Sweet Sunday Sketch #169

 I needed to make a ThankYou card for a colleague,

and decided to pull ou the International Bazzar DSP.

 

 

Then I lined up the Sweet Sunday sketch as my inspiration. 

 

 

Here's some closeups of the details.

 

 

It's actually a hybrid card as I printed out the sentiment using MDS2.

It's so nice that it still fits in the Window's Framelit.

 

 

I hand cut out the blue layer by hand and roughed it up with a pair of scissors.

 

 

The middle band of Pacific Point blue was embossed with the latest Embossing folder. 

I then sponged on a bit of Very Vanilla Craft in to make the embossing realy pop.

 

 

Finally I added the little apple clip as the card is for a Teacher Colleague of mine.

 

 

Two posts in one day????? What's going on?

 Crazy right?  I can't believe it myself. 

Since I've arrived home 4 days ago I have made 5 post-worthy cards. 

This one was inspired by a scrapbook page on the display boards at convention.

And I used tons of layers - LOVE this colour combo!

It's been a while since I played along with the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge,

and I really like this week's sketch.

I pulled out a new Hostess Set called Carry On,

Used my Big Shot and punches for some details,

Added a flower accent - I punched the middle out of some Floral District DSP,

Added some ribbon and here we are.

Sweet Sunday Christmas

I've decided to start my Christmas cards. So today I dragged out my box of Christmas paper and stamps. I used this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch for this card. I absolutely fell in love with this patterned paper last year.

The Fun Stuff
1. Stamps – Holiday Collection, Delightful Decorations
2. Ink – Old Olive, Purely Pomegranate
3. PAPER – Very Vanilla, Patterned Paper from Eskimo Kisses
4. Accessories – Ornament Punch, Chocolate Chip Epoxy Brads, Old Olive Satin Ribbon, Old Olive Button, Silver Thread, Stampin Dimensionals

Monkey Birthday

This card was inspired by a card I saw in May's Paper Crafts Magazine. I wish I had a photo to post up on it, but it was made by Diana Albright. I really wanted to use my Island Oasis paper from the current Summer Mini and I pulled the rest of the colours out of that paper. The Monkey was paper pieced using punches and I cut the party hat freehand. I used the sketch from Karen Giron to make my card.

The Fun Stuff:

1. Ink - So Saffron, Tempting Turquoise, Old Olive, Rose Red, Pumpkin Pie, and Chocolate Chip

2. Paper - Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Old Olive, Island Oasis DSP

3. Accessories - So Saffron and Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain Ribbon, Chocolate Chip satin ribbon, Ovals Bigz Die for the Big Shot. Not Quite Navy Brads and various circle punches.