Thinking of You

I'm back with another card tonight.  I appreciate y'all hang in there with me.  I have one more to post and then I am done for the evening.

I'm not real good with CAS cards.  I have a hard time making them look right.  I think there is alot left to be desired on this card.  I used a SU stamp set to make this triple stamping card.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I have one more for y'all tonight and then I am done for the evening.  Have a great night and God bless.

Recipe:
Images: Stampin' Up
Inks: SU Summer Starfruit, Raspberry Ripple, Chocolate Chip
Cardstock: Gina K Heavy Weight Ivory
Embellishments: From a friend
Tools: Fiskar's Trimmer, X-ron Tape Runner

Challenges:
CASe this Sketch--#64 Sketch

Freshly Made Sketches Challenge

Welcome back to my little piece of the world.  It's been pretty chilly here in NE PA.  I am so not ready for winter.  I hate snow.  Yep, that's right.  I said it. I live in Pennsylvania and I hate snow.  Thank God I don't live in one of those places where it snows in feet and not inches.  I wouldn't know what to do.

So, that being said, I made a winter card for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge this week.

It's a very CAS card.  I don't make these too often, but the sketch just called for one.  It's a bit hard to see, but I used some Summer Sky Memento Ink and stamped random snowflakes on the bottom part of the card.  I used the same stamp and ink and added some snowflakes to the sentiment.  The two papers are from DCWV Dots 6x6 paper pad.  I used a Fiskars punch for the sentiment and it's from a set of stamps that I first got when I started stamping, so I'm not sure who designed it.  Adding three light blue rhinestones finished off this quick and easy card.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope y'all have a great night/day!  God bless.

Have a Very Mice Day

OK.  I have to admit that I am addicted.  I have it bad.  What am I addicted to?  House Mouse Stamps.   I just love them.  They are so dang cute. I have right around 10 of them and cannot wait to collect more.  I think I need a 12 step program.

This week over on Feeling Sketchy they have a very clean lined sketch for us.  There wasn't much interpreting to be done with this one.  I used one of my House Mouse stamps for this one. 

I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black and used colored pencils as my medium.  I am still learning to color with the alcohol pens so I usually rely on my good old trusty pencils.  I trimmed down the image to 3.5x5", matted it on a light pink and then a dark green, all by Colorbok.  I used a strip of pink and green striped DP from DCWV to go across the image and pop the sentiment.  I stamped the sentiment in Memento Tuxedo Black and matted it the same way.  The back ground DP is also from DCWV.  I used a piece of Bubblegum Pink from Colorbok as the card base.  I wanted this one to be fairly straight forward, so I didn't add embellishments.  I probably could have added some pearls to the corners, but I didn't.

I am also entering this card in the Created with Love anything goes challenge and the Outlawz CAS challenge for this week, and the Through the Craftroom Door challenge.

I hope you are enjoying my projects.  I am so thankful that I can once again craft.  Thank you so much for stopping in and the comments that you guys leave.  You have no idea how much I enjoy reading them.  God bless y'all.

Faith

Welcome back.  I am on a roll.  I've been cranking out cards left and right this week.  It feels so good to get back to crafting.  I so missed it.  Today's card is for the Sentimental Sundays challenge.  The theme of the challenge was to use the negative space of a die cut and a text.

I used a piece of dark teal card stock that had a scalloped oval cut out of it.  I used the die cut for another card.  I then cut out a piece of neutral tan (The Paper Company) using the Classic Ovals Large from Spellbinders.  I adhered them together.  I used a stamp from the Faithful Florals stamp set by Tami Mayberry for the focal image and stamped it on Very Vanilla from SU.  I stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa.  The patterned paper is from American Crafts.

The card base is Early Espresso from SU.  I didn't want a whole lot of embellishments for this one because I wanted the sentiment to be the focus. I found this pretty blue flower in my flower stash and thought it worked wonderfully because it has three different blues in it.  I think it would probably qualify for a CAS.  Well, maybe my idea of CAS.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a wonderful day and may the Lord God bless you.

Mojo Monday #277

I have come to the conclusion that I just love the Mojo Monday site.  They have some very talented ladies over there who come up with these wonderful sketches.  If you haven't already checked them out, I suggest that you do.  You won't regret it!

Today's card is a very CAS card that follows Sketch 277 on the Mojo blog.  I wasn't sure what I was doing to do when I saw the sketch.  CAS isn't one of my strong suits, but I have been trying to get them right.  I think I did OK with this one.

I used a piece of paper from Studio G's Valentine's line that they had out last year.  Yep, still trying to use up all my old stuff.  I cut it down to 2"x2.5"  I made sure to get the butterfly on the piece.  The stamp set is a little Valentine's/Love stamp from Studio G that I got at AC Moore last year.  I stamped in Classic Red by TCP.  I matted the image on a piece of dark red card stock from Recollections.  The mat is 2.25"x2.75".  I adhered them to the middle of the white card base which is from SU.  For embellishments, I added two red buttons and a pink one with glue dots.  I found this flower in the bottom of my stash pile of flowers and loved the way it looked.

I hope you enjoyed your visit today.  Stay tuned for some new challenge blogs and new cards.  Thank you and God bless you.

Penny's Paper Crafty #110

Howdy ya'll.  How is everyone today?  I am cruisin' right along with my card making.  Since I have been feeling better, I am able to sit longer which means I can craft longer.  I am still on limited duty, but the time is getting longer and I am loving being back in my crafting mode.

Today's card is for the Penny's Paper Crafty challenge #110.  The theme is Teddy Bears.  This cute image is Deacon and his teddy from Bugaboo Stamps.  Isn't it just the cutest?  I used BIC markers to color in this one.  I'm still learning how to use alcohol markers, so bear with me..no pun intended. :)  I used a red glitter pen on the two hearts.  I inked the edges of both the image and the sentiment, which was printed out on the computer, with DI Vintage Photo.  I then matted both on a very dark green card stock from Colorbok.  The Kraft card stock is from Recollections.  The plaid DP is from DCWV which is matted again on the dark green.  The card base is Old Olive from SU.  I decided to make this sort of CAS since it is for a boy.  I didn't want to make it too frilly or blingy.

This is a standard A2 size card, so all of the card stock pieces and DP piece are cut accordingly.   I hope you all have enjoyed the project for today.  I will be back over the weekend with more crafty cards.  Thanks so much for taking the time to stop in and check out my work.  Thanks in advance, too, for any comments that you choose to leave.  I love reading them, so please feel free.  God bless you.