Fun on Friday Challenge/ Windows

Well it is no longer Friday, but I was on a ski trip with our church and did not return until last night and then went to church this morning, so I was unable to post on my blog until today. 

This weeks Fun on Friday challenge at Christian Paper Crafts was windows.  The challenge is to put a window in your project. Use your imagination, cut an opening with a view to the inside of a card. Stamp a window picture, or look out your window and share where your creativity takes you.  So I decided to look out of a window and see the beauty.

What I did to make my window was to stamp two images of the stamp from Easter Blossoms in Chocolate Chip Ink on a 3 1/4" X 3 1/4" piece of whisper white card stock.  Also cut a piece of a window sheet 3 1/4" X 3 1/4".  I then sponged the background with the stamped image with bashful blue at the top and the bottom with pear pizzazz.  I took a pretty in pink marker and colored in all the flowers and then took a pear pizzazz market and colored the limbs and the inside of the flowers.  Using the 2 way glue stick I put glue all over the piece of card stock covering image and all.  I then placed the window sheet on top of the image, waited a few minutes for it to dry and then I cut them out in 1" X 1" pieces.  I then adhered those pieces onto the pear pizzaz piece of card stock which was cut 3 3/4" X 3 3/4".  The rest is easy peasy!  Adhered all of this to the pretty in pink card stock cut at 4 X 5 1/4".  Tied the Pear Pizzazz ribbon around this and then adhered to naturals white card stock.  That is it.

The stamp set I used for the sentiment is from the stamp set Happiness shared!  So for all the ingredients again, here is the list:

Stamp Sets: Easter Blossoms, Happiness Shared
Card Stock: Whisper White,  Naturals White, Pear Pizzazz, Pretty in Pink
Classic Ink: Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzazz, Bashful Blue
Markers: Pretty in Pink, Pear Pizzazz
Window Sheet
1/2" stitched poly ribbon pear pizzazz

Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think!

My Friend

Happy Wednesday Night everyone!  Hope you have had a nice first half of the week.  I am leaving tomorrow for a ski trip and unsure of whether I will have iternet service or not, but if so I may post one on Friday.

But for now this card was inspired by Case Artist Wednesday (last week, a week behind) at Christian Paper Crafts.  I love the fact that they have a challenge for everyday, but there are times that I just have to skip some of them.  But so fun to try and keep up.  I love the way Deb had tied her ribbon and I chose to do the ribbon the same way.  Just knotted all the way across and then I used glue dots on each of the knots to adhere the ribbon to the card.  So fun and I actually like the look.

All Stampin' Up! items used: 

Stamp Set: Perfect Punches
Card Stock: Pear Pizzazz, Rose Red, Very Vanilla
Designer Series Paper: Springtime Vintage
Punch: Curly Label
Ribbon: Rose Red 1/4" grosgrain
vintage flower

Thanks so much for looking and have a great rest of the week!

God's blessings

This is a card I made a couple of weeks ago for the Clean and Simple Challenge at Christian Paper Crafts which was a sketch challenge.  This tells you something when I actually forget to post a card.  I just happened to pull up one of my January folders and I thought, "I don't remember posting that card."  And when I looked I realized I had not, so here it is!

I am loving this paper and I think it is because I am ready for spring.  The weather has been so cold here this winter that I have not had a lot of outside time and I am ready for some outdoors activity.  Would love to get my bicycle out and ride some.  I think I got totally off the subject there, from pretty paper to riding my bike!LOL 

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: God's Blessings

Card Stock: Not Quite Navy, Very Vanilla

Designer Paper: Spring Time Vintage

Ink: Rose Red

Crochet Trim Victoria 5/8"

Decorative label Punch

Basic Pearls

Glimmer Brads Subtles

Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful Tuesday!

Best Wishes/Wedding Card

Good Monday morning to all my cyber friends!  This is a card I made this weekend to cover a few different challenges and with the wedding season coming up, you can't have too many wedding cards.

The first challenge that inspired this card is the Clean and Simple Saturday challenge at Christian Paper Crafts where you are to use paper piercing on your card.  As you can see I kind of cheated and added a little bit of piercing up under the Best Wishes.  I did like the effect once I was done.

The second challenge is the Monday Color challenge also at Christian Paper Crafts.  The inspiration photo had red and white with a little bit of the look of Sahara sand.  So as you can see, I actually sponged around the embossing part of the card with the Sahara sand to bring it in.

The third challenge is this weeks challenge at LateNightStampers Group.  We were to use at least one heart on our creation this week.  So I think I qualified there with two hearts.  If you use a lot of stampin' up! products, please join us at LateNightStampers Group.  It really does give you a lot of information and also samples galore.

Here is the inside of the card!

Stampin' Up! products used:

Stamp Sets: Punch Potpourri, God's Blessings, Oval All

Card Stock: Riding Hood Red, Whisper White

Ink: Riding Hood Red, White Craft, Sahara Sand (for sponging)

White embossing powder

Framed Tulips embossing folder

Extra Large Heart Punch

Vanilla shimmer smooch spritz

Thanks for looking and hope you have a wonderful Monday!

Winds of Grace

Hope everyone is enjoying the Super Bowl.  You can see what I am doing during the game.

I have been trying to clean my craft room for ages and still have not gotten it to the point I need it to be.  Seems as though I am constantly getting side tracked just as I did tonight.  And this is the outcome of my being side tracked.  The Bible Verse Thursday this week at Christian Paper Crafts was themed as Nautical.  Well I was just going to let it pass me by when all of a sudden I was reminded of this stamp set I had, but because it was retired I just had not thought about it.  So cleaning stopped and out came the paper, stamps and ink again.  Oh well now I can go clean up the mess I just made making this card. 

Also with the Bible Verse Thursday, you need to add a verse to your work.  So I have attached a picture of the inside also using another retired stamp set by Stampin' Up! called Words of Wisdom!

Stampin' Up Items Used:

Stamp Sets: Winds of Grace, Words of Wisdom (both retired)

Card Stock: Basic Black, Very Vanilla

Designer Series Paper: Newsprint

Decorative Label Punch

Black hemp twine (retired)

Thanks for looking and hope you have a wonderful rest of the evening!

Happy Birthday Mom layout #1

This is one of many Layouts I am sure you will see as I move forward in making a memory book for my Mom's 80th birthday.  This is my Mom with two of my grandchildren.  I actually am using the Stretch Your Sketch Scrapbook challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts!  Once a month a card sketch is chosen and you use the card sketch to make a layout.  It is a lot of fun to see what everyone come up with.

For this page, I use My Digital Studio and the new items from the sale-a-bration book.  You get a Digital CD free of all the items that are in the sale-a-bration when you spend $50.  How great is that?  So from the paper which is called Ice Cream Parlor and the ribbon which is also called ice cream parlor I made this page.  The background paper is Daffodil Delight and the tag is whisper white and Pacific Point.  So all was done in the My Digital Studio.

Thanks for looking and hope you all have a wonderful day!

Fun On Friday - Faux Tearing Technique

Well it is Fun On Friday time again at Christian Paper Crafts and this week we have a great technique challenge for you!  Faux Tearing.  I just happened to see this technique at splitcoast stampers and just had to try it.  You can find the technique here!  Great technique and a lot of fun to do.

The verse that inspired this technique was Matthew 27:51, "At that time the thick cloth that hung in the temple was torn into two pieces. It was torn from the top down to the bottom. The earth shook and big rocks broke."  Because of this torn veil we now have access to very throne of God!  Isn't it wonderful that we have a direct line to our Lord!

So today, you do not actually have to tear the card stock.  With the faux tearing technique you get the appearance of torn paper without the tearing. Check out the link above to Splitcoast Stampers and join us for this wonderful challenge!

When uploading to the Christian Paper Crafts gallery, please use the keyword FOF91 and when uploading to other galleries or to your blog please use the CPC-FOF91.  If you play along leave me a comment to the link to your post.  I would love to see it.

Stamp Sets:  Vintage Vogue, Well Scripted
Card Stock: Whisper White, Rich Razzleberry
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive,
Taffeta Ribbon Rich Razzleberry
Extra Large Bird Punch
Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder

Our Refuge And Strength

I am so far behind on my posting and I really need to catch up.  I have quite a few cards that I realized I had not posted.  This is one of them.  This card I made for last weeks Wednesday Case Artist challenge at Christian Paper Crafts.  The card I cased was absolutely beautiful and I feel like I did not even come close.  But, I do love the outcome of this card even though it is a little out of my comfort zone!  As you can see I used quite a bit of perfect plum and did not realize I would like it so much.  Another thing about this card that is definitely out of my comfort zone is the layers.  It has 7 layers!  Wow, I don't think I have ever did a 7 layer card, but this may be a start to something new. 

Here is a couple of close ups!

All items used are Stampin' Up! except the Bible verse which is from Sweet N Sassy.  The stamp set is called "Our Refuge".

Stampin' Up! Items:

Stamp Set: Flight of the butterfly

Card Stock: Basic Black, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla, Certainly Celery

Designer Series Paper: Specialty Presto Patterns

Ink:  Basic Black, Perfect Plum

Rosettes Vanilla, 1/8" Taffeta Ribbon basic black, Extra Large Bird Punch (for leaves), 1 3/4" Round Punch, 2 3/8" scallop circle punch, Scallop Trim Border Punch

vanilla shimmer smooch spritz

Botanical Gazette Designer Paper

Good Monday morning!  Hope you are all refreshed after this wonderful weekend.  This weeks challenge for the LateNightStampers Group is to use a bird on your creation.  And the first thing I thought of was the 12 X 12 Designer Series paper called Botanical Gazette.  I just love this paper and the one sheet with the bird is absolutely beautiful.  So I just cut the bird out to a 4 X 5 1/4" size (trying to get as much of the bird and nest as possible into the main frame of the card).  Attached it to a piece of bashful blue card stock cut at 5 3/8 X 4 1/8" and then attached it to the card stock Early Espresso, cut at 5 1/2 X 8 1/2  and then folded in half to make the base of the card.  The last thing I did was stamp the Thinking of You in early espresso classic ink.  The sentiment comes from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set.  How easy is that and such a pretty card.  I also added some of the same paper to the inside of the card to finish it off.  That was one of my goals for this year was to finish off the inside of all my cards.  So far so good!

Thanks for stopping by and I would love to hear what you think!

"L" is for LOVE

Good Sunday Morning to all of my cyber friends out there!  Do you ever feel as though you are too busy to think?  Well lately that is the way I am feeling with trying to get all my work done at home, work my outside job, do my crafting which is my way of relaxing and working on a May Wedding for my daughter.  Wow!  Any way, I did get this card done last night prior to going out with my daughter and her fiance, and of course let's don't forget my dear husband who is totally neglected, to talk even more about the wedding. 

This card was inspired by quite a few different challenges.  The sketch of course came from one of my favorite places to receive inspiration, Stamping 411 Saturday Sketch Challenge.  They have some great sketches, color challenges and even some technique training.  Love dropping by there.

It was also inspired by the Clean and Simple Saturday challenge at Christian Paper Crafts which was to use dry embossing on your card.  So as you can see I used that at the top of the card.  Just a little more added effect.

And also by SUO challenges where you are to do a Valentines Day Creation.  So as you can see, I think I also qualify for that one.  It has been a long time since I was able to do so many challenges with one card.  But as you can see, I did it!!!!! 

Everything on the card is Stampin' Up! except for the embossing at the top which was from a pack of cuddlebug edge embossing folders.  Cannot remember the name of them at this time.

Stampin' Up! Items Used:

Stamp Sets: Punch Potpourri (Hostess), Grateful Greetings

Card Stock:  Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler (around the small oval)

Designer Series Paper: Love Letter

Ink: Cherry Cobbler, Basic Black

3/4 X 15/16" Medium Oval Punch

Extra Large Heart Punch

Pinking Heart Border Punch

Heart to Heart Extra Large Punch (just used the small heart)

Fine Galaxy Stampin Glitter

1/8" Taffeta Real Red Ribbon

1/8" Taffeta Very Vanilla Ribbon

Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz (love that stuff)

Thanks for looking and hope you all have a very blessed Lord's day!  Now off to get ready for church.

Fun On Friday Challenge - Joseph's Coat Technique

Joseph's Coat Technique - that is our Fun on Friday Technique that we are doing at Christian Paper Crafts today.  I co-host this challenge with Robyn Stiffler and this is the scripture we chose to go along with this challenge.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age. Also he made him a tunic of many colors. Genesis 37:3

So today as you look through some of your papers and stamps think about joining us at Christian Paper Crafts and try out the Joseph's Coat Technique.  Here is a link to a tutorial on splitcoast where they use a brayer for this technique.  I used a sponge on one card and a brayer on the other, but you can do it either way.  Here are my two samples for this weeks challenge.

With this sample, I used more subtle colors except for the Navy!  And also with this card everything was done using a sponge.

With this card I sponged darker colors underneath then clear embossed the flowers and then brayered over using Basic Black.  So it is a little darker and I used brighter colors than the other.

If you come to Christian Paper Crafts and link your creation, please mark with  keyword FOF90.  For posting in other galleries or on your blog please use the keywords CPC-FOF90.   If you are able to use this technique, please let me know and leave a link for me to see in the comment section. I would love to know about it and to see your wonderful creation.

Items used are Stampin' Up!

Happy Birthday Card:
Stamp set: God's Beauty (retired), Whimsical Words (retired)
Card Stock: Not quite navy, pretty in pink, daffodil delight, whisper white
Ink: pretty in pink, daffodil delight, certainly celery, not quite navy
decorative label punch, 1 1/4" striped grosgrain ribbon, clear embossing powder, versamark

Birthday Celebrations:
Stamp Set: Upsy Daisy
Card Stock: eggplant, melon mambo, whisper white
Ink: rich razzleberry, melon mambo, eggplant, basic black
label punch, 3/8" rich razzleberry taffeta ribbon, embossing folder, clear embossing powder, versamark, brayer

Thanks for looking and Happy Friday!

Copy That Scrapbook Challenge

Hello my fellow stamping buddies!  Today I started hosting a Scrapbook challenge over at Christian Paper Crafts called "Copy That" and I am so excited to be sharing it here on my blog also.  It will be posted the 4th Thursday of every month.  This is my write up for the challenge at Christian Paper Crafts:

To save some time in developing a layout, why not take a cue from the professionals? The advertisement gurus work hard to present an appealing layout, one that will capture our attention and please the eye.

Let the copy of the attached advertisement below inspire you. Whether you are inspired by the sketch design, the colors, or any of the elements or shapes, use the ad to scrap your own layout.

Now after looking at the advertisement, please tell us how you were inspired when you post your layout.

For my layout, I was inspired by the layout of the ad and that is what I used for my page. I love to use a lot of pictures and it gave me the opportunity to do just that.

Can't wait to see how this advertisement inspires you! Please use the keyword CT05 when uploading your layouts to the gallery at Christian Paper Crafts or CPC-CT05 when posting to your blog or another gallery.  And if you would like, please leave a comment below and let me know if you used this advertisement.  I would love to see what you came up with.

My Digital Studio was used to prepare my Layout!  The card stock colors are Crumb Cake, Whisper White and Green Galore!

Thanks for looking and have a wonderful day!

For You/Cocoas Gift

How cute is this little mouse!  I am usually a 99% Stampin' Up! girl, but when I saw this little mouse I had to have him.  He is just too cute.  He is actually a digital image and I am not that great with digital images unless they are in My Digital Studio.  But what inspired this card was the sketch from The Sweet Stop Sketch Challenge.  As soon as I saw it, I knew I had to use Cocoa the Mouse.  And then the challenge at Crazy 4 Cocoa was to use buttons.  So I added the buttons across the top.

Items used in this card are:

SNS Cocoas Gift (digital)

Stampin' Up!

Stamp set: Birthday Bakery

Card Stock: Basic Gray, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla

Designer Series Paper: Elegant Soiree

Basic Gray Ink

Markers: Baja Breeze, Crumb Cake, Sahara Sand, Pretty in Pink, Blush Blossom

3/8" Basic Gray Taffeta Ribbon

scallop edge punch

vanilla shimmer smooch spritz

Thanks for looking and hope you have a great night!

Sponging a beach scene

Hello fellow stampers!  Our challenge this week for the LateNightStampers group is to do a card about where are you from!  There are so many ways you can interpret this and here is the wording that went out to the group today!

Our challenge this week is to make a card that represents the city, state or country where you live. (or where you were born/raised). Some examples: Wisconsin - use cheese, mouse, cow images on your card.  Florida - use Disney images on your card.  You get the idea! This will be so much fun. I am so looking forward to seeing all the creative cards you submit.

So there you have it!  Since I live near the beach (4 miles) I decided to do a beach scene.  Of course it is not the best, but it kind of looks like a beach.  Anyway, it was fun to do.  Now if I can figure out how to do a NC Tarheel card, I will be in there! 

All products used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Plant Hope, Teeny Tiny wishes
Card Stock: Not Quite Navy, Marina Mist, Whisper White
Ink used for sponging: Marina Mist, Not Quite Navy, Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, So Saffron
Markers: Garden Green, Chocolate Chip

Thanks for looking and hope you have a wonderful day!

MOM!

Hope all of you are doing well on this wonderful Sunday!  It seems as though the time passes to quickly on Sundays and then I am back to the work week.  But, that is OK!  It just means I still have a job and God is still in control.

This is a card I made this afternoon for the Stamping 411 Sketch Challenge.  Most of the time when I see a sketch, I go through some of my most recent stamp sets to see what might work for that particular sketch.  This time I went through my older, but still active stamps and this is the one that kind of said, "It's my turn."  I just love this set and last year right after I got it, for about 3 months straight made a card to send to my mom each month.  I think it was because of all the sentiments that come with it.  Each month I used a different one, but they all described her perfectly!  Can you tell I love my MOM! 

Also the colors were inspired by a photo for this weeks color challenge at Christian Paper Crafts!  I just love to look at photos to be inspired.  We all see them differently don't we?

This is the inside of the card with the sentiment!

All items used are Stampin' Up!

Stamp Set: Messages for Mom

Card Stock: So Saffron, Poppy Parade, Whisper White

Designer Series Paper: Sunny Garden

3/8" whisper white Taffeta Ribbon

Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz

Antique Brads

Pinking Hearts Border Punch

Thanks for looking and please let me know what you think!