SSSC133 - Lighten Up

It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #133.  Karen has another fun sketch for all of us to create with this week and we hope you'll take the time to play along.

For my card I used the There She Goes stamp set Lighten Up and decide to go with a square 4 1/4" x 4 1/4" card.  I paper pieced the lamp shade and used my Copic markers to color in the leaves around the rose on the shade and the lamp base.  This was a fun card to put together.  I was inspired by the little spiral rose on the lamp shade and then remembered I had the designer paper with a spiral roses printed on it and added the die cut roses to repeat my theme.

Supplies: Lighten Up - TSG, MME dp, Copics, Nestie dies, Scallop border die, Spiral Rose die - MFT, Ribbon, Pearls.  Colors: Not quite navy, Night of navy, More mustard.

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

BIG NEWS!!!

Hello there!  I've got some BIG News to share today, I was asked to join the There She Goes design team by the talented Jessica Knutsen (owner) and happily excepted!  I'm very excited and honored to be part of such an amazing design team and look forward to sharing some fun cards and projects using the TSG stamps.

The first projects I have to share use the sweet TSG stamp set Believe in You, I created a gift set for my son's kindergarten teacher for the first day of school.  For the card above I had my son sign his name inside and I wrote a little message for his teacher to have a great first day back to school.

I include a decorated note pad with pencils and pens because I'm sure she could always use these items.

I used the adorable boy and girl reading images along with a sentiment from the set to create two bookmarks.

And what teacher doesn't need a few thank you card to give out for parents that offer help or gifts she receives.

Finally I used a small brown paper bag and randomly stamped the fun school bus image on the front and back, added some wrapped chocolates inside and another bus image to the top.  I created two of the candy filled bags one for his teacher and another for his bus driver.  I hope they like what I've created!

Supplies: Believe in You - TSG, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist DP, Copics, Nestie dies, Ribbon, Buttons, Twine, Paperclips, Corner tag punch, Circle punches, Note pad, Paper bag, Foam tape.

CTD#157 - Thinking about You

Hello!  I haven't been posting all that much lately between getting all three of my kids ready to start school and feeling like I've lost my mojo I just haven't had made the time. 

Today I actually created a quick card for The Color Throwdown Challenge #157, and yes I used the PTI Simple Sunflower set...again, I can't seem to get enough of this flower image.

Be sure to stop back tomorrow because I have some BIG NEWS to share!

SSSC132 - Sending You Smiles

Good morning!  It's time for the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #132. 

For my card I used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Simple Sunflower with the coordinating dies.  I used pumpkin pie and apricot appeal ink and did the rock n' roll technique with each of the sunflower images before stamping them onto the die cuts.  For the centers of the sunflowers I die cut them from early espresso cardstock and then stamped them.  Then I stamped the center images again onto a scrap of early espresso cs and punched them out using circle punches so the centers would have a bit of dimension (see close up picture below).  And for the crumb cake square panel behind the sunflowers I used the woodgrain impressions plate to add some texture.  Other than that I kept my card clean and simple.

Supplies: Simple Sunflower + dies - PTI, Woodgrain Impression Plate - PTI, My Mind's Eye Lime Twist DP, Nestie dies, Circle punches, Twine, Foam tape.  Colors: Early Espresso, Crumb Cake.

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 is sitting out this week but stop by her blog to give her some love.
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

Thanks for visiting!