Sunflowers

 Finding my crafting mojo again after being away for almost two months traveling in East Asia.  It was very hot there and coming back to the PNW to the cool, gray rain has been a shock :-)   So as I reached for things warm yellow felt quite comforting. 

The new sketch #658 at Try A Sketch On Tuesday is my inspiration today. The My Favorite Things gingham pad for the background and Gina K Designs Breath of Sunshine kit for flowers and sentiment. 

It will be fun to be able to visit blogs and comment once again, so I hope you will join the challenge!

Linking also to our sister challenge Double Trouble - "Lots of Layers"  

Always lots of fun to be had there.  Check out their challenge #179 and have some fun.

Playful Penguins

 Back in the USA after nearly two months travel in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Japan.  It was hot and humid in all places, so returning to chilly and wet PNW has been quite an adjustment. 

The craft room felt quite welcoming - so this weekend has been a fun time to pull out the holiday stash of stamps and papers and to catch up with my Design Teams.

The new sketch #602 at 

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge is a great one for fun layers.  I took some liberty and replaced the floral images with penguins from Gina K Designs Playful Penguins set.  They were colored with Copic markers.

I hope you will join the challenge and share your creation at AHSC.   The Design Team has lots of inspiration for you - they add their cards to the blog on Wednesday, but the challenge link is open for you now.  Happy crafting!

Whimsy

 

Good morning!  Today's sketch for

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge 

provided me with a great deal of fun. There were so many ideas that I wanted to try...first thought was stencil and paste. But I have wanted to draw or paint some odd shapes and fill them for a while. I love watching videos of folks water coloring and then drawing them. I just happened to have my Posca pens on the table because grandchildren have been painting rocks, and I used those on a heavy weight dark brown paper.  Instead of doodling, I stamped with a variety of small stamps from Gina K Designs. Finally, some accents were added with a gold pen and a white Gel pen.  Ribbon from my stash.    Hope you will play along!

Paper Butterfly

Happy Monday morning and welcome to a new sketch at                                Atlantic Heart Sketch Challenge

I have made a small Z-fold that opens for the inner panel element.  The patterned papers are from an old scrapbook magazine. I used some leafy dies to cut out from the edges of the same paper, used a butterfly from my embellishments drawer and some CTMH metal studs from my stash.  Kind of a 'found materials' card.  I love how it came out, and how it reinforces my procrastination about cleaning out the craft hoard :-)  The sentiment is from Gina K Designs You Are Enough mini set.

Thankful-Grateful-Blessed

 

Monday morning means a new sketch at

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

My DT card uses some papers from my stash, a few Altenew embossing folders, some splatter, twine, die cuts from Lawn Fawn and Mama Elephant, and a sentiment from Gina K Designs.

I love cutting leaves from watercolor scraps :-)

Hope you are having a lovely day and that you will play along with this week's challenge!

Double Dare!

 A fun double challenge pairing at

Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

Sketch #655 is partnering with Double Trouble #175,                          "Any Way You  Punch It"    

My Design team inspiration card uses both die cuts from Simon Says Stamp and a really old Martha Stewart punch to create the silver snow flakes. The background is some hoarded paper from a retired Close To My Heart collection.  The silver heat embossed sentiment is from Gina K Designs Feeling Frosty set. I added a lot of silver Liquid Pearls because I just wanted over-the-top sparkle :-)

I sure hope you will play along!  Just a note:  Double Trouble will closes this challenge Sunday, Sept 29th, while TSOT's runs for three weeks and will be closing its challenge on Wednesday, Oct 6th.  

AHSC #594

Good Morning!

This new sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge was a good opportunity to use some patterned paper from my scrap box, a die-cut sentiment from Poppy, and Nuvo Jewel Drops embellishment. A fantastic sketch for a quick, sweet card.  

Hope you'll join the challenge!