Month: September 2010

ATS · Card Sketch · cards · Fall · Magnolia · Nellie Snellen · Printworks · rubber stamps · Sweet Stop Sketches

Sweet Stop Sketch 74, Doohickey dies and Printworks…

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Saturday…time for a new Sweet Stop Sketch challenge!  I used my new Magnolia Doohickey Doily flowers and Bon Voyage Foliage dies HERE, a new Printworks stamp, D4066 Face Value,  HERE (add the item number to the comment box or email/call Nicole to order), The open scallop circle is a Nellie Snellen die but check out the  new ones from Spellbinders HERE….aren’t they cool!  The butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch,  pearls are from Hero Arts HERE,  Martha Stewart ribbon through Basic Grey paper ribbon HERE. The patten papers are from a mat stack type pad from K & Company.  Bazzill card-stocks for the base and matting.

Here’s this weeks sketch!

Hope you can join us …. notice the “spin”!  I didn’t do so good with that but I use my age for an excuse a lot – I get sidetracked really easy!  oh crazy!  Check out what the other gals did… Great inspiration!  Thanks for stopping by!

ATS Magnolia Challenge · cards · copics · Magnolia · rubber stamps

Christmas Memories….

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of singing carols and sledding with family and friends!

I used a CD case and created a card in a case!  In the past I’ve used the CD cases to make miniature Scrapbook page displays of our grandchildren…very fun!

the right side…with Tilda singing carols and poinsettia…

the left side…with Edwin on sled. holly and Doohickey tag die…

What the case looks like outside…

The pattern paper is from Graphic 45,  their 8×8 pad. The images are all cut out,  stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink on Beckett Expression 80# card-stock and colored with copic sketch markers.  Tilda is colored with the V90’s. Edwin BG 0’s and Warm grays.  The snow is Marvy’s snow marker. It’s like a paint pen,  apply it, let it dry good and heat it with your heat tool.  I did put Frosted Lace stickles  over the top of the snow but it’s hard to see.

 

Just found this new blog, Technique challenge!  Create a Scene… well,  I love that, so I linked up HERE!

Thanks for stopping by…Tilda and Edwin love company! lol

cards · CC Designs · copics · Published · rubber stamps

Fun News and Take a Seat Emma and Trevor…

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The new issue, Cozy Autumn Magnolia Ink magazine arrived in my mailbox yesterday… I flipped through it thinking I’d be back later to examine…stopped to read the last page Notice board and my eye moved over to the inside back cover and lo and behold,  THERE WAS ONE OF MY CARDS!!!!  I’m sure you could have heard my jaw hit the floor! lol   If you don’t have the magazine,  some of the online stores are showing it in the picture for their pre-orders of the next Christmas issue…HERE is the post on my blog with the card.  I’m still pinching myself and chuckling out-loud now and then! 

I have a card to share with you today.  Rose Emma and Sitting Trevor from the Take a Seat Kit.

Emma and Trevor are stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.  I used Beckett Expression 80# card-stock for stamping and coloring on for this card. The pattern paper is from American Crafts.  I used some Bazzill card-stock to make the rolled roses. (punched 1  3/4 in. and 1  1/4 in. circles, cut them into swirls and rolled them up)  The leaves are a new Magnolia die… isn’t it cool!  It’s called Bon Voyage Foliage. The sentiment is from a CC Designs Cookie Crumbs Country Shelf set.

My other Take A Seat Kit cards are HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.   

I love this sentiment,  so I’ll close by retyping it here… “Live with a happy heart”  Thanks for stopping by!

cards · copics · Fall · Inky Impressions rubber stamps · rubber stamps · Sweet Stop Sketches

A Peek at a new release from Inky Impressions and the Sweet Stop Sketch!

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Meet Nickie Running Late For School….that’s the story of my life! lol   The Fall release from Inky Impressions is awesome!  Nickie is one of six new images.  Every day for the next week there will be a new post on the Inky Impressions Blog showing the new images.  Then a blog hop with the release date!  I know,  it’s a killer waiting!!!

Nickie Running Late For School is stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink and colored with Copic Sketch Markers. The ruler charm is from Inky Impressions…awesome charms, HERE. The sentiment stamp is from Hero Arts, the “class notes” and A+ are from a dollar clear stamp set and the floral border stamp is from a Stampin Up Tag set.  abc123 border is a Martha Stewart border punch,  the flower border is an EK Success border punch.  The hearts are from a Quickutz die…cut mulitple times and layered up to be like chipboard.  A Marvy daisy punch and the branch is a die from Joycraft. The little button is from Lasting Impressions for Paper and the cord from JoAnns. Pattern Papers are from the Recess 6×6 pad by Basic Grey.

Here’s a close up of Nickie…(larger than actual size but I wanted you to see how awesome she is!)

I used today’s sketch for the Sweet Stop sketch challenge…SSS73.  Click on over and join the challenge.  Korin’s sketches are awesome, the DT cards are too!

Here’s a link to my other Inky Impressions cards,  HERE.  My granddaughters love stamping and coloring these girls too!  Thanks for stopping by and don’t forget to keep checking the Inky Impressions Challenge blog every day!

ATS · Card Sketch · cards · CC Designs · copics · Fall · rubber stamps

Fall Birgitta…

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New for September from CC Designs!  This sweet little Swiss Pixie Birgitta!  What a doll!  You’ll find her HERE in the store at All That Scraps.  I stamped her on PaperTrey Ink card-stock,  with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored her with Copic Sketch Markers.  Hair E31, 55, 57,  Skin E000, 00, 01, 11, diluted R20 Dress YR61,65,68, 97  Fence E40’s.  Nestabilities square dies and a Marvy little leaf punch.

Dig this new leaf border from EK Success… cool!  I added the embossing lines and rubbed a little brown ink on it too.  Papers are Basic Grey paper from a couple different 6×6 pads. Manilla is the script paper pad.  Sentiment is from Rosie’s World and the oval punches are by EK Success.

Here’s a close up of Birgitta…

I used the sketch from Friday Sketchers HERE and the them from Cute Card Thursday is to use a play on words (what a great idea!) HERE.    Hope she makes you smile and think Fall!