Moxie Fab and Unscripted sketches

I have a couple cards to share with you today.

First off, this amazing Tuesday Trigger at Moxie Fab. 

This is a bit on the artsy side and I love working with that style although I don't very often.  It just seemed this Trigger piece required it. 

When I cut out the flourish image, I made sure to leave white cardstock showing to go along with the black and white in the one element in the Trigger.  Of course, the turquoise in the doily that is a die from My Favorite Things matches part of the headboard.  The great pink patterned paper by Recollections goes along with the pillows.

Notice my background design? I used an orange cardstock for my card and I knew I needed some kind of a design on the card but it could not be overpowering. I used a stencil and sponged it with a Chalk stamp pad by Clearsnap.

Now to share my Unscripted sketch card for this week. There is a piggyback challenge this week to add sewing to the card.

I used a Hero Arts cloud background stamp and then this super cute bunny in an airplane stamp by The Cat's Pajamas for the main elements on my card.

The cloud die is also by The Cat's Pajamas and I did a line of machine sewing through it.

I also have a photo to share...

My first daffodil bloomed in my yard this week!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Do you want to win something????

It's exciting! It is a challenge over at Just Imagine Crafts blog. 

 One of the prizes is the little circle cutter. It doesn't look like much but wow, does it pack a big punch. LOVE this thing. It is so easy and you can cut an infinite number of sizes of circles in minutes.

This month, the Just Imagine Crafts/Kreaxions blog is hosting a sketch challenge.  There are two sketches to choose from plus use the theme of butterflies and Mother's for Mother's Day.  Just that simple. You don't have to use Kreaxions products but you can win some.  Also check out the challenge page and this is where you post your project.  You have until the end of May so go for it!!

I wanted to share this card that is mainly put together with circles.  The pumpkin stamp is colored by tapping it with a couple different colors of stamp pads.  An SRM sticker gives the title and that is placed on another of the circles. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

(10/31) GET CANDY card

Materials list:
Core'dinations Cardstock
Patterned paper – Boxer Stripe/Little Boy collection/Echo Park
Pumpkin stamp – Inkadinkado
Memento stamp pads
Sticker sentiments - SRM
Brads – Making Memories
Circle cutter - Kreaxions
Machine sewing

Butterflies, Trees, Flowers and Cupcakes

Yep, my post today covers all of that!

First of all, my  Unscripted sketch card for this week.  That is where the Butterfly comes in plus this great purple patterned paper.

The light blue background of tickets is a Tim Holtz stamp. The butterfly is a stamp by Inkadinkado.  It is a set that has butterflies in a variety of designs. For this one, I stamped it with black Versafine ink and then embossed that with Clear Detail embossing powder.  Next, I just ran various Copic markers over the stamped image. 

Next, the trees are part of my Card Positioning Systems sketch card for this week.  I pulled out these brand new papers by Nikki Sivils, Scrapboooker.  The collection is We Are Family.  I so love the colors.

Seriously, are these just the cutest little trees you have ever seen? They are die cuts from this collection. 

Now for a few photos...

We have been gone for a couple weeks and when we arrived back home yesterday, this is what I found in my backyard.  I planted these bulbs last fall and have been waiting patiently.

This is the first year I have planted these. I planted several kinds of bulbs though so I am still waiting on the rest.

And, I found a new cupcake store and they had a few special treats for Valentines Day.  If you are ever in Newberg or Tigard, Oregon, be sure to look up this store, Sweetest Thing Cupcakes. The store in Newberg is in the cutest, old house. 

Yes, they were as good as they look!
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 93 – HEARTFELT THANKS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned Papers – BoBunny
Ticket stamp – Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz
Butterfly stamp – Inkadinkado
Blue stamp pad – Distress stamp pad
Black Versafine pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic markers
Buttons – PaperTrey, Inc.
Circle punch - PaperShapers
Self adhesive Pearls – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper


SKETCH 205 – THINKING OF YOU card

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper, die cuts and stickers – We Are Family collection/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Brown Distress stamp pad
Foam tape – 3M
Sandpaper

From Pink to Blue

Moxie Fab is hosting a color challenge with several combos to choose from to work with.  This challenge goes along with their new issue, Color Inspirations that looks just amazing.

I picked this one, hopefully I will have time to play with more of them before the deadline.

For the start of my card, I used a brand new background stamp by Stamp Camp, a company that is often at our stamp conventions.  I just stamped it with a black Versafine stamp pad and then embossed it with clear embossing powder.  Next I rubbed a few different stamp pads directly over the image. Of course, the embossed images resist the ink. I wanted to have my paper be a light pink on the one edge and then for the colors to progress to an coral/orange.  I used some sprays to help strengthen my colors.

The butterfly stamp is a brand new set by Inkadinkadoo. It is filled with butterflies that have different designs on them. I just need time to use all of them!!!  This was done in the same technique as my background and parts colors in the design were strengthened with Copic markers. 

This shows a little close-up of my punched border and the colors on the stamped image. Notice I used self adhesive rhinestones in pinks and orange to help with the progression of color.

It is that time of the week again to use a new Unscripted sketch. This week we were to also create a project with a maculine theme. That always seems to be a challenge for some reason.

The striped paper is by Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker from the Something for Everyone collection.  I though that was a great starting point.

Next, I picked up a couple scraps of some Core Impressions cardstocks that were sitting on my desk. They both went with the colors in my paper and had a masculine feel to them. Just a bit of sanding exposed the great embossed design that comes on them already.

Gotta share a few photos too...

More on our recent zoo trip. He loves to play with the big, cracked eggs that are in the play area.

He had so much fun on this rope design even if he did end up upside down!

And more on that tongue that seems to make the play even more fun.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

New Babies

"For unto you is born this day,

in the city of David,

a Saviour who is Christ the Lord." 

That's it, this is the story of God's plan towards mankind.  All of mankind.  Everybody loves a new baby, all soft and cuddly and smelling wonderful. 

The story of Christmas with this new baby coming is so much more then just oohing and aahing over a new little person. 

It is one part of the most amazing

plan for you and me. 

There is a song I love -

"I'm forever grateful to you

I'm forever grateful for the Cross

I'm forever grateful to you

that you came to seek and save the lost."

Christmas and this new baby is only one

piece of a plan that changed the world

and is the most important gift

we can ever receive. 

I love all of Christmas, the songs, the decorations, Santa and gifts.  We always remember the real reason behind Christmas being Jesus' birth too.  I love the feeling in the air and the goodwill towards others. 

It is exciting, enjoy all of it but remember God's entire plan too. 

Gotta share my Card Postioning Systems card for this week. 

I was at a stamp convention recently and found this great "verse" stamp by Printworks.  I knew I would want to use it as the main forcus of a card but it can also be a great background.

 

I did stamp it on white cardstock but then colored that with Distress stamp pads and punched the one edge with an EK Success border punch.

The snowflake stamp is by Inkadinkadoo.  I wanted a very simple accent so I stamped it with black and embossed that with clear embossing powder.  A simple, silver, glitter brad finishes that.

And for a couple photos...

We have a Christmas light boat parade during the holidays.  This was our first year to go and it was so beautiful. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbost)

The Lacey accents

I love to use color challenges and this one from Colour Q was no exception. For some reason, they usually end up making me go "out of my box" a bit. 

Case in point, I know I would never have started out wanting to put purple and orange together but once I did, I love the result!

I started by cutting out this big orange flower from a piece of SEI paper and I was on my way. Not to mention how cool this purple patterned paper is by BoBunny. Notice the dot embossed cardstock for the card base, that is NEW Stacy Julian Core Impressions Core'dinations.

These doilies by Martha Stewart worked just right for a middle accent on my flower and that is finished with a punched out circle with cuts into it and a button center. 

I also want to share my Unscripted Sketch card with you.  I just picked up this lacey paper and the butterfly stamp set at Michaels. 

The butterfly was stamped on a green gingham patterned paper with black ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.  I loved it with this piece of Webster's Pages patterned paper.
TIP: I used a new Recollections border punch for the lacey edge on the first card and I was surprised to find out that these punches come with a little catch lid on the bottom to capture all of those tiny punched pieces. NICE!!! Recollections are found at Michaels stores.

And gotta share a few photos from our pumpkin carving party.

Our 13 year old granddaughter wanted to carve the pumpkin she picked out at the pumpkin patch so Grandpa was enlisted to help. When she found out that after you cut off the top, that you need to clear out the seeds, etc from the middle she was ready to quit! Pretty funny, I guess she didn't know all of that was inside.

Her little brother was also pretty put off by that yucky inside stuff but once he got into it, his "all boy" side came out!  No fear now!

This is our finished project! Pretty fun!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SWEET card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Stacy Julian Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – SEI and BoBunny
Border punch – Recollections
Machine sewing
Button – PaperTrey, Inc.
Doily – Martha Stewart
Leaf punch
Mini sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket
Sandpaper
Foam tape – 3M

SKETCH 79 – FRIENDS FOREVER card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Webster’s Pages
Lace Paper – Anna Griffin
Butterfly stamp – Inkadinkado
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Self Adhesive Pearls – Queen & Co.
Rub-on sentiment – Deja Views
Machine sewing
Sandpaper
Foam tape – 3M

A Fall themed Flower Soft Blog Hop and Challenge.

It's a Flower Soft blog hop and a challenge to go with it!

This week’s challenge -

Make a card using either Fall colors or a Fall theme.

We’ll be giving away TWO prize packages!

One prize package will be given away on the blog hop and another will be chosen among people who make a card using Flower Soft and post it in the Splitcoast Gallery using the keyword FSC03.

Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on September 22nd.

The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on September 24th!!!

If you didn’t start at the beginning of the hop please go to the beginning at the Flower Soft Blog.

As you make your way through the hop make sure you comment on each and every post.
There will be a prize winner chosen randomly among the blogs.

The prizes (one set for Splitcoast players and one set for the blog hop!) :
Moments in Time Stamp set Little Friend
Polar White
Ultra Fine Strawberry Flower Soft
Flower Soft Glue

Here is my card to go with this challenge.

There are so many reasons to use Flower Soft on a project and it is amazing the difference a little accent like that can make.

For my card, I stamped the leaves with brown ink.   First I gave each one of them a good coating of  the Tacky Glue and then Nut Brown Flower Soft.  The texture of the Flower Soft gave it the neatest look, so fitting for fall and the brown ink of the each leaf defines the shape and gives an underneath color.

From here, go to Dina Kowal's blog

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

FALL COLORS card

Materials list:
Nut Brown Flower Soft
Tacky Glue
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Leaf and sentiment stamps – Mini set/Inkadinkado
Distress stamp pads
Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sandpaper

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

I liked the CPS sketch for this last week and so while I was playing around with some Core'dinations cardstock and some techniques, I put together another card based on the sketch.

This is basically a card created with all cardstock and one stamp, yet it holds several interesting techniques.

I used a Fiskars Texture plate to create my embossed design on the golden yellow and the black cardstock. It almost looks like a waffle! Too funny! Once this cardstock was embossed and sanded the lighter yellow core color showed through. The damask image was stamped on black cardstock with yellow embossing powder and then cut out.

The black is actually Core'dinations Black Magic so after I embossed this piece, I sanded it to expose the core which for this piece is a yellow color. The circle, accent piece is a new Quickutz embossing plate, I just cut one small piece of it. This paper is from The Chocolate Box collection and it also has a yellow core. The actual card base is that same cardstock.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

GOLDEN DAMASK card
Materials list:
Cardstock – The Chocolate Box, Black Magic and Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Damask stamp – Inkadinkado
Yellow embossing powder – Clearsnap
Fiskars Texture plate used in a Cuttlebug
Quickutz circle embossing plate
Sandpaper
Brads