Sweet N Sassy sponsoring Friday Sketchers

Hi there! What a week here for me. I have a doozy of a cold so I am very glad that I did this card earlier in the week when I was not feeling sick yet. The sketch this week from Friday sketchers is being sponsored by Sweet N Sassy stamps. So, one lucky participant in the challenge is going to receive 2 digis free by random drawing. I tend to really like their sketches and this week is no exception. The sketch and my sample are below.





I colored my adorable benjamin bunny image with copics and then went over the image at the end with my copics using light feathery strokes to simulate fur. I sponged on some baja ink behind him to create a shadow and then sewed around the edges.

This card was also created for the Verve Project parade and this month's theme is Fun with Flowers. What a great theme in time for the start of spring! So for my flowers...the dp, the primas, and the flower in the pot on the image.



Supplies:
digi image- Sweet N Sassy stamps Benjamin bunny
CS- Paper Temptress Neenah white and berrylicious, SU rust and dp
accessories- primas, white brads, sparkle brads, circle cutter, lace, copics

I hope you will be able to play along with this week's sketch. You can get all the info on the Friday sketchers blog.

Also, don't forget to check out the Verve Project Parade on the Verve blog. There are some great prizes being offered!

Color my mojo Monday

Good morning!! What an amazing sketch Julee has for you this week! I really enjoyed it and hope you will too. If you decide to play along it just might be worth your while because it is a contest week LOL. Once a month Julee offers your choice of a verve stamp set for the entries that are chosen the most mojolicious- there are going to be 7 winners for this contest so get your creative juices flowing. In the meantime let me help get you inspired hopefully. Here is this week's sketch and my sample:





I stamped the image and some extra flowers and colored them with copics. I accented the flowers with coal shimmerz and rhinestones in the centers. I then cut them out and popped them up over the first image.



Supplies
stamps- Verve stamps Because of You
cs- Paper Temptress heavenly ultrasmooth white and black metallic (on sale 25 % off during May), Bo Bunny dp
accessories- rhinestones, pearls, taffeta ribbon, corner rounder punch, coal shimmerz, pop dots, copics (RV10, RV11, BG 72, BG18)

You can find more awesome samples and the challenge info on the Mojo Monday blog post this week.

This card is also for a couple of other challenges too. It is my entry for the verve project parade this month which is the women in your life. It is also for the color Monday challenge which I host on Christian Papercrafts Magazine every Monday. Your colors this week are:

basic black, pink pirouette (light pink), baja breeze (blue-green), and optional celery (lime green)

Please see my challenge thread on cpcmag.com for more details.

Have a wonderful, blessed day!

Some company challenges

Hi there. I hope you all had a nice weekend. I was not able to do the challenge today on Splitcoast but I do have a couple of cards to share that I made this weekend. Time and computer problems have prevented me from posting them until now. This first card is for the hanna stamps weekly challenge. Check THIS out if you would like to play along.

Frances came up with an awesome sketch for us this week. I was originally going to use a Riley but I knew that the other DT members were using them so I wanted to do something different. I started out by using my coloring my image with my markers and punching them out with my Marvy punches. I paper pierced the scallops and went around them with a white gel pen. I ran my yellow strip through my cuttlebug and matted it. I stamped my sentiment on one of the tags that comes with the set and colored that image. I used my cropadile to set the eyelet and tied the ribbon through it. I used some scraps for the 2 red strips. I added some stickles to the presents.

Supplies:
stamps- perfect package from hanna stamps, sentiment SU season of joy
ink- palette noir, real red
CS- real red, olive, banana, white, dp- DCWV
accessories- organdy polka dot ribbon, copics, crop a dile, SU eyelets and brads, CB swiss dots, stickles, Marvy giga scallop, mega circle, white gel pen, paper piercer

The second card is for the verve challenges. The first is the Verve project parade which was to make an ATC. The second was the verve weekly challenge in which I incorporated the ATC into my card. The challenge was an inspiration challenge. It was so cool to be able to do that- a 2 for 1 deal LOL! Take a peek



I started out by stamping my scripture main image and then using my nesties to cut it out. I embossed it with the nesties and then sponged ink around it while the image was still in the die. I pierced a couple of rows beneath the image and added primas to the corner. Here is a closer view of the ATC


I then made a grid pattern on my white paper with a scor-pal scoring at 1 inch intervals both horizontally and vertically. I stamped my floral image in the center of each square and then stamped a smaller image in the intersections of the grid lines. I used a spica glitter pen in the orange centers. I tied my ribbon which a dyed using my ink pad around the center and attached the ATC over the top using pop dots. I really like how this came out and I really love the color combo.

Recipe:
stamps- verve plain jane scripture, verve thoughtful florals
ink- pumpkin pie, not quite navy, cool caribbean
CS- cool caribbean, not quite navy, pumpkin pie, white
accessories- scor-pal, paper piercer, primas, SU brads, spica glitter pen

thank you for stopping by!

Verve Project Parade

I made this card a couple days ago using Julee's mojo42 sketch for the Verve project parade. They are giving away a $15 verve gc to the winner which is drawn randomly. I don't own any Verve stamps so I am really hoping to win this so I can try them out.



My card measures 4.75" square so I cut my dp 4.5" square and then cut off 3/8" from one end to allow for the 1/8" space between sections. I stamped my main image in red on white and then stamped another flower in both saffron and red, cut them out, staggered them and layered them on top of the red flower using a pop dot. I also added a rhinestone in the center. The corner was embellished with 3 black brads. I tied one of my favorite ribbons around the card and adhered my image onto my card. I stamped the sentiment and double matted it and put it on my card to finish it off.

Supplies:
stamps- SU true friend, blossoms abound, and baroque motifs
ink- versafine onyx, saffron, real red
CS/paper- dp, saffron, black and white
accessories- black brads, double sided satin ribbon, red rhinestone

I am waiting to hear from artful inkables today because they are supposed to be announcing their new DT today. I am driving myself completely nuts waiting on this. I keep checking my email like every 5 minutes LOL. I will be glad when the waiting is over because for me this is torture!

Anyway, I will be back later with my weekly hanna challenge card. See ya later.