Chocolate = Happiness

Here is my card for the Sweet Sunday sketch challenge (SSSC161), which also happens to be a design team call for her sketch team. Sketch challenges are my favorite and Karen's sketches are no exception, so I thought I would give it a try.

For today's card I followed the following sketch:

I chose My Favorite Things a la mode Dip Me in Chocolate for my image, coloring her with copics. I followed the sketch using some flowered paper from MME Indie collection. For the flowers, I popped out some posies using MFT Die-namics Pretty Posies and added a button in the center, tied with twine. The buttons were cut out using MFT Die-namics Button Quartet.

I added a ribbon across the horizontal panel and sewed all of the panels for a more finished look.

Thanks for stopping by today! Wish me luck!!

Supplies used:

Stamps - MFT alm Dip Me in Chocolate

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Indie chic Saffron

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Copics, ribbon, sewing machine, MFT Die-namics (Pretty Posies, Button Quartet), twine

Pink or Blue!

Here is another baby card, this one for the My Favorite Things Wednesday sketch challenge (MFTWSC78).This card uses MFT's a la mode Oh Baby!, which is an older stamp but one of my favorites for making a baby card.

The sketch this week is shown below:

I colored the image using copics and used pinks and blues throughout the card to match the sentiment. The background is embossed with Swiss dots and the banner is hand cut (new Die-namics on my wish list!)

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:

Stamps - MFT a la mode Oh Baby!

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Cuttlebug EF, Copics, scallop border punch, grosgrain ribbon

For Baby

A friend of mine needed a baby card for her sister so today's Ways to Use It challenge at Splitcoast (WT381, Sweet Child of Mine) couldn't be more perfect. The challenge was to use a child on the card or be inspired by a child. I also followed yesterday's sketch challenge at Splitcoast (SC391). It was my second card for the sketch - into my favorites.

I stamped the onesie onto designer paper and popped that up over a white circle. The rest of the card followed the sketch, just turned on its side. The paper and images are from Papertrey Ink - Bitty Baby Blessings. I have had this set for a while and use it as my go-to for baby cards.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:

Stamps - PTI Bitty Baby Blessings

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, PTI Bitty Baby Blessing dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Spellbinders Nestibilities, grosgrain ribbon, circle punches

Blooming Good Day

My daughter is home sick today so our summer has come to a screeching halt. She's watching a movie on the couch and I've been able to grab some more time in my stamping room. I haven't had the time to stamp in a while with end of school year events so today was a welcome change. Here is another card for today, this one for the sketch challenge at Splitcoast (SC391). This sketch was layered, which I love, and enabled me to use a bunch of different papers on my card.

I colored the MFT Pure Innocence Have a Blooming Good Day image with copics and paper pieced her dress (again! I love doing this!) with yellow flowered dsp from JillyBean. Isn't she so adorable?!! I used this paper and other coordinating papers for the background panels. I added a scallop edge border to the yellow vertical panel to match the scallop border around the main image. I also added a brown ribbon and flower to the polka dot panel. The flower and button center was made using MFT Die-namics.



Thanks for stopping by again!

Supplies used:
Stamps - MFT Pure Innocence Have a Blooming Good Day
Ink - Memento black
Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Taylored Expressions white, JillyBean dsp
Accessories - Copics markers, MFT Die-namics (Pretty Posies, Button Quartet), grosgrain ribbon, twine, Spellbinders Nestibilities, Scallop border punch

Jump for Joy

Here is my card for today, which I made for the My Favorite Things guest designer challenge for the month of July (MFTGUESTBT0712). I had fun making this card, though I may have gone a bit overboard on the dots!! The card was made to the following sketch:

I stamped the Pure Innocence Jump for Joy girl and paper pieced her dress with polka dots. I colored the rest of her with copics and then cut her out. I took the jump rope out of the image because I wanted the sky to show through. I've seen jump ropes added as twine on other cards and loved the way it looked, so that's the way I went. Once I finished her, I looked back at the sketch and the idea for a sun became very obvious. I used a matching yellow polka dot for this, using a circle nestibilities for the sun and hand cutting the banner rays (need this Die-namics!!). I sewed the cloud and polka dot panels and added a few strands of bakers twine to the polka dot panel. I put the sentiment on a banner panel and that finished the card. Wish me luck!!

Supplies used:

Stamps - MFT PI Jump for Joy

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Taylored Expressions white, MME dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Copics, Spellbinders Nestibilities, bakers twine

Happiness

I just love the sentiment I've included on today's card. It is from a set from There She Goes - Flowers of Happiness, which was perfect for the sketch challenge that is TSG's weekly challenge (shown here).

I also made this challenge for the color challenge at Splitcoast today (CC381), which was to use Whispering White
Island Indigo
Pool Party

I don't have the new SU colors, so I went with colors that closely matched. I have been making a lot of cute cards lately so this was a nice change. This was a quick card today, mostly just following the sketch. With all of the kids home today, a quick card is about all I can get done!! I replaced the bow with a dimensional flower made by stamping the flower several times and popping up the layers.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - There She Goes Flowers of Happiness

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME Indie Chic Nutmeg

Ink - SU Pacific Point

Accessories - Spellbinders Nestibilities, grosgrain ribbon, scallop border punch, corner punch

Congrats Emily!

We are off to a graduation party today and I wanted to make a card for the graduate, Emily. I made this card for the featured stamper challenge, honoring Laura (FS281). She has a very out of the box style of stamping, so I thought the large popped up numbers went right along with that.

I picked this Pure Innocence image from My Favorite Things and colored her to match Emily (as best I could :) ). I paper pieced her outfit and colored the rest of the image with copics. The numbers were made out of coordinating dsp, using number dies from Papertrey Ink. I embossed the background pick with argyle to match the girl's sweater and added a grey ribbon across this.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - MFT You Make the Grade

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Copics, PTI number dies, Cuttlebug EF, ribbon

You Make the Grade, again!

Here is another teacher card for one of my daughters' teachers. I really enjoy making these - I just wish I started earlier! For today's card, I went with the My Favorite Things sketch challenge, shown below (MFTWSC75). I used the MFT Pure Innocence You Make the Grade image again, this time going with greens and blues to match the paper from MME.

I colored the image with copics and paper pieced her outfit with designer paper from MME. I then cut out the image and put it up against a circle of paper that looks like looseleaf (I remember going through stacks of this as a kid!). I used coordinating papers to complete the layout of the this off kilter sketch, which I loved! The flower was made using MFT Die-namics (Pretty Posies and Button Quartet), two of my favorites. I put some bakers twine in the center to tie it all together.I added the sentiment to the top corner and finished the card with a simple grosgrain ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - MFT You Make the Grade

Ink - Memento black

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME dsp

Accessories - Copics, grosgrain ribbon, MFT Die-namics Pretty Posies and Button Quartet, Spellbinders Nestibilities, bakers twine

Way 2 Go!

Good Morning! I am still working on my teacher thank you cards, so I have another quick one here today. I can't believe how quickly this school year is wrapping up. I made today's card for two challenges - the featured stamper challenge yesterday at Splitocoast and the There She Goes Challenge (TSG158) to use cork in my design.

For the featured stamper challenge(FS278), this week honoring Rita, I chose to follow the layout of her card and kept with the same dimension. Her card had a butterfly as the focal image, where I have made a layered ribbon award. To make this, I simply stamped it three times and cut out the smaller layers of two of the images, popping each layer up on dimensionals. I like the way it looks like a bulletin board with the cork dsp that I chose. The ribbon is layered.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies used:
Stamps - There She Goes Worlds Best

Ink - Memento black

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Echo Park dsp

Accessories- TSG Worlds Best die, grosgrain ribbons, copics, Spellbinders Nestibilities

Thank You!

Today's card is another teacher thank you card for one of my daughters' teachers. I went with the Inspiration challenge at Splitcoast (IC339), which was an online store called bibelot. I also drew inspiration from an old sketch challenge, Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge (SSSC157), shown here:

For the image, I stamped in on white cardstock and then filled in the image with copics and with paper piecing. I then cut out the image and put that over a lined paper you might use in school. I needed the image panel to be a little bigger, so I put it over a larger panel of ruler dsp. The background paper is a yellow and white chevron stripe, which I embossed with Swiss Dots.

For the flower, I cut out this same dsp used MFT Die-namics and then added a red button in the center. I love the contrast of yellow and red with the white.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies Used:

Stamps - MFT Teachers' Pet

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, MME dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - MFT Die-namics Pretty Posies, button, bakers' twine, ribbon, Cuttlebug EF

Best Teacher Ever!

Here is my card for the My Favorite Things Guest Designer challenge (MFTGUESTDT0612), which was a sketch challenge. I used this adorable little girl from MFT Pure Innocence "Book In Hand" for my main image, making a end of year thank you card for one of my daughters' teachers. I have seven cards to make in total, this being only my second! Needless to say, I will be making another card for this challenge!!

Today's card took a bit of time to finish it. I have had trouble finding longer stretches of time to work on a card, so finishing a card is taking days. I colored this image with copics and paper pieced her outfit with some paper from My Minds Eye. I cut out the image and popped her up on some pink and white graph paper. The rest of the card followed the sketch shown here:

I used several MFT Die-namics on my card today - the horizontal stripes are layered chevron stripes using the Chevron Die-namic and the flower embellishment was made using the Pretty Posies Die-namic and the Button Quartet Die-namics. I added a bow of twine to the center of this button. All of the panels were stitched with a sewing machine and each layer is popped up on dimensionals to add depth to the card.

Thanks for stopping by today! Now to decide which teacher gets this card :).

Supplies used:

Stamps: MFT PI Book In Hand, MFT Teacher's Pet sentiment

Paper - Bazzill cardstock, Taylored Expressions white, MME dsp

Ink - Memento black

Accessories - Copics, MFT Die-namics (Pretty Posies, Chevron stripe, Button Quartet), twine, sewing machine