Inkspirations Sketch #69

I'm so sorry, everyone.   I had my post all scheduled and done on Wednesday, but with the recent problems Blogger has had, my post went into cyber land never to return so I've had to redo the post - ugh!

Once again Keesh has come up with a wonderful sketch.  I am hopelessly addicted to these new Verve flowers and dies, so used them once again on this card.  However, you will be glad to know I have imposed a hiatus from them for at least my next three cards LOL!

This card is for my mom's birthday this month.  We have two May birthdays in our family and due to everyone's schedule, can't get together until the end of May so they get birthday month :) 

The background is embossed with the Nat embossing folder and I used the SCS Color Challenge from this week as I loved the colour combo. That and the fact I haven't played along with it forever!  Looking at the picture, I noticed the ruffled ribbon had a mind of its own so it's a bit wonky - sorry, didn't catch that when I first posted and don't have time to retake a picture right now.  I'll have to redo it before I give it to mom.  This also qualifies for There's Magic In The Air Embossing challenge.

The rest of the Design Team has some fabulous cards for your inspiration.

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

In addition, each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to have you come and play along :).

Thanks for stopping in today and have a fabulous weekend :)




What's In It?
Stamps: (Verve) BLoom and Grow, Love Deepens
Paper:  Blushing Bride, Certainly Celery, So Saffron
Ink:  So Saffron, More Mustard, Black, VersaMark
Accessories: Lacy Square Nesties, Nat Embossing Folder, (Verve) Circle Flower Dies, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, 5/8" Saffron Satin Ribbon, Half  Pearls, Dimensionals

Mojo 189

I am scrambling to get this Mojo Monday sketch up before the deadline!!  Just 15 minutes to go, so this will be short and sweet for now.

Loved the sketch and was so happy to be able to use these wonderful My Mind's Eye Stella Rose DPs.  Totally yummy colours!

The circle just screamed flowers to me so no need to twist my rubber arm as to whether I would use my new Verve flowers and dies.  Sorry, can't help myself....love my Verve flowers too much and since it is Mother's Day, I'm treating myself to another card using them :)  Keep them coming, Julee LOL!

The cream panels at the top and bottom of the card looked a bit plain so rather than emboss them I decided to distress them instead (just for you, Andrea).  I'm quite happy with the outcome and now must await the verdict from Julee. Don't know how she does it with so many fabulous entries - I'm sure it is not easy!  This card also qualifies for the Paper and Such challenge of making a birthday card.

For those of you who are wondering, we survived our weekend of cooking for the youth.  I think the best part of the weekend was seeing both my kids helping with prep on Friday and then my daughter being an amazing help all Saturday (about 12 hours worth!) as she is now too old for the retreat (my son got to partake in it).   They rolled about 600 meatballs and we baked over 600 cookies on Friday.   Serving together as a family was delightful fun, provided us with wonderful memories and gave me the best Mother's Day gift I could have asked for - family time and seeing my kids growing up and learning what it means to serve others.  Yup, my mommy heart is pretty full to overflowing today :)





What's In It?
Stamps:  (Verve) Bloom and Grow, Great Friend (sentiment)
Paper:  My Mind's Eye Stella Rose, Real Red So Saffron, More Mustard, Early Espresso, Cream Linen
Ink:  Early Espresso, Close to Cocoa, Real Red
Accessories:  SU Border Punch, (Verve) Elegant Leaves  and  Floral Circles Die, Script Embossing Folder, (SU) Large and Small Oval Punches, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Twine, (SU) Distressing Tool, Half Pearls, Dimensioanls

Second Annual There She Goes Blog Hop

Welcome to day two of the second annual Mother of All Blog Hops sponsored by There She Goes stamps. If you have come here from Tammy Hershberger's blog you are right on track.  If you just happened across the Hop, simply go to the There She Goes blog to start the Hop and to find out what is required to be eligible for the prizes being offered.

Each Hop participant was to chose a There She Goes set to showcase in their post, and as you can see, I chose Sweet Peas.  I absolutely love this image and the accompanying sentiments are great. 


I got my inspiration from last week's Limelight sketch.  I didn't add the inner circle as my image wouldn't fit the card if I did so (where is a Grand Caliber Scalloped circle nestie when you need one lol) but the rest of the card does follow the sketch.

The sweet peas are coloured with Twinkling H2Os and I stamped, coloured and cut out three additional flowers and popped them up for some dimension.  A little piece of sheer pink and white polka dotted ribbon, some black accents and I can smell the sweet peas in my mind :)   Such a lovely scent which reminds me of my mom who always grows them in her garden and has a little bouquet of them in a vase on her counter.

Now it is time to hop on over the the uber talented Iwona Palamountain's blog to see what she has created for your viewing pleasure.  Thanks so much for stopping by today and a huge Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out there (((hugs)))! 




What's In It?
Stamps: (There She Goes) Sweet Peas
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Rose Romance, Certainly Celery, Black
Ink: Black
Accessories: Lacy Circle and Circle Nesties, Twinkling H2Os, PTI Medium Scallop Die, Sheer Pink, White Polka Dotted Ribbon, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Half  Pearls, Dimensionals

Inkspirations Color Challenge #68

Keesh has chosen some lovely spring colours for us to play with this week.  Loved using them together :) 

I'm still addicted to using these wonderful Verve flowers and matching die.  They are so easy to use and you can layer them as much or as little as you like.  I used all three layers for this flower as well as the elegant leaf die.

Believe it or not, I actually skewed the panels all by my lonesome.  Had them straight to start with and while fiddling around with the card they separated and I thought they looked better skewed.  Wonders never cease LOL!

The Design Team has some fabulous cards for your inspiration.

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

In addition, each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to have you come and play along :).

Thanks for stopping in today and I hope to be back sooner than later.  Have a fabulous weekend!

What's In It?

Stamps:  (Verve) Bloom and Grow, memory Box (sentiment), (SU) French Script Background Stamp
Paper: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, Pretty in Pink DSP, 

Ink: Black, Pretty in Pink, Bashful Blue, VersaMark

Accessories: Martha Stewart Butterfly and Border Punch,  Verve Floral Circles and Elegant Leaf Dies, Half Pearls, Dimensionals

SImple Mother's Day Card

I'm on a Mother's Day card run right now and this is a CAS one for you today.  Lots of punches used and one that is easy and quick to make :)   Even gave up some of my Mellow Moss stash for this card LOL!

Short and sweet today as there is a lot on my plate.  Thanks for coming by :)




What's In It?
Stamps: Memory Box, (SU) French Script Background

Paper: Pretty in Pink, Mellow Moss, So Saffron
Ink: Black
Accessories: Martha Stewart Border Punch and Leaf Punch, Labels 14 Nesties, SU Flower Punch, Circle Punch, 5/8" Sheer White Ribbon, Half Pearls

Mojo Monday Revisited

I loved this Mojo sketch so much I decided to make the square version as well!   I can see them becoming some go to sketches for me.

I started out with this Provo Craft DP and just had to use my new Verve flowers and dies on it.  Love the last Verve release as there are lots of great Vervalicous flowers - happy sigh.... :)   The best part is there are coordinating dies for the flowers and the large leaf image - double happy sigh :)

This card has very little stamping but lots of dies and punches.  The flower is a combination of So Saffron and More Mustard and I used Versamark on celery card stock for the leaves.  It is so nice not having to hand cut those leaves - thank you Julee!!   Fiddled with what to put where the ribbon is on the sketch because the sentiment  panel threw things off a bit.  Believe it or not, my hubby is the one that suggested a butterfly in lieu of the ribbon and he is  now quite proud of himself  :)  Had to giggle about it because he said if anyone comments on how nice the butterfly looks he had better get the credit - thus credit is being given in advance LOL!

Thanks so much for popping by today :)





What's In It?
Stamps:  (Verve) Bloom and Grown, (SU) Fancy Flexible Phrases
Paper: Almost Amethyst, Certainly Celery, Provo Craft DP
Ink: So Saffron, More Mustard, VersaMark, Black
Accessories:  (SU) Small Oval Punch and Border Punch, Verve Flower Die and Elegant Leaf Die, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Scalloped Circle and Circle Nesties, Half Pearls, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch, Dimensionals

There She Goes April Sketch

 

This week's There She Goes sketch was a fun one to work with.  Love how you can dress it up as much or as little as you want to.

I decided to combine this sketch with this week's Color Throwdown as they had some wonderful earthy colours to play along with and it was perfect for this cute little gnome image from My Little Friend.

I coloured the image with Twinkling H2Os and my white gel pen came to the rescue for a slight colouring booboo the cat caused by jumping up on my desk while I was colouring the image.  Typical cat, has to be the center of attention and check out what is diverting my attention from him!  Needless to say, my payback was giving him a good brushing shortly thereafter LOL!

Next week and weekend are going to be very busy as hubby and I are once again cooking for the youth retreat at the church next Friday and Saturday.  There will most likely be 150 hungry mouths to feed and there is lots of shopping and prep to get done so things may a bit quiet here next week unless I get a chance to do some stamping this weekend so I can schedule a few posts.  We are always exhausted on the Sunday after all that work involved, and being that it is Mother's Day, I think the best gift I could get would be some quiet time reading a book in bed LOL!  Mind you hubby is usually in much worse shape than I am (he is the main cook, I'm seus chef , prep and clean up girl) so my guess is I'll be entertaining the kids for a good part of the day and will have to take a rain cheque on my reading in bed.  Or, maybe I can trade my hours in bed reading for a larger Mother's Day stamping gift....hmmm....that would be a great way to put a dint in my ever growing wish lists! 

Okay, I've blabbered on long enough!  Hope you are having a fabulous weekend and thanks for sharing a bit of yours with me :)




What's In It?
Stamps: (There She Goes) My Little Friend

Paper: Crushed Curry, Recollections DP, Chocolate Chip, Pear Pizzaz
Ink: Black
Accessories:  Martha Stewart Border Punhc, Scalloped Circle and Circle Nesties, 1" Greeen Grosgrain Ribbon, Raffia, Button, Half Pearls, Glue Dots, Dimensionals

Inkspirations Sketch #67

I combined Keesh's sketch this week with a Scrapmaster's Paradise color combination from last week.  I obviously missed the submission deadline, but loved the colour combination so decided to use it.

Out came one of my favorite Stampin' Up flower sets, Vintage Vogue.  I just love the flowers in the set and how you can layer them.  The Night of Navy panel has French Script on it, I cripmed the saffron panel for some dimension and texture as I didn't have a DP that would work, and added some flowers and ribbon to finish things off.   I just noticed I fudged the sketch a bit once again this week!  I'm obviously not paying close enough attention these days - sorry, Keesh!

The Design Team has some fabulous cards, which will most likely follow the sketch a bit better, for your inspiration.

Cindy Kirsty Makeesha Renée Brandi Carrie Helen Ilina Lee-Anne Marisa

Each week Keesh will select a winner and an honorable mention and post their cards on the Inkspirations Challenge blog.  We'd love to have you come and play along and see your card featured :).

Wishing you a fabulous day and a great weekend!  We are hosting Easter dinner on Monday and our son and some of the youth are doing a God Rod performance as part of the church's Easter performance.  Can't wait to see it as he is the lead in their performance!   I'm sure I'll be beaming and telling you all about it in a few days - be forewarned LOL! 

What's In It?

Stamps:  (Stampin' Up) Vintage Vogue, French Script Background
Paper: Night of Navy, So Saffron, 

Ink:  Black, Night of Navy, So Saffron, VersaMark

Accessories: Lacy Circle Nesties, Crimper, 5/8" Grosgrain Ribbon, Button, Twine, Glue Dots, Half Pearls, Dimensionals

Kitties for Jen

This is my card for this month's Sketch For Your To Try.   It never ceases to amaze me how quickly a month can go by!  Seems like just yesterday when it was the beginning of April!

I decided to use this adorable kitty image from There She Goes Catitude set.  Love this set, especially since we have a cat and my daughter is cat crazy :)   SO many fun images and sentiments that are "all cat" LOL!

I coloured the image with Twinkling H2Os and just had to use this paw print DP :)   Played around with which colours to use for some time and finally settled on these as pink and turquoise were just a bit too much for me this morning LOL!  A touch of twine adn a few dew drops (remember those LOL) and I called it a card.

Have a purrrrrfect day :)





What's In It?
Stamps:  (There She Goes) Catitude
P aper:  Certainly Celery, So Saffron, Cat Print DP, Brown  
Ink: Black
Accessories:  Twinkling H2Os, Pink Bakers' Twine, Dew Drops, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Paper Piercer, Dimensinals

Mojolicious Diva Dare

Absolutely LOVE this week's Mojo sketch! So much so, that I think I will make a square card as well!

My starting point was this yummy Fancy Pants Gerber Daisy DP.  Sure wish it hadn't been the last piece and with flowers and Spring come butterflies, right....?!  At least they do in my book and it is a great excuse to pull out this wonderful butterfly die.

I pulled my colours from the DP -- sure wish this hadn't been the last piece on the shelf as I would have stocked up! - and just had to use my lacy nesties again...I know, it's an addiction LOL!  Paired it with long standing Swiss Dots embossing folder addiction and some paper roses from Michael's.  Just realized this card has no stamping on it!  Doesn't happen very often, that's for sure! 

This card also qualifies for this week's Shabby Tea Room challenge to use butterflies (easy peasy for me LOL!) and Verve's current Diva Dare.  Though black isn't really a spring colour, butterflies and flowers sure are, so I think I can sneak it in :)  Will no doubt make a second one as I love my Verve flowers, and with this month's fabulous release of flowers and matching dies, I can't wait to use my new goodies to make another card for this Diva Dare that is perfect for me :)

Wishing you a day filled with sunshine and a few butterflies ane flowers too :)




What's In It?
Paper: Black, Fancy Pants Gerber Daisy DP, So Saffron, Very Vanilla
Accessories:  Lacy Circle and Circlel Nesties, SU Sizzex Butterfly Die, SU Scalloped Border Punch, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, 5/8" Saffron Satin Ribbon, Recollections Roses, Half Pearls, Button, Twine, Glue Dots, Dimensionals