LNS Challenge 240/Sketch 298- Monday Lunchtime Sketch

Happy Monday to you all!  Yes, we are home after 10 days at Duke University Hospital.  Got home Saturday evening and then helped train our other two sisters on how to do some things and then we headed on home to Wilmington.  My Mom is doing well and seems to be getting stronger still.  Talked to my sister yesterday and she was joking that me and Connie (my sister who was up at Duke with me) needed to come back because they were not keeping her as comfortable as we were.  Mom was telling them that Jonia and Connie did it this way.  We had a big laugh.  But I am thankful of God's many blessings and for taking care of mom during this emergency.  He certainly blessed us beyond measure and has taken care of us too.

 

Now on to this weeks challenges.  Last week started the challenge for LNS as it runs two weeks so I decided to make it a part of the Monday Lunch time Sketch this week also.  I will just link it to the challenge at LNS.  This week's challenge at LNS is all about new beginnings.  This can be a new house, new baby, wedding, whatever you consider new.  It can be a card, scrapbook page ore anything that works for you.  And, the sketch that Mary Jo has for us this week is just awesome.  I loved it as soon as I saw it and decided it was time for a new baby card.  So here is our sketch for this week!

And here is my sample for both challenges this week!

 

 

I decided to make a little tag or book mark and insert it in the center.  I found some cute poems for babies on the internet and kind of put a couple of them together.  I found them on Scrapbook.com under the Resources link.  Really cute poems added their for baby.

 

So here is the tag pulled up!

 

 

And a close up so you can see what I did underneath.  I actually created the tag in "my digital studio" and left the top blank so I could stamp the "sweet Baby" image.  I am so thankful that my printer almost matched perfectly with the colors I used.  Once I printed the tag, I cut it out by following the blue line, stamped the top "sweet baby", added the ribbon and it was done.  So very easy.

 

Here is the tag close up!

 

 

And here is the inside of the card.

 

 

On the inside at bottom the actual stamp is just Mom, Dad, and Baby.  Well I kind of added a few babies as this is the third one for this couple and I just thought it would be cute.  So just an idea for the future use of this wonderful stamp if you need it.

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Baby, We've Grown, God's Blessings (inside)

Card Stock: Marina Mist, Whisper White,

Designer Series Paper:  Retired and uncertain of name.

Ink: Marina Mist

Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder

Word Window Punch

Taffeta Ribbon

My Digital Studio for Tag

 

Please join us in these two challenges this week.  I would love to see what you come up with.

 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope your day is filled with many blessings!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Clean and Simple Zoo Babies

 

Happy Saturday to you!  I took a few moments this morning before cleaning up a little to create this card for a baby we are expecting in our church.  I used sketch 274 from the Clean And Simple Blog.  I had this cute stamp set for a while and had not been able to use it yet and this was the perfect opportunity.  Love these little animals.

 

Here is the inside.

 

 

Sorry for the short post, but my brother is back in the hospital along with my mom, yes both of them, and I am getting ready to head out and spend the rest of the weekend with them in the hospital.  Now you see why I was so excited to able to stamp some this weekend.  It is few and far between lately.

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

 

Stamp sets: Zoo Babies, God's Blessings (inside)

Card Stock: Bashful Blue (retired), whisper white, tangerine tango

Bitty banner framelits

markers and ink

 

Thanks for stopping by and hope your weekend is blessed!

 

I am also putting this in the Word Art Wednesday Challenge.

 

Baby Card - Stocking Punch

 

Hello all and hope your Sunday has started out well.  I thought I would take a few moments before heading out the door to church and post this card I made yesterday morning for a baby shower yesterday.  I am sure glad these photos turned out well as I don't have the card any longer.  I needed something quick and easy and already had the stocking punch out, so it made it a little easier to make a decision.  I also have a drawer full of retired paper and when I looked into it, this just seemed to pop right out.  So that is what I chose.  It is called Nursery Nest.

 

Here is the inside of the card!

 

 

Love this stamp set called God's Blessings and just pulled it out quickly and stamped the inside.  Took about 20 minutes to throw it together.  Isn't that easy.

 

Items use are all Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Itty Bitty Banners, God's blessings

Card Stock: Whisper White, Marina Mist

Designer Series Paper: Nursery Nest

Ink: Marina Mist

White Baker's Twine

Stocking Punch

Banner Framelits

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a blessed Sunday!

 

 

 



TSSC256 Another Monday Lunch Time Sketch Sample

 

Hello all, here I am back with a second sample for this weeks TSSC Monday Lunch Time Sketch Sample.  With this one, I used Fan Fair Designer paper and then cut the flower for it to fit off the edge of the Very Vanilla piece.  I really like how it turned out.  I did stamp a retired stamp sentiment on the side as I really liked it for the card.

 

Here is a side view of the close up of the flower.  You can see where I slipped the vanilla card stock up under the cut piece of the flower.  My photos are not very good, but I think you get the just of it.  Now make sure you stop the Techno stamper's blog to see the sketch.  You can find it here!

 

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: God's Blessings (Sentiment only)

Card Stock: Midnight Muse, Very Vanilla

Designer Series Paper: Fan Fair

Ink: Midnight Muse

 

Thanks for stopping by today and have a wonderful evening.

Baby Card

 

Wow, two post in one week!  Maybe I will be able to get my MoJo going again!  I had a few moments yesterday to put this card together quickly with the help of Freshly Made Sketches.  My daughter is having a baby boy in February and we are really getting excited.  Actually today we are going to see the baby on a 3 D scan which is also very exciting.  Anyway, her colors for the room are yellow, white and gray.  She has cars in the bedding, but all I had was this cute little duck on wheels and I decided it would work out just great.  So that is what I used.  Isn't it just the cutest.

 

Here is the side view of the card!

 

 

And the inside of the card!

 

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamps: Embellished Events, God's Blessings (inside retired)

Card Stock: Basic Gray, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Summer Smooches

Ink: Basic Gray, Versamark (sentiment)

Markers for the stamp

White Embossing Powder for sentiment

Punches: 2 3/8 scallop circle, 2 1/2 round

White Tea Lace Paper Doily (coming January 2) sneak peak

 

Thanks for stopping by today and hope you have a very blessed Saturday!

Lovely as a Tree Christmas

Here is another one of my cards from this past Saturday crop.  This one was so simple yet I thought turned out so elegant.  I just added a little red as the second layer and the rhinestones to finish it off along with the snow burst embossing folder.  Love, love this card and yes it was another pinterest case from the Artistic Designs by Rachel.

Here is a side view of the card!

And the inside!

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Joyous Celebrations, Lovely As a Tree, God's blessings (inside), Christmas Lodge (inside)

Card Stock: Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler, Whisper White

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Garden Green

Markers for inside image (used on the stamp)

Snow Burst embossing folder

Rhinestones

Thanks for looking and hope your day is blessed! Happy Thanksgiving!

SU LateNightStampers Challenge/Wood

Hello all and welcome to another challenge for our LateNightStampers Group.  This week's challenge is wood.  You can create a card, scrapbook page, project, or anything else you can think of that uses wood. Remember we have wood sheets and cork sheets as well as the wood stamp and embossing folder.  So there are many ways to add wood or the look of wood to your project.

Now I have a lady that is in my Sunday School class at church and her son is giving her a surprise birthday part for her 70th.  In the invitation he said she loved butterflies.  So when I saw this beautiful wood butterfly while I was out shopping, I knew I had to get it and make a card using it.  And now that it is done, I am so excited I did.  Here is the card!

I wanted to make the card a monotone card as to match the butterfly, so I used crumb cake and very vanilla card stock.  Since the butterfly was a cut out and I did not like seeing the embossing part behind it, I laid the butterfly on a piece of crumb cake and cut it out so that would be in the background of the butterfly.  I liked it much better after I did that.  I sponged the embossed background with crumb cake ink to soften it up some and then added the crumb cake ribbon.  It was a pretty quick card and I think it turned out delightful.  I sure hope Joyce likes it.

Here is a side view of the card!

And, yes I did the inside for her also and added a scripture!

Wood Butterfly from local craft store

Stamp Sets: SU God's Blessings, SU Papillon Potpourri, ODBD Scripture Collection

Card Stock: SU Very Vanilla, SU Crumb Cake

Ink: Crumb Cake

1/2" Seam Binding Crumb Cake Ribbon

SU Embossing Folder (retired)

Modern Label Punch 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful day!

Also entering this into Word Art Wednesday Challenge!

Snow Festival Christmas Card

Good Sunday Morning all and so sorry it has been almost a week since I have posted, but it is really hard to sit in my craft room for any period of time without my foot swelling (had foot surgery three weeks ago), so I just have been missing in action.  But yesterday was World Card Making day and our group got together at my church and did some crafting.  I had room there to pull up another chair and keep my foot elevated most of the time I was working.  I mostly went to be able to finish my one of my granddaughter's scrapbooks and start my other granddaughter's.  You will see the one I finished later this week.  But now for the card I made.

 

The challenge this week at iSpy Sketches was to choose a sketch from their past sketch's to work on this week, so I chose a sketch from March.  As soon as I saw this sketch, I knew I wanted to use it and for one reason was to get rid of some scraps.

 

 

So now here is the card I made using this sketch.

 

 

I just love making cards like this and they are really so easy.  Did not take me long at all to get this one made up.  Which I did another and did not like my paper as it was too busy, but this one was perfect.

 

Here is a side view!

 

 

And, the inside!

 

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Sets: Bells & Boughs, God's Blessings (inside)

Card Stock: Gumball Green, Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler

Designer Series Paper: Snow Festival

Large Oval Punch

Gumball Green Satin Stitched Ribbon

 

Thanks for looking and hope your day is filled with many blessings!

 

 

 



Guest Designer at Sunny Challenges this Week

Hello all!  I am so excited as I have been asked to be a guest designer for this week's sketch over at Sunny Challenges and Creations.  This is such an honor for me as they do beautiful work and beautiful sketches and the design team is very talented.  Did I say I was thrilled! lol  So here is the sketch for today's challenge and I would love for you to join in this week.  Also there is an add on to the sketch and that is to use something from the new Idea Book and Catalogue which is NEW or use something from the Christmas Mini Catalog!

 

 

And, here is the card I created for this sketch!

 

 

So as you can see I used the new hostess stamp from the catalog called "Four Seasons" and then I used the Christmas paper from the Mini called Snow Festival.  I am loving that designer paper.

 

Here is a side view of the card!

 

 

And the inside of the card!

 

 

I do love doing the insides of my cards and it does seem to add a lot to the card.  Now I need to start doing the envelopes to match.  That is for another day.

 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Four Seasons, Teeny Tiny Wishes, God's Blessings (retired)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, Baha Breeze

Designer Series Paper: Snow Festival

Markers for coloring image

Ink: Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler

Snow Burst Embossing Folder from last year

Bitty Banners Framelits

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and hope your day is filled with many blessings!  And do stop by Sunny Challenges and see what the design team members have done!

Double Gate Fold Card

Here is a card I did for a challenge over at Stampin' Fun and Friends.  I signed up for their 20 projects in 20 days and this is one of the cards I made from one of the projects.  I love the way she did the center of the card by using the framelits.  I had made this card before, but never used the framelits the way she did. I loved it.  So far we are on day 5 and I am loving what I see.  I would recommend it to everyone.

Here is a photo of the opened card!

Isn't that the greatest that the framelits hold it shut.  And I also used an inspiration photo for the colors, reason for the yellow bird.

And here it is closed fully!

Thanks so much for looking and hope you have a wonderful week!

Snow Festival/Four Seasons

Well as you may have guessed, I took off work yesterday, so I got two cards posted, one yesterday and one this morning.  How great is that.  I did get some of the other work done that I actually took off for, but this was the fun stuff.  And, I was able to use another sketch from the Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  I had been wanting to use this new hostess stamp set called "Four Seasons" and when I saw their sketch, I knew I could use it.  My only problem was after the card was finished I spritzed it with my shimmer white paint mix and it smeared the sentiment, but I am still trying to decide how to fix it.  Maybe I will add another banner and put the sentiment on it.  Wow why did I not think about that before I took the photos. lol

Now here is a close up of the center of the card and hopefully you can see some of that shimmer I added.

And a side view!

And the inside!

Still loving this paper!  Makes a wonderful inside to the card.

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Four Seasons, God's Blessings (retired)

Card Stock: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Riding Hood Red

Designer Series Paper: Snow Festival

Ink: Riding Hood Red

Markers for coloring the stamp

Frost White Shimmer paint mixture, spritzed

2 3/8 Scallop Circle Punch

2 1/2 Circle Punch

Thanks for looking today and may your Saturday be productive!