a little hello

Good Morning!

Tuesday Morning Sketches has posted their sketch for this week.  Just like yesterday, I loved the sketch and how well (I think anyways! lol) my card came together.

The sketch, with a floral twist...

My take on the sketch...

and a close up...

You are a joy to me!

Good Morning!

Mojo Monday posted their sketch this morning.  I looked at the sketch and knew what papers I wanted to use and the whole card came together in 10 minutes.  What's more... I even liked it!  I hope that means that since today got off to a good start, the whole week will be so much better than last week.

The sketch...

My take on it....

My spellbinders and new verve stamps....

I've commented before that I am not a stamper, that in fact I stink at it.  Well I received a set of Verve stamps a few weeks ago and I LOVE them!!  Every single time I've stamped with them they have turned out great.  I just wanted to mention that incase someone else has the same problem with stamping that I did/do.  :)

Have an awesome week!

pink and brown card

Happy Mother's Day!
I spent my morning playing in my craft room.  I took the sketch from StuckOnUSketches and turned it into a card sketch.
The sketch...

My take on it...

A detail photo and the inside...

kind words

Good Morning!

Tuesday Morning has another great sketch this week!

My take on it.....

Wishing you the best...

Good Morning!
One of my favorite sketch/challenge sites, StuckOnUSketches posted their card sketch.  Check out what their awesome DT has done with the sketch!

My take on their sketch...

Mother's Day card

Good Morning!

I played along with Mojo Monday and SOUS today, making a Mother's Day Card.   SOUS's die cut challenge was to use the word Mom or Mother and Mojo Monday was the following sketch....

I actually made 2 cards with this sketch, the 1st one following both challenges, the 2nd one just for fun...

Dry Embossing

Good Morning!
I've been looking through older blog posts over at Scrapbook and Cards Today magazine and found an interesting dry embossing technique here.  I've used my embossing folders on a lot of cards over the past few years, however I never thought to do this!

I started out using my spellbinders butterfly die.  I ran it through my big kick and then used a white gel pen to do the stenciling.

 Using my xyron, I attached 3 butterflies to another piece of patterned paper.

I ran that through my big kick to emboss it.

I used my liquid pearls to embellish the butterfly bodies.  I used my MS punch around the page on another piece of paper.  (Ignore the few mistakes, I just couldn't force myself to make Trouble get off my lap!)

I also tried using another embossing folder, although I didn't care for this card as much as the first one.