CPS, PC and CK

Isn't it weird the way so many things has become known by initials? And what is even more interesting is how many of these that we know exactly what is meant by them! I am going to share my Card Positioning Systems (CPS) card for this last week and a challenge at Paper Crafts Magazine (PC), Moxie Fab and Creating Keepsakes (CK) magazine.

At CPS, the team got to play along with some Gina K stamps. I picked a label set that I have been in love with.

I stamped the label with black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder. LOVE the black/white with these great bright green papers by Bo Bunny.

Paper Crafts Magazine and the Moxie Fab blog have had a challenge recently and that is to find inspiration from a layout and to create a card from it. The layout is pictured on their blog. This is one of my favorite kinds of challenges so I had to play.

The layout had circles on it and I wanted to find a little bit of a different way to interpret the spaces that are the circles. I decided to create flowers for those places. My flowers are really three different size punched circles and then I took my scissors and clipped into the circles. I then bent those cut edges up and in. The papers here are by Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker and the middles of the flowers are Nikki Sivils corduroy brads.

Now for the layout, Creating Keepsakes magazine and the Club CK blog did a similar challenge in that they showed a few cards and asked that you take inspiration from one of the cards to create a layout. The card I chose to use was pretty "girly" and so I took the main elements and made a "boyish" layout. I placed the photo at a slight angle to try to show the motion of swinging along with the arrows that are on the patterned paper by My Mind's Eye.

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And, gotta share some more pics.

As we were walking through the Redwoods area, the floor of the forest was a carpet of these shamrock looking plants and ferns. I loved the challenge of trying to get a good photo of these.

Along our way down the coast, we stopped in a little, victorian-themed town by the name of Ferndale. It is a small town, a little off the main highway but a gem to find with victorian style homes and businesses everywhere. I took so many photos!

At one stop off place, here is a view of the coast line. SOOOO amazing!

Along the road at one point, we found these wild Sweet Peas growing. My mom always had some of these in her yard so they were a great find for a little nostalgia.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SKETCH 174 – HELLO THERE card
Designer: Linda Beeson
805 659-1282
lbpost@roadrunner.com
Materials:
Stamps courtesy of Gina K – Lovely Labels
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – BoBunny
Black Versamark stamp pad
Clear embossing powder
Rub-on sentiment - BasicGrey
Sandpaper


HUGS - XOXO card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper and Corduroy brads – Will He Be the 1/Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker
Circle punches – Papershapers
Machine sewing
Circle sticker and rub-on words – BasicGrey
Pink sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket
Foam tapeSandpaper


FLYING HIGH - SWING layout
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – My Mind’s Eye
Chipboard bird – Maya Road
Sticker label shape – BasicGrey
Sticker letters – Making Memories
Corrugated letters – Jillibean Soup
Sandpaper

Get ready - new Pink Persimmon stamps

And you are going to LOVE them! This week, Pink Persimmon is revealing their new stamps, a few at a time and having a give away. I am going to share with you two of the new sets and my cards that I created with them.

You can see these posted on the Pink Persimmon blog along with two other new sets. And, you also want to visit there because they are giving away some sets too!!

Now only are all of these little baby clothes just plain adorable but do you see those tiny clothespins??? Be still my heart!

I wanted you to see the layers that I created. I actually put a line of string on my card and then placed the clothes on foam tape so they would look like they were hanging with the little clothespins along the top.

And, I can't seem to get enough banner stamps lately so this set makes me very happy. The banners already have letters in them and come in sets of words so you don't have to try to place them together! How cool is that. There is another set of banners with just individual letters too. These are shown on the Pink Persimmon blog. The hearts are from a previous set by Pink Persimmon.

I placed my string of banners on my card after I stamped them, colored them with Copic markers and cut them out. I then ran a line of zig zag machine sewing along each one so they looked like they had been strung up along my card.

For this card, I pulled out the little row of ducks from the baby clothes set. I colored them with Copic markers and cut them out. The sentiment is from another new set by Pink Persimmon and you can see that on the blog too.

Are these guys just too cute!

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And a few more pics from our drive through the Redwoods

Looking up at the tops of the trees with the sun shining through is so amazing.

See my husband walking there? Paths like this wander all through the area.

I put the camera on the bottom of one of the trees and took the photo looking up this giant.

Another photo of one of the paths we walked, catching a glimpse of my husband up ahead of me. He really wasn't all that far ahead, those trees are just gigantic and so dwarfed him.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Flower Soft and The (Stamps) of Life blog hop

Double the fun in one hop! The Flower Soft team is using some stamps from The (Stamps) of Life along with Flower Soft to share some goodness with you today. Be sure to hop to each blog and leave a comment.

There will be 6 prize winners chosen from the blog comments. That is 3 prizes from The (Stamps) of Life and 3 from Flower Soft. The hop starts at the Flower Soft blog and ends at Stephanies blog. The winners will be announced on July 14th on both the Flower Soft blog and The (Stamps) of Life blog.

I have a weakness for snow globes, so that is the set that I picked to work with. One thing that really made this snow globe set fun is that you can stamp the snow globe separately and fill it with various images, including the snowman if you want. I love how versatile the set is for that reason.

Of course I wanted to use the Polar White Flower Soft for my snow on the ground and on my little snowman but I chose to not completely cover the snowman. I wanted the Flower Soft to look like fresh snow that has just fallen on the one side of my little guy. That let the images like the buttons still show up well and it really lets you see the depth of the snow.
I stamped the globe, the snowman and the little snowflakes on white cardstock with a black Versafine stamp pad and embossed that image with clear embossing powder. Then I stamped the snowman again on a piece of scrap, copier paper and cut out the snowman to make a mask. I placed this cut out snowman over the one that I first stamped and sprayed the entire piece with the new Chalk type of Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. The blue spray filled my globe and the background behind it but left the snowman white.
I then coated portions of my snowman and the ground underneath him with the Tacky Glue and sprinkled all of that with the Polar White Flower Soft. When that was dry, I did the same on the brim of the hat with the Ultra Fine black Flower Soft.
You might have come here from Beverly Sizemores blog. Now onto the rest of the hop. From here, hop on over to JOANA STUDER'S blog.
Remember there is additional inspiration every week at the Flower Soft TV.
Thanks for visiting and hopping, Linda (lbpost)

CHRISTMAS – SNOW GLOBE card
Materials list:
Stamps – Joy 2 Christmas/Courtesy of The (Stamps) of Life
Polar White Flower Soft
Black Ultra Fine Flower Soft
Tacky Glue – Aleene’s
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Meadow Lark/My Mind’s Eye
Black Versafine stamp pad
Clear embossing powder – Stampendous
Copic Markes
Chalk Glimmer Mist – Tattered Angels
EK Success border punch
Foam tape
Sandpaper

Gotta have MORE sketches - Unscripted sketches

Saturday holds two special things for me - one is it is my day to post a project at the Flower Soft blog. Here is a tiny peek at my project using Polar White Flower Soft. Be sure to hop on over to see the entire creation and how and why I created it.

Here is the other exciting thing about Saturday. If you have followed my blog for very long, you know I LOVE sketches. They just inspire me and that makes me happy so I will be even happier now because today is my first sketch to do with the UnScripted Design Team as a member of that fun blog. I am loving getting to know the other team members and I am looking forward to getting to create with them. How about if you take a few minutes this week to make a card using the sketch that is just below?

UnScripted Sketches is hosting Christmas in July all month long, so I thought it was fitting to create a Christmas card to go along with the sketch. I guess you call that, getting a head start on next Christmas which never hurts.

All of the supplies for my card are by October Afternoon, including this really cute, vintage tag. I made the edges of the card look a little more vintage by rubbing it with a brown Fluid chalk stamp pad.

Like I already mentioned, it is a Christmas in July celebration at UnScripted Sketches. Check out the blog for all of the good things that will be happening all month long. LOTS of fun and creativity.

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And, I have to share some photos.

My husband and I recently took a couple days to drive through the Redwoods in Northern California. If you want a truly breathtaking trip, do this drive. There is no way to even try to explain how extremely tall and HUGE these trees are. Beauty is everywhere.

Can you see my teeny, tiny husband as he is standing among the trees? This gives you an idea of their majestic size.

Ferns are growing everywhere, blankets of ferns. I just love that curl at the tip as they are opening.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Sketch 62 - MERRY CHRISTMAS
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Very Merry/October Afternoon
Vintage die cut and stickers – October Afternoon
Circle template – Coluzzle

Red, White, Blue and SUN

It's that time of year when we are thinking about Red, White and Blue. My first card that I want to share fits for celebrating the Fourth of July.

The text embossed cardstock is Core Impressions by Core'dinations. Isn't it just perfect on here?

My flower is actually the large Banner stamps by Pink Persimmon. I so love these banner stamps because there are several patterns, you pick the colors. The black, stitching outline is one of the stamps.

This card was created to fit the colors at Colour Q and the design fits the Get Sketchy sketch. It was fun to use the red, white and blue colors but the card isn't necessarily for the Fourth.

The red paper along the top is actually cut from a shaped piece of paper. It was the perfect piece to fit the sketch.

And my "SUN" card is my Card Positioning Systems card for this week. I just turned the sketch on its side.

The sun is cut from patterned paper and accented with White 3-D Fashion Paint by Tulip. I just love the accent of little white, raised dots.

The letters for "splash" and all of the black words are SRM stickers. They made it so easy to give the finishing touches to my card.
Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

CELEBRATE – RED/WHITE/BLUE card
Materials:
Cardstock – Jenni Bowlin Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Creative Imaginations
Stamps – Pink Persimmon
Scallop circle punch – Marvy
Fiskars corner rounder punch
Big brad
Sticker letters – Cosmo Cricket
Mementos stamp pads
3D Foam squares – Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L
Sandpaper

IT’S YOUR DAY card
Materials list:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – So Sophie: Best Thing/My Mind’s Eye and Baby Safari/Little Yellow Bicycle
Sticker labels and rub-on sentiments – BasicGrey
Glitter Flowers – Petaloo
Sandpaper

SKETCH 173 – SPLASH – CHILL OUT card
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Essentials/Core’dinations
Patterned paper – Abbey Road:Whirlybird/My Mind’s Eye and Rusted Sun: Sunrise/Fancy Pants Designs
Letter and sentiment stickers – SRM
Border punch – Fiskars
White 3-D Fashion Paint - Tulip
Sandpaper
Tonic paper distresser

Kitty Cats and the Bee

I wanted to share this layout with you today. At Nikki Sivils, the team had a challenge that was pretty fun. The first gal on the list created a layout and then each of us in the line created from inspiration from the person ahead of us. I was third in line so I pulled from the first layout and the second one. You can see all of them here.

Our cat can look so regal so taking photos of her is fun. The main piece of paper on my layout is from the Bella Blue and Oscar Too collection, so fitting for your pet. I love those little lips in the Hot Lips patterned paper from the Will He B the 1 collection and I thought that fit pretty nicely to my girly girl layout. You can see that I pleated my strip of that paper.

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And a couple more photos.

I was walking up to a garden to see what was in bloom on this day and this flower was the first to greet me, looking rather regal itself.

And, while I am not a fan of bees, this one was so neat looking as it was hanging around these flowers which I think are actually wildflowers.

AND...I need to share a little movie review. I took our granddaughter to see Marmaduke today and it was such a fun movie. Funny and just plain cute! A good summer activity.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

Water fun and Stamping

I put these two themes together on this layout, my grandson playing in the water spouts and some really neat stamps!

The stamps are from the Banner set by Pink Persimmon. In fact, you will find a little tutorial on the Pink Persimmon blog on using these cute banners as my accent. The cardstock is Core Impressions by Core'dinations. It comes with that great embossed design in it already. I slightly sanded it to expose the design. We found this fun water spout fountain at one of our malls and of course, watching my grandson interact with the jumping spouts was too much fun.

Here is a close-up of the stamped banners. What I love about this stamp set is that the triangular banners come in different designs and they look so good stamped in colors. This means that you can custom make your banner to match whatever colors you are working with. The banner set comes with the stitched banner too so the black zig zag lines around each banner are really stamps, stamped with black ink. I used a wave punched border for an accent.

This circle is also a stamp by Pink Persimmon. It makes a great journaling piece but here it worked to hold my title letters.

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Gotta share some photos...

Some friends horse just had a new baby, can it be any cuter???

And, we captured this wonderful sunset as we were driving into Medford, OR a couple weeks ago. The colors are hard to believe.

Thanks for visiting, Linda (lbpost)

SPLASH layout
Materials:
Cardstock – Core Impressions/Core’dinations
Stamps – Pink Persimmon
Border punch – Fiskars
Memento and Versafine Stamp pads
Sandpaper