Santa's Helper

Happy Sunday my friends.  I hope you've had an enjoyable weekend.  I always do when it includes play time in my stamp room.

I did take some time out yesterday to go to the theater with my daughter and her family to see Wicked!  I know, I know, everyone else has seen it already.  I think I must be the last person in the US that has gotten to see it.  We all thoroughly enjoyed it.  I was trying sometimes to figure out which was the Good witch and which one was Wicked.  ;)  After the show we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner and that was soooooo yummy!  I had their grilled salmon and it was very tasty.  Filled me up so there was no room for dessert.  Boo hoo!

Well, enough about that, time to get to my card.  This is another Christmas card.  I do have a lot of these to make, so there will be more of them in the weeks and months to come.  I used a My Favorite Things sketch for my layout even though it is an old one. I'm trying to catch up for this year with all the Wednesday Sketch challenges.

Since it's a Christmas card, this time I did use the traditional colors for my card.

Recipe:

• Image - Sassy Studio Designes - Santa's Helper
• Sentiment - Computer generated printed in gold
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up Real Red and Old Olive; Shimmery cardstock, but I can't recall where I bought it from and the package is not marked
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up Candlelight Christmas
• Accessories - Classic Oval Die; Lacy Rectangle Die; Pennents and Flags Die; Memory Box Honeysuckle Border Die; Stickles - Yellow; Liquid Pearls - Yellow and White Opal; Red Sparkle Twin
• Copic Markers - B0000; E40, E41; E50, E51, E53; R24, R37, R46; G14, G21, G24; Y06, Y15, Y23

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Hiding in My Craft Room - Christmas in July

Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Card Crafter's Circle - Christmas in July
Clearly iStamp - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
CreativeCornerChallenges - Christmas in July
Graph'It Markers - Blonde Hair
Jellypark Challenges - Christmas in July
Stampin' for the Weekend - Sparkle and Bling
Crimbo Crackers - Always Christmas - Anything Goes
DLART - Christmas in July
Paper Crafting Journey - Dies and/or Punches
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Crafting for all Seasons - Christmas
Divas by design - Anything Goes
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes
Eclectic Ellapu - Anything Goes
Great Impressions - Anything Goes
One Stitch at a Time - Anything Goes

Holiday of Love

Well, now I'm on a roll working on Christmas cards and I have a few more to show you.  Only one today.  I'll put the next one up tomorrow.  I was looking at challenges and found this pretty color combo one using my favorite colors - purple on The Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge. Not traditional Christmas colors. 

 After picking these colors, I searched for a sketch to use and found this on on Try Stampin on Tuesday.

After all that searching, I was able to come up with this card:

Love this adorable image by Elizabeth Bell.
Materials Used:

• Image - Belles & Whistles - Angel Daniella
• Sentiment - Stamp from my stash. I have no recollection of where it came from.
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Orchid Opulence; Xpress it Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Stampin Up - Holiday Treasures
• Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Accessories - Ribbon from my stash; Wild Orchid Crafts - Flowers; Stickles -Yellow; Nestabilities Big Scallop Oval Die and Nested Lacy Pennants Die
• Copic Markers:  B0000; C0; E50, E51, E53; R46; V000, V01, V04, V06; Y11, Y13, Y15, Y18, Y35; YG11, YG61, YG63; Spica Gold Gel Pen

I'm submitting this card for the following challenges:

The Outlawz Tuesday Color Challenge - Color Combo - Christmas in July
Try Stampin' On Tuesday - Sketch
Hiding in My Craft Room - Christmas in July
One Stop Craft - Flowers or Ribbon
Totally Gorjuss - Christmas in July
Card Crafter's Circle - Christmas in July
Clearly iStamp - Christmas in July
Crafty Catz - Christmas in July
CreativeCornerChallenges - Christmas in July
Graph'It Markers - Blonde Hair
Jellypark Challenges - Christmas in July
Stampin' for the Weekend - Sparkle and Bling
Crimbo Crackers - Always Christmas - Anything Goes
DLART - Christmas in July
Paper Crafting Journey - Dies and/or Punches
Crafting By Designs - Christmas
Crafting for all Seasons - Christmas
Divas by design - Anything Goes

Piece of Cake

Happy Tuesday!

I played in two challenges this week:  Sketch from My Favorite Things (MFT)

and Photo Inspiration from Mark's Finest Papers. 

It was fun, but I really had a hard time with the sketch.  I knew what I wanted to do, but it didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.  I really, really need more time to devote to stamping, looking at layouts, figuring out new designs.  Unfortunately, working 8 hours a day, doesn't leave a lot of time for it and so I make do.  Oh well, I still have fun with what I do, and I hope you enjoy it too.

Materials Used:

• Image and Sentiment - See D's - Piece of Cake.  I'm not sure if they are still in business.  This is a pretty old stamp set, but I really like it.
• Word  Background - Whipper Snapper Designs - Party Words Background - another old stamp
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Basic Black, Pretty in Pink, Pixie Pink; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - My Mind's Eye - Lost & Found Blush
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black
• Accessories - Marvy Large Oval Punch and Marvy Large Scallop Oval Punch
• Copic Markers - R81, R83, R85, RV00, RV02, RV04, RV13, W0, W2, and W4

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:

Mark's Finest Papers - Inspiration Challenge - Photo
My Favorite Things - Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch
Challenges 4 Everybody - Anything Goes

Summer Break and Design Team Call

Hi friends.

In case you haven't noticed, I have not posted a card for the Perfect Sentiment Challenge in a few weeks. That's because we've been on VACATION!  Yep, even we get to take a break now and again. Our challenges will start up again on August 7, so be on the lookout for the next one.

While we are on vacation, we are also having a Design Team Call!  So sorry I haven't let you guys know before this, but the DT Call will end tomorrow!

If you're interested, hop on over to the PSC Blog and link your name up to be considered. http://perfectsentimentschallenge.blogspot.com/

See you soon!

Deck the Halls

It's finally happened!!!!!!!  I made a Christmas card!  Wow!  For the last couple of years, I've been taking part in the Splitcoast Stampers Christmas Card Challenge and I'd make about 5 or 6 cards a month and then have them all ready to go in November.  This year I started out okay and made about 4 or 5 in January and then nothing - nada - not any!  The other day I was chatting with a friend and she said this same thing!  I couldn't believe she hasn't been making Christmas cards either.  So we decided to encourage each other to get ours done.  I guess I'm going to need lots more encouragement to get more than one card done!  Anyway, it's a start and now I have all my Christmas stuff out - papers, embellishments, ribbons, flowers - ready to go.

Actually, I'm not real happy with it.  Not sure I like the die cut on top of that particular pattern paper, but it is what it is and will do for now.  I must also confess, that I did not use one Copic marker in the making of this card.  The image is from Lili of the Valley and they have pre-printed images you can buy (inexpensive) and they are colored perfectly!  The sentiment tags are also from LOTV.  I used Stampin Up Night of Navy card stock for the base and mat and also the ink for the sentiments.

The designer paper is from Echo Park - Times & Seasons.  The accessories are all from my stash and the die cut is from Cricut cartridge Winter Lace.

That's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by.

I am submitting this card to the following challenges:
Crafting By Designs - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me - Anything Goes
Creative Belli Blog - Christmas
Fab n Funky - Christmas in July
Cuttin and Stampin - Christmas in July
Loves Rubberstamps Challenge - Christmas in July
Eureka Stamps - Christmas in July
Pink by Design - Christmas
My Crafty Spot - Christmas in July
Stamp and Create - Christmas in July

By Sea As By Land

Hello friends.  First of all, I've added a new addition to the household!  Yep, Corey is now living inside!  Well, he's living in my bedroom.  I had to see how all the kitties were going to react to each other.  So far so good. In fact I even let Casper in for a visit this morning and they did just fine.  I know that he wants to come out, but can't do that just yet.  If he's going to be indoors, I'll have him declawed. I also need to wean him to the new indoor kitty food.

That's Casper checkout out the litter box and Corey trying to figure out what he's doing.  Casper is about twice the size of Corey.

I do have a card to share.  On Splitcoast Stampers, I belong to the Monthly Challenge group and each month one of us sends out a swap to the other members and we all make cards out of what was sent.  We're allowed to add our own supplies if we choose to do so.  This month our sender was VikkiJo.  And would you believe - not a Copic Marker was used or harmed in the making of this card.  LOL!

All the pieces except the sentiment were stamped and sent by Vikki Jo.  I used a piece of  Stampin Up Night of Navy cardstock for the base of my card.  The sentiment is one I found on the internet and printed it off using Dark Blue.  The little strip under the ship was cut off the short end of the pattern paper so it would fit and I hated to waste it so I just slapped it down there and liked the way it looked.  That's all for now.  Thanks for stopping by!

I am submitting this for the following challenges:

Mark's Finest Papers Inspiration Challenge -Dresses
Heck of a Challenge - The Sea
The Crafter's Cafe - Anything Goes

Be Merry

Hi my friends.  I've been a little low on the mojo the last week or so since Perfect Sentiment is on vacation for the month of July.  Decided just to check out my list of challenges that I like to go to.  First I came across this color combo challenge from Cupcake Inspirations.

Next I needed a sketch and so went to My Favorite Things - Wednesday Stamp Club and found their new sketch for this week.

Then I just had to find some designer paper to work out the colors and came up with this card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Lili of the Valley - Cute Fairy
• Sentiment - My Favorite Thiings - Candy Cane Kisses
• Cardstock - Stampin Up - Pink Pirouette, Daffodil Delight; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Dovecraft Tea Party; GCD Studios - Homespun
• Ink - Tuxedo Memento Black
• Accessories - Deckle scissors; gold bling from my stash; Butterflies - Memory Box dies; Stickles - Candy Cane; Frosted Lace; Yellow; 
• Copic Markers - B0000; E50, E51, E53; G00, G14, G17; R01, R20, R30, R81, R83, R85; Y11, Y13, Y21; Signo White Gel pen; Pentel Metallic Green Gel pen; Multiliner .03

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges:
Cupcake Inspirations - Color Combo
My Favorite Things - Sketch 131
ABC Challenges - Christmas in July
Card Mania - Christmas in July
Platypus Creek - Christmas in July

Summer Fairy - Simply Betty Stamps Fan Page Challenge

Wow!  It seems that I haven't posted anything in awhile.  Perfect Sentiments is on vacation the month of July and I really have been very busy with the house to take time to get something done.  I'm getting this one in just under the wire. It's due tomorrow.

The image is from Simply Betty Stamps.  It's a freebie that she gives to us with the understanding that we will use it for an entry into the Fan Page Challenge.  If you don't use it for the challenge, then you have to sit out the next month.  For this challenge, the idea was to make our own background for the image.  I used Stampin Up Groovy Guava, Kiwi Kiss, and Pool Party inks and sponges to create my background.  Just sponged around the image without any kind of pattern.

Here's my card.

Materials Used:

• Image - Simply Betty Stamps - Summer Fairy
• Sentiment -Lili of the Valley - Everyday Grungy Greetings
• Cardstock - Stampin Up Pool Party and Wild Wasabi; Xpress It Blending Card
• Designer Paper - Fancy Pants Designs - Summer's End
• Ink - Stampin Up - Groovy Guava, Kiwi Kiss, and Pool Party
• Accessories - Sponges; Nestabilities Labels Seventeen; Ribbon - Ribbon Boutique; Prima Flowers - Blue; Wild Orchid Crafts - Peach flowers; Martha Stewart Fir Branch punch; Bling from my stash; Stickles - Clear
• Copic markers:  BG000, BG02, BG11; E00, E01, E11; R46; YG03, YG61, YG63; YR00, YR02, YR12

That's it for today.  Gotta go get this uploaded to the challenge blog and check out some other challenges out there.  Thanks for stopping by.