Mojo Monday 340

Hi folks!

Just popping in to share a card I made for this week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge. I REALLY need to replenish my stash of simple cards for grown-ups and sat down on Friday to make a bunch of cards.

I quite like the graphics in this paper collection and actually wound up cutting out the bits to make four cards  - but just assembled them all a bit differently. This is the one that actually stuck to the original sketch. I'll share the rest of the cards, plus one I made from the scraps, as the week goes on.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base, white and red mats
• patterned paper: Carta Bella "Well Played"
• sentiment: Verve "Making a Statement"
• Spellbinders Petite Circles
• black twill ribbon from my stash

challenges for this card:

• Verve April Diva Inspiration Challenge: Chevron Chic
• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes Birthday (optional toppings: white on white - obviously I didn't go with the toppings option).

As always - thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #52

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Dee Dee's Digis! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

For my project this week, I'm using the Poppy image from the Bloom and Grow set from Dee Dee's Digis.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base
• patterned papers: Basic Grey "Curio"
• digital image: Dee Dee's Digis "Bloom and Grow" (Poppy), coloured with Copic Markers (W6, W7, W8, G20, G21, G24, G28, R00, YR02, YR04, R05, R08, YR09, R14, YR18, R17, Copic Multiliner)
• sentiment: Verve "Amazing Wishes"
• layout: Splitcoaststampers sketch 483
• adhesive gems from my stash
• Spellbinders Classic Rectangles die cuts

additional challenges for this card:

• Love to Scrap #27: Anything Goes

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #51

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Stitchy Bear Stamps ! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

The DT were given a lovely opportunity to work with images from Stitchy Bear and I decided to use this adorable Boo Boo Bear to make a get well card.

What do you think of the bear's fur? I used a technique I learned from my friend Tanya at a class she taught some time ago. I coloured the fur with a combo of brown Copics and then put some Colorless blender onto a terry facecloth and then dabbed it onto the image to give that teddy bear texture. I think it came out quite well.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white cardp stock base, CTMH Lagoon mats
• patterned paper: Amy Tangerine "Yes, Please"
• digital image: Stitch Bear Stamps "Boo Boo Bear", coloured with Copic Markers (E21, E23, E25, E27, E93, Y11, Y13, Y15, R81, R83, R85, BG10, BG11, Colorless Blender)
• sentiment: Verve "Doodled Occasions" (I noticed that I seem to have misplaced one of my FAVOURITE Happy Birthday sentiments in that set. Sigh. I HOPE it is stuck to something in my craft room and hasn't accidentally gone the way of the trash bin. I guess I have a really good reason to tidy up in my craft room now. BIG SIGH!)
• layout: Mojo Monday 339 (I adapted it from the skinny profile to a square card)
• Spellbinders Petite Ovals

additional challenges for this card:

• One Stitch at a time #206: Anything Goes
• Hiding in my craft room #143: Freestyle
• Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #50

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Digi Darla! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

card details

• finished size: 5.5 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base, white mats
• patterned papers: Basic Grey "Oxford"
• digital image: Digi Darla Fireman Frank, coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E11, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, E19, Y21, Y23, Y32, Y35, W0, W1, W2, W3, W5, W6, W7, B0000, B00), sky sponged with CTMH Heavenly Blue
• sentiment and cake: Verve "Birthday Bash", numerals: Verve "Calendar Countdown"
• Spellbinders Labels Seventeen
• Basic Grey Indian Summer Buttons, jute twine from my stash
• Layout: MFT Wednesday Stamp Club 169 (well, it started out that way - but then I turned it on it's side)

challenges for this card:

• Seize the Birthday: Anything goes birthday (toppings: Buttons and rhinestones - well, I got the buttons I guess)
• Crazy 4 Challenges 228: Shake your thing (any card!)
• Simon Says: Anything Goes with Buttons
• Hiding in my craft room #142: Let's get digital!

Sister Act Card Challenge #49

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Digi Stamp Characters by Heather Ellis! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

My card creation this week features a very cute Easter image from Heather's Pure Innocence line

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, kraft card stock base and mats
• patterned papers: My Mind's Eye "Howdy Doody"
• digital image: Digi Stamp Characters by Heather Ellis "Pure Innocence 033", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E93, E11, E23, E25, E27, Y000, Y00, Y02, Y04, Y06, Y17, R11, R12, BG34, BG10, BG000, BG0000
• sentiment: Verve "Hoppy Easter", stamped in CTMH Lagoon
• Prima flower from my stash
• EK Success Diamond Lace Border Punch
• layout: Seize the Sketch #13

additional challenges for this card:

• Lacy Sunshine Challenge #29: Anything Goes
• Paper Players #187: Clean and Simple with a "Spring" Theme (for me, Spring and Easter go hand in hand)
• Bearly Mine March Challenge: One for the girls
• One Stitch at a Time #204: Use a Digi
• Sentimental Sunday 198: Cute and Cuddly
• Crafty Creations Challenges #259: Holiday
• Hiding in my craft room #141: Color it

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Viva La Verve March Week 1

Hi folks,

Long time no Viva La Verve posts from me! I haven't been much into crafting lately, well, much of anything truth be told. I'm actually in the midst of a Doctor ordered break from work due to massive burn-out from the stress I've been experiencing for the last year or so.

But I'm finally easing back into playing with the stamps and papers I love so very much so that means a return to my one of my favourite weekly challenges - Viva La Verve!!!!

My dearly beloved celebrated his 49th birthday last week so I grabbed the first sketch for the March Viva La Verve challenges and made this card to mark the day.

Clean and simple, with some fabulous papers from Prima.

card details:

• finished size: 4.25 x 5.5 inches, black card stock base, white card stock mat
• patterned papers: Prima "Craftsman"
• stamps: Verve "Borderline", "Merry & Bright", "Heart Flutter" Plain Jane, Love Notes (whoa, that's a lot of stamps sets on one card!)
• dies: Verve "Classy Label"

challenges for this card:

• Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes (I didn't do the toppings option of stitching)
• Love to Create #107: Clean and Simple
• House of Cards: March Challenge #2: Clean and Simple (oops...I missed the fact that I was supposed to include a button. Sorry! Tried to remove it from the linky list but couldn't!)

As always, thanks for stopping by!

Sister Act Card Challenge #48

Hi folks!

It's Friday so that means it is time for me to share my latest creation for our weekly "Anything Goes" challenge over at the Sister Act Card Challenge!

As you probably know by now, the rules for joining in our weekly challenge are pretty simple - anything goes as long as it is a new card of your own creation! Just join in the fun by linking up to your blog post featuring your lovely creation and you will be in the running for the prize offered by this week's sponsor - Papers and Petals! I can't wait to check our your fabulous creations!

This week, my creation features a cute masculine image from Some Odd Girl

I thought this would be great to celebrate my baby brother's 39th birthday.

card details:

• finished size: 5x5 inches, white card stock base, navy card stock mats
• patterned papers: Echo Park Paper "A Boy's Life"
• stamped image: Some Odd Girl "Big Day Tobie", coloured with Copic Markers (E000, E00, E01, E11, E93, E21, E23, E25, E27, E29, E47, E49, Y13, R22, R24, C1, C3, C5), sentiment stamped in CTMH Holiday Red
• button from my stash
• layout: Sketch Saturday #299

Challenges for this card:

• Paper Pretties Wednesday Challenge PWC301: Birthday Cards

As always, thanks for stopping by!