CAS-ual Fridays #29

After my long absence I decided to browse the web for some challenge blogs and came across Cas-ual Fridays so I thought I’d play along. I am all about white and aqua these days and my obsession for these colors is definitely spilling over into my card making. Here is the sketch challenge……….

And here is my take…………..

I had so much fun with this card! I die cut the tree from papertrey inks In the meadow silhouette dies and then added glitter to make it stand out a bit more. The little die cut birds I kept plain so they would stand out a bit. I used a negative image from PTI’s mat stack 1 die that I had from another project and slipped some Basic Grey Sweet Threads paper (one of my favorite collections EVER!!) The seniment is stamped in smokey shadow ink and the rhinestones are the blue from My Minds Eye Lush collection. If you can’t find any of these it is because I bought them all!! They are the perfect aqua rhinestone and unfortunately are discontinued.

I am off to wait for the UPS man My Amuse.studio kit is coming today and I am soooooo excited

Have a great day and thanks for looking!

Lisa

Clean & Simple sketch 167

SInce I have been a card makin’ machine lately thought I would play with a few challenges to get my blogger “legs” back. Today I decided to play with the clean & simple sketch for the week. I have noticed my style has changed a bit over the past year and clean & simple is very appealing to me right now.

Here is the sketch……..

And here is my take…….

My picture taking skills are definitely lacking but you get the jist of the card. This card took all of 10 minutes to make. Love that about clean and simple.

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day

Lisa

I’m here!

Hi! Long time no blog
i can't hardly believe it has been over a year since I posted.
Life just totally got in the way. My husband was in a car accident, I had two more granddaughters born not to mention a SMALL remodel
I went a whole year without making one card! Can you believe it? This last month though I have been busy making piles so will be sharing soon.

Stay tuned and thanks so much!!

Lisa

Cardabilities #12

It's time for another Cardabilities Design team reveal. We are on sketch #12 and this is my last sketch with the team. I am so grateful for the chance to be on this team. Here is sketch #12..........................

And here is my take.............................................

I used Pink Paisley's Queen bee line for this card along with along with my Papertrey ink stamps. I also used one of the new spellbinders dies that recently came out. On the edge I used one of the cuttlebug embossing edge folders. Love the detail those give. The button is from Jenny Bowlin and the butterfly punches are from Martha Stewart Crafts.

Have a great day and Thanks for looking!!

Lisa

Get Sketchy #57

My pre-scheduled post disappeared somewhere in blog-land so I am redoing it here to show you my Get Sketchy card for last week. Here is the sketch................................

And here is my take.............................................

This card didn't turn out exactly as I had in mind but it will do. The chip butterfly circle is from prima.I just punched out circles and added different punched out butterflies.I used the "Victoria" cuttlebug folder for my background.Love that folder!!

Take care, have a great day & thanks for looking!

Lisa

Get Sketchy #56

Well it's Friday and that means it's time for Get Sketchy!! My design team term is officially over but I can still play along as Alumni. I really wanted to stay on the design team but I have a few things coming up and was afraid I couldn't keep the commitment. Anyway on to the sketch.......................................

I absolutely LOVED the sketch this week. It has soooo many possibilities I had a hard time trying to decide what I wanted to do. Make sure you get on over to the Get Sketchy Blog and see what the design team came up with. Here is my card.........................................

I ordered some new Prima stuff a couple of weeks ago and decided to use them on this card. The little girl stamp is from Prima also. I was so happy that they came out with 6x6 pads of paper I was jumpin' for joy!!! I ran the card base thru my cuttlebug with Papertrey ink's guidelines impression plate. the sentiment is from pti's embellishments stamp set. Get on over to Get Sketchy and play along!!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Lisa

Cardabilities #11

I can't hardly believe it is the 15th of the month already!!! What happened to summer????  Ours certainly was waayyy too short. So on to the Cardabilities sketch#11 reveal. Here is the sketch..................................

And here is my take.................................................

I haven't bought much patterned paper lately but when I saw the new Crate Paper restoration line I HAD to have it. The colors are be-ute! My favorite line this fall so far. I just cute a couple of strips and die cut the mat for the main image with Papertrey ink's Mat Stack die #4, layered a vintage cream square with corners rounded on top and added one of the flower chip board accents. The sentiment is from the all about you set from Papertrey ink. The kraft card base is embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder that I picked up at Craft Warehouse. 

Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Lisa

Get Sketchy #55

It's Friday and time for Get Sketchy!! Our sponsor this week is the greeting farm and we were given a couple of digital images to work with.  Here is this weeks sketch.............................

And here is my take................................................

I flipped the sketch and used the cute little duck image that was given to us. I colored it with colored pencils as copics will smear on printer ink. I used cosmo cricket delovely paper along with a scrap of paper that I stamped polka dots on. The letters are some I had in my stash and the ribbon is from Papertrey ink. There you have it.... come on over to Get Sketchy and play along.....

Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

Lisa