LSC205

Hi!

Here's an SUO card for you gals who come here for that :) The limited supplies challenge (LSC205) at SCS was to make a Clean and Simple or CAS card. Clean and Simple can be considered in the eye of the beholder, I think. I tend to think my style is fairly clean and simple. I don't do a whole lot of layers or embellishments together and try to let one element be the focus, be it a gorgeous image, beautiful paper or embellishment. Rarely do I combine the three on one card! I guess the challenge with CAS is to have the card look simple, yet finished.


I think I will use this card for my card camp coming up next weekend. Better get crackin' on my designs for that!

This card is pretty simple. I used the sketch from SC208 from Splitcoast. The flowers from Eastern Blooms are stamped randomly on the Pale Plum card stock in Pale Plum ink and also onto a Very Vanilla piece. The sentiment from Hugs and Wishes is stamped in Certainly Celery. It's layered up after using the scallop border punch on the celery piece and punching slots with the slot punch. It's mounted on dimensionals and then the ribbon threaded through and knotted.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

SC208 TSG02

Hi all!

I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and got to spend some quality time with people you love. We did. It was the typical Christmas morning craziness with the four of us and we headed over to see my family for dinner. Yesterday we spent the day with my hubby's side of the family. And today we are just crashing!!

I'm not sure if it's just me, but I really dislike the rest of this holiday. After the big day, I'm done with it. I have always disliked the "looking back on the year' type countdowns and stuff around New Years, but seem to dislike it even more as an adult! I think it has something to do with reflecting on the year, having eaten like a pig the last few weeks and feeling down about that, being so tired that I stay in pajamas for most of the day and I never feel good when I do that. I also hate putting decorations away. I just find it depressing!!

Anyways, enough about that. We had a wonderful few days and have a few things planned for the upcoming week. My boys (hubby included!) are in their element as the World Junior hockey tournament is on the next week or so and they can watch Team Canada kick some butt on a fairly regular basis ;) They love our Brampton Battalion team and one of their favourite players on that team is representing Canada. Plus, they feel connected to the tournament in general as my youngest got to meet the entire Czech Republic team when they had an open practice in Brampton. Here's a pic of him getting their autographs. Very nice young men. I *almost* felt bad hearing that Canada beat them 8-1 yesterday!



Enough about me, here's a card for you.


I used the set Here For You to make anything BUT a Christmas card which was the There She Goes challenge (upload with keyword TSG02). Check out this post to find about about the There She Goes Guest Designer for January as well! This card also uses the sketch challenge SC208 from this week at SCS. After stamping, I went over the bird with a two way glue pen and sprinkled Martha Stewart "Brownstone" glitter on it. Pretty! Colours are Chocolate Chip and Old Olive. I used Very Vanilla for the neutral and Brocade Backgrounds (retired) is the designer paper. The panel is mounted on dimensionals and a SU! ribbon threaded through the slot punch holes. The SU! border scallop punch finishes off the Chocolate Chip layer.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you get a chance to participate in the TSG02 challenge! Leave me a link to show off your creation if you do :)

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I decided to do a sketch that Beate posted on her blog this weekend. You can see the sketch here.

A box of goodies arrived from SU! this week and I decided to put Mr. Twigster together. I'm considering cards for my November card camp and think this might make the cut. I might change the ribbon up for the camp since the November one is a popular one. I don't think one roll will be enough.

I stamped Mr. Twigster in Stazon Brown (why, oh why did SU! stop carrying this!!!???) and coloured him in with my blender pen using Reding Hood Red for the scarf and Tangering Tango for the nose. The image is matted on Chcolate Chip cardstock. The card base of Kraft paper has a Riding Hood Red piece border scalloped punched and stamped in Riding Hood Red with the snowflake from the Season of Friendship stamp set from the SU! Holiday mini. A striped ribbon from the Alpine originals is tied around the card front and the main image adhered using dimensionals.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope the rest of your day is great!

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Super quick post today.

I used the Sketch Challenge posted at SCS this week to make a card for my Father in Law's birthday this week.


I used the SU! set Just Football along with the sentiments from Celebrate Everything. I first stamped the football image randomly using Creamy Caramel ink on Very Vanilla paper. That is adhered to a Ruby Red card base and three brads were inserted using the mat pack to line them up evenly.

The sentiment was stamped on a piece of Very Vanilla using Creamy Caramel and Ruby Red and adhered to a piece of Creamy Caramel. I was careful to line the edge up to the side of the card as in the sketch.

Finally, I stamped the helmet on a scrap of Vanilla in Ruby Red ink and cut it out. An eyelet was added to it and it was adhered to the card front using dimensionals. Another birthday sentiment is added to the inside.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great.

SC190

Good morning!

We're off to have some family fun today but I managed to get to the sketch Challenge today at Splitcoast. You can see the sketch here.


I originally intended to give this card to my son on the first day of school but now I'm thinking that is was a lot of work and it will probably just end up in the garbage with the cheese stick or sandwich he told me he ate for lunch.... I'll likely give it to him anyways though-'cause I love him :)

I used the papers from the SU! scrappin' kit Primary Colours. One day I'll get the kids' pictures scrapped. One day :) The images are from Cornish Heritage Farms' Making the Grade set. I paper pieced the whole pencil except for the tip which I coloured using a blender pen and Creamy Caramel ink. I added Crystal Effects to the pencil's barrel to make it shine. I'm right into the Crystal Effects right now. It gives a little extra something to an image. The colours used for the pencil are More Mustard, Read Red and Brushed Silver for the little bit that holds the eraser. The whole thing is stamped in Black Stazon.

I originally wanted to use the wider, striped red and white SU! ribbon, but do you think I could find it in this mess of a room? Of course not, so I used two lengths of the check ribbon instead. I don't know, since I've been using wider ribbon the skinny stuff just doesn't do it for me as often. An easy way to beef up the ribbon is to used two lengths side by side. It can be a bit of a pain to tie it neatly, but it's worth it!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope the weather lasts and we have a great day together. The days left before school are few so we want to make the best of them with our family and friends.

Hope the rest of your day is great!

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Managed to find a bit of time this morning to do the sketch challenge at SCS.

I used the new SU! hostess set Happiness Always. It's a 2 step stamping set. I made the base colour of the images using the first stamp stamped off one time to achieve a lighter colour. There is a second stamp that goes over top and it has random tiny letters all over it. I stamped that full strength over what I had stamped off. That way I have two shades of the same colour creating my flowers. I did it for the leaf and stems as well. Colours are More Mustard, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip.

The images were stamped on Vary Vanilla cardstock and layered on More Mustard and Chocolate Chip paper.

The card seemed a bit off balance to me, so I added a olive grograin ribbon down the left side to finish it off.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela

AVS09

Hi everyone!

Day two of my card camp today! After that is over, I'll be able to get back to stamping "for fun" :)

I had a little bit of time today to work on a challenge and went with this Verve sketch challenge found here. I don't think I'll have time now to finish all the sketches, but winning is tempting! lol For now I'll have to settle with my first card.



I am loving the new "Silhouette" line that SU! is coming out with in their new catalogue (to be released this Monday-can't wait to place my order!) and tried to recreate it here. I took my colour inspiration from the Urban Garden designer paper. I am in love with this combo! I don't do lots of layers well, so I omitted a few from the sketch. The background is stamped using SU!'s Fabulous Flowers in Kiwi Kiss on Kiwi Kiss paper. A large flower stamped in Kiwi Kiss is the main image with a sentiment from Refuge and Strength is accented in Basic Gray. I added a mat of Baja Breeze around that main image. A double line of piercing runs down one panel to fill in that space. The mat pack really helps to keep it straight! The large pearl brad is from K and Co. and the smaller pearl accents are Hero Arts.

This card measures 5.5" square.

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Angela

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This card uses the sketch challenge posted on SCS today. You can see the sketch here. I decided to pull out Heartfelt Thanks because it is such a pretty set, but so often old sets get pushed to the back of the shelf in favour of newer ones. Does that happen to you?

I started by stamping the flower using markers in Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. The top outline stamp was inked with Mellow Moss and Brocade Blue marker. I used a glue pen and sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds to give the flower some sparkle. Three black SU! brads were put in the corner to balance out the card. I always use my mat pack and piercer to make guide holes to place the brads prefectly (well, I try to make them perfect!) spaced. I started with only the Brocade Blue layer under the flower image, but it wasn't singing to me so I added the black layers. I'm not so good with layers but at times find that adding a small layer finishes a card off. And I only had an oh, so small scrap of this black and white check May Arts ribbon so I had to snip and stick it to make it stretch. It doesn't actually run all the way under the flower image because there just wasn't enough!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Don't forget to comment on this post here (CC176) to have a chance to win some blog candy! (Don't comment the post you are reading now-SC186- but the post with the blog candy pic, okay?)

Hope the rest of your day is great :)

Angela

SC185

Hi there!

Holy smokes! It's warm today! Just finished taking my boys to swimming lessons. I don't know why I bothered to get my hair straightened yesterday as this heat and the pool are killing it! Bummer. Oh well, back to curly tomorrow.

This card was made for the sketch challenge over at SCS. You can see the layout here.

I started with the decision to use Red Riding Hood Red since I haven't had a chance to yet. Ladybugs were a natural choice to use with red. Other colours are Basic Black and Whisper White. She is also stamped with Palette Noir as are all the details in black on this card. I tried cutting out the ladybug but was having a heck of a time with the antennae. I ended up covering the tips with black jewels that I believe are from Studio K. The Little Lady stamp set is from Papertrey Ink and she is on a dimensional so she can be creeping off the panel.

Originally, I had the celebrate on the right thinking that the ribbon would balance things out. Didn't happen. So to fix it, I tried stamping celebrate three times all along the bottom. Crooked, of course. So then I cut a red panel and took the card a bit apart to slip it over the mistakes and end under the May Arts ribbon (so the red portion below the ribbon is actually two layers-really hard to tell though) and stamped celebrate on the left. I'm much happier with it now. I still feel like it needs a little something, but I don't know what and I'm scared to wreck it! I often so that and after think I should have left well enough alone. So I left it.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Hope the rest of your day is great.

Angela

SC184

Another sketch challenge done! Thank goodness for summer vacation. Better take advantage of my stamping time because come September it will be gone! You can see the SCS SC184 here. Try it!

Anyways, I must have been in a holiday card mood after yesterday's Peaceful Wishes card. This card uses Whisper White and Soft Sky from SU! It's a very "cool" combo in my opinion and perfect for snowflakes! Flakes from Snow Burst and Snow Flurries (both SU! and retired) were stamped in Soft Sky ink, cut and mounted on a Soft Sky mat. They were all adhered using dimensionals. Bling (jewels by Crafting Expressions) was added using Tombo Multi. The sentiment stamped in the corner is from Papertreyink's Take a Bough set. Love the fonts on PTI sets. An SU! ribbon is tied on the left to balance out the sentiment. I tried to keep it simple so that the bling would sing!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Hope the rest of your day is great!

Angela