Good Luck!

Here's my take on this week's OWH Stars & Stamps sketch challenge #173. I colored the image with Copics and sponged the sky with Tumbled Glass ink after cutting with a SB labels 25. I'm sorry, but I don't know the mfr of the embossing folder as I borrowed it from a friend. The black border was done with an EK punch and the sentiment was done with an old $1 store stamp I've had forever.

Sadly, last night was the final curtain for Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Jason Sudeikis on SNL. Seth Myers will also be leaving SNL to take over Jimmy Fallon's show when he moves on to do the Tonight Show. I'm really going to miss these great comedians and all of their hilarious antics as I've been staying up to watch this show on Saturday nights since it first began. I've seen some very funny people come and go through the years, and I'm going to miss these great characters laughing me to sleep on the weekends. Saturday nights won't be the same without you! Good luck guys!

Wishing you all a wonderful Sunday - thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Friends with Flair Friday

It's Friends with Flair Friday over at Unity, so here's my card for the challenge using some of my favorite Unity stamps. This was a snap to put together with this fun image and sentiment. I added a red punched heart, and did the sentiment panel with an EK punch, adding a red scrap of card stock beneath it with rounded corners. The dsp is from MM wedding stack.

That's going to do it for me for this Friday, so thanks for stopping by and have yourself a fabulous day!


Carol

The Sweet Stop Sketch # SSS10

I played along with the Sweet Stop sketch challenge #SSS10 to make this card with a heart theme. The background was embossed with a Darice ef, and I added a red punched heart to the Unity image, piercing around the edges for a little interest. The sentiment panel is from SNSS and I added a tiny piece of narrow ribbon with some zig-zag piercing on the long edges. A couple scraps of red & black card stock to mat, and this was done!

Have a great TGIF day and thanks for stopping by!

Carol

Simon Says Flower Power

Here's my card for this week's Simon Says Stamp challenge which is "flower power." I made a trio of pansies with a sneak preview of the new SU! in colors and a stamp set called Morning Meadow. After stamping the flowers and letting them dry, I embossed the flowers with versamark ink & dazzling diamonds for a little sparkle, and then embossed the brads the same way. The embossing folders are SU! vine st, and petals a'plenty, and the scalloped border was done with a SU! fancy scallop punch. The colors are strawberry slush, coastal cabana and crisp cantaloupe. I hand-cut the sentiment banner by using a square punch for the ends.

Thanks for spending a little part of your day with me here, it's always nice to have you stop by :)

Carol

Building Around a Sentiment

My card today is for the OWH midweek throwdown which is "so sentimental." In other words, build your card around the sentiment and make it your focal point. I used a Spellbinders fancy tags two die for the sentiment, outlining it with a black marker before cutting. That always seems to add a little pop of interest that appeals to me for some reason. The scrap of paper is from CTMH and the punched border was done with an EK punch.  The card base is very vanilla. I added some black pearls for the finishing touch in assorted sizes.

If nothing else, at least I got my midweek throwdown card finished in the middle of this week for a change :)

Thanks for stopping by and have yourself a great day!

Carol

His and Hers

I made these cards for the previous OWH Stars and Stamps midweek throwdown. I'm playing catch-up so these are coming in just a day before the newest throwdown is posted. Where does the time go??

The challenge was to make 2 cards - one for him and one for her. I switched up the colors, and sentiment fonts, but everything else is pretty much the same design. I used the SU! honeycomb embossing folder, along with hand-cut snippets of assorted patterned papers for both cards. Hers is white, his is vanilla. The sentiments are both from SU! and I added a ribbon brad to each card, and looped some twine through them in place of ribbon to reduce bulk. I also added some geo sparkler stickers to each card, along with some colored mini brads to his card.

Since I used snippets on both cards, I'm also entering these cards into Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground #72.

Here's wishing you a great day, and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

You Mean the World to Me

This is the sketch for the OWH Stars & Stamps challenge #172...

and here's my card. I went with patriotic colors of red, white and blue, embossing the background with a Darice tiny stars ef. The stamp is from SU! and I colored it with markers before stamping. For the final touch I added some mini brads in matching colors and that's all there was to it!

Here's wishing you all a great week ahead! Thanks for stopping by :)

Carol

Happy Mother's Day

Here's wishing every mother, grandmother and great-grandmother out there a very happy Mother's Day! I hope your families make your day a special one for each and every one of you!

My card today isn't for any challenge - it's one I made that reminds me of my Mom. She always loved to dress up when she went to work as an executive secretary. Since she's been gone for several years now, I didn't add the Mother's Day sentiment, but chose to leave it the way it is.

The dsp is by Anna Griffin, while the mellow moss ribbon is SU! and the vanilla ribbon is from Pizzazz Aplenty. The embossed border was done with an adorning accents ef from SU!, then hand-trimmed. The dress was done with a SU! dress-up framelit set. I die cut the heart from the vanilla ribbon and added a pearl to the center. The embossed background was done with a SU! square lattice ef.

Thanks for stopping by today - I wish you blue skies and lots of sunshine on this day set aside to honor our Mothers!

Carol

Believe You Can

There's a Tic Tac Toe challenge going on over at CAS-ual Friday's for the CFC100 to celebrate their 2nd birthday! Happy Birthday CAS-ual Fridays!
I chose the top row of the grid to make my card for today....

 

I had the Poppy dachshund die-cut on my table and created the card around it. What I really wanted was an image of a great big dog,  but I don't have one, so I just used this cute poodle image from There She Goes. I added a hand-cut ear for the doxie and used a black marker to create the eye. The polka dot dsp is from SU! pear pizzazz and peach parfait. The sentiment is from CAS-ual Friday's Calm and Gentle stamp set.

I'm also entering this card into Pixie's Crafty Snippets Playground #71 since I used just a snippet of kraft for the pooch, and some snippets of polka dot dsp too.

It's going to be a beautiful day here in PA with temps in the low 80s, so I'm heading outside to enjoy the weather!

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous day! Always believe you can :)

Carol

Things with Wings

Here's my card for the Simon Says Stamp challenge which is "Things with wings." I heat embossed the Wordsworth Rubber Soul sentiment with gold embossing powder, adding a gold embossed butterfly die cut that was cut with a Sizzix Butterfly Sizzlet. The background was done with a flourishes ef, and I added some black grosgrain ribbon from Pizzazz Aplenty. I like to keep a few basic masculine sympathy cards like this on hand for those needed occasions.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful Thursday!

Carol