The Queen's Scene

Sunday, February 27, 2011

SSSC106 - Discover Your Wings Thank You

It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, Karen has another fabulous sketch for all of us to create with this week and we hope you'll join in and play along!

For my card I dove into my Taylored Expressions Key Ingredients Kit for this month (there is so much good stuff that comes in these kits) and chose to use more of the pretty flocked designer paper, this time in red and paired it with black for a more dramatic look. I used the TE stamp set Discover Your Wings and stamped the flower silhouette from the set and "Thank You" sentiment from the stamp set Branching Out in black. I also layered together two of the flowers and red rhinestone brad that come in the Kit and added that to the lower left of my card. For information on signing up to receive a Key Ingredients Kit for yourself you can click here.

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

Enjoy your day!

Friday, February 25, 2011

Papertrey Ink Blog Hop

TGIF everyone! The cards I have to share today are for this months Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. PTI has designated this Blog Hop to scallops and has asked all that participate to create their projects using PTI stamps and scallops of any kind. Well I miss read the information for the hop and thought I needed to have my card posted on my blog and linked by 10am this morning so I whipped up the above card in 15 minutes without even thinking about it which has to be a new record for me because it usually takes me forever to make a card. Then I went back to the PTI web site and read that I had until llpm tonight so I thought I would whip up another card which was simple and yet it took me forever, lol. Isn't that the way it goes?

I was excited to be able to use some of my new goodies that I ordered from this months PTI release and wanted to use some fun bright colors to create a cheerful card and this is what I came up with using the stamp set Button Boutique.

Supplies: Button Boutique, Bitty Background Blocks, Button Card Die, Doily Details Dies, Birthday Basics, Buttons, Twine, Ribbon, Stitching, Medium Scallop Border-TE. Colors: Old Olive, Melon Mambo, Pumpkin Pie.

This second card uses the PTI stamp set Tag-its #1 as well as the Doily Details Die to create a St. Patrick's Day card. I added a green felt flower and a die cut button using the Buttoned Up #1 die and a paper coaster, then stamped the top of the button with a pattern from the Bitty Background Blocks.

Thank you for visiting!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop

Hello and welcome! Today is the Taylored Expressions Blast from the Past Blog Hop and the theme for the Hop is to either use the color green or "green" materials on your TE project. Well I decided to use some of the pretty supplies from my TE Key Ingredients Kit for this month and the TE stamp set Discover Your Wings to create a scrapbook page for my daughter using the color green with brown.

I started out with a sheet of the 8 1/2" x 11" brown cardstock from the kit and stamped the silhouette of the flower image from the Discover Your Wings set along the bottom of the page. Then I used pieces of the green cardstock and added them vertically down the right side of the page and stamped the flowers again in green on the bottom piece. I took the green pattern 6"x 6" piece and adhered it an inch from the upper right corner, then cut out a scallop border using my TE Medium Scallop Border Die and adhered it to the bottom of the brown Lush My Mind's Eye designer paper that comes in the Kit and adhered that to the middle right section of my page. Then came the fun part of adding the details like the ribbon, decorative brad with flower, butterflies, word tags and cool Lush brown chip board letters that are available as an add on to this month's TE Key Ingredients Kit (click below for a close up view).

To view more ideas using this months Taylored Expression Key Ingedients Kit you can click here or to subscribe and recieve a Kit each month for yourself or a friend you can click here.

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the Hop!

Sunday, February 20, 2011

SSSC105/CQC72 - Something Fabulous Birthday Cupcake Card

Good morning! It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! You can find all of the details about joining in on the SSSC#105 on Karen's blog by clicking here.

For my card today I used one of my new SU stamp sets Create a Cupcake along with the matching cupcake punch, I also used the fun colors from the Colour Queen Color Challenge and even though I didn't have Cherry Cobbler ribbon I improvised and used Riding Hood Red instead. I tried to add a bit of texture to the background panels from the sketch but wanted to keep an overall color so I paired up rectangles (which were cut 1 5/8" x 1 7/8) that were embossed or different patterns of designer papers.