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

Whiff of Joy - 2 cards

Hi all, and thanks so much for stopping by my blog today. Hope you had a wonderful day. Mine has been good, even though I am having a cold. But I am not complaining as my husband has it worse than me. It was also a very exiciting day, it was my daughter's first day of preschool and open house at my son's school.

Today I have two cards to share with you. I normally don't post two at the same time, but this is for a special occasion.

The lovely Katharina from Whiff of Joy is looking for a guest designer and since they have the most adorable stamps, I really wanted to give it a try. You can read all about the Guest Designer Call here. We can submit as many projects as we wanted, so I decided to make two cards for now to show off my style. I really have two styles, I believe, one tends to be sort of vintage, and another one is fresh with no distressing. As you can see, I love adding lots of details to my cards.

Here is the first card.

The first card was made using my most favorite Whiff of Joy Stamp, Willow with umbrella. I colored it with copics. The front part of the umbrella was cut out and adhered with a dimensional in the middle for a 3d look. Designer Paper is from My minds eye and card stocks used are chocolate chip, tempting turquoise, soft sky and white. I computer generated the sentiment, cut it out and tucked it underneath the flower. I also did some sewing around the edges, I just love the look of stitches on distressed cards. The complete recipe can be read below.

And here is the second card.

On this card I used my favorite party animal collection image, Henry celebrating mouse. I just love his big smile!! Again I used copics to color the image, cut it out and framed it with a scallop circle nestabilities shape. Designer Paper is from DCVW, and cards stocks are SU. I embellished with some ribbon, paper flowers and buttons, and added a little bit of stickles to the image. Again the recipe is below.

Thanks so much for visiting my blog today. Hope you liked the cards and please wish me luck!

Recipe card 1:
Stamps: Willow with umbrella (whiff of joy), sentiment computer generated
Ink: memento tuxedo black, close to cocoa for sponging, copics for coloring
Paper: choc. chip, tempt. turquoise, whisper white, soft sky, my minds eye DP
Accessories and tools: grosgrain ribbon, prima flowers, buttons, linen thread, tulle, charm heart and tiny flower charms for the corners, paper doily, sewing machine, sizziz flourish, big kick



Recipe card #2
Stamps: Henry Celebrating Mouse (Whiff of Joy), sentiment Hero Arts
Ink: Memento tuxedo black, basic gray, copics for coloring
Paper: basic gray, whisper white, real red, pretty in pink, sweet stack DP (DCWV)
Accessories and tools: grosgrain ribbon, buttons, linen thread, stickles Martha Stewart cornflower punch, sizzix flourish, big kick, nestabilities circle scallops, scallop border punch.

Lace and Pearls

Hi everyone,

it's tuesday again and you know what that means, right? Another fun challenge over at the digital tuesday challenge blog! The lovely Lora is our hostess this week and she wants to see us use Lace and Pearls. I loved this challenge, as I love the look of lace and pearls.

I thought the adorable Emma with butterfly from Fred She Said was perfect for the challenge. Her dress was paper pieced. Instead of real lace I ended up using my lace border punch, because I didn't have the right lace at home. I definitley will get some more as soon as I see some at the store.

The papers are all by Stampin Up and the flowers are also from Fred She Said. I printed them on SU pomegranate paper, cut them out and sponged the edges using whisper white craft ink to soften them a little bit. Leaves are made with a sizzix die from SU.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today, maybe you'll find some time to join in the challenge this week. Tracey, the owner of Fred She Said is giving away a $10 gift certificate to her store to one lucky winner.

Have a wonderful day,

Ellie.

Penny Black meets Sketch Saturday

Hello and a happy sunday to all of you!

I made this card last night using the sketch from sketch saturday. Love this penny black image, it is called "message from above". So fun to color.

The designer paper is a brand new one I just got yesterday from Bo Bunny and the sentiment is from SU. Card stock is all from SU - melon mambo, basic black and kiwi kiss. I used a scallop rectangle nestabilies shape to frame the image and then adhered that to melon mambo card stock. To finish off the card I added some stickles glitter to the flower centers and a prima flower with a button from SU.

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog. Hope you like the card.

Ellie.