Hey Sugar

Hi all!  I have a card made for the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge – to be inspired by a photo (I took the colors of the photo).  Here’s what I came up with:

I stamped images from the Sugar Rush set, colored them with Copics and cut them out.  The gumdrop is edged in Stickles and the sentiment is from the same set.  I hand drew the grounding line and the speech lines.

This is also for The Shabby Tea Room – White with one color and Loves Rubberstamps – another inspiration picture (again I took the colors of the picture – white and green).  I hope you like it and TFL!

Boo! & Dies Storage Tip

Hi all!  I have another Fun Friday with Your Next Stamp post today!  Our theme all month has been Trick or Treat and again, I have both for you today!  My treat is up first:

I used Cute Ghost and the Jam Jar Globe stamp and also the matching Jam Jar Globe dies.  I was inspired by this FF post by fellow DT member Veronica where she did a Halloween card with the Jam Jar Globe set.  I stamped the jar on acetate and cut it out with the die.  It’s got a tiny bit of adhesive on the bottom where the lines are and a little on the top right under the jar lid.

The sketch is  FTL #209 from Clean & Simple Stamping and the 4 different polka dot papers are from the Doodlebug Haunted Manor paper pad.  I hand drew the line and the boo! stamps are from Close To My Heart.

And now here’s a little trick for storing your YNS dies: I keep mine in baseball card sheet protectors and keep them in the binder with my stamps.  [Sorry, forgot to take a pic of my stamps – they’re stored on hard plastic panels sold specially for storing cling stamps and they go into a 3 ring binder)]

Here’s what one page looks like:

As you can see, most dies just go straight into the pockets, but for the smaller ones, I use a business card size magnet to keep them from sliding around in the pockets and so I can grab them more easily.  You can also store your homemade die templates in the pocket with the die if it’s small enough (that’s the red bit behind the trees die), and finally, you can even stick your cling stamps right to the sheet in front of the matching die!  Very handy little trick that I hope will help you with your die storage.  TFL and don’t forget to check out the YNS Blog too see which other DT members are playing Fun Friday with me today!

Celebrate

Hi all!  I have a card today that was made using the current sketch from Retro Sketches:

The sentiment is from Sentiment Sampler and the patterned paper is MME’s Hootenanny.

This is also for Simon Says Stamp – Anything Goes and Dutch Dare – Clean & Simple.  I hope you like it and TFL!

Christmas Wreath

Hi all!  Today is the start of a new challenge over at the All That Scraps challenge blog.  Our theme for these next two weeks is Anything Goes – yay!  Here’s my card:

I used the Thankful For Fall set, but changed it up and made a Christmas card with the wreath stamp.  I just paper pieced the wreath with some paper from the MME 12 Days of Christmas paper pad from last year and I also used the C.C. Designs Cutters Acorn Set dies to cut extra acorns out of some different papers from the same pad and mounted them over the stamped acorns.  Having the dies makes it so easy to piece those little acorns – no fussy cutting!

I finished it off with a PTI ric-rac die and sentiment and some Christmas Trendy Twine.

We hope you’ll play along with us!  All the details are on the ATS Challenge Blog.  Just don’t forget to use a stamp that is sold in the ATS store!  TFL!

P.S. This is also for Cute Card Thursday - shaped cards.

Just swimming by…

Hi all!  I have another card for you today!  I really wanted to play along with the Some Odd Girl Gatefold challenge and it’s due today so that’s why I have another post:

And the inside:

I used the adorable MerMae and sentiments from Just Swimming By Mermaid and Happy Days Mermaid (happy fishy wishes) from Your Next Stamp.  MerMae was colored with Copics and I did just a touch of shading with a dark gray Prismacolor pencil.  The papers are from Echo Park’s For the Record 2 Documented paper pad and the twine is Denim from The Twinery.

This is also for the following challenges:

• Challenge Up Your Life – fantasy
• Allsorts – inspired by a song (I was inspired by “Under the Sea” from Disney’s Little Mermaid)
• MarkerPop – color something
• Stampin' for the Weekend – Feeling Floral

I hope you like it and TFL!

hugs

Hi all!  Today I have a card made for the Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge (color challenge - “sherbert”):

I took strips of each of the colors in the challenge and embossed them with different patterns, then tied them together with Timeless Twine at wonky angles for fun.  Finally, I finished it off with a sentiment from Sentiment Sampler stamped in white.  I hope you like it and TFL!

Celebrate Flower Doily

Hi all!  I have an almost entirely white card to share with you today:

I prettied up a silk hydrangea by covering it with glitter and topping it with a twine-tied button.  There’s also a little tag with the sentiment Celebrate from PTI’s Mixed Messages.  Then the flower is framed with the French Pastry Doily from Cheery Lynn Designs.  I put some glitter on the doily as well to tie it all together.

This is for Cheery Lynn Designs – Frame It, CASology – White and Lollipop Crafts - 2 or more punches or dies (doily and tag). I hope you like it and TFL!