CPS203: Marci with Rose

I really wanted to make a card with this week's CPS sketch, and I got a chance with Marci with Rose. I used some gorgeous new Memory Box 6 by 6 paper I picked up at Memories Live On, along with Blushing Bride and Pear Pizzaz, 2 "In Colors" from SU! this year.

I paper pieced her dress with some of the Memory Box paper, and then put her arm and the rose over the top of it. Doesn't she look so sweet in a little rose print dress?

I used my corner rounder on the tab to make it kinda like a little filing card, and I included a sentiment from an MFT set (Pure Innocence Making a List but she's out of stock right now.) for the embellies on the side I used some flower shaped buttons topped with half pearls...I like the effect! I finished it off with a prima flower in the corner.

Paper Pretties is sponsoring CPS

So, not only do I have a sneak peek for you today of an ADORABLE new Sophia, but it's also using the latest CPS192 sketch. And because Paper Pretties is sponsoring the sketch this week, you'll have the opportunity to win some Paper Pretties stamps if you play along too!! To see ALL of today's adorable cards, be sure to visit the Paper Pretties blog...there are some great ones!

Thanks Snow Much Sophia is another of my favorites (and I have to admit I have several!!) She just looks so joyful playing in the snow! For this card, I stamped her on kraft cardstock and colored her with my copics. I thought it would give the card a more vintage feel to use the kraft. I also sponged some white ink around the edges of the kraft to add to the snowy feel of the card, as well as adding some liquid applique.

I took a few liberties with the sketch, and instead of adding rings to the side, I added snowflakes! I hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend...and be sure to keep checking the Paper Pretties blog all week for more sneak peeks, with the release coming on Friday! WOOHOO!

MFT WSC KISS CPS Sketch

How many acronyms can I use in one title?? That stands for My Favorite Things Wednesday Stamp Club Keep It Super Simple (or Keep it Simple Stupid is how I've often see KISS) Card Positioning System. I made up this card for this week's CPS sketch that MFT is sponsoring using this adorable new little PI Boy and his Dog set. I won this set at the last release party and finally got to ink it up! Isn't his big bald head just the cutest?? My little Jack is finally getting some hair...but this little guy still makes me think of my Jack-Jack.

I kept everything pretty simple, coloring with copics and no extra layering...so I think this should count! Oh...I did add some punched grass though...finally using my new MS Grass punch I was so desperate to have! I used my black mulitliner to add the trunk of the tree to the side behind the cute little dog. I like how the scene turned out!

Have a great rest of your day folks...hopefully I'll be back tomorrow with some more eye candy!

CPS162 Facebook Friend!

How cool is this?? I'm this week's Featured Facebook Friend over on CPS - what a great birthday present!!

Here's the card I made for this wonderful honor! I really love this sketch, and had fun using one of my favorite LaLa Land stamp and this incredible new MME Quite Contrary paper. I paper pieced LaLa's skirt with the lovely pink gingham paper because, well, you know me! I colored her with copics first, then added the skirt on top. I used Pink Pirouette and Baja Breeze paper, along with the Pretty in Pink corduroy buttons and satin ribbon. All this lovely pinkness just makes me giddy!

I gave La-La more auburny hair today, and of course the beautiful light blue eyes of my daughter. Maybe sometime I'll try to recreate my own hazel eyes - with such big eyes on LaLa you can have a LOT of fun! Have a wonderful day!!

CPS160 and my new JustRite Stamps

Ok...I finally caved. After that amazing blog hop and all those gorgeous flowers, I just HAD to have one of the new JustRite stamp sets My Garden Borders and Centers, and I picked it up at my LSS. Daisy's are my favorite flower, and this Gerbera Daisy just called to me!!

I wanted to keep the card simple like the layout of this week from CPS, and I wanted the card to be longer - but I had to change things up a little when I decided to do the embossing folder. The card measures 4" by 5.5", which made it easier to emboss only part of the front. I used some PTI Color cardstock for the strip and the scalloped matting, and the white is PTI Stamper's Select White. I stamped the flower twice, colored it with V000, V04, V06 and V09 copic markers, and cut them out. The inner bit is on dimensionals to give the card a little more dimension.

As I said, very simple. And hey...fits today's JustRite blog challenge perfectly of anything goes for Good Friday. Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Same some Cadbury's eggs for me!

challenges galore!

I don't usually do this, but somehow this card just turned out to work for many challenges! I started it as my sample for the I Dream of Stamping blog's curling challenge (which starts Sunday morning so be sure to check it out!) and then decided to use Julie Masses' inspiration challenge from the Stamping Around blog. Of course, since I used one of my new Pure Innocence girls I had to paper piece her outfit, thus qualifying for Joanne's challenge here, and finally I used the latest CPS sketch #154! Whew!!To start off, I stamped this new little sweetie with her cute pigtails on a cream Perfect Panel. I then stamped her on 2 different dp's from MME's Be Loved paper and a second time on the perfect panel (to cut out her arms per Joanne's great new paper piecing tut!) Then, I colored everything (including shading on the dp) and cut it all out to piece it together. Lastly, I cut her out with my new deckle edge oval nestability die.I followed the CPS154 sketch, sponging distress ink and sewing on each of the different layers. I created the satin roses using SU! vanilla satin ribbon and following the instructions from Debbie Olson's recent blog post. They do get easier the more you make...and I discovered 12" was too long, so I ended up using only 8 or 9 per rose. After assembling everything it was still missing something, so I added that strip of lace over to the right side. That helped tremendously in my mind!I finished off the inside with a little more stitched on dp, the sentiment and the flower which the little girl is watering stamped inside (minus the little girl, can, and water!) I hope you've enjoyed this card as much as I did making. Be sure to check the details for the curling challenge on I Dream of Stamping on Sunday morning - I can't wait to see what you all come up with for this one!

SU! Friday - CPS153

Happy Friday everyone. I don't know about you, but we have a 3 day weekend (which is the beginning of February break here!) and I know I'M looking forward to having some downtime while DH takes care of the kids for a few hours. Hopefully I can spend that time in my stamp room and finally finish getting it organized again!!I was so excited to finally get to play with another CPS sketch this week. After looking at it and thinking a great deal, I decided to pull out some of my new SU! stuff that I got last month. I just love this new Sweet Pea designer paper pad - there are so many amazing designs to choose from, and the colors are fabulous! I paired it up with the fun new I {heart} hearts set, and was good to go!I started with a kraft card base of 4.25 by 8.5 folded in half, with a layer of chocolate chip (4" square) and then bermuda bay (3.5" square) and finally the sweet pea designer paper layered on that. I sponged everything with chocolate chip ink, and wrapped the ribbon around the bermuda bay/sweet pea layer before adding the punched heart with some dimensionals. That whole piece was then added to the chocolate chip layer with another set of dimensionals. of course, I had to have a button too.....so I added this one with some white DMC floss.

I loved this card so much, I went back and made a few more to give to my friends for their valentine this year. I hope you enjoyed it as well! Have a very happy Valentine's day everyone! Oh...and be sure to keep coming back over the weekend...there's something BIG coming!

Happy Birthday Jan Marie!

German Phrase of the Day: Die Aussicht ist fantastisch. = The view is fantastic. Well, the view may not be fantastic here in general...but at least I can see some blue sky! That's always nice.

Today is Jan Marie of Flourishes LLC's birthday. She's having a big celebration, and so I had to make her a quick birthday card this morning. I only have O Christmas Tree from Flourishes at this point, but I figured I could still use it for her birthday card. I stamped the present in Lovely Lilac ink all over the Lovely Lilac card first. I just love that little present...it's really quite pretty! Then, I sponged my Lavender Lace dsp and layered it on some Lavender Lace cs. I stamped the happy birthday image from the SU! Sale-A-Bration set So Many Scallops with Lovely Lilac onto Lavender Lace, then again with the candles and sentiment colored with markers onto white cardstock. I punched the white with my 1 1/4" circle punch, then attached it to the scallop punched larger piece with dimensionals.

I tied some silver organdy ribbon around the narrow strip before attaching it to the card, then I popped the scalloped piece on top. Lastly, I added some gold stickles to the candle flames to make them sparkle a little. I was following CPS sketch #53 - I LOVE it!! I actually made a second card with that sketch that I"ll try to post a little later.

Anyway...hope your Birthday is great Jan Marie! Alles gut zum Geburtstag!

Supplies: (all supplies are SU! unless otherwise noted)
Stamps: O Christmas Tree by Flourishes, LLC; So Many Scallops
CS: Whisper White, Lovely Lilac, Lavender Lace, Lavender Lace prints DSP
Ink: Lovely Lilac, Lavender Lace, Yoyo Yellow marker
Acc: 1.25" circle punch, scallop punch, silver organdy ribbon, gold stickles, sponge

TFL!
-Jana

Glückliches neues Jahr!

German Phrase of the Day: Glückliches neues Jahr! = Happy New Year! We had a wonderful time bringing in the new year last night with friends - including some crazy fireworks!!

Today's card uses last week's CPS sketch, sketch #44. I really liked the sketch...but the image I used was so big I had to leave part of it off! However, I have been wanting to make a card with this image since getting this wonderful GinaK stamp set Got Snow over a month ago, and finally got to it this week! I used to go tobogganing with my family a lot as a child, so this brings back good memories! And you all do know that she's launching a bunch of new sets in just a few more days, right? Guess I'm gonna have another early morning coming up soon!! ;-)

I stamped the image with Palette Noir ink on Stamper's Select white cardstock and colored it in with aquapainter and ink pads. Then, I mounted it on some Night of Navy cs, and cut the ring from N of Navy using my Coluzzle. For the card base I used Night of Navy again, with a layer of the snowflake paper from SU!'s retired Holiday Thyme DSP - I love that snowflake paper - that I sponged. I popped the main image up on Dimensionals, and finished the card by stamping the sentiment in Night of Navy ink.

On the close up photo you can see the watercoloring a little better. I stamped 2 images at once and made a second card not using a sketch (I know, shocking!) and the scraps I had on my table. I actually think I like the second one a little better, but they are both fun!

I hope you all have a wonderful 2008. Thanks so much for continuing to visit me here, and providing me with a place to ramble.

Supplies: (all supplies are SU! unless otherwise noted)
Stamps: Got Snow? by GinaK Designs
CS: Stamper's Select White from PaperTrey Ink, Night of Navy, Holiday Thyme DSP
Ink: Palette Noir, Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Blush Blossom, Pretty in Pink, Mellow Moss, Always Artichoke, Ruby Red, Pale Plum, Perfect Plum
Acc: sponge, aquapainter, coluzzle, dimensionals (ribbon and word window punch on the 2nd version!)

TFL!
-Jana

Pink and Green Penquin

German Phrase of the Day: Es wird ein langer Winter. = It will be a long winter. I don't know about how long the winter will be, but it sure is a long night nowadays!! Actually, I think this winter will at least seem shorter than last winter, because we have more plans to break it up with travel and visitors. :-)

Last week while I was playing with my GinaK stamps, I decided I needed to use this cute little penguin. The color scheme is from a new Simply Scrappin' Kit that SU! is offering in the newest catalog (mine hasn't arrived yet...but I've seen sneak peak photos aplenty!) I used Regal Rose, Wild Wasabi and Basic Grey along with my Stamper's Select white. I colored the penguin in with an aquapainter and ink pads, and of course added a little liquid appliqué to his hat, since I've been on such a kick lately!

For the snowflakes, I used the Snow Flurries set stamped in Regal Rose. Yeah, pink snowflakes! That's what's magical, right? I stamped just the Magic portion of the sentiment from the Sandy Claws set...I love how easy it is to ink up just a portion of a sentiment when using unmounted stamps!!

The layout for this card is from CPS, and it's sketch # 23. I stole the idea of the curvy line from a sample made with this sketch they recently featured for the holiday cards they were featuring. That site is a fantastic source for ideas when you need a sketch! Oh...and the curvy cut was made using my new Creative Memories curvy cutter. I just love that thing and am so happy to have it now!!

I sponged all the layers, put it together, and tied the ribbon. A super fast, 4 1/4" square card. It was the perfect thing to get me moving that day!

Supplies: (all supplies are SU! unless otherwise noted)
Stamps: Sandy Claws is Coming to Town by GinaK Designs Snow Fluries
CS: Stamper's Select white, Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose, Basic Grey
Ink: Palette Noir, Wild Wasabi, Regal Rose, Basic Grey, black watercolor crayon, more mustard
Acc: aquapainter, dazzling diamonds glitter, liquid applique, Wild Wasabi double stitched ribbons, CM curvy cutter

TFL!
-Jana

CPS#38 with GinaK

Ok...It's another 2fer day here...because I've been busy again and can't hold back this card. I used this week's sketch from Card Positioning Systems and paired it up with my GinaK Make a Wish set, and I LOVE the results!!

I started with a half sheet of the wonderful Stamper's Selectt white cardstock from Nichole and the gang over at PaperTrey Ink. This cardstock really is wonderful if you haven't tried it yet. So much sturdier than ultrasmooth varieties, it's perfect for white one layer cards, or minimal layering. Anyway...I then punched circles using my 1/2", 3/4", and 1" circle punches from SU! out of Soft Sky, Blue Bayou and Purely Pomegranate cardstocks. I adhered them to the bottom half of my white card randomly, trimming the overhang. Next, I added a strip of Purely Pomegranate, and then tied a piece of Soft Sky double stitched ribbon around that.

I stamped the cake image onto white cardstock, and proceded to color it with my ink pads and aquapainter. I used blue bayou for the main part of the cake, and looking at it now I realize I should have made the cake plate a different color. Oh well...next time! I used soft sky for the filling (blueberry maybe?) and Purely Pomegranate for the top icing. After coloring in the candles, I layered it on basic black and then purely pomegranate. I applied my dimensionals to the back and stuck it on the card, and then stamped my greeting from the same set. Lastly, I added my burgundy stickles to the top layer of frosting to make it really sparkle. I'm actually amazed at how well the photo has captured the 3D effect the stickles give. I'm really becoming addicted!!

Hey, speaking of GinaK, did I tell you all that I WON something from her??? Remember this card I did before leaving for Istanbul?? It WON the sketch challenge over at SCS. I was so excited to come home to that great news...and now I get one of the sets I had talked myself out of for FREE! How cool is that?!?!

Ok, that's all for today, you'll have to wait until tomorow to see my new MFT card for this week's color and sketch challenges over at SCS. :-)

Supplies: (all supplies are SU! unless otherwise noted)
Stamps: Make a Wish by GinaK Designs
CS: Stamper's Select cardstock, purely pomegranate, soft sky, blue bayou
Ink: Black stazon, purely pomegranate, soft sky, blue bayou
Acc: burgundy stickles, circle punches, soft sky doublestitched ribbon

TFL!
-Jana