Lucky Stars - {SSSC267}

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

 I needed a card for my youngest son's teacher for Monday since his school is celebrating Teacher Appreciation this coming week and once I saw the Sweet Sunday Sketch for this week with a star I knew I could make it work.  I used the Lawn Fawn Puffy Star dies, Thanks die and Lucky Stars and Starry Backdrops stamp sets.  I die cut the star from Doodlebug glitter paper and popped it up with foam tape, I die cut four thanks from black cardstock, glued them together and added that overlapping the star.  I used the Starry Backdrops stamp to stamp the lower half of my card and stamped my sentiment from the Lucky Stars set.  I also added a touch of glitter to a few of the stars that run through my sentiment.

Have a great day!

Twiggy Florets

 Hi there crafty friends!  I'm popping in today to share a few cards that I created for this week's Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge which is the sketch below.

I had some happy mail the other day when my Paper Smooches order was delivered and I took some time today to be crafty.  I used the new PS stamp set Twiggy Florets (I'm in love with this set!), along with the coordinating Big Vases dies, some black embossing powder and my neglected set of chalks.
I started out with a black scalloped edge card base, then die cut several of the Big Vases from black cardstock and designer paper, next I alined the vases at the bottom of a white cardstock piece just to figure out my placement, then one at a time stamped and heat embossed each of the flower images and the sentiment.  (Don't forget to use a static talc bag on your piece of white cardstock before you heat emboss).  Once all of my embossing was done the fun part came, which was blending and adding color with my chalks.  Who says you can't color outside the lines?  The final step was gluing on my vases and adhering my stamped piece to the black card base.  These cards were so much fun to make, a little messy but fun!

Thanks for your visit!

Hello Sunshine - {SSSC266}

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

For my card, I used one of my favorite new stamp sets from Papertrey Ink, Noted along with the coordinating hello die to create a shaker card.  I started out with a summer sun card base, then used a piece of designer paper from the PTI Shakers & Sprinkles pack.  I used my circle dies to cut the window and frame for my shaker, once those were cut I taped a piece of clear acetate to the backside of my designer paper piece over the cut out circle and added foam tape around the circle and the edges of designer paper piece.  I placed some shaker bits in the center of my circle on the card base and taped on my designer paper piece on top.  I stamped the sunshine sentiment on a white banner and tape that over the bottom half of my shaker circle and then die cut four of the black Hellos and glued them together for some thickness and taped that just above the white banner.

That's it for me, thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Skatin' By - {C4C283}

 Happy Saturday!  Today is the last Saturday of the month and the last day I'll be hosting over at the Crazy-4-Challenges site.  I'd like to give a big thank you to my fellow Sweet Sunday Sketch team mate, Vicki Burdick for being our Crazy-4-Challenges guest designer this month and for sharing her beautiful projects with us.

Here is the challenge for this week:

Since today is World Penguin Day and tomorrow is National Go Birding Day, lets create a card or project using some type of bird.

 For my card, I used the Mama Elephant stamp sets Arctic Penguins, Jolly and Merry and Happy Everything to create a birthday card.  I also used the Papertrey Ink stamp set Noted for my gray chevron along the bottom. I used The Card Concept Challenge #33 as inspiration and pulled the colors and chevron from the photo above.

Be sure to check out what the rest of the design team has created:

• Anja de Regt
• Barbara Anders 
• Danielle Lounds
• Frances Byrne
• Helen Cryer
• Jessie Rone
• Joanne Grzelak
• Karen Aicken
• Kelli Hull
• Lynn Put (that's ME!)
• Peggy McCurry