Coral Thank You

Welcome to a Sunday Stamps day - today it's my turn to present the sketch for the week.  Please feel free to use any shapes in your creation and change up the embellishments if you wish also.

I created my flower using the White Crepe Filter paper and the blossom punch.  I filled one of the Stampin' Spritzers with alcohol and some Calypso Coral reinker.  I love the texture that these flowers end up having and they're quick and easy to make.

Once you've finished your project please link it to our Sunday Stamps challenge blog so all of the Design Team can take a peak.  You have until Friday, May 17 at 6pm EST.

Have fun and thanks for stopping by.

Joan

Monochromatic Sunshine

Happy Sunny Sunday and welcome to a sketch day at Sunday Stamps.  This week's sketch is brought to us by the talented Holly.

I switched the diagonal of the ribbons/banners because of the size I cut the piece with the quote on it; and I added the little flowers in the corner.  

I'm loving all the polka dots - and I lucked out and found a wee bit of Crushed Curry polka dot ribbon from when it was an In Colour....I'm very happy about it being a Regal beginning in June.

Hope you have fun with the sketch - and link your creation back to the Sunday Stamps blog so we can enjoy it.  You have until 6:00pm EST May3 to post your link.

This is a short and sweet post since I'm still working the Fort Trade Show today.  

Hope your day is full of sunshine and thank you for dropping by!

Joan

Easter Bunny

Happy Tuesday - Hope you're having a hoppy day...sorry - it might be a bit early for Easter humour....but it is around the corner.  This card was created for the Friday Mashup challenge this week.  

Here is  the Challenge:

1. Make a project "using the Sketch".
2. Or Make a project with "Bunnies".
3. Or "Mash it Up" and create a project with the "Sketch featuring Bunnies".

I used a piece of the Print Poetry Design Series as the base - I am enjoying this little pallet of paper!   I finally remembered that you can stamp a light colour for a base and stamp a darker sentiment on top....I'm always intimidated by "negative" stamps because I see them as dark....but I worked out of that box today.

The little flowers were created from the Boho Blossoms punch - I do love spritzing flowers with water and distressing them!

Here's the sketch - check out their blog to see the great inspiration by their design team.....lots of awfully awesome cards!

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by.

Joan

Counting Down

I was so busy scrapping yesterday that I missed Merry Monday - This challenge blog is surely going to help me plan the cards for my Christmas Stacks this year!  I held my August Christmas stack last week and the next one is October 27.

I decided to use "Four Seasons" for todays' card along with the Northern Flurry embossing folder.  The little blue bird in the middle is raised up on dimensionals and the only reason that the greeting is punched and raised is that I stamped the greeting after I embossed the paper and it got muddled in with a snowflake.  I'll need to remember that when I do the class!

Thank you ladies for challenging me to Keep it Simple and getting these Christmas cards done ahead of time.  

I'm a bit behind on the 31 Pages in 31 Days - but I will finish on time.  I actually have more than 31 pages done now because of the double spreads...but that doesn't count.  This is actually Day 26.  Lyssa used one of those pieces of DSP that I NEVER use....they don't come in every package, but the ones with the stripes of designs are left alone by me.  So - this pushed me out of my box.  I did go looking through my retired pieces for something to use.  And, in the end, I like how it turned out.  I now have to dig through things to determine when this picture of Allison was taken.  Yikes.

I don't think I can say enough about how excited I am about the MDS2.  I am loving so many features!  Being able to colour stamps easily with multiple colours ROCKS, being able to make words fit a shape ROCKS...it all just ROCKS!

If you're at all interested in seeing what I'm so excited about - you can download the MDS2 FREE for 30 days by going to my website.

Well - I'd better get going to school.  It's a bit later than I wanted, but if I stay focused I can get a lot done, come home and do more scrappin'

Hope your day is full of good plans - that pan out!

Thanks for stopping by.

Joan

Pool Party Daisy

The middle of the week is nearly gone - and the month of May is on it's way out.  It's unbelievable how quickly the school year is coming to an end....and how quickly summer is approaching.  WoooHooo!

The sketch today is from Freshly Made Sketches and I've been thinking about this Daisy die for the Big Shot for a couple of days now, so decided to use it today.  

Well.....off to do more prep work.  Hope you've enjoyed your Hump Day!

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

Joan

Poppy Sunshine

Wow - I got ready for school a bit faster this morning and came to look at the challenges - This came together quite easily.  Means there'll be more time for crafting this afternoon!  WoooHoooo!

I've taken the colours from Create with Connie and Mary - Poppy Parade, Pool Party and Basic Black - gave me a chance to use this paper again.  SUO Challenges is looking for 3-D Flowers this week and the sketch is an old one from Splitcoast.

Well, I'm flying off to school.  Hope your day is full of time to do what you like as well as enough time to do what needs to be done.

Thanks for visiting
Joan

Spring is in the Air

As soon as I saw the challenge at Stampin' Royalty - "Spring Things", I knew I had to get busy with the project I had planned.....I was inspired by the photo on page 5 of the April Stampin' Success Magazine. 

 I have put this bird cage at our front door for the past two years.  Sometimes it's empty; last year I stuck a chickadee inside (ceramic of course).  When I saw the example in the magazine I knew I had to duplicate it.  I literally had to cram in  the wreath I used as a nest, and the eggs are drastically oversized, but I'm happy with how it turned out.

I've been using pearls or rhinestones as the bodies of my butterflies, but I like the added flowers too.  Linen thread was used of the antennae....it worked well.

The styrofoam eggs are covered with layers of the Blossom Bouquet Triple flower and then spritzed with Soft Suede.  I moistened the paper a bit to make it more pliable, and attached the layers with a hot glue gun.

These little flowers are standard....the Boho Blossoms punch - largest blossom in 5 layers.  Each layer was spritzed with water first before crumpling it up.  I used sewing pins through the middle to hold them together.

Finally, I used the left over butterflies for a card using the sketch from Stamping 411.

I've been babysitting Elliot the past three afternoons while his mom and dad get moved into their new place.  I'm bushed!  But I had a good time.

Hope your weekend is off to a good start.  Thanks for taking the time to visit.

Joan

Sock Monkey in the Flowers

I'm pretty sure that if Sock Monkey didn't insist on coming out to play today, I wouldn't have taken so long to get this card put together. I had to walk away from it for a while!

The sketch is this week's challenge from Stampin' Royalty. I was surprised and honored to have my Sailboat Imagining picked as one of three "Stampin' Royalty Goddess Picks". Thank you Ladies!

Sock Monkey was coloured and cut out before I put her through the Big Shot with the Square Lattice Embossing Folder. Gives her a bit of texture that I may use again.

Tomorrow is the last school day of the week - the kids got off easy this week with only three days because of Easter Monday and our "Professional Development" day on Friday. Then there's another Extravaganza on Saturday - Wooooo Hooo!!!!! Livin' for the weekend.

Hope you have good plans on the horizon of your week - thanks for stopping by! Joan