One for Fun

Afternoon All!

Hope you're having a great day. The weather is beautiful here, sun is shining and the temps have cooled a bit. It was super hot yesterday, almost 100 degrees! It's normally nowhere near that hot here in May.

I've been busily crafting away the morning today and so I have a card to share with you now. I'll make this a quick post as I need to get some work done too.

I saw the sketch on Friday Sketchers earlier this week and knew that I wanted to try it. So I paired that with some Comso Cricket papers and this sweet Sarah Kay stamp. I've colored the image with Copics and then framed it with an oval nestie. The paper edges have been stitched on the sewing machine and then torn and distressed slightly. I've embellished with roses and sticky pearls.

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you have a great afternoon and evening. See you back here tomorrow for the new Just Magnolia and Stamp Something challenges as well as the winner of my Stamp Something blog hop candy. If you've not entered, you still have time!

Happy Stamping,

Patchwork Fall

Hi All!

Hope you are having a great day today! I've been busily creating some different stamping projects, and I also did a little stamping for fun too. I created this card for a few challenges.

I started with the patchwork challenge at Charisma Cards. I used some Fancy Pants papers, a 1 3/8" square punch, and my paper piercing tool to create my patchwork of squares. I went for a Fall theme for the colors to fit the challenge at A Spoon Full of Sugar, Whimsy Stamps Challenges, and Our Creative Corner.

My image is a sweet Sarah Kay, which also reminds me of Fall. It has been colored with Copics and highlighted with a gel pen and Spica glitter pen. The embellishments for the card are a piece of stitched ribbon and some felt flowers with a button center.

Enjoy the rest of your day. See you again tomorrow! :) Happy stamping!

Pile It On! - Watercolors

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Hello All,

Hope you are having a great weekend! Today is Sunday and that means a new challenge over at Pile It On! and this week we want to see you combine some challenges and add some watercolor to your creation. The PIO challenge this week is "water coloring." Please remember that your combined challenges must be current, not past challenges.

I made a card that uses Copics and Twinkling H2Os to fill the watercolor challenge. I also mixed in some other challenges from the week to complete the Pile It On challenge!

This is my new Sarah Kay image. I first colored with Copics, then went over the image with various Twinkling H2O paints and then when everything was dry, I highlighted here and there with a glitter pen in clear. Here's a close up on the image....


The layout is from this week's Stamps and Smiles challenge. Stamps and Smiles is also this week's PIO sponsor. The papers are SU! cardstock in Night of Navy, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery and the DP is BasicGrey Two Scoops. I chose this color combo to work with "Your Own Colors" from the challenge at Papertake Weekly. I love blues and greens, but very rarely use them together on a card.

The accents are eyelets to fit "eye eye" for the challenge at Cute Card Thursday. I also added some ribbons and bows and a Prima flower with a button center and charm. The buttons and bows fit the challenge at Kaboodle Doodles. The final element on this card is the sentiment tag, which fits with the "Tag It" challenge at Charisma Cardz!.

Thanks for stopping on by, hope you have a great Sunday! Happy stamping! :)

Challenge Cards

Hello All!

Hope your Tuesday is off to a good start. I've got a busy day of house cleaning and errands before some guests arrive, but I did find time to squeeze in a few minutes for some stamping, a girl needs a little motivation, right! :)

I have two cards to share today. I made this first one for the Magnolia vs. Stampavie challenge and Papertake Weekly challenge. Magnolia was to use a sketch and Papertake was a Pastel Color challenge. I used a Sarah Kay image I received from Erin. Colored her with Copics and then used some Porcelain papers from BasicGrey.

This next card is for the challenges at A Spoon Full of Sugar and Sketch and Stash. Spoon Full of Sugar's challenge was to use dies and punches on your card and then Sketch and Stash had a new sketch to use and of course to use some embellishments from your stash. So for this card I used some Marrekech papers from BasicGrey along with this cute Tilda stamp I received in a swap. She's been colored with Copics. The stash here are some Prima flowers and some metal hardware and rhinestone brads. I used my Square and Scalloped Square Nesties for the dies to fit the Spoon Full of Sugar challenge.

Thanks for stopping on by today. Have a great day. I probably won't be doing too much in the way of stamping or blog hopping over the next few days as we'll be having some family visiting. I will be posting a card tomorrow though for the Whimsy Stamps sponsored Truly Scrumptious challenge! Off to work on that one now!

Happy Stamping! :)