Verve challenge, Beates Weekend Sketch.

I did this card for the Meet the divas Verve challenge and Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge. I've been really annoyed with my camera lately it just wont take a good pic one of the settings must be off.

Recipe

Stamps: Black Tie Birds

Ink:Versamark, elegant Eggplant

Paper:whisper white, elegant eggplant, perfect plum

Misc: white tafetta ribbon, clear dew drops,silver ep,white gel pen, blender pen, sewing machine, dimensionals,glue dots.

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 35

I missed Taylors challenge last week cause I was out of town, and that made me kinda sad, so I was happy when I sat down to make this card. Here is her sketch for this week. For more info go to Taylors blog.

Here is my card, I love this stamp its so cute, I got it the day they released it but I haven't used it till now. I dont really have any christmas paper so I improvised. I was going to use my new sewing machine on it but I forgot.

Recipe

Stamps:Treehouse christmas cupcake.

Ink:choc chip,artichoke.

Paper:bella rose dsp,riding hood red, whisper white, choc chip.

Misc:red dew drops, riding hood red striped gosgrain, ticket corner punch, burgandy stickles, snowflake cb embossing folder.

Splitcoast tuesday color challenge

Ok, so I am alive for anyone who was wondering I haven't posted for over
a week almost two. I was out of town and for almost a week and I Kinda got side tracked
by some books last week one of my friends let me barrow her twilight books by stephanie meyer, they were so good I read all four of them in 4 days. They were so good I literally could not put them down. Well anyways on to my card I did yesterdays SCS color challenge It was baja, vanilla, kiwi. Im not so sure I like this card but oh well I guess.

Recipe.

Stamps:Treehouse cupcake stamp.

Ink:Adirondak black, copic markers.

Paper:baja, vanilla,kiwi.

Misc:vanilla/kiwi satin ribbon, cuzzle,nestabilities,paper piercer,pearl stickles,pink stickles

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 33

Heres Taylors sketch for this weeks challenge, Simple but good I love it. Will definately be using it again. Thanks for another great sketch Taylor.

Heres my card, its kinda simple, but I actually spent a fair amount of time making it. I still feel like its missing somthing but I cant put my finger on it. I dont know if you cant tell but I Paper pierced the corners. Im pretty happy with it though. This is my first time using my new copic markers I had fun. Taylors images are perfect for that.

Recipe.

Stamps: Sweet Celebration(Taylored Expressions)

Ink:Stazon jet black, I colored the image with my copic markers

Paper: Only orange, regal rose, whiper white, yo yo yellow,I dont know what the dsp is sprinkled somthing or other.

Misc: blue dew drops, walmart yellow grosgrain, I cut the ovals out with my cricut,dimensionals, glue dots, paper piercer.

Mojo Monday Sketch 52

Here is Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch, Its a good one. Go check it out on her blog.

Here is my card.

I have had this color combo in my head since the color challenge on scs this week, I just didnt like the green galore in it so i never did a card. So I decied to use them for the mojo sketch. I love the card it so pretty. I wish I had a better camera cause the pics dont do it justice you can see it better here on SCS gallery .

Recipe

Stamps: Short and sweet, upsy daisy.

Paper: Urban garden dsp, going grey, basic grey, riding hood red, whisper white.

Ink: old olive marker, real red marker.
Misc:designer label punch, oval cut out with cricut, white tafetta ribbon dyed old olive, pewter brads, stampamajig.

Remebering 9/11

I Just want to take the time today to remember all of those who died on 9/11, I pray for those who lost family members and also thank the firefighters and policeman who died trying to save others. May the lord bless their families and give them comfort.

KWerner color inspiration 22

I did Kwerner Color inspiration Challenge today, which I also combined with SCS Sketch Challenge.
Here is the challenge

Here is the sketch.

Here is my card, Im pretty happy w.ith the way this card turned out, good color combo Thanks Kristina

Recipe

Stamps: Fabulous Flowers,

Paper: Afternoon tea dsp, whisper white, regal rose, rose red, bravo burgandy

Ink:Burgandy, rose red, soft sky

Misc:Hodgepodge hardware, soft sky ribbon, ticket corner punch, half pearls

Pregabella

I got some new stamps in the mail today. I orderd some bella stamps,they are just so cute. This one is called prega-bella, I also got a cupcakabella, and stagettabella. I made this card for a friend of mine who just found out she is prego. I paper pieced the bella's outfit.

Recipe:

Stamps:pregabella, bella congrats.

Ink:choc chip, pretty in pink, close to cocoa

paper:choc chip dsp, pretty in pink,whisper white, choc chip

Misc: photo corners punch, word window punch, strait edge scallop punch, white brads

Cupcake birthday

Here is a card I made today for fun I wanted to use my new cupcake stamp set from hero arts called seize the cupcake and also use my new choc chip dsp(my fav color). You cant tell in the picture but I tried a new technique that I haven't done before but have been wanting to, which is paper piecing, for anyone who doesn't know its when you stamp the image on something like dsp and cut it out and piece it on to your original image I did that her with the cupcake on the bottom part to get a better look at it go here to my SCS gallery

Recipe
Stamps: Seize the cupcake stamp set
Ink: choc chip, close to cocoa
Misc: photo corners punch, nestabilities, cricut, white and choc brads, boho flowers punch, blender pen, sponge

Beates Weekend Sketch Challenge

Here is the sketch, thanks Beate!

Here is my card for the sketch, I love, love, love this urban garden dsp it is so beautiful. And this color combo for me is just inspiring. Just a cute simple card.

Recipe

Stamps: pocket silhouettes

Paper: not quite navy, kiwi kiss, urban garden dsp, basic grey, whisper white, baja breeze.

Ink: not quite navy, baja breeze, going grey

Misc: paper piercer, kiwi/vanilla satin ribbon,not quite navy brads, photo corners punch, word window punch, square scallop punch, sponge

Verve challenge

So this is a really cool challenge, that Julee is doing for the new verve stamps release. You take a 6x6 sheet of Designer series paper, and cut it into all the pieces to make 4 cards. you upload your cards to splitcoast to enter the contest and they are going to do a random drawing and there will be two grand prize winners who will get all 5 new stamps sets from verve and 5 second place who get one new stamp set. How cool huh to get all of the info go to here.

Here are the sketches your sapposed to follow, nice huh.

So here are my cards for the challenge, I have to say I love how they turned out but the picture definately does not do them justice if you want to see them a little better go to this page on my splitcost gallery. I did alot of distressing on these cards, sponging and some ink pad rubbing on the two on the right. I made them all thank you cards cause my friend Julie needed some.

If you want more info please leave me a comment, its like midnight here and Im to tired to explain these cards tonight. There is more info on ingredients on my splitcoast gallery.

Taylors Cupcake Challenge 32

It's Friday Again, You Know what that means, Taylors Cupcake Challenge. And today is a special one because she released her stamp line called stamp a sweet impression and I'm not ashamed to say that I stayed up last night till 11:00 my time for the release to be one of the first to buy one of Taylors stamp sets. So Exciting! Congrats Taylor I' so Happy for you. So here is the sketch for todays challenge.

So Here is my card. I did something new on this card I've never done before and thats use a sewing machine. Cool huh, I always love the cards I see that have sewing on them, so I barrowed a sewing machine from my MIL,thanks(mom). I've got to get me a machine I just love the effect of sewing on a card. It just adds this element that makes the card so taylored for lack of a better word. I also put some dazzling diamonds on the cupcakes but you cant really see them in the pic. Good sketch Taylor.

Recipe

Stamps: short and sweet, so many scallops, all holidays.

Ink: rose red, basic black, celery, saffron, eggplant.

Paper: generic dp I had laying around, rose red, whisper white, lavender lace, saffron

Misc: scallop punch, 1 1/4 inch, white gel pen, dazzling diamonds, white tafetta ribbon, colored on the edges with celery marker, sewing machine.

Snow Swirled

So I haven't done a SCS Challenge Since last week and Im gonna do a two challenge knock out.

Im doing wednesdays sketch challenge and todays ways to use it challenge. Todays challenge said to take out you fancy expensive foiled or sparkled paper and stuff like that and use it. I didn't have any so I made my own by embossing the snow flakes with Irridescent Ice Ep. And here is the sketch from yesterday.

And Here is my Card, I think it turned out pretty nice, I'm happy with it.

Recipe

Stamps: snow swirled

Ink:Choc Chip, versamark

Paper: Bella Rose DSP,Choc. chip, kiwi, riding hood red

Misc: choc chip tafetta ribbon, half pearls and pearl brad, Irridescent ice ep, ticket corner punch, stamp a ma jig.

KWerner color inspiration 21.

Here it is again Kristina Werner's color inspiration challenge and here
are the colors for this week.

Aren't those shoes cute! This card just drove me nuts for some reason it just wasn't coming together for me. I wanted to leave the pacific point out, I just didn't think it went on this card but I wanted to follow the challenge. So here is my card.

Recipe

Stamps: Fabulous flowers

Ink: Rose red, kiwi kiss

Paper: Whisper white, pacific point, regal rose, rose red, kiwi kiss

Misc: half pearls, white tafetta ribbon, white gel pen, nestabilities, paper piercer.

Mojo Monday Sketch,Beates color inspiration challenge.

I decided to do a card for Julee Tilman's Mojo Monday Sketch, if she likes it you get a free verve stamp who doesnt like free stamps and I really want Cupcake affair. So here is the sketch.
I also used Beate's color inspiration, here is the pic to use for inspiration.

And here is my card
the only thing I dont like about it is that the white taffetta ribbon that I colored saffron ended up looking like it is gold ribbon in the picture. Other than that I think it turned out pretty good, I think I'll give this card to my Mil for her b-day it just reminds me of her for some reason.

Recipe:

Stamps: Inspired by nature

Ink:Artichoke, saffron,rust

Paper:Artichoke, rust, whisper white, kraft

Misc: scraparatus, word window punch, white tafetta ribbon(colored saffron with stampin write marker) yellow generic brads, chit chat rub ons

Beates challenge

I decided to do Beates's challenge this weekend, here is the sketch

So here is my card, im not to happy with it. I don't know what it is but everything on this card drives me nuts. The image is offcenter, the ribbon isn't quite the same on each side and I dont like this sentiment with it for some reason. I tried to take it off but the dimensionals were ripping the paper so I gave up. But here it is anyway.

Recipe:Stamps:Upsy daisy, punches three

Ink:versamark, going grey

Paper: basic grey, whisper white, baja breeze

Misc:White ep, scallop square punch, baja striped grosgrain ribbon, silver brads.