End of the Week

The end of the week is almost here. It has been so nice to have weather that allows you to be outside some during the week. I love watching things come "alive" in the spring time.

I wanted to post my card for Wednesday's sketch challenge. It was really a fun sketch to work on.

 I called  my card "Sending Some Sunshine". The yellow made me think of the sunshine and the warmth of spring. The flower is made from the yellow polka dot designer paper and a stamp from Stampin' Up's Flower Shop set. Black makes a great accent color with any pastel and it worked perfectly with the yellow.

Now for my "card in a box". The first one never got past the assembly stage. I scored one of the lines incorrectly so it would not fold properly. The next one worked well and I was quite pleased with the way it turned out. Wednesday the idea of making one for a lady in our Parkinson's Support Group came to mind. Helen has been in a senior living home for several months now because she was no longer able to live by herself. I wanted to go see her, and when I went, I wanted to take her a card that I had made. This is the card that I took to her this afternoon. There are so many instructions on peoples blogs that I will not go into those details. These cards are really a lot of fun to make. They each turn out a little bit differently. I am looking forward to making another one in the near future.

CAS267--Primrose Petal Flower

Today's CAS challenge was to use "dry embossing" on our card. This is a favorite addition of mine. I love embossing folders and I use them often. This is my card.

Last night I was working on a project. There were some leftovers lying around my workspaces this morning. There was a quarter sheet of card stock (SU Primrose Petals), a flower made with SU's stamp set "Flower Shop" and some greenry and twigs. This is the end result. I used SU's embossing folder "Fancy Fan"  which I just got. I punched the scalloped circle and the little center flower from the Primrose Petal card stock before adding the top embossed piece of white card stock. I didn't have any of the matching ribbon but I did have a piece of cardstock left that, when straightened, was 3/8" wide. I used a white gel pen to add the line down the middle. I think it worked well.

May you be blessed today.
Dianne

SC482

A few days late but I wanted to post my card for Wednesday's sketch challenge. I picked out all the papers right after breakfast on Wednesday but it took me all day to get my card made. I could not decide what went where. Oh my, how many decisions there are to making one card. I used SU Island Indigo card stock for the base. Also used SU Baja Breeze and Cajan Craze along with two designer series paper. The stamp was from the SU stamp set "Punch Bunch".

In Celebration of Spring

I just finished another set of cards using the "Blessed Easter" stamp by Stampin' Up. They are all similar but different. I used one piece of designer card stock for the front of all the cards, but each set of tulips is sightly different. All of the tulips were colored with Primsa color pencils and Gamsol. On three of the cards I used seam binding that I dyed using sprays that I made with So Saffron and Rose Red re-inkers.

CAS266 -- Let the Birds Sing

The sun is shining. The temperature is to climb into the 50's this afternoon. I am not a real baseball fan, but it is opening day for the Tigers in Detroit. I can see the tops of my crocuses, daffodils and tulips. "This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it."

Today's CAS challenge was a color challenge. We were to use 3 or more colors from this Design Seeds color palette. What beautiful colors. They make on think of "bluebirds". The option to the challenge was to make a card with a bird theme.

Since I need to add to my supply of mascaline cards, this is the card that I created.

I used Stampin' UP stamp sets "Serene Silhouettes" and "Simply Sketched". The card stock I chose was Stampin' Up's Crumb Cake and Brocade Blue (retired). The stripped designer paper was from my scrap box. My ink was Memento Luxe in Espresso Truffle. This is a new pigment ink from Memento. Love it! I think that the stripped paper contains the 3 colors that I needed and more.

Cards This Week

Sharing the cards I have made this week--

CAS 265 at SCS Monday 24, 2014

Made using Rubber Stamp Tapestry set "Cherry Blossoms"

Just for fun--I cased a card I saw on Pinterest

This was my inspiration 

Love flowers and love this stamp set!

SC481

I want to get my card posted for today's SCS sketch challenge. It was a fun sketch to work with, but it sure did cause me problems. After choosing the stamp I wanted to use, I colored it with markers and did my stamping. The image was OK but could have been better. I turned the paper over, recolored the stamp and stamped again. This one was better. I stamped the greeting and went to cut the image out. Well, I cut the first image out which was not the best one. I started the process over with a new piece of paper. When I cut the image out, the greeting was so crooked that I tossed the piece in the wastebasket. The fourth time, everything worked perfectly. Now my card is finished!

I used the Stampin' Up set called "Thoughts & Prayers". I colored the stamp with markers--Perfect Plum and Pear Pizzazz. I used SU Perfect Plum card stock with white. The little green piece came from my scrap box. It worked perfectly.

A Gift

Today has started out rather gloomy, but the forecast is for some sun this afternoon. It seems that on sunny days, my husband always thanks the Lord for "the sunshine that cheers our hearts and warms our world".

Last Wednesday, I made a card for the sketch challenge -- SC479. I enjoyed making it so much that I decided to make a set with a matching box. I just used different colors and three different sentiments. It is now a gift waiting to be given.

SC480

Today's sketch challenge looked easy, but its given me trouble. There seemed to be a lot of distractions  in my life today. Well, I finally got my card finished and ready to post. I think maybe the black made too much of a contrast. I was hoping that it would look more like stained glass. It didn't turn out like I wanted it to. Maybe I can try again at a later time.

Everyday Enchantment -- Mojo337

I decided to try making a card using the sketch from Mojo Monday posted on March 17, 2014.  I studied the sketch for a while and remembered some pieces of DSP that were laying on my work table from another project that I had worked on. There were two pieces that were almost the exact size that I needed. I had just gotten a new package of SU Calypso Coral card stock last week and that was going to make the perfect card base. I decided to use green as the accent color--found some SU Lucky Limeade card stock. WOW! I was pleased at how quickly things were coming together. Now I just needed to come up with a focal image. There was a little piece of Very Vanilla card stock that was the perfect size. I used the birthday sentiment from the SU stamp set "Simply Sketched" stamped in SU Calypso Coral ink. I wanted to add a flower, but it needed to be a rather large one. I thought of the die from Cheery Lynn Designs called "Shasta Daisy". That would work perfectly. I cut it out using SU Crisp Cantaloupe card stock, sponged the edges with Calypso Coral ink, did a little shaping, glued it all together, added a yellow center with a yellow brad. Finished! I enjoyed my time working on the card. I look forward to sharing it with a friend one of these days.