Card Patterns Sketch 135 - October 1, 2011- Hey Girlfriend!

  Hi and welcome to another Card Patterns sketch challenge!  Are you playing along?  All the details are at   http://cardpatterns.blogspot.com/.  This week one random winner will receive a $20 gift certificate for Paper Makeup Stamps.  Did you hear I won the Sketch 134 and get to be the guest designer for Sketch 137?  Neat huh?  I can't wait to see what they have in store for us.

I bought a cute set of 3 girls stamps by Hero Arts about 6 months ago.  They just made me smile so I brought them home and put them on display on a shelf in my crafty room.   I have a few shelves that put all my little treasures on - my Hello Kitty and Choco Kitty Pez dispensers, some favorite stamps, and little treat boxes I've decorated.  

I've been practicing my Copic blending skills and thought why not put a little color on these babes.  I thought this would be a cute card to send to a girlfriend that moved to Florida that I haven't talked to for a while. 

I punched the lacy border in light purple and put a piece of darker purple behind it so you could see the detail better.  I didn't have a stamp with a sentiment I wanted to use so I just printed one with purple ink in Word.  For the tag I just took a rectangle die, cut out the sentiment and punched a hole for the string.

I love how the card turned out and those girls still make me smile.  I bet you have a few new stamps that haven't been kissed by ink yet.  Dust 'em off and see what you can do with them!

Products Used:  Finished size 5" x 7"

Pattern Paper:  Echo Park A Walk in the Park Collection - Playground & Picnic Fun

Stamps:  Hero Arts 3 Girls

Border Punch:  Martha Stewart Deco Flowers

Markers:  Copic

Dies:  Spellbinders Standard Circles, Classic Scallop Circles, Tag Spellbinders for Just Rite

WMSC #67 October 1, 2011 - Home Cooked Vittles!!

Hi everybody and happy Monday!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  Mine was good!  My son ran his shoes off at his cross country meet on Saturday - literally!  It's been so rainy and muddy here that during the race his shoes got stuck in the mud.  One shoe came off his foot, but he kept running and he placed 3rd!  Sunday the weather was nice so we sat outside and had an excellent bbq dinner! 

I made this tag for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge this week.  It's so easy to make a tag using Waltzingmouse Stamps.  There are so many borders to mix and match with Spellbinder dies that the only limit is your imagination.   My daughter has so many friends that went off to college this year that I thought this would be a fantastic way to make a shipment of chocolate chip cookies extra special. 

 I started out with a simple tag and just kept adding to it until it looked finished to me.  I used a variety of stamps on my main tag.  I inked only the sentiment from the "vittles" stamp.  I put tape over the part of the stamp I don't want to use, then ink up the stamp, remove the tape and stamp away.  This is a great way to keep your stamped image really clean- vs. trying to ink only part of an image.  The little scroll under the "Yee Haw" is from Vintage Labels 4.  Claire packs in so many little extras in her sets that it's always easy to find the right accent.  I love using rich red with the Back in the Saddle western stamps and this one is no exception.

I'm glad I got this one done early this week so I can see what everyone else is coming up with!   I try not to peek at anyone else until I'm done.

Supplies used:

Waltzingmouse Stamps:  Vintage Labels 4, Vintage Labels 5, Back in the Saddle

Spellbinders:  Labels, 5, Labels 18, Fancy Tags 3, Fleur De Lis Rectangles

Seam Binding:  Hug Snug Lipstick Red, Havana Brown

Ink:  Momento Rich Cocoa, Rhubarb Stalk  Ranger/Tim Holtz Distress Antique Linen

Play Date Cafe Challenge PDCC101 - Wine, Smudge, Leather, Parchment - September 29, 2011 - Live Laugh Love

I hope everyone is having a great weekend.  I just got back from my son's cross country meet - still had some good daylight to take photos of the card I finished last night - so I'm doing a post quickly. 

I am trying out a lot of different challenges lately and posting daily (sometimes more) until I decide on which ones I want to stick with.  I'm new at blogging so I'm not sure if posting every day is a good thing or not.  At least you get to see something different every time you stop by for a peek.  Please feel free to leave me comments/suggestions since I'm learning as I go.  I'd also like to hear if there are any particular challenges that you really like that I should give a try.

This is the first time I'm playing along with the Play Date Cafe.  This is Challenge 10.  The colors are  Wine, Smudge, Leather and Parchment.  With that combination of colors and the inspiration sketch I immediately got to thinking vintage.  I inked up this new stamp I got at Jo Ann Fabric's and went to work.  I stamped it in Momento Tuxedo Black and then stamped the Faded Text Background in Antique Linen on top of it and distressed the edges.  I die cut my sentiment  with the Spellbinders Labels 21.  This shape didn't look right on this card to me so I trimmed off the bottom.  I hand cut a border in wine to make it stand out more.  I loved the flower grand adhesion sticker I picked out but it was pink - not the wine color I needed so I inked it up with some Copics.  I didn't have any pearls that would match either so I inked those as well.  I always have to have a little bling so I squeezed in some pearl and glitter papers as well as the gems at the bottom of he card.

Thanks for stopping by for a peek!  Oh, and if you want to play along with this challenge here's a link to the details http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/2011/09/play-date-cafe-challenge-pdcc101.html.  The challenge starts every Thursday.  Have a great day!

Jeanne

Supplies:

Stamp:  Cloud 9 Word Border, Stampabilities Faded Text Background.

Die Cuts:  Spellbinders Labels 21, Fleur De Lis Accents

Pattern Paper K & Co. Scrap Pack

Markers:  Copics

Border Punch:  Scallop Fiskars

Ranger Tim Holtz Stickles Rock Candy

Flower Sticker K & Co. Grand Adhesion

Ink:  Momento Tuxedo Black, Ranger/Tim Holtz Antique Linen