Mother's Day Part 2

This is the other card I made for Mother's Day, for my Mom. I know, I know, the cabbage flower again?! I just love it!! This time I used peachy colors for the theme, because it went with the calendar that I made for her. Details include: pattern paper Martha Stewart, border punch: new ek success border punch, su oval punches, martha stewart tag punch, hero arts happy mom's day, and ribbon by offray. I used the sketch challenge from Splitcoast Stampers for the layout of this card.

And....here is the calendar that I made for my Mom! I got the idea from the blog Creative Stampin Spot.

That's all for now and probably until the weekend. This is my last week of school!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :) So I just am trying to make it through the week! Then I will be doing a lot more posting while I am enjoying my summer vacation!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Mother's Day Part 1

This is one of the cards that I made for Mother's Day. She doesn't check this blog so I think it is safe to post it. I'll be able to post a couple more things tomorrow...as my Mom should be receiving her gift soon. I used the same cabbage flower stamp by Savvy. I really had a lot of fun coloring this image so many different ways. It was great practice as I get used to using my Copic markers...I think I have finally gotten the hang of it. The layout of this card is a case from SparkleGirl over at Splitcoast Stampers. I absolutely love her style!! Thanks for the inspiration! More details: I used Gina K white for the base, cardstock scraps, SU scallop border punch, rectangle nestabilities, and the ribbon is by May Arts. Well that's all for now! Check back soon as I post part 2 of my Mother's Day post.

Mojo Monday 85

Hello Everyone! I have been busy making Mother's Day suprises...but I can't post these projects until my Mom receives them, because she checks my blog and I don't want to ruin the suprise. I did find some time tonight to complete the Mojo Monday Sketch of the week. I wasn't sure how this was going to turn out, the cabbage flower was a tough one to color. I printed out a picture from the internet and went from there. It turned out pretty good.

I will post more details tomorrow, I am off to bed. . . . .

Double Challenge

Well, I wasn't sure if I was going to complete this card in time, but I did! This card actually works for two challenges. The first is the April Challenge #1 for GKD, and the second is the sketch challenge for Stamp TV. I started by coloring my image with copic markers. Then I stamp my sentiment and traced the center of the nestabilities tag, and then cut it out and adhered it to the nestabilities tag. I attached it to the card using ribbon. I added the ticket corner punch and brads to decorate the corners of the card. I also added the flower to decorate the "corner" of the focal image. The paper for this card is by K and Company, I love the wave pattern on this paper!

That's all for now. Have a super week!

GKD Recipe Challenge

Two down one to go..... I guess I am going backwards completing the challenges over at SCS. This is April Challenge #2: Yummy Recipe. The requirements for this card recipe were:

1. one piece of pattern paper

2. two different ribbons

3. three eyelets


The paper I chose was from the new Basic Grey 6x6 paper pad Wisteria. I chose to cut the paper into rectangles, because I thought it looked like a window. The eyelets are by Dritz from Michaels sewing notions department. The ribbon is from Michaels. The focal image is the "Home tweet Home" stamp set by Rupa Shevde from GKD. My lovely sister let me borrow this stamp set. I colored in the image with copics and outlined it in cold stone by Prismacolor. My Mom helped me pick out the color choices for this cute bird. I used the petite oval nestabilities to cut this image out and matted it with the scallop petite oval nestabilities.

Thanks for stopping by, off to do the last challenge, laundry, and grocery shopping. (Too bad I can't do them in that order?!)

Exciting News and April Challenge #3

First I'd like to share some exciting news! I won the Sketch Challenge on Stamp TV!! I was absolutely stunned!! I never win anything, so I was VERY excited over this news. AND, for the prize I was able to pick out a free set from Gina K?! That is a very generous prize!! I decided to choose Tropical Flowers :)

Next, this week Gina K. also released new stamp sets and along with the release there are three challenges to participate in over at SCS. The prize is a free stamp set!! Also, if you use Gina K. stamps you are entered into the drawing twice! I started with the third one, use a sentiment or image to create a background and use it as your focal image. I chose to use the set Happy Harvest by Gina K to complete this challenge. I stamped the leaf image using dark moss chalk ink to create the background. For the focal image I stamped the leaves on a lighter shade of green and cut them out. I also stamped the sentiment in rich cocoa memento ink to compliment the leaves. I added cranberry as an accent color, I love this color combo.

That's all for now, off to complete the other challenges!

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Back Into the Swing of Things

I have been MIA for awhile. Things at school were crazy and now are finishing up our Spring Break today. I thought I would have more opportunities to sit down and make more cards, especially with it being Spring Break. But...we were busy everyday with something. During my time off, we went to Madison for one day. And, yes, I was able to go to Gina K's retail store! I had to be quick though, by husband was in the car... So I loaded up quickly with some new goodies. And, hopefully will be putting the new sets to use. I have them all trimmed up.

With today's entry I am using a set by Gina K. that I had gotten over the summer. I purchased some copic markers and found a great tutorial by Asela Hopkins. I didn't have exactly the same colors, but they were pretty close. I am very pleased that I had success with this, the copic markers definatley have a learning curve.

After coloring in my image I was checking out Stamp TV, and found the new sketch challenge. And I found some patterned paper from Basic Grey's 6x6 paper pad, Urban Prairie, that matched, and threw this card together. The ribbon is Martha Stewart twill tied with very thin twine. All of the circles are cut out with nestabilities.

That's all for now!

Have a great week!