Sketch Frenzy Friday (SFF071610)

It's that time again and I know I've been slacking again on posting this week. Next week will be better, I promise. I will be showing you all the cards I've been busily mass producing for my convention swaps. This weekend is also VC Rocks third blog tour, which I will also be participating in. One final admin item, I'm still looking for Sharon L to contact me to claim her blog candy.

Okay, first here is the sketch.

And now my creation. I used the Medallion stamp set and With All My Heart for the sentiment. The colors are Rich Razzleberry, Basic Black, and Whisper White.

Please join me and create your own take of the sketch. You will notice the new label to the sketch post - SFF071610, if you do play along, please also use this label. And now on to the next blog, Angela. And don't forget to stop by tomorrow for the blog tour. Thanks!

Gift Card Holder

Sorry this was posted as just pictures for the majority of the day. I tried to post it from my cell phone, but it wasn't letting me add any writing to the pictures.  Anyways, here is a double slider gift card holder. Here it is closed. The colors are Whisper White, Concord Crush and Marina Mist. The stamp set is Because I Care.

And here is the slider pulled out, the gift card is placed where my business card is currently adhered with temporary adhesive. The sentiment is from Will All My Heart.

Thanks for stopping by and tomorrow will the be announcement of the blog candy winner!

He Went To Jareds!

Okay, I know I've been a bad, bad, bad blogger and I appologize for that. Life has been kind of busy with TC back, which I did kind of predict. But that doesn't mean I haven't been stamping, because I have! I've been pouring out the swaps lately. I will be sharing these with you in the upcoming days. You read it, I said days! I'm going to try my darndest to keep up with my blog again.

Anyways, as you can tell from my title, we're engaged! He proposed last Sunday and did actually go to Jareds. Of course I said yes. There aren't any details available yet as we are not sure about the timing, but we do hope to be married by the time he leaves again. Yes, he's leaving again for Afghanistan this time in May. Here is a picture of the ring, not a very good one, but I think you can get the idea. It's a solitaire stone and then there are four smaller stones set in the ring on each side, that matches the wedding ring.

Okay, now on to the stamping. Here is the first card I'm going to share with you. I made this for a one on one swap and the theme was Black and White. I used the Stripes, Fine Flourish and With All My Heart stamp sets, the Daisy die and matchbox die for the tags. The courdoroy brad in the center of the flower is actually a Kraft brad that I colored with my Stamp and Write marker to make black.

With All My Heart

Sorry this is kind of late again. I haven't not had a very good morning. I didn't wake up and get to work until like 10 AM. I was up late last night working on some angel swap cards. I got word yesterday morning that at least 2 swaps were missing from a swap I'm participating in and I like to try to help people out and make sure their swaps are full. So off to work I went. Here is one of the cards that I designed and made 12 of in an hour and a half. Again, I had every intent of casing something, but again this does not look like what I had in mind or the card I was casing. Is this a sign of my ADD coming out? Anyways, I used With All My Heart stamp set from the occassions mini. The colors are Taken with Teal, So Saffron, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, and Pumpkin Pie. I also used the Sweet Pea DSP, SAB edge punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Pumpkin Circle Rhinestone, and Chocolate Chip Taffeta ribbon.

I am going to try something new with my blog and include everything (I hope) you need to know to recreate the cards that I share with you. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

The dimensions are as follows (in inches):

DSP:  3.75 x 4

Whisper White: Background is 4 x 5.25; Stamped image piece: 2.25 x 2.25

Pumpkin Pie: 2.5 x 2.5

So Saffron: 2.75 x 3.5; Scrap for punched flower

Chocolate Chip: 5.5 x 11, folded in half

Directions:

1. Cut the the cardstock as indicated above.

2. Using the edge punch, punch the bottom edge of the DSP. Do the same with the So Saffron.

3. Adhere the DSP to the Whisper White.

4. Using the DSP as a guide, stamp the "Friend" image on the Whisper White cardstock in Taken with Teal ink.

5. Stamp the flower image on the smaller piece of Whisper White in Pumpkin Pie ink.

6. Using the scrap of punch the meduim sized flower in the Boho Blossoms punch.

7. Adhere flower to the center of the stamped image and insert the brad through the center.

8. Mat the stamped image with the Pumpkin Pie cardstock and then the So Saffron cardstock.

9. Cut a peice of the taffeta ribbon long enough to wrap arount the So Saffron cardstock and tie a bow or knot, as desired. Attach to cardstock.

10. Attached the stamped image and layers to the Whisper White background.

11. Attached the Whisper White to the folded Chocolate cardstock.

12. ENJOY!

Another LNS Challenge

Here is another card that I made that uses brads. You may recognize the layout from the New Year's card that I posted on New Year's Day. It's the same concept (CASED, of course), but this time I used paper from the new Occassions mini, Sweet Pea DSP. I also used a stamp set from the new Occassions mini, With All My Heart. Colors are Rose Red, Cameo Coral, and Whisper White.

Where Have I Been? (Long)

Sorry again, I took a little hiatus. TC was in town on leave from Iraq, so I was spending time with him and doing very little stamping. He is now on his way back so I have started stamping again. I got all my new sneak peak goodies and have started to create with them.

But first things first, on the LNS board there is a 12 days of Christmas challenge going on. Post something every day until Christmas. This started last Friday, but I haven't gotten to my blog or camera until now, so I'm playing catch up. Here are samples that should get me through Day 5.

Day 1: Medallion

Stamps: Medallion, Extreme Snowboarder, Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Bordering Blue
Cardstock: Bordering Blue, Whisper White
Accessories: Sponges, Distressing Tool

Day 2: Thought and Prayers

Remember when I was creating cards for a Stamp-a-stack using the same supplies to create both a Christmas card and non-Christmas card? Here is the non-Christmas card and since I promised no more Christmas cards, you'll have to guess what you Christmas card looks like (hint: I used Patterned Pines for the main image).

Stamps: Thoughts and Prayers, Teeny Tiny Wishes, Patterned Pines
Ink: Real Red, Old Olive, Certain Celery
Cardstock: Whisper White, Real, Red, Olive Olive, Certain Celery
Accessories: Wide Grosgrain Ribbon, Big Shot Scalloped Oval, Eyelet Border Punch, Window Punch, Modern Label Punch, Sponges

Day 3: One of a Kind

Another non-Christmas card from the Stamp-a-Stack designs.

Stamps: One of a Kind
Ink: Whisper White, Sahara Sand
Cardstock: Whisper White, Sahara Sand
Accessories: Taffeta Ribbon, Square Punches, Brad

Day 4: Thank You

This is just a quick Thank You card that I made up for an event we had at work.

Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: Really Rust
Cardstock: Really Rust, Whisper White, Patterned Paper III
Accesories: Daisy Big Shot Die, Jumbo Eyelet, Wide Satin Ribbon

Day 5: With All My Heart Sneak Peak

Here is one of the cards that I made with the sneak peak items from the new Occassional Mini, available January 5. I used the clear block stamps for the first time and I did not notice any difference with regards to the quality of images versus the wood block stamps.

Stamps: With All My Heart, I {Heart} Hearts
Ink: Real Red, Pink Passion
Cardstock: Real Red, Pink Passion, new DSP Stack Sweet Pea
Accessories: Scalloped Trim Punch (SAB), Heart to Heart Punch, Ribbon

Thanks for being patient and stay tuned for Day 6 of the challenge (hopefully more timely).