Mojo71, another Valentine

Another MojoMonday sketch from the very talented Julee.  She provides a sketch every Monday on her blog, Mojo Monday, that I like to have a go at.  I always feel that I work a little harder on these sketches and usually like the outcome. Here is mine for week #71, very pink and green.  This is the very first time I have ever used rub-ons.  I have been wary to use them as I don't consider them a handmade art form, but these were so pretty and I have had them for over a year, so I decided to (gasp!) use them.

The card base is a rice textured Bazzil tea green cs.  I used the swirls Cuttlebug folder on a third of the card.  The dp i used for this was another coveted item from my stash, some Cloud 9 Design "Be Loved" sparkle paper that went with the rub ons.  You see, I seem to have the "whole set" syndrome at times...  The rub ons are framed with some pretty swirly brackets from Cuttlebug and pasted on and secured with Making Memories pink brads.  I also used a Cuttlebug knotted frame that I mounted the sentiment on another Cloud 9 dp in the same series and framed it with my nestabilities square dies.  The ribbon is pink taffeta from SU! Here is a close-up of the framed sentiment.  Hope you like this.  Thanks for checking in,

Chriss

OCCC Cupcakes and Hearts

This is my try at Our Creative Corner's sketch challenge.  Here is a close-up of the little cupcakes, cut out, heart brad in place of the cherry and mounted with dimensionals. This was a little of a challenge cutting out all of the little cupcakes!  As you can see, I stamped them on my designer paper in craft chocolate chip and then embossed them.  I then took a blender pen and dipped it into my chocolate chip re-inker and painted on the frosting and embossed again.  Then the cutting...

I arranged them on another same image already stamped and embossed on some very vanilla card stock.  I decided that the cupcake stand needed a lace doily(MS lace border punch) and then added another layer of the vanilla cs that I punched with my SU! scallop border punch.  I used the Spellbinder Nestabilities oval dies for all of the framing.  Hope you like it!  Thanks for looking and have a great day! 

  

Warm and Loving Hearts

Welcome to my blog :)!  

This is my first post and I must say, I have been thinking about a blog for quite some time now.  It seems everyone has one and I know that I enjoy "visiting" quite a few out there.  You can see the places I like to frequent on the side bar...

Here is what I created this morning (and I must admit, it took me longer than I wish to admit) for SC213.  Sketch challenges are my favourite and I try to participate in as many as I can each week. 

The stamps I used are SU! Happy Hearts and Loving Hearts, two older sets that I still like.  The ink used for the inside heart is a retired In Color, Cranberry Crisp.

Here is a close up of the tag that was stamped in SU! craft chocolate chip and then the hearts were filled with MS glittering glue and some SU! red glitter. The base of the card is very vanilla, topped with a textured Bazzil brown and then cranberry crisp.  The designer paper is from Scribble Scrabble, Betty's Collection.  I think the colours work well for a Valentine theme.  Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss