Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #145: Unlock Your Future

Happy Tuesday, Friends! It's Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge time, again! This week is our judged challenge with a twist: use die cut(s).  Stamping Scrapping is our generous sponsor, and our own Kathy Curry has come up with a fantastic sketch for this challenge.

I'm using the CR84FN53 color palette of pink, aqua, and neutral:

My niece is graduating from high school this month, and I wanted to make her a card, but I wanted it to be something soft and feminine, rather than academically-themed. 

I turned the sketch sideways, and made it rectangular rather than square. Then, I layered several different die cuts, sponging Distress Ink on the edges for a vintage look, and topped it off with a lock stamp from Our Craft Lounge. I used a deckle ruler to tear the edges of the stamped layer, cut the lock openings with a craft knife, then further distressed it with ink. I used a brick design embossing folder for the bg paper, which I sewed along the edges before adhering to the card base.

Here's a peek at the inside:

The "unlock" sentiment is one I created in Word, printed onto a transparency, then rubbed onto the cs. I used three different Our Craft Lounge stamp sets for the key, flourish, and congrats sentiment (they're listed below). 

Okay! Ready to play? Well, head on over to the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog, where you'll find all the rules, the linking tool, and lots of fab inspiration by the rest of the DT! Then get all creative with your own project--remember this is our judged challenge! I can't wait to see what you create!

I'll be entering this card in these challenges:
CR84FN Color Challenge 53: Pink, Aqua, Neutral
Great Impressions Rubber Stamps Challenge #3: Anything Goes
The Emerald Fairies Challenge #23: Anything Goes


~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Under Lock & Key, Say It Big, In Flight (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper: Cafe Mediterranean (DCWV); Love Next (My Mind's Eye); Just Chillin' (Making Memories); kraft cs
Ink: Distress Ink; Memento
Dies: Fair Isle Pendant, Ironwork Accents, Bird Flourishes (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Scallop Dot Edge Punch (Martha Stewart); Bricked embossing folder (Sizzix); ribbon (Michaels); Stickles; Enamel Accents; sewing thread; foam dots
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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PPRS March 2012 Sketch Challenge: In Dreams

Hi Friends! It's Prickley Pear time! Want to have a chance to win a $15 gift certificate to the Prickley Pear store? Okay! All you have to do is make a card based on this sketch, link it to the PPRS blog post by the end of the month, and you're in the running!

In honor of St. Patrick's Day, I used a lot of green in my take on this sketch:

Be sure to stop by the PPRS blog to be inspired by what the rest of the Design Team has to share with you, then create your own card and link it to the PPRS blog post. I can't wait to see what you come up with!

Thanks for visiting, and have a wonderful day!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Owl with Bird, In Dreams (Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps)
Paper: Origins (Basic Grey); vellum
Ink: Copic markers; Distress Ink
Dies: Big Scalloped Ovals, Classic Ovals (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Ribbon (Offray); faceted gems; sewing thread; Glossy Accents; Liquid Pearls
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge #135: What???

Hi Blog Friends! Can you believe it's already Tuesday again? Wow, the days really fly by, don't they? But, I love Tuesdays because it means we have another sketch for you at Tuesday Morning Sketches! I can't wait to show you the card I made with this week's awesome sketch, created by our own Melissa.

Digi Doodle Shop is sponsoring the challenge this week, and I used the most adorable Digi Doodle image for my card. It's called Twitty Diddle. He's a bird, maybe a pelican, and he appears to be just a little surprised, or maybe worried. Whatever he is, I love his expression. I colored him with Copics and used Glossy Accents on his eyes.


And, here's how I interpreted that deer-in-the-headlights look:

Whaaat?!? Don't you know that's what he's thinking? I had such fun with this card! I sewed all the layers down, cut the Fancy Tag out of chipboard, coated it with Mod Podge, then sprinkled it heavily with glitter and sprayed it with a clear gloss to keep the glitter from flaking off. I put Liquid Pearl dots on the perimeter of the image and popped it up onto the glittered tag, then popped the entire thing up on the card.

For the sentiment, I cut the letters with my Alpha Bubbles dies, colored them with a Martha Stewart glitter marker, then adhered them to the card with glue.

Here's a look at the popped up layers.

For the inside, I printed the sentiment, in a dark brown, onto a transparency and rubbed it onto white cs. I colored in the letters with Copics, in a gradient pattern of three shades of blue, then added Diamond Stickles for sparkle. I attached a scrap of dp left over from the front of the card and added Liquid Pearls to the motifs. The yellow doodling just above the dp is hand drawn with a fine tip marker. On a piece of blue cs, I scored lines along the edges, adhered the sentiment panel to it, then glued it into the card.

I can think of a dozen occasions for which I could send this card, for everything from encouragement to congratulations--even for a birthday! And, little Twitty Diddle is so stinking cute, I know he'd add a smile to someone's day.

So, will you join us for the sketch challenge? I sure hope so! You have until Sunday at 8:00 PM (EST) to link your creation, and one lucky winner will win a gift certificate to the Digi Doodle Shop! All the details are on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog, and you can get more inspiration from the rest of the design team there, too.

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you have a creative week!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Twitty Diddle--digital stamp (Digi Doodle Shop)
Paper: Hattie Papers (My Mind's Eye); Circa 1934 (Cosmo Cricket); Splendid (Authentique); chipboard
Ink: Copic markers; Distress Ink; glitter marker (Martha Stewart)
Dies: Labels Fourteen, Fancy Tags Two (Spellbinders); Alpha Bubbles (Sizzix)
Accessories: Seeing Spots embossing folder (Cuttlebug); rhinestones; sewing thread; glitter; Glossy Accents; Stickles; Liquid Pearls; foam dots; transparency (for making rub on letters)
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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FTTC157: Corner Bookmark

Hello Friends! Quick post here today. The challenge this week for Flourishes Timeless Tuesday is to create a corner bookmark--yet another project I've never made, but I can't imagine why not. It was easy, and fun.










My color palette is from the Color Throwdown #180 challenge. This is such a nice, soothing palette.





Here's my bookmark:

I used Beate's SCS video tutorial as a guide to making the bookmark. I sewed dp to the bookmark base before folding the edges down in the back, then added ribbon, Liquid Pearls, and Stickles.

I used a silhouette from Flourishes' Sweet Days of Summer stamp set for my image. I love that it's a girl reading, and the tree fit into the circle die cut perfectly. It's embossed with Chocolate embossing powder, then I sponged Distress Ink for the ground and sky, and used Flower Soft for the grass and flowers in the tree, and Sparkly Fluff for the ground under the tree.

The sentiment on the back of the bookmark is from the same stamp set as the silhouette.

My DD saw this and immediately called dibs on it. :) My entire family are readers, but, even at seven years old, my DD is the most avid reader, so she probably would have gotten this anyway, but I'm glad she liked it so much she requested it herself.

And, that'll do it for today. Thanks so much for stopping by, and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Sweet Days of Summer (Flourishes)
Paper: Just Chillin' (Making Memories)
Ink: Memento; Distress Ink, clear embossing ink
Dies: Std. Circles Lg, Classic Scalloped Circles Lg, Classic Ric Rac Edgebilities (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Scallop Dot border punch (Martha Stewart); Zing embossing powder; Offray ribbon; sewing thread; Sparkly Fluff; Stickles; Liquid Pearls; Flower Soft
Size: 4" 

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Bon Anniversaire Mon Ami

Hello again! One more card for today. This card is an anniversary card, made using a Just Rite stamp I picked up at the convention two weekends ago. For this card, I'm using the Ribbon Carousel Challenge Sketch #40, the CR84FN48 color palette of Chartreuse, Gray, and Lavender, and the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #156 theme of Love, with red incorporated into the design.

Aren't the colors Mona chose this time beautiful! I always love learning new things, so I decided to look up chartreuse. I found out that chartreuse is the name of a French liqueur, and is a color halfway between green and yellow and that there is a green chartreuse and a yellow chartreuse, with yellow being considered the more traditional of the two. In my opinion, yellow chartreuse isn't very pretty. The green chartreuse is exactly 50% green and 50% yellow and is what is displayed on Mona's palette.  

I've been seeing this Shabby Chic Labels Four stamp set for awhile, so when I spied it at the convention I went to recently, I grabbed it right up. I was a little bit intimidated about coloring it, but once I got going, I found it wasn't nearly as difficult as I'd imagined. I made the little roses on each end of the stamp red for the Timeless Tuesday challenge that required some red.

I turned the sketch sideways and layered a chartreuse satin ribbon and a lavender chiffon wired ribbon behind the image in lieu of a cs layer and flag that is on the sketch. Behind the Labels Four die cut I layered a portion of the largest Bird Flourishes die cut, then a Fleur de Lis Rectangle, then two of the Fancy Tags Two tags. I tell you, those Spellbinders dies are gorgeous when they are layered. It would be so easy to get carried away with them, but I think I got just the right ones on this card.

I put a thick coat of Glossy Accents on the center portion of the image.

I tried a lot of different things where the red flower is before settling on that particular flower. I think it works well with those two little blips of red I colored on the stamp, though.

On the inside, I first stamped another stamp from the Shabby Chic Labels Four set. I used Crushed Olive Distress Ink, and stamped off on scrap paper one time before stamping in the card. Then I used Aged Mahogany Distress Ink and stamped the Bon Anniversaire sentiment from that same stamp set. Finally, in Milled Lavender Distress Ink, I stamped the single rose stamp from Flourishes Sweet Nature stamp set. I also sponged Milled Lavender Ink lightly around the edges of the cs before adhering it to the inside of the card.

Well, that's all I have for today. Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget that you have until February 29th to enter the Prickley Pear February Sketch Challenge--$15 is up for grabs!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Shabby Chic Labels Four (Just Rite); Sweet Nature (Flourishes)
Paper: Little Black Dress (Basic Grey); Sweet Nectar (K&Co)
Ink: Copic markers; Memento; Distress Ink
Dies: Labels Four, Fancy Tags Two, Fleur de Rectangle, Bird Flourishes (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Ribbon (Michaels); rhinestones; flower (Recollections); foam dots; Glossy Accents
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Boo Boo Bear in Pink

Hi there, Friends, and Happy Wednesday! I hope yours is a good one! Warmer weather is headed our way here, so I'm having a great day!

I've got a get well card to share with you today. I'm using the Mojo Monday sketch #228 for the layout, and the Color Throwdown #179 palette for the colors.

For this card, I colored the sweet little Boo Boo Bear image with Copics and added Glossy Accents to her nose and pads of her feet. You can see the shine pretty good in this photo.

After die cutting the image, I spritzed a Fancy Tags Two die cut with Shimmer Spritz, then adhered it to the back of the image and popped the whole thing up with foam dots.

For the flowers, I made two rolled flowers using the Rolled Scalloped Flower die. One of them was made with cs and the other with felt. The third flower is a Recollections flower.

That's all for this card. I'll be back in a little while with an anniversary card I made with a new stamp I got at the convention last week.

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Stamps: Boo Boo Bear (Whipper Snapper Designs); Sunshine Cheer (Our Craft Lounge)
Paper: Sweetness (Pink Paislee); Garden Party (DCWV)
Ink: Copic markers; Distress Ink; Memento
Dies: Rolled Scalloped Flower (My Favorite Things); Crocheted Circle Die (Our Daily Bread); Fair Isle Pendants, Fancy Tags Two (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Bloom Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug); ribbon (Michaels); pearls; flowers; sewing thread; foam dots; Glossy Accents; Liquid Pearls; Shimmer Sprintz
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Time With Friends

Hi Friends! I have some fun news about one of my cards today. A couple of days ago, I posted a card using an Our Craft Lounge stamp--a hot air balloon with hearts spilling out of it. I had won a gift certificate to Our Craft Lounge in a Lily Pad challenge and the balloon was one of the stamps I got with it. Anyway, I sent a link for the card to Lily Pad to thank them for choosing my card and they ended up featuring it on their blog! Then, late yesterday, just as my hubby and I were getting ready to leave for a date night (my daughter's dentist had a free parent's night out at his office, so we got to have a real grown-up dinner--AWESOME!), I got an email from Taylor at Taylored Expressions saying that she had selected ME as her very first Top Chef--for that same card! That's a new twist she is having in conjunction with her sketch challenge now. Whoo Hoo--I am pumped! And...I actually have one more bit of exciting news that stemmed from that card--yes, that same card, but I'll reveal that later. ;) Sooooo, it has been quite an exciting couple of days for me, and I just had to share it with all of you--my sweet, supportive blog friends!

And, now, I've got another Valentine's Day card. The layout is from the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge 152 (TESC152) and I used the CR84FN47 Color Challenge colors of red, pink and light blue.

This is a cute card that I made for my daughter to give to one of her best friends--a boy.

I colored the cute little By Lori Designs Be Mine Puddle Jumper image with Copics, then put Glossy Accents on the hearts and their eyes.


The blue "pearls" on the card are Liquid Pearls, and the red pearls were white, and I colored them with a red Copic marker.

The sentiment came from a piece of dp in a Prima Annalee paper pack, as did the strip of blue and the pink scroll edged border. Because the sentiment was six inches long, I split it into two pieces and used part on the front of the card and the rest on the inside.

And, here's a peek at the inside:

I'm slowly working through my list of the challenges I want to enter--just seven more to go. So you'll probably be seeing me at least a couple more times over the weekend.

Thanks for stopping by, and have a crafty weekend!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Puddle Jumpers-Be Mine-Digital Stamp (By Lori Designs); Happy Valentine's Day sentiment (Craftsmart)
Paper: Picket Fence (Lily Bee Designs); Annalee (Prima)
Ink: Copic markers; Distress Ink
Dies: Fancy Tags Three, Classic Ovals Lg (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Ribbon (Michaels); pearls; Glossy Accents; Liquid Pearls; Corner Chomper
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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Lots of Love

Hi Friends! Quick post here...I've got lots of challenge cards to make. :)

Flourishes is getting ready to reveal their new releases for February, so it's time for their Noon-Time Challenges. This is the first one--a Pinterest challenge! I love that peachy pink color with black and the cameos. Unfortunately, I couldn't find my cameos, : \ but I had the perfect color and style of dp!

Here's my take on the photo:

I made this card for my daughter for Valentine's Day. She loves dancing, and these shoes remind me of her ballet shoes. She's definitely a girly-girl! :D I wanted to use Stickles in the center of the flowers on the shoes, but I restrained because the inspiration photo is really soft looking and I wanted my card to have that same feel.

Here's the inside:

The silver heart is a scrap from my Q-Pig card from a few days ago. It's embossed duct tape. Here's a close up, in case you are wondering about how it looks. It's amazing how nicely it embosses.

That's it for now. You have until Friday at 5PM to enter this challenge, so if you're inclined to do so, better hurry!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a wonderful evening!!!

~Hugs,

 

Stamps: Make a Wish (Flourishes); Valentine Sayings (Hero Arts)
Paper: Little Black Dress (Basic Grey)
Ink: Copic markers; Memento
Dies: Heart Circles, Fancy Tags 3, Classic Bracket Edgeabilities, Ribbon Banners (Spellbinders)
Accessories: Love is in the Air embossing folder (Cuttlebug); ribbon (Joann/ Offray); duct tape; foam dots
Size: A2 (4.25" x 5.5")

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