Sunshine and blue skies challenge

Hi there everyone! It has been a busy week for me as I am getting ready to travel to Montreal to help my sis find an assisted living place for our mom. She had a stroke in March and is not able to live alone at this moment...

I have not made any cards this week, except for this one last night for the Flourishes "Sunshine and Blue Skies" challenge. It truly was a challenge for me, as I do not use these colours too often and never really reach for them.

Here it is, using K and Co. dp for the background and punched yellow MS Quilted Edge border panel. The two circular lacey "flowery clouds" were cut from another K and Co. dp and I added some lemon PTI buttons threaded with blue embroidery floss. The Chrysanthemum Flourishes image is from my beloved Flowers for a Year set from Flourishes. I coloured with Copic markers and cut out, using the petite ovals dies. I added the yellow flourish that I cut with a Sissix die and used a blue pearl to join the two flourishes together.

That's it....

I'm looking forward to seeing my family over the next 10 days and I will be back home in Austin, trying to catch up on all of the stamping world news ;)

Thanks for visiting!

Chriss

CPS 166 Love2Sew

Happy Thursday everyone!

Today's card is for the Card Positioning System sketch #166. I wanted to use the "Stitched with Love" set that is versatile and wonderful to paper piece the Dresden Plate image with pretty patterned papers. I based the colour theme on this background paper that I recently purchased called Town Library from October Afternoon. I love the green/cream and aqua combo and pieced the petals from Papertrey Ink's Green Boutique, K and Co.'s "Black and Ivory" and Cosmo Cricket's "Girl Friday".

I also used the back side of the October Afternoon dp to punch the new MS Arches border and layered it onto a piece of PTI Aqua Mist card stock. I selected some PTI buttons from my decorated jars and decided at the last minute to use some black seed beads to put in some of the button holes and then to line the top of the button border. Here is a close-up. The pretty button in the center of the Dresden Plate is a cream Jenni Bowlin button that I threaded with embroidery floss that I used a Copic marker on to try to match the Aqua colour.
That's it for now,

thanks for stopping in today,

Chriss

ps Are there any hockey fans out there?

Go Habs Go!!!

Sew Rite Spring Tulips

Hello again today!

I wanted to post this card, before I missed another deadline...

Here is my card for theJust Rite "Sew Rite"challenge, to use some sewing elements on your card. I used the same paper as in my previous post, just not cut out. I made a border from the print on the other side of this K and Co. paper with a MS garden Trellis border punch and added a length of lace over that. For my focal image, I stamped (with SU basic gray ink) the pretty Spring Tulips from the Just Rite "Breath of Spring" set, coloured and shaded with some Copic markers and cut out. I chose one of the beautiful oval borders from the same set and stamped it on the same paper that I used for the trellis border and then I stitched in a pale green colour, just inside of the stamped stitched border. I adhered the cut out tulips onto the oval with dimensional foam and added
to the card front. I also added some unique buttons to the lower right corner from my PTI stash. Look closely at the two buttons on the right side, the pink one is an organic tulip shape and the green one has a tulip embossed onto it!

Thanks for taking a peek again,

Chriss

I got Sketchy and went to pieces

Good Morning all! Hope that you had a great weekend and are ready for a good week ahead!

I have been trying to participate in a few challenges and made this card for three challenges, The Color Throw Down #87 (ETA I have missed the deadline for this challenge)using the Get Sketchy #33 layout and my final entry for Moxie Fab World "Picking up the Pieces" challenge. I have so enjoyed participating in the challenges and without further ado...

I knew that I have the perfect paper from K and CO. for the Color challenge and really, there is hardly any stamping in this one, just the PTI sentiment from Delightful Dahlia. I did a fair bit of cutting out the lacy doilies and a leafy branch, all of
which I arranged according to the sketch on a card front that I made with a line textured piece of Bazzil that I embossed with the PTI Giga Guide Lines texture plate.

I placed the cut out flower with Mom in the center of one of the doilies on a piece of dimensional foam.

Such an easy card with these great colours and fun sketch. Thanks for taking a peek!

Hope that you have a great Monday!

Chriss

Caarvarks Wedding #2

Hi there, I wanted to submit another card for the Caarvarks challenge to get published and this is what I came up with. Something really, really easy!

I wanted to use this cream and black patterned paper from K and CO. and accent it with a colour. I think I probably should have used the green that I had out, but I decided at the time to use this Aqua Mist from PTI. Well, I can always make another, but for now it's the Aqua...after all, the colour of the year that was chosen a few weeks ago from Pantone is Turquoise, very close to Aqua? ;) so I'll just be content with it!

I made the card base out of the black and white dp and then put a slightly smaller piece of the Aqua Mist through the CuttleBug and a ferns and "floral fantasy" folder, adhered to the front and then made a rectangular panel from PTI Vintage Cream, stamped the SU Well Scripted sentiment in Memento Tux. black ink and used the Martha Stewart loops border punch on the top and bottom.

Then the fun began with making the flowers. I used CuttleBug flower dies and the same pattern paper, black card stock and aqua that I cut various flowers from and plyed with stacking them in different ways and adding a pearl in the center that I had coloured with a brick beige Copic marker to take the edge off of the white.. I loved creating these embellishments and like knowing that they are a little unique! I made 4 total and used one of them as a little platform for the smaller "Mr. & Mrs." sentiment. This sentiment is also SU from the Fancy Flexible phrases.
Well, that's it for now and the contest ends tonight for the wedding cards...

Thanks for peeking in and have a great evening!

Chriss

Simple and Romantic Wedding Bouquet

1 card, 2 challenges...

I am still organizing my craft room, but really wanted to make this card for a couple of challenges that are nearing deadline.

The 1st challenge is to "make your very best wedding card" and have a chance at being published over on the Caardvarks blog here. I have only ever submitted for a publication 2 times...and no luck. Maybe third time is a charm? I know that I have read to keep submitting and it could take a long time to ever get selected, so I guess I have to be a little more persistent and patient ;)

The second challenge is a sketch challenge, # 153, over on the CardPositioning site here being sponsored by Papertrey Ink!!!

For my card I decided to use a beautiful JustRite image, newly released from the Breath of Spring collection. I am using them as Hydrangeas. (even though I know that they are violets! they have the same shaped petal so...let's just pretend) I started my card by stamping the image twice onto Papertrey Vintage Cream card stock in SU Always Artichoke. I then coloured with my Copic markers and cut out with the Spellbinder Label one die and I also embossed it. I used a chiffon Copic (one of the new lights from Copic that I just bought from Ellen Hutson)to colour the cream spaces on the embossed panel, taking care to follow along the edges.

I also coloured some extra flowers and cut them out and added dimensional foam to the backs and placed these in the bouquet adding some "Buttermilk" sparkle from a newly puchased Spica pen. I added some sparkle to the bouquet's ribbon too. The card base is made with Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream card stock and to the front of this I added a brown Bazzil textured layer and then a cream Bazzil textured layer. The designer paper front is a double sided sheet from K and Co. from a new (and gorgeous collection)designer mat pad from Tim Coffey. I cut the front panels to suit the square size I was making (5 1/4 square) and adhered to the front. Over that is a strip of the same Bazzil card stock

that I used the new SU punch on. I wrapped some lace around the strip and adhered to the card front. The rhinestones are a flower cluster that I cut up from a Say it in Crystals pack that I have been hoarding. I used these because they were a complimentary colour and a good size for the scale of the punched scallop. The edges of the main image was sponged in Ranger tea dye ink (as were the other designer paper edges)and placed onto a larger size Label one panel that I cut from another piece of the same K and Co. paper.

Hope you like the card, I had a lot of fun making it! I may have another post today...Have a great day! Thanks for visiting.

rRedHeartChallenge for Caarvarks!

Hello everyone! I had time to do a quick challenge this afternoon. It is for the Caarvarks Red Heart challenge here. It is a very, very simple card, but I think the colours make it clssic and attractive. I layered some red hearts onto a kraft lotus flower that I punched out with a MS punch and then layered that onto another MS lattice heart that I punched out. The borders are all MS and the sentiment is from PaperTrey Ink "Everyday button bits" that I stamped in black ink also from PTI onto a kraft piece of card stock and then used a Spellbinder fancy label to cut out. I added 2 red rhinestones to the label (after I took the photo!) You can see a wee peek of a rhinestone in the second photo. The cream and black paper is from K and CO 8 X 8.

Thanks for taking a peek!

Chriss

mojo 80 {again}

I really like the last sketch from Julee's Mojo 80 that I have made another card using this sketch.  I love this little flower cupcake and enjoy colouring it different colours to make it into another type of flower.  It is meant to be a violet, but today we are pretending these are nastursiums.  I outlined these with my SU pumpkin pie marker and then filled in with Copic CREAM YR21 and did a little hi lighting with ATOLL YR65 and dotted the centers with COOL SHADOW BG10.  The cupcake liner was colored with warm gray and then I layered COOL SHADOW BG10  I added some crystal effects to these dotted centers for my dear friend Yvonne.  She would consider this  "completed", a little finishing touch,  and I am pretty sure I would have her approval ;)

~recipe~

stamp violet cupcake Lockhart Stamps (bought from Ellen Hutson's), SU sent. Simply Said

ink Mem. Tux. blk

paper K & Co 12 X 12 Classics, Prima First Blush sparkly peach colour, SU baja breeze

access Spellbinders L3, circle, petite scallop circles,CB flowers die, ribbon from Smith & Hawken (really !)