Anni-VERVE-sary sketch challenges

Happy AnniVervesary!  I was able to make a card for each of the 5 sketches that Julee issued earlier this week so here goes,

This first one uses the Verve sentiment from Harvest Blessings and paper from MemoryBox "Blackbird".  The card stock is PTI Terra Cotta and the shaped edges were made with a Labels Spellbinder that I stamped with the Verve wheat.

The border is the branches from MS and I layered it with a trim that I bought at HL.  The ink that I used is SU basic brown. 

This second one was quite hard to photograph...

The textured card stock is a Bazzil that matches perfectly with the Basic Grey Indian Summer.  I stamped the beautiful Harvest Blessings in SU basic brown and used some Martha punches for the oak and fern punched shapes.  The flower is from a trim that I also got at HL.

This really is a nice card in person, not so much on this screen...

This next card was made for a friend's birthday.  She is a blue lover but I also threw in some rich yellow to go with the pretty geometric DCWV mat stack.  I stamped Julee's flower from Wishful Elegance three times on different papers and cut out.  I also punched out a small circle of the geometric and cut out a small flower from another sheet.

The Birthday Wishes sentiment is also from the Wishful Elegance set and I layered it onto two mega scalloped Nestability ovals.  The border punch is the MS hydrangeas.  I did a little stitching on the blue panel and added a delicate triangular white lace.

The square that the flower sits on was distressed with a T!m Holtz tool.

Here is a CAS with texture card for this sketch.  It is a simple thank you and the sentiment is a thank you from a Verve order.  Julee alway's includes a little something...sweet!

The sentiment is layered onto a Sissix die from the SU lots of labels set.  The half flowers are some crape myrtle bark from my backyard that I used a PTI flower die on.  I am really amazed at the natural aqua colour on this bark!  The patterned papers are from DCWV "Home" and the cs is PTI Aqua Mist.

This last card uses some more DCWV Home paper, SU River Rock and PTI Ocean that I put through a Damsk ef.  I layered two buttons at the top left corner of the solid panel and put a tiny silk ribbon through.  The flourishes are also Verve from the "One Person" set as is the sentiment and frame.

Thanks for taking a peek,

Have a great weekend and have fun tonight with the Verve release!

JustRite photo inspiration

Happy Sunday all!
It's still quite a bit warm here and should remain for, well probably 'til October ;)  
I like warm weather, so I am quite ok with that.
Even though it is warm, I had to make a Christmas quilt like card for the JustRite inspiration photo challenge #30.  It has some of my favourite colours in it and I got to use my favourite right now wintery paper from MemoryBox that I purchased at Ellen Hutson's.  I will be submitting this card too for the flower parade Ellen is having because I think these octagon die cut birdie topped "flowers" are just sweet and whimsical.
If you look closely at the patterned paper, you can see that all of the colours in the inspiration photo are represented in the card.  Don't you just love that when it happens!


So, for the card I cut out one of the MemoryBox Mistletoe papers for the card front and then cut out the tiny bird print paper into a couple of squares.  The red print paper is from DCWV Once Upon a Time that I have in my collection. It compliments the MemoryBox paper well (imho).  I lined these up on a narrow strip of another paper from the MB Mistletoe collection and then just stitched across with a tiny zigzag.
To the top of this, I added a narrow silk aqua ribbon and tied a simple bow with it.
The JustRite sentiment is stamped in Memento Tuxedo black ink (did you see that JR now sells these inks!)and I edged the deckled cut sides with a Copic marker.
The flower die is PTI and I used the SU Cherry Cobbler cs to make these and topped them with more of the MB birdie paper that I cut out with the smallest Nestability octagon die.
That's it for my simple wintry birdie quilt!
Thanks for taking a peek, have a great Sunday!
Chriss

Ellen's floral colour inspiration

Happy Saturday to you all!  Is it hot where you are?  It's been 100 here for a few days...
Ellen Hutson has been having some fun challenges over on her blog and I have been able to play!
Here is a card that I based on the colour inspiration...
It's such a pretty photo and here is what I came up with.
Very easy, mostly die cut shapes, some pretty pearls and a gorgeous button that I bought from Ellen's shop and some pretty silk ribbon that I have in my stash.
The paper is a sheet from DCWV matstack Once upon a time...
I thought these colours worked perfectly for the inspiration.
Thanks for looking,
Cheers!
Chriss

JustRite Hobbyhorse tag

Happy Friday to all!
Have you seen the challenge going on over at Caardvarks ?
I made this tag for it using a new JustRite stamp from the Hearts Come Home  set.  These are perfect for using as a special focal image and really easy to use for some smaller projects, like this tag.


I love this little hobbyhorse and I remember that one of my very dear friends while growing up had one from England.  It was a little shabby, but I have fond memories of it.  This stamp brought back those childhood memories.


I think this frame of lights is a really fun one to use with the hobbyhorse and together, they make for a perfect little boys tag to attach to a special gift.


Onto the actual creating of this tag...
I stamped the hobbyhorse and the frame separately with Memento Tuxedo black ink and coloured with Copic markers.  I also added some crystal effects to the lightbulbs for a little glassy effect, although it doesn't show well in the photo.  I knew that I wanted to use unconventional Christmas colours, and I saw these papers/tags from Pink Paislee that I have had since the Spring and have really neglected them, so I indulged.  The tag was a great size to layer onto a piece of green pattern paper from the 6 X 6 Bayberry Cottage collection.  I used a long scalloped rectangle Nestability die for this and edged a little of my sketch end Copic along the scalloped edge and the tag edges that I had distressed with a T!m Holtz distresser tool.  I cut out the hobbyhorse image with some old deckled edged scissors and layered it onto the Labels one die cut lightbulbs frame.
I added some fun trim that I had in my stash from Ellen Hutson's shop to both ends of the tag.
For the top, I cut out a circular motif from one of the patterned papers and punched a hole in it, added it to the top of the tag and added 3 different colours(gray, blue, green) of various width and length ribbons to attach to the gift.  That's it!
Thanks so much for taking a peek!
Cheers!
Chriss

Mojo geraniums Thanks!

a close-up of the geraniums :)

Hello again!  I know...two posts in a day, a little unusual for me, but I have been keeping up with the housework and thought I could spend a bit more time in the craft room.  The result of course is that I now have to tidy that room up ;)
So here is a card that I made for two challenges, Julee's Mojo 150 and Ellen's Flower Parade.
I was a little intimidated working with this sketch, but really liked how it turned out.  Oranges and aquas are some of my very favourite colours to craft with and that's what I decided to use for these two special challenges.  The paper is all Kaisercraft "Peachy Keen" and the sentiment is a Verve Thanks that was an extra inclusion from Julee in an order to me!  
The geraniums are from Lockhart.  I have bought many Lockhart stamps from Ellen's shop.  I love the florals and fruit.  They are coloured with Copic markers and I did a little stitching here and there.  Pretty simple once I really looked at the sketch's curves.
You still have time to participate in either of these challenges, just click on my underlined words and they are linked to the place you will want to go to.
There are prizes involved !!!
Good luck,
Have a great afternoon and thanks to all of you that pop in and visit!
Chriss

JustRite Poinsettia

Good morning everyone!  Where has the week gone, it sure is speeding by!
Between watering and house chores, I found some time to use this new JustRite stamp for a little challenge going on at the JR blog.  It is this sketch for challenge #29.  Oh my, I had better hurry with this post, it closes in 12 minutes!


The new square stamp set, Hearts Come Home, is perfect for this sketch!
I stamped the image 4 times in Versamark and sprinkled with gold ep and heat set, coloured 3 of them with Copic markers and cut 1 of them out following the postage stamp outline and 2 of them were cut out, flower only.
I placed the 2 fussy cut flowers onto some die cut flowers (PTI dies) that I made with SU Cherry Cobbler and Memory Box new Mistletoe 6 X 6 paper pad.
The border was created with the MS Modern Garland punch and the swirl is a Sissix die cut.
Hope you have a great Thursday!
Thanks for taking a peek,
Chriss

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Hi there all who have visited and have been unable to leave a comment, I apologize for this frustrating inconvenience!  I don't know how to fix this, but I do appreciate all of you that have visited.  I can tell from the counter and it looks like there were approx. 100 of you!
Again, I apologize for this and I will try to find out what is preventing comments.  They ARE and had been enabled...so I am truly perplexed!
Welcome to the Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop! Verve turns three today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! If you've already been hopping along, you arrived here from Tanis P's blog "all that rubbish". If not, head on over to Julee's Blog (owner of Verve), for all the info on how to win prizes (after all, what's a party without presents?), and to start hopping from the beginning. If there's a hiccup along the hop, you can always head to the Master Hop List to get the full list of links. 

Happy Birthday Verve!!!
So many beautiful stamps to pick from, gorgeous flowers and the most profound and eloquent sentiments!  

For today's special occasion,  I chose to use this  gorgeous Verve sentiment from the One Person set as the focal point.  I love Julee's font styles on this, it is so, so elegant.  I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto PTI vintage cream card stock and sponged around the words with SU River Rock classic ink with a dauber to give it a slightly antiqued look.  The frame is from Pink Paislee's Artisan Elements and I sponged this also with SU RR and a bit of Sahara ink.   I selected the Queen Bee 6 X 6 paper pad also from Pink Paislee.  I created a punched border with a MS punch and a very small scallop punch from EK Success that I layered to the left of the focal sentiment.

Here is a close up of the ivory flower that I made and the "ribbon" that I used is a Japanese one that I purchased at a local knitting store.  I sponged the tightly curled center of the flower with SU River Rock ink to tie in with the overall card colour theme.

Thanks for hopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Janelle's Rain Puddles Design blog, for a little more Verve-y goodness.

Thanks so much for stopping by on this special anniversary!  Congratulations Julee!!!

Happy Birthday Verve!

Welcome to the Anni-VERVE-sary Blog Hop! Verve turns three today and we’re celebrating with a hop, hop, hop! If you've already been hopping along, you arrived here from Tanis P's blog "all that rubbish". If not, head on over to Julee's Blog (owner of Verve), for all the info on how to win prizes (after all, what's a party without presents?), and to start hopping from the beginning. If there's a hiccup along the hop, you can always head to the Master Hop List to get the full list of links. 

Happy Birthday Verve!!!
So many beautiful stamps to pick from, gorgeous flowers and the most profound and eloquent sentiments!  

For today's special occasion,  I chose to use this  gorgeous Verve sentiment from the One Person set as the focal point.  I love Julee's font styles on this, it is so, so elegant.  I stamped it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto PTI vintage cream card stock and sponged around the words with SU River Rock classic ink with a dauber to give it a slightly antiqued look.  The frame is from Pink Paislee's Artisan Elements and I sponged this also with SU RR and a bit of Sahara ink.   I selected the Queen Bee 6 X 6 paper pad also from Pink Paislee.  I created a punched border with a MS punch and a very small scallop punch from EK Success that I layered to the left of the focal sentiment.

Above is a close up of the ivory flower that I made and the "ribbon" that I used is a Japanese one that I purchased at a local knitting store.  I sponged the tightly curled center of the flower with SU River Rock ink to tie in with the overall card colour theme.

Thanks for hopping by! Now it's time to hop on over to Janelle's Rain Puddles Design blog, for a little more Verve-y goodness.

Thanks so much for stopping by on this special anniversary!  Congratulations Julee!!!