card patterns sketch #47

I haven't played with a card patterns sketch for a few weeks so thought I'd play along. Card patterns was the first challenge blog of any kind that I tried. I even made the guest designer awhile back and the super six a couple of times. They always have great sketches and the dt always has tons of inspiration.

I was in a whimsical,  playful mood while I was making this card. I totally love these colors and the card came together quite quickly. The turquoise polka dot paper is from the house of 3 simply amazing kit. I love the papers in this kit! I want to use them on every card! The image is from the brand spankin' new set from Papertrey ink called through the trees. This is one awesome tree set and I think they need to do a companion set :) Just my opinion mind you! I have already just tonight made three cards with it! This particular tree comes in two pieces so you can stamp the tree in one color and the leaves in another. I will post the deets below to save my rambling on and on .......

Once again.. thanks for looking and have a great day!

Lisa

all supplies are from papertrey ink except for the polka dot paper downloaded from hof3

stamps: through the trees

ink: dark chocolate, spring moss, hibiscus, aqua mist for around edge of card

cardstock: stampers select white, spring moss

ribbon: hibiscus & spring moss gro grain

buttons: hibiscus mix

bee happy with cps117

After being on a roll last weekend the week ended up being a busy one and I didn't get the cps 117 sketch done until last night. I have been dying to use this cosmo cricket girl friday paper that I have had on my desk for about a month and it paired nicely with the my cute stamps flowers. I also used the new papertrey ink background basics text style for a nice background in the circle. This is a must have set. It has three different fonts and it is the perfect size. I stamped bee happy over the text in smokey shadow ink and the bee was stamped with ripe avacado, cut out and adhered with a dimensional on top of the circle. I stamped the flower stems with ripe avacado stamped off once on a scrap and then inked with my spring moss ink and stamped on the vintage cream cardstock. The small flowers are stamped with sweet blush ink and the large flower I inked with hibiscus stamped off on a scrap and then inked with sweet blush and stamped onto the cardstock. I then used my favorite spellbinders die to cut it out and embossed the edge. While it was still in the die I airbrushed the top portion with my copic marker B01 "mint blue" and the bottom portion with YG93 "greenish yellow". I cut out a mat of the cosmo cricket paper (this is the back of the blue flower paper) with the next size die and matted the two together. Adhere it all together and add a couple of buttons and viola!! card is done!! Thanks for looking and have a great day!!

cardpatterns#13

I feel like I have been running around with my head cut off the last couple of weeks! I really want to know where the time goes!! I realized today was Friday and I hadn't done my card patterns sketch for the week!! yikes!! so I took some time this afternoon and made a card for the sketch. It's a simple one but I love the way it turned out. The baby buggy is from my cute stamps. I love this set!! It is totally adorable and since I make a ton of baby cards it was a must have for me. I paper pieced it using cosmo cricket paper and punch it out in a circle. The patterned paper is a journaling block from the same paper pack. I punched a scalloped border from my apron lace punch from fiskars and adhered it under the journaling block. For the side layer I stamped a row of polka dot basics from papertrey ink with versamark ink and stitched above and under to make a border. I layered it all onto the melon berry cardstock and added a bitty dot melon berry ribbon and adhered the buggy on top with a dimensional. Stamped the sentiment in adirondak espresso ink, added some pearls and voila!! my card is done !! Whew just made it under the wire!! Hope you enjoy and have a great day!!