Goodness, Goodness and MORE Goodness

And, most of the goodness comes from sketches but also from some great online challenges. 

To start off my post, I am showing you my Card Positioning Systems blog card for this week. Our sponsor is Paper Pretties and I just fell in love with this adorable little skating girl.  Notice that great embossed cardstock for the card base.  It is Core Impressions by Core'dinations. That means it comes with that embossed design in it already and I slightly sanded it.  They aren't snowflakes but they look like it here.

This set comes with several little snowflakes so I used some of them to create a snow scene.  The girl is colored with Copic makers.  Her handwarmer and ear muffs are accented with Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip. I love how that is just enough added glitter and bling.

For this card, I started out with the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for this week.  Their sponsor is Layers of Color so I used a free digi download from LOC for my card, that is that great sentiment.  The flower is cut out of a piece of SEI patterned paper.  This great, golden orange flower plus the white space for the sentiment made this card fit in with the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger for this week and the colors fit with the Colour Q challenge. 

Once I downloaded the sentiment, I opened a WORD document and inserted it.  From here, I could size this to the exact size I wanted to work with. This download could be printed out just about any size and another great reason to use something like this is that I could make multiple cards by repeatedly printing out the verse. 

And, I also found time to play with the Card Patterns sketch.  This gave me a chance to use my new Wplus9 Designs Studios medallion stamps.  I thought they looked like they could be snowflakes. 

My very newest purchase is this great set of Spellbinder Nestabilities and I thought they were perfect to go along with the sketch.  I kept the Nestabilitie in place once the shape was cut out and embossed and sprayed it with some Glimmer Mist.  I did a little bit of accenting with a matching Copic marker. 

Gotta share some photos from this last week...

This last Saturday was my grandsons last soccer game of this season and in the last quarter he played the position of goalie. You can see by these photos that he really showed them how to do it. Just like this, he stopped the ball several times.

And had great form as he kicked the ball back into the game. 

Here is our little puppy today.  She has grown so much since we got her, she is now 6 months old and just as cute as ever.

I thought you might like to see where you can most often find our kitty cat! She is so intent as she watches anything that moves.

Plus, here is a photo of one of my  new Calla Lillies in our backyard. They are such a dark purple, some of them are almost black!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 192 – WINTER GREETINGS card

Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Paper Pretties
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper - BasicGrey
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear Embossing Powder – Stampendous
Copic Markers
Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Scallop circle punches and circle punches – PaperShapers
Sandpaper
Foam tape

BLESSED IS THE NATION… card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Moonrise collection/SEI (the flower is cut from one pattern)
Digital stamp for sentiment – Layers of Color
Self adhesive gems – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

HAPPY HOLIDAYS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Couture and Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BoBunny (both sides)
Rub-on sentiment – Making Memories
Border punch – Apron Lace/Fiskars
Snowflake stamp - Mehndi Medallions/Wplus9 Design Studios
Scallop Circle die cut – Spellbinders Nestabilities
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Blue Glimmer Mist spray – Tattered Angels
Buttons – PaperTrey, Inc.
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

It's beginning to look alot like FALL!

I didn't know how hard it would be to create a card with all of the same color family!!!

The Unscripted sketch for this coming week has a piggyback challenge with it - create a monochromatic card.  In other words, stay within one color family.  Do you know what I wanted to reach for first? A multi colored patterned paper!!! But, instead, I reached for this brand new Core Impressions cardstock by Core'dinations.  It is from the new Graphic 45 collection. It is YUM! That great embossed design comes in the cardstock, all it takes is a little bit of sanding.  I let that piece set the stage for my card. 

Next, I picked up a little chipboard house that I had in my stash from Maya Road.  I covered that with a striped piece of paper from BasicGrey, just the perfect combination of colors to stay within the same color scheme and to also fit with the Color Que color challenge at Wplus9 Designs.  The little "home" piece is a rub-on by Jenni Bowlin. 

This last week, it was my turn to post some projects at the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog.  In case you missed that, here is one of the cards that I shared.  The papers are from the Boo-ti-ful collection. I just plain love that Nikki added purple into this Halloween/Fall collection of papers. 

The pumpkins are part of one of the full size patterned papers.  My card combines pieces from the mini paper pads and the full size, 12" x 12" pieces. 

Today is also my day to post at the Flower Soft blog, so pop on over to see the entire card that I added bits of the Citrus Crush Ultra Fine Flower Soft too.

Thanks for visiting,  Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 73 – HOME card

Materials:
Cardstock – Graphic 45 Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BasicGrey
Chipboard house – Maya Road
Home label rub-on – Jenni Bowling
Fluid chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Label die cut – Sizzix
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Sandpaper