Is it Friday yet?? I am ready for the weekend to get here!!! So while I wait I finished my take on the card patterns sketch #19. I flipped it again this week mainly because I wanted to use this saying that I got with my unity stamp june kit of the month.
This kit is awesome with sooo many possibilities.I also wanted to used this pretty please paper from my minds eye. This is some cheery paper!! I stamped the sentiment with stampin up rose red and cut it out and embossed with my long rectangle die. The crochet flower is from my stash. I have been trying to learn to make my own... I am progressing!! Anyway hope you enjoy and have a great day!!
Lisa
Hi all!! Here is my card patterns sketch for the week. I flipped it once again.. mainly because I wanted to use this image that I received from unity stamp co. the other day. I love birdcage stamps and this one is so cute. I decided to spotlight the bird.. I stamped two and punched one out with a circle punch (the square looks good too) and matted it with a slightly larger circle, colored the bird with a mix of my copics and colored pencils and sponged around the edge with sweet blush and then mounted the punched image over the main image. I used a spring moss ribbon mainly because I wanted a little more color and there is a tad bit of the green in one of the papers I used. The rest of the deets are in the recipe below.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
Lisa
Stamps: sweet zzz's from unity stamp co., a little birdie sentiment (birds of a feather, papertreyink)
ink: sweet blush, dark chocolate (papertrey ink)
cardstock: vintage cream (papertrey ink)
patterned paper: my mind eye, sei
ribbon: spring moss (papertrey ink)
pearls: mellisa frances, hero arts
other: diamond stickles, copics, colored pencils
Here is my take for the mojo monday #89 sketch. I got some new papers from collage press and I had to use it. It is from the sweet shoppe line called "YUM" and I definitely think it's "YUM". I was in a raspberry fizz kind of mood and when I saw the yum paper I knew it would be perfect. I stamped my image ( unity stamp co. may KOTM) in raspberry fizz ink on vintage vanilla cardstock (both papertrey ink). I cut mine out using my square nestibilities and sponged the edges lightly with dark chocolate ink. I cut out a square of raspberry fizz cardstock and lightly sponged the edges with dark chocolate and then matted the stamped image onto the raspberry fizz cardstock. I stamped the text style background basics in vintage cream onto a kiwi kiss piece of cardstock and sponged around the edges. I matted the patterned paper and the kiwi kiss together just at the edge and then wrapped a dark chocolate ribbon around. Mat to a vintage cream card. I stamped happy birthday from the around and about sentiment set on to a piece of vintage cream cs stamped with the text image in spring moss.. punch out and then mat on a ripe avacado circle. I made the flower from a cuttlebug flower die (2 layers) roughed it up a bit, added a pearl and adhered it to the center of the flower. For the finishing touch I went over the image with diamond stickles to give it a little sparkle.
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
No matter what I did I could not get a good picture today so the one side looks darker than it is.. sorry about that!!
I absolutely love this birdcage image from unity stamp co.!! It is my favorite from the may kit of the month and I wanted to use it for the card patterns sketch but it didn't look right the original way that the sketch was..... so I flipped it. This is actually the first time I flipped a sketch and I am lovin' this new possibility!! I had a scrap of paper on my table and one thing led to another... and my card turned out totally different than I intended!! I ended up with a more vintage look than I was aiming for but I love the way it turned out.. After I stamped my main image with dark chocolate ink, I distressed the edge with my Heidi Swapp edge distresser. I stamped portions of text from the new papertrey ink text style in sweet blush over my image... it comes out light but gives it a little "something", I then took a copic marker that matched the sweet blush (R30) and hightlighted a few of the words. I aged the edge with the new chamomile ink from papertrey ink (the aged duo) and used my spica pen to highlight the birds (I love those birds... I WISH they would make a set with the birdcages and the bird separate so you can mix or match... I can always wish, right?) I layered it on a berry sorbet scrap and layered that on a vintage cream card that I ran thru my cuttlebug with the damask folder. I used an old my mind eye asparagas scrap and tied a vanilla taffeta ribbon around. On the end part I stamped the label image from the papertrey ink recipe box label set in dark chocolate and cut out, adhered it to the card with dimensionals and added a few berry sorbet buttons (my FAV!!) from papertrey ink. To top it off I took a couple of the maya road trinket pins and colored them with copic marker R22 to match the berry sorbet. Works like a charm!
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
I am totally on a roll!! I have not EVER in the history of MY cardmaking ever finished two sketches in one day!! Totally unheard of but I didn't do any thing for almost two weeks when I was sick so I must be in "catching up" mojo. I used the butterfly image from unity stamp co.'s april kit of the month. This was my first kit and I must say I love it!! Very impressed... I stamped the image with soft sage memories die ink, it totally matched the sage color in my wisteria paper from basic grey. I stamped the thinking of you strip from papertrey ink's "around and about sentiments" in the same sage ink on the top and bottom of the middle layer. I colored my flower trim with my copic marker "prune" bv02 to try and match with the purple in the paper. I distressed all the edges with my heidi swapp edge distress tool before I adheared it all together. I found the sage flower button in my aqua mist assortment from papertrey ink and added to the trim. I went over the butterflies with a clear spica pen to give it a little shimmer, it's hard to tell in the picture but is pretty in real life.
It's still early maybe I can get another project done today!!
Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
Lisa
Wow I actually got two cards done in one night!! It felt so good to just play for a change. Here is my take for the cps sketch #114. I used the cosmo cricket paper that was already on my desk... I love this paper.. it's from the little girls biography collection. My image is from the unity stamps April kit of the month... I joined the kit club mainly for this image!! I have been wanting a hand holding stamp but not one that I had to color too much.. and when I saw this one I had to have it and let me say I am impressed with the unity stamps! The whole kit is darling and I can't wait to get the May kit!! I colored the image with copics and matted it with a scalloped nestie. The sentiment is from the papertrey ink set "friends til the end" stamped in ripe avacado and sweet blush. I pierced above and below the sentiment to give it a little "something". The flower button is from stampin up. I inked around the edge of the vintage cream cardstock with vintage cream ink. I made this card for a friend for mothers day... not your ordinary mothers day card but it is prefect for her! It's a beautiful day today so I'm off to play outside!!! Thanks for looking and have a great day!!
