Lauren's Sketch and Dawn's Colour Challenges

With all my time devoted towards getting my classrooms ready for September my mojo kinda vanished. I started playing along with Dawn McVey's Colour Challenge 13 and Lauren Meader's Sketch Challenge last week, but I just stuck and never finished them. I thought I better finish putting them together today. I am not in love with them, but they are alright.

Lauren's Sketch:


Dawn's Colour Challenge:

Hugs & Kisses:

Ingredients:
Stamps: Stamping Bella, heart stamp
Paper: PTI Berry Sorbet, PTI Spring Moss; PTI Pure Poppy; SU Whisper White; DSP
Ink: Copics (Set B)
Accessories: Buttons pin, ribbon, label punch; embossing folder; cuttlebug


PMS Bella:

Ingredients:
Stamps: PMS Bella Stamping Bella; Sentiment Stamping Bella

Paper: PTI Berry Sorbet, PTI Spring Moss; PTI Pure Poppy; SU Whisper White; DSP
Ink: Copics (Set B); black

Accessories: Flowers, button, scrap ribbon

Weekend Sketch Challenges

Weekend Sketch Time:
Started raining here, so had no excuse. Headed up to the Scrappin' room to tackle a couple of this weekends sketches.

This is my take on Amy's Friday Sketch using Stamping Bella's Beach Bella. The DSP is some scraps that I have had lying around. Thought it worked perfectly. I think the sentiment is a little large, but I am limited on diecuts.

Here is the Weekend Sketch Challenge hosted this weekend by Laurie Schmidlin I used SU Baroque Motifs, used some PTI cardstock, and SU Rose Red and Regal Rose Ink. The sentiment is SU Curvy Label Bundle, and the sqaures are Nesti's.

Viva Las Vegas!!!

Had a bit of a rough day today. There was some confusion and I was quite upset. It all
eventually worked itself out, but I am the type of person that needs a bit of time to relax once I've gotten all worked up. After cuddling with my DH and a phone call home to mom I headed into my scrapin' room knowing I would get lost in a creation. So here it is Las Vegas inspired. I recently was flipping through a scrapbooking magazine and came across someone who used an actual 4 of spades playing card to create a cute tag. This person added a U so the tag said 4U. It made me remember that I have a set of suit stamps, which I have had for over a year now, and haven't used. So I thought I would pull them out and see if I could mimic the 4U playing card idea. I decided to also use the stamps to create my own custom DSP. And lucky enough I still had some scrap paper left over with the suit elements on them. I can't remember the name of the company who made the DSP, but I purchased it at Micheal's over a year ago to make my DH's birthday card a couple years ago. I also decided to follow the sketch challenge from Splicoaststampers this week. I am actually quite pleased with the way it came out. I am sometimes hesitant to you $1 stamps, as they don't always stamp clearly, but the suits look great. And yes the stamps in this set came from Micheal's $1 bin.

I didn't have the size 4 stamp that I wanted, and when I originally drew it with a marker it seemed to ruin the design. So I decided to use the tiny 4 from PTI simple alphabet set. The mini heart comes from SU Mark the Date stamp set. The U is just a sticky letter I had in my stach. I would have liked a Chipborad letter, but I only have lime green and hot pink chipboard letters, and the thought of trying to cover up the letter with paper just didn't appeal to me.

Here is a card I made for my DH's birthday a few years back. This idea is borrowed from someone off of Splitcoaststampers. I honestly forget who as it's been a year or so since I made it. Thank you to whoever it was. My DH likes to gamble ever now and again. Whenever he is in a town that has a casino he go in a plays $100. So I thought this was perfect. I used the Cherries from SU's Tart & Tany set. As you can see the card shows a jackpot. Inside the sentiment reads "Hope your day is filled with luck and surprises." As you will notice this card uses the same DSP as the last one.

4U Ingredients:
Stamps: G Studio, PTI Simple Alphabet (4); SU Mark the Date (heart)

Paper: SU Real Red, SU Basic Black; SU Whisper White; DSP (from Micheal's)

Ink: SU Real Red, SU Basic Black

Accessories: U sticker

Jackpot Ingredients:

Stamps: SU Tart & Tangy

Paper: SU Real Red, SU Basic Black; SU Whisper White; DSP (from Micheal's)

Ink: SU Real Red; SU Certainly Celery

Acessories: black marker, grey marker; brads, pop dots

Simply Sweet Trio

I've given up Dairy Queen!!!! and boy is it hard. We use to go like 3 times a week....or more. So I finally decided to take a stand and say no more to DQ trips. Well, unfortunatley I have a craving for a Pecan Mudslide right now. So to help subside my craving I decided to use my sweet stamps to create some satisfying, yet calorie free cards.

"You're Simply Sweet" follows sketch 200 from Splitcoaststampers. These stamps are from G Studio and were in the $1 bin at Micheal's. Well worth the $1.

Ingredients:

Stamps: G Studio

Paper; PTI Sweet Blush; PTI Dark Chocolate; My Mind's Eye - Bella "Pretty Little Girl"

Ink: Copics; SU Chocolate Chip

Accessories: ribbon; pop dots


My Version of a DQ Pecan Mudslide.I left the right hand side blank so I can add my sentiment at a later date, depending on who and why I am sending the card.

Ingredients:

Stamps: MFT Here's the Scoop

Paper: SU Basic Grey; cranberry (unknown); scrap DSP

Ink: Copics

Lollipop, Lollipop, Ohlali Lollipop:

I just used my scrap paper and some ribbon to whip this 3x3 card up.

Ingredients:

Stamps: G Studio

Paper: PTI Sweet Blush; SU Lavendar Lace; SU Whisper White

Ink: Copics; SU Almost Amethyst

Accessories: Ribbon

Here's the Scoop Colour and Sketch Challenge

Wow, third post today...what a nice change. Usually I am out of town or busy with commitments, but today I was able to get three posts done, plus a bulletin board display for church. Nice!!! It was nice not to be rushed...plus I was able to watch the hockey game too.....crappy game though. Detroit is blowing Pittsburgh away 5-0 by the end of the 2nd period, so decided to post now during the third period.

Anyway, this post incorporates Dawn McVey's Raspberry Suite Colour Challenge and Lauren Meader's Sketch Challenge.

This is only my second time playing around with copics. The first time I used them was the other day on my Father's Day card..but I haven't posted it yet, as I don't want my father to see it just yet. So I am still getting the hang of blending, shading, etc. As you will notice I had to move the sentiment from Lauren's sketch to the other side of the card. I had a little mishap with blending...more like a smear into the cream wallpaper and I needed to cover up her feet. However, I do think the card turned out well considering. I used SU Chocolate Chip; SU Purely Pomegranate; and a cream colour to match Dawn's colour combo. The only thing that doesn't match the colour combo is the ice cream itself...but a girls got to have her Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream.

Here's the Scoop Ingredients:

Stamps: MFT Here's the Scoop

Paper: SU Chocolate Chip; SU Purely Pomegranate; Cream scrap paper

Ink: sentiment is SU Purely Pomegranate; colouring done by copics...see picture below

Accessories: Martha Stewart punch; brads; ribbon; pop dots; redline tape

These are the copic colours I used.

Thanks for looking!!