Sketch cards

Good morning! I hope you are all having a good day. Guess what? I finally ordered some Copic markers! OMG, I am so excited! I've been dying to get some for a while, but I was scared to start buying them and then getting sucked in and feeling like I need them all, which I'm sure will happen . I got 16, so I'm hoping I can get by for a while with those colors. I can't wait to get them! They shipped yesterday!

Yesterday my best friend Caroline came over to stamp with me. I managed to get two cards done! Both of them use the CPS sketch from last week-CPS90. I LOVE this sketch! It's so versatile, and has a bunch of layers.

The image on the first card I made few weeks ago. Just one of those things I couldn't figure out what in the heck to do with.

My blog is doing that double spacing junk again, but it's so weird! It's only doing it under the pictures. It's fine where I'm typing right now. It won't let me change the size of the text down there either, but it will let me change the font and the color. So anyway, I just didn't skip spaces, because it was just too long!

-Stamps-Inkadinkado Dogs, Upsy Daisy -Paper-PTI white, Basic Black, and Pink Pirouette cardstock; Pink Pirouette patterns DSP.-Ink-Palette black, Pink Pirouette -Accessories-blender pen, offray ribbon, paper piercer, mat pack.

-Stamps-Season of Joy, PTI Take a Bough -Paper-Real Red, Old Olive and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP -Ink-Real Red, Old Olive -Accessories-Old Olive 1/4" grosgrain.

Oh, and I got two blog awards. I always forget about these things. Normally when I get one, I just keep telling myself I'll post it later, but by the time later comes, I forget !

I got The Kreativ Blogger award from Cheryl. Thanks Cheryl! You can check out her blog HERE.

Tiffany sent me the I love your blog award. Thanks Tiffany! You can see her blog HERE.

Make sure you check them out! I'm tellin' ya, their blogs are great! Okay, so now I'm supposed to pass each of these on to five other people, but I'm gonna be lazy instead haha. I'm tired, and I think most of you have already received these anyway. Besides, it's way too hard to pick my favorite blogs! My favorites grow like everyday!

Skiing Penguin =)

Love this penguin! =)I used Jen Del Muro's Sketch for this card. I've been seeing awesome cards with this sketch and have been meaning to try it.

-Stamps-Inkadinkado Penguin Pandemonium, and Papertrey Take a Bough

-Paper-Riding Hood Red, Whisper White and Kraft cardstock; Riding Hood Red patterns and Summer Picnic DSP.

-Ink-Palette Black, Riding Hood Red and Old Olive

-Accessories-Elmer's glue, Martha Stewart glitter, 1 3/8 & 1 1/4 circle punches.

I don't know whats up with the double spacing..It's only doing it when I skip a space. Can't figure out how to get rid of it. Hope your having a great day!

Stamp Something Challenge 21

Happy Friday! Becky Carafa is hosting this weeks Stamp Something Challenge. Her challenge to us is Fancy Folds. The possibilities are endless, and you might even learn something new. Check out the tutorials on SCS if you need some ideas. I did the triangle fold.

I was having a heck of a time taking a picture of this thing open. Sorry I couldn't get a better one.

-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Riding Hood Red and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Riding Hood Red, Old Olive and Close to Cocoa & Going gray marker

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the team came up with on the Stamp Something Blog.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

It won't be too much longer, and I've still got a lot of cards to make. I like to make them all different, but this year there may have to be some duplicates.

So I guess you can see I haven't put away my sewing machine from the card I posted Tuesday. That dang this is heavy though! I keep meaning to get one of those little ones. Anyway, I got a little crazy with the glitter too =). On this one I painted Elmer's glue using a paint brush on the snow, the snowmen and a little on the tree.
-Stamps-Wishing you Cheer, PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Real Red, Soft Sky, and Whisper White
-Ink-Soft Sky and Real Red
-Accessories-Soft Sky reinker and Blender pen, Glue Dots, sewing machine and white thread, Elmer's Glue, paint brush, Martha Stewart glitter: Crystal Coarse, Crystal Fine and Carrara Marble.


Yeah, so this one is pretty overdone. My plan was to put the stitching where you see it closest to the outside. Just one go around, not two. I accidentally sewed the Real Red to the Old Olive, which just looked really funny to me, so I decided to go ahead and sew that piece to the base, even though I knew it would probably come out overdone.
-Stamps-Season of Joy, Many Merry Messages
-Paper-Real Red, Old Olive and Whisper White
-Ink-Old Olive, Summer Sun, Real Red and Close to Cocoa
-Accessories-Martha Stewart Glitter Crystal Fine, Elmer's Glue, paint brush, Sewing Machine and thread.

Awesome One Sheet Wonder

Good afternoon! The other day I saw a link somewhere to THIS one sheet wonder in the Verve forum on SCS. It's great! All you need is one sheet of 6 X 6 double sided DSP, and some cardstock to make 4 cards.

I always forget that the Dashing DSP has Very Vanilla in it, instead of Whisper White so on 3 of the 4 cards I used WW until I realized it, lol.
-Stamps-Holiday Blocks (retired), Many Merry Messages
-Paper-Real Red, Old Olive, River Rock and Whisper White cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Real Red
-Accessories-Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain

I just inked up part of the image on this one my markers.
-Stamps-Season of Joy
-Paper-Real Red, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Real Red and Old Olive markers
-Accessories-Real Red 1/4" Grosgrain


-Stamps-Holiday Tag Team, Many Merry Messages
-Paper-Real Red, and Whisper White cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Real Red; Real Red, Old Olive and Basic Black markers.

The poinsettia is was stamped in classic Real Red, but it was still so wet after I stamped it, I was about to heat set it so I wouldn't smear it, and decided to just emboss it with clear EP instead. Then I gently curled the edges and put Stampin' Dimensionals underneath, along with the three layers underneath.

-Stamps-Season of Joy, PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Real Red, River Rock, Old Olive and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Real Red and Old Olive
-Accessories-Clear EP, Stampin' Dimensionals, Sewing machine and red thread

More Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch cards

Whew! I'm all done with the Verve sketches. I'm so glad I did them. They really got my mojo going! Anyway, here are the last 6 .


-Stamps-Fabulous Flowers, Much Appreciated
-Paper-Soft Sky, Groovy Guava, Whisper White and Purely Pomegranate
-Ink-Purely Pomegranate
-Accessories-Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon, hole punch, Stampin Dimensionals

I don't have nestabilities yet (or anyway to make an oval for that matter) but I got some in a RAK a while back. I didn't have the right colors, so I traced and cut them out in case your wondering why they look so bad .

-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-Old Olive, Real Red and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive and Real Red
-Accessories-Corner rounder punch, Real Red grosgrain

-Stamps-Doodle This
-Paper-Soft Sky, Groovy Guava and Whisper white cardstock; Cutie Pie DSP
-Ink-Groovy Guava, Purely Pomegranate, So Saffron and Staz-on
-Accessories-Aqua Painter, Black Brads, Martha Stewart glitter, Stampin Dimensionals and SAB rub-ons

-Stamps-Tart & Tangy, Impression Obsession Cupcakes (sentiment)
-Paper-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White cardstock; Summer Picnic DSP
-Ink-Real Red, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive
-Accessories-Pumpkin Pie ribbon, Stampin Dimensionals, 1 1/4 & 1 3/8 circle punches

-Stamps-Wild About You, It's Your Birthday
-Paper-Ruby Red, Old Olive and Whisper White cardstock; Certainly Celery and So Saffron Prints DSP
-Ink-Old Olive
-Accessories-, So Saffron Ribbon, 1 1/4 circle punch.

-Stamps-Seeing Spots
-Paper-So Saffron, Purely Pomegranate and Whisper White cardstock; Bali Breeze DSP
-Ink-So Saffron and Purely Pomegranate
-Accessories-Jumbo brads (not sure what brand), Stampin' Dimensionals 1 1/4 & 1 3/8 circle punches and Scallop punch.


Not sure what takes longer...making a card or posting it

Anni-VERVE-sary Sketch cards

Verve Stamps is celebrating their year anniversary, so they are doing 12 days of sketches, and let me tell ya, the sketches are great! I did three of them last night.-Stamps- PTI Take A Bough
-Paper- Real Red, Old Olive, River Rock and Very Vanilla cardstock; Dashing DSP.
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, Real Red
-Accessories-1/2" circle punch, Corner rounder punch and Real Red grosgrain.
-Stamps-PTI Papertrey
-Paper-Whisper White, Pumpkin Pie and Purely Pomegranate cardstock; Bali Breeze DSP and Bashful Blue prints DSP
-Ink-Pumpkin Pie
-Accessories-Pumpkin Pie grosgrain, Flower Fusion and Styled Silver HPH.
-Stamps-Priceless
-Paper-Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranate, Groovy Guava and Whisper White cardstock; Fall Flowers DSP
-Ink- Purely Pomegranate and Groovy Guava
-Accessories-Purely Pomegranate double stitched ribbon, SAB rub-on's.

New Stamps!!

Can you believe they aren't Stampin Up ? Yep, I finally let temptation take over and I ordered from Papertrey Ink and Impression Obsession. As soon as the PTI owl set gets back in stock I'll order that too. I don't even remember the last time I bought any stamps that weren't SU. Anyway, so needless to say my blog won't be SU only anymore, but I'm sure it will still be mostly SU. I just decided there is no point in limiting myself to one company, especially since I'm pretty mcuh my only customer. Now that I've tried UM stamps, I'm serously considering unmounting all of my SU stamps too. I still can't get over the tiny amount of space that UM take up. Anway, here are a few cards I made yesterday with Take a Bough from PTI.-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-PTI white, Real Red
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, River Rock and Real Red
-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-PTI white, Real Red, Old Olive cardstock; Dashing DSP
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, River Rock and Real Red
-Accessories-1 3/8 circle punch and scallop circle punch.
-Stamps-PTI Take a Bough
-Paper-PTI white
-Ink-Close to Cocoa, Old Olive, River Rock and Real Red