I Love You

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this time we have a fun sketch from Claire!

I  also wanted to play along with the Creative Confetti challenge over at the Power Poppy blog, Barbara has a great challenge where we are to create a Valentine project without using a heart. The sketch from Claire was the perfect way to use the digital set La Vie en Rose.

I colored the rose in a coral color and then used some Toner Gray copics for the tag and around the outline of the leaves and flower. I knew I wanted my card base to be the same coral color so I grabbed some Granite Gray card stock and embossed that with the 3D Brick Wall embossing flower for some texture. I finished it off by tying a bit of Calypso Coral ribbon around the stem portion of the top of the image.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we 'd love to see how you interpret the sketch! You can also play along with each of the Creative Confetti challenges all month!

My Missing Piece

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a color challenge for everyone!

I don't know why but color challenges with pink in them always throw me off, maybe because it's not a color I care for. I had to think about these colors and how I wanted to use them, finally settling on this card using a SU set.

I used a die to cut the puzzle pieces in 4 of the challenge colors and then I cut the sentiment heart out with a die after stamping it in Cherry Cobbler.  I knew I wanted a white background but it looked a bit boring so I used a SU 3D embossing folder to add some texture.

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors!

Bushels of Love

This sweet image is available to the Patreon subscribers of Mo Manning @ Mo's Digital Pencil.. How adorable are the barrels filled with hearts and the big curly ponytails on the little girl? This was a lot of fun to color!

Valentine Greetings

Today's card features a set I used on my previous card, Va-Va-Valentines from Power Poppy. I just love this digital stamp set so much and this sock image is my favorite!

I kept the layout simple and added some paper piercing around the edges for a little more visual interest. I also brought on some of the green from the DSP into the image. Green is one of my favorite colors so of course I have to have it in there somewhere :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Happy I Found You

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamp blog and this week we have a fun sketch from Heidi!

Valentine's Day will be here before we know it and although I don't celebrate the day I know a lot of people who do! Power Poppy has an amazing digital set called Va-Va- Valentines and I used one of the images from that set on my card, as it was perfect for the circle element on the sketch.

Last week I had used this image on another card and when coloring it this time I decided to use the same colors from the papers on the previous card. I'm not much of a pink fan but I really like how the Melon Mambo goes with the Bermuda Bay. I didn't want to use patterned paper for the background but I also didn't want to leave it plain so I used a Cuttlebug embossing folder from my stash. The fun heart background gives just the right amount of texture and extra visual pop.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with for this sketch and then play along with us, we'd love to see what YOU can do with it!

I Love You This Much

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a color challenge. I won't lie, this one was hard for me. I'm don't mind the color red but I despise the color pink so trying to work with it always leaves me banging my head LOL

For my card I used a retired MFT PI image. I just love these images and with these colors it was perfect to use for a Valentines Day card. My paper is brand new DSP from SU that can be found in the Occasions catalog and the colors from this set went along beautifully with this color challenge! I paper pieced the girls dress to coordinate with the background paper.

I was stuck on a layout but once again the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches came to my rescue.My vertical portion is the little girl so that part isn't as long as the one in the sketch.

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us. We'd love to see what you can do with these colors!

Stamps: MFT PI Heart Banner

Paper: Crumb Cake (SU), Neenah Solar White, All My Love DSP (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: R32, R35, R37

E55, E57

E000, E00, E21

N1, N3, N5

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 23, dimensionals

I'm So Happy I Found You

This week at The Paper Players they have a color challenge and so I decided to make a Valentines Day card, I like how they aren't traditional colors one would grab for a love card.

The image I used is from the Power Poppy digital set Va-Va-Valentines. I used the Pool Party and Grapefruit Grove to color in the socks with just a hint of the Daffodil Delight thrown in. As I was grabbing DSP to assemble the card I decided I wanted more of the Daffodil Delight on the card and I happened to have this circle already cut and in my stash, perfect for backing the circle the image is on! For the color of my choice I just brought in a small touch of brown on the clothespins holding up the socks.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Va-Va-Valentines (Power Poppy digital set)

Paper: Grapefruit Grove DSP (SU), Pool Party DSP (SU), Daffodil Delight (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Grapefruit Grove, Pool Party

Copics: YR000, YR01, YR02

Y32, Y35

BG10, BG11

Accessories: Spellbinders Lacey Circles Die, MFT Stitched Circles

Make My Heart Melt

For today's card I'm playing along with the current challenge over at the Freshly Made Sketches blog. I used a digital stamp from Power Poppy, from the Va-Va Valentines set. How adorable is this image and sentiment? I love Marcella's creations!

My colors are from a retired SU 12x12 pad of former In Colors. This year I want to use more of the items I hoard...I mean, have in my stash ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:Va-Va-Valentine (Power Poppy)

Paper: Tip Top Taupe (SU retired), Watermelon Wonder DSP (SU retired), Mint Macaron, Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: R22, R27

G00, G12, YG41

YR04, YR07, Y17

Acessories: MFT Blueprints 20 and 29, dimensionals

Bee Mine

Just a quick post today. With my Christmas vacation coming to an end and hubby back to work as of Weds I'm back to being alone during the wee hours of the night. I did a massive clean up of my craft desk last week and finally got some time to create late Fri night/early Sat morning.

I love this fun image from Mo's Digital Image and thought she would make a great bookmark so I resized the sentiment and image on Word to make it fit the shape of my bookmark die. I then colored in the image with my copics and finished off the bookmark by mounting it on red cardstock(I forgot to get a photo of that tonight) and then added the yellow ribbon. It would be perfect to give on Valentines Day with your loved ones favorite book or magazine.

Love You

Today's card features a brand new digital image from Power Poppy called Blossoming Cherry. I really love this stamp because it makes me think of my grandma. Her and my grandpa used to travel all over the US by train and they used to go to Washington D.C. quite often. Grandma always loved it when the cherry blossoms in DC were in bloom, she thought they were so beautiful.  

I took the image and put it on my Word document twice, then I turned the branches to try and form a heart shape to fold around the sentiment.

There are a few challenges I played along with for this card.....the colors are from the current Power Poppy Hues to Use, the theme of love and the use of sparkle (I used silver Stickles in the middle of the open flowers) is for the Power Poppy Monthly Power and Spark challenge and last but not least the love theme is also for the Be My Valentine theme at The Paper Players.

Love You for LMMS

Happy Thursday! I hope everyone is having a great week. I've had my hands full with 2 puppies recovering from spay surgery. I think I may need a vacation after these next 10 days of trying to keep them quiet LOL

It's Inspiration Week over at LMMS and my card today features one of my favorite images, Polka Dot Pals Soleil. She is making the ASL sign for "love". As the mom of a deaf son I just love the ASL images that LMMS carries! You can find Soleil in the LMMS shop HERE.

The Anything Goes Challenge is still open so head on over to the LMMS blog and play along with us!

Be Mine for LMMS

It's time for a brand new Anything Goes challenge at LMMS and this week I'm keeping the love theme going with the adorable Marley Be Mine image. This little mouse is super easy to color and you can use him for several occasions, not just Valentines Day. The colors I used were drawn from the retired SU DSP that I used on the card.

There are also brand new releases in the shop today, some of them are only $1.00! Head on over to the shop and find all the new images HERE.

After you get your new images head on over to the LMMS blog and join in on our Anything Goes challenge, we'd love to see what you create! Don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT has created this week!

Flowers for LMMS

Happy Thursday! It's time for another challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog and this week I went with an image that is perfect for Valentines Day, this sweet elephant holding a bouquet of flowers in her trunk. The image is called Val Gives Flowers and you can find it HERE.

I colored in the image with copics, used my ScanNCut to cut it out and then popped it up with dimensionals against the white circle. The sentiment banner is from a SugarPea Designs set called Special Delivery. 

Make sure you head over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Stamps: Val Gives Flowers (LMMS Digital Stamp), Special Delivery (SPD)

Paper: Rose Red (SU), Neenah Solar White , Love Blossoms DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Rose Red (SU)

Copics: N1, N2, N3

R37, R39

R81

T1, T3

Accessories: ScanNCut, Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, Dimensionals

Special Delivery

It's been a pretty quiet weekend around the house as I get ready for my wonderful 2 week vacation to end and work to start back up. I'm trying not think about going back to reality so I've locked myself in my craft room the last few nights to get creative.

For this card I played along with the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and the Anything Goes challenge at the SugarPea Designs Challenge blog. I just love this penguin and with Valentines Day next month I thought it would be nice to make a card with him. I chose red accents with just a touch of blue to go with my Valentines theme, coloring the image with copics.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Happy Mail (SPD)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Cherry Cobbler DSP (SU), Night of Navy DSP (SU)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: N3, N5, N7

R27, R46

YR16, YR18

W1

YR24

T2, T3

Sketchy Moose

It's Saturday and I've got exciting news to share. For the month of January I'll be a guest designer over at Sketch Saturday! I love sketch challenges so I'm thrilled to be working with the awesome team over there. Today's Sketch Saturday challenge is sponsored by Little Miss Muffet Stamps, how fun is that?!

For my card I chose to use the Moose Love image. While we are still below normal for snow in my part of Alaska the snow we do have is helping bring down the moose from the hills into the lower elevations. Tonight my friend down the road looked out her front door to see 2 moose licking the salt off her truck! How fun is that?

I love sketches like this because they really allow the image to take center stage and that's what I did on my card...I printed out the LMMS image, colored it with copics, used my ScanNCut to cut out the image and then popped it up with dimensionals on my card. Because Valentines Day is just around the corner I went with a color scheme of red, kraft and white with just a touch of soft blue thrown in.

Make sure you head over to the Sketch Saturday blog to see the great inspiration from the DT and then play along with us! You can visit the LMMS store HERE to grab the Moose Love image or any of their other fun digital stamps! By playing along with Sketch Saturday this week you have the chance to win a $6.00 gift card to the LMMS store.

One of the cow moose enjoying what my friends yard has to offer. You can see how big she is compared to the truck, or the doorway to the garage.

Stamps: Moose Love (LMMS digital stamp), Sheltering Tree (SU-sentiment)

Paper: Crumb Cake (SU), Real Red (SU), Soft Sky (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Real Red (SU), Printer Ink

Copics: E15, E17, E18

Accessories: ScanNCut, Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Squares, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Rectangles, MFT Blueprints 27, Dimensionals

Love Note for Friday Mashup and Freshly Made Sketches

Another week has come and gone and this time I'm happy to see the weekend because it's a 3 day weekend, wooohooo! Time to catch up on my DVR'd TV shows and stamp.

This week at the Friday Mashup Heidi is bringing us the challenge and it's all about colors and hearts. She wants to see Coastal Cabana, Real Red and Crumb Cake on our projects, plus throw some hearts in there too! Lucky for me the SU order I placed on Monday came Thursday so I used some new goodies for my card!

My inspiration for the layout came from this weeks Freshly Made Sketches. It definitely had me thinking and I grabbed my new pad of Fresh Prints DSP along with some Coastal Cabana cardstock. I embossed the Coastal Cabana with the Arrows Textured EF and then grabbed the Fresh Prints DSP and put the DSP on top of that.

I then  took some Real Red, embossed it with the Arrows Textured EF and cut a small strip out to put across the card. The love note image is from the Love You to the Moon set and was stamped in Real Red and cut out with a circle punch. I then layered that on a Crumb Cake circle and popped the whole thin up with dimensionals. The 'just for you' is from Teeny Tiny Wishes and I stamped that on the arrow from the Peachy Keen set. I was going to put it down on the bottom, like the sketch, but it didn't look right to me so I placed it up by the other image and used Whisper White candy dots in the lower corner.

I hope you'll come by the Friday Mashup and check out the rest of the great projects from the DT, and then play along with us!

1. Create a project using the Colors "Coastal Cabana, Real Red & Crumb Cake."
2. Create a project using "Hearts & Arrows. "
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project using "the above colors along with Hearts & Arrows."

 

 

 

 

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Peachy Keen, Love You to the Moon, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Real Red, Coastal Cabana, Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Fresh Prints DSP

Ink: Real Red, Coastal Cabana

Accessories: Big Shot, Arrows Textured EF, 1 3/4" Circle Punch, On Film Framelit Dies, Whisper White Candy Dots, sponge, dimensionals

 

 

 

Sunday Colors and Players Sketch

With no football on Sunday(ok, the Pro Bowl but its not the same) I had some time to stamp and so I played along with the color challenge from Sunday Stamps and the sketch from The Paper Players.

When I saw the colors for Sunday Stamps I thought it would make a cute Valentines Day card using the sweet little girl from the Greeting Card Kids set. I don't like purple but I worked it into my card and didn't even pitch a fit, wooohooo! LOL Even though it looks darker in the photos and more red I did use Raspberry Ripple for my embossed main panel, and also to color in the girls dress.

Head over to both these blogs and check them out!

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Greeting Card Kids

Paper: Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple,Naturals White,  Perfect Plum DSP

Ink: Black StazOn, Crumb Cake, Raspberry Ripple, Perfect Plum

Accessories: Blender Pen, Big Shot, Nestabilities Standard Circles and Lacey Circles, Square Lattice EF, Crumb Cake Ribbon, Rhinestones

Heart Full of Thanks

I wont have any stamping time until Thursday so I used my time today to make a card for 2 challenges, Dynamic Duos and The Paper Players.

For Dynamic Duos the 2 colors to use are Real Red and Basic Black with a dessert option of Valentine theme, and the sketch is this weeks Paper Players challenge. I used retired sets for my card and even though it says "heart full of thanks" I think it could still work for a Valentines Day card, don't you?

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Valentine Defined, Lighthearted

Paper: Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White

Ink: Real Red, Basic Black

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF

Sending Love for The Paper Players

I've been trying to squeeze in the current Paper Players challenge all week and finally got a moment this afternoon, just squeaking in! It's a theme this week, "Love is in the Air".

I decided to pull out this image from the retired set Wandering Words. I have used the Christmas image from the set but not this Valentine themed one and I thought of it the minute I saw the challenge. The hearts floating out of the mailbox are a perfect way to represent love in the air.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Wandering Words(retired)

Paper: Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green, Midnight Muse, Whisper White, Orchard Harvest DSP

Ink: Midnight Muse, Raspberry Ripple, Gumball Green

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Cuttlebug Seeing Spots EF, blender pen, sponge, dimensionals

Happiness Sketch with Mambo and Indigo

I combined 2 challenges for this card....the sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and the colors from Dynamic Duos. Thanks to the color challenge I now have the song "Mambo No 5" stuck in my head....anyone else remember that song? I used to play it over an over and drive my husband insane with it.....

"A little bit of Monica in my life,
A little bit of Erica by my side.
A little bit of Rita's all I need,
A little bit of Tina's what I see.
A little bit of Sandra in the sun,
A little bit of Mary all night long.
A little bit of Jessica here I am,
A little bit of you makes me your man!
Mambo number five. "

Ok, I digress LOL I decided to go for a Valentine themed card and used a retired set, Take It to Heart. I just love this set and knew I would use it for many years to come. This is my favorite image in the set. The sketch has 3 images on the right side so I used the main heart panel and then the pearl accents for the other 2 spots. A nice simple sentiment completes it. Both the sentiment and the main image panel are popped up with dimensionals.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Take It to Heart, Loving Thoughts

Paper: Melon Mambo, Island Indigo, Melon Mambo DSP, Whisper White

Ink: Island Indigo, Melon Mambo

Accessories: Big Shot, Square Lattice EF, Framelits Hearts Collection, Framelits Bitty Banners, Basic Pearls, Scallop Edge Border Punch, sponge, dimensionals