Happy Birthday

 

Happy Tuesday Peeps, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I am looking forward to a new year.

Change is the key word for us this year. Stay tuned for more on that.

I am sharing a card I made using the sketch at Mojo Monday.

This was a great sketch to work with.

I started by pulling out my Southern Serenade stamp set.

I stamped the pretty flower image with black stazon on thick whisper whiter card stock.

I colored using Calypso Coral and Old Olive ink pads with my water brush.

 

I fussy cut out that flower image, no small feat I might add...LOL!!!

I mounted it to a piece that I stamped with a lacey image from the same set. I  stamped using black memento ink but first off stamped once to get the lighter color.

The flower is then added to that panel with several dimensionals.

I matted this piece with some basic black cardstock.

 The base of the card is thick whisper white cardstock.

The coral DSP is from a retired pack.

The black DSP is from the neutrals DSP

I added  the main image panel to the card with more dimensionals.

The sentiment on here comes from the You're Inspiring set.

I added a few basic pearls on the flowers and around the image to finish it up. 

Thanks for coming by today.

Vicki

Mojo Sketch.....Christmas in the Making

Happy Friday Peeps!

I have another card to share with you today, this one using the Mojo Monday sketch.

I used this fun, retired, set from Stampin Up called Christmas in the Making.

I really love it and had not got to play with it at all last year, so now that I am in a somewhat of a groove, I pulled it out.

I stamped the image with black stazon onto thick whisper white card stock and colored using my ink pads and aqua painter. 

I don' know tthe name of my DSP as it was just a scrap in my scrap pile. One side was the stripe and the other is the red design.

I added just a bit of silver glimmer paper at the bottom instead of scallops like the sketch shows.

The sentiment is from the set and is stamped with black Memento ink.

I finished up with a twine and silver bow with a few jingle bells, I love adding all the fun stuff o my cards but the reality is these type of card is not easily mailable.

But you can hand deliver or stick on a package or goodie tray, which is what I generally do. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vicki

A Note of Thanks

Happy Thursday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using a couple of challenges. I used the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge and this week's color challenge on  The Paper Players Blog.

The color challenge is Not Quite Navy, Pool Party and Certainly Celery, a pretty color combo.

I started my card with a base of Pool Party card stock and followed that with some Not Quite Navy card stock. The Certainly Celery DSP is from the Soft Subtles Patterns Pack.

I then used some not Quite Navy card stock that I embossed with the square lattice EF. I added a strip of Pool Party and some more DSP, this Pool Party piece is from the Attic Boutique pack.

I pulled out a sweet little single stamp from Stampin Up called Triple Treat flower. This pretty little stamp had never been inked!! I stamped the flower three times, using each of the colors from the color challenge. I used my large fancy lower punch, my 5 petal flower punch, and  my 1/2 inch circle punch to punch out the flower layers. I added a dimensional between each layer and a tiny silver brad to the center circle. 

I mounted the flower to an embossed scallop circle made with my 2-3/8" circle scallop punch.

The little sentiment is from the Thank You Kindly stamp set. I used some pool party seam binding ribbon across the top and to tie the bow. I added a silver brad to each corner.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

CCMC......Very Merry MOJO Ornament Card

Happy Hump Day Peeps! Can you believe it is the last day of November already?  The year has just flown by!

Today I am sharing a card I made using two different challenges, the color challenge on Create with Connie  and Mary and this weeks Mojo Monday sketch challenge.

I again am using one of my fave sets, Stampin' Up "Greeting Card Kids". You all know how I love this little vintage looking girl pulling her sled. It doesn't matter what colors i use with her, she just sings!!

I choose to make the round card from the sketch and made it into an ornament card. I cut a scallop circle by folding my night of navy card stock in half and using the largest scallop circle nestie, leaving the fold just below the cut line on the die. I then cut a circle with river rock card stock and embossed with the square lattice EF. I used some Well Worn DSP at the bottom.

I used some lucky limeade ribbon across the bottom and down the side. I made a bow and added a antique brad to the center. The main image is added to the card with some dimesionals.  The sentiment is from the Stampin Up "Short & Sweet" stamp set and I stamped onto white card stock used my word window punch to punch it out. I matted it with a night of navy piece punched with the modern label punch. I added some basic pearls to the ends.

I made the card into a ornament by adding the top piece, made with the round tab punch with lucky limeade card stock and folded in half. I embossed this piece with the square lattice EF too. I added some white bakers twine for it to hang by.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and

HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo.....Thanks

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card I made using the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. Pretty sketch huh? I really like it and think I will probably use it again!

I started with a base of white card stock. I then use a piece of Marina Mist card stock that I had embossed with the vintage wall EF. Notice the pretty lace doily paper? I love it. It is recent etsy purchase, fellow OCC design team member Linda recently opened her own etsy shop and she has some wonderful things for sale over there. She had used this paper lace doily, which is just like a paper doily but comes in straight pieces, so when I was getting some crinoline for making some of her flowers I got some of this and I have to say it is fabulous!!

The sentiment on here comes from the Afterthoughts stamp set. I stamped with black stazon onto some whisper white card stock I matted with some pear pizzazz card stock that I cut with my lacey square nestie. The flowers are from the Vintage Vogue stamp set and I stamped with Marina Mist and stamped again with out re-inking the stamp to get the lighter color. I layered two large flowers up and added a smaller one in the middle. I put a dimensionals between each layer and added a silver pearl to the center. I stamped a few leaves with pear pizzazz ink and added them around the big flower. I put two smaller flowers in the opposite corner with a few leaves and silver pearls too. I used some pear pizzazz ribbon to make a pretty bow.

Well that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki 

Mojo......thinking of you

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I used another fun new set from the Stampin Up summer mini, this one is called On the Grow. I had to have it, because those flowers are in a mason jar and I collect those, love the old blue ones. I got out a couple to sit behind my card for the picture.  My jar is colored with some baja ink and reminds me of my fave mason jars. I also used some daffodil delight, pumpkin pie, pear pizzazz, always artichoke and crumb cake to color in the jar of flowers. I did have alot of trouble getting a nice picture of this card. The jar on the card looks really pale but IRL it is a very nice aqua color.

I used some very vanilla card stock for my base and I followed that with some pear pizzazz and then the DSP here is from the Paisley Patterns paper pack. I then used some more very vanilla and the square lattice EF. I also punched one edge with a MS punch. the next layer is more pear pizzazz and some so saffron DSP. I used my circle and scallop circle nesties to cut out the main image and matt. I piecrced all around the scallop circle. I added a small little flag of pear pizzazz with some basic pearls.

The sentiment is from the same set and I used my oval punches cut out. I used some floss from my stash and more little basic pearls.

Well, that is all from me today, Thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo.......Birthday Wishes

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

I chose to make a square card, this one is 5 inch square of crumb cake card stock. I followed that with rose red card stock and the DSP is from the Springtime Vintage paper pack.

The stamp set I used is one of the free SAB sets called Sweet Summer. Love this set, it may be my favorite of the SAB stamps. The sentiment is from the Occasional Quotes Hostess set. The rose red scallop is the new 2-3/8 inch punch. I ran that scallop circle through the square lattice EF. I added some rose red seam binding and some crochet trim layered together and tied into a pretty bow.

The flower heads on the main panel is cut out and added to the panel with dimensionals. I used rose red and old olive to color in the flowers with my aqua painter.



Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING

Vicki

Mojo Sew Suite Set

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!

Today I am sharing a fun little gift set I made. I used the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge for my card and the cute little gift box is made with the petal cone die from the Occasions Mini Catalog!

I love the new Stampin Up Sew Suite set and all the fun accessories that are available with it in the mini! The paper on the gift box and the card are from the Sweet Stitches DS paper pack. I used melon mambo, tangerine tango, whisper white card stock along with some water color paper. The sentiment comes from the Beary Nice Wishes stamp set and I used my Naturally Serif sizzlits decorative strip die to cut the "Sew" letters to add to the sentiment piece. I also used my new Sweet Buttons Embosslit to make the melon mambo buttons. Oh and I can't forget the fun little pom pom trim!!! Love that stuff!! This set is really bright and so fun!!! I stamped the spool images onto watercolor paper and used my aqua painter and melon mambo and tangerine tango ink to color these. I did use a bit of retired tangerine ribbon to close the gift box.

Well, that it is all from me for today, Thanks "sew" much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

MOjo....Friends

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge!

I started the card with a base of very vanilla and I followed that with some pink pirouette card stock. The DSP paper is from the Lap of Luxury paper pack.

The stamp set I used is the Stampin' Up Happiness Shared set. Love this pretty flower from this set. I stamped the flower with black stazon onto some water color paper. I colored the flower with pink pirouette ink and added some regal rose for shading. The leaves are done with old olive. I shaded around the image with some crumb cake and then splattered some watered down early espresso onto it. The tiny friends sentiment is from the Tiny Tags stamp set and I used the stamp-a-ma-jig to line it up!

The circle element is made with my nesties with pink pirouette and very vanilla card stock. I embossed the vanilla circle with the vintage wall EF. I used some of the pretty Victoria Crochet trim ribbon to wrap around and to make the bow. I added an antique brad and some pearls to finish it off.



Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

Mojo....You're a Hoot!

Happy Monday Peeps!!!

Today I am sharing a card I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge!

I love round cards and really don't make them often enough! It is gloomy here and we are expecting a BIG winter storm, so I opted for some really bright and cheerful colors. I cut my scallop circle with my nesties and some pumpkin pie card stock. I then used my circle cutter to cut the rose red, whisper white and DSP circles.I embossed the white piece with the square lattice embossing folder. The DS paper is from the Sweet & Sour Speciality paper pack. I hand cut the curve from the sketch but it is covered with my crumb cake leaves. I used my owl punch and punched out the body in rose red and pumpkin pie card stock. I cut off the feet of the rose red owl and added the pumpkin pie feet behind it. I punched out his little vest from the same DSP on the card and added the eyes in with crumb cake, basic black and whisper white card stock. The sentiment is computer generated and printed out. I added some little flowers with brads to the leaves and sentiment tag.

Well, that is all from me today, thank you for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo....Friend

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!!

Today's card share is one I made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

I started my card with a base of Night of Navy and I followed that with Baja Breeze card stock. The DP is from the Springtime Vintage paper pack. I again used that sweet little Valentine Girl from the Greeting Card Kids stamp set. She is colored with baja, riding hood red, blush blossom and crumb cake ink. I cut her out and added her to my sentiment piece. The sentiment comes from the Great Friend Stamp set. I stamped with black stazon onto very vanilla card stock. That is mounted onto some baja embossed card stock and then some night of navy card stock cut with my lacey circle nesties. I added some red rhinestones and some very vanilla seam binding ribbon.

Well, I have a busy day today, so I am keeping this short and sweet, hope you like it and thanks so much for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo....Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Tuesday Peeps!

Today I am sharing a card made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I know it will come as no surprise to you that I am still using the Stampin' Up "Greeting Card Kids" stamp set. I hope you all are not sick of it yet because I am not and so I think you might just have to endure more cards made with it for awhile anyway.

I used the Love Letters DS paper. The card stock I used is Crumb Cake and Riding Hood Red. The sentiment comes from the "Teeny Tiny Wishes" stamp set. The ribbon is some retired, riding hood red taffeta. Did you notice my new Lacey circle Nesties? They came to me all the way from Pennsylvania via my friend Wendy! Thanks so much Wendy for picking them up for me! I love them muchly!!!

I made two little folded fan flowers, glued them to my card with my glue gun and added a button to the centers of each.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Mojo.......love you

Happy Hump Day Peeps, I want to thank everyone who took the time to e-mail and comment on my post yesterday. It seems I have struck a cord in alot of my readers, Kindness does matter and I am so thankful to you who sent me messages and told me their stories of how others have effected their life with just a small act of kindness.


Today I have another Greeting Card Kids card to share with you. This card is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

This card is made with Concord Crush card stock and the Lap of Luxury DSP and the neutral very vanilla card stock. I added some Concord Crush ribbon and small library clip. The image is colored the same way I have been coloring all of these images lately, stamped with black stazon and colored with my aqua painter and ink from my ink pads. I used perfect plum for the little girls dress, because i have found from past experience the Concord Crush ink does not watercolor well. I also used pretty in pink a bit of real red, and blush blossom. I added a bit of icicle stickles to the heart. The sentiment is from the "Short & Sweet stamp set and is stamped with concord crush onto very vanilla. I cut the end into a "v" and matted with concord crush card stock, I rolled it a bit around a marker to make it wavy.

I tried something a bit different with my picture today and used a piece of DSP in the background, do you like it? Or do you prefer the white background? I posted a pic of both so I could get your input.





Well, that is all for today, Thanks for coming by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Ornament Card

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!

Today's card share is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. This week you could pick a round or a square card. As you can see I choose round. I love round cards and had the idea right away to make my round card into an ornament. I used my nesties to cut out the scallop card and for all the circles on the card. I used the Stampin Up "Greeting Card Kids" stamp set, it is a favorite of mine and I just keep reaching for it over and over, even tho I have new rubber going UN-inked!!!

The Christmas girl is stamped with black stazon onto very vanilla card stock. I colored with my aqua painter and ink from the my ink pads. I used soft suede, cherry cobbler, more mustard, always artichoke, early espresso and crumb cake ink. I used a bit of watered down early espresso ink to splatter the image a bit.

The DS paper I used is from the Deck the Halls paper pack. The sentiment is from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.I punched an extra large snowflake and cut it up to put behind the main image panel. I added a rhinestone to the center of the snowflake. The ornament top is made with always artichoke card stock punched with the Round Tab punch and embossed with the Vintage wall embossing folder. I added a hanger with some retired gold stretch cord.





Well, I hope you like this card/ornament, I think it turned out super duper cute!!! Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!

Vicki

Mojo Very Merry Set

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!! Hope your week is going well so far!!

Today I have a fun little set to show you. My card and tag was both made with the "Holiday Hoopla" stamp set. I used the Mojo Monday Sketch challenge for my card.



I started my card with a base of real red and then followed that with some Baja Breeze. The DS paper used is from the Candy Cane Speciality Paper Pack. This sketch has a fun tilted panel in the middle, I do LOVE tilted panels!!!! I used the Curly Label pinch in Baja behind Santa. I used some real red grosgrain ribbon across the bottom and added a punched snowflake under the knot of the bow. The Santa is stamped onto whisper white card stock and I used a bit of blush blossom ink from my marker and my aqua painter color in the tiny bit of his face that is showing. I used a very little bit of real red to add some cheeks and a little down the edge of his nose. I stamped his hat with real red ink and then added some XMas red stickles to it. I also used a little bit of stardust stickles on his moustache. I added just a bit of shadow with my tombow N95 marker. the sentiment is from the "Short & Sweet" stamp set and is stamped with black stazon.

Then I wanted to make a matching tag:




The tag is cut from the Two Tags Die, which I don't have but I did cut a few awhile back when I was with someone who had it, with whisper white card stock. I then added another layer of white that was embossed with a snowflake EF. I then added two small strips of DS paper that was punched with the dotted scallop ribbon border punch. I then added another Santa, made like the one on the card, on this Santa I added the "To/From stamp onto his beard, that stamp is in the set. I added some bakers twine to the tag.

Well, that is all from me today, Thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Part Mojo, Part Curtain Call

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!

Today's card share is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge and also with the color challenge on Stacey's Stamping Stage. The colors this week are more mustard, cajun craze, old olive and crumb cake. Those colors say fall to me, how about you.

The Base of the card is made with crumb cake. I stamped and masked the pumpkins from the Autumn Harvest set onto some watercolor paper. I colored the pumpkins with more mustard and cajun craze ink and my aqua painter. I added in the ground and the stems with old olive. The DS paper is from the Autumn Spice paper pack. I added some old olive ribbon and a few buttons from the retired earth element button pack. The sentiment is from the Sweetheart stamp set and I used some circle punches to punch it out and matt it with.

Well, that is all from me today, sorry for the short post but I have alot to do today, so thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!

Vicki

PPA Mojo Winter Wonderland

Good Friday Morning Peeps!! It is October 1st, which is a very special day in my household. 34 years ago today I married my dear sweet husband and 24 years ago today my dear sweet daughter was born. That's right, dear daughter was born on our 10th wedding Anniversary!!!!

I guess with all that, I should have an anniversary card or at least a birthday card to show you huh? Well, not so much, I have a fun little Christmas card!!! LOL!!

This card was made with two challenges in mind, first up I wanted to use the Pals Paper Arts All Buttoned Up Challenge and when I knew what I wanted to do for that I went looking for a sketch challenge to incorporate with my idea. I found the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge and with a slight change or two I made it work with my idea of the snowman button card.

The sketch could be either a round or square card, I chose the square but used the circle center element that was on the round card. I stamped the snowman from the Jolly Old Saint Nick stamp set with some black stazon onto my whisper white card stock. I colored him up a bit with real red and basic gray and baja breeze around the snow. I added more snowflakes, around the snowman with baja breeze.

The base of the card is real red and I followed that with baja breeze and the DS paper is from the Candy Cane paper pack that is the Holiday Mini. I used three of the smallest buttons from the Candy Cane Big Designer Buttons pack. I threaded, with great difficulty, some 1/4 inch real red grosgrain thought he buttons and tied a knot. I added the buttons to the card with my glue gun. I added some red stickles to the snowman gloves, scarf and hat band. The sentiment on this card comes from the Bright Christmas stamp set and is stamped with black stazon onto the DS paper. I used dimesionals to add the snowman piece and to add the square striped piece to the card.

I think my little snowman looks very happy on his card home! LOL!! I am really loving this Candy Cane paper and have made my Sweet Sunday Sketch Sample card with this paper, you won't want to miss it. Well, that is all from me today, thanks for coming by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Hello

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!! Another hot one on tap here today and no end in sight, UGH!!! I hate the heat!

Today's card share is made with the Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge.

I am not quite loving this one. I do love the owl and can't get enough of him, but I think my card my be just a bit tooooooo BUSY, somehow I just couldn't get my DS paper to work yesterday when I was putting it together. I usually don't have that problem when I am working with a DS paper pack but somehow yesterday, this one just fell short, for me anyway. I do love the DS paper pack tho it is the new SU Play Date.

What do you think? Does it work for you? Leave me a comment and let me know what you think, I will pick a winner from all the comments I get and send you the card and some of the owl bookmarks I have been making lately. If you haven't seen them check out some of my past blog enteries or there is a few in my etsy shop so you can see them there to. I will probably throw in a few more goodies too, so leave me a comment and I will draw a winner on Friday.

Pam, if you are stalking my blog, our trip to KC, schedule for next Monday has been postponed until Sept. 21st. Can't wait to meet ya!

Well, that is all from me today, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Curtain Call.....Let's Celebrate

Good Tuesday Morning Peeps!

I combined two challenges for today's card share. I used the sketch challenge at the Mojo Monday Blog and the color challenge at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

The colors this week are Tempting Turquoise, Barely Banana, Chocolate Chip, Melon Mambo, & Whisper White, it is also Stacey's birthday week, so I used both for my inspiration! The base of the card is white and I followed that with some chocolate chip card stock and then I used melon mambo that I had embossed with the square lattice EF. The DS paper on my card is from the "Island Oasis" paper pack from the summer mini, you NEED this paper, sooooo pretty!

The main image, the stack of presents, is from the retired SAB set "Happy Moments". I stamped with black stazon onto water color paper and colored with my aqua painter and turquoise, melon mambo and barely banana. I added the ground with some chocolate chip. I stamped the sentiment, from the "On Your Birthday" stamp set onto some scrap watercolor paper with chocolate chip ink. I used my nesties to cut out the main image panel and the sentiment.

For embellishments I added some silver pearls, and chocolate chip twill ribbon. I added a button, from my stash, with some jute twine to the bow.

Well, that is all from me today, thanks so much for stopping by today and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki

Mojo Monday......Celebrate

Happy Hump Day Peeps!!!!

Today's card is made with the Mojo Monday sketch challenge.

This week it was either a round or square card for the sketch:



You can see, that I chose the round, I love making round cards, such fun!! The base of my card is night of navy card stock cut with my scallop nesties. I then used some white and real red for the next layer. The white was embossed with the Swiss Dot EF.

I made a cute little pinwheel with my small star punch and added a white handle. I added this to my white circle element with some foam tape. I matted with another scallop circle cut with real red card stock. The square element is night of navy that I embossed with my star EF.

The sentiment is from the "A Little Birthday Cheer" stamp set. I just masked of the "You", with a post it note, as I only wanted the "Celebrate" and stamped it with night of navy ink onto white and cut out and curled a bit. My sentiment is in place of the star element in the sketch! So whatcha think?

Well, thanks for stopping by and HAPPY STAMPING!!!!!

Vicki