Raspberry Wishes

For Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #19!  Here are the colors:

Here is my card:

This was the hardest one yet for me...all those pastels!  Used PTI cardstock, Versamark ink, and 2 new PTI sets, Background Basics: Diamonds, and the sentiment from Giga Guide Lines.  My aqua was added last (and is a bit difficult to see)...the little rhinestones!

Time to "Get Sketchy"!

Pink Persimmon is hosting another sketch challenge this week at the fabulous blog, Get Sketchy!  Be sure to visit and link up a card with this sketch, because there is a $25.00 Pink Persimmon gift certificate up for grabs!  Here is my sample with their sketch of the week:

I used the Little Christmas Cottage set from Pink Persimmon, Cosmo Cricket (music) and Reminisce (gingham) patterned papers, red embroidery floss, and lots of Crystal Snow by Stampendous!  Cardstock is by Papertrey Ink...and I added lots of Tim Holtz Distress Inks and a gingham bow (of course!).

So what are you waiting for?!  Hop on over to Get Sketchy to see what Bree and her Design Team cooked up...and visit Kimberly Crawford's blog to see her awesome sketch sample, too!

Background Fun

When looking at my cards, you have probably noticed that I am a little obsessed with background stamps!  I love the big ones, I love making my own with little ones, and I love layering backgrounds stamps over each other to create new ones.

Yesterday I got my new Papertrey Ink "Background Basics: Diamonds" set in the mail.  I had some fun with it while the girls were still at school!

For this card, I paired it with Love Dove from Pink Persimmon.  I was inspired by all of the beautiful colors and patterns of the Vera Bradley handbags/totes chosen as inspiration pieces for the Clean and Simple Challenge at SCS.

And another Santa card.  I am really loving my Santa stamps this year!  Another makeover attempt...I am SURE that he is getting tired of wearing the same red suit year after year, hee!

Hop on over to the Pink Persimmon Blog...a few other of my obsessions are being featured today...crackle paint and liquid pearls, woo hoo!  And you have until Monday to get those sketch challenge cards in to be eligible for the prize giveaway!

Word of the Week #13!

Today's word of the week is......

limbus:  a border distinguished by color or structure
      
(they gave the example "esp. the marginal region of the cornea of the eye by which it is continuous with the sclera"...but for card-making purposes we'll leave that part out and stick with the rest of the definition!)

Here is my sample...my "limbus" is an old retired Stampin Up border!  Other stamp sets on this are Holiday Tree, Papertrey Ink, and a Flourishes set from The Angel Company.

I did add another border, too...a furfuraceous border of coarse silver glitter (furfuraceous is WOW12!).  This card also fits 2 other challenges at SCS this week...Roxie's sketch challenge, and Betty's color challenge of Real Red, Always Artichoke, and Chocolate Chip.  Don't tell Betty, but my "greens" don't look very artichoke-y, hee! 

Also used a gift from my friend Kris (krischir)...she sent me an old piece of window screen and ordered me to ink it up!  That's the first pattern on the "cream" piece of paper!  Isn't that so cool?

Now YOU go and have fun with the WOW!  Be sure to link back here with your card/blog post, or upload you card at Splitcoaststampers using the keyword "WOW13".

Pink Persimmon Sketch Challenge

Pink Persimmon is hosting a sketch challenge on their blog today!  Here is the very cool sketch created by Creative Team Member Julie Detlef!

And here is my sample using the sketch....

Used Pink Persimmon's new Holly Wreath set, some Basic Grey and Paper Company papers, and hand- stitched my sentiment.  Stamped Santa on watercolor paper, then rosied up his cheeks and lips! Popped him up over the wreath, which was colored with Martha Stewart watercolor markers, then added Stickles.  His hat didn't look complete until I made it all fuzzy with white Fun Flock by Stampendous!

So stop on over to the Pink Persimmon Blog and play along!  If you play, your name will be entered into a random drawing for a giveaway, ho, ho, ho!  Can't wait to see the projects that you create with Julie's sketch!

Citrus Snowman?

Today's Featured Stamper of the Week at Splitcoast is Dawn aka TreasureOiler!  I chose to case her adorable Frosty card.

I love this AMuse juggling snowman!  I got him this summer at One Little Spark in Tuckerton, NJ!  I wanted to keep Dawn's citrusy color scheme, so I made the polka dotted paper using Polka Dot Basics from PTI and tried my Orange Zest cardstock for the first time!  Stamped the Canvas Backgrounder from Cornish Heritage Farms over the polka dots and the orange cardstock to "tone" it down a little (it IS supposed to be a Frosty card, hee!).  I used the "fa la la" sentiment from PTI's Holiday Tree set, but didn't ink up the "fa" and just added some more "la la la's"!

More fun at VSN!

VSN (Virtual Stamp Night) continues on through the weekend at SCS!  This challenge was from Vonnie...the CASE of the Cracked Glass.  You were to "Case" (meaning "copy and share everything") another stamper's card and add the cracked glass technique.  Lucky for me, I had just seen this awesome card by Michelle aka "JustPaintingAround" with the technique and loved it. 

 I tried to copy the patterned paper she used by using PTI's Background Basics Retro grid and a snowflake from Hero Arts.  Kept her general color scheme and much of her layout.  Dug out one of my fave sets of all time "Happy Winter", a retired Stampin' Up set.  This was one of the sets that got me hooked on stamping.  Back when I had limited supplies (ummm that seems long ago!), I think I used this snowman on just about every Christmas tag I made!