ABC Keep It Simple

Is it time to panic yet? There is so much still to do before Christmas day! At least this weeks ABC challenge is simple! K is for Keep it Simple.

Supplies Used:

Papertrey Ink: Take Three Winter stamp set

Sizzix Flourish folder

SU Real Red Grosgrain ribbon, Real Red Ink

Have a wonderful Christmas!

Heidi

Critter Sketch Challenge # 25-Sketch + 2 Ribbons

It's a new month and that means a new sponsor for the Critter Sketch Challenge Blog. This month we are being sponsored by LimeLIGHT Papercrafts. This week our challenge will be a sketch challenge with the requirement to use a minimum of 2 different ribbons. I am using an image from our July Sponsor, Robyn's Fetish.  I am counting my at least two ribbons as the tear drop lace and the simple chartuse polka dot ribbon!

Supplies Used:

Stamps: Robyn's Fetish, PTI Sentiment

Ink: Copic Markers

Cardstock: SU Ruby Red, PTI Simply Chartruse

Paper: Basic Grey Olivia

Accessories: Basic Grey Opaline Pearls, Tear Drop Lace and flower charm from stampandcreate.com, Simply Chartuse Polka Dot Ribbon and Felt, Large Scallop Die, eyelet border die all from PTI, Oval punches and scallop oval punch all from SU.

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Heidi

Sketch Saturday

Here is my entry for this week's Sketch Saturday Challenge # 115.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink-Up,Up & Away
Ink: SU Choc Chip, Tangerine Tango, Crushed Curry, Baja Breeze,, Close to Cocoa, Papertrey Ink Chai & Camomile Vintage ink
Cardstock: SU Choc Chip, Tangerine Tango
Paper: Webster Pages
Accessories: Felt-Thimble Creek Quilt Shop, Papertrey Ink Dies: Medium Scallop, eyelet lace border, Up, Up & Away Die, Buttons-Denami Designs, SU Linen Thread

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Heidi

Papertrey May Blog Hop Challenge

Welcome Papertrey Ink Blog Hoppers. Here is my creation using FELT.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Inside and Out: Thank You
Ink: Simply Chartreuse
Cardstock: SU Kiwi Kiss, Baja Breeze, PTI Stampers Choice White
Paper: Beautiful Blooms
Accessories: Simply Chartreuse felt, Vintage Cream Felt, Papertrey Ink Medium Scallop Die, Beautiful Blooms II Dies # 2 & # 3, Mat Stack 2 Die, Pure Poppy Buttons, Pure Poppy Ribbon, White DMC Floss, Clear Embossing Powder. The Red felt is from my local Brick and Mortar Quilting Store.

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Heidi

Critter Challenge Monday

Happy week before Memorial Day Weekend. To me this means the start of summer. HA, I am still waiting for Spring to show up. That doesn't stop me from making spring time cards. Here is my card for this weeks Critter Sketch Challenge #15. It's a Sketch Challenge.



Supplies Used:
Stamps: Stampavie, Papertrey Ink Delightful Dahlia Sentiment
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Cardstock: Always Artichoke
Paper: Basic Grey Koshi
Accessories: Petite Oval Nestabilities, SU Small Oval, Oval, Scallop Oval Punches, Ribbon from Joann's.

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Heidi

Life is a Dream

There is a great new paper company out there called Echo Park. My local Brick and Mortar Scrapbook shop is carrying Echo Park's first new release called Sweet Summertime. I have seen it popping up in lots of on-line stores too! Here is my first card using this line. I made this card for the Friday Sketchers challenge #103.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Unity Birdie Inspiration
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Tangerine Tango
Cardstock: Stampin Up Tangerine Tango, Baja Breeze
Paper: Echo Park Sweet Summertime
Accessories: Felt -My Favorite Things, Papertrey Ink Scallop, Butterfly, and Flower Dies, Nestabilities Labels 11. Basic Grey Buttons

High Hope Challenge

This week's High Hopes Challenge is being hosted by Sirpa. Her challenge this week is to create a baby card or a card for a young child. I thought I had this stamp in my collection, but alas I didn't. I placed an urgent order with Lacey over at Stamp and Create. She was terrific and shipped my order on Monday, and it arrived on Wednesday. Phewww, enough time for me to stamp, colour, and make my card.

The paper is from Martha Stewart Baby Boy mini paper pad I got from Michaels. I also got myself an i-top Tool by Imaginisce. Ahhhh, I love making embellishments that match the card. I used three different papers. I used one with stars to match the stamp, a polka dot design and then a piece with cute elephant and button circles. I used the small i-top paper puncher, punched some of button circles and made them brads! I nestled the brads into photo corner pieces I made with a Stampin' Up punch. The ribbon is my wonder find from Target. You cant really see it in my photo, but I used white DMC floss and attached a baby footprints charm that Lacey included with my order! (Thanks Lacey)




Supplies Used:
Stamps: High Hopes Bedtime Bear, Greeting: Papertrey Ink
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Card Stock: Stampin Up Sage Shadow, Barely Banana
Paper: Martha Stewart Baby Boy
Accessories: i-Top Tool, i-top small paper punch, small i-top brads, Stampin Up photo corner punch, small oval punch, large oval punch, scallop oval punch, Ribbon-Target, baby footprints charm-stamp and create

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Critter Challenge #14

This weeks Critter Challenge is a sketch only challenge. It's still May, so the challenge is being sponsored by Doodle Dragon Studios.

Here is the sketch

Here is my take on the sketch.



I flipped it 90 degrees. One of my cousin's wife just had her second baby. My cousin likes VWs so I really wanted to use the Papertrey Ink Enjoy the Ride stamp set and corresponding Die for a card for the young family. I love the vintage look of the Lullaby Lane Webster Pages. I wanted to make sure you could see the fun detail of the paper. Mainly, I wanted to highlight the pram on the bottom lower right. The middle piece of paper has really cute nursury/ children toys. I love the train, rocking horse, tricycle and ducks. The base square of the car is cream and white alphabet blocks. I used the Ric Rac Die from Papertrey Ink to cut vintage cream felt, also from Papertrey Ink. Let me tell you, the felt is so soft and the die cut it so beautifully. It was like a hot knife cutting butter! Finally, I stitched some Basic Grey Buttons onto the card with SU Linen Thread.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink: Enjoy the Ride
Ink: SU Baja Breeze, Soft Suede
Cardstock: SU Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss
Paper: Webster Pages Lullaby Lane
Accessories: Papertrey Ink Ric Rac Die, Enjoy the Ride Die, Papertrey Ink felt, Basic Grey Buttons, SU Linen Thread

Thanks for visiting! Since this is my weekly Critter Challenge blog entry, I'd like to do a special shout out to the Critter Challenge Design Team Members. You guys do such an awesome job leaving comments. I really do appreciate you taking the time to look at my cards and leaving such kind words!

Heidi

Friday Sketchers Challenge #102

I made this little cutie for a cousins birthday and for this week's Friday Sketchers Challenge #102. I used paper from the new Cosmo Cricket DeLovely Mini Deck. Since Stampin Up released their new Colour Revolution, I seem to be making it a point to use colours that are retiring. That way I know if I need to stock up before they disappear.



Supplies Used:
Stamps: The Greeting Farm Wild Sprout Dahlia, Papertrey Ink Birthday Basics
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Cardstock: Stampin' Up Pink Passion, Yoyo Yellow
Paper: Cosmo Cricket DeLovely
Accessories: May Arts Webbed Weave Ribbon, Denami Designs Buttons-Tutti Fruiti

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Heidi

Cute Card Thursday & Friday Sketchers

I love the Masculine Motif stamp set from Papertrey ink. I think it will become my go to stamp set for ANY masculine card. The sketch for the card comes from the Friday Sketcher's blog and the masculine theme is from the Cute Card Thursday Blog.



Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink Masculine Motifs
Ink: SU Tangerine Tango
Cardstock: Gina K Pure Luxury White
Paper: Papertrey Ink-Dotti Biscotti

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Heidi

Sketch Saturday

This is my second card using the new papertrey ink's Enjoy the Ride stamp set and coordinating die. Check out the first one here. I think the car is manly enough for men and girly enough for the ladies. I love how the "Over the Hill" sentiment adds a little bit of humour without being over the top. I chose to use the sketch from the Sketch Saturday Challenge #100 to help create my card.


Supplies Used:
Stamps:Papertrey Ink Enjoy the Ride, Birthday Basics
Ink: SU Soft Suede, Wild Wasabi
Card Stock: SU Kraft, Wild Wasabi, Barely Banana
Paper: Papertrey Ink Dotti Biscotti
Accessories: Papertrey Ink Car Die, Basic Grey White Brads, SU Wild Wasabi Ribbon, SU Rhinestone Brads

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Heidi

Friday Sketchers #99

This week's Friday Sketchers Challenge is being sponsored by Simon Say Stamp. The sketch Host Carole provided a cute sketch. I decided to make a card for my cousin who is expecting her first baby. I used paper from Basic Grey's new Capella line. I punched two edges with a Stampin up edge punch andthen sponged all of the edges with Stampin Up Soft Suede. The base is Soft Suede and Blush Blossom. Stampin' Up's Blush Blossom will be retiring this year, along with several other colours. The image is from Papertrey Ink Enjoy the Ride set. It is a cute versitile set that has a companion die. The flowers were created using papertrey ink's Blossom dies and white tissue paper. I used Blush Blossom reinker and watered it down and misted it onto the flowers. I then sponged some of the reinker onto the edges to givve them more dimension. The center of the flowers are American Craft Pearl brads. The sentiment from Papertry Ink Delightful Dahlia is stamped in Soft Suede on Blush Blossom. I punched it out with the curvy label punch from Stampin Up.

Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink; Enjoy the Ride, Delightful Dahlia
Ink: Soft Suede, Blush Blossom
Cardstock: Soft Suede, Blush Blossom
Paper: Basic Grey Capella
Accessories: Stampin Up Organza and Satin Ribbon, American Crafts Pearl Brads,White Tissue Paper, Stampin Up Edge Punch, Stampin Up Curvy Label punch

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Heidi

Critter Challenge

On this week’s Critter Challenge Blog, the challenge is a colour challenge. I decided to use a modified version of the sketch I used for my daffodil birthday card. I used the Delightful Dahlia flower stamp set from Papertrey Ink and coloured the flowers in with my copic markers. I really love how copic markers blend with each other giving the flowers much more dimension. I used the coordinating die to creating my own flower embellishment.



Supplies Used:
Stamps: Papertrey Ink, Delightful Dahlias, birthday basics
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Card Stock: Stampin UP Rich Razzleberry, Suddenly Sage, Regal Rose, Gina K Pure Luxury White
Paper: Stampin Up Cottege Wall
Accessories: SU Regal Rose Ribbon, Papertrey Ink Dalia Die and leaves

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Daffodils

I am so excited, I finally have a complete collection of copic sketch markers...except for the eight fluorescent colours, of which I am not partial. I have them all in a big basket that I keep by my seat on the couch. I like to colour while watching tv at night with my family. I am 36 and I love to colour! I even stay in the lines...most of the time :-) I am also giddy because I finally broke down and ordered a copic air brushing system. I want to improve the backgrounds on my images, grass, sky, ocean....I cant wait to make some hopefully fabulous creations.

I had fun using my copics for this card. The current challenge (#25) on the copic creations blog is flowers. The sketch for this challenge is from Friday Sketchers challenge #97, Over on the crazy for challenges blog, challenge #32 is to use 1 ribbon, 2 brads or buttons, and 3 punches. The Cute Card Thursday challenge #107 is Mono Mania. Any guesses on my colour?!?



Supplies Used:
Stamps: PaperTrey Ink Year of Flowers: Daffodils, Birthday Basics
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic Markers
Cardstock: SU Barely Banana, SU Yoyo Yellow, Gina K Pure Luxury White
Paper: Little Yellow Bicycle Clothsline Canary Damask
Accessories: SU Oval Punch, SU Large Oval Punch, SU Scallop Oval Punch, SU Fire Brads, Taylored Expressions Lemonade Twill Ribbon

Thanks for visiting! I'd love to hear your comments.

Heidi