Happy Thanksgiving - (CTD470)

Hello!  It's time for this week's Color Throwdown Challenge.  

 For my card, I used the colors from this week's Color Throwdown Challenge and was also inspired by the current Paper Smooches November Challenge which is all about Fall.
To create my card I used the Paper Smooches stamp set My Peeps along with the coordinating My Peeps die cuts to create a Thanksgiving card.  The birds in this set crack me up, they are so adorable.  The bird I used to make the turkey can also be made into a peacock.  I cut a square card base, added a panel of chocolate chip cardstock with a strip of Doodlebug Designs Happy Harvest paper.  Next I die cut a stitched white square and a summer sun cardstock banner. I used the Lawn Fawn stamp sets, Happy Happy Happy plus the Add On set to stamp and die cut my sentiment.  I stamped the images for my turkey and colored them with Copic markers then die cut the birds body and fussy cut the rest and adhered them together.  I added a square of summer sun cardstock to my white stitched piece and added my turkey with foam tape.

For more inspiration, check out the design teams' blog links below OR you can go to the Color Throwdown blog for details on how to play along and you can see all the sample entries in one location.
Amy Rohl Amy Rysavy

Barbara Anders   

Broni Holcombe   

Jodi Collins 

Lisa Henke 

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put   

Vickie Zimmer 

Wanda Cullen

Kelly Lunceford - November Guest Designer

Paper Smooches MY PEEPS Clear Stamps Kim Hughes

Paper Smooches MY PEEPS ICONS Wise Dies M1D225

Lawn Fawn SET LF17SETHHH HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY Clear Stamps and Dies

RESERVE Lawn Fawn HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY ADD-ON Clear Stamps LF1478


I hope those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving have a wonderful day with family and friends.

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Thanks

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you enjoyed your holidays.  I unintentionally took a two week break from blogging, with so much to do for Christmas and even in-between Christmas and New Years, I needed the time to designate to family and friends as it should be.
With the new year and a fresh start, this is the perfect opportunity to say thank you to all of my readers out there.  Thank you for visiting my blog and for all of your sweet comments throughout the year, it really means so much to me.
Today I've got a fun Paper Smooches thank you card that I'm sharing using the Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #217. For my card, I used the Paper Smooches stamp sets Twiggy Florets and Sentiment Sampler and did a bit of heat emboss and watercoloring.  For my main panel, I used a piece of watercolor paper and heat embossed the flowers from the Twiggy Florets set with black embossing powder.  Once that was done, I used some distress inks (picked raspberry, spiced marmalade, crushed olive, broken china and festive berries) to do some watercoloring on each flower, then added some blue splatters of ink to the background.  Usually doing the heat embossing helps to hold the color in while watercoloring but this time I wanted something looser and flowers to be bolder.  To finish off my card, I matted my watercolored panel in black and I heat embossed my sentiment and adhered it to my card and added a few silver sequins.
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Season's Greetings

Hi there!  It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

The card I have for today is a clean and simple snowman Christmas card using the fun Paper Smooches Swanky Snowdudes stamp set.  I'm also entering this card in the Merry Monday Challenge  #181.

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 Hi there!  It's been a super busy time of the year for our family, between my daughter's graduation, her birthday along with several family member's birthdays every weekend has been family celebrations (which is fun, I'm not complaining it just doesn't leave time for creating).  So now that it's Tuesday I'm finally posting my Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge card.

I used the Paper Smooches stamp set Twiggy Florets along with the Big Vases die and pulled out my Prisma Colored pencils and did some blending on the flowers and stems.

Thank you for your visit and have a great day!

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 Hi there!  It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

I've got a quick little thinking of you card using the fun Paper Smooches stamp set My Peeps.  This was one of the images I colored for The 30 Day Coloring Challenge.  Are you coloring along?  

I die cut the peacocks body, colored and popped him up after stamping and coloring the feathers behind him.  I added a little clear glitter to the circles on his feathers and some glossy accents to his eyes.  I used tropical teal, limeade ice (PTI) and pumpkin pie (SU) cardstock.

Have a great Sunday!

You're Purr-fect!

 Hello!  And Happy Thursday!  Today I've got some fun kitty thank you cards I'm sharing for the Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge.   I used the Paper Smooches stamp sets Chubby Chums and Sentiment Sampler for the thanks along with a mix of Copic markers, layouts and colored papers to make each card a little different.

I'm also participating in The Daily Marker 30 Day Coloring Challenge which runs from June 1- June 30.  You can see my daily coloring photos on Instagram by clicking here.

 For the card above, I used this week's Retro Sketches Challenge #166.

 For the card above, I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #271.

I'll be posting a few of these cards along with others in my Etsy shop which you can find here. Thanks for your visit!

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Hi there, folks!  Hope you're enjoying the holiday weekend.  

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. 

For my card, I used the Paper Smooches stamp sets My Peeps, Sentiment Sampler and Birthday Bash to create a simple square birthday card.  Looking at the sketch you can see that I was a rebal and flipped my circle so that my bird would be looking into the center of my card.  I colored my bird using Copic markers and used the following ink colors for the candles: tropical teal, limeade ice, hawaiian shores, simply chartreuse (PTI), summer sun and daffodil delight for the flames (SU).