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!

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