Spring, Summer, Fall

Seems like I covered most of the seasons with the projects I want to share today.

 We can call this spring related with the soft, pretty colors. I used the Colour Q combination.  I would have never just sat down and put these colors together, I so love color challenges.

 The stamps are by Unity, the flower is from Maya Road.  The patterned paper is from My Mind's eye. It was fun to decorate that pattern with dots of Liquid Pearls.

 Here is the Colour Q combo.

 Next up, a summer theme for sure, the Saturday sketch at 2 peas. 

 I used a digital kit that I had from 2 peas.  I placed the kids onto the antique postcard and printed that piece out twice so I could cut the kids out of the one card and put it on top of the other one. 

 This is the 2 Peas Saturday Sketch.

 I don't make tags all that often but it was fun to play along with the Blog named Hero blog. 

 All of the stamps are from Hero Arts.  The bird is colored with Distress Stain.  The leaf is a die from My Favorite Things.

 Here is the A Blog Named Hero challenge.

Plus my tag fits the FALL theme at Cas-ual Fridays.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Some Flower Soft and a Color Combination

The Flower Soft team is taking this week to focus on some of the Flower Soft card toppers.  I LOVE the toppers. They come completely colored, ready to use.  Of course, they work great on a card but really they can be used for other kinds of projects and that is what the team wants to show off.

 For Christmas this year, Flower Soft released some great toppers that are Santa related. I used this one from the set to create an envelope/gift bag.  I just too some kraft colored cardstock and created a simple envelope. 

 I wanted to show off what adding some white Flower Soft does to this great looking Santa.  I added it to the rim of his hat, his cuffs and the bottom edge of his jacket.

I added some of the gold Flower Soft to some of the stars. I LOVE the gold Flower Soft.

Be sure to visit the Flower Soft blog and the other team members projects.  From here go to Deb Felt's blog.
Another project to share is my card using the Dynamic Duo Color combination and the retro sketch.

 I am always in love with black/white and green so I had to play along.

 I pulled out my little star die cut from Memory Box. LOVE this die! Plus I used some Unity stamps, I always have loved this set with trees in it. I stamped a flourish stamp over the tree after I colored it with some green Copic markers.

 Here is the Dynamic Duos combo.

Plus the great retro sketch.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

A Sketch and some Stamps

I found another sketch that I just had to take the time to play with.

Not to mention that is it on the My Mind's Eye blog. 

What this challenge so special is that I just visited my favorite LSS and just had to pick up three new mini pads by My Mind's Eye, two from the Miss Caroline collection and one from Follow Your Heart. I am sooo in love with the prints in these collections and the mini pads are the perfect size for using on cards. 

The way these prints go together is amazing and I even used some buttons from one of the collections.

And for the stamps, this card was created from my most recent stamp set purchase.  I am in love with this adorable set from Unity for Simple Stories.  I call this my one, two, three card.  One of the fastest I have ever created, love when that happens.

I stamped the doily with white ink and embossed it with white embossing powder.  The label, the cute bike and the sentiment were all stamped and then cut out and all of the pieces were assembled.  I stamped the heart on the label again with red ink and layered that with foam tape.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Color yumminess and no color!

Another blog I love to play along with is Play Date Cafe

This color combo just got me and I had to play this week.

I pulled out ONE stamp from a set by Unity and Simple Stories. I love doily shapes so of course, I had to have this set of stamps.  I used some great Clearsnap stamp pads.

The little puffy flower is by Pebbles and I cut the sentiment with my Cricut. 

 And for another card, this one with a big lack of color but a wonderful white, silver and black color combo.

The leaf piece is cut with the Cricut, the silver glitter cardstock is by Core'dinations, the flower is felt and it is a My Favorite Things die and the banner is a Spellbinders nestabilities die.  I stamped the sentiment on it and that is by Pink Persimmon.

And for a few photos...

I was in my backyard this weekend and I found these cuties, first an adorable little flower. 

 Our older dog, Sadie.

And our younger doggie, K.C.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Pink and Yellow - Orange and Purple

The Play Date Cafe inspiration piece for this week is irresistable!

 Pink, Yellow and Gray!

 Here is my card using the inspiration colors.  My card turned out rather "girly" and "vintage" and I like it.  

 The little vintage cards are digital images from an Etsy store, Made by Janet. 

 I also want to share the Unscripted sketches card for this week. 

 I printed out a digital stamp by Hero Arts that I purchased at Two Peas in a Bucket.  It comes all colored, I just needed to print it out and cut it out. 

 I added two colors of Ultra Fine Flower Soft to the flower for a fun accent. 

 I used a Kreaxions 4-in-1 punch for my punched border. 

Gotta share some photos too...

 It is a little late for Pumpkin Patch photos but I still wanted to share a couple cute ones. Is that joy or what!?

 These guys are almost scary!

And, see the gray in the background? In the distance in the ocean and that is marine layer that was coming in so thick this evening.  It gave the neatest feel to the patch.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THE SPECIAL MOMENTS card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Flourish and sentiment stamps – Hero Arts

Digital Collage Clip Art – Ticket Vintage/Etsy shop/Made by Janet 2011

Felt flower - Recollections

Heart cut out – Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge

Spray colors – Smooth Spritz/Clearsnap

Black Versafine stamp pad

Brown Distress stamp pad/Ranger

SKETCH 131 NOVEMBER card

Materials list:

Cardstock – Core’dinations

Patterned papers – Splendid Collection/Brilliance/Authentique

November digital stamp/Hero Arts/Two Peas in a Bucket

Ultra Fine Flower Soft

Kreaxions 4-in-1 punch

Ribbon

Buttons

Between Summer and Fall

First off, I am going to share my Card Positioning Systems card with you.

 Unity stamps is our sponsor and I picked this adorable little beach chair scene, something that is just right for summer. We have been warmer here this week so this is just perfect.

 I wanted to go with the idea of "less is more" so I didn't color in my image except for some specific little places.  After stamping the chair and umbrella, I masked them by stamping the image again on copy paper and cutting that out. By placing that cut out piece over the original stamped piece, I created a mask that protected the first stamping and then sprayed my paper with some Smooch spritz, so the background is colored with the spray. 

 Since back to school and fall are right around the corner, I also wanted to share this little card that I created with a My Favorite Things stamp. I just love these little Pure Innocense people. 

 The houndstooth piece behind the little girl is a sheer piece by KI Memories and it comes in a shape. I just cut off one corner of that shaped piece.  I thought it made a fun accent.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 234 – IT’S ALL GOOD card

Materials:
Stamps Courtesy of Unity
Stamp pad – Mix’d Media Arts/Clearsnap
Spray – Chalkboard/Glimmer Mist
Clear embossing powder - Stampendous
Cardstock – Core’dinations
X-Press Blending Card – Copic Markers
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye
Copic markers
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars


A+ YEAH card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Houndstooth Sheer Delights/KI Memories
Stamps – My Favorite Things
Copic markers
Sandpaper
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Foam tape – 3M
Black Versafine stamp pad
White stamp pad – Joann’s
Clear and White embossing powder – Stampendous
Patterned tape – Pink Paisley
Star brads – Making Memories

The Easter bunny is on his way

We think of so many different images when we think of Easter and the Easter Bunny is one of those. 

I want to share my Card Positioning Systems card and the sponsor for this week is Banu with a cute set of Ippity/Unity Stamps.  I paired the stamps with some Nikki Sivils, Scrapboooker papers from the Max and Mollie collection. 

 Since I am a big fan of chocolate, a brown bunny just seemed right.  Notice my cute grass that I cut with my new Martha Stewart Fringe scissors.  The little pieces on the side of the card with the words on them were created with one of the stamps the set.  I sprayed that with a Chalkboard Glimmer Mist spray.  The pink parts of the ears were coated with Aleene's Paper Glaze giving them a nice, shiny, 3-D look. 

I created a second card with that same bunny from the same stamp set.  This time I left her white and used these great papers from 3 Bugs in a Rug. 

 Notice my cute little grass!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 210 – SPRING card

Materials:
Sweet Thought of Spring stamp set – Courtesy of Unity
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper- Max & Mollie Mini’s/Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic Markers
Corner rounder punch – PaperShapers
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Fringe scissors – Martha Stewart
Clear Paper Glaze – Aleene’s®
Foam tape – 3M
Sand It Gadget – Core’dinations



HAPPY SPRING

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
White cardstock – Copic X-Press
Patterned paper – Chloe borders/Chloe collection/3 Bugs in a Rug
Bunny and sentiment stamps - Ippity/Unity
Self adhesive pearl – Queen & Co.
Copic markers – RV02, B000, R11, 0
Black Versafine stamp pad
Detail clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Flower – Prima

Card Patterns and The Cat's Pajamas Inspriation Challenge

I went searching for some fun challenges this week and ended up at two places, Card Patterns and The Cat's Pajamas. I recently found out that The Cat's Pajamas issues a new challenge each Tuesday and this week it is an inspiration challenge.

This first card is Card Patterns sketch #12 for this week. Their sponsor is Unity stamps so I pulled out this set I just love. The sketch really has what look like three circle kind of designs on the front, but what I like about sketches is that you are to look at them and make them your own so I used the stamps and created three points of interest on the front.

The two little stamped birds are one of the points, the Give Thanks label piece is the second and the flower is the third.

1. The birds are stamped and embossed and colored with Copic markers and accented with Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint on portion of the birds. One of the birds is added to the card with foam tape so their is dimension to them.

2. The label piece is also stamped and embossed and then the greeting is stamped over that and that is also embossed. I used Copic Markers to add a little bit of color to the border and added the same Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint by Tulip to the colored border. I love the little bit of glitter that this adds while still letting the colors show through.

3. The flower was really white, I sprayed it with Memories Mist by Stewart Superior. This makes such a quick and easy way to add color.
Recently I was able to play with some The Cat's Pajamas stamps if you remember that post and I wanted to pull those out again. I was over taking a look at their blog and web site and I discovered that they issue a challenge each Tues. This week the team member, Toni, picked out a great set of summer themed glasses for inspiration and I picked out the great summer colors of the prints on the glasses for my card. I just love how these Prism papers have the exact perfect shades to go with this wonderful We R Memory Keepers paper that has the exact colors in the stripes.

This cute kitty cat was simply stamped with the black ink and embossed with the Detail Clear embossing powder. I just love how intense that makes the image and really brings it to life. I gave a little shadow around the image with a Copic Marker and the blender pen and then added the Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip to the wings and the halo. Again, I just love the amount of glitter you get with this kind of paint. Just makes that little cutie look so angelic.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

GIVE THANKS FOR BLESSING… card
Materials:
Cardstock
Patterned papers – Providence/Cottage Street/Scenic Route Paper and Dazzling Dots/29th Street Market/My Mind’s Eye
Apron Lace border punch – Fiskars
Set of stamps – Unity
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic Markers
Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Flower – Petaloo
Memories Mist spray – Stewart Superior

SWEETIE PIE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Prism
Stamps – The Cat’s Pajamas
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Black Stamp pad – Versafine
Detail Clear embossing powder – Stamps n Stuff
Circle punch – Papershapers/EK Success
Scallop oval punch - Marvy
Oval punch - McGill
Mini brads – Making Memories
Ribbon
Diamond Glitter 3-D Fashion paint – Tulip
Copic Markersc