Mojo Mondy 159th Sketch Challenge

For Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 159:
http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2010/10/mojo-monday-159-contest.html



Uses a sentiment (and circle) from Verve's Happy Hello set, and the vine/leaf image from Gina K Designs Autumn Beauty set.
The yellow dp is DCWV. The other patterned papers are both sides of October Afternoon's WeatherVane New Pencils. And fall always does make me think of going back to school, new pencils and notebooks....
So I used some notebook style paper from Scenic Route for the sentiment, and trimmed the scalloped edge off for the bottom.

Verve's Autumn Release Week Challenges

Verve is getting ready for their Autumn release, this Friday, October 8th!

In true Verve form, they hosted a release week sketch challenge (5 total sketches):

http://vervestamps.blogspot.com/2010/10/world-card-making-day-release-week.html.

Completing a sketch gets an entry for a stamp set...and get this...completing all 5 gets a chance at the whole Autumn release!! Woohoo!! Who wouldn't love all the Verve goodness?

Here are my entries:

Sketch #1

Uses a sentiment from Verve's American Hero set.
Crate Paper's Restoration line papers.
Some yummy wired ribbon from Michael's.
Large pearl brad from MME's Lost and Found collections, and small pearls from Pizzazzaplenty.
A bit of stitching.

Sketch #2

Uses My Favorite Things sentiment and die combo.
DCWV Linen Closet papers, and Prima shimmer cardstock.
Don't recall whose ribbon that is.
2mm pearls from Pizzazzaplenty.

Sketch #3

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month, I made this all-pink card using My Favorite Things' Think Pink stamp set. I used papers from Making Memories, Basic Grey, and DCWV, and paper pieced the clothes. 2mm and 3mm pink rhinestones from Pizzazzaplenty. Simple card, not much to it, but the meaning is priceless.

Sketch #4

Used a sentiment from Verve's Kind Words set inside a stamped frame from Gina K Designs, cut with the Nestabilities.
Then went old school on the rest: Nothing special as far as paper goes. Black cardstock and a gold paper from an old pack of 4x6 paper (I think they may have been the early paper sets from Sizzix to use with the original die cutter!--The gold doesn't pick up well in the photo, but it has a nice shimmer to it IRL). I used some Queen & Co felt fusion and Heidi Swapp bling frame that I have had FOREVER--never wanted to part with them before. But I busted out of my box. The gold-edged black ribbon I picked up from Michael's on a recent shopping trip. And the small red rhinestones to match the bling frame are from Pizzazzaplenty (thanks for turning me on to Judy's site, Julee!)

Sketch #5

And a close up of the chipboard, so you can hopefully see the embossing better:

Uses Verve stamp set Kind Words. New Cosmo Cricket Wanted papers. Chipboard embellie old MME Bohemia, pearl brad from new MME Lost and Found, smaller flat back pearls from Pizzazzaplenty. Suede ribbon (thick brown) from My Favorite Things.

Thanks so much for looking. I'm trying to get back into posting here, but I find this site difficult to use. I can never tell how my font will turn out (doesn't look like it does in the preview/compose screens), and my pictures always end up at the top of the post, even when I insert them after text, and I have to cut and paste. Sure helps to think anyone is actually looking! So please post if you visit!

New Release "Buds and Vases"

It's release week at Gina K Designs!

Melanie Muenchinger is releasing a companion to her "A Year of Flowers" called "Buds and Vases", a die cut stamp set filled with brand new flowers and containers, this Thursday night, September 30 at 10 PM CST from Gina K Designs! Be sure to check out her sneak preview of the set on her blog and enter for a chance to win the set!

http://melaniemuenchinger.blogspot.com/2010/09/day-1-lovely-labels-and-buds-and-vases.html

I already have my favorite (I can't wait to play with the poinsettias for Christmas), how about you?

(This is one of Mel's gorgeous samples. Check out her blog to see several more!)

My card for the Heart to Heart Card Drive

I was inspired to resurrect my blog to post this card for a great cause.

The wonderful Carolyn King (AKA Cammie) is hosting a "Heart to Heart Card Drive" to thank the caregivers of Alzheimer's patients. Please see her blog here: http://myblogbycammie.blogspot.com/2...ard-drive.html. Many terrific companies and individuals have stepped up to offer prizes as incentive. If you have some time this week, please consider making a card and sending it to a caregiver that has made a difference in the lives of a patient or their loved ones. If you don't know any personally, Carolyn has included the address of her grandmother's nursing home, where her grandmother spent her last days, with Alzheimer's.

My card combines the Mojo Monday sketch 157:http://mojomonday.blogspot.com/2010/...onday-157.html with some lovely Verve stamps and Basic Grey Ambrosia papers. The orangish-red panel on the front is embossed with a music note embossing folder from Cuttlebug. This ties in with the sentiment from Raisin Boat inside that says,"A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. - Donna Roberts"

A Few More Birthday Cards

Played with one older and two of my new stamp sets from MFT.  Still working on building my birthday collection. 

I love this new Flopsey (Flopsey Flowers).  He's not really set up to be a birthday stamp, but I think he's precious offering up a birthday bouquet.  Papers are Making Memories Sabrina.

I paired the Girls Night Out stamp with a Celebrate stamp from Stampin' Up.  I want to be able to use the card for a birthday card if needed, but thought by using the Celebrate sentiment, I have options.  Paper is DCWV.

Used the ice cream sundae from Here's the Scoop for this last one.  I stamped the scoop of ice cream as a background.  And the pp is Scenic Route Garland.  Yes, it's a Christmas line, but this one in particular reminded me of an old-fashioned ice cream parlor.

A lady at work asked if she could commission me to make some cards for her.  Uh, yeah!  LOL.  The only criteria she seemed to have was the theme.  She wanted cards she could send her friends back home.  So I took some liberties and put together an eclectic collection of cards for her, complete with a clear box with a band around it that matches one of the cards (my favorite one).  I hope she likes them.

This is Gina K's Tree Silhouettes

Sweet little MFT's Tea With Flopsey:

Stampingbella's Billboardabella:

Flopsey again, this time Reading Flopsey:

GKD's Hand-in-Hand by Melanie Muenchinger (my favorite):

MFT Tote-ally Fantastic card in pink and silver

This MFT Toteally Fantastic card was for a co-worker to thank her for a lot of help she's provided lately.  I love the sparkly silver and pink papers (DCWV All Dressed Up and Sweet stacks).  I used colored pencil and OMS to color the image, and brushed Angel Wings Shimmerz over the portion that is supposed to be the window.  Isn't she so glam?  

A couple birthday Bella cards

I make the birthday cards for my fellow co-worker's birthdays.  I started back in August last year, and am about 3/4 of the way through the birthdays.  So far I have used a Stampingbella on each of them.  If possible, I choose one that best depicts the girl whose birthday it is (we only have one male, and he's "one of the girls" anyway...LOL).  

These two cards were for the most recent birthdays.

For this one, I added Superbella's head (because she reminds me so much of the birthday girl) to Balloonabella's body.  I used a Mojo Madness sketch, and some cool teal and red-orange papers from Martha Stewart.

This one is Savvyshopabella in teal and brown (one of my fave combos).  The birthday girl for this one is a total shopping diva and loves Tiffany's (she's anxiously awaiting an engagement ring).  Thought this was perfect.  Those are Lucky in Love papers from GKD.

My recent creations

I haven't posted in a while, and haven't gotten to craft as much as I'd like. We've been working on our house remodel, and in addition to being so busy, our house was a wreck and I didn't have much room, especially clean room, to work in. But I have my stuff in it's new space now, and while I didn't get to work on much, I did create a few works over the last six weeks or so.
So I'm posting here to catch up.

This is a card using Melanie Muenchinger's Hand-in-Hand set that I made for my neighbor, whose grandson was recently diagnosed with Children's Leukemia. He has a wonderful family and lots of people praying for his recovery, and is doing well.


This is a Stampingbella birthday card for a lady I work with who also likes to craft.


I made these two altered notebooks for Christmas presents for two ladies I work with. One is definitely the "princess" of the bunch, and the other, the "diva." Used Melanie Muenchinger's Little Tees set on both.




And this is the card I completed tonight...another using Melanie's Hand-in-Hand set. Long story, but my son has once again been kicked out of his daycare. His teacher is amazing, loves my son, (and he adores her), so I made her this card to thank her for all she did for him.


and the inside of the card:



I have one more card, a baby shower one, but need to find the pictures of it. I believe my husband photographed it for me, so it's probably still on his camera. It was, what else, but Melanie's Hand-in-Hand set again!!! I love this set. It is versatile and touching and unique.

MFT's Flopsey Warm Thoughts card

Used MFT's Snow Bunny Flopsey along with Our Creative Corner's weekly sketch to create this card for the 12th day of the 12 Days of Christmas challenge on Paper Craft Planet. The challenge was to use 12 embellies. I chose 11 faux dew drops and an Imaginisce snowflake.

MFT Keep in Touch card

For day 4 of Paper Craft Planet's 12 Days of Christmas challenges. When I read the challenge could be for "calling," I immediately thought of the cute Who's that Girl stamp by MFT with her on the phone. But I don't have that one {yet}. So I used two other images and substituted in some phone images I found on the net. That's BG Scarlett's Letter paper, and some yummy ribbon I found on Scrap Attack Scrapbooking;s online store (I just inked over the white thread in the ribbon with Antique Linen Distress ink).
I also used Julee's Mojo Madness sketch #63 on Poetic Artistry.

Happy Hoo-liday card

Used Jen del Muro's sketch to create this card for day 3 of Paper Craft Planet's 12 Days of Christmas challenges. The owl is built from PTI's set and I partially inked Unity's tree for his branch. Autumn Leaves flourishes around the outside edges. Bo Bunny paper, Stickles, glittery ribbon from Michael's and my nesties.

MFT Holiday Owls

Tried this technique with the moon and sky one more time. i like this one a lot better. These are MFT's Christmas Owls (I just isolated the owls out off the rest of the stamp). An old Christmas paper pack from Michael's, SU ribbon, silver ep and brads; Shimmerz Angel Wings brushed on the sky and Stickles on the owls' hats.

GKD Santa on the Rooftop

I totally CASE'd Melanie Muenchinger's treatment of the moon and rooftop for Santa. Love this silly image from Gina K's Funky Christmas set, and paired it with the All I Need to Know stamp from Unity stamps.
I think the concept was cute, but my execution of it and design are lacking. I think I made the rooftop image too large, and together there just wasn't much left to do to fit them on the card. I think I'll try again...

MFT Geranium card

This is for Julee's Mojo Monday #62 sketch challenge on Poetic Artistry. Used MFT's Geranium stamp and some DCWV All Dressed Up stack papers.
Some Target $1 spot ribbon, Brilliance Platinum ink on the edges of the image panel and watercolored on the flower pot, as well as Silver detail ep. Colored pencil with OMS, and use of the SU scallop edge punch and a scallop square Nestie.