Wedding - Delightful Sketches

I had to make a quick Wedding card this morning so I used this weeks sketch from Delightful Sketches.

The stamp sets uses were Love Always and Delightful Things, both from Close to my Heart.
The papers, rickrack, button and pearls are also from CTMH.
I colored the pearls using Copic Marker Y28, Lionet Gold.
Martha Stewart Lace edge Punch.

Anniversary Card - The Pink Elephant

 
I love doing sketch challenges, but I don't always find the time to actually do them.  However, I had an Anniversary card that I needed to make for Sunday, so I went through all of this weeks sketches that I printed out and decided to use one from The Pink Elephant.Challenge #33.  This just seemed like it would make such an elegant card.

The DP and cardstock is from the Silhouette Paper Pack  from Close to my Heart.

The "50th" is from the "Friendship Alphabet" set, which was a special several months ago, And Happy Anniversary is from the "Love Always"

stamp set.

The scan doesn't show this very well, but the ribbon is gold and the "50th" is embossed with Gold EP. Also not showing is the Colonial White Card Base that this is mounted onto. I hate scans, but it's night time and I use my camera in natural light only.  Maybe I can change it tomorrow.

The paper that is punched with the Martha Stewart Lace Punch is actually the old metallic Cardstock from Close to my Heart. I knew I was hanging onto that all of these years for a reason!  *Ü*

The stitching around the card was done by hand with matching embroidery floss.

SSS22 - Winter At Home

Well, another Wednesday is here already and it's time to view my creation for the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge #22. This challenge incorporated a sketch with a spin. It was a color challenge to use any shade of Red, Black, & Tan.

My card uses a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set called Winter At Home, which was designed by our ever so talented Chris Dickinson. This is such a great stamp set. I can't wait to get around to using the other three images. So come back soon to see them.

It was colored in using Copic Markers. A little bit of liquid applique was added to two of the stockings.

The paper is from Close to my Heart Silhouette Level II Paper Pack. The card base is Colonial White and the matting is Bamboo.

You can't see it unless you enlarge the photo, but there is red stitching around the edges of the card. I did this by hand with red embroidery floss.

The flowers were white and I colored them with Copics, then pearls added to the centers. The pearls were actually colored with E11 Copic marker to give it more of an off white color. I just thought the pearls were an added touch to go with the polka dot background.

SNSS - Fall Blog Hop

Welcome to the Second Day of the Sweet 'n Sassy Fall Blog Hop. If you missed yesterday, you missed out on some fantastic artwork and you may want to go back and start form the beginning. The list of all of the Design Team members is in the column to the right. Be sure to check them all out and come back again tomorrow to see even more fantastic Fall artwork with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

The stamp set I chose to use today is called Happy Harvest. This is such a fantastic stamp set for fall. 

Please check out the card in the post below this one. I used the same stamp set and the same sketch from the Sweet Stop sketch Challenge. I just flipped the sketch for this card and used different stamps in the set.

The  DP used here is retired paper from Close to my Heart. The lower panel was dry embossed with a cuttlebug folder and then lightly sponged over with inks.

The "Pumpkins for sale" sign was made using the fence,  I stamped the post and cut it out. Then I stamped the rails several times in a row, using second generation technique. Then I cut it out between the posts to make the sign.

All images were colored using Copic Markers.
All stitching was done by hand with embroidery floss. I switched around the stitching patterns that I usually used and mixed two different ones together because I thought it had a "straw" look to it. Yeah, I know, that's really stretching the imagination. But it reminded me of that in the post before this where I used the scarecrow.

A simple piece of raffia was tied around and three orange half pearls balanced it out.

Ok, from here, hop on over to Sandy's Blog and see what gorgeous artwork she has in store for you.

SSS-21 - Happy Harvest

Happy Wednesday!!! And you know what Wednesday brings. More cards with the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge. 

My card uses stamps from the Happy Harvest stamp set. I just love this set. There are so many cute images. Come back tomorrow and see my blog hop card made using the same stamp set.

SSS-20 and CPS-132

Today I have two cards with two different sketches in this post.

The first is the Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge 20. 

In this sketch I'm giving you a sneak preview of the New Digi Stamp Set being release at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps this Thursday. 

Make sure you stop buy and pick one up for yourself. You get the image you see along with three different sayings to 

 go with it.

The paper is the "Emporium Paper Pack from Close to my Heart.

This next card is a sketch is from  

Card Positioning System _CPS-132.

This weeks sponsor is Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and the card features their newest Released Stamp Set called "You Light Up My Life"

 

 

 I just turned the sketch a quarter turn for this card..

Sweet Stop Card Sketch 19

Yesterday was the new mini release of two fantastic stamp sets over at Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps. This card is from this weeks Sweet Stop Sketch 19, but also uses one of the new stamp sets called"Waddle I Do" with Stanley Penguin.

If you scroll down to the next post, you will see another card using the other stamp set called "You Light Up My Life".

The paper used for this card is from the Jingle Creative Basics Paper Pack from Close to my Heart. As a matter of fact, the card below used the same paper pack but the flip side of the paper with the circles with snowflakes. Such fun and versatile papers.

Stanley was stamped three times, colored in using Copic Markers, cut out and layered for a 3D affect. There is a pile of snow he's standing in made using Liquid applique that was heated to puff it. Glitter was added to the dry embossed snowflake background as well as the snow pile. The glitter and all the dimension on this card is hard to see on this picture. I should have taken the picture at an angle.
The half pearls & crocheted ribbon used are also from CTMH.

The stitching all around the card was done by hand with embroidery floss.

Sweet 'n Sassy Sept. Release Blog Hop

Good Morning and Welcome to the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps September Mini Release Blog Hop. Boy, that was a mouth full. Say that 10 times real fast!

If you've come her from Lorie's blog, you're on the right path. If not, you may want to start at the beginning with Belinda's Blog so you don't miss out on any of the wonderful Eye Candy. There is a complete list in the right column of this blog.

Two months ago, you may have gotten a sneak peak of the new stamps when they were a FREE give-a-way as digi's for the Christmas in July Specials. So many of you have requested them to be made into stamps and your requests were heard and answered.

Today's new release is "You Light Up My Life", and "Waddle I Do". Haven't started making your Christmas Cards yet? Well, you can pick up both of these stamp sets for less then $15.00 and that includes shipping. Yes, Sweet 'n Sassy has not only lowered the cost of their stamp sets, but you can now have them shipped 1st class and save lots of money. These stamps are going to be such a big seller that when you get through each one of the Design Team's blogs, you may want to hop right on over to Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps and pick up your stamp sets before they sell out.

My card was made using the NEW Jingle Creative Basics Paper Pack from Close to my Heart.
The stamp set is "You Light Up My Life" from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.

The image was colored in with Copic Markers. The snowman and snow flakes are all glittered. For the snow under him, I used white Liquid Applique, heated it to puff it and added glitter. Unfortunately, the glitter doesn't show up very well in the scan.

The snow flakes are a Martha Stewart Punch and the half pearls in the center are one of the FREE products you can earn with the Connections Club program from CTMH.

The hand stitching is done with matching embroidery floss with my own design. I thought it sort of resembles snow flakes.

Oh, I forgot to mention that this card was made using this weeks sketch from the Sweet Stop Challenge Blog. There you will find a new sketch every Saturday. Check it out and join in the fun.

Thanks for checking out my artwork.
Now hop on over to our September Guest Designer, Nicole's Blog to see what beautiful surprises she has in store for you.

Sketch Saturday - 66

For those of you that frequent my blog, you will notice something very strange about this card. Not only are there no embellishments, but there is no stitching. NO HAND STITCHING!!! Hard to believe, I know. If you look back through all of my cards on here, there's only one other card that was done in a hurry, that doesn't have stitching. This paper is way too busy for stitching anyway.

However, I literally only had 10 minutes to make this card. I had this sketch printed out from Sketch Saturday to make one of my usual cards and just grabbed it and started cutting paper. My papers aren't even matted as usual. I think I may need therapy after making this card.

I was getting unexpected company and the little girl just had a birthday so I had to be really quick about it.

Anyway, the card is was made using all Close to my Heart products. Day Dream Paper Pack, Doodle Alphabet & Nursery Bash stamp sets.

Sweet 'n Sassy August Blog Hop

Welcome to the August Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps Blog Hop.

If you came here from Connie's blog, then you are on the right track. If you've just started out here, then you may want to go back to The Sweet 'n Sassy Blog to begin from the beginning.
There is also a line-up of the blogs for this hop for each day, listed in the column to the right.

I have two cards posted in this post in case you'd like to check out both. The are both made using the Sweet Spot Card Sketch Challenge for this week. I flipped the second card to get a different look.

The first card is using the theme of this hop which is using Scriptures somewhere on the card.
Sweet 'n Sassy has some of the best Scripture Stamps. Check them out HERE.

I have used "Light of the World" stamp set for my card. The papers, ribbons, glitter brad and half pearls are all from "Close to my Heart".

All stitching, inside and out, is done by hand using matching embroidery floss.

Here is my second card using this great sketch.

This card is for this weeks Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.

It was made using this weeks NEW Digi release with the squirrel and Sunflower designed by Korin. Isn't he just the cutest.

From Here you want to hop on over to Teresa's Blog and see the wonderful artwork she has for you there.

Don't forget to hop along with us again tomorrow and Friday!

Ya'll come back now, Ya hear!

Happy Harvest - SSS17

Fall is just around the corner whether we are ready for it or not.
And I'm NOT!!
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Fall, I just don't want the summer over yet.

This stamp set is from Sweet 'n Sassy and is called "Happy Harvest."

The DT is retired paper from Close to my Heart.

The images were stamped several times and colored with Copic Markers. They were then all cut out and layered for a 3D affect.

The flower in the center was made with punches. I'm not sure if I like it there, but the top of the card just looked like it was missing something, so I made a flower!

A cute little sunflower would probably look better, but I don't have any.
The card is hand stitched with my own design using embroidery floss.

Birthday Buddies - SSS16

Here is a great sketch from the Sweet Stop Sketches Challenge with Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps.
This stamp set is called Birthday Buddies. Don't you just love this cute little mouse!
Here is my take on this sketch.
The DP is Close to my Heart "Animal Cookies Creative Basics".
Sunflower Grosgrain ribbon and the flat white pearls is from CTMH.

The Mouse for Birthday Buddies was stamped, colored with Copic Markers and cut out three times and layered for a 3D affect.

The stitching was done by hand with matching embroidery floss.

The border punch if from Martha Stewart. I used that one because it reminded me of Swiss cheese and thought it was perfect with the mouse!

It's Your Day - Mojo98

Today's card was done out of necessity. I needed a birthday card for my granddaughter and haven't had extra time to stamp lately. So, I decided to use the Mojo 98 sketch to make a quick card. The only problem is, when I finished the card, I discovered that the small square that was to go behind the circle way lying on the floor. So, here's my card without it. That's what I get for doing everything last minute.

This card is a standard 4.25 X 5.5. I haven't made a small card like this in quite some time. I prefer larger cards for my own use. The only time I make small cards if for my hostess clubs to make and for people who I know don't keep my creations!!! *Ü*

I used the August Stamp of the Month, It's Your Day, from Close to my Heart.
I also used the Animal Cookies paper pack and the Foam Dir-cut numbers. I used the cuttlebug on the foam "8" and the Swiss dots embossing folder on the background.

Sweet Stop Sketch 15 - Sweet 'n Sassy

Here is this weeks Sweet Shop Sketch 15 with a set from Sweet 'n Sassy called Eye on the Sparrow.

This also qualifies for the Pile It On Challenge to use at least three flowers.

I also used a color challenge from Jeanette Lynton's blog this week. Colors are Sorbet, Sweetleaf and Chocolate.

The images were stamped, colored and cut out three times, then layered and poped for a 3D affect.

All stitching inside and out was done by hand with embroidery floss.

Sheetload of Cards online Publication

For those of you that have never heard of Sheet Load of Cards, it is an online publication which provides you with a new sketch every month. Along with the sketch they provide you with the cutting directions for making 8 identical cards out of the least amount of paper.

They then provide you with loads of samples of cards made using that sketch.

Sweet 'n Sassy stamps is the sponsor there for the month of August. All of us Design Team members were invited to be the guest designer this month. To check this out, go to their website and then to Saturday August 1st and click on the box that says Sheetload of Cards under "August 2009 - Sponsored by Sweet 'n Sassy stamps". This will then open up a PDF file with this months publication.

These cards also qualify for the Stamp Something Challenge Blog, to use paper piecing.

I submitted two cards.
The first card is using Elly & Friends stamp set.
The papers pack I used is called "Expedition" from Close to my Heart.
All stitching is done by hand using embroidery floss.


This second card is form a Sweet 'n Sassy stamp set called "Sweet Dreams".
The paper pack is called "Daydream" from Close to My Heart.
It's hard to see all the glitter on this card. Olivia had purple glitter on her eyelids, pink on the stars of her cap and green on the leaves.
I used two pewter decorative brads and hollyhock Twill ribbon, all from Close to my Heart.
The white half pearls are white solid dew drops.
The owl and branch is stamped and colored with Copic Markers twice. Then cut out and layered for a 3D affect.

All stitching was done by hand using embroidery floss.