World Cardmarking Day with OWH & SRM

For world card making car I participated in the Operation Write Home blog hop by creating these cards using SRM Stickers and sketches from the OWH site.  The sketches on the OWH site were so easy to follow!  They have all the measurements clearly on the sketch, so I simply picked my colors, cut, and quickly assembled which left me time to finish 3 cards in about 45 minutes.  

The first 2 were made with Sticker Sentiments - Thank You #51005

This last card used Fancy Sticker Sentiments - Thanks #55004

Pocket Sized Calendar

Check out my pocket sized calendar made from glassine bags featured on today's SRM Sticker's Blog

Thanks for looking!

Bee-Cause You're Special

Created for SCS Ways to Use It Challenge #443.  This was to inspired by honey, so I used a bee and flowers.... 2 major components in honey!!

For this card I used my Distress Markers again to watercolor the background.   First I scribbled on Ranger Watercolor Cardstock leaving an orange spot at the top where I knew there would be a "label" area for the sentiment after I embossed it with a Spellbinders embossing folder Floral Labels #4. 

The flowers are white Prima flowers sprayed brown/metallic gold with Glimmermist.  I stamped the flower centers and added decorative brads.  The bee is and sentiment are from DRS designs.

I trimmed the watercolor paper down to 4x5.25 so the kraft base card peeked through and added little black dots along the edges.  

Thanks for looking!

A Seamless Experience

Since trying out some of the new Tim Holtz distress markers a few weeks ago I've been kinda obsessed with anything Tim Holtz!  I was at Michael's over the weekend and scored this "Seamless Experience" set for $4.99.... so I was anxious to play with it for today's sketch challenge on SCS.

I used the Ranger Watercolor cardstock for the background.  This is the best watercolor paper I've ever used.  My favorite thing to do is just doodle on the paper, spritz with water, then let the color go where ever it wants to flow.  My first step was highlighting the sentiment and outlining the mannequin. 

The sketch called for a long strip across the bottom placed over a square, so I used an embossed piece of goldtone vellum for my square and stamped a ruler from the stamp set.  The ruler was done over a layer of gold Tim Holtz Distress paint which was spritzed with water, dried with a heat gun, then stamped.  

I also watercolored a piece of twill tape to match the card and stamped it with the zig zag stitching.  It's attached to the card with a safety pin.

Along the right edge I embossed with a chevron embossing folder then drew lines in between with the Distress Markers.  After spritzing with water the lines blurred nicely.

I think the ruler is my favorite part of this card, I just love the distressed look to it!  What is your favorite part?  

Thanks for looking!

Sweet Baby Card Portfolio

This project was made with a template from Kreate-A-Lope Box Templates.  The template is the Portfolio Box Template, which was super easy to make and easily fits 6 embellished cards and envelopes.  The nice thing about this portfolio is it only takes 1 sheet of 12x12 paper!   I ended up using a sheet from an old DCWV baby themed paper pack and coordinated the cards with some other sheets from the pack.

The front is simply embellished with a pinking shear circle layered over another die cut circle - both from Spellbinders.  The sentiment is a sticker from SRM Stickers.

The inside easily fits 3 cards and envelopes on each side.

I used a really cute piece of paper from the paper stack to line the inside of the portfolio.

Each of the cards was made with paper scraps and stickers from SRM Press.  There was no stamping on this project, so it was really quick and easy to put together.  The envelopes all have coordinating stickers as well.   I just love using their products!

Thanks for looking!  Which card is your favorite?  I think mine is the "Star is Born" card just because it's so simple.  Let me know what you think!

Splitcoaststampers Product Focus - MFT Blueprint dies

Check out the latest product focus review on Splitcoaststampers.  We had the chance to play with the Blueprint dies from My Favorite Things.  Here are some samples..... Check out the review and galleries here..... http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/resources/products/mftblueprints/

Thanks for looking!  Let me know which one is your favorite!

Color challenge of Bombshell Stamps

I'm Ms. July for Bombshell Stamps and am hosting a color challenge of their blog.  The colors are red, white and blue.  Check out the details here...

 http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/2013/07/ms-julys-challenge.html

Quick July 4th card

Another quick and easy card to celebrate the 4th of July! This card was made with the star dies from My Favorite Things Blueprint die set #4.  The black background and the strip for the sentiment are from blueprint set #1.  These dies make it so easy to put together a card without thing too hard about measurements and which dies to combine.  MFT already thought that our for you!

I used a sentiment sticker from SRM stickers on the die cut ribbon strip and then added 2 strips of border stickers above and below. 

Thanks for looking!

July 4th projects

I made a few cute little July 4th projects using stickers from SRM stickers.  They have lots of great stickers for almost any occasion and they're super easy to use.  The dies are all from My Favorite Things, they are called "Blueprints" and come with a who,e bunch of dies to create a card.  I really love 'em!

The first project is a little notepad with matching pencils.  I removed the cover, decorated the front then retreaded the wire back through so the whole front is decorated.  The sentiment and mini pennants are from SRM, as are the cute pencils.  

I have a couple more patriotic projects coming up in the next couple of days. Let me know what you think. Thanks for looking!

A Little Sunshine from SRM

This slider card was made from a template from Action Cards... it comes in a set of different templates, and all of them move in some way.  They are plastic and you simply trace, cut, fold and glue. Not measuring required!    I used my stickers from SRM as an inspiration for this card, and since today is officially the first day of summer!  The set is called "Summer" and features lots of cute saying which are perfect for warm weather celebrations and scrapbooking.

Once the card slides open it reveals the sentiment "Life is Good" and also provides a spot for your own personal note.  

Thanks for looking!  Let me know what you think.

Bombshell Stamps Banner Blog Hop

This months blog hop focus is on banners. Luckily my favorite set "Rose's Portrait" has a sweet little banner with a rose on it which made it perfect for this challenge!  I used the inspiration from Ms. May's challenge for my colors and textures, with the little addition of the rose/coral paper.  To get as much texture as possible I used 2 different cuttlebug embossing folders and embossed kraft core paper for additional contrast.  The roses were all painted with pink glitter stickles. 

Thanks for looking and please visit the rest of the hop below!

Your next stop on the hop is  Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/

Here's the full Hump Day Hop list

Bombshell Blog: http://bombshellstamps.blogspot.com/
Alison: http://alisonsrandomthoughts.blogspot.com/
Jodi: http://www.elamdesign33.blogspot.com/
Marnie: http://www.papertivity.blogspot.com
Glittery Katie: http://ferrishyn-frontier.blogspot.com
Kim: http://www.craftypinkanchor.blogspot.com
Michelle: http://twisted-chick.blogspot.com/ YOU ARE HERE

Next on the hop....... Alaine: http://missalaineousmosaics.blogspot.com/
Monika: http://paperchrome.blogspot.com/
Teresa: http://www.thetamarisk.blogspot.com
Sharon: http://sharonshowcase.blogspot.com/
Kelli: http://www.cajunstampingqueen.blogspot.com
Kathi: http://kathstales.blogspot.com

SCS CAS Design Team Entry

This week is the design team search in SCS. Clean and simple always used to be a problem for me, but since I've been back from my stamping hiatus I've found CAS design to be much easier. For this challenge Denise used the Macy's cosmetic counter as a starting point, so instead of makeup we needed to use paint on our cards. It could be water colors, acrylics, re-inkers, wet embossing etc.... I used ink pads for my source of color. I have waxed paper palette paper which I stamped on, then used my paintbrush and watercolor paper to paint the background with ombré stripes. The cake was also colored with the re-inkers then coated with clear embossing fluid.

Take a look and SCS and leave a little love if you would. Thanks!

My card - click here

A Busy day of Stamping

I spent the whole day stamping today. It felt great! I've been participating in the SCS Love Fest challenges and wanted to catch up on all the ones I missed over the past week. Here are my 7 challenge cards, let me know which are your favorites.