Mojo Color Throwdown: Dance in the Rain

Good Morning Everyone,

Are you so excited for Friday as I am - this week has been swirling with intensity and activity as the kids are full fledged into school and the routine of the lazy days of summer suddenly has gotten discarded to the high paced schedule of school and after-school activities. I have been wanting to play along with the gorgeous colors from Swatch #109 from the lovely ladies at the Color Throwdown (I {heart} these cheery bright colors) and couldn't wait to play along with the lovely sketch #155 from Julee Tilman over at the Mojo Monday blog. Don't you love it when everyone goes to bed early and you have some crafting time carved out of the blissful silence :)))

I love these cheery colors and wanted to make a cheery card :) So I used one of my new fave Verve sets: Blue Skies from Verve Stamps for this card. This little notebook stamp just is SO beyond cute and the butterflies are simply so gorgeous - I copic-fied them and gave them a little glaze and added a little dew drop to the center and on the bottom I added a little trail of bling in the pink and yellows of the color challenge:

Here is a close up of the sentiment - isn't this sentiment so inspiring: "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain." I couldn't resist adding some liquid pearls - trust me, I did try to not add them - but then, I couldn't hold back :))

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Echo Park: Life is Good

Stamps: Blue Skies from Verve Stamps

Ink: Memento Ink: Bahama Blue and Tuxedo Black

Accessories: copics, glaze, dimensionals, bling from Prima, dew drops, Adirondacks dimensional pearls, Spellbinders, ribbon from stash

I loved making this fun card - and simply loved both of these challenges! There is something about making a bright cheery card that leaves a bright cheery feeling in the heart :) And just a quick heads up for all you Verve Stamps Fans: the Harvest Blessings stamp set is 40% off now through September 30 while supplies last - that is one sweet stamp set!

Also as we get ready to head into the weekend, we are kicking off tomorrow's Cinema Saturday challenge with a little sneak peek snippet/clip from the movie over at the Cinema Saturday blog - hop on over and see if you can guess what movie it is going to be!!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

A Bevy of Challenge Cards - well - okay just 4 :)

Good Morning Everyone,

This week has been flying by - I can't even handle it! And speaking of "handling this" - I love the slogan from the Color Throwdown  ladies: Can You Handle this!?! I loved these soft colors that we have for this week's  color challenge- aren't these colors just so sweet! I immediately thought of a baby card ....

and so I made two - one for a boy and one for a girl - one of each just in case I need a quick card - and these were super quick cards - literally 7 minutes each - crazy! I used the sketch that PaperCraftPlanet is featuring this week.

Card Details:

Paper: cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Bordering Blue from SU! and I forgot what kind of pink from SU!

Stamps: Year of Sweet Sentiments from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: booties from stash, spellbinders, cuttlebug embossing folder, corner rounder, Kaiser,  ribbon from stash

THanks ladies for the fun colors!!! The next color challenge that I did was one that my good friend Diana Gibbs created this week - she has her own color challenge! So I had to play along to support my chickie!!! Here are her fun colors for her Color Challenge #1: 

And here is my card for her challenge - I made this card using one of my new fave sets from Taylored Expressions: Chillax :) This is made for a good friend of mine who just started a new job and I wanted to give it to her on Friday (today :) - so that she good have a Chillaxin TGIF :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Old Olive from SU!

Stamps: Chillax from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: liquid glaze, stickles, Kaiser rhinestones, circle cutter from CM, copics

Okay and one more challenge (actually two) - this is for Julee's awesome Mojo Monday sketch 101 and  I also used the Limited Supplies challenge this week over at SCS which was: chocolate paper of some sort, a butterfly, a birthday type card and it was to be a money holder as well - so here is everything:

and here is my card using the Beary Special Stamp set and sentiment from Taylored Expressions - it has a pocket for some moola in the inside (what is so sad is that when I went to take a pic of the card and was looking for some moola - all I could find was a dollar bill! okay - need to go to the bank!)

Card Details:

Paper: SEI papers

Ink: Stazon Black

Stamps: Beary Special Stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spellbinders, martha punch, corner rounder, white gel pen, Medows punch from CM, ribbon from stash, stickles

I had so much fun making these cards - the colors and images were so fun to work with and more than anything - I loved having some time to create something - this week has been so hectic and I really am always amazed at how therapeutic it is to craft! (the more stress - the more cards!!! ha!)

Thanks so much for visiting my corner :) Have a go at all these challenges out there! 

Big hugs to all!!!

Sankari :)

PS- Have a chillaxin friday ya'll!!!!

With the Right Accessories... I can do Anything!

Good Morning Everyone!

I have to say that I just love this craft stamp designed by the artist Tara Reed that I got from JanLynn - it is called the Right Accessories - and its on sale right now! Who doesn't love a good sale!!! I know I do! I couldn't wait to use it :) 

And I couldn't wait to play along with the uber talented girls at the Color Throwdown! Its been too long and I don't know how one week is blurring into the next these days! I was also wanting to use the sketch for at the Saturday Sketch at PaperCraft Planet. This week Jessica Flick is our hostess with the mostess and I was excited to put everything together :)

I used up papers from my scrap stash - yay! Even though, I am using it up - its still ridiculously full! And also some Basic Grey papers for accent. I threw in a fancy button that I have had stashed and a pearl for the purse :) I stamped it on the turquoise and and saffronish colored papers and then paper pieced it together - and use an xacto knife for the little details :) around the handle of the purse and then popped it on dimensionals - the ribbon - is also from stash :) yay!

I had a lot of fun making this card! Also because I love the sentiment - have you ever felt that way? Sometimes just wearing a hot pair of heels suddenly can make you walk with a bounce of joy :) Hope you have a chance to play along with these delicious colors and with this fun sketch!!! 

Hope you are all having a fabu! kinda day!!!

Thanks for visiting my little corner :)

Ciao for now!

Sankari :)

Color Throwdown - 2 Cards - 2 Sketch challenges

Hi Everyone,

Have you guys seen the yummy colors over at the Color Throwdown? The color challenge this week is purely pomegrante, tangerine tango and kiwi kiss - aren't they just beautiful together?

The ladies at the Color Throwdown have some beautiful samples and I couldn't wait to play along. I used Julee's beautiful Mojo 

Monday Sketch challenge #79 for inspiration. This was such a beautiful sketch and a yummy color challenge!

The only thing is that I made this card last night... and what looked like a color closer to purely pomegranate... turned out to be more purple in the light of day... oh well.. 

 

I absolutely love Taylor's newest stamp set Branching Out - and so I pulled it out and went a little whimsy on it :) The tree bark is embossed with Versamark and Polysparkle EP on a magenta-ish cardstock. I put little dots for the tree as though leaves with Orange stickles. The birds are paper pieced together with a little bit of stickles on their wings. The sentiment reads: Your friendship is a blessing.

I have to say, that I loved making this card - it was just so much fun to paper piece, emboss and cut out that tree... it is definitely therapeutic to craft....

Here is a close up of the tree and birds -- you can see the embossing of the tree better and also some of the polysparkle EP :)

Card details:

Paper: K & Company for the green, DCVW for the magenta and the orange is Ambrosia (Basic Grey)

Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Versa Mark (polysparkle EP)

Stamps: Branching Out stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Orange stickles, liquid pearls, Crystal Stickles, ribbon, corner rounder

2nd Card using these same yummy colors from the Color Throwdown

I loved these colors so much that I created a second card. Seriously - I love these colors so much - they just look delicious!! There is something about the orange and the green and the pomegrante colors together ... I guess it kind of reminds me of India - just bright and fun colors!

For the second card, I used Laura's awesome sketch #22 from 2 Sketches 4 You. I loved the small box on the side and wanted to made it a half circle. I used the same stamp set as above and went more pomegrante than purple on this card. I just adore this stamp set - it was fun to go whimsy and create different colored trees and birds and scenes.... the best thing was that it was so much fun to create. I cut out a half circle, added some grass from DP and then created the sky using Pebbles Chalks (pearlescent chalks).

 

Here is a close up  of the tree and the liquid pearls:

Card details:

Paper: K & Company and scrap stash

Ink: Stampin Up! Pumpkin Pie 

Stamps: Branching Out stamp set from Taylored Expression

Accessories: ribbon, liquid pearls, stickles, CM creative memories, Martha punch (mini scallop), markers, Pebbles Pearlescent Chalks

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner!
Hope you are all having a lovely day!

Ciao for now,

Sankari

Color Throwdown - Dream Big card

Hello All, 

I had a quick chance to play along at the color challenge that the A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! ladies at the Color Throwdown are throwing down this week, while my little ones had snack and were playing with their new hotwheel cars (yes, my little daughter is waaaay into hotwheels, can you tell, she has an older brother??? lol!)

I have been meaning to play along every week, and every week, I remember on tuesday night and then I promise myself that I am going to play the next week - and now weeks later, I am so psyched that I actually made a card and am posting it the day after the challenge went up! woo-hoo!!!  

This week's colors are soooo pretty together (tempting turquoise, elegant eggplant and green of choice) I didn't really have anything turquoise-y , so I went for the closest thing I had and.... I only had about 20 minutes - so I quickly threw this together. 

Card Details

Paper: DCVW

Ink: SU! Taken with Teal

Stamps: SU! Happy Harmony

Accessories: Stickles, Liquid Pearls, mini circle punch, corner rounder

There is a multi-media pack from DCVW that has these color flowers in it - so I cut a few out, created a wave on the white cardstock, stamped the sentiment and then punched out mini circles to create a scalloped edge and then added liquid pearls and dots... seriously quick --- I had to be quick to try to take a picture of it in the setting sunlight.. I love this stamp set - I think it is my favorite and it felt so good to pull it out and use it! 

The sentiment reads: Dreams come a size too big so we can grown into them." Isn't that just sooo inspiring? I love it!! And I love being able to dream... what are some of your big dreams? One of mine is to travel the world with my family and be able to enjoy the wonders of this beautiful planet -- and the other is to meet Johnny Depp, my secret crush (well, not so secret anymore :) since I was 12 ;)

Well, that's it for me.... well actually there is one more... I just finished my scrapbook layout for the Scrappy Sunday challenge - so that one I will post in a few minutes too :)

Hope you are all having a delicious Thursday!!

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner :)

Ciao for now, 

Sankari :)

The Best things in Life are....

Good Morning Everyone,

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! I am so excited to share with you some exciting news! In December, I participated in Melanie Muenchinger's Hand-in-Hand sentimental journey challenge to create a card/project where hands are being featured. The winner of her challenge would get to be a guest desinger for Melanie in January and feature her latest stamps that are being released in January. I was soooo happy when Melanie selected my scrapbook layout and I got to be part of the release party of her newest stamps for Gina K. Designs. Melanie just released her newest set of awesome stamps called the The Best in Life.

Melanie is the senior illustrator at Gina K. Designs and has some amazing stamps that she has created and her blog: Hands, Head and Heart is just filled with amazing cards, projects and stories. Check out all of Melanie's stamps here and check out all of Gina K.'s amazing products here.She is someone whose work I have totally admired and I was so excited to be picked! YAY! Thank you Melanie!

Her newest stamps are sentiments that express what the best things in life are - they are sooo versatile and I just loved playing with them! you can mix and match sentiments and create your own new phrase of what the best things in life are. Melanie just posted a tip sheet on how you can use the stamps and what some different ideas for them are - you can check out her tip sheet here. Here are two cards that I created using her stamps:

This first one - I created using Melanie's The Best things in Life stamps and Gina's Warm and Cozy Christmas stamps and mixed the two together using Julee's awesome Mojo Monday sketch #70 I really loved making this card - because it was something I wanted to give to my MIL who is always so supportive and always such great care of our kids. These two little munckins in the their coats look just like our son and daughter. I loved the sentiment - from God - because no matter what your religious beliefs - children are a miracles. I paper pieced all the children's clothing and added alot of dimensionals to the card.

The second one - I created a card for a very special friend and the sentiment that I created from Melanie's stamps are: "The Best things in Life are shared" - I loved this! This card was created using the colors (black, kraft and pink) from the fabulous ladies at the Color Throwdown and uses Jen del Muro's sketch from last week.


I loved using Melanie's stamps for this card for my friend. She is such a sweetheart and is always sharing and taking care of others. The sundae's on the card have liquid pearl and the glass on the sundae's have a liquid glaze on them. I have so many ideas spinning around in my head on projects to use with Melanie's stamps - there are so many.

The thing that i like the best about her stamps is that she has sentiments that really fit everything you could want to describe and share in a card or layout or project. They are just so versatile. Please go check out Melanie's stamps and her awesome blog! She is not only an amazingly talented artist - but after having a chance to email back and forth and talk with her on the phone (we have to do it longer next time Melanie! :) she is just so sweet, kind and encouraging. I absolutely adore her!

I hope your sunday is restful and relaxing!! My sunday is unfortunately looking like a laundry kind of day - oh well! :) Hopefully, I can get some stamping done too!

Thanks for visiting!
Ciao for now!
Sankari :)

A Treat Pouch for my Tweetheart :)

Good Evening everyone,

Hope your Tuesday has been fantastic... here things are on fast forward and I don't know how to press pause... I know its only Tuesday - but doesn't it feel like a Thursday? Anyhoo.. I just wanted to post a quick little something that I made while procrastinating on finishing up my presentation for my lecture tomorrow :) I have been loving looking at the projects that Pam and Carrie have been putting up at the 3D Design Challenge site - they always astound me - and I am so glad that I finally got to play along this week to the challenge of creating this treat pouch.

I made this little cutie pouch for my dear husband who loves to snack on white chocolate chips (he says a little is all you need for a sweet fix), so I made him this pouch to take to work with some little chocolate chips wrapped in purple cellophane (i wish i had clear -but that's all I had in the kitchen drawer - so I ran with that :) He totally loved it - he thought it was so darn cute and couldn't wait to take it to work - which made me feel good that I had used my procrastination time in the best of ways :)

I used the colors for the pouch from last week's ColorThrowdown #24 colors (vanilla, mellow moss and baja breeze) - I missed the deadline for the challenge - but had to do it anyway because those colors are so pretty together... (although, I wouldn't call my green: mellow moss, but that's all I had - so I ran with it.... :)  And here is a picture of them side by side together... 

This was a fun and quick project - I enjoyed making it and can't wait to try more... I am thinking I should make one for me for my craft table... but instead of making the pouch kinda teeny like I did here -- I should make it much much bigger - just for me :) LOL!

Alright - I am off to go finish doing all that I have put off doing... ! (ever have days like that ? :)

Hope everyone is having a great evening,

Thank you for coming over for a visit!

Ciao for now :)

Sankari :)

Materials used:

Paper: K & Company

Accessories: Heart punch by Marvy and Martha, liquid pearls, ribbon (grosgrain in vanilla and green, white chocolate chips and cellophane :)

Movies watched while making this: Fellowship of the Ring --- again :) !