Treasured Friend

This beautiful sketch at Freshly Made Sketches - #371- I have been wanting to get to for a few days.  There was a new die waiting to be cut, and when I saw the sketch, it seemed just right.  I cut two of the Elizabeth Craft Leafy Branch 5 out of slightly different green card stocks. They were distressed with Peeled Paint Distress ink.  On the Olive card base (5 1/2" square), I used the same ink and the 'Flowing Drops' stencil from Altenew for the background.  Ribbon is from my Stampin Up! stash, sentiment from a CTMH retired set called Friendship Bouquet. Inside, I used distress ink to create the leafy branch using the negative cut as a stencil, and another small font sentiment that says "your friendship means so much to me."

Hello! AAA #321

The sketch at AAA gave me the idea of how to use a little word bubble I created. Though I think the darker purple doesn't fit with the pastel twist option. Realized it might have been just fine with yellow and pastel green with the lighter blue....after fixing the bubble with foam tape.  So often the brain kicks in after glue or after photos, right?!

CAS and Color

Playing with a fairly new to me technique - alcohol ink background, and a new Simon Says die.
I made the background and let it dry overnight, I cut the leafy die out of white and sprayed it with Shimmer spray.  The I cut the background with the die and inlaid the sparkly white.  It was ok...just not what I thought it would be like.  But there was the delicate die cut left. That prompted me to create the card on white. I splashed some darker blue ink on the textured card stock, added a Lawn Fawn sentiment die, brushed with shimmer pen, added three clear droplets. And that is my card for the challenges at Color Throwdown #526   and Addicted to Stamps and More #324


                                                                 

Just a peek at the first card:

 
                  

Valentine Shaker for AHSC #299

Mondays roll around pretty fast!  Here I am again with my card for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #299  ♥

I made three Valentine cards with my 4 year old granddaughter this weekend. She loves pink, hearts, and using the Cuttlebug and the Misti, so she really was having a blast. She made cards for Mom + Dad, and other grandmas. One was a shaker.  So with all those sweet sequins and beads still on my table today, I decided another shaker was just the ticket.  All papers came from my stash of odds and ends. The sentiments are from the Simon Says Stamp, Circle Sayings set.  I used  Spellbinders circle dies, and Versafine Black Onyx ink.

Unicorn Birthday Love

Inspired by Stephanie Klauck in this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VixbcoqGwtY&feature=youtu.be

She made a fabulous slider scene with some of the newest My Favorite Things products.  I had been
trying for two days to figure out how to make a special interactive card for my granddaughter's 4th birthday party tomorrow. I stamped the unicorns and other images from a new Mama Elephant stamp + die set purchased especially for this. I colored them with Copics last evening, and was not sure how to go about putting them together with a slider.  Watching this video, I knew right away what I wanted to do.  I LOVE how it came out♥  Full of sparkle and fun.

It took me quite a while to figure out the size of the panels, and how to to this all without the slider die...I want one badly now!!  But it was worth it. Remember when all we had was scissors and wooden stamps? How did we manage without dies and a Misti?! :-)

The card base is a standard 5.5x4.25, the pink mat 5.25x4. Then on a white panel I blended distress ink, and spayed with transparent  Shimmer spray (this just refused to show up in my photos, but really looks awesome IRL). This is the piece that I cut for the slider. Not sure what Stephanie used for the little plastic piece in the slider - I used a penny.  A My Favorite Things die-namics  cut the grass, Lawn Fawn die for the clouds, Verve cut above for the stars. The dark on the castle and unicorns is actually purple though it appears black in the photos.  I used a gold sparkle gel pen, and a gold Shimmer pen for highlights.

I cannot wait to see her pull the tab and see the unicorns 'kiss'.  She adores all things unicorn, pink and purple.  And I had such fun using so many of my favorite products together!

Linking this to Seize the Birthday.  

Happy New Year!

It hardly seems possible that we are about to begin another year...overall the feeling is it has gone by very quickly. The newest grandchild was born Jan. 4th last year, and 'baby' time vanishes faster!  He is standing, babbling, waving, clapping and is really a distinct little person now.  There is a lot to celebrate.

I have been cleaning and reorganizing the craft room (a task for Sisyphus). The Christmas papers were being sorted, and Oh, Deer! was on top.  Just a lovely CTMH collection from a few years back.  This piece just sparkled and begged to be used.  The sentiment is a cling...without a package, so I'm unsure where it came from, but it is embossed with Ranger Gold powder.  The starburst is a CTMH mini embossed in white on the coordinating card stock.  I actually did another of the same design with a Happy Birthday sentiment as well. This is a fabulously easy and versatile sketch! Try it and link up at AHSC so we can see what you created. Happy New Year!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge #297 for this week:

Holiday Mail

Hooray for Holiday Mail!  It is such fun to get cards and letters in the mail. And fun making them as well.   I am still frantically working on getting my cards finished and in the mail.  Tomorrow must be it.  Sketch #295 at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is just the thing for using up pretty scraps.

I stamped the images from this Memory Box set (Christmas Elves) many times and colored them with Copic markers. I die cut them, and have been making cards with them all week. Two of the cute mailboxes were remaining...ta da! of perhaps I should say fa la la

If you click on a picture to see it larger, you will be able to see the shimmer pen used on the snow.