Fluffy Softness

Flower Soft is introducing new recipe card toppers today so I wanted to show off a card using one of them.

Mine is from the Recipes for Family set, the "Recipe for a Sister" topper. These toppers are pre-colored so they are ready to use "as is". I cut mine up a bit to give it some extra interest. Plus, I used the Card Patterns sketch #56 for my layout. The colors also go along with the Play Date Cafe color challenge. I feel in love with their wonderful spring-like color combo.

The card base is from the new GemStone Core'dinations cardstock. It has a wonderful gleem to it and it embosses so nicely. I used pink Flower Soft on the teddy bear's dress and hair ribbon.

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I gotta share a photo too. This is from our little walk around the neighborhood the other day with our youngest grandson. Just like a typical little boy, he loves to find treasures.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

RECIPE FOR A SISTER card

Materials list:
Recipe card – Flower Soft
Pink Flower Soft
Cardstock – Gemstone/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Cuttlebug embossing plate – Provo Craft
Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars

3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper

Parties and Friends

Our Saturday included a stop at a cupcake shop! Can you say YUM?!
And, now it is time for another Card Positioning Systems sketch card.

Since I just visited one of my local scrapbook stores, I just had to use some of the supplies I picked up - NEW goodies from My Mind's Eye.

The patterned paper, the bracket sticker, party tickets stickers and the loopy border sticker are all My Mind's Eye.

And, I also need to share my card using the Moxie Fab Tuesday Trigger. This gave me the perfect excuse to pull out my BRAND NEW GemStone cardstock from Core'dinations.

The Tuesday Trigger had a little birdie in it, so I thought this Cuttlebug embossing folder was a good fit on this cardstock that has a wonderful glimmer and shine to it and wowie, does it emboss wonderfully.

The trigger piece also has some red flowers so I wanted a very intense red flower on my card. It is two layers of red vellum. The bottom flower is a punched out scallop circle. The second layer is a punched out circle and I clipped INTO the circle may times with my scissors. I then took each strip and curled it up tight towards the middle. Since it is vellum, it holds the curl real well.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

FAVORITE FRIEND card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core GemStone and Core Essentials/Core’dinations

Patterned paper, stickers – Quite Contrary/My Mind’s Eye

Red Vellum

Cuttlebug embossing plate

Martha Stewart border punch

Sandpaper

Pearl brad – Doodlebug

Mini tag – Making Memories

Sticker letters – K&Co.

Scallop circle punches - Marvy

SKETCH 159 – PARTY TIME card
Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage/Core’dinations
Stickers – Quite Contrary/My Mind’s Eye
Patterned papers – Quite Contrary: Mary Mary/My Mind’s Eye
Sandpaper
Flower – Prima
Button – PaperTrey, Inc.
Self adhesive rhinestone – Queen & Co.
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars

I love good news!

And that news is...I get to be a guest designer at Jillibean Soup sometime this coming year!!! I think that they put out the cutest stuff and so I will be very excited for when my turn comes up, although I am not all that sure yet when that will be.

AND - I wanted to share a couple projects using tons of Jillibean Soup.

I just love when several patterns of papers will work together for a coordinated look. When I first saw these corrugated alphabet letters I just knew I had to get some so when I found them at Emma's Paperie the other day, I added them to my order. I picked the white ones because I just did not know what color I should get. I sprayed the ones on this card with yellow Memories Mist to change the color then I rubbed them with a green Powder Puff chalk stamp pad. I guess the white ones were a good choice since I could custom color them.

See my little pleated accent? I just folded a strip of paper with pleats and then attached it to my card with some machine sewing right down the middle.
This umbrella patterned paper made me soooooo happy since we had just had an afternoon of playing in puddles with a yellow umbrella.

Again, I was able to make the alphabet letters match my layout by giving them a custom coloring job. I sprayed them with that same yellow Memories Mist and rubbed them with brown Powder Puff Chalk ink, just along the bottom of each letter.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THINKING OF YOU card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Jillibean Soup

Alpha letters and button – Jillibean Soup

Martha Stewart border punch

Machine sewing

Corner rounder punch – Fiskars

Powder Puff chalk stamp pads – Quick Quotes

Memories Mist spray color – Stewart Superior

Sandpaper

Mini sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket

UMBRELLA layout

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Jillibean Soup

Corrugated letters, button and Sprout – Jillibean Soup

Powder Puff chalk stamp pads – Quick Quotes

Memories Mist spray – Stewart Superior

Rub-on word – Making Memories

Sandpaper

Some Nikki Sivils Goodness

Today it is my turn to post on the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog so I am going to show you a little peek here and then I need you to go on over there to see the rest, OK?

I used a couple butterflies from the Flaming Butterfly stamp set for my card and tried a few interesting techniques. I will tell you about them over at Nikki Sivils!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

WHERE ARE YOU GOING card
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions and Black Magic/Core’dinations
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Butterfly Stamps – Flaming Butterfly/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Patterned paper – Flaming Butterfly/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Glimmer Mist spray – Tattered Angels

Are you "thinking green"?

I just had to come up with a card just for St. Patrick's Day and since I had these great Nikki Sivils products it was fast and easy.

The horseshow is cut from one of the patterned papers from the My Sweet Cherry Pie collection. The shamrock is three heart punches punched from one of my currect favorite papers, this green gingham from Nikki Sivils. And the sentiment is a stamp from the same collection by Nikki Sivils.

I wanted my card to have alot of white on it so I embossed a piece of white Core'dinations with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

And, I just had to try my hand at the Unscripted Sketch for this week paired with my brand new paper purchase, Quite Contrary from My Mind's Eye.

Does this combination look like SPRING or what? The two prints are really both sides of one piece.

The label sticker is from the same collection, love how well it matches. The flower was white so I sprayed it with Memories Mist in yellow to make it match better.

I used my Martha Stewart punch for the little border along the bottom and that is finished off with a row of pink rhinestones.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

LUCKY ME card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper, cut up shape and sentiment stamp – Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Fiskars rounder punch
Sandpaper
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Heart punch – Family Treasures
Brads

THANKS card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper, stickers – Jack & Jill/Quite Contrary/My Mind’s Eye
Thickers – alphabet
Martha Stewart border punch
Rhinestones – Heidi Swapp
Machine sewing
Flower – Prima
Memories Mist spray
Sandpaper

Touches of pink

I seem to go in phases but todays post shows off touches of pink!

This is my Card Positioning Systems sketch card for this week. I will work with a sketch for almost every card that I create because of the direction a sketch gives to a creation.

I am so excited to share the little details on my card!

The cute, pink, kitty cat is from a Digital set at 2 Peas in a Bucket. I loved this set from the first time I saw it. I don't really do much with actual digital techniques but I really do enjoy using the elements and working with them in a hybrid fashion. Hybrid just means that you are using the computer for some portion of your work, mixing that with real papers and glue. The kitty is from the digital kit and so is the dot patterned paper. I just printed both out on the Cyrogen Curious Iridescent cardstock. I LOVE using this white cardstock. It is perfect for using with Copic makers and it has a slight sparkle to the paper and that shows through with whatever you do with it. I order mine from CutCardStock.com.

Plus, even more goodness is that cute Bingo card. This is a FREE download from MyGrafico.com. It is by Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. The download actually contains several different bingo cards. I just opened it in a Word program, all of the bingo cards are available at once and I printed them all out on the same Curious Iridescent cardstock. I cut out the BABY one for this card. The letters for BABY were colored with Copic markers and then I sprayed two colors of Memories Mist by Stewart Superior.

Notice the embossed cardstock? This is new from Core'dinations. The design come embossed in the cardstock and all it takes is a little sanding and the design shows off. Plus, you can see that I used one of my newest border punches.

For my other card, the CARDS blog issued a challenge to create a 3" card. Why is that hard? I really find working on a mini project to be hard or challenging and so of course, I had to play along! If you go and look at that post on the CARDS blog you will be just amazed at the creations.

This is just a 3" square card, the base of the card is a piece of Black Magic Core'dinations cardstock. I like this because the card is black, when the edges are sanded, the core color is exposed and that is a matching turquoise and an even bigger plus is the inside of the card is turquoise.

The damask stamp is stamped in turquoise and then embossed with clear embossing powder. Next I sprayed this with a couple colors of Glimmer Mist just to give some additional interest.

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And a photo!

I love Daffodils. I grew up in Tacoma, WA and we had a Daffodil parade every spring. We had Daffodil princesses and Daffodils decorated the floats in the parade and so there is a whole lot of nostalgia associated when I see Daffodils plus the look of spring in the air.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 158 – GIRL card
Materials:
Cardstock – Cosmo Cricket Core Impressions and Vintage/Core’dinations
Cryogen Curious Iridescent/CutCardStock.com
Digital set – Kitty Kat Kit/2 Peas in a Bucket
Digital bingo stamp set – Lindsay’s Stamp Stuff/My Grafico.com
Memories Mists sprays – Stewart Superior
Copic markers
Heart brad – Creative Impressions
Martha Stewart border punch
Ribbon
Sandpaper


Mini/TURQUOISE DAMASK card
Materials:
Cardstock – Black Magic/Core’dinations
Damask stamp – Judi Kins
3-D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Brillance stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Pink flower – Prima
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Spray color – Glimmer Mist/Tattered Angels
Corner rounder punch – Fiskars
Sandpaper

Colour Q and St. Pat's day

To start off my post today, I just have to share this amazing color challenge, Colour Q.

I don't even know how they come up with such amazing inspiration pieces but I just had to do this one when I saw these colors.

What is funny is this was not even where I was going to start until I saw this doiley paper on my desk sitting right on top of the red print! It was meant to be!

My flower is three different sizes of circle punches layered together. All I did was clip "into" each of the circles with my scissors and then I bent the layers forward.

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St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner and this gave me the perfect reason to use these papers that I received at CHA winter from Little Yellow Bicycle.

The Lucky You part is a sticker.
The flourish is cut out of one of the prints.

I don't usually decorate the inside of a card but I just had to so I could use the Lucky Me sticker!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

THANKS SO MUCH card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Die Cut Eyelet/Making Memories and Dreamy 2/Cherry Blossom/My Mind’s Eye

Circle punches – Papershapers

Big Brad – Bazzill

Rub-on sentiment – Deja Views

Sandpaper

LUCKY YOU/LUCKY ME card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and stickers – Lucky Me/Little Yellow Bicycle

Machine sewing

Self adhesive rhinestones – Queen & Co.

Sandpaper