Success & Dreams

"Tis the season for all kinds of celebrations, and I am trying to be ahead of the game. This is a graduation card for a friend's daughter.. her school colors are green & white. I love this new set from Papertrey Ink called "For the Graduate", and when I saw Jen del Muro's Skipping Stones Designs guest designer sketch for this week, I knew they would go together nicely. I really love this sketch.

There is some detail that you can't really see in the photo, but they really enhanced this card. The cap & tassel are stamped twice in black and cut out. I colored the cut out with a black gel glaze pen to give it some shine & texture. Also, the black circle in the middle of the focal point is cut from black glitter paper that I got at Target a while ago. I also used that paper for the star that is popped up on the greeting band. I am happy with the way it all came together.

Ingredients:

Stamps ~ Papertrey Ink's "For the Graduate".

Paper ~ Papertrey Ink White cardstock. Basic Black, Certainly Celery, Yo Yo Yellow, black glitter (unknown source), BasicGrey Origins DP.

Ink ~ Versafine Onyx Black.

Accessories ~ Nestabilities, Papertrey Ink Matstack 1 Die, Dimensionals, Swiss Dots EF, Sakura black glaze gel pen, atyou spica glitter pen, SY star punch.

Thanks for looking...

Dip It In Chocolate

I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #70 for this card. I had fun with it! I just love MFT Who's That Girl, and I love to paper piece. I came up with this creation using that combination.

I am trying to use up some old DSP. I chose Berry Bliss because it feels chocolate-y to me. I used some gold metallic paper I had in my Creative Memories paper stash for the box. I was thinking Godiva... I colored the chocolates with Copics and then I put a dot of white Liquid Applique on top of each chocolate and puffed them up with my heat gun to make it look like icing or marshmallow. I then added a dot of red on each puff with a Copic marker to make it look like a cherry. Fun! Thanks for stopping by today. It is a beautiful day here in Central NJ...

Here are the ingredients:

Stamps ~ MFT Who's That Chocoholic and Clearly Sentimental About Chocolate (Link unavailable at time of this posting).

Paper ~ Papertrey Ink White Cardstock, Purely Pomegranate, Close to Cocoa, Berry Bliss DSP.

Ink ~ Memento Rick Cocoa, VersaFine Vintage Sepia, Close to Cocoa.

Accessories ~ Purely Pomegranate 3/8" double striped grosgrain ribbon, Dimensionals, copper brads, Sponge, Copics, Liquid Applique, heat gun.

Time For Cake!

This is my take on this week's MFT Wednesday Stamp Club sketch, MFTWSC040710. I really enjoyed this one. I need a birthday card for my niece, and this is perfect for her.

I paper pieced this wonderful WTG image from MFT's "Lovin From The Oven" set (link to image not available at the time of this posting) with Basic Grey's Nook & Pantry DP, then I colored the skin and the spoon with Copics. I colored the inside of the bowl with copics to give the illusion of "batter" and to give it a little dimension, then I stamped some chocolate chips inside the bowl. I also added some dots to the outside of the bowl with a Copic marker to give it some texture. I used MFT's "Make The Date" for the words "Time" & "For", and "Lovin from the Oven" for the word "Cake".

The full list of ingredients are:

Stamps ~ MFT Lovin From the Oven and Make the Date.

Ink ~ Soft Suede, Memento Tuxedo Black.

Paper ~ Basic Grey's Nook & Pantry, Dusty Durango, Soft Suede, Chocolate Chip, Wild Wasabi, Neenah Solar White.

Accessories ~ Dimensionals, Nestabilities, Dusty Durango 1/2" Polka Dot grosgrain ribbon, Copics, 1 1/2" Aluminum White Circle Metal Edge Tag, Linen Thread.

Thanks for stopping in...

Easter Wishes

I started this card before I left with my family for vacation to Southern California just before Easter. I planned to use Mercy's Tuesday Sketch Challenge #67 for the layout, but I only got as far as the focal point before I left.

Yesterday I finished the card with inspiration from the OCC, as this week's challenge is to incorporate a bow on your card/project. Easter Was a week ago, I know, but I will save this for next year. I love the colors and I love the egg wreath from Verve's Easter Joy set. Here are the ingredients for my card:

Stamps ~ Verve's Easter Joy, SU All Holidays.

Paper ~ Cameo Coral, Elegant Eggplant, Tea Party DSP, Neenah Solar White.

Ink ~ Memento Tuxedo Black, Cameo Coral, Elegant Eggplant.

Accessories ~ Nestabilities, Dimensionals, Pink Pirouette 5/8" striped grosgrain ribbon, Elegant Eggplant 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, SU Border Punch, Sticky Strip, Hero Arts self adhesive crystals.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Spring Joy

Isn't this little guy adorable?? I am still in need of some Easter cards, so I pulled out my Spring Homespun Cotton Scraps from Crafty Secrets for an idea for a quick card. Earlier this evening, I was perusing the Color Throwdown Blog for some inspiration, and I noticed that the colors in this little chick image went perfectly with Color Throwdown #85. Then I saw Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #66, and voila! My card came together rather quickly. That hardly ever happens with me! Here is Mercy's wonderful sketch...

...and here is Color Throwdown #85.

It all went together very well and now I have another Easter card finished! Here are the supplies that I used:

Paper~Baja Breeze, Garden Green, Certainly Celery, Not Quite Navy, White.

Stamps~None.

Ink~None.

Accessories~Cuttle Bug/EF, SU Scallop Border & Corner punches, Dimensionals, Crafty Secrets Homespun Cotton Scraps-Spring, Certainly Celery 5/8" grosgrain ribbon.

Thanks for stopping in today!

C4C Easter

This week's challenge over at the Crazy 4 Challenges Blog is the sketch above. I have to laugh at myself... even though this is supposed to be "CLEAN & SIMPLE", it still took me a long time to get the color combo right and fuss with all of the elements until I was satisfied with it. In the end, I like the way it turned out. The base of the card is Perfect Plum, topped with a layer of Apricot Appeal. The DP is from Papertrey Ink's "Egg Hunt" collection. The image is one that I have had in my stash for a long time by Inkadinkado. I colored it with Copics on Neenah Solar White and matted it on Green Galore, Bashful Blue and Perfect Plum. The sentiment is from SU's "A Good Egg". Thanks for stopping in today!

Happy Easter Chickie!!

Happy Spring! The weather here in NJ has been just gorgeous these past few days. I hope we don't see another snow flake before the lion has turned all the way to lamb. This week's challenge over at Our Creative Corner is to make a spring/Easter themed card or project. I was inspired to try some new things with this one. This is my first digi stamp project. This adorable Pure Innocence image is from Heather Ellis.

For the layout, I used Jen Del Muro's SFYTT from 3/13/2010. It is such a fun sketch, and I though it would work well with my little chickie.

I also tried a new technique for popping images outside the boundaries of your Nestabilities. Click HERE to view the Youtube video tutorial on this technique. I used my new egg die , Egg Hunt Stamps and Egg Hunt Patterned Paper from Papertrey Ink. All so fun! I just love this little girl, and I love the way this card came out. New toys, new technique, new season. Here are the ingredients:

Papers-Elegant Eggplant, Barely Banana, Neenah Solar White, Egg Hunt patterned paper.

Ink-VersaFine Onyx Black, Versa Mark.

Stamps-Pure Innocence PI025, Egg Hunt, SU's A Good Egg.

Accessories-Nestabilities, white embossing powder, heat tool, Dimensionals, mat pack & piercing tool, Sakura white glaze pen, Copic markers, Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie & Old Olive 1/4" grosgrain ribbon, Hero Arts acid free adhesive crystals.