Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge

This weeks challenge over at Tuesday Morning Sketches was lots of fun.
An added twist to the challenge was to make the card Monochromatic. Well that just calls out black and white to me.
I first took this Northwoods Rubber Stamp and stamped it on white PTI paper. I then cut it in 1 inch squares. I added a 1 1/8" border of PTI black to each square. I adhered these to a white swiss dotted embossed card stock. I then stamped the bench again and added it to the top of the card.
This was my take on the challenge. Thanks again to Tuesday Morning Sketches for always coming up with fun sketches.

Just Us Girls Challenge

Today I found a challenge that I just loved. I always like trying new techniques and I found "Just Us Girls" Challenge #127 Faux Embossing. What a fun technique this turned out to be.
I was fascinated with this challenge and even went to Splitcoast Stampers to see the TUTORIAL. I am in a challenge group also and they picked this image for the month of March. It is called "CHANGITO Cha Cha". I thought it would make a perfect wedding card.
So thanks to Just Us Girls for providing a great challenge.

More Christmas in March

Here is another Christmas Card that made this weekend. This was another challenge card. The challenge for this card was to make a square card, use pink and add bling. I used Stampin Up "Christmas Cardinal" stamp set. One of my favorite Christmas sets.

Tuesday Morning Sketches

I can't believe that I am making Christmas cards in March but I am in a challenge group and our goal was to make one card a week.

Over at Tuesday Morning Sketches they have this sketch challenge which I decided to incorporate my Christmas card with.
This is the card I came up with. The challenge was to use a snowman and the color purple. Turned out to be not quite the typical Christmas card but I love it. I used the stamp set Frosty from Stampin Up.
Check back tomorrow because I have 6 more Christmas cards to post.

More Rainy Boots

Have I said how much I love this digital set from Two Paper Divas? I am having so much fun with these boots. This would be the design and color I would pick for myself. I love the purple and blue together. I stamped and punched out flowers with coordinating papers and added a doily and a cute border.

I can't wait to see what else I can do with this set.

Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge

I have a new favorite digital set from Two Paper Divas. It is called rainy days. I have always loved the images of Rain Boots. Must be because I would just love to have a pair. I think they are all the rage right now. Who knows, maybe I will get myself a pair.

To come up with this card, I went to Tuesday Morning Sketches for some inspiration. They always do the greatest Sketch Challenges. This is what the sketch looks like.

So I pulled out my favorite designer paper of the day "A Beautiful Life" by My Mind's Eye. I just love these colors in this set. A little beyond my normal pink and brown. I printed the boots, sentiment and puddle on the colored paper and then cut them out. This is my version of the challenge above.
I have more projects planned to be sure and check back. I think you will see how much I love these boots. Hope you don't get tired of seeing them.

Have a great week!

Liebster Blog

Liebster Blog

I was very honored to receive this award from Linda, one of my Splitcoast Stamper Friends. We were lucky enough to meet in KC when we both took Suzanne Deans copics class. Linda is one of the nicest people you will ever meet. Liebster in German means "dearest" and the idea of the Liebster Blog Award is to spread the love from on small blog under 200 followers to other small blogs which helps to spread knowledge and readership. Thank you Linda for thinking of me and for sending me the honor. I truly enjoy our friendship and I feel very fortunate to have met such wonderful people through SCS.

To accept the award, you must:

1) Link back to the person who gave it and thank them for thinking of you.

2) Post the award to your blog.

3) Give the award to 5 bloggers (with less than 200 followers) that you appreciate and value.

4) Leave a comment on the blogs of the five people you have chosen to let them know.

So now I would like to pass on the award - this was not easy as there are so many blogs I follow and admire but I did have to knock out all of those with over 200 followers (which did help!). In the end I picked the following blogs, listed in no particular idea

Vickie
Oliva
Keva

Kathy

Imke