Clouds make me smile!

I wanted to use the CAS(E) this sketch for this week so I went to this adorable set of sticker elements by My Little Shoebox.

 Using these super cute stickers made making my card as easy as 1, 2, 3! Seriously QUICK and easy. The cute sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps.

  I turned the sketch and thought that the three cloud stickers worked to match the inspiration of the sketch.

Here is the CAS(E) this sketch and turned it.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Boy stuff - Girl stuff

I have managed to complete a few layouts recently and I wanted to share one of them with you.

 I created a collage of my favorite photos from this park visit, Picassa makes that so easy.

 Notice my Target Paper Tapes as my decoration? They look great against white cardstock.

 I picked up some chipboard pieces by October Afternoon as accents.

 This little sentiment is from a sticker set by Echo Park.

 Gotta share a girly card too. LOVE these products from My Little Shoebox.

The cloud, the little girl and the flowers are all cut from patterned papers.

And for a few photos...

I was walking in my backyard this week with my camera.  Have you ever seen the blossom on a Passion Fruit plant? They have to be one of the weirdest creations. One of those wonders of God's creation that just amaze me as they all turn out identical and very strange!

More of my fushias too.

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Challenges everywhere

I love to find challenges, they inspire me.

So my first card that I want to share today was created with the color challenge of Colour Q and I also used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch #51 for this week.

I have wanted to use this photo that I took of some lilies and they just seemed to fit with the shape of the sketch and the colors. The white cardstock was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Notice my NEW punch! It is an 8-in-1 punch, I saw them used and just had to give one a try. Plus, I pleated some patterned paper for my accent across the bottom of the card.

This card uses the sketch at Taylored Expressions and it also uses a bouquet of roses stamp by Taylored Expressions. I thought the My Little Shoebox cloud patterned paper was a fun match.

I cut a label shape and accented that with a blue pen and some yellow Memories Mist spray. The flowers were colored with Copic markers and tiny pearls accented that.

For this card I used the sketch at Get Sketchy and some Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker papers. This paper is a big circle and I used a portion of it and that made for the perfect fit for the sketch.

The lines in the side of the card are created in the Core'dinations cardstock with a Score-Pal tool and then that was sanded.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

LILIES card
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Photo – my own
Sandpaper
Machine sewing
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Baby’s Breath punch – 8-in-1/Blue Hills Studio
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Sandpaper



THANK YOU WITH YELLOW ROSES card
Materials list:
Cardstock - Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – Sky’s the Limit: Follow the Cloud/My Little Shoebox
Rose bouquet stamp and sentiment – Fresh Flowers/Taylored Expressions
Memento purple stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Sandpaper
Copic markers
Self Adhesive Pearls – Recollections
Memories Mist – Stewart Superior


YOU GO GIRL! GOOD JOB card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Scor-Pal tool
Sandpaper
Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Machine sewing

Even more CHA goodness - Photos

I would say this was my most favorite SURPRISE! Paper at the Queen & Co booth! Nice prints, nice thickness, nice feel and let me tell you, when do you get a CUTE Disney themed collection of papers with a great black and white damask design in it??? Plus they had some other serious new goodies that I need really quick and they have added a color matching system with Core'dinations cardstocks!

My next favorite was the Melody Ross booth and collection of goodness. I just loved the booth. Pretty stuff everywhere. I just had to show you this adorable creation.

One view of some new stuff from Melody Ross and g.c.d.

This uses the new tool that you pound designs into chipboard with! What a wonderful wall hanging.

The Flower Soft booth. Not sure if you have seen much done with this good stuff but let me tell you. If you need ANYTHING to create a snow effect, this is it! Wonderful and soft just like it's name says. If you use the Aleene's Tacky Glue like they suggest, you will have very little of this stuff fall off and it really is soft when it dries. It also works wonderful to accent lace. More good news about them is that I get to start playing with all of their products so you will see more of this coming from me.

More Flower Soft
More Flower Soft. How cute are these daisies.
I know I need these good things from Studio Calico real soon! LOVE the doilies

Cute stuff from the Nikki Sivils booth

Her papers also come in these little pads and they created a really cute cupcake to match each one. I know I need these prints.

Really high on my "must have" list is this new collection from BasicGrey. It is designed to be dog and cat but I was just plain happy to see how many of the patterns were going to be perfect for layouts about my grandsons. Just love the colors and prints.

Coordinating good things to go with this collection. A lot of times I don't bother with all of the little gadgets that go with a collection but I am going to want lots of this.

I can't wait to find these papers. This is one of the color schemes and I'm sure I need all of them. They are your everyday, use on everything because they are the perfect little accent with everything kind of patterns. Like notebook patterns, etc. They come in little pads for cards and the big pieces.

Is this the cutest?

And you have to have some bling - the Zva Booth.

And, leave it to American Crafts to have the best looking booth ever! Everywhere you look are cute things. And, yes, new Thickers because I seem to think I need almost every kind they put out.

I just had to show you this shadow frame with these brads and buttons and other things in it. ADORABLE!

Love the Kaiser Craft booth. This mini album is wonderful, love the design and the papers they used on it.

More Kaiser Craft.

How cute is this from Kaiser Craft?

This is from the My Little Shoebox booth. It was so packed, I didn't get more of their goodness.

I think this was Pink Paislee. I was just taken with how amazing it is.

A more recent fav of mine are all things Little Yellow Bicycle. How cute is this little creation!

I don't remember what booth this was in but how can you not love the use of that frame? (my friend filled me in, this is Hambly!)

This cutie was in the PLAID booth!

I love Petaloo and this was a great gathering of flowers they had in their booth. They have some white flowers and since their flowers are made from paper, you can color them in a variety of ways. What a great, versatile accent!

Bo Bunny always has fun collections that go together so wonderfully. Here are a couple new ones. If nothing else I NEED that paper with the cute marshmallows on it!

And, here is the greatest find in ribbons ever! The dots are on both sides of the ribbon! If you have even tried to tie a bow on a card, you understand how important this is. Not to mention the colors are just wonderful.

That's it! Hope you enjoyed my journey through CHA. I'm sure I missed a million little things but I sure found plenty of goodness too.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

2 Sketches 4 You and Hero Arts sketches

Just in time, I finished a card using the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for this week.

I love these Little Yellow Bicycle papers I picked up recently.

The sketch has a little square element in the bottom corner of the card and I thought a fun accent would be a tiny card that would open. The papers are 2 sided so that makes this even more fun.

Hero Arts posted four sketches this week and I had time to create with one of them. Plus this gave me a reason to pull out these super cute cupcake stamps again.

The paper on the cupcake is colored with Copic markers. The frosting was coated with Aleene's Paper Glaze for a neat epoxy look and then I created the dots on the frosting with a brand-new-to-me product, Tulip's Fashion Bead Paint. It makes the neatest pearl-like dots.

I created the lines in the pink Core'dinations cardstock with a Scor-Pal tool and then sanded the lines and the edges. I love the look this gives what looks like just plain cardstock.

Remember we have a new kitty in our house? I took this yesterday and I'm not thinking she looks a whole lot bigger then when we first got her, but I am sure she is. She is such a "people" cat. She has to be near one of us almost all of the time!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SEIZE THE CUPCAKE card
Materials: Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and punch out die cut – My Little Shoebox
Cupcake, greeting and lacey border – Hero Arts
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Bead paint - Tulip
Ribbon
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Rhinestone – Mark Richards, Inc.

ACROSS THE MILES card
Materials: Cardstock – Vintage/Core’dinations
Patterned papers – Traveler/Little Yellow Bicycle
Corner rounder punch- Fiskars
Rub-on words – Deja Views
Flower punches – PaperShapers
Fashion Bead Paint - Tulip
Brad
Powder Puff Chalk inks – Quick Quotes
Ribbon
Sandpaper