Unscripted, Bubbles and SunGlasses

Gotta share the new Unscripted sketch and what I did with it. 

I am showing you the sketch the way I turned it to use it.  You can see it the original way here.

I love to use photos that are cut in circles so I could see where the sketch for this week would be great for a layout with a circle photo. 

In the photo, he is a little bit out of focus because the bubble is more in focus. I love this photo! I made some little circles that look like "bubbles" by punching Stacy Julian Core'dinations cardstock.  The cardstock has embossed dots and I slightly sanded them.

I love the portion of the sketch that has the lines on it, I thought it looked like strips of papers and so I cut a few different patterned papers in irregular strips.  All of the patterned papers are by October Afternoon.

And, for a photo...

Sunglasses are a hit right now with this little guy. Here we are watching television in the evening and for some reason, the sunglasses were part of the outfit.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Charlie's Ark and Flower Soft - It is HOP time

Ready to Celebrate? 

This week’s Flower Soft Sprinkle Challenge (FSC14) and

Hop is Winter Wonderland!

The Flower Soft designers will be featuring cards today using the Charlie’s Ark Creative Kits.

This week 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 FSC14.
Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on December 10. The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on December 10th!!!

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!)
For my card to go along with this weeks hop, I used this adorable Charlie's Ark kit. 

The image comes all colored and ready to use and the kit comes with layers of the same image to punch out and attach to the first image so that you end up with layers. You can use some of the layers or all of them or none of them and the image is still cute. 

The dot embossed cardstock is new from Core'dinations from the Stacy Julian collection. Love that it comes with the dots already embossed in it, I just sanded it a little bit. 

I did use 2 and 3 layers for my image.  The layers were put together with Helmar's Scrap Dots. This product makes an easy and quick way to make the layers dimensional.

You can see the Polar Ice Flower Soft that is added to one of the layers and the red and green Ultra Fine Flower Soft that I added to the Holly and Berries.  Remember to use the Aleene's Tacky Glue to add your Flower Soft to a project.

From my blog, hop on over the Vicki's blog to see what she has created and to continue the hop.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

DOGGIE – SEASONS GREETINGS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Stacy Julian collection/Core’dinations
Images - Christmas with Friends/Charlie’s Ark/Flower Soft
Strawberry, Brown and Sage Green - Ultra Fine Flower Soft
Polar Ice White Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s
Tulip Glitter 3-D Fashion paint
Scrap Dots - Helmar

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

Punches as accents

My two cards in this post show off the use of punches.  I have to say that one of my favorite tools right now are punches, especially all of the new border punches. 

My first card makes use of the Colour Q color combo from a couple weeks ago.  I created it in time to submit it by the deadline but my trusty Canon camera decided to take a little unscheduled vacation and I had to try to figure that out and then pull out my older Sony camera.  I loved using my Sony before I got the Canon but it took me a bit to remember how to use it!!!

I could not resist using the NEW Stacy Julian Core Impressions Core'dination cardstocks.  The set comes with all of these colors and each of these particular pieces come with that little swiss dot embossed design in it already.  The colors were just exactly what I needed for the Colour Q combo.  That white, scalloped card base is one of the pieces from this same Core'dinations set.  I just cut around the embossed scallops. 

I used a corner rounder punch on the ends of each of my color strips and I also used a little flower punch to add a design to the end of each strip. 

My next card used the Card Positioning Systems sketch for this week. Another sketch that I thought was really fun to use.

I pulled out a couple brand new pieces of Creative Imaginations patterned papers that I had recently picked up. I just love that blue and white dot paper.  The Make A Wish piece is cut from one piece of patterned paper.  The entire piece is different little tags. 

I used my Loopy punch for a "party" looking accents with a line of self adhesive rhinestones.

We visited another Pumpkin Patch this last weekend. You can probably tell that it was a gloomy, wet day.  We still had a ball walking amoung the pumpkins. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

HAPPY - COLORS card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Stacy Julian Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Rub-on sentiment – Making Memories
Flower and leaf punch – Tonic
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sandpaper

SKETCH 189 – MAKE A WISH card

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and printed tag – Teresa Collins/Celebrate/Creative Imaginations
Frame and sentiment stamp - Gina K
Loopy border punch – Martha Stewart
Rhinestones – Mark Richards, Inc.

Hooray! It is a holiday

Happy CardMaking Day! 

How does it get better, an entire day to celebrate creating cards!

Since we are celebrating, I want to share a few cards with you.  This first one is my Unscripted sketch card for this week. Since Unscripted Sketches puts up the new sketch for each week on Saturday, here is a great reason to pull out some supplies and make a card.  For my card I pulled out my brand new Crate Paper, I love this collection.

The patterned leaf and this cute little girl are both part of a Digital set that I recently purchased at 2 Peas in a Bucket.  I printed them out on my good matte photo paper and then cut each one of them out.  The circle piece behind them is a piece of Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions cardstock by Core'dinations.  It has the leaf design embossed in it and when I sanded it, the red core was exposed. 

My next card is created around the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger.  I want to cuddle up in that quilt!

I remembered this Crate Paper collection that I just purchased.  The top patterned piece looks like it is made from the inspiration of that quilt.  I made my card base turquoise to go with the bench in the photo.

I did some machine sewing to go along with the feel of the quilt being sewn.  The scallops are part of one of the patterned papers.

Next, I created a couple cards for Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker for their part in World CardMaking Day.  Here are the links to those cards for you to see, thanks for taking a peek.

Anniversary card

Purse card

And my last card to share on this special occasion...

A card I created with BRAND NEW Stacy Julian Core Impressions Core'dinations cardstock.  The red, embossed piece is part of this package.  I cut out one of the blocks of words on the piece of cardstock.  This block of words is repeated several times on the paper so you could actually make a few cards, all the same. 

I slightly sanded the red cardstock to help the words show up more.  The white cardstock for the card base is from this collection, it comes with that embossed edge.  I rubbed a brown stamp pad over that a little bit so the embossing stands out more. The sentiment is a stamp by Printworks.

Thanks for visiting today, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 75 – FALL LEAVES card

Materials:

Cardstock – Core Expressions and Core Impressions/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – Grade Card/School Spirit Collection/Crate Paper

Leaf and little girl images – Digital set/2 Peas in a Bucket

Circle template – Coluzzle

Foam tape – 3M

Sandpaper

GO NOW…AND HAVE A HAPPY BIRTHDAY card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations

Patterned paper – School Spirit collection/Crate Paper

Flower – Recollections

Rub-on sentiment – BasicGrey

Machine sewing

Sandpaper

SAY I LOVE YOU OFTEN card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Stacey Julian Core Impressions/Core’dinations

Foam tape – 3M

Sentiment stamp – Printworks

Black Versafine stamp pad

Clear embossing powder - Stampendous

Heart brad - Recollections

Corner rounder punch – Fiskars

Fluid Chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap

Sandpaper

Apples and Smiles

A challenge this month to the design team at Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker was to create a "back to school" related project. All of the teams projects were posted today on the Nikki Sivils blog so be sure to take a peek.

I had just received my new Better  Homes and Gardens magazine and they listed some templates and ideas that were online with access to crafters and I knew this really cute and clever accordian style apple card would work for my creation.  Here is a link to this template and you just might find other things there to use too.

I pulled out my Henry's Brilliance papers and die cuts for my card.  The base is cut from Core'dinations cardstock.   The apple shaped patterned paper pieces are inked with a Fluid Chalk stamp pad.

And for even more goodness, the Core'dinations blog is featuring the BRAND NEW Stacy Julian Core Impressions cardstocks that were released at summer CHA.  I wanted to share one of my projects, a layout where I used a piece of blue with swiss dot embossing and a piece of yellow that has embossed words in it. The words are repeated on one piece of paper in little blocks so they were perfect to use as accents to these adorable photos of our youngest grandson with some pretty BIG smiles.  The patterned paper is Jillibean Soup. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

APPLES – Hey Wise Guy card

Materials list:
Pattern – Better Homes and Gardens web site - http://www.bhg.com/holidays/thanksgiving/crafts/easy-thanksgiving-cards-table/?page=2
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned papers and die cuts – Henry’s Brilliance/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Alphabet letters – Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Fluid Chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap
Sandpaper

Sketches and Color Combos make my day!

The Play Date Cafe Challenge, the Card Patterns sketch, NEW Stacy Julian Core Impressions Core'dinations cardstock and the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch! How does it get better???? All of these are in my post today.

PLUS....Jillibean Soup papers and their blog.

I was soooo happy to be able to be one of their guest designers and my projects are up today for all to see.  I'll post all of them here on my blog on another day so I can share close-ups of some of the details.  Be sure to check this out though over at the Jillibean Soup Blog.

I'm going to start with The Play Date Cafe Challenge.  I would NEVER have thought to put these colors together, yet when I did as I played along, I LOVE this color combo and I would even want to make another card with it.

This little strip of Jillibean Soup paper really helped me pull this together plus the blue and the gray Core'dinations cardstock.  I used the Card Patterns sketch to give me direction on my design.

I used this wonderful scripture verse stamp by Verve.  I want to make more cards with Bible verses on them because they are the best for sending to a friend just to say HI or as an encouragement.  The frame is a $1 spot stamp.

In case you missed this announcement, Core'dinations and Stacy Julian came out with a collection of Core Impressions cardstock for Summer CHA.  All of the embossed designs are already in these papers.  Here I just used two of them.  The Core'dinations blog is showing off examples using these cardstocks all week so be sure to check that out.  I used the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for my card. 

All I did to help show off the embossed designs is to slightly sand them.  This is just one piece from the collection that has words all over it.  They fit for so many themes.  The little clouds are cut from a piece of Cosmo Cricket patterned paper.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)