Hang In There

 

A new challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday

My design team inspiration card uses a sweet image and sentiment from a MFT, Great Adventure Bears stamp and die set that I have had for many years.  The papers are from my stash folders as well. I imagine they are in the clouds looking down - so the map paper for the back panel seemed appropriate. lol

My favorite way to color with Copic markers is to stamp with a very light ink in the Misti, color, and then return the card to the Misti and stamp again in Versafine black. I added some Wink of Stella shimmer to the stars.  This card will go to a friend who has gotten through surgery and chemo and has just begun radiation. 

Thank you for visiting my blog. I hope you will play along and also check out the sister challenge at Double Trouble. 

Eat Cake

 Happy Monday!

Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge has a new challenge.

I felt like a bold card today and colored AALL&Create Black Forest Hello (#1140) with copic markers and fussy cut the main image. The papers are from my black and white stash, with borders cut with MFT Polka Dot Pops and an older punch. The sentiment is from something included in a Simon Says Stamp set long ago.  Fun!!

Thank you for visiting my blog, and I hope you will play along with this week's challenge.

Thank You Sensei

 

My Design Team inspiration for #692 challenge at

Try A Sketch On Tuesday

I am in Japan visiting my son and doing a bit of travel as well. One of the things I have planned is the Spring Festival in Takayama.  It's a very famous and busy event and I was so fortunate to have help finding hotels from a friend of my son who has been his tutor and travel agent for a long time.  This card will be given to her with a thank you gift.

The panels are origami paper from my collection of Japanese papers. The embossing folder and fan die are from Spellbinders. The gold embossed sentiment is Gina K Designs.  I am really pleased with how this turned out!

Doodles

Happy Monday!

My DT card for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge for this week was just fun. I wasn't sure it would work, and it's pretty rough, but it was a delightful experiment.  I water colored stripes of color with my Kuretake Gansai set. They are super intense and pigmented. Then inspired by a Gina K video, I did some doodling with a black pen and a white gel pen. I wasn't very patient, and got smudges on the white background, so I fussy cut out my design and adhered it to a plain white back panel.  The sentiment was heat embossed and popped up with foam tape.

Hope you will check out the sketch and give it a try with strips of patterned paper, swooshes of paint...whatever you can imagine and enjoy.  Share it with us on the blog - we love seeing what you create!

Easter Bunnies

 

A sweet card for my grandchildren using challenge#691 from 

Try A Sketch On Tuesday

My DT inspiration card uses an Innocent Pink (Gina K )card base, white panels embossed with a Sissix basket folder, cut outs using Peeking Bunny (Simon Says Stamp) die, sentiment from Gina K, and stenciling inside with Pretty Pink Posh Easter Background stencil. It's a simple gatefold.

Check out our sister blog challenge at Double Trouble for additional fun and inspiration!   I have used their 3-2-1 recipe and the twist: include a four legged animal (just didn't show the legs lol).

St. Patrick's Day

 

Happy Monday morning and welcome to the new challenge

at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge!

I used some papers from my scrap stash, dies from Gina K, and stamps from a Simon Says Stamp set.  The Pear card stock also from my CTMH stash.  A very quick card with just a little heat embossing.

I hope you will give this easy and versatile sketch a try.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Hogs & Kisses

 

New challenge at Try A Sketch On Tuesday!

I went whimsical and a bit silly with my card today :-)

TSOT's sister challenge Double Trouble has a twist option on their recent challenge "include a pig"  So I went for it.

Masked off the edges of the card and stenciled clouds, covered that with Gina K Sunburst cover die, constructed a little barn, and the rest is from an older MFT set, The Whole Herd. I have loved this set, and sorry to say it doesn't seem to be available anywhere now.