Butterflies and a Pierrot Doll

Yeah, another Saturday and another Unscripted sketch. I love getting to share mine with you. Here is the sketch (make sure you play along this week) and make sure you also check out what the rest of the team did with the same sketch.

When I looked at this weeks sketch, I wanted to think "outside the box" a bit on how to create my card. So, instead of using ribbon or string to "tie" the two accent pieces together, I created little rows of punched out circles and ran a line of machine sewing through each of them.

 Notice that cool embossed design? That is my brand new texture plate from PaperTrey, Inc. And the butterflies are my brand new stamps from My Stamp Box. I stamped them with white ink and embossed them with white embossing powder on white cardstock. Next I sprayed them with some Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. That bit of colors created some a soft look.

And, I just couldn't wait to share this cutie with you. This is a Pierrot Doll and it is from a brand new stamp set by Pink Persimmon and it isn't even released yet, so this is little sneak peek. The set is called Holiday Favors and it contains several cute images.

I would have called this little guy a clown but I guess if you want to get technical then it is a Pierrot Doll. Any which way it is so cute. All of the dots on his little costume are colored with a Copic marker and then accented with Aleene's Paper Glaze. It is also added to the shoes, cheeks and pompom on the hat. The Paper Glaze adds a fun, extra shine and dimension to the image. The background is super simple, it is just little square stamp pads tapped directly onto the cardstock. LOVE the color combo.

The banners are from a set by Pink Persimmon. The banners are sets of words so stamping them and using them is so easy. Happy is all one stamp, Birthday is another stamp. I did cut each one out after stamping it and that really just takes a minute.

And this little ruffle edge is in the same set. I just stamped it repeatedly to go across my card. The card design fits with the Clear and Simple blog anniversary sketch.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 66 – JUST HI card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Olivia/BasicGrey
Butterfly stamps – My Stamp Box
Rub-on sentiment – BasicGrey
White stamp pad –Joann’s
White embossing powder – Stampendous
Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Circle punch – Papershapers
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Machine Sewing
Texture plate – PaperTrey, Inc.
Sandpaper

PARTY CLOWN card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Boy Gingham/Snuggle Bug/Little Yellow Bicycle
Versafine colored stamp pads
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Stamps – Holiday Favors/Pink Persimmon
Copic markers
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Self adhesive Rhinestones –Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Black sticker letters – Making Memories
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Gotta share my Mini Banner card

I put together the last Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger along with these adorable, mini banner stamps by Pink Persimmon.

The Trigger has adorable chinese lanterns hanging from the ceiling but I thought that by using these cute banner stamps and stamping them in colors, I could get a similar look. The set of banner stamps come with a solid banner for each of the alphabet letters and there are numbers too. What I like about the solid banners is that these can be stamped in any color.

I cut each one out and then placed them on my card front, trying to mimic the colors in the trigger. I added little dotted lines at the ends to make them look like they are hanging. The background paper is a ledger print by BasicGrey.

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AND, I just have to share these photos with you today.

This little girl came to our house yesterday. She is why we were visiting the Human Society the other day, we just had to wait for a yard check. She is sooooo the cutest!

Our granddaughter got to meet her for the first time when she got home last night. It was love at first sight for both of them.

She is part Dachshund and part Basset Hound and she doesn't have a name yet. We are waiting to see what we think fits her and there are four of us deciding so this has been a trial already!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

ABC’s BANNER - CONGRATULATIONS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Basics White paper pad/BasicGrey

Black Versafine stamp pad

Memento colored stamp pads

Stamps – Mini Banner Alpha/Pink Persimmon

Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

Black fine tip pen - Copic

Sandpaper

It is Unscripted Sketches and Card Positioning Systems blog time again

Yeah, it is Saturday again. First off, that means it is my day to post at the Flower Soft blog so be sure to check that out.

Next, it means it is the day that the new sketch goes up at Unscripted Sketches and I am going to share my card using that sketch with you.

Something that is very exciting about this card is that I used some BRAND NEW papers by Nikki Sivils! Papers that are going to be shown at this next weeks, Summer CHA. The colors worked perfectly with the Colour Q color scheme for this week too.

These circles are really part of one of the patterns, I simply punched them out. The buttons are the coolest because they already have the thread on them and they are self adhesive. What more can you ask!

The next exciting thing about my post for today is that I get to share my Card Positioning Systems sketch. This week, CPS is being sponsored by Flower Soft and so I get to show yet another way to use Flower Soft on a project.

My flower is simply a punched out flower and the I outlined the edges with Aleene's Tacky Glue and added Flower Soft to the petals and coated a circle punch of cardstock with the Polar White Flower Soft. Also notice that scallop, printed piece that the flower is on. That is one of the BRAND NEW downloadable pieces that Flower Soft is offering and they are sized to match Spellbinder Nestabilities. I don't have the matching Nestabilitie though, so I cut it out by hand.

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And, what would a post be without some new photos! Photos of our day today.

We were over at our son's house today for one of our grandsons birthdays. Today was his party and that included some pool time.
This is our son and our youngest grandson modeling the googles.

And, here is the birthday boy, blowing out the candles on his BIG cookie cake.

And, can you believe these cuties came to our house today???? We stopped in at our Human Society today. They are soooo adorable and our grandson loves them so much already.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 65 – THANKS A BUNCH card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – My Friend Birdie/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Self adhesive buttons – Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Circle punch – Papershapers
Sticker sentiment – SRM
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Copper Stickles
Sandpaper

SKETCH 177 – THANK YOU – YELLOW FLOWER card
Materials:
Flower Soft courtesy of Flower Soft
Downloadable topper and sentiment – Flower Soft
Tacky glue – Aleene’s
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – October Afternoon
Apron lace border punch - Fiskars
Flower punch – PaperShapers
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M

Designer Clouds!

I am a sucker for just about anything that has a houndstooth pattern to it and so this cute set of stamps by My Stamp Box is right up my alley and I had to put it to use.

Kazan's 2 Sketches 4 You sketch #57 was just the design idea that I needed. The cardstock for the card base is a newer Core Impressions piece from Core'dinations cardstock. It comes with that embossed design on it already, all it needed was a little bit of sanding. The patterned papers are by Little Yellow Bicycle.

Are these just the cutest little sun and clouds images you have ever seen? There are other designed clouds in the set too. I stamped the clouds with a Versafine black stamp pad and then embossed them with clear embossing powder. The sun is colored with Copic markers and the little bit of glitter that you see if Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. I love this glitter because it is so easy to use, easy to find and it adds glitter and it still lets you see the color underneath. The white, embossed scallop is a sticker by Martha Stewart.

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One CUTE photo to share

This wonderful and smiley expression is from last Saturday when we were playing with water in the backyard. This little guy can play with water forever!
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CLOUDY DAY - CHEERS card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – My Little Yellow Bicycle
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Stamps – Wishing You Sunshine/My Stamp Box
Alphabet stickers – October Afternoon
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

Christmas in July ideas

Seems like everywhere I turn, I am hearing the words, "Christmas in July". Today the news was talking about stores that were having some good deals for early shopping with the thought of "Christmas in July". Unscripted Sketches has been making a feature of this subject all month long with ideas, games, recipes and of course, the sketches.

Tomorrow, the 21st, is my day to be featured at the Unscripted Sketches blog and so I wanted to share a couple easy ideas with you.

Maybe it's because I am a chocoholic but I think that a little gift of candy is a great idea. Something you can hand to the neighbors or co-workers. Maybe a party favor for the many holiday parties that take place. This first one is super simple and it is also a way to recycle. I used a little plastic tub that holds baby food. At one time, we were going through many of these and I knew they would be good for something. SOOOO... I filled one with Christmas colored M&M's and made a very simple decoration for the top. My little decoration is a snowman stamp by Cornish Heritage Farms. This was finished with a big bow.

For this one, I folded a piece of cardstock so that it wrapped a little bag of candy. The design on the front is actually a digital stamp. I printed it out on colored cardstock and made a paper piecing out of it so the tree has layers that are embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Core'dinations cardstock makes it easy to make this pretty cute. This one also fits the Little Red Wagon challenge #37 to use a tree on a project.

Here is a side view so you can see the bag of candy tucked inside. These truffles came in a little bag so it was all ready to go.

Thanks for visiting here and at Unscripted sketches, Linda (lbpost)

Dolls, dolls and more dolls

I am going to share my Unscripted Sketch card for this week and my Card Positioning Systems card in todays post and both have the cutest little dolls on them.

This card uses the Unscripted Sketch #64. You might already know I am a huge fan of sketches so it is always fun to work with another one. Make sure to check out this sketch and maybe even give it a try. I thought the colors pretty much worked with the Colour Q challenge #41 too.

I am madly in love with My Favorite Things Pure Innocence images. These little gals are just so precious. Recently I found someone on the web that stamped one of these images in just black ink on white paper and I had to give that look a try. I so wish I could remember who did it so I could credit them for their brilliant idea! It almost gives it a comic book look to me.

Notice the card base. It is a piece of BasicGrey from the Olivia collection. When I first saw this new collection the other day, I knew I needed every single piece! The fun thing about using a piece of patterned paper for the card base is that this piece is 2 sided so the inside of the card is also patterned.

Onto my next card...

Kitchen Sink stamps is the sponsor for this next week at Card Positioning Systems blog. I LOVE their stamps so it made me very happy to pick out some stamps to work with. I just LOVE this set of nesting dolls. Again, I used the Olivia collection of papers by BasicGrey.

I wanted to color them very simply so I basically used just shades of two colors on each one.

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Gotta share more photos! I seem to be clicking that button on my camera constantly lately so I have so much to share.

When I visited that park where the baby ducklings were, there were also lots of amazing plants. Many I have never seen before and this is one of those. The flowers are these amazing orange/yellow blooms.

These unbelievable green parts are one of the stages of this plant.
Here is the bloom along with the interesting green parts.

This is one of the last stages of this same plant. Dried up pockets with seeds inside. All of these stages were on the one plant all at the same time.

This was another plant, these appeared to be what was left after it flowered.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 64 – BIRTHDAY GIRL card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BasicGrey
Stamps – Pure Innocence/My Favorite Things
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Heart brad – Creative Impressions
Circle punch – Papershapers
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

SKETCH 176 – HAVE A HAPPY DAY card
Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Kitchen Sink – Nesting Dolls set
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BasicGrey
Corner rounder punch – PaperShaper
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Copic markers
White 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
Foam tape – 3M

A perfect day

Our grandson so loves to play in the dirt, or in this case the sand, that that can easily make for a perfect day.

A quick layout to highlight this trip to the beach. My journaling states that we forgot to pack some beach toys but it didn't take him long to find his own.

The papers and tags are all Creative Imaginations along with a great sand colored Core'dinations cardstock. I cut the swirl pattern out of one of the prints and then I accented it with Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. This paint is easy to apply and it gives just the right amount of glitter with the underneath pattern or colors still showing through.

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And a couple photos...

I drove up to Santa Barbara the other day and what did I find walking down the sidewalk but this adorable little duck family. People were stopping everywhere, worried about these guys and trying to get them back to a nearby park where they probably came from.

I then went in search of this park and found this wonderful pond. They were back, swimming and all settled.

They appeared to have their home or hiding place in amoungst the lily pads so it was fun to see them walking on them and finding something to eat. Mom made sure she let them know what she thought of most of their moves!

There were many amazing plants in this park and here is one of them. These are actually very large and hang down from a quite large plant. They might be a good 12" long.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Girls like Trucks - Boys like Sand

First of all, I was able to attend a stamp convention this last weekend. Three times a year, there is a stamp convention in Carson, CA and I am always happy when I get to go. It is nothing like it used to be in the "good ole' days" but it is still fun, educational and Tim Holtz was even there doing what seemed like non-stop demos.

So, I said all of that to say that one of my favorite booths to stop at to see what is new and to look at their examples is Printworks. I always LOVE their example boards, they use such clever accents. Among new-to-me stamps was an adorable truck and a Volkswagon car. I was trying to be very cautious of what I picked out to buy, but I thought I could see several ideas of how to use the truck.

So, on the way home, I could envision a red truck for our oldest daughters birthday card and here is the result! I sprayed my stamped truck with a red Chalk Glimmer Mist which really sprays pink so you can see the pink edges. I thought that would add shading to my red coloring with Copic markers but I really ended up coloring the entire image with the red anyway.

I just cut a slit in the back of the truck in order to tuck in the money gift. I just made sure that I didn't put glue in that area. The bumper and lights are coated with Aleene's Paper Glaze after I colored them. I thought that that glaze would add a real look to it. Moxie Fab having a week featuring Card Styles and one of the challenges is to create a CUTE and FUN card so I thought this fit very well.

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And here are a couple photos of our beach trip recently. It was a gray, cool day but you can tell it was a fun adventure anyway. You would never know by looking at these pics that at first he was afraid and clingy!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

GO SHOPPING card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Little Yellow Bicycle
Sticker letters – October Afternoon
Truck stamp – Printworks
Copic markers
Chalk Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Sandpaper

Unscripted and CPS sketches

My post today is about sketches - nothing new for me!!!

This first card is using the Unscripted sketch #63 and the bonus to this sketch is to use the color scheme that is posted on the blog. I thought right away of the photos I took at Christmas time of some poinsettias in our town. The colors were exactly what was needed.

What was even better is that this collection of patterned papers by BoBunny fit the color scheme exactly too, plus my card is in keeping with the other theme of Christmas in July.

My next two cards go with the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this next week and to go along with those cards are Lizzie Anne stamps. They are the sponsors for this week. I picked a set of four fancy sentiments.

Notice the dot, embossed cardstock on the card. That is Core'dinations Core Impressions, it comes with those dots in it already.

I wanted to show off the paper I used for the card base. It is a two sided paper and I loved the way the inside is all decorated.

This one also shows a sentiment stamp from Lizzie Anne.

Notice the card base, it is Core'dinations Core Impressions. It has that flower embossed design in it. All it takes is a little sanding to expose the design.
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And, more photos!!!

As we were driving down the coast, we crossed over the Golden Gate bridge. It is just so amazing to see as you are driving up to it. This time we stopped on the one side where there is a lookout, the perfect spot for photo taking. We got there as the sun was just going to set.

From this lookout spot, you can see San Francisco off in the distance.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Sketch 63 – PHOTO-MERRY CHRISTMAS
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BoBunny
My Own Photo
Rub-on sentiment – BoBunny
Felt snowflake – Creative Impressions
Glitter brad – Doodlebug
Circle punches

SKETCH 175a – ENJOY card
Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Lizzie Anne
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Cardstock - Core Impressions Core’dinations

Patterned paper – So Sophie: Anything For You and In Love/My Mind’s Eye (both of sides)Copic Markers

Corner rounder punch – PaperShaper

Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

Sandpaper

SKETCH 174b – GROWING OLD card
Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Lizzie Anne
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Cardstock - Core Impressions Core’dinations

Patterned paper – Fly a Kite: Picnic Table/October Afternoon (both sides)

Corner rounder punch – PaperShaper

Big brad

Sandpaper