From the Heart

Hi all, hope you had a fabulous weekend. Mine was great, we got lots of things accomplished, like starting to work on our planned yard sale. Plus today it was raining so we spent the day indoors (of course the kids had to build a sand castle in between the showers!)

I made today's card for the Create4fun Challenge. This is my first time playing along, because I just found this challenge. I love the sketch they provided.I received this cute Sarah Kay image from a image swap, I am not sure what the name is, but I believe it is called "Rose Garden". Papers are from SU and DCWV. I embellished with lace ribbon, prima flowers, MS punched leaves and pearls, I also used my sewing machine and did some sponging around the edges to soften it a little bit.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog today, hope you liked the card. The full recipe can be read below.

Recipe:
Stamps: Sarah Kay (Rose Garden?), stampin up
Ink: black, soft sky for sponging, copics for coloring
Paper: soft suede, white, dcwv sweet stack
Accessories and Tools: prima flowers, pearls, lace ribbon, martha stewart branch punch, scallop edge punch, word window punch, stickles

Featured Stamper Bev!!

Hello and happy Sunday!
I am so glad that I finally found some time to do a challenge!
This week's Featured stamper on SCS is Bev R. Have you seen her gallery?? It is full of gorgeous stuff just like her blog. It was so hard to choose just one card to case. For now I decided to go with this one.
I pretty much kept the color scheme of blue/brown and the same layout. My card is really very similar to Bev's because I just loved hers so much!! For my main image I used a Sarah Kay stamp and colored it with Prismacolor pencils blended with baby oil. Instead of a heart doily I used a circle shaped one and sponged the edges with chocolate chip ink. My background pattered paper is actually a piece of tempting turquoise. I stamped the "Floral Flourish" by Paper Inspirations with white craft ink around the edges of the turqouise paper. I love that stamp! I also sponged the edges of this paper with choc. chip ink. The large flower was made using the scallop circle punch by SU, I just cut into each scallop. To finish this card off I stamped the sentiment on top and bottom of the turquoise paper,I added the ribbon bunch, some jewelry pieces as flower centers, the photo corners and swirls. I added stickles to the girl and to some of the flowers. To make the "ribbon-flower" I just put a glue dot in the middle of each of the ribbon scraps and then put the flower on top of that. Very easy. Not sure if Bev made her's the same way.

Stamps: Sarah Kay, The paper studio (Floral Flourish), stampabilities (Follow your dreams)
Paper: Chocolate chip, tempting turquoise, GP white, white doily
Ink: memento black, chocolate chip, white craft ink
Accessories: photo corner, scallop circle, goho blossom, flower trio (all punches by SU), striped ribbon by offray, other ribbon my msc. venders, prima and fabric flowers, stickles, cuttlebug swirl, big kick, jewelry circles
Technique: coloring with prismacolor pencils, sponging

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Everybody Art Challenge # 23 Sweet and Sassy

Hello and Happy Friday!!
Today's card I made for Everybody Art Challenge # 23 The theme this week was shabby. While I don't make a lot of shabby cards ( I usually prefer clean designs) I do love the look of vintage cards.
Now to my card. I used the cracked glass technique on the main image. You can find the tutorial here if you would like to try it. I had to use regular clear embossing powder since I don't have any UTEE so my cracked glass didn't turn out as good as I wanted it to.
For this challenge I had to get out my sewing machine from under my stamp desk, it was collecting dust. Please excuse the crooked stitching, but I guess it fits well with the "shabby" challenge. LOL.

Stamps: sweet and sassy stamp (sarah kay), small script (SU)
Paper: chocolate chip (SU), Designer Papers unknown-sorry, white GP110lb
Ink: black, choc. chip, versamark
Accessories: copics and watercolor pencils, paper and fabic flowers, ribbon, hodgepodge hardware, pearls, sewing machine, embossing powder, sponge for distressing ribbon and flowers
Technique: cracked glass, sponging, aging

Have a wonderful day!!

Barely bashful chocolate Birthday

Sorry about the lack of posts this week, everyone in the family had the stomach virus, I was the last one to get it, and finally starting to feel better.

I haven't made a card for a few days, today's card I actually made for a little girl's 6th birthday at the end of last week, I hope she likes it.

I used my new Sarah Kay stamp and colored with copics and prisma markers. The sentiment is from Penny Black's clear set "Critter Party". The designer paper is from Hobby lobby, I have no clue who makes it though. I pretty much colored the image to match the paper. To finish the card off, I added the flowers (punched out with my flower trio punch) with brads, did some paper piercing along the edges of the main image, and addes stickles to the circles on the designer paper.

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you have a wonderful saturday!