Frieda On the Seashore

Hope you all have been having a good Monday.  I've got to say that I got worn out over the weekend with having my grands over to spend the night Friday and then out to the movies and lunch on Saturday. They are not little anymore, so I couldn't put them to bed at 7:30 p.m.  ;)  We were up quite late and then after meetings and such yesterday, I had another late night.  One of the things I was doing was working on this card.  It may become special one of these days; and if so, great, but if not, then I still like it and wanted to share it with you.

Once I got the blues worked out, it seemed to go together very well.

I used the current My Favorite Things Sketch for the layout:

Materials Used:

• Image and Sentiment - The Craft's Meow - Frieda on the Seashore - stamped on Xpress It Blending Card.  
• Cardstock - Base is Gina K Designs 120 lb.; Stampin Up Night of Navy, Whisper White, and Real Red
• Pattern Paper - Authentique - Glory paper pad
• Accessories - Martha Stewart Edge Punch; Stampin Up Large and Small Star Punches; Nestabilities - Ribbon Tag Trio Die
• Copic Markers:  B0000; B18, B32; E000, E00, E21, E31, E34, E35, E37; E40, E42; R21, R29, R59; BV01; 0; White Gel Pen

That's about it.   I'm going to submit this card to the following challenges:

Eureka Stamps - Anything Goes
House of Gilli - Add a Sentiment
Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes & Comment
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge - Anything Goes
Whoopsi Daisy - Include a Sentiment
Mad For Markers - Anything Goes with Markers
Mema's Crafts - Anything Goes with a twist of red
No Matter Which Challenges - Anything Goes
Stamptacular Sunday - Girl Image
The Crafty Pad - Dies and Punches

Thanks again for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I do appreciate each one.

On the Beach

Hello friends.  Happy to be back with you with another Gingerloft creation.  Our theme this time is to use something metal somewhere on your card.  Here's mine.

My image of course is from the Gingerloft store.  Tami has oodles of fabulous digital images for you.  Check out the store.

Materials Used:

• Sentiment - Stampin Up - Pursuit of Happiness stamped with Groovy Guava ink on SU Whisper White
• Cardstock - Xpress It Blending Card; Stampin Up, Summer Sun, Cool Caribbean.
• Designer Paper - Memory Keeper - Down the Boardwalk
• Ribbon - stash
• Flowers - Primas and Wild Orchid Crafts cherry blossoms
• Metal Flower - My Petite Jewelry
• Stampin Up - Dimensionals, label punch
• Copic markers - B0000; BG000, BG10; C1, C3, C5; E00, E11, E31, E33; E50, E53; Y11, Y13, Y15, Y17, Y18, Y19; YR01, YR02, YR04; YG09

Now, check out what the rest of the Gingerloft DT has created for your inspiration.  There is also a list over on my blog sidebar.

Next, let's see what you create.  You mght be the lucky winner this time.  Good luck.

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:
Allsorts challenge - metal on the card.
Craft Our Days Away - Anything Goes
Simply Stampin Challenge - Sketch
Craft Punked - Flower Power
Frosted Designs - Twine or Ribbon
Joyful Stamper - Anything Goes
The Stamp Man Challenge - Must use Metal
Sweet 'n Sassy Digi Challenge - Must use Flowers

Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I do so appreciate each one.


 

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Good morning friends.  So good to see you back here on a Wednesday for another Perfect Sentiment challenge!  This should be an easy one for you.  The challenge is to create a card with the sentiment of Thanks, and the twist is to use DOTS somewhere on your project.

Our sponsor this week is Crafty Sentiments Designs and one lucky winner will receive 3 free digital stamps from their store.

The ironic thing is that I submitted my last week's PSC card for their Clean and Simple challenge and I was the WINNER.  Just found out tonight, so I'm also going to be getting 3 free digis from their store!

Okay, coming down off of my winners high, here is my card for this week's PSC challenge.

For my card, I used one of Elisabeth Bell's stamps called Belinda With Teddy from Belles & Whistles.  Isn't she adorable.  She is stamped on Express It Blending Card and matted on Stampin Up Lavender Lace which is also used for the base of the card and for the sentiment mat.

My design is based on a sketch from Bev Rochester.  I love her blog All the Things I Love and follow her on a daily basis.

The sentiment is from Stampin Up's Fancy Flexible Phrases.  I love these little stamps and can usually find just the right sentiment for my cards.  It is stamped using SU Lavender Lace ink on SU Whisper White and then punched out using SU small oval.  The mat is punched with a Marvy small scallop oval punch.

The paper is from Stampin Up Woodland Walk.  I used a MS border punch for the mat under the dotted paper.  The ribbon is from my stash and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I used my Martha Stewart Leaf Branch punch for the leaves which are punched from Stampin Up Garden Green c/s.

If you need some more inspiration, you should pop on over to Perfect Sentiment Challenge blog and see what the rest of the Design Team is up to and then join in and link up your own creation for this week.  YOU could be the random lucky winner this week of those 3 digis from Crafty Sentiments or your card could be chosen as one of the Perfect 3.

I'm going to be submitting this card to the following challenges:
Can You Digi It - Purple Please
Cards and More - Anything Goes
Jackson Digital Expressions - Anything Goes
Stamp N Plus - Flowers
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
Paper Pretties - Anything Goes
Tammy's Scrapin Corner - Add Some Flowers
Whoopsi Daisy - Anything Goes


That's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I so appreciate the time it takes for you to do that.

Country Girl

Hello again to all my friends.  Yep, I've got yet another card to share with you.  It went together pretty well after I got the image colored and I really like how she turned out.  I was going for a leather look to her jacket and boots.  Wanted her to be a real Country Girl.

The image I used is one from Anne Fenton over at The Outlawz.  It's been awhile since I've been able to play in the Sunday Creative Freebie Challenge so this is one of the older images that I've been hoarding.

Before I get into the rest of the card, I wanted to mention that the layout is from this week's sketch at My Favorite Things - Wednesday Stamp Clug No. 84.

The sentiment is from Stampin Up - A Little Birthday Cheer which I stamped with SU Buckaroo Blue on SU Whisper White and then nipped the ends to make the banner.  I used SU Buckaroo Blue for the card base and the image and sentiment mats.  The image is printed on Xpress It Blending Card.  I dug into my SU dsp and pulled out the Western Sky collection and used the paper from that for the background and the striped piece across the bottom.  The strip of ribbon I believe is also from SU (Retired).  The fabric brads are from my stash.  I colored the image with my Copic markers:  Skin: E50, E51, E53, R81; Hair: Y11, Y15, Y19; Jacket and Boots:  E93, E97, E99, Y17, Y38; Blouse: R17; Jeans: B91, B93, B95; Fence: E43, E44, E57; Grass: YG05, YG09; Outline: B0000.

I'm submitting this card to the following challenges:
Paper Crafting Journey - Anything Goes
Crafts and Me - Use a Digi
Digi Stamps 4 Joy - Portrait of a Woman
Divas By Design - For a Female
My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club - Sketch
The Outlawz - Creative Freebie Challenge


That's it for today.  Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I really appreciate each one and your time for doing so.

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Welcome back to my blog and another Wednesday Perfect Sentiment Challenge.  I hope you all have been having a good week.  I'm still recovering from my Summer cold, but doing so much better, so much so that I've started working out again!  Feels so good to be moving this old body around.

Anyway, let's get to today's card.  Our challenge this week is to make a card with the Sentiment of Sympathy and the twist is to make it Clean and Simple - CAS!  I'm not so good at this.  I always think there is something missing when I get done and want to add more layers and more embellishments, but I stopped before it got out of hand.  Hehehe!

First I stamped my image which is "Wishing You" from Papertrey Ink.  The flower came in two pieces so I didn't have a problem stamping it in the two colors.  Although I didn't like it so much when I first stamped it, so I went over the images with my SU markers to give it more depth.  I used SU Orchid Opulence and Garden Green inks and markers.  I also wanted to add a little shading to it, so I broke out my Copics and used G17, YG09, and V04 also on the image.  Then I wanted to jazz it up a little bit so I used my SU Tulip Frame embossing folder to add the frame around the edge.  I had the ribbon in my stash and added that to my layer with just a knot.  Then adhered all of that to the SU Orchid Opulence card base.  I stamped the sentiment which was from the same set as the image using SU Orchid Opulence ink.  I just knew it wasn't quite finished, so I used my 2 Martha Stewart butterfly punches and punched the solid from the Orchid Opulence and the die cut from Basic Gray Plumeria.

Our sponsor this week is Shelly's Images and she is giving 1 free digi to one lucky winner.  You can't win if you don't enter!

So, next thing to do is to check out the rest of the DT and see what they've been up to.  You can find them on the blog roll on the left side of my blog or hop on over to Perfect Sentiment Challenge and see all the lovely creations they've come up with.  Then break out your crafting supplies and give it a go.  You may end up being the winner of this week's prize or be chosen as one of the Perfect 3.  Good luck!

I am submitting this card for the following challenges:

Crafty Sentiment - Clean and Simple
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Try it on Tuesday - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Lawnscaping Challenge - One Layer

Thanks again for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I do so appreciate all of them.

Back to School

It is getting closer to that time again when all the little children are heading back to the classrooms.  The summer sure has flown by.  I'm not sure I'm ready for the Fall/Winter just yet.  Here's a card that I made you could either tuck into your child's lunchbox on the first day of school so they will know you are thinking about them, or you could have your child give it to their teacher on the first day of school.  I know lots of crafters like to make little teacher gifts.

Materials Used:

• Image – Saturated Canary – Hillary
• Cardstock – Express It Blending Card and Stampin Up Buckaroo Blue
• Pattern Paper – Recollections – Back to School
• Ribbon – 3/8″ Red Satin and 1/8″ Red Satin
• Punches – Stampin Up Ticket Punch; Photo Corner Punch
• Copic Markers
• Adhesive – Double-sided tape; Zots small
• Mini Bowdabra
• Hair Bow Tool & Ruler

If you'd like to see how I made the bow, then you can hop on over to the Bowdabra Blog and check out the tutorial over there.

I'm going to submit this card to the following challenges:

Celebrate the Occasion - Back to School
Deep Ocean Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday - Focus on the Ribbon
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
Make It Monday - Anything Goes
The Outlawz Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

That's it for today.  Check back tomorrow for a new Perfect Sentiment challenge.  Thanks for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I do appreciate each one.

Sprinkles On Top

I finally have had a chance to play in another MFTWSC challenge.  I had this card made last week but had a busy weekend so I haven't had time to get it uploaded and it needed to be done before Tuesday.  I was really lucky a couple months ago and was able to get a package of stamps that one of the MFT DT's was weeding out of her collection.  This was one of the stamps.  I'm going to have so much fun using all the ones that I got.

The stamp is from the MFT Joline Sprinkles on Top set.  She's such a cutie.  I used Stampin Up Blushing Bride for the card base and Soft Sky for the image mount.  The dsp is from Michaels.  I stamped the image on Xpress It Blending Card and cut it out using my Nestabilities Classic Circle and the Lacy Scallop Circle for the mat.  The flower is from my stash.  The sentiment was stamped right on the image layer with Memento Black.  I used my Copics to color in the image -- B0000; BG01, BG10, BG11, BG15; E30, E31, E34, E50, E51, E53; E71, E74, E79; R01, R32, R81, R83, Y02, Y13, Y19, Y38. 

I'm submitting this for the following challenges:

Dream Valley Challenges - Die cuts & Punches
Fashionable Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes
No Matter Which Challenges - Anything Goes
Quirky Crafts - Must have a Cupcake
2 Sisters Challenge - Anything Goes
Challenge Up Your Life - Everything Goes
Crafty Ann's - Circles
Fat Pages With Attitude - Anything Goes
Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy - Cupcakes
The Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Anything Goes
The Stamp Man Challenges - Anything Goes

That's all for today.  Thanks so much for stopping by and leaving your comments.  I do appreciate each one of you.  Hope you have a fabulous week!