Freshly Made Sketches #129 - Thank you card

Hi Friends, Happy Friday. It has been a while since I posted. Busy personal life, loss of mojo etc etc..The best way I have found out for myself to get back into creating is to use some sketches. So, a quick Thank You card that I made using Freshly Made Sketch #129.

Here is my card. I used this pretty Patterned paper from DCWV and sentiment is a PTI Set.

I kept it simple and liked how it turned out. The colors are bold yet soothing. :)) Here is the sketch that I used,

Thanks for Stopping by. Hopefully I will be posting more ofen :))

Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Heartfelt Basics
Paper - PTI White, PTI Pure Poppy, DCWV Patterned Paper
Ink - Memento Black
Other - Embellished Butterfly from Michaels

ICRC28 - Card with Speech bubble and witty/pun Sentiment

Hello Friends, April 1st - not a time for prank but pun. Yup. that is the theme along with Speech bubble for our April Challenge - ICRC28

Here is the storyboard,

And here is my card,

I kept my card quite simple and used the colors of brown and blue along with some pink. The Pun Sentiment is a freebie on ICR this month and I used it along with this coffee mug stamp from Market Street's Daily Grind Stamp set. I paper pierced the cup and the heart.

I also used the Case This Sketch #21 for this card.

Here is the sketch,

I hope you will stop by ICR forum to check out the freebie and play along with us.

Thanks for Stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Market Street Stamps Daily Grind
Paper - PTI Kraft and Vanilla CS, SU Text Pattern Paper, Blue Pattern Paper from Stash/
Ink - Memento Black
Other - None

My First 10 Minute card dash

Hello Friends, I am back with a quick quick card that did for 10 minute card dash. I did pull out papers and stamp set out earlier. But everything else was done on the clock, cutting of the papers, stamping, coloring, scoring the card base etc.

I loved how this card turned out.....I used the Lawn Fawn Blissful Botanical stamp set for this card. Love that set and had not inked it in ages. I colored the leaves alternatively with dark orange and green and then added the simple Thanks sentiment.

I am entering this card for the following challenges,
1) 10 Minute Card Dash #6

2) Lawnscaping Challenge Dust 'Em Off! - to use something from your stash that you have not used in a while. I inked up the Lawn Fawn Blissful Botanicals stamp set that I had not used for a while.

3) Last but not the least - Case Study Challenge #116<. I loved Angeline Yong's gorgeous card and I loved how she had those flower stalks going up on one side of the card, which was inspiration for my card.

I wanted to share a quick photo of my stop watch. It took me to 6:37 minutes to complete the card.

Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamp - Lawn Fawn Blissful Botanicals
Paper - PTI Yellow, Orange Zest and White CS
Ink - Memento Black, Memento Ivy Cottage, Copics
Other - None

SFYTT October with Market Street Stamps

2nd post for the day. To see the Merry Monday Challenge post, please click here or scroll down.

It is time again for Market Street Stamps October Block party. I love their daily grind stamp set and when I saw the October Sketch for you to try from Jen, it was a perfect match.

I used some pink and brown patterned papers from Stash. I used this mug image from Daily Grind. So cute in pink. I also added two wood veneer from Studio calico as I was entering this into a Studio Calico challenge for WCMD  - to layer wood veneer as well. I colored the Asterix wood veneer with copics :)))

Sorry for the picture quality. The card was done a while ago, but I had not realized that the deadline for MSS Block Party was today, so had to rush and take the picture in the night.

Here is the SFYTT October Sketch,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - MSS Daily Grind
Paper - PTI Kraft and White CS, Patterned Papers from Stash
Ink - Memento Rose Bud and Memento Tuxedo Black
Other - Studio Calico Wood Veneer

SFYTT - August 2012 - Kind Words

Hello Friends, Happy Sunday. It has been a while since I posted on my blog. I was just not having the Enthusiasm to take pictures and blog. But I am back and hopefully for a while :))

I wanted to share this card that I did for August SFYTT challenge hosted by Jen Del Muro. The sketch was nice, you could keep it simple or jazz it up.

I used the Verve Kind Words stamp set for this card and used one of the sentiments (i just love this sentiment) from that stamp set.

I am also entering this card for the ICR Challenge #20 - To use embossing on your project and to have a sentiment that has three different fonts in it. My white panel in the card is dry embossed with the textiles embossing folder.

Thanks for stopping by.
Supplies:
Stamp - Verve Kind Words
Ink - Memento Black
Paper - PTI White, Kraft and Hawaiian shores and dark chcocolate card stock, PTI Dark Chocolate and Aqua Mist Patterned Papers, American Craft Patterned Papers
Other - Nestabilities Labels Die

June SFYTT - Thanks my Friend

I bought some Stamps of Life Stamps at Great American Scrapbook convention here in Arlington, TX. I love these stamps. So, I used one of the new stamp sets that I got - flowers2doodle for June's SFYTT. Also I was happy to see that I had gotten to June SFYTT much earlier than last month.

The flowers have two stamps, one solid and one outline so I did a two step stamping. I first stamped the solid flower using Memento Dandelion Ink and then one of the newer Memento ink Morocco. I did use their own die cuts for this flower. But loved how this flower turned out. In retrospect, it would have been nice to add a small bling or brad to the flower center.. Oh well - chance to do another card.

Here is a close up of the flower,

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies
Stamp - Stamps of Life - flowers2doodle
Ink - Memento Black, Memento Dandelion and Memento Morocco
Paper - PTI White and Orange CS, Bo Bunny Patterned Paper
Other - SOL Dies for flowers2doodle, Ribbon from Stash, Prima Chalk Inks
, Nestabilities

Flowery Thank You Card

2nd post for the day. Please click here or scroll down to see the Mothers Day Card for OWH - Part 2.

This is flowery Thank You card that I did for 3 Challenges,

1) For Hero Arts March Challenge of Fabulous Flowers.

2) I was browsing through some blogs and found these Retro Sketches and loved their Sketch #2.

3) Color Combination from colourQ #128

I used the Hero Arts and Sizzix Combination stamp set - Bold Pop Designs and the sentiment is also a Hero Arts. It was a free set that I got with my order (CL175).

I used PTI Background Basics Retro and stamped the image on PTI Spring Moss paper and layered it on some PTI New Leaf CS. I did not have Wild Wasabi CS, but did have the ink pad - so I used that to stamp the background image as well as the flowers. I wanted some green pearls, so I colored the white ones with some copics. I kind of like how this card turned out.

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Background Basics Retro, Hero Arts Sizzix Stamp set Bold Pop Designs, Hero Arts Clear Thank you stamp set
Ink - SU Wild Wasabi, Memento Black, PTI Inking Cube Chai, Copics
Paper - PTI New Leaf and Spring Moss CS, SU Basic Grey CS, Recollections Ivory CS
Other - Fiskars Border Punch, Pearl Embellishments.

February Viva La Verve Challenges - Week 1 and 2

It had been a while since I participated in Verve Sketch Challenges on SCS. Life happened and time was running!!!!! But I loved all the 4 sketches from February and decided to play. There is still time if you are interested to participate as well - Click here to visit their thread on SCS Forum.(Verve stamps are not needed, I use them as it is a good time to put these stamps to use).

Here are my cards from Week 1 and 2,

For both these cards I used VERVE Stamp set called Making a statement. I just love this set (the font for sentiments is amazing I think). I am not getting paid to say this - but I love VERVE and their fast shipping and this stamp set is on their spring sale right not.

They also have a die for the loopy flowers, next time I will for sure get those as it will be easier than cutting the by hand.

Here are the sketches,
Week1 -

Week 2 -

Thanks for stopping by,
Supplies:
Stamp - Verve Making a Statement
Paper- PTI White, Brown and Kraft Cardstock, Making Memories, Stampin Up and OA Patterned paper
Ink - Memento Black, Ranger DI Iced Spruce and Faded Jeans
Other - Circle Punches, Copics, Pearl Embellishment

2 Sketches for you - Kazan's Sketch 41

I am in the middle of doing a bunch of thank you cards for my friend and this sketch #41 from Kazan was the perfect sketch.

I used the Justrite - Just a Note stamp set along with the new borders that they released last month for this card. Some SU Bella Blue papers and ribbon finished up my card.

Here is my card,

Here is the sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Justrite stamps
Paper - PTI Enchanted Evening, SU Bella Blue DP, GKD Gold Metallic CS
Ink - Vivid Blue Ink
Other - PTI Enchanted Evening Ribbon, Nestabilities

Delightful Sketches #12

I was browsing through some stuff online and found out that Riley and Company is sponsoring a sketch on Delightful Sketches. I have never done any sketches from this blog but the temptation of winning the Riley stamps were quite strong and so I did a card for their sketch #12.

Here is my card,



Here is the Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Autumn Abundance
Paper - Basic Grey Indian Summer DP, PTI Melon Berry, Rustic White, White, Smokey shadow CS
Ink - Memento Black, copics
Other - Nestabilities, SU Oval Punches, PTI Terracota Tile Ribbon

Just Us Girls Week 10 - Sketch challenge

Just Us Girls Challenge #10 - Was a sketch Challenge. I had to work on some thank you cards this week for one of my friends and this sketch was perfect for it.

I used the PTI sets - Giga Guidelines and Big & Bold Wishes. I stamped the sentiment from the Big & Bold Wishes set and then cut it out in a rectangle. Images from Giga Guidelines were stamped and punched out with circle punch :) Then it was just a matter of putting it all together.

Here is my card,



Here is the sketch,


Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Giga Guidelines, PTI Big and Bold Wishes
Paper - PTI Rustic White CS, PTI DP, PTI Vintage Cream DP
Ink - PTI Raspberry Fizz, PTI Dark Chocolate
Other - SU Circle Punches, Ribbon

Mojo Monday Week 113

I really liked the Mojo Monday Sketch 113 this time and it had been a while since I played with Mojo Monday sketches.

This card was also done for the Squigglefly Challenge #28 - To create a Thank You Card.

Just this past week when I was down with cough and cold, one of my neighbor who is also a very good friend of mine helped me out so much, so this Thank you card is for her. :) Have to drop it off tonight with some of the Banana Bread that I made :)

Here is my card,

I used the Squigglefly Digital Image - Flower Vase for this card. It was so much fun to color it with Copics. Sentiment is from PTI Mega Mixed Messages.

Here is the Mojo Monday 113 Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Digi Stamp from Squigglefly - Flower Vase
Paper - PTI White CS, BG Lemonade DP, Making Memories Fa La La DP
Ink - PTI Pure Poppy, Copics
Other - May Arts Ribbon, SU Circle Punch

Pals Paper Arts and Just Us Girls Together

Pals Paper Arts Challenge #15 was to use the colors Taken With Teal, Ruby Red and Basic Grey. I had these SU Papers so it was really nice to play with them.

I used the Just Us Girls Sketch with this color combination for my card.



Here is the Sketch from Just Us Girls,


Here is the color chart from Pals Paper Arts,



Supplies:
Stamp - SU Eastern Blooms
Paper - SU Taken with Teal, Basic Gray, Ruby Red and Vanilla CS
Ink - Rangers Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
Other - PTI White Vintage Buttons, Generic Ribbon, SU Word Window Punch, Marvy Circle Punch, Stickles

Pals Paper Arts - Color Challenge PPA11

Pals Paper Arts present us with a color challenge this time.

Here is my card,



I used the Pocket Silhouette's set and kept the card simple. I used the Sakura Clear Gelly roll and went over the leaves of the image to kind of give it a shimmer. I am really sorry that the photo is not that clear :(

Here is the color challenge,



Supplies:
Stamp - SU Pocket Silhouettes
Paper - SU DP, SU Orange and Old Olive CS and Vanilla CS
Ink - PTI Plum Pudding and PTI Dark Chocolate
Other - PTI Plum Pudding Ribbon

Mojo Monday 100 - Day 2

This is my second post of the day. Mojo Monday is celebrating 100th sketch by having a sketch each day this week. You can see my entry for Mojo Monday 100 Day 1 here.

Along with using the Mojo sketch I played along with the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge - FTTC29. The Challenge this time was to use colors Olive, Red and Black.

Here is my card. I used the Gina K Designs StampTV kit Signs of Autumn. Colored the image with copics. Kept the card very simple. Inside I have stamped a thank you sentiment.



Here is the Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Gina K Designs StampTV Set - Signs of Autumn
Paper - SU Walk in the Garden DP, My Minds Eye Red Polka Dot DP, PTI Avacado and Soft Stone CS
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - PTI True black ribbon, SU Slit Punch

Stitched Ribbon Card

I am always a little bit hesitant to try new stuff, comfortable with what I can do..But my SCS friend Chrissy has been creating the most beautiful cards with pleated stitched ribbon. I bugged her so much about that she created a tutorial for us to create the beautiful pleated ribbon effect. You can see her tutorial on how to do that here.

I am such a visual person and this tutorial helped a lot and I ventured into learning a new technique and as I had told Chrissy, my first try will not be the best, but I will keep trying.

Here is my first attempt at it. I used the Vintage Picnic Set for this and colored the tulips in Lavender shades to match with the Bitty Boxes DP in Plum Pudding. The ribbon is saddle stitched Hibiscus burst.



Supplies:
Stamp - PTI Vintage Picnic
Paper - PTI Kraft, White CS, PTI Bitty Boxes DP
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - SU Oval Punch, PTI Hibiscus Burst Ribbon, PTI Vintage buttons in white color.

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #12

Dawn's latest color challenge is quite interesting. It has PTI's Scarlet Jewel and Raspberry Fizz together. By myself I would not have put together these two colors. So it was interesting to create this card. I also wanted to use some of my buttons and so used the Garden of life set and used the buttons for the flower centers. Kept my card simple. A small butterfly punched out of PTI Linen Vellum completed the card.



Here is the color challenge,



Supplies:

Stamp - PTI Garden of Life
Paper - PTI Vanilla, Spring Moss CS, PTI Bitty Box Basics - Raspberry Fizz DP, PTI Linen Vellum CS
Ink - PTI Scarlet Jewel
Other - Fiskars Border Punch, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, PTI Scarlet Jewel Vintage Buttons

Mojo 92 Sketch

Mojo 92 Sketch was fun to work with. I used the VERVE Stamp called Miracle Blooms with this challenge.

Here is my card,



Here is the sketch,




Supplies:
Stamp - VERVE Miracle Blooms
Paper - PTI Vintage Cream CS, Generic Red CS, SU Bella Rose DP
Ink - PTI Avacado, PTI Scarlet Jewel, PTI Hibiscus Burst, Memento Black
Other - PTI Scarlet Jewel button, SU Scallop Square punch, Nestabilities

Mojo Monday Week 91

Second post of the day..scroll down to see the first one. Here is my card for the Mojo Monday Week 91. The sketch was for an odd sized card...now a days for some reason or the other I have been doing odd sized cards.



Here is the Mojo Sketch,



Supplies:
Stamp - Gina K Designs Eclectic Summer Stamp set
Paper - PTI CS, Generic DP
Ink - Memento Black, Copics
Other - Generic Ribbon, Generic Chipboard Heart

Color Inspiration

I love all these catalogs that has these beautiful colored house decor items and this particular comforter set in this catalog just called out to me. The colors were just beautiful and I had to do a card for that.

Here is the my card. I did not have the exact shades of those color, but I kind of liked this card. I used PTI polka dot basics and colored them with copics.



Supplies: PTI Polka Dot Basics, PTI Circle Corner and Borders, PTI Shapes by Design, PTI Dark chocolate Ribbon, PTI White and Craft CS, Circle punches.

And the catalog that inspired it,