2S4Y Roses and Butterflies

I created two cards for the 2 Sketches for You challenge Laura's Sketch #62. Way on either end of my design style.

Here is the second one I created:

Love that Webster's Pages paper. So much of the background was already there. I added the Hero Arts Rose and the Verses Sentiment.  The butterfly is also Hero Arts. Stamped in Versafine Vintage Sepia and colored with my trusty watercolors.

I started with this card which is for a class I will be teaching in November for Masculine cards. I was  inspired by Lisa's card here.  The image is from Artistic Outpost, called The Outpost, love this set.

Here's Laura's lovely sketch:

For some reason blogger is turning it on itside and I can't figure out why. :)  But I want to get this in before the challenge ends.

Thanks for stopping by... Off to make a card for my dad's birthday!

Suzz

Mojo Monday #159

Playing in the Mojo Monday #159 Sketch this week.  Here is my take:

The sketch:

I wanted to do something different and thought it would be fun to do the framed easel card with a circle popped up.  I searched through my stamp sets and found this beautiful set of  Clear Art stamps from Crafty Secrets. These little fairies are so adorable and the fun flowers and mushrooms. Very whimsical.

Well I hope you are having a lovely Saturday! 

Suzz

Simon Says Stamp and Show - Your Numbers

The challenge is to use numbers on a project for Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge this week.  Should be easy right. :)

I have a collection of Bingo cards that I have been wanting to use so I pulled one out and created this:

The background of the bingo card was stamped using versafine Olympia green and embossed using clear embossing powder. Sponge with yellow and orange dye ink.

Stamp the children (Artistic Outpost Sleigh Ride) using versafine black onyx and watercolor. Clear emboss the image of the children.

The papers are all from the wonderful Graphic 45 Christmas Collection. I just added a little distressing and sponging. The snowflakes are punched using a Martha Stewart punch.  The snowflakes had a little glistening added by using Diamond Dust and a Glue Pen. :)

Hope your Friday is wonderful!

Suzz

Play Date Cafe #50 - It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Okay not really... With temps in the 80's in September we are having a beautiful fall!  This weeks challenge at the PDCC involves using holiday colors to go along with our beautiful stamps form Elusive Images.  The color challenge this week is Green, White and Melon.  I was lucky enough to receive the Christmas Tweetings Stamp Set to play with.  I created this:




When I saw the sweet birdhouse and wreath I knew the needed to be set out on display in a window. :)

The color inspiration photo was selected by Julie  for the Play Date Cafe challenge this week:. 

We have a fab sponsor this week at the PDCC.  Elusive Images is our sponsor and they are providing not only a prize for the winner of the PDCC but also a prize for each of the fab four winners!  Five opportunities to win!

I am also excited because my good  friend Lesley is part of the Elusive Design Team. So be sure to stop by her blog Crafty Love n Hugs and say hi!

Our special guest designer this week is Glenda Waterworth, owner of Elusive Images stop by the  Elusive Design Team blog and see what the design team created!  Stop by Glenda's blog and see the beautiful project she created for the challenge.

The Play Date Cafe design team:

Sarah Anderson

Ruby 2 Shoes

Savannah O'Gwynn
Andrea Ewen

Julie Ranae

Lisa Somerville

Hope to see you in the Cafe!

Suzz

Get Sketchy #58 - Challenge and some Pumpkins!

Happy Tuesday!

 I am in a circle groove.  Saw this sketch from Get Sketchy Challenge #58 and loved the circles and lines.

Can you see the lines and circles in my spiderweb?  I was thinking how to incorporate the lines and circles from the design and the spiderweb caught in my mind. The spiderweb is a Hero Arts cling and it is a really nice size spiderweb stamp.  The baby spiders and sentiment are from an Inkadinkado set. The Big spider is from a Hero Arts Designblock and I used it to get the shape and then colored it in.

I already was thinking Halloween because I created these fun Chipboard pumpkins Sunday and shared them over on the Outside the Box blog.

These pumpkins are glimmer misted, sponged with rusty hinge and black dye ink.  They are stamped using versamark or versafine black onyx  and embossed using clear embossing powder or zing orange embossing powder. The stamps are Memory Box Spooky Collage and Halloween Collage.  I also used these really fun Clearsnap design adhesives which are in the shape of the spider and web and are rub-ons. They are double sided adhesive so I can stick them on the project and then use glitter, flocking, foil etc.  Very fun. I used the Clearsnap black charcoal glitter to add the accents to my spiders. 

Thanks for dropping by!

Suzz

Hero Arts World Cardmaking Day Celebration and Caardvarks Challenge

Two challenges and two cards for both challenges. Hero Arts is having a celebration this weekend for World Cardmaking Day.  The challenge is to create a project using your favorite colors.  The second challenge sponsored by Hero Arts this week is the Caardvarks challenge to create a clean and simple card. (stop laughing I can do this)

So I created two cards this morning using green, brown, and blues as these are the earthy colors I usually am drawn to in creating my cards. But I really love color, and could have chosen a bunch of different combinations.

The clean and simple part was a little trickier.

The first card is from the Hero Arts Cuckoo clear stamp set. I thought wouldn't it be fun to have cuckoo clocks hanging down like ornaments?  My aunt and uncle used to have a wall of clocks which would all go off every hour and of course they were all off by a few minutes. So when we would go to visit and have to sleep on the floor in their family room we would listen to them all go off every hour for about 5 minutes. LOL! I had forgotten about that until I was making this card. The papers are scraps from different papers.

It started off clean and simple and turned into more shabby chic. :) I was so happy to find this Hero Arts stamp at my LSS. When I asked where they had purchased it because I knew it wasn't in any catalogue I had seen from HA they said it was part of a lot they bought from another store that was closing. I love it. The soft image of the Madonna and child is beautiful. 

Yesterday I wasn't able to create much and I was so pleased to get this in this morning before church. Hopefully there will be more inking time later today.

Have a blessed Sunday.

Suzz



Happy World Card Making Day - 2S4Y card

Happy World Cardmaking Day!  I am going to try to play along with some of the fun activities so I hope to have another post later. :)

I wanted to get my 2S4Y challenge in with Kazan's sketch # 62.

The sketch looks like this:

and my card looks like this:

I love these bunnies in their Christmas outfit and thought how sweet they looked. I added the star above so they could be looking at something in the distance.  

Hope you are busy inking it up!

Suzz