Tuesday Morning Sketches

Good morning,

It has been some time since I posted here, but I haven't been overly creative this year...I took a break and focused on some other parts of my life that seemed to get pushed to a back corner instead of stamping and the few items that I made, I ended up giving them to the recipient before I could even get a picture. I did manage to get my things organized and put away after my creative room was turned (back) into a bedroom for a roommate and all my things were displaced. I am feeling better about things and slowly but surely starting to feel the creative desire again. I have followed all my favorite blogs this whole time and I am very happy to see that I can contribute to the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog this week. Rather than a sketch it is a challenge to do the Double Diagonal Pocket Card. Directions are found on the Splitcoast site in the resources section if you are interested. I love the versatility this style of card offers and I especially like all the writable area which is perfect for things like maps and directions and information for parties or showers. These make great invitations for just this reason. The tags can be double sided and you have the option to seal the inside or leave it open like a regular card where even more information can be put. Without further ado... here is an invitation for a good friends shower. See how the tags are perfect for specific information??? Love it! The paper and the baby stamp were purchased from Archivers and the green card stock is Bazzil Dots. The ink is Stamping Up and the ribbon was also purchased at Archivers. These were a hit. Enjoy and hope to be back with more fun stuff soon!

Just under the wire

Good morning! Today is the last day to play along and enter the Kitchen Sink monthly contest. The challenge this month was: Use school supplies or items to make a card or project. You can alter an item too! Extra apple points for a school themed card. Well here is my try at it. The green card stock is Stampin Up Old Olive, the other card stock is assorted Bazzil. The ribbon is random from my scraps and the boarder punch is from EK Success. The School items I used are a red paper clip and a scrap of a post it note from a pad. The lines are already pre printed on the post it note and it reminded me of way back in the day when you went to school and practiced our writing on our Big Chief tablets with all the lined paper. The samples that the teachers would give out would always start with the dotted line letters to give you an idea of what they are supposed to look like. So I hand wrote Happy Birthday in the lines just like the old days! The ind I used for distressing is Wild Wasabi. And the tie to Kitchen Sink is the Hey Chick stamp that I stamped in Wild Wasabi as a background on the orange panel. I hope you all enjoy it and I hope I win some more Kitchen Sink stamps so I will have some more to play with!!!! Thank you ladies for sponsoring such wonderful contests. Again, I'm sorry the image is so small, but if you click on it, you can see a larger image.

Long Time Ago

Hello All it has been such a long time since I was here and I'm sorry if you have been looking for me. Work and family life took over for a time. I am happy to say that I seem to be having a bit more time lately to get some things done. For instance I was able to play along with two sketches this week. First things first: Tuesday Morning Sketches. I flipped this one on it's side this week and I altered a couple of things. I made the sentiment the focal image because I needed a birthday card for a co-worker and thought this would fit the Bill (that's really his name) perfectly. I didn't get too carried away with embelishment because I wanted it to stay classic and manly. What do you think? The recipe is fairly easy although there were a lot of things in this pot. Paper: Brown - Bazzil, Blue-Bazzil Swiss Dots, Pumpkin Pie, and unknown DP from The Greeting Farm. Ink: Pumpkin Pie. Other: Wavy boarder punch, scrap ribbon. The inside has a small strip of the DP along the right side as an accent. Well I will put up my other sketch tommorrow. Enjoy! Sorry the picture is so small. If you want to get a better look, you can click on the image. Thank you.

Tuesday Morning Sketches on Thursday

I know, I know, I'm late. But hey great work takes time. I received this image and the pattern paper from Melissa in the mail, and I haven't been able to play with the last couple weeks sketches, so I knew that this was going to work this week. I colored this CC Designs Sweet Pixies Gretal with Prismacolor Watercolor pencils, and then I decided not to use the water to blend them but to use the white pencil instead for a softer look. I just love her!! I sprinkled some pixie dust on her wings. Is she not divine? I used the level two Nestabilities to cut her out as well as the Always Artichoke paper behind her. I smudged the edge with some Cameo Coral and everything else got edged with Always Artichoke. I couldn't bear to cover up any more of the DP so I just made the space between the embelishments wider to show it off. Thank you Melissa for the image and the great sketch! Hope you all enjoy. I know I am looking forward to next Tuesday's sketch.

Tuesday Morning Sketches - Play along

Good morning all. Today is the debut of Tuesday Morning Sketches, a blog put up by Melissa Craig here: http://tuesdaymorningsketches.blogspot.com/. Melissa is a good friends sister and she decided to start a blog. She asked her sisters to be her design team and today is the first sketch. You can visit Melissa's blog to check out the sketch and how to play along if you want. I was creating mine and putting it together and I got to the point where I decided that I liked the card SO much more before I put the main image panel on, but if I left it off, it wouldn't really follow the sketch, sooooooo, here it is. The picture is super bad, because it has cut off the top and bottom of the card and it washes out the watercolor I did in the center of the sun, but hopefully you get the general idea. Good luck to Melissa in her new endeavor and hope to see you all next Tuesday.

Recipe:

Paper - Stamping Up: Whisper White, Apricot Appeal, Pale Plum; DP is Provo Craft Imaginations

Ink - Stamping Up: Pale Plum, Apricot Appeal, Bashful Blue, Pretty In Pink, Blush Blossom; Memento Black

Stamps - Stampendous for the main image, Stamping Bella for the sentiment

Accessories - Fine Detail Clear EP, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder: Swirls

Happy Birthday Peanut!

Wow, It's been a very long time since I have posted! Just when I got things under control with being able to upload my cards using jpg files, work went and got a new copier/scanner which does not seem to have that option. I have several cards that I have scanned that are all in Adobe. ARGH!!!!! I have to figure out how to get them up here. I have to get a camera, figure out this technology and than we will be on board. So in the meantime, I have a card to share today for my niece, Olivia, or as I call her..."Peanut". Today is the big day! One year ago, I got the call from my sister - "Dars, it's TIME." OMG - IT'S TIME. So I call my boss, jump in my car and head down to my sisters to pick up my little nephew. She was on her way to the hospital and by mid afternoon we had the good news that Olivia Lea had arrived. She was soooo tiny and beautiful. Fast forward to today. She is ONE! She is still tiny though, hence the "peanut" I made this little card today with her in mind. She is born on the first of July and it really doesn't get toooooo much more patriotic than that, (unless you are actually born on the fourth) so I used the red, white, and blue for the card stock (Bazzil and Bazzil Dots). There is a great collaboration of stamp companies on here: The Greeting Farm with the Wild West Anya colored in with Copics for skin tone, and than Stampin Up markers for her western wear, and hair; than we have Clear Dollar Stamps with their supercute!!! Charlie horse who is also colored in with Stampin Up Markers, and the Giddy Up sentiment is from the same set; and last but not least Kitchen Sink Stamps with 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet and 1/2 Pint Playful Alphabet Buddy for the Number 1. Congratulations, Peanut! You've come a long way this last year, and today is the first day of the rest of your life! Enjoy

I'm getting very sleepy.........

Good morning, Well, today is a very mellow day for many reasons......It is supposed to be upwards of 90 degrees in town today. I do not enjoy the cold, but to be honest....I'm not much of a hot weather person either. I am the person that sits in the chair in the living room and lets the industrial size swamp cooler "Swamp" me with arctic air while I curl up in a cozy soft throw and watch some TV. I am not motivated to move, because it is cold outside that blanket! And if I turn it off it just gets HOT! Okay back to the reasons. I am exhausted!!! I did nothing super strenuous yesterday and I got a full nights sleep, but I just can't shake the tired feeling. I could literally fall asleep at my desk today. As a matter of fact I am typing this sentence with my eyes closed right now! Finally, I had a lump removed from my left breast yesterday and so I am a tad sore and my exercise for the day consists of going to and from the freezer to change out ice packs! So needless to say, I am going to share a small card with you that was done previously. This card is tittled "Happy Garden" and has very little stamping on it. Just a bit from a Stampin Up set the sentiments were actually cut from a pattern paper that is velum and they were placed over white card stock to make them stand out. The flowers came in a little set purchased at Achievers and the matching corduroy brads make the best centers. Just a little bit of Happiness for a mellow day. Enjoy!