Merry Monday 108

 

Happy Monday, peeps!  It’s time for another Merry Monday, and Lori has one I know you’ll love:

I used the sketch 256 from Unscripted Sketches for this week:

as well  as the inspiration from Festive Friday 31:

to make my little clean and simple card for today:

I sort of feel guilty, this was so easy to make!  I cut out a few stars from Red Glimmer Paper, glued them in place, added a sentiment from MFT’s Seasonal Sentiments and a little rhinestone-embellished sequin, and I was done!

Be sure to stop by the Merry Monday blog and see all the other star-studded creations from our fabulous design team!  Play along, and soon, you’ll have a big stash of Christmas cards by December!

We went to our niece’s bridal shower on Saturday and Cassidy wore her new kitty kat dress!  She was quite enthralled watching the bride-to-be open her gifts:

Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Seasonal Sentiments (My Favorite Things)
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, Red Glimmer Paper
Ink	Real Red
Accessories	Sequin, Rhinestone, Red Copic
Tools	SU Star Punches (Merry Mini Punch Pack, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack, Small Star), Dimensionals

ColourQ 208

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Oooooh, a fun challenge from Arielle today at the ColourQ:

Wow, any color plus black and white!  FUN!  Since the Less is More challenge was to use felt or fabric on your creation, I chose to use So Saffron as my spot color:

I happened to find this beautiful digi sentiment from TLC that I felt really was appropriate to the zentangle look to the challenge; you might be able to see that I colored in the “autumn” a wee bit, plus added a few stamped images:

I used the sketch 223 from Unscripted Sketches as well:

I know black is not a traditional fall color, but I just love how this turned out!

Playing with wood near Grampy’s new garage:

This little piece looks just like a house!  Enjoy your day!

Wee Project Details
Stamps	Gingham Wheel, Autumn Squares (Impression Obsession) Digital Sentiment
Card stock & Papers	Whisper White, So Saffron
Ink	Stazon Black, So Saffron
Accessories	Felt, Brad, Embroidery Floss
Tools	Big Shot, Chalk Talk Dies, Autumn Accent Die

US210 & SR175 and Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Saturday, peeps!  I had a little time to stamp today before my daughter took me to lunch for Mother’s Day!  I used the inspiration photo from Stampin’ Royalty:

Swoon!  Love these colors together!  I also used the Unscripted Sketches sketch for today:

And here we go:

I am so excited that Soft Sky is making a comeback!  It looks lovely with Baked Brown Sugar, don’t you think?  The actual color is a tiny bit more green that what shows here on my computer….but it still a lovely color!  I used some retired background stamps (Linen and Floral) as well as a wee bit of the new Mosaic Madness, and some bits and pieces from the Artisan Embellishment pack, which is still available!

I did some stitching around my panel, and used some MDS burlap for my curved mat!  Any questions, please shoot me an email!

Dana took a picture of Cassidy last week blowing bubbles, so I enlarged it and put it in a simple black frame:

I used Decorate a Daisy and A Round Array to cover up a portion of the photo that wasn’t really that pretty!

I believe she liked it!

And Cassidy made a “stained glass” vase for her mommy at the library craft time yesterday:

Happy Mother’s Day to all, just a wee bit early!

ColourQ 184

Happy Tuesday, everyone! It’s time for another ColourQ challenge!  Here you go:

I believe that Arielle said this purse from NM is $3000…..yikes!  I can assure you that I will not be purchasing this ever!!!  But it is cool, and although I found the colors a bit challenging, I persevered! 

I went uber-CAS with this card, as I was making it for my little 3-year-old great-nephew!  Although the Blush Blossom is not a color I would typically use on a boy’s card, I knew HE wouldn’t care, and his mom would like it.  It was hand-delivered, too, so the little bell on his collar was not a problem!  The digital image was a freebie (email me if you want to know from where!) and I paper-pieced it with a plaid scrap I had laying around.   I ran some Blush Blossom and Creamy Caramel scraps through my Chevron EF and trimmed them down for my horizontal embellishment. I didn’t have any Going Gray cardstock, so I substituted Basic Gray.  And finally, the sentiment was computer-generated.

I also used the fun sketch #205 from Unscripted Sketches for my layout:

Hope you’ll come play along with us and have some fun with these trendy, fashionable colors!  Be sure to wiggle on over to the ColourQ blog to see what’s shakin’ there too!

Expressions……

ColourQ182

Happy Tuesday, peeps!  Time for another wonderful ColourQ challenge!  But first, let me show what we woke up to yesterday morning:

This is more snow than we’ve had ALL WINTER!!  Pretty….and probably gone by this afternoon! 

Anyway, here’s the gorgeous springy palette Arielle has chosen for us today:

Beautiful!  I needed another hostess thank you card, and since my hostess purchased the Papillon Potpourri set and the matching punches, I decided to use them for her card.  She also loves purple…..so that Wisteria Wonder was perfect:

I used the Unscripted Sketches sketch #203 to get me started:

I already had a little piece of white cardstock embossed with the Delicate Designs embossing folder, so I used that for my left panel.  I stamped the foliage from Papaya Collage in Lucky Limeade, but it looked a little too bright with my butterflies, so I layered it with a piece of vellum to soften it a bit:

The butterflies themselves were stamped first with the silhouette outline stamp, after “stamping off” the ink on some scratch paper, then over-stamping the detailed image in full-strength ink.  The punch makes it a breeze to cut them out!  Added some pearls and mounted them on the vellum.

I stamped the “thanks” from Kindness Matters in Always Artichoke and punched it out with the small oval punch, but it looked naked without a mat!  Much to my surprise, I found that a 1 1/4” scallop circle punch-out, cut in half between the scallops and repositioned, created a perfect oval mat for my sentiment!  I LOVE it when I can get extra use out of my punches!!! (Somebody else probably already thought of this, I am sure!)  You can just barely see the overlap in this photo:

I finished my card by embossing the front with the Elegant Lines embossing folder…I love the effect, but it does make the card front a bit “floppy”!!!  But I hope she likes it!  I hope you will stop over at the ColourQ blog to see the amazing projects the other designers have come up with too!  They are fantastic!

After spaghetti for lunch, Cassidy totally enjoyed the green jello cake I made….she even had some on her nose!!  Have no idea how THAT got there!

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Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Sadly, I needed another sympathy card, so I relied on this very simple sketch from Unscripted Sketches:

and some older Basic Grey papers:

The papers alone are just gorgeous, so I thought they would be good for this sketch;  I just added a little postage stamp square on which to adhere my chipboard bird, and stamped the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven in Always Artichoke ink.

Thanks for visiting today!

Cassidy is enjoying the new floor in my craft room!