Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #16

I had a lot of fun making this card. Beate's sketch for this weekend was a great one to follow. This is the first time I have used my Level 3 hostess set Vases in Vogue. I love it!!! I cut out the vase and flowers and glued it on the Soft Sky cardstock. That was the hardest thing on this card. Not really hard, just time consuming. My husband also got my light box made to take pictures of my cards in. I think the quality of the picture is much better than what I have been doing in the past. If you would like to participate in Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge just check out her blog here. Stamps: Vases in Vogue, Big Flowers, Doodle Jumbo Wheel; Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Darling Doodles; Ink: Purely Pomegranate, Wild Wasabi, Groovy Guava, Blue Bayou, Versamark, Black Stazon, Basic Black; Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, Soft Sky Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8", 1-1/4" and 3/4" Circle Punches, Circle Rhinestone Brads, Paper Piercer, White Gel Pen.

Fruit Stripe Zebra

For those of you that are old enough to remember the Fruite Stripe gum, this is what the zebra reminds me of. Do they still even make that gum?

I just got the new Darling Doodles designer paper in yesterday and I couldn't wait to use it. The colors are so pretty!!! The in-colors this year are so awesome. I'm sure as much as I'm using them I will be ready for some new colors come next July.

Stamps: Zoofari, Curvy Verses; Paper: Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate, White, Darling Doodles Designer; Ink: Basic Black, Black Stazon, Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi, Purely Pomegranate; Accessories: Paper Piercer, Square Rhinestone Brads, Aqua Painter, Color Spritzer, Certainly Celery Marker, Dotted Organdy Ribbon (Non SU).

Apple Cider Designer Paper from Holiday Mini Catalog

This Apple Cider Designer Paper from the new SU Holiday Mini catalog is soooooooooooo pretty. But you know me, I just love all of SU's designer paper and love to use it on my cards. This is not a very good picture of the card because I didn't want to wait until daylight tomorrow to take a picture and put it on my blog. My friends that know me know that me and patience are not very good friends. This was a fun card to make. I'm proud of the way it turned out. Stamps: Brocade Motifs, Season of Joy, Fancy Flexible Phrases, In the Spotlight; Paper: Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi, River Rock, Perfect Plum, Very Vanilla, Apple Cider Designer; Ink: Perfect Plum, Groovy Guava, Wild Wasabi, Choc. Chip; Accessories: Scallop Circle Punch, 1-3/8" Circle Punch, 1-1/4" Circle Punch, Circle Rhinestone Brads, Hodgepodge Hardware, Wild Wasabi Ribbon, Slit Punch, Paper Piercer.

Baby Jesus is Born

I got this set thinking I would do a lot of my cards with it this year before really thinking about it. I love the set but it needs a lot of watercoloring. That is very time consuming when you are mass producing cards. I came up with this alternative that I stamped on vellum with Stazon ink and put Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder on. That really makes the image pop. It's very glittery in real life. I also used brads to adhere it to the paper instead of using vellum glue. You can't use any kind of regular glue when adhering vellum or it will show through. The words Christmas Blessings were stamped with White Craft Ink and I used white embossing powder to make it stand out. Stamps: Baby Jesus is Born; Paper: Purely Pomegranate, Old Olive, White, Vellum; Ink: Black Stazon, White Craft; Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, White Embossing Powder, Purely Pomegranate Ribbon.

Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #15

This is the first card I have made with my new set from the Holiday Mini. It's called Season of Joy. This was also the first stamp set I have gotten from SU that was die cut. Ladies, I hope they make all the sets like this in the new catalog that comes out in January. It took about 5 minutes to put together. It was awesome. I really like making cards for Beate Johns weekend sketches. She has some of the prettiest work I have seen. You can visit her blog at http://beate.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/. I stamped the tree with old olive stamp pad and then used markers to color in other items after I stamped it. I also roughed up the edges of the white around the tree with the Cutter Kit from SU. Stamps: Season of Joy, It's Your Birthday (snowflakes on the bottom of card); Paper: Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate, Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, White, Holiday Harmony Designer; Ink: Old Olive, Basic Black, Versamark; Accessories: Round Tab Punch, Purely Pomegranate Ribbon, Gold Elastic Cord, Markers in Rose Red, So Saffron, Close to Cocoa.

I've Been Sick

Sorry I haven't posted this week but I have been sick all week. I finally started feeling better Friday afternoon so I hope to get some cards done this weekend and post them for you to look at. I've made one Christmas card so far and hope to make a few throughout the month. Check back for more details. Bye!!

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Iridescent Butterfly

I used the rock-n-foll technique on this card with the iridescent ice embossing powder. Real shiny in real life. Stamps: Garden Whimsy, Wonderful Favorites, Doodle Jumbo Wheel; Paper: Old Olive, Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Certainly Celery, White Glossy, Fall Flowers Designer; Ink: Groovy Guava, Soft Sky, Basic Black, VersaMark; Accessories: Hodgepodge Hardware, Groovy Guava Ribbon, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder.