{Make Lemonade}

Hi everyone,

I pulled out an old, now retired (I believe) Taylored Expressions stamp set I have today and decided to make a card around it. 

For the cover panel I used a Perforator Cutting Blade for my Cutterpede Paper Trimmer to create the diagonal lines pattern. I then took a circle die and cut out a circle out of my white cardstock. I used a slightly smaller circle die than the previous one and cut some yellow cardstock with it. I then layered the yellow behind the white and trimmed off the excess on the straight edge.

I colored my lemons and lemonade glass with Copic Markers, added some glitter for texture and added some clear Jewel Dew Drops as final touches.

Closer look: 

thanks so much for stopping by!

Sonja

{Make Lemonade...}TCP Tuesday #309

we've had a lot of rain here in the San Fran area this past week which is great of course since we really needed it but also made me crave a fun, bright spring card.This card here is a hodge podge mix of some The Cat's Pajamas stamps as well as Taylored Expressions stamps.

I just loved the sentiment so much and thought it would go great with the idea of Sprinkle behind her little juice stand. I hope you enjoy and keep on making lemonade :)

Sonja

{Par-fect} TESC

Hi guys,

I'm just dropping in real quick today to show you a card I made for the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge.

My this card was a doozy to photography with that glitter and the dark green felt... I'm sorry but this was the best I could do.

I went clean and simple this time...something I haven't done in quite a while and I gotta say it's fun to switch things up.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~ Sony



Stamps: Boys Will Be Boys (TE)
Paper: White
Ink: Brilliance Black
Accessories: Envy with Green Felt Collection (**NEW**available at the Cat's Pajamas this Tuesday July 20th), Stickles Glitter, Pop-Up Dots, Red Thread, Green Thread, Copics, Cuttlebug Polka-dot Embossing Folder

{Handy Dad's Day} SFYTT

Is it Saturday already again?! My where does the time go?

I hope you remembered that tomorrow is Father's Day?! If not you still have all of today to make a quick manly card, run out to the store and get some beer, the newest tool or the latest golf club . lol No? That's not your dad? Oh well I'm sure you know exactly what to get your dad/special man in your life.

My dad is your typical handyman, always fixing something so when I first spotted this cute stamp set by Taylored Expressions I HAD to get it just for my dad.

The set is called Boys will be Boys and has all the stereotypical and yet so true stamps you may need for your guy: some BBQ stuff, golf goodies, ties, boots, newspaper with morning coffeee and this fabulous tool belt, which I gave a little shiny glaze with my Crystal Effects btw.

My wooden patterned paper is from the Cosmo Cricket line Happy Camper and the fun red plaid

DP is from a little paper pack I had gotten as a gift from a dear friend of mine.

Fun little embellies like screw brads and metal gears add just the right manly touch to any card. Oh and this awesome big striped ribbon, one of my all-time favorite ribbon btw is from the Cat's Pajamas.

Tips'n' Tricks: would like to add a textured metal sheet to your card but don't have the time to go to the store to buy some metal sheets? Grab some aluminum foil, glue it to some cardstock and run it with an embossing folder through your bigshot for some textured metal sheet.

Are you curious to see what my SFYTT Sisters have come up with? I know I am!!! Hold on to your donut and enjoy!!! :)

* Jen del Muro and June Guest Designer ANDREA EWEN

* Amber Hight

* Amy Rohl

* Amy Sheffer

* Jenn Diercks

* Jodi Collins

* Kelly Lunceford

* Leigh O'Brien

* Megan Lock

* Susan Liles

Would YOU like to be our July Guest Designer and get featured on Jen's Blog?

All you need to do is create a stunning masterpiece using Jen's sketch and be sure to upload it to Jen's blog. Can't WAIT to see what you create!!! Best of luck to you!!!

Have a WONDERFUL weekend!!!

~ Sony

Stamps: Boys Will Be Boys (TE)

Paper: Happy Camper (CC), Basic Black, Kraft (PTI), Red Plaid DP

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Metal Gear (Tim Holtz), Crystal Effects, Aluminum Foil, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Grosgrain Ribbon (TCP), Screw Brads, Nesties, Pop-Up Dots, Hot Glue Gun, Copic Markers

{Cherry Smoothie anyone?} Vive La Verve Wk3

Happy Friday, everyone!! Today's going to be one heck of a busy day for me: I'm about to go to school to check out a DVD on Matte Painting and then when I get home I have to do a little bit more stamping and a whole lot of cleaning. My little stamp corner looks like a bomb went off and spilled over into my living room. Sigh...I guess I just have to live with the fact that I'm a messy stamper.

Oh well...what can you do?!

So I finally got around to making last week's Viva La Verve card yesterday and I gotta say I'm not a 100% in love with how it turned out but it is growing on me. Check back in with me tomorrow and I may be in love...we'll see. :)

I picked the beautiful cherry quilt that you can see hanging on the back wall as inspiration for my card.

The papers I used are from the October Afternoon collection Cherry Hill.

The stamps and the sentiment are all from the Taylored Expressions set Chillax, such a fun and cheerful set. I colored the blender and the smoothie in with Copics and added some Stickles Glitter.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I'm off to school now!

~ Sony

Stamps: Chillax (TE)

Paper: Cherry Hill (October Afternoon), Cream, Real Red (SU), Basic Black (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Antique Linen (Ranger Distress Ink), Vintage Photo (Ranger Distress Ink)

Accessories: Copic Markers, Sponges, Stickles Glitter, Sewing Machine, Pop-Up Dots

{a Pottery Barn Beach Bum} TCP Tues110 & TESC113

Hi guys!!! Are you noticing something?

Yup you got it - this card here was the inspiration for my recent Blog make-over. I just felt like this color combo was so me I couldn't help myself. I hope you like it. :)

I don't know how you're doing (I hope your answer is well) but I'm

doing pretty good although life is really funny sometimes - just when you think you've got your next step in life figured out life throws you for a loop and you're back to square one!

You know what I mean?!

I was just getting used to going back to school, I had even figured out what classes I wanted to take next term and now I'm starting to hear from my former employers again. Now I haven't been offered a job yet so it could still go both ways but I just think it's funny that when I was just sitting around at home being unemployed I heard nothing for months and now that I'm going to school - my phone rings again.

It's the exact same thing with dates - when you're single you can't get one but when you have a boyfriend, you can't get away from 'em.

Weird how that always works out! Oh well - I'll keep you posted with what happens next with the whole school vs job thing! :)

One thing is for sure though and that is that I have less and less time nowadays which makes me try and combine challenges wherever I can so this week I combined our TCP Tuesday challenge with a Taylored Expressions sketch challenge.

Toni is our mostess hostess and she brought us this yummy inspiration photo straight out of a Pottery Barn catalog. Isn't it just to die for? I actually couldn't believe it when I saw this because all my recent cards (most of them are for later posts so stay tuned for those) have been using this exact same color scheme. Oh well...what's one more right? :)

So my card features fun Beach Poochie from the TCP set By the Sea. He's just chillin' reading a book, sipping on his lemonade. I'm hoping to be doing the same in a month at my parent's home in Florida. :) The sentiment is also from that same set.

The wooden patterned paper is from the Cosmo Cricket line Snorkel and the beige polka-dot paper is from a paper pack that caught my eye at Michael's last week. It's called Songbird and it's made my DCWV. You'll be seeing lots more cards using some of this paper - it's soo fun!!!

My favorite ribbon (also from the Cat's Pajamas), some fun buttons and a wavy border complete my card today. :)

Ready to see more? Why don't you head over and check out what the rest of the Cat Pack has come up with!!

Oh and did I mention that you can win $25 in Cat Cash and earn the title Swanky Stamper of the month if you play with us???????!

All it takes is one FAB card!!! Click HERE for all the deets!

Thank you soo much for spending a little time with me here on my blog.

'til next time,

~ Sony

Stamps: By the Sea (TCP), Small Circles (Waltzing Mouse)

Paper: Snorkel (CC), Songbird (DCWV), Kraft, Real Red (SU), Basic Black

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Antique Linen (Ranger Distress Ink)

Accessories: Sponges, Buttons, Grosgrain Ribbon (TCP), Jute Twine, Nesties, Pop-up Dots, Wavy Border Punch, Sewing Machine, Copics

Copics: R17, R29, E50, C1

{Lemonade} Mojo136

Happy Monday everyone!! I hope you all had a great weekend! I was Miss Clumsy yesterday and you're going to laugh when I tell you what I did.

I was walking to my car from church and somehow my heel got caught in my pants and I did a wonderful swan dive to the asphalt.

Now the real funny part was how fast I got up! I don't think I've ever gotten up so fast in my entire life! lol

My knees are pretty banged up, my hand too and my pants ripped but other from that I'm ok. I forgot how much those abrasions can hurt!!

So no yoga for me yesterday and a 24 marathon instead. I know I know I'm like 10 years behind on the 24 craze but at least this way I won't go crazy having to wait for next week's episode. :)

Now it's Monday and that means the ladies over at Verve have come up with another fabulous sketch for us to play with.

I just got my very first Taylored Expression stamps - I'm blaming you Amber ;) - and I've been looking forward to getting them inked up so why not do that today?! And I did!

This cute lemonade set is from the Chillax set by Taylored Expressions. I put the lemons on some pop-p dots to add a bit more dimension to the card and I doodled a little border around the image.

Oh and did ya notice I joined the Clear Button frenzy that seems to be going around?

Thank you so much for stopping by! Be safe out there!! No tripping please! :)

~ Sony

Stamps: Chillax (Taylored Expressions)

Paper: Roadmap (October Afternoon), Kraft, Crushed Curry (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Crushed Curry (SU), Antique Linen (Distress Ink), Soft Suede (SU)

Accessories: Sponges, Copic Markers, Clear Button (Taylored Expressions), Ribbon, Jute Twine, Pop-up Dots, Nesties, Scalloped Trim Border Punch, Sewing Machine