One color and One sketch - more challenges

I just had to find time to play with this Colour Q combo challenge for this week.

 This is what I came up with! I recently won some wonderful stamps by Layers of Color and so it was so fun to pull out some of them for my card. 

 I had wanted to use this stamping and coloring technique again, color resist.  I stamped the butterfly with white ink and embossed with white embossing powder on white cardstock.  Next I took four watercolor crayons and quickly colored portions of my butterfly.  I really just scribbled the colors on and then used my watercolor brush to get the colors wet.  When I had it looking like I wanted, I set it aside to dry and then used a cloth over the butterfly exposing the white lines. 

 Notice my punched corners.  I used a Kreaxions 4-in-1 punch with the plates in it to punch the corners. 

 Next, since I so love My Favorite Things stamps, I wanted to use their sketch this week. 

 I just got this little Pure Innocence girl stamp in the mail so I wanted to give her a try and she is so fitting for summer with that cute pinwheel.  Gotta love these new Echo Park papers, the pinks are so sweet and girly. 

 Since she is holding a pinwheel, I thought a fun accent would be a larger pinwheel.  These are soooo simple.  I just cut a 1 1/2" square from the patterned paper and made a cut into each corner.  Then I folded in four of the corners.  I really like to use 2 sided papers for these. 

 I paper pieced her pants with some of the patterned paper. 
And for a couple photo...

 We recently took a road trip and since I love lighthouses, we try to stop at any that we might be near. This one is just outside of Mendocino, CA. 

Here is another photo of the lighthouse.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

YOUR FRIENDSHIP WARMS MY HEART card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations and Bazzill
Patterned paper – BoBunny
Butterfly and Sentiment stamps – Layers of Color
4-in-1 punch - Kreaxions
White stamp pad – Joann Craft store
White embossing powder – Stampendous
Water color crayons
Twine – Karen Foster
Foam tape – 3M
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Ink Essentials Enamel Accents

HAPPY SUMMER card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Bazzill
Patterned paper – Country Drive collection/Echo Park Paper
Stamp set – My Favorite Things
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Border punch - Recollections
Copic Markers
Pearl brad – American Crafts
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Ranger Glossy Accents

Orange flowers

I have said this before but here it goes again...I LOVE CHALLENGES!

 I am always a fan of color challenges and Play Date Cafe does such a good job of putting them together but this weeks combo is a "MUST DO"! Is this yum?

 I also love sketches so as I was trying to decide how I was going to put that color combo together, I came across the Sketchy Thursday sketch and while these are meant for layouts, I knew I wanted to try it on a card. 

 I went searching for a photo to use because I liked that that one part of the card would be a photo that I took.  I found this wonderful, orange rose photo that I took as I walked through a garden.

 The flourish piece is cut with my Cricut using the Cindy Loo cartridge.  The sentiment is printed directly on the card front. I used a digital stamp by The Wax Fruit Company.

 I loved in the sketch that they used a butterfly going off of the edge and so I used my Kreaxions butterfly die with this text patterned paper.  Notice I created a decorative middle to the butterfly by pleating a strip of matching paper. 

 This card uses the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week.  Want2Scrap is the sponsor for this week. You MUST check out their BLING! They offer shapes of rhinestones and pearls that fit with the shapes of Spellbinder dies. SOOO clever. 

I used a Springtime topper by Flower Soft, cut in a circle shape.  I layered that onto a scallop circle Spellbinder Nestabilities die.  The circle of rhinestones fit perfectly. Notice that great accent of the Flower Soft on the plant in the tea cup.  I used two colors of Flower Soft for a more natural look. 
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

YOU SPRINKLE JOY… card

Materials list:
My own photo
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BoBunny
Cindy Loo Cricut cartridge (2 ¼”)
Butterfly die - Kreaxions
Digital Sentiment – The Wax Fruit Company
Clearsnap Fluid chalk stamp pad
Copic Markers

SKETCH 227 – JUST BECAUSE card

Materials:
Circle of rhinestones courtesy of Want2Scrap
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper and sticker – Gabrielle collection/Gabrielle Stripe/BoBunny
Springtime topper – Flower Soft
Christmas Green and Pale Green - Flower Soft
Spellbinder Nestabilities
Rub-on sentiment – EAD Designs/Paper Smooches
Little Flower

Loving color

I found myself playing along with a couple "color" challenges this week. 

The first one is with The Play Date Cafe.  Does this say SUMMER???

 This card is made up of some of the scraps on my table. I am not ever good at cleaning up and one reason is because of the inspiration I find in my mess!!!  Plus you can see my newest border punch!!! That cute sentiment is from a set of rub-ons by EAD Designs and Paper Smooches. 

The flower is cut from a piece of patterned paper by 3 Bugs in a Rug.   I love to cut elements out of patterned papers.  I accented the little white dots with Bead paint by Tulip. 

 Next comes the Unscripted sketch for this week that includes a piggyback color challenge. 

Again, I relied on some of my scraps.  I picked up what was leftover from this piece of paper and saw that the colors in the challenge were in it.  I'm not sure I got the colors correct exactly but I see a challenge as just that, a challenge and it does not have to be perfect.

AND, do you see how I used my brand new Cricut Expression!!! LOVE this thing.  The cartridge is Stamping and I cut the phrase at 2". 

                                

 And you know that tomorrow is Father's Day.  We have already had two celebrations just trying to catch up with all of the families schedules!  I have actually already shared this card in the past but it needed to be shared again since it fits for Dad.  It fits along with the Little Red Wagon challenge for something for Dad.

Notice all of that texture? I love texture for a masculine card.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

NEVER TOO OLD… card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Sun Kissed Summer/BoBunny, (Flower)Chloe/3 Bugs in a Rug and Little Boy/Echo Park
Border punch – Martha Stewart
Rub-on sentiment – EAD Designs/Paper Smooches
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Bead paint- Tulip
Self adhesive rhinestone – Recollections
Foam tape – 3M
Machine sewing



SKETCH 111 – MISSING YOU card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Sun Kissed Stripe/BoBunny
Cut sentiment – Cricut cartridge/Stamping (2”)
Corner punch – Fiskars
Scallop scissors
Buttons – Dress It Up

Unscripted sketches

I want to share two Unscripted sketch projects with you.  Last weeks and this weeks. 

Last weeks sketch #105

The background paper for this card is a digital patterned paper that was printed on textured cardstock. 

 The border was created with a 4-in-1 punch from Kreaxions.  I punched two borders with it and layered them across the card.  What I love about these punches is that there are several different looks you can get from one punch. 

 These little penguins are 3-D stickers by Recollections and I placed them on little white, scallop circles that were cut with a Spellbinders Nestabilities. 

This weeks sketch #106

 For this weeks sketch, I wanted to create a layout.  I took three photos of my granddaughter and created a collage in Picasa so all three are really one photo.  The background paper is by BoBunny.  It had just the right amount of accents on it to fit the sketch perfectly. 

 The butterfly is from a die by Kreaxions. I LOVE this butterfly because of the size, it is bigger then most punches.  I cut it from a piece of patterned paper by BoBunny.  I wrinkled the paper and rubbed it with a stamp pad. 

I added the journaling to my layout by printing the words on paper and then cutting it in strips. I love that look.

Those little flower circles were created with a 4-in-1 punch by Kreaxions.  These punches create different looks depending on how you use them.  I cut the little circles with the circle cutter by Kreaxions, literally the best circle cutter EVER!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 105 – BRR IT’S COLD card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Digital Patterned papers – Knotty kit/Jessica Sprague.com

Penguin Die cuts – Recollections

Border punch - Kreaxions

SRM sticker sentiment

Spellbinder Nestabilities die

Button – PaperTrey, Inc.

SKETCH 106 – JOYOUS card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Patterned papers – Gabrielle Cameo/BoBunny

Border punch, Butterfly die and Circle cutter – Kreaxions

Stamp pads – Clearsnap

Epoxy word – Heidi Grace

Self adhesive Pearls – Queen & Co.

Font - Scrapbook

Flower Soft Stamps blog hop

We invite you to join the fabulous Flower Soft® team on an inspirational blog hop featuring projects using Flower Soft Stamps!

The blog hop starts on the Flower Soft® Blog on May 11th at 6:00am CT and ends May 24th at midnight CT. The winner will be announced on the Flower Soft® Blog on May 25th. If you get lost along the way the complete hop list will be posted on the Flower Soft® Blog.

Be sure to comment on every blog in the hop. One lucky person that comments on one of the blogs will be chosen to receive a $50 Flower Soft® shopping spree!!!

 Did you know Flower Soft also makes and sells rubber stamps? Be sure to check them out. I used this cute doggie stamp from the Charlie's Ark collection.  It is called Up and Away.  I used my Copic markers to bring him to life. 

 I used Toffee Ultra Fine Flower Soft to accent his little spots and ears.  Remember that the Flower Soft works best a generous amount of Aleene's Tacky Glue and I love the little container that Flower Soft sells. 

I stamped the balloon portion of the stamp on three different patterned papers and then cut out each balloon and glued them over the first set of balloons.  Paper piecing is a fun way to add interest to a stamped image.
From my blog, hop on over to Debbie's blog to see what she has created. 
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

DOGGIE - WISH card

Materials:

Stamp set – Up and Away/Charlie's Ark/Flower Soft

Toffee Ultra Fine Flower Soft

Cardstock –Core Impressions/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – BoBunny

SRM sticker

Copic markers

Black Versafine stamp pad

Clear embossing powder – Stampendous

Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.

Tacky glue - Aleene's

Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®

Sand It Gadget – Core’dinations

Celebrating Mother's Day

Once again it is Mother's Day and that brings to mind thoughts of my mom.  She has been gone for several years now.  She passed away very quickly and unexpectedly and I realized just after she was gone that she left a hole unlike any other, after all she is the one person who had been in my life longer then any other, besides my dad.  My memories of her bring a smile to my face though and that is good.  Then my thoughts go to my own children and the wonder of having them and now my grandkids in my life.  That leads me to wanting to share a couple Mother's Day cards with you.

 This first one was created with all Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker papers.  I love this collection of "Something for Everyone" papers, the soft blues have such a feminine look to them. 

 The flourish was cut out of one of the patterned papers and then added to the card with foam tape, which gives it some added dimension.  I also coated parts of the flourish with Aleene's Paper Glaze, I love the epoxy look that it gives.

 Next is the card I created for the Just Imagine Crafts/Kreaxions blog for this last week.  The papers are by BoBunny and yes, they were designed more for Valentines Day but I thought the red and pinks were great for a Mother's Day theme. 

The butterfly is a great die that Kreaxions offers and the little scallop border was created with one of their 4-in-1 punches. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

MOTHER card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Foundations/Canvas/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and mini alphabet stickers - Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Foam tape – 3M
Self adhesive pearls- Recollections
Sand It Gadget - Core'dinations

REDEEM FOR LOVE card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper- BoBunny
Butterfly die – Kreaxions
4-in-1 punch 303 - Kreaxions
Self adhesive pearls- Queen & Co.
Sand It Gadget - Core'dinations