CAS(E) This Sketch #150

Today, I have a card to share that I made for

 CAS(E) This Sketch #150 designed by Chrissy Larson:

I decided to make a congratulations card using the sketch:

Onto watercolour paper, I stamped my sentiment (from SSS's Congratulations)
and my flowers (from Altenew's Painted Flowers) in embossing ink
and heat embossed them in white.

 

Then, I used my Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers and my water brush to 

add colour to my card.

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch 

and to play along, if you'd like.

Because of American Thanksgiving next week, 
you have until Thursday, December 3rd to link up your card.

Thanks for looking!

Make It Monday #231

Today, I have a few projects to share for

this week's Make It Monday at Papertrey Ink: Motif Building.

The first one is a card that I made using my Holiday Folk MIM kit:

I started by stamping the large tree four times in simply chartreuse.

Then, I added the other elements in soft stone, ripe avocado, pure poppy and ocean tides.

I finished by adding a diecut polar bear from the kit and 

the stamped sentiment in ocean tides.

I also used the technique to make some treat bag tags for my Sunday School girls.

For these, I used the Wee Folk stamps and dies.
When I hand them out, I'm going to say: "Because you're such a deer!" ;)

I wrapped up a piece of butter crunch for each one. 

I'm linking this up to

this week's Share Handmade Kindness Challenge Week 3: Kids.

Thanks for looking!



MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge -- Take 2

Today I have another card that I made using

the latest MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge:

I decided to rotate my sketch 180° and use my new MFT Cat-titude stamp set.

Here's my card:

I diecut some Basic Grey patterned paper with the scalloped frame from Mama Elephant's

Femme Frames.

I cut three other pieces of BG patterned paper, adhered them to a piece of white

cardstock and ran them through my diecutting machine with the stitched rectangle die.

I stamped the cat from Cat-itude directly onto the panel, as well as onto a piece of 

watercolour paper and coloured it with my Zig Markers.

I fussy cut it out by hand and adhered it over my stamped image.

I stamped the sentiment (also from Cat-itude) on an angle.

Thanks for looking!

Reverse Confetti Sketch for You To Try #30

Today, I have a card to share for this month's
Sketch for You to Try at Reverse Confetti:

I used a mixture of old and new for my card --

I paired the new Layered Snowflake Confetti Cuts with

Seasonal Sentiments.

I started by smooshing my background with two different colours of pink ink.

I diecut several snowflakes from the Layered Snowflake Confetti Cuts,

diecutting the large snowflake from the outline snowflake image.

I stamped my sentiment from Seasonal Sentiments 

on a strip of cardstock in versafine onyx black.

A few rainstones finish it off.

 

Want to play along with the November SFYTT? 

Click here for details.

Thanks for looking!

Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge -- Foxy

It's time for a new Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge!

modcloth.com 

The LEAD of the Plush & Plaid Challenge will be invited as a

Guest Designer in a future challenge!
Please visit the Curtain Call Challenge Blog  for all the challenge info and deadline.

I love this sweet fox!
I decided to pair my PTI's Hey Foxy stamp set
with MFT's Fall Florals to make my card:

I stamped my fox on my rustic cream background and on a second piece of rustic cream cardstock,
which I coloured in using ink sprayed with water and a paintbrush and fussy cut out by hand.

I stamped the Fall Florals stamps on their coordinating diecuts and adhered
them to my card.
Then, I stamped the sentiment (from PTI's Keep It Simple: Birthdays)
and adhered my fox using dimensional adhesive.

Make sure you visit each of the designers' blogs for more inspiration!

Toni Maddox -- Guest Designer

Kelly Schooner -- Guest Designer

Amy Kolling

Amy Sheffer

Betty Wright
Kim Singdahlsen
Laurie Willison
Leigh Penner
Lisa Henke
Lori Tecler
Marisa Ritzen
Maureen Plut
Melody Rupple
Monika Davis
Sheri Gilson
Stacey Schafer
Tracey McNeely

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Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge Facebook Page

Curtain Call Pinterest Boards

Stop by the Curtain Call Inspiration Challenge: Foxy 

for the challenge details and to play along with us!

Thanks for looking!

MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge

This coming week, one of my Sunday School girls is having a birthday.

 

I decided to make a card for her using

the latest MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge:

 

She's one of Sage's closest friends, so I asked Sage's advice on the colours.

She said that Faith loves purple, neon green and aqua.

 

Here's my card:

 

I pieced together three triangular pieces of cardstock and adhered them

to my white panel before diecutting them with a Pretty Pink Posh stitched rectangle die.

Over this, I stamped the sentiment (from MFT's Soda Pop) in versamark

and heat embossed it in white.

 

I inked up some white cardstock with PTI's limeade ice and winter wisteria inks

and diecut them with the MFT Soda Bottles dies.

It's hard to see in my photo, but I ran my aqua mist cardstock through my

diecutting machine with my PTI Simple Stripes impression plate

to add a little texture.

 

I love how it turned out --

it reminds me of a fun poster hung on a wall.

I'm also liking this up to Virginia's View Challenge #20: All About Textures.

 

Thanks for looking!

Sharing a little kindness

Happy World Kindness Day!

 

I've been really enjoying the Share Handmade Kindness Challenges

on Jennifer McGuire's blog this month and decided to play along with

this week's Share Handmade Kindness Challenge Week 2: Community.

 

I partnered with Sage and we decided to make some cookies and a card

for the staff at our town library.

She made the cookies & I made the card.

 

 

I decided to go with a "book theme", so I cut out five strips of cardstock

and stamped along the bottom and top of each one with one of the road stamps

from PTI's City Scene and heat embossed them in gold.

 

For the spines of the books, I stamped them with words found in PTI's

Phrase Play 1 & 2 stamp set --- they are words to describe what we appreciate

about the library and the people that work there.

 

 

I stamped the sentiment (from SSS's Big Scripty Sentiments) in versamark

and heat embossed it in gold on the card base, after running it through

my diecutting machine with the PTI Book Print impression plate.

 

For my colours, I was inspired by this month's Pinterest Inspired Challenge:

 

 

And I'm also liking this up to Virginia's View Challenge #20: All About Textures.

 

Thanks for looking!



CAS(E) This Sketch #149

*Note: This is my second post for today.
Please scroll down to see my 
Reverse Confetti Crazy for Christmas: Memory Keeping post or click here. 
Thanks!

Today, I have a card to share that I made for

 CAS(E) This Sketch #149 designed by Chrissy Larson:

I decided to make a wedding card using the sketch:

I used my Songbirds leaf stamp, which I coloured with Zig Clean Colour Brush Markers

and spritzed with water before stamping.

The sentiment is from Altenew's Vintage Roses stamp set. 

Visit CAS(E) this Sketch to see the rest of the DT's takes on the sketch 

and to play along, if you'd like.

You have until Thursday, November 19th to link up your card.

Thanks for looking!

Crazy for Christmas: Memory Keeping

Hey there!

We are so excited to bring you Crazy for Christmas this week,

filled with lots of inspiration from Reverse Confetti.

We have a theme for each day, so you'll want to check out 

the Reverse Confetti blog to see links to the projects for the past three days.

Our theme for today is Memory Keeping.

Now, as someone who's scrapbooked for over 12.5 years, 

I have scrapbooked a lot of Christmas layouts.

A lot!

And while I enjoy scrapbooking the photos I take on Christmas morning,

there are other elements of the holidays that I want to remember, too.

I decided to create a layout using some of the new products that were released last week

and some photos of my daughter helping me bake tarts.

I started by layering some Pink Paislee patterned paper over

some Bazzill Basics Classic White cardstock.

I stamped the "fresh baked" sentiment from With Love in two different colours of ink

to have it match my daughter's sweater.

I then did the same thing with the Alphabetical stamp set to spell out "GOODIES".

I love that these are the same font!

I used the same two inks to blend colour onto some cardstock

and diecut them using the Holly Confetti Cuts.

I pressed some Delicata silver ink onto my cardstock to diecut the berries.

I repeated the same blending and inking techniques on to another

piece of cardstock and diecut these using the Bubbly Tag Topper Confetti Cuts.

I adhered these to a Topped Off Tag Confetti Cuts, on which

I wrote out my journaling and stamped "joy" from With Love.

  

Here's a list of the other Reverse Confetti DT that are sharing

Memory Keeping projects today on their blogs:

Susan Liles

Heather Pulvirenti

Jean Manis

Amy Tsuruta

Amy Sheffer

Lisa Henke

Sarah Gough

Thanks for looking!

Thinking of you

Just wanted to share a card that I made this weekend at the request

of a friend from church.

She wanted a masculine thinking of you card,

so I decided to use my PTI Guiding Lights stamp set.

I diecut the background using the PTI Blues Skies cover plate

and inked the land and water with a Tim Holtz blending tool.

I stamped the sentiment (from Simon Says Stamp's Hand Lettered Winter stamp set)

and birds directly onto the background.

I diecut the lighthouse and stamped that in pure poppy

and onyx black.

I adhered the panel to a piece of aqua mist cardstock.

I'm also linking this up to this week's 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Thinking of You.

Thanks for looking!

Crazy for Christmas: Ready to Party

Hey there!

We are so excited to bring you Crazy for Christmas this week,

filled with lots of inspiration from Reverse Confetti!

We have a theme for each day, so you'll want to check out 

the Reverse Confetti blog to see links to the projects for the next three days.

Our theme for today is Ready to Party.

Reverse Confetti products are perfect to use for a Christmas party!

I started off by creating a chalkboard sign using some stamp sets & dies as inspiration...

I was inspired by the wreath image in Wreaths Confetti Cuts

and for the "Joy", I copied the gorgeous font from Merry & Bright.

 

Now, for my party décor, I was originally going to go with traditional

Christmas colours, but when I was shopping for napkins and paper plates,

I found these wonderful napkins.

Aren't they pretty?

So everything would coordinate, I used teal and red for my cupcake toppers and food cards.

 

To make my cupcake toppers, I diecut the Holly Confetti Cuts

from teal and red cardstock and added a bit of ink blending to each of them,

before I adhered them to toothpicks.

Sage and I had a lot of fun making food together for our party!

 

I created signs for my buffet by folding a piece of 4x8" in half.

I stamped my letters in red using Alphabetical  -- which is so perfect

for a project like this!

Then, I added the Wreaths Confetti Cuts diecut from teal cardstock.

 

Now, I after I stamped the "Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls",

I realized that my wreath was too small to fit around it.

Rather than restarting, I diecut a second wreath and trimmed two "hearts" from it.

I cut my first wreath in half and inserted a heart into each side.

Here's a photo of everything set up and ready to go before the guests arrived..

It's always fun to have friends over!

If you'd like any of the recipes for the goodies I made

just click the recipe tab along the top of my blog or click here.

Here's a list of the other Reverse Confetti DT that are also sharing

Ready to Party projects today on their blogs:

Susan Liles

Heather Pulvirenti

Kay Miller

Lisa Addesa

Amy Kolling

Lisa Henke

 Laurie Schmidlin

Amy Rohl

Thanks for looking!