Sketch Challenge 16: Back in the Saddle

I got my card "mojo" workin' again this week on Wednesday. Tried out my new Stampin' Up Fifth Avenue Floral stamps for "love you" cards and I do believe they are my favorite stamp set - very classic, clean look (shoulda taken a picture.. next time)

Last week I did a green birthday card that was pretty feminine so took a tiny bit of license with this week's sketch, again using my favorite color in a different tone. I used up some Three Birds paper I had laying around and came up with a more generic card that could probably also be used for a "guy" birthday card. I used Stampendous "Two You" birthday stamp (set of 3 on sale at Michael's this morning for a dollar!)and Technique Tuesday "Flea Market Finds" for the swirls.. just simple, nothing fancy.

Have a great weekend, everyone! :)

Sketch Challenge 16

Thanks for this great sketch! It's one that a lot of us have probably used in one version or another at some point, but it's great to see it as one of our challenge sketches because it's so versatile!

Mom's Day Cards: A Dog, A Trash Can and a Creative Hubby!

Okay so Rio the wonder dog is famous (or infamous) for his trash surfing so we do have to put the kitchen can in the bathroom and shut the door -- ::sigh:: otherwise I'm cleaning up all kinds of mess in the hall, on the day bed, etc. all the while muttering the obligatory "bad dog" every 2-3 minutes to the already contrite 65 pound black mass of hair huddled on the far end of the couch trying very hard to look invisible.

With that history in mind, I absolutely could not resist sharing this amazing card created by my hubby Steve without, I might add, the aid of the leery Rio dog who could not be lured into the bathroom even with his favorite kibbles to participate in a staged photo op with a messy trash can. Steve found this card somewhere and added his own picture inside = I know I'm prejudiced but I think it's very creative and hilarious...

"I'll Take 'make 2 cards in 3 minutes," Alex...."

So I was cleaning up the mess I made getting ready for the scrapbook yard sale (netted $119 for spending money at CKC!) and came across two prefolded cards and had a bunch of scraps and punches nearby.. A little glue, a few cuts and a quick stamp and... Voila! Two cards in 3 minutes.... yea, yea, they're identical but it doesn't take much......and they are so appreciated :)

Color challenge: Perfect Timing

So the challenge is make a card using your favorite colors... some of which are greens (olives, lime), brown, pink (with brown or light blue) and soft corals, blues = the "tropical stuff." And what to my wondering eyes did appear at Stamp Club but a card using two of these colors that I absolutely love, love and will use again and again for many different occasions - thinking OpWriteHome "miss you," anniversary you," birthday, "thinking of you" .... The stamp is a new Stampin' Up watercolor floral, the ink is Stampin' Up olive, which I immediately ordered! I love how the front of the card is torn (I would distress a bit as well) and then the inside cream insert is also stamped.

Measured and remeasured and.... sketch 15

I "think" I got the measurements wrong when I made this card and after busy a.m. at stamp club and then slogging around in 90 deg. heat to get groceries I was too lazy, I admit it, to turn on the computer to see what they were "exactly." So anyway, this is my interpretation of Sketch Challenge No. 15 using craft paper for the base, white Bazill texture for the 4-1/2" strip (doesn't show up too well...) and some Stampin' Up pink grograin ribbon for the other "strip". The rose is from a stamp set I love called Fifth Ave. Floral!