Day at the Circus ATC

     On April 28th I went with my friends Lou Ann, Mary Ann and Pam to a SCS swap in Buffalo.  What a great day.  Two other friends, Diane and Jeannette were helping with the event.  With 83 people there it was a very well run day.  Great friends, great projects, great swaps, great prizes.....

     Well, this is my ATC swap.  I got the idea from the paper pack from Graphic 45 called Le Cirque.  Add in some Tim Holtz and wala....

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  Tim Holtz, SU Fabulous Phases

Paper:  SU Basic Black, Tim Holtz, Graphic 45

Ink:  Mmeento Tuxedo Black

Accessories:  Amuse eyelet, Yellow ribbon

Tool:  SU Tag Punches

     Tomorrow (hopefully) I'll have a birthday card that I made for Lou Ann.

IC337 L*O*V*E

     This is my first Splitcoast Inspiration Challenge.  I sure hope I did it right.  This week there's a link to an on-line store called Red Envelope and you pick something there that inspires a card.  Cool, huh?  So this is my inspiration for "L*O*V*E

   And this is what I came up with.

     I've been waiting to use those stamps and.......ta da.......there it was.  The PERFECT inspiration.

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  SU Letters of Love

Paper:  SU Cherry Cobbler & Whisper White

Ink:  SU Cherry Cobbler

Accessories:  Ribbon-Ribbon Carousel; Pearls-Zva;  Flower-Ben Franklin Craft Store Wedding Dept. 

Tools:  Spellbinders

OCCC Vintage Friend

     Well, with an hour to go before the deadline,  I finished my card for the "Our Creative Corner" Challenge.  It's a really great sketch and perfect to try out my SU Labels Framelits.  And I just LOVE my Melissa Francis paper.  I took a class she had last year at the CKC in Valley Forge, PA and she was GREAT!



SUPPLIES

Stamps:  SU Oval All

Paper:  Melissa Frances Attic Treasures; SU Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Ink:  SU Early Espresso and  Blushing Bride Markers and Crumb Cake for Sponging

Accessories:  Ribbon and Lace from my stash

Tools:  SU Oval & Scallop Oval Punches; SU Labels Framelits



A Thought

Splitcoast Double Whammy Challenge SC385 and CC375

I really had to dig into my dsp to find something with Navy, Orange and Light Blue, but I did it.  Basic Grey came through for me.  I also used two items that I got from two different SCS swaps (the buttons and twine).  And I had to do a little redo of the blue ribbon, which originally had pom-poms, but they just didn't look right.  Enter----scissors; exit---pom-poms.

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  SU Whimsical Words

Paper:  BasicGrey Picadilly; SU Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Pumpkin Pie

Ink:  SU Night of Navy

Accessories:  Trim, buttons, and twine

Tools:  Spellbinders; SU corner punch; SU oval punches

Grinning on the Inside

Ribbon Carousel's Gettin' Sketchy Challenge #RCC53



     Two challenges in two days.  Looks like I'm on a roll.  Debbie Carriere made an adorable sketch for this challenge from the Ribbon Carousel and I had to play.  The only thing that isn't a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) are the pearls.  I seem to have every color there is, except for gray.  My very good friend and fellow giggler Diane (aka Splitcoaststamper's own Cookiestamper) of http://papercookies.blogs.splitcoaststampers.com/ told me about coloring pearls or bling with copic markers and it worked great!  Thanks Diane.

SUPPLIES

Stamps:  Cloud 9 Design-Simple Thoughts, Laughter

Paper:  October Afternoon-Farmhouse; SU Going Gray, More Mustard, Very Vanilla

Ink:  SU Basic Black, More Mustard, Copic Marker C6

Accessories:  Recollections Pearls, Gray Ribbon

Tools:  Spellbinders Classic Rectangles and Deckled Rectangles; SU Flower Punch; MS Punch

The Wind of Heaven

IT'S MOJO MONDAY AND TIME FOR SKETCH #241

It's been awhile since I've done a horse card.  So welcome in the herd.  This is the first time I've stamped on twill before and I found that the hardest part was to cut the "V". 

Supplies

Stamps:  SU Wanted and Bareback

Paper:  SU Basic Black; The Paper Studio "Hee Yaw" dsp; Scrap drawer cream

Ink:  Memento Rick Cocoa

Accessories:  SU Twill; pop dots

Hardware:  Spellbinders; SU star punch

If you want to join in the fun visit Mojo Monday here.  You have until 5/20

Happy Mothers Day

     Wow!  It's been over 2 months since my last post.  I'm having a hard time remembering how to do this.   And as you can see my photography skills need to be sharpened up.  Actually, I was late to pick my Mom up for dinner and my craft table was such a mess I didn't have room for my little light tent, so I just took this among the mess.    But enough of that.  Today is Mothers Day and I made this for my wonderful Mom!  This card started with the pretty floral paper and everything just fell into place.

Supplies

Stamps:  SU-Well Scripted; Verve Hope Blooms

Paper:  SU- Whisper White, Peach Parfait, Poppy Parade; My Minds Eye- On the Bright Side;  Some blue paper I had in my stash.

Ink:  Color Box Wicked Black

Accessories:  Darice Bling

Tools:  SU Oval and Scalloped Oval Punches