Pumpkin Time TMS# 517

I found a great sketch over at Tuesday Morning Sketches today and I couldn't wait to play along.  I didn't really know what I was going to do but I knew I wanted to play.

I decided to start out by digging through stamps I haven't really used in a long time and found two really great sets that help set the tone for my card. I then scoured through my patterned paper packs and found the perfect papers.

Here is the sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches

Here is what I came up with.  I die cut the pumpkins and layered them on top to give some dimension. Lately I haven't really been using to many embellishments so I added just a few drops of nuvo drops to give a little "bling" to my card. 

Foxy Lady!

Good morning everyone! It's a cool rainy day here so of course I'm going to craft! There is another great sketch challenge over at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge blog and I've had this card in mind all week.

I actually pulled everything out on Wed. totally intending to sit and craft, but life got in the way (laundry mostly lol) and I just didn't get to it.

Here is the card I made using this awesome sketch.  I've started doing a little water coloring. It's definitely a work in progress but practice makes perfect right?

Supplies: The Stamps of Life July card kit, foxes2stamp and foxes dies(the stamps of life), midnight, over coffee, baby girl ink (Catherine pooler)

Sunny Smiles

This card was a lot of fun to make.  I made it for a challenge over at Stamp Nation.  The challenge is to use geometric shapes.

Supplies: tiles2stamp and sentiment set (The Stamps of Life), daydream, polished, sauna, mandarin spice, green tea and midnight ink (Catherine Pooler Stamps)

Wonderful Friend

Good morning! I'm enjoying the beautiful sunlight from inside today as I craft.  It's already 75 degrees here and it's only 8am! Crazy.  I love the warm days but the humidity is horrible. Perfect time to craft.

I'm trying to use all of the new goodies I've purchased lately and finally came up with a card idea for this awesome stamp set.  I'm loving how it turned out.

Supplies: Lovely flowers stamp set and dies (Catherine Pooler Designs), dotted oval dies (The Stamps of Life), all that jazz, limoncello, grape crush, grass skirt, be mine and midnight ink (Catherine Pooler Designs), lovely collection paper pad (The Stamps of Life)

Sparkle

Good morning and welcome to another card sketch challenge from Sketch~N~Scrap.  I have some new stamps and paper to play with and couldn't wait to use it on this sketch. Unicorns are one of my favorite things and I'm loving this stampset!

This is the sketch...

And here is the card I came up with...

I used a bit of stickles on the horn and below the sentiment to add a little "sparkle" to the card.

Hello

Welcome to another installment of Sketch~N~Scrap card sketch challenge! I've been trying to use different stamp sets that I have accumulated over the years and haven't really "broke" in.  This time I used a really cute bee set.


Here is the sketch

Here is my card

And the finished inside

Supplies: banana and kiwi cardstock, white cardstock, hello die, hello friend paper pack, kiwi/ocean/white twine, hive4bees stamp set, bee dies (all items are from The Stamps of Life)

Sprinkling You

Good morning and welcome to another Sketch~N~Scrap card sketch challenge.  I had a lot of fun with my new donut stamp set! This card came together super fast (or my mojo finally came back).

Here is the sketch

Here is my card

Supplies: donut dies, donuts2stamp, cardstock and designer paper, twine and sparkle red paper.

Spidy Pumpkin

I am so excited about the coming season.  For some reason when fall hits I feel renewed and ready to go.  When the leaves fall it's like a new year ( I know, I know, spring is usually the start over point). I love the fall smells, decorations and the cool, crisp air that comes. 

So, when Stephanie Barnard came out with the new pumpkin fold it card I just HAD to have it!! Then she came out with the makers challenge over at Sizzix using her fold it cards and boom, this card was born lol. I am so happy with how this turned out and I think I'm going to make some for Thanksgiving to!

I've had this paper sitting around for about 4 years now.  I love the different patterns so I haven't been using it in fear of using it all up.  But the web paper just seemed to fit!

Supplies: pumpkin fold it die,  bewitched patterned paper, tangerine tango, whisper white, chocolate cardstock,

Happy Summer

I can't believe it's already August 1st! Where has the time gone?  My youngest will soon be starting his sophomore year and he's my last to finish up school.  So not ready!!  What better way to "prolong" summer than with a great challenge from Try Stampin' On Tuesday!! Not only do they have a great sketch but they have a optional theme of "Dog Days of Summer". Perfect.

I chose to use a watermelon stamp set from The Stamps of Life.  This set is just to cute and I love the step stamping it has to create multiple colors.

Small Stuff

It's that time again.  Another great sketch from Sketch ~N~ Scrap.  I am loving being a part of this design team.  So far I've been challenged.  This sketch is no different.  I pulled out items I haven't used in a long time or have never used!

Here is the card sketch

And here is what I came up with (sorry for the stinky picture)

Supplies:
The Stamps of Life~hedgehog2stamp, hedgehog dies, chocolate ink
Stampin' UP!~chalk talk framelit dies, pearls, pop dots
Ink~ versamark, memento black

Let it Snow!

Is it bad that I'm looking forward to the snow? I'm sure most people would think so, I know my family does, but I just love watching it snow.  Now driving in it is a totally different story!!  This card is just perfect for the snow lover in me.  I can look at the pretty flakes, stamp them in any color I want but I don't have to clean it up or drive in it.  Win win!!

I used Try Stampin' On Tuesday's sketch this week.  Love the layout of it and have a few other ideas in mind.

Here is my card

 

 And a close up of my flakes.  I used snowflakes2stamp and snowflakes dies from The Stamps of life. 

stamps, dies, ink and embellishments all from The Stamps of Life, cardstock from Stampin' Up! and background paper is from Crate Paper.

Merry Christmas FMS260

I am trying to resist the feeling to put on Christmas music as I make these cards.  I'm pretty sure my family would run screaming if I did.  I just can't help that I hum it while I'm making every one.  Really, I should be making Halloween cards or Thanksgiving cards but Christmas are the ones I know I'll send out when the time comes.

I used this great sketch from Freshly Made Sketches.  Once I figured out which stamp set I wanted to use it came together pretty well.  While digging through my collection of scraps I found this great sparkle paper and couldn't resist using it.

 

Here is my finished card.  I'm really liking the added sparkle without the added mess to my craft space. 

 

 

Supplies: cranberry, white and sparkle cardstock, 12 days of Christmas paper-my minds eye, cranberry, licorice and artichoke ink-The Stamps of Life, ornaments4Christmas and moreornaments4Christsmas sets-The Stamps of Life, ornaments die set-The Stamps of Life

 

Merry Christmas Santa

This card took me a bit of time to come up with.  I finally got an order in the mail yesterday and couldn't wait to use it! I got the inside of the card all finished and had a complete blank when it came to the front.  Instead of just doing whatever to it I left it until this morning.  Fresh eyes and fully awake brain seemed to help.  I found this great sketch over at Mojo Monday and paired it with a celebrations challenge over at Stampin' Royalty and the below card is what I came up with.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is the inside.  This is what started the whole process.  I'm loving these pop up inserts. I'm not quite finished.  I'm wanting to add some sort of design inside as well.

Supplies: santa2stamp stamp set, santa dies, mini lights stamps and dies, happy holidays drop in dies (all items from The Stamps of Life), patterned paper-Anna Griffin, mistletoe hemp-lawn fawn, white liquid applique

Happy Birthday!

Here is another card I've made using two more awesome challenges.  Freshly Made Sketches, Color Throwdown and Seize the Birthday. I am really enjoying myself today.  In between cleaning and doing laundry I get to get some much needed craft therapy.  I'm loving my new scrap room and find it so much easier to be creative.   

 

 

"Lots of Leaves"

 

 

And here is what I came up with.  This took me a bit.  I really wanted to add in the leaves and birthday wish but was having a really hard time.  Then I remembered I had these great leaf dies! Presto!!

 



How are you?

I am loving the colors at Just Us Girls this week.  Unfortunately, since I started it the challenge ended.  Oh well, I'm loving this card anyway.  I paired it with the sketch challenge at

Nacho Average Challenges. 

 

 

 

 

Here is the card I created for these two challenges.  I wanted to use a Christmas set without making it a Christmas card.  I'm loving the way it turned out and I love these unconventional colors. 

 

 

Supplies: christmas2build stamp set, kind words, stitched squares and Christmas dies, artichoke, mustard, storm and raspberry ink, jewels, yellow twine and candy cane embossing folder.  (stamp set, dies and inks are all from The Stamps of Life)



Hello, gate fold card

I found this great technique using the stand-up framelits by Stephanie Barnard.  I would never have thought of doing this!!  This is the video I found. Below I is my card.  I found it a bit hard to take great pictures.  Might have to think about finding something to help hold these types of projects in the future.

This was a really quick and easy card and gave me a bit more room to play with.  I threw this one together as I watched the video, so the next one I'm going to have to put more thought into it. 

Here it is closed

 

Here it is with the first flap opened

 

 

Here it is fully opened

SUPPLIES:

SS: regals2stamp

INK: old olive, calypso coral, tuxedo black

CS: calypso coral, old olive, very vanilla and dsp

ACCESS:  pearls, calypso coral twine, regal stand-ups

 

 

Beautiful

Good morning! I had some time to create today and decided to use things I already had on my work desk.  I love the framelit standups by The Stamps of Life and I have them sitting right in front of me all the time to encourage me to use them.

I purchased this bee set quite a while ago and loved it on site.  I've used it for scrapbooking but never on a card.  I just needed to come up with a concept.  Once I started it just all came together!

The die cut Beautiful is from one of the card club kits I've received recently. I haven't had the chance to use the kit much but I love how she creates the word framelits with shadow dies as well. It makes the word just pop.

Supplies:

SS: hive4bees

INK: pumpkin pie, crushed curry, tuxedo black

CS: chocolate, sunset, cranberry, and buzz and bumble dsp from close to my heart

ACCESS: bee die set, beautiful die, antique studs, regal stand-ups/card framelits

It's been a long week for us here at my home.  Getting this much needed craft time is wonderful.  I am loving the inspiration over at Stampin' Royalty this week.  Such vibrant colors.  Perfect to perk you up during this cold, wintery time.

 

I also decided to use this weeks sketch from Freshly Made Sketches to inspire the layout. I have so many birthdays coming up that I really needed ideas to get my cards going.  These challenges helped me get one more closer to be done.

 

 

Here is the card I created

 

Supplies:

SS: candles4birthday, morecandles2stamp, birthday4subways

INK: smoky slate, island indigo, crushes curry, coastal cabana, tangerine tango

CS: tangerine tango, whisper white, crushed curry, coastal cabana

ACCESS: yellow/white twine, basic jewel rhinestones, label bracket punch, candle dies