It's beginning to look alot like FALL!

I didn't know how hard it would be to create a card with all of the same color family!!!

The Unscripted sketch for this coming week has a piggyback challenge with it - create a monochromatic card.  In other words, stay within one color family.  Do you know what I wanted to reach for first? A multi colored patterned paper!!! But, instead, I reached for this brand new Core Impressions cardstock by Core'dinations.  It is from the new Graphic 45 collection. It is YUM! That great embossed design comes in the cardstock, all it takes is a little bit of sanding.  I let that piece set the stage for my card. 

Next, I picked up a little chipboard house that I had in my stash from Maya Road.  I covered that with a striped piece of paper from BasicGrey, just the perfect combination of colors to stay within the same color scheme and to also fit with the Color Que color challenge at Wplus9 Designs.  The little "home" piece is a rub-on by Jenni Bowlin. 

This last week, it was my turn to post some projects at the Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker blog.  In case you missed that, here is one of the cards that I shared.  The papers are from the Boo-ti-ful collection. I just plain love that Nikki added purple into this Halloween/Fall collection of papers. 

The pumpkins are part of one of the full size patterned papers.  My card combines pieces from the mini paper pads and the full size, 12" x 12" pieces. 

Today is also my day to post at the Flower Soft blog, so pop on over to see the entire card that I added bits of the Citrus Crush Ultra Fine Flower Soft too.

Thanks for visiting,  Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 73 – HOME card

Materials:
Cardstock – Graphic 45 Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BasicGrey
Chipboard house – Maya Road
Home label rub-on – Jenni Bowling
Fluid chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Label die cut – Sizzix
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Sandpaper

A Fall themed Flower Soft Blog Hop and Challenge.

It's a Flower Soft blog hop and a challenge to go with it!

This week’s challenge -

Make a card using either Fall colors or a Fall theme.

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 FSC03.

Both prize winners will be chosen and announced on the Flower Soft blog on September 22nd.

The winner of the Splitcoast Gallery challenge will have their card featured on the Flower Soft Blog on September 24th!!!

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!) :
Moments in Time Stamp set Little Friend
Polar White
Ultra Fine Strawberry Flower Soft
Flower Soft Glue

Here is my card to go with this challenge.

There are so many reasons to use Flower Soft on a project and it is amazing the difference a little accent like that can make.

For my card, I stamped the leaves with brown ink.   First I gave each one of them a good coating of  the Tacky Glue and then Nut Brown Flower Soft.  The texture of the Flower Soft gave it the neatest look, so fitting for fall and the brown ink of the each leaf defines the shape and gives an underneath color.

From here, go to Dina Kowal's blog

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

FALL COLORS card

Materials list:
Nut Brown Flower Soft
Tacky Glue
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Leaf and sentiment stamps – Mini set/Inkadinkado
Distress stamp pads
Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sandpaper

Black and White and COLOR!

I just had to play along with The Play Date Cafe this week.  The color combo this week is black and white with a splash of color - gold, copper and pink. 

                            

                           

The example to follow at TPDC is on the elegant side so I wanted my card to be elegant too.  The card base is Core'dinations cardstock from the Gemstone collection. It has a shiny, pearl finish.  The white part of the card was matted with a copper paper and a pink cardstock.

When I stamped the flower, I didn't color it at all so that the black and white of it would be predominant on my card.  The leaves were colored with green and copper Alcohol inks.  I drew lines around my stamped flower and sentiment with a thin black pen and a wider, gold metallic pen. 

My next card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. Everyone once in awhile a sketch becomes a favorite and this is one of those.  I kept my design on the simple side.

The flourish and the sentiment are from a brand new set of clear stamps that I picked up at Joann store and they are by Me & My Big Ideas.  My fancy corner is a Martha Stewart corner punch and I spritzed the entire front of the card with Chalkboard Glimmer Mist. 

Now for a couple photos...

We were playing in the backyard on Sunday and I captured a few photos, this one of our youngest grandson and our new puppy playing together. Our grandson had some little crackers so that is what the puppy dog is after!

While I was snapping photos, I asked for a SMILE! This is the result! Possibly the cutest smile ever.

And, this is our new project, a round bowl full of succulents. We are so anxious for them to grow so we can see what each one of them will do!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 184 – HAPPY THANKSGIVING card

Materials:
Cardstock – Vintage and Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Flourish and sentiment – Me & My Big Ideas
Patterned paper – We R Memory Keepers
Black Versafine Stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Memento stamp pads
ChalkBoard spray – Tattered Angels
Self Adhesive Rhinestones – Queen & Co.
Corner punch – Martha Stewart
Sandpaper

NOTHING BETTER THAN A TRUE FRIEND card

Materials list:
Cardstock –Gemstones collection and Core Essentails/Core’dinations
Flower and sentiment stamps – PaperTrey, Inc.
Versafine black stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Alcohol Inks and Blending Fluid – Ranger
Gold metallic pen
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sandpaper

Girly stuff, rhinestones, pearls and flowers!

Sunday is the day that my project is up for all to see at the Pink Persimmon blog for PLAID week. Be sure to check out all of the details but I will give you a peek here.  Plus, remember that you can win prizes too.

I used one of my absolute favorite stamps, this super cute Scottie Dog and created a little painted purse around her. 

  

                       

Here is a close up of the amazing Glitter Paint that I used from PLAID.  I gave the wooden purse a coat of a blue paint first and then painted over that with the Folk Art Glitter Paint. LOVE the amount of glitter look without loose glitter falling off.  Check out the Pink Persimmon blog for a full photo and details for winning a prize.  So GO THERE, PLEASE!

Plus, I want to share my Unscripted sketch card for this week with you. It might be one of my favs!!!

I just picked up a set of clear stamps by Me & My Big Ideas at Joann's store and so of course, I had to pull them out. The label and the border stamp are from that set.  The flowers are another one of my newest purchases, they are by Recollections at Michaels craft store. They come in several different color schemes, I will probably NEED more!

The border stamp is from that set and I accented it with Queen & Co.'s self adhesive pearls. Let me tell you, you NEED these pearls and their rhinestones in every color, they are so handy and the colors are just plain YUM!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 72 – BLESSING card

Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Meadowlark/My Mind’s Eye
Label and decorative border stamp – Me & My Big Ideas
Fluid chalk stamp pad - Clearsnap
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Epoxy word – Heidi Grace
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Flowers – Recollections
Ruffled seam binding – Etsy store
Sandpaper

Colour Q challenge

Remember it is PLAID week at Pink Persimmon and you can still get in on seeing the adorable projects plus get in on the chance to win products. 

The card I want to share today is created around the Colour Q combo for this week. I so love the way they put the colors together and I also love the challenge of using a specific color combo.

I cut thin strips of each of the colors in the combo except for the Soft Suede and I used that color for my card base. 

I glued all of my thin strips to one piece of cardstock and ran that through the Cuttlebug with an embossing folder.  Then the embossed piece was cut with a Spellbinder Nestabilities label.  Isn't that flower neat? I just picked that up at Michaels, it is by Recollections.

I used a piece of Chocolate Box by Core'dinations.  It was the right shade of brown on the front and you can see that the reverse side of that paper is turquoise.  When the edges were sanded, you can see the turquoise on the edge of the card and the inside of the card has that neat color. 

Now for a few pics from Labor Day

You can tell by that smile that he was pretty happy in the pool.  We were over at our son and his wife's house for a BBQ. 

His cousins were making sure that he was well taken care of and having fun. 

Our son was flipping the kids so they would go flying through the air. This is one of our grandsons.

We also had a chance to take our new little doggie over to meet their dog.  It might be hard to tell from this photo, but they were enjoying each other!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

PRAYING FOR YOU card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Chocolate Box, Vintage and Core Essentails/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – TCP Studios
Paper Flower – Recollections
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Sentiment stamp – Verve
Versafine black stamp pad
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Sandpaper
Foam tape – 3M

Is it Christmas or Fall?

Before I share a couple cards, remember the PLAID week at Pink Persimmon.  The first project is up and it is pretty cute and useful too.

It is always fun to create Christmas cards and I love the colors of fall so here are the two cards I want to share with you today.

My CPS card for this week is Christmas themed mostly because the sponsor for this week is Sweet n Sassy stamps and this is the set that I was able to play with. I love Nativity scenes that are in silhouette like this so I was very happy to use this set on my card to go along with the sketch.

I stamped the Nativity scene with Versafine black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder and then I took a few colors of Fluid Chalk stamp pads and rubbed them directly on the white cardstock to add color.  By using more then one color I was able to get a gradient look. 

For this next card, I just had to use the color combo at The Play Date Cafe! LOVE these colors together, a combination I so would not have picked on my own.  Notice the embossed dot background on this card and the other card? That is my NEW Cuttlebug embossing folder.  This is the larger dot one, it embosses a bigger piece of paper and I think the dots are a little bigger. I love it.

I stamped this sprig of Sweet Peas by PaperTrey, Inc and colored them with Copic markers so that they matched the color combo. 

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 183 – JESUS - REASON card

Materials:
Cardstock - Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Nativity scene and sentiment stamps – Courtesy of Sweet & Sassy
Black Versafine Stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Fluid chalk stamp pads - Clearsnap
Self Adhesive Pearl – Queen & Co.
Cuttlebug embossing folder
Snowflake punch - PaperShapers
Sandpaper
Foam Tape – 3M

FILL THIS DAY… card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Sweet Pea and sentiment stamp – PaperTrey, Inc.
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Copic markers
Self adhesive pearls – Queen & Co.
Dot embossing folder - Cuttlebug
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Sandpaper

A sketch here and a sketch there...

The first order of business for my post today is to let you know about a really cool opportunity for you all of this next week.  Pink Persimmon and PLAID have teamed up to share some goodness.  The Pink Persimmon blog will be posting a new project everyday and you can WIN some good stuff from PLAID.  Be sure to check out the details here and I'll mention it again.

Yes, I have more cards that I have created from sketches.  I love the direction that a sketch gives me when I sit down with paper and glue.

The first card I want to share is my card for the Unscripted Sketch #71.  Saturday is the day that Unscripted posts their new sketches for the week so be sure to take a peek and play along too.  I so loved this sketch so I was very happy to create a card. 

The label is a stamp by Gina K.  I knew that the labels in this stamp set would be the perfect accent to match the sketch.  I pleated a strip of yellow patterned paper to go across the card and the white, embossed, scallop piece is a sticker by Martha Stewart.

And the other card I want to share was created to go along with the 2 Sketches 4 You sketch for this last week.  I thought it would be fun to use a school theme since that is pretty much what is on everyone's mind lately and there are so many adorable products to go along with a school theme.

Check out that adorable little vintage calendar piece.  I purchased in a package of little calendar pieces from Pretty Little Studio, an etsy store.  Be sure to check out the tons of cuteness she has and she sent my order out very quickly with a little free goodie in the package. 

Gotta share a few photos too...

We had a sidewalk chalk drawing day.  Can you see the HELP the kids are getting?

Is she just something else? Our new little Sadie!

Those eyes just melt our hearts!!!

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 71 – MISS YOU card

Materials:
Cardstock – Curious Iridescent Cryogen White/CutCardStock.com
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye and October Afternoon
Frame stamp – Gina K
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Sticker letters - BasicGrey
Self adhesive rhinestones – Heidi Swapp
White embossed scallop sticker – Martha Stewart
Sandpaper

GROW card

Materials list:
Cardstock – Vintage and Core Expressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Little Yellow Bicycle
September calendar piece – Pretty Little Studio http://www.etsy.com/shop/prettylittlestudio
Star punch – PaperShapers
Border punch – EK Success
Corner rounder punch - Fiskars
Thickers stickers – American Crafts
Sandpaper