CPS and Mojo Monday

If you are familiar with some of the sketch blogs on the internet, you might know about Card Positioning Systems blog and the Mojo Monday blog. I wanted to show off my cards for those two sketches for this week.

For CPS, we have a sponsor free week for this week and so that means the team was able to pull out supplies from their own stashes to create their cards. Having sponsors and showing of their particular products is so much fun and always an adventure but it is also a joy to have a week to use products from our own supply. Notice the white, pearl looking dots that accent the strips of the patterned paper. I used Metallic 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip for those dots. It is an easy way to give an accent that has a "pearl" look.

I have some great Melissa Frances papers that have sat for too long, so one of those prints came out this week. I paired that with this great White Wash cardstock from Core'dinations. I just love the appearance of white on the front of the cardstock and then trying to expose the colored core. I did that here by embossing the circle piece with a Cuttlebug embossing plate and then sanding that. Isn't it fun how that blue core shows through? The smaller circle is a left over piece of that embossed paper, I just turned it over to use the blue side. The glitter flower is also Melissa Frances as is that great rub-on greeting.

I also just had to play with the Mojo Monday sketch. Can you tell what papers I just bought!!!? I placed an order with Emma's Paperie and in her usual style, Cindy had those to me so quickly. This is actually one piece of paper, I just used both sides. The greeting stamp and the butterfly are both Verve stamps.

Take a second look at that golden yellow, honeycomb looking piece. I used a Fiskars texture plate and ran that through my Cuttlebug machine with a piece of Core'dinations cardstock. Because of the core in the paper, I could then sand that pattern and the design showed up better when the core was exposed. I stamped the butterfly with red ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder and then accented the design just a bit with a Copic marker and the blender marker.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 118 – YOU’RE THE BEST card
Materials:
Cardstock – Whitewash Collection/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Matilda/Melissa Frances
Glitter chipboard flower and rub-on greeting – Melissa Frances
Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Circle template – Coluzzle
Machine sewing
Sandpaper
Pearl brad – K&Co
White Metallic 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip

SPREAD YOUR WINGS card
Materials:
Cardstock –Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned papers – New Apron/Cherry Hill Collection/October Afternoon
Stamps – Verve
Black Versamark stamp pad
Red Ancient Page stamp pad – Clearsnap
Detail clear embossing powder – Stamps n Stuff
Scallop circle and circle punch – Marvy
Lacey border punch – Martha Stewart
Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc
Copic markers
Fiskars texture plate

Give me some "VERVE" love!

One of my m0st recent finds are VERVE stamps. I have noticed some of their team members using their stamps, that lead me to their web site and, as you can guess, that lead me to buying some of their stamps!!! Why not!!!

I wanted to use a couple sketch challenges right now, Mojo Monday Sketch #82 and Kazan's Sketch #24 at 2 Sketches 4 You and I don't even know how it happened that both of my cards ended up in the exact same color scheme! Not planned at all, weird!

There is more good news too because starting tonight, VERVE is having a reveal of their newest stamps. I know that I am pretty excited to see what is in store. Be sure to check the VERVE web site and/or blog tonight starting at 9 Eastern Time.

This is my Mojo Monday sketch card. I had just picked up this fun patterned paper by Sassafras Lass and I just knew that that adorable cut edge was going to fit the sketch perfectly. That greeting, vine and butterfly are all VERVE stamps. I just love their verse and greeting stamps and then an added bonus is they have great little accent stamps.

The butterfly and the vine were both stamped with white ink and embossed with white embossing powder and then cut out. I used Core'dinations cardstock, I just love their colors. The green square was further accented with score lines using my Scor-Pal tool.

The above card is my 2 Sketches 4 You card. Again, I used VERVE stamps on it. I had already stamped that butterfly for the other card. There are two butterfly stamps in the set, just in different sizes. I thought this was one a little too big to use on the first card and then, what do you know, it just seemed to go perfectly here!

It might be hard to see very well, but if you look real close, you can see that I embossed the green background print with a swirl Cuttlebug embossing plate. I did slightly sand that too so that the embossing would show up a little more. I love the added accent that created. White Slick 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip was used to add the white dots to the butterfly and to the punched border. This almost looks like pearls and makes for a fun and fast accent.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HOW BEAUTIFUL… card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Bungle Jungle/Sassafras Lass
Stamps – Verve stamps
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
White stamp pad – Joann and White embossing powder
Ribbon
Self adhesive pearls – Mark Richards, Inc
Scor-Pal tool
Decorate scissors - Fiskars

PURE HEART…ORANGE BUTTERFLY card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Providence/Green Street/Scenic Route
Stamps – Verve stamps
Versafine black stamp pad
White stamp pad – Joann and White embossing powder
Border Punch – Fiskars
Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Journal punch – Stampin’ Up
Machine sewing
Sandpaper
White Slick 3-D Fashion Paint - Tulip

2 Sketches 4 You and Mojo Monday

Yep, this is me using sketches again. Not sure what I would do without them!!! I just love how they make me think outside of my own box.

This first card uses more of the Hero Arts stamps that I have been playing with. You can tell I love them!!! I took my inspiration for the layout of the images from this weeks 2 Sketches 4 you Laura's sketch #23. The card base is a deckle edge card from CutCardStock.com and I added color to that deckle edge by rubbing it with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad.

The woodgrain pattern stamp is stamped with black ink on Silver Stardream Metallic cardstock from CutCardStock.com. One thing I am discovering with this woodgrain stamp is that it changes with the color of paper it is stamped on and the color of ink you use. How cool is that??? The Japanese doll and the flowers are all stamped and embossed so that the black is more intense and the middles of the flowers and the little flowers on her dress are accented with White Slick 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip. Plus I added a flower to her hair with that paint too.

AND - can you see my BRAND NEW stamps from Verve?? Oh how I love these. I knew I had to have that butterfly the minute I saw it but I also just love the scripture verses that they have used on their stamps. This is my first time playing with Mojo Monday Blog and I loved how different the sketch is. The card base is a wonderful, yellow/gold Stardream Metallic cardstock by CutCardStock.com. This metallic cardstock just goes perfectly with the patterned papers, etc.

You can see that I didn't completely glue down the butterfly so that the wings are standing up a bit. I also attached it to the card with foam tape for some dimension.

A couple hints on what I did with the butterfly.

I stamped it with black ink on White Cryogen Curious Iridescent cardstock from CutCardStock.com. I have mentioned before how wonderful this is to stamp on and the emboss on.

I then cut out the butterfly and sprayed it with two colors of Memories Mists spray by Stewart Superior. I love how intense their colors are and I didn't even have to work to color this image.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

FLORAL GARDEN card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cryogen White Curious Iridescent, White deckle edge card and Silver Stardream Metallic cardstock/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Adirondack/Poppy Collection/SEI
Clear stamp set – Four Dolls and WoodGrain background/Hero Arts
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
Fluid Chalk stamp pads – Clearsnap
Copic Markers
White Slick 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Ribbon
Rhinestones – Me & My Big Ideas

CREATE IN ME… card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cryogen White Curious Iridescent and Gold Stardream Metallic/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Flutter/Heart Attack collection/We R Memory Keepers
Clear stamp set – Four Dolls/Hero Arts
Versafine black stamp pad and Clear embossing powder
Black Slick 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Circle and scallop circle punches – Papershapers/EK Success
Rhinestones – Darice
Fancy label – K&Co.
Memories Mist sprays/Stewart Superior