Summer/Winter

I like to create for all of the seasons so todays post is going to cover Summer and Winter. 

My first card goes along with the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week. It is a fun sketch, as usual and what made it even more fun for me was using these amazing papers by Bo Bunny.  When I first saw this collection in my LSS, I wanted every single piece and that isn't always the case with a new collection for me.   Those little squares that are on the side are actually cut from one of the patterned papers.

Notice the little sparkle along the wave edges in the patterned paper? I added some Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip.  This is the kind of paint that you get in the t-shirt decorating section. It works wonderfully on paper projects and I just love this glitter because it gives some sparkle and still lets the underneath pattern and color show through. The Splash Zone piece is cut from another piece of the patterned paper in this collection.

This little card fits with the Caarvarks blog challenge.  It is hosted by JustRite stamps.  My card is a mini card created to hold a little gift card inside.  Something that is always needed at Christmas. 

I love stamping with JustRite stamps. I love that you can change the borders and words to kind of make them your own.  I stamped this in green and then added accents with Copic Markers and some rhinestones.  Notice the cardstock too. That is Core'dinations Core Impressions. The embossed design is already in it.

Here is my little inside pocket.  A gift card just slips right inside. 

And a couple photos...

A couple more from one of our park visits.  Our grandson was on a walking adventure and it is so cute to watch him looking out for "BIG animals"!!!

Here he is trying to master some play equipment that is a bit too big for him.  It helps to have mom's help.

This one was more his size. Gotta love that cute face!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 181 – SPLASH ZONE card

Materials:
Cardstock - Core Expressions Core’dinations
Patterned paper – SunKissed Afternoon, Party and Chillin’/BoBunny
Self Adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M

JOY – GIFT CARD HOLDER card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Eskimo Kisses/BasicGrey
JustRite stamps
Green stamp pad – Memento
Clear embossing powder
Oval punch – McGill
Scallop oval punch – Marvy
Fiskars Apron Lace border punch
Ribbon
Self Adhesive Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper

Oh, A-CardMaking I will go

On a search to find sketches to work with, I came up with several and so, I have several cards to share with you. I am only go to share a few today and more later.

This first card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week and some of my favorite patterned papers from We R Memorys Keepers. What a fun sketch!

These tiny little cupcakes pieces are from Pretty Little Studio Etsy store.

This card was created for the Little Red Wagon challenge to "Put a Window in It". I love the peek-a-boo look that this creates and these products from Nikki Sivils just seemed like the perfect choice for my little round window. The clouds and the tiny bee came on this piece of patterned paper and I cut out the larger bee and added it with foam tape.

The little honeycomb piece and the other bee are cut from die cuts in this Willow Bee collection. You can barely see it but I added some Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip on the edges of my clouds for a little sparkle.

Because of my little inside piece, I wanted to finish the inside too so I added this great patterned paper to the inside. You can barely see the Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip that I added to the bees wings.

(CARD REMOVED FOR PUBLICATION)

And, this card uses a sketch that is posted at Caardvarks for their May challenge. It just seemed like a good time to pull out some Christmas papers.
The trees are part of one of the pieces of patterned papers in this collection by BoBunny, I just cut them out.
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And, we went to the zoo this last weekend, gotta share a few photos with you.

This guy is actually pretty small but doesn't he just look menacing anyway, floating like this?
Take note, these giraffe's have an OCEAN view!!! Can you believe that?

Can you make out the flamingos in the background of my photo? I love to take pics of the flamingos but I thought this was a fun perspective with the flower in front in focus.

And, this big, cracked open egg shell is in the kids play area. Our youngest grandson was having so much fun climbing in and out.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 168 – PARTY card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Letter stickers – David Walker
Cupcake shapes – Pretty Little Studio Etsy store
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Sandpaper

BEE MINE card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Black Magic collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Day Dreamer, Willow’s Bee Hive and Bee’s Cutie Cut-Ups/Willow Bee/Nikki Sivils
Stamps – Willow Bee stamps/Nikki Sivils
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Aleene's Paper Glaze



‘TIS THE SEASON/TREES card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – ‘Tis the Season collection/BoBunny
Rub-on sentiments - BoBunny
Glitter brad - Doodlebug
Apron lace border punch - Fiskars
Circle punches – Papershapers

What can you do with Flower Soft and stickers?

First off - don't forget about the Pink Persimmon sketch challenge in this POST. Create any kind of a card to go with the sketch and you can be in the running to win stamps! You have until the 28th of February to link your card to my blog.

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Second - look what you can do with Flower Soft!

The Flower Soft team are all going to show you examples of this challenge.

The challenge is to "write" or "draw" with the Aleene's Tacky glue and then to add Flower Soft to that. The advantage is that you can "write" a name or a word, you can "draw" a flower or some other shape. Endless possibilities and so easy.

I chose to "write" the word hello with the Aleene's Tacky glue and then I sprinkled that with black Ultra Fine Flower Soft. The little container of the glue that Flower Soft sells comes with a great, little tip so that you can get in tiny spaces but it also allows you to "write" or "draw" with the glue.

Notice my punched border and my pleated paper.

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And, now for the stickers - Caardvarks blog is having a challenge to use stickers on a creation. They are focusing on SRM stickers and since I didn't have any, I got into my stash of stickers and pulled out these Mrs. Grossmans vehicle stickers.

I paired my school bus and school sign with these October Afternoon patterned papers and this amazing NEW embossed cardstock by Core'dinations and Cosmo Cricket. I did place my stickers on white cardstock and then I cut out around the shapes. I wanted my little image to be more sturdy and then I could also add them to my card with foam tape for some dimension.

Notice the black cardstock with the letters on it. That is the Cosmo Cricket embossed cardstock. All I needed to do to it was to sand it and the letters just pop out.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HELLO card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Black Ultra Fine Flower SoftTacky Glue – Aleene’s®
Patterned paper – Little Yellow Bicycle
Butterfly punch and Border punch - Martha Stewart
Flower punch – Papershapers
Glitter brad – Making Memories
Machine Sewing

THANK YOU – SCHOOL BUS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cosmo Cricket embossed collection and Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – October AfternoonApron Lace border punch – Fiskars
School bus and School sign stickers – Mrs. Grossmans
Rub-on sentiment – Making Memories
Sandpaper
Foam tape – 3M

Thanks to Caardvarks

I was off looking for a sketch to use and I came across one at Caardvarks and I knew I had to try it.

To mimic the little scallops along the card in the sketch, I stamped this adorable little stamp from the Swirl Journal set by Pink Persimmon and then punched each image in a circle. Those circles in a row look like the scalloped edge in the sketch.

I did stamp the images with Black Versafine ink and then I embossed them with Detail Clear embossing powder. I love the richness of the black when it is embossed. I added Queen & Co. self adhesive pearls to each image. The images were punched out in individual circles and the edges of those were rubbed with Fluid Chalk stamp pads so that I could add color to the edges that would make them tie in with the colors of the papers by K&Co.

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And I just had to show you a couple more photos!! I went down at sunset to the closest beach to my house the other night.

We have islands off of our coast and you often can't see them or see them clearly but this night they were as clear as they could be. I was just taken with the reflection of the sunset in the water on the beach. A wave would come in and then as that water flowed back out, the colors would just shine!

I took this as I was walking back to my car. There is a little river that flows down to the ocean and I loved all of the colors of this view.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANK YOU card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Rubber stamps – Swirl Journal set/Pink Persimmon
Patterned paper – K&Co.
Versamark black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Self Adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Fluid chalk stamp pad – Clearsnap

Cuttlebug Goodness and 2 Sketches 4 You

This just in........go to CutCardStock.com and take a peek at some creations of mine they posted using Core'dinations cardstock and enter to WIN a $25 gift certificate to buy some of your own cardstock!!! This is important!

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I just received a nice package in the mail with some NEW Cuttlebug embossing plates. These tools are one of those kinds of things you can collect and you want ALL of them! The good thing is that I love to use them so they don't just collect dust.

The Cuttlebug Challenge Blog has a challenge to create invitations so here is mine and I used Caarvark sketch #2 to design it. It has a slight masculine feel with that particular embossing plate and the colors. But I think what was in my mind was that the "Over the Hill" theme usually has a gloom kind of feel to it so the black works for that.

The Core'dinations cardstock I used for the black portion is from the Vintage collection. Didn't that work way too cool with that embossing plate? I cut the letters for "50" from that same embossed piece. The red, scallop circle piece is the new Jenni Bowlin Core'dinations. The text design is already embossed into the paper and you just sand it.

This card represents the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch #34 and yes, another one of my brand new Cuttlebug embossing plates. Isn't it amazing how that embossed pattern goes with the blue, patterned paper?

The entire image is a $1 stamp from Inkadinkado. I tend to collect these things without using them because why wouldn't you buy a stamp that is only $1! It was fun to dig into that stash and find one to use. I wanted to color it with my Copic markers to match the papers in this BasicGrey collection.

The last tidbit to point out on this card is that orange embossed little strip of cardstock. 2 Sketches 4 You is highlighting the mini Scor-It tool and so I used that to create my embossed lines along the strip that I cut. I just sanded that and the Core was then exposed in the Core'dinations cardstock.
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Can you stand another photo from our beach trip!? What is fun is how afraid he was of the ocean when we first arrived. He got over that rather quickly.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

50 OVER THE HILL card
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin collection and Vintage/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Scenic Route

Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars

Cuttlebug Embossing plate – Provo Craft

Mini stickers

Scallop circle punch – Marvy

Sandpaper

TODAY IS A GOOD DAY card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BasicGrey

Flower grouping stamp - Inkadinkado

Black Versafine stamp pad

Clear embossing powder

Copic markers

Self adhesive pearls – Kaiser Crafts

Corner rounder punch – Bind It All

Cuttlebug Embossing plate

Sandpaper

Circle template – Coluzzle

Scallop scissors – Family Treasures

Score It tool