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Sunday, December 11, 2011

SSSC147 - 50 and FABULOUS!

It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #147. I used Karen's sketch for this week to create a 50th birthday card for my dear sister-in-law, we threw a surprise birthday party for her on the third of this month and it was so fun.

The glitter was flying while I made this card that's for sure, lol I had it everywhere. I wanted the card for my sister-in-law to be glittery and fun so I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Big Birthday Wishes with the coordinating number dies and the Cupcake Collection stamp set to coordinate with the My Mind's Eye cupcake designer paper I was using. I started out by die cutting the numbers from chipboard and added some glitter, then die cut a square of white cardstock and stamped the sentiment and inked in a border with a fine point pen. To finish off my card, the cupcake pieces were die cut, stamped and put together then glittered.

To play along create a card using Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch, then go to Karen’s blog The Sweetest Thing and link your card so we can all see your creation!

Be sure to visit each of the Sweet Sunday Stampers below for more samples using this week’s sketch!

Karen Motz: Paper Playhouse

Sarah-Jane Kale': Janeybell

Vicki Burdick: It's a Stamp Thing

Jen Tapler: Jen Tapler Designs

Dana White: Dana's House of Cards
Karen Giron: The Sweetest Thing

Have a great day!

Friday, December 9, 2011

TSG - Hohoho

TGIF everyone! Thanks for stopping by! I'm finally starting to feeling better after having laryngitis and a cold since last Sunday.

Today I have a fun card that I created using the adorable Santa image from the There She Goes stamp set Hohoho. I started out with a real red card base, then used some Doodlebug designer paper and an embossed old olive panel behind my image. I stamped my hohoho sentiment onto a banner, tied on my ribbon and added my Santa image which was colored using Copics and then glittered.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

CTD#171 - Happy Holidays

Hello everyone! I hope your week is going well so far. Today is Wednesday and that means it's time for another Color Throwdown Challenge (CTD171). Wanda is our hostess this week and she's chosen some great colors for us to work with and we hope you'll find time to play along.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Wreath for All Seasons and some My Mind's Eye designer paper and I used this week's Deconstructing Sketch Challenge #29 for my layout. I started out with a bravo burgundy card base then added a soft suede panel that I embossed using an SU embossing plate. I added a row of white scallops and my designer paper piece and then stamped the wreath in old olive, the berries in bravo burgundy. To finish off my card I added ribbon, two buttons and some iridescent Stickles to the berries.

Be sure to check out what the other design team members have come up with for this week's Color Throwdown challenge!

Barbara Anders - Paper Pursuits

Broni Holcombe - Splashes of Watercolor

Danielle Kennedy - Wild Dragonfly Designs

Joan Ervin - Stamping With Passion

Keva Brown - How Now Brown Kow

Kristin Eberline - Mindless Creativity

Lori Tecler - Inking Aloud

Tammy Hershberger - Stamp Happy

Wanda Cullen - Cullen-ary Creations
Kerri Michaud - Cards by Kerri
Lydia Fiedler - Understand Blue - Our Guest Designer for November/December

Sunday, December 4, 2011

SSSC146 - Make a Wish

It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #146 (SSSC146). Karen has another fantastic sketch for all of us to create with this week and we hope you'll play along.

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Cupcake Collection and some My Mind's Eye designer paper. I stamped the sentiment, cupcake image and die cut candle then added some rose colored glitter to the sprinkles on the cupcake and Spica glitter pen to the candle flame (see photo below for close up). I also added a PTI die cut flower with button and twine.