Love

I'm just thrilled with how this card turned out.... so glad I made four of them to send to Operation Write Sketch Frenzy Friday posted today and mixed that with the newest challenge from Crop Chocolate's Cocoa Creators for Love/Wedding/Anniversary/Honeymoon/etc.
Home! I started with the current sketch from

I took a 5.25"x4" piece of white cardstock

added Queen & Co Washi Tape on either side of Tim Holtz butterfly tape

next I embossed using the Swirls folder from Provo Craft

The banner is chipboard from CloseToMyHeart

Alpha Stamps are Felicity from CloseToMyHeart along with Black Ink

Flower Die is from Spellbinders Donna-Salazar Carnation Creations using very old Creative Memories Black cardstock

White fabric flowers from Stampin' Up

Black Brad from Hobby Lobby

Gesso... my new friend

I have been wanting to play with this stuff for so long.... yesterday I finally picked some up using Hobby Lobby's 40% off coupon!  Then I started picking the brain of my friend Michele, she calmed my nervousness and got me going.

I made this to enter in Unity Stamp Co.'s Friends with Flair

Background & Tag Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. KOTM the Vintage Touch

Butterfly Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. KOTM Summer Love

Liquitex Gesso

Inks - CloseToMyHeart Sorbet, Sunset & Juniper

Grey Cardstock - Stampin' Up

Ribbon - wired edged from His & Hers (Hobby Lobby)

Well, how did I do?

happy everything

After Blog Hopping with Paper Haus on Day one I was following three new-to-me blogs, one of them Scrap It Girl has a challenge... well, you know me....  Scrap It Girl's Challenge for June is Use Your Dies, no problem but first I had to dust them off, they are sorely ignored



Cardbase - Stampin' Up

Floral Print - not real sure what brand it is but I do know I got it at Signed Sealed Delivered Warehouse where they have several in-house brands such as 7 Gypsies, Canvas Corp, Tattered Angles, and more










Greens & Browns Cardstock - really old Creative Memories (trying my hardest to use this stuff up)

Leaf Die - Spellbinders Donna-Salazar Rose Creations

Distressed Stickles in Scattered Straw, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters







Birdhouse Die - Die-Namics Homespun Bird House


Printed Paper for Bird's body - S.E.I. (I love this paper so I'm very stingy with it)

Solid Cardstock for Wing - CloseToMyHeart Sorbet

Distress Ink on Wing - CloseToMyHeart Sorbet

Bird's Eye - Liquid Pearls in Dark Chocolate

Sentiment Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Happy Everything

Ink - Tim Holtz Walnut Stain

very special Thank You

Operation Write Home's Midweek Throwdown is Water... which works out great since I got this fantastic Plate of Rubber from VivaLasVegas Stamps & hadn't used the Light House yet

For the Sky I used some Vellum but didn't like how it looked so I layered it twice, the smeared Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue which I think looks kinda cool

The water is a different Vellum that has little reflective flecks in it which I topped off with some Stickles in Waterfall.

Lighthouse Stamp is from VivaLasVegas Stamp Plate #923 stamped in Memento Cocoa Brown

Sentiment is also from VLV Stamps but this time a grab bag back when I won a pound of rubber, which I stamped in the same Pearlescent Sky Blue.

White lines I drew by hand using Jelly Roll pen.

Twine from The Twinery

Spark

one of my scrappy friends, Miwa, is hosting a challenge over on 2 Broke Girls to fussy cut a flourish & use it on a creation. I paired it up with the current color combo from Inkspirational Challenges #23 and Love to Scrap's Challenge#7 to Rubber Stamp.  I'm so happy with how it turned out too!

Lightbulb Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Lightbulb Moment

Stamped with VersaMark, embossed with Zing in Sliver

Sentiment Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Undeniably You

Stamped with Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick

Flourish Stamp - Unity Stamp Co. Believe in Fairytales

Stamped with Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick, CloseToMyHeart Sunset & Sunkiss Yellow

Background Paper - Creative Memories Yellow Collection (very old)

Lightbulb colored with Copic Markers

Bling from CloseToMyHeart

Celebrate LIFE

oh this card turned out SO much better than I'd hoped for... and I made SIX of them for Operation Write Home, so very glad I did that!

Have you ever started a card with just a small idea that grows & grows & suddenly you're like "whoa, I made that?!" yep, that happened yesterday when I made this bad boy

I'm entering it in Crop Chocolate's Cocoa Creators Challenge 

So many supplies this time.....
*UmWowStudio Confetti Stars embossed with Zing in Powder using VersaMark
*I used an UmWowStudio Layered Cloud dipped in Pigment ink as a stamp then embossed it with Zing in White
*background is a handcut cloud colored using Tim Holtz Stormy Sky
*Stamp Set from Unity Stamp Co Celebrate LIVE UP with Memento in London Fog (Gray) stamped on card base & on Cranberry cardstock from CloseToMyHeart and fussy cut
*tiny bling from CloseToMyHeart
*large bling from Pebbles
*black ink Tim Holtz Black Soot
*Cloud detailing Viva Pearlen pen White Transparent

BOOO

so this one is a little different for me as far as a card is concerned since it looks more like one of my scrapbook layouts. I created this using the current month's sketch over on UmWowStudio's for June 2013... the first!

Screen & Hexagon-UmWowStudio

Spray Tim Holtz Adirondack Color Wash in Sunset Orange

Black Ink-Tim Holtz Black Soot

Kitty Stamp-VivaLasVegas Leaping Kitten

Hexagon Stamp-CMTH Wicked; Bat Stamp-CTMH Beware

Grey Ink-Tim Holtz Pumice Stone

Washi Tape from Queen & Co.

Printed Papers from Echo Park The Apothecary Emporium 6x6 pad; Sticky Stitches

"Booo" Basic Grey Alpha

Ghost Brads-Making Memories