek. The set is called Holiday Favors and it contains several cute images.

I would have called this little guy a clown but I guess if you want to get technical then it is a Pierrot Doll. Any which way it is so cute. All of the dots on his little costume are colored with a Copic marker and then accented with Aleene's Paper Glaze. It is also added to the shoes, cheeks and pompom on the hat. The Paper Glaze adds a fun, extra shine and dimension to the image. The background is super simple, it is just little square stamp pads tapped directly onto the cardstock. LOVE the color combo.

The banners are from a set by Pink Persimmon. The banners are sets of words so stamping them and using them is so easy. Happy is all one stamp, Birthday is another stamp. I did cut each one out after stamping it and that really just takes a minute.

And this little ruffle edge is in the same set. I just stamped it repeatedly to go across my card. The card design fits with the Clear and Simple blog anniversary sketch.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 66 – JUST HI card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Olivia/BasicGrey
Butterfly stamps – My Stamp Box
Rub-on sentiment – BasicGrey
White stamp pad –Joann’s
White embossing powder – Stampendous
Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Circle punch – Papershapers
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Machine Sewing
Texture plate – PaperTrey, Inc.
Sandpaper

PARTY CLOWN card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Boy Gingham/Snuggle Bug/Little Yellow Bicycle
Versafine colored stamp pads
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Stamps – Holiday Favors/Pink Persimmon
Copic markers
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Self adhesive Rhinestones –Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Black sticker letters – Making Memories
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Gotta share my Mini Banner card

I put together the last Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger along with these adorable, mini banner stamps by Pink Persimmon.

The Trigger has adorable chinese lanterns hanging from the ceiling but I thought that by using these cute banner stamps and stamping them in colors, I could get a similar look. The set of banner stamps come with a solid banner for each of the alphabet letters and there are numbers too. What I like about the solid banners is that these can be stamped in any color.

I cut each one out and then placed them on my card front, trying to mimic the colors in the trigger. I added little dotted lines at the ends to make them look like they are hanging. The background paper is a ledger print by BasicGrey.

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AND, I just have to share these photos with you today.

This little girl came to our house yesterday. She is why we were visiting the Human Society the other day, we just had to wait for a yard check. She is sooooo the cutest!

Our granddaughter got to meet her for the first time when she got home last night. It was love at first sight for both of them.

She is part Dachshund and part Basset Hound and she doesn't have a name yet. We are waiting to see what we think fits her and there are four of us deciding so this has been a trial already!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

ABC’s BANNER - CONGRATULATIONS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Basics White paper pad/BasicGrey

Black Versafine stamp pad

Memento colored stamp pads

Stamps – Mini Banner Alpha/Pink Persimmon

Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

Black fine tip pen - Copic

Sandpaper