Skipping Stones Design Sketch #149



I'm back with another great sketch from Skipping Stones Design!

Last week I used my very first SSD set for my card.  This week (since it's a retro month and SSD is using some of their old sketches), we are actually using the very first sketch that I played along with at SSD (and the one where I won the stamp set I used last week), by Cristina Kowalczyk.

This time I'm using some of my newer SSD sets:  Pumpkin Seed Sentiments (to create the background pattern on the horizontal strip), and Birthday Purses.

I stamped the purse on some paper from BG's Paper Cottage collection, cut it out, and squeegeed Liquid Glass over it to get that patent leather shine.  It's so shiny I had a really hard time getting a good photo! 

Hope your week is off to a great start!  It's back to work for me.....

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Bazzill Card Shoppe - Licorice Twist; CTMH - White Daisy and Lagoon cardstock; Basic Grey - Paper Cottage 6x6 papers
Stamps:  SSD - Pumpkin Seed Sentiments, Birthday Purses
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black; CTMH - Lagoon
Other:  CTMH - Cricut Art Philosophy cartridge; Cutting Knife, Liquid Glass; Tombow Mono Adhesive; Helmar - Zapdots; Michael's - Black Ribbon

WCMD - Pink Paislee Mini Cards

Today I wanted to share another of my WCMD projects. 

One of the challenges over at Pink Paislee was to make a mini card. 

I don't make mini cards very often, but I should because they are a lot of fun, and they don't take nearly as long as regular cards.

I'm mostly using Pink Paislee's Hometown Summer collection, although that strip of green paper is from the CTMH Bliss collection, and the sentiment is CTMH also.

Did some fussy cutting from one of the papers to get the houses and clouds, and really then it was just assembly. 



Thanks for coming by, and hope that you are enjoying the benefit of a day off!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Pink Paislee - Hometown Summer collection; CTMH - Bliss collection and Colonial White cardstock
Stamps:  CTMH - Say It in Style
Ink: CTMH - Black

 

 

Other:  CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape, Bonding Memories Adhesive; Tombow - Mono Adhesive

World Cardmaking Day Fun - Market Street Stamps Block Party and Ellen Hutson Trend Challenge

Yesterday was World Cardmaking Day, and although I really didn't get a chance to create until the girls went to bed (Andrew had a meet all day and we had all sorts of stuff to do - gym, birthday party, etc.), I actually managed to get a lot done.

I'll be sharing all my creations in the next week or so, but I gotta get this one posted tonight.

I'm using Brenda Weaver's Hit The Mark set (although the 'you' is from another set). 

I wanted to get an ombre effect with the arrows/triangles, there are actually four different Spectrum Noir markers used for the triangles, but it is a lot more subtle than I planned, and really doesn't show well in the photograph at all.



I'm also going to link this up with one of Ellen Hutson's WCMD challenges - using a trendy shape. 

Hope you guys got to do some creating too....I'm still planning to get some things done for all the challenges that are still running.  Thanks for coming by!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Bazzilll Card Shoppe - Robin's Egg; CTMH - White Daisy and Black cardstock
Stamps:  MSS - Hit the Mark; CTMH - A Little Everything
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  Spectrum Noir Markers - CR11, CR8, DR1, PP5, DR5; Tombow Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape

It's a Tree Pickin' kind of day for Sweet Stamp Shop Challenge

I'm playing along with Sweet Stamp Shop's challenge again today.  This time we needed to use embossing on our cards.

I must admit, that I haven't done a ton of embossing.  I've got lots of stuff, but somehow often feel like it takes too much time, to pull all the stuff out.  BUT, emboss I did on this card.  Tried not one, but two different thngs!

First, I used the letterpress technique to create that background.  It was easier and less messy than I thought it would be - really no mess at all.  Just used a brayer to roll ink onto one side of the embossing folder, stuck a piece of paper in, ran it through the Vagabond.  Don't know why it took me so long to get around to trying it!

The one thing I did learn is that it does weaken your cardstock.  This was supposed to be a bigger card, but when I was trimming the paper, it kept ripping...insert angry crafter here...so I ended up having to trim with scissors, thus, you see a 4x4 card instead of an A2.

I also embossed the sentiment with the craft gun that I have had for about 6 months and never used until now.  I have to admit, the embossing part was pretty fun.  It was neat to see the powder melt and then puff up.

Finally some piecing, because it's what I do.  I used CTMH's Christmas papers from last year, Believe, for the red mat as well as the two lighter trees, and then Topiary cardstock for the bigger trees.  The red and yellow accents were added with Spectrum Noir markers.

Hope your week is ending well, looking forward to a long weekend!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - Believe papers, White Daisy and Topiary cardstock
Stamps - Sweet Stamp Shop Tree Traditions
Ink:  CTMH - Chocolate and Topiary
Other:  Sizzix - Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Scallops by Basic Grey, Vagabond; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape, White Embossing Powder, Craft Heater, Bonding Memories Adhesive; Versamark; Speedball - Rubber Brayer; Spectrum Noir Markers - DR5 and CT4

Cricut Artiste Card

Wanted to share this card that I made a while back using the Cricut Artiste cartridge. 

There are a lot of great cuts on the cartridge including a small argyle pattern.  It's not an all over pattern though, so for this card I cut four of the pattern at 2 1/2" to create the argyle grid which was adhered to the base piece.  Then I cut the pattern at 2" with white cardstock as well as two different patterned papers. 

With these, I used the diamond shapes inside the grid so that they nest inside the larger argyle grid, and randomly created a pattern using the three different diamonds (white and two patterns) that I cut.

The Artiste cartridge also has several phrases.  I cut 'thanks' twice, layering it to get a slight shadow.  Then I popped the entire piece up with some dimensional foam tape.

Lots of detail work on this, but I love the subtle effect, and this is perfect for this month's Oozak Die Cut challenge! 

Hope your week is going well! 

Supplies Used

Paper/Cardstock:  Bella Blvd - Hello Sunshine papers; CTMH - White Daisy cardstock
Other:  CTMH - Cricut Artiste Cartridge; Bonding Memories Adhesive, Dimensional Foam Tape

Skipping Stones Design Guest Designer for October and Sketch #148

I'm so excited to be a guest designer over at Skipping Stones Design this month!  If you're not familiar with SSD, they have some of the funniest sets around, and as a slightly sarcastic individual, I'm a big fan.

 

Today I'm using my very first SSD stamp ever, Gray Hares. 

 

I wanted to make a really bright, fun, happy card.  Echo Park's Happy Days collection was perfect. 

 

I cut 3/4" strips of three of the patterns and mounted them to a base piece of cardstock.  I added some Charcoal twine from the Twinery, and popped the whole thing up with dimensional foam tape.

That cute little bunny was fussy cut, very subtley colored with my Spectrum Noir markers, and then attached using tombow on his torso (so he sticks to the piece with the strips) and then some dimensional foam tape on his bottom.



Did I mention that I won Gray Hares when I participated in this very sketch contest?  I didn't?  Well it's true.  You too could win a stamp set of your choosing by playing along!  Head over to the Skipping Stones Design for all the details!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  Echo Park - Happy Days 6x6 Paper Pad; Bazzill Card Shoppe - Sour Lemon; CTMH - White Cardstock
Stamps:  Skipping Stones Design - Gray Hares
Ink:  Memento - Tuxedo Black
Other:  The Twinery - Charcoal Twine; CTMH - Dimensional Foam Tape; Tombow - Mono Adhesive; Spectrum Noir Markers - BT1, FS6

 

I Wash it Myself! and Winner

Hey everyone, hope that you had a great weekend!  Mine was busy, but I was able to get a fair amount of crafting in, including this layout for Elle's Studio's current sketch. 

Carina wants to do EVERYTHING by herself right now.  Most of the time I'm willing to let her try, but there are things that she's just not going to get to do, for example, when I'm holding her in the pool and she pushes me away and says 'I do it myself'....

Anyway, it's another kind of soft simple layout.  I wanted to create a lot of layers, but keep things subtle, so I pulled out the vellum, I love how vellum looks when layered on top of vellum.

I've also got a whole slew of Elle's tags on this one.  If you haven't figured it out, I'm a big fan of Elle's Studio, and if you've never used them you should really consider it.  Their products are VERY reasonable. For example the pennant cards, which contain 8 pennants are only $1.00.  I'm guessing the average price of their products is probably on the order of $2.50 or so.  Really affordable and reasonable and often just the right touch to finish out your project.

Elle's is actually running a referral incentive right now, so if you do happen to try them out, stick my name in the comments section of your order....I will be truely grateful.  :)

Oh yes, and I owe you a winner for my giveaway from last week.  The lucky winner is:

SHIRLEY!  Shirley, please email me your address and I'll get your goodies out to your this week!

Anyway, hope you have a great start to your week, come back tomorrow for something fun!

Supplies Used
Paper/Cardstock:  CTMH - White Daisy Cardstock; GCD Studios - Sweet Tooth papers; Michael's - Open Stock Pink Vellum
Other:  Elle'S Studio - Pink Pennants, Turquoise Pennants, The Sweet Life Collected Cutouts, Noted Journaling Tags; CTMH - Word Bubble Dimensional Element, Cricut Artiste Cartridge; American Crafts - Amy Tangerine Sketchbook Remarks Stickers, Turquoise Glitter Thickers; Tombow - Mono Adhesive and Vellum Adhesive; Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher; Pigma - Black Micron Pen