MMSC69 - Mockingbird Lane!

It is Tuesday, which means time for another Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge...this weeks MMSC69 can be seen here below!!

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For my card, I used the new Mockingbird Lane image from Sunshine and Giggles...how fun is this image! I had the theme song to the Musters in my head the entire time I was making this card!! LOL!!

The image was colored with copics, and I added a bit of glassy glaze over the windows, and sponged the image panel with Pumice Stone and Tea Die Distress inks. The base layer of the panel was cut out with the spellbinders lotus pendent die. The bat DP is from Making Memories Spooky Alley package. The base panel was dry embossed with the divine swirls cuttlebug folder, and then I outlined the swirls with some stickels. To finish off the card, I added some black glittery brads, distressed all the edges of the card, and added the sentiment (which is computer generated)!

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Sandee #54

Our Remarkables Awards this week go to...
Beate - #15

Guro - #17

Rita - #70

Brenda K - #31

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Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you have a wonderful day!!

Connie

Card Details:

Images: Mockingbird Lane - Sunshine and Giggles

Paper: Basic Black, Going Grey, Making Memories Spooky Alley DP

Inks: Copics, Pumice Stone and Tea Die Distress Ink

Accessories: Distressing tool, Stickels, Divine Swirls Embossing Folder, Glitter Black Brads, Lotus Pendent Die - Spellbinders

ODBD September Sneak Peek!!

WOW!! I can not believe it is September already!! Where has the year gone?? Anyway, the first of September marks another new release from Our Daily Bread Designs! For my card today, I have used the new Friends set.

I started by stamping the dragonfly flourished image and sentiment on velum with stazon black. I then placed the vellum over some dragonfly DP from BasicGrey's Wisteria collection. For the ribbon, I decided to heat/burn the edges of some organdy white ribbon to give the ribbon a distressed look. I also distressed all of the card stock edges. The blue background has been dry embossed with SU texturez mini polka dots, and then sponged with blue.

To finish off the card, I added some half pearls and a Tim Holtz grunge board dragonfly painted with dusty concord distress crackle paint and covered in some ice Stickles. Okay, so I think I may have gone a little overboard with all of the dragonflies...Oh well! :)

Check out what some of the bread sticks have created for today! Angie, Chris, Dawn, Deb, Grace, Lorelie, Sandee & Silke

Thanks so much for visiting today, and don't forget to come back on Thursday to see another new creation from ODBD!!

Connie

Card Details:

Image: Friendship - ODBD

Paper: Certainly Celery, Bashful Blue, BasicGrey Wisteria DP, Vellum

Inks: Stazon Black

Accessories: Half Pearls, Organdy Ribbon, Lighter, Grungeboard Dragonfly, Distress Crackle Paint, Stickles

ISC January Release!!!

I have some very exciting news...you may know that I was a spot guest creative architect for Innovative Stamp Creations for the months of November and December...well, I have asked by Betsy to continue on a permanent basis!!! How exciting is that!! What better way to get going then with a couple of projects with the new January release!

The above card was made with the Refections set...love this butterfly!!! When I saw it, I immediately thought of making a suspension card. I started by stamping the image in black, colored it with copic markers, and cut it out (the new largest circle punch from SU punches the whole out of the inner circle perfectly)! I used the canvas image for the background, along with some walnut stain distress ink sponged on the edges. I suspended the sentiment within the circle with some linen twine. I then finished the card off with some so saffron twill from SU.

Card Details:

Images: Reflections - ISC

Paper: So Saffron, Close to Cocoa, Bordering Blue

Ink: Basic Black, Copics, Walnut Stain Distress Ink, Close to Cocoa

Accessories: So Saffron Twill, Linen Twine

I made this 4" x 4" minibook with the AlterIt! set from the minibook series. This is only the second time I have used my bind-it-all, and I am soooo loving it!

The front and back are made with plain grungeboard. I started out by using some Scattered Straw distress crackle paint. Once it was dry, I stamped the corner image with some Pallette Noir ink. I then sponged a little pine needles distress ink on the edges of cover. For the sentiment, I stamped it in black on a piece of white card stock. I then sponged scattered straw and pine needles distress ink over it. Next, I adhered it to some plain grungeboard and cut it out.

For the closure, I used a hinge from a package of elements grungeboard. For a little sparkle, I added some scattered straw distress stickles, used some brads to hold it on the back and a Tim Holtz snap to hold it on the front.

I then finished it off with some cream taffeta ribbon sprayed with a little glimmer mist to give it some added sparkle.

Minibook Details:

Images: AlterIt! - ISC

Paper: Grunge board, White Card stock

Ink: Pallette Noir, Pine Needles distress ink, Scattered Straw distress ink

Accessories: Bind-it-all, scattered straw distress crackle paint, Tim Holtz snap, scattered straw distress stickles, brads, ribbon, glimmer mist.

LSC197 - Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow!!

I made this card earlier this morning, but ran out of time and could not add it until now. Today's LSC197 on SCS was indeed limiting. We could only use snowflakes (snowflake images, die cuts, DSP, embossing folders, etc). The colors had to be monochromatic, we had to add some sparkle somewhere, and the sentiment could only be one word. I do believe I have captured all three in this card.

I started out with a cuttlebug snowflake die cut, I tried to cut some grungeboard with it, but it is really just too thick, so I ended up trimming the last layer of Grungeboard with my scissors. I do know, however, that the snow flake die cuts from SU would be able to cut the grungeboard, so that is just and FYI for anyone interest.

Once I had the snowflake cut out, I painted it with some faded jeans distress crackle paint, then I took my ranger inking tool and added some pearl mixative over the dried crackle paint. To finish off the snowflake I then rubbed a light coat of ice stickles over the top and added the clear crystal brad in the center.

The snowflake DSP is from SU's ski slope package, and I also added a few more snowflake on the card with the snowflake cuttlebug embossing folder.

I then finished off the card with some double stitched blue bayou ribbon.

This card was very fun to do...I am having a blast working with grungeboard and paints...a whole new world of stamping for me!!

Card Details:
Images: Warm Word for sentiment
Paper: Whisper White, Blue Bayou
Ink: Blue Bayou
Accessories: Distress Crackle Paint, Ranger Pearl Mixative alcohol ink, Ice Stickles, Crystal Brad, Baja Breeze Ribbon, Grungeboard, Snowflake Embossing folder, Snowflake die cut.

Dare to be Different!

I made this card for MFT's Guest designer challenge. Their theme this month was to make a card with "attitude" in honor of their new stamp set Chika' released last night.

When my 15 y/o niece was visiting me I had just received this set and made a card with it...she LOVED it, so I though this would be a fun set to use for this challenge.

I made all of the cupcakes vanilla with pink frosting except for one...it is chocolate with orange frosting, chocolate sprinkles and a sparkly cherry on top and popped up with a dimentional...(I used red stickles to add the bling to the cherry).

The sentiment reads "dare to be different"...which is computer generated. It is my observation that some teenagers work so hard to fit in, while other work very hard to stand out in a crowd...this card represents the latter.

Some more card details...the scalloped circles were made with my circle nestabilities, and for the regular circles I used my creative memories circle cutter. The background of the card is cuttlebugged with divine swirls, and the DSP used is from SU's summer picnic package.

My Niece's b-day is in about a month, so I am thinking about saving this card for her...I hope she will like it!!

Card Details:
Image: What's Up Cupcake - MFT
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Summer Picnic DSP
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Real Red, Regal Rose, Tangerine Tango, So Saffron
Accessories: Ribbon, Circle Nestabilities, 1" circle punch, red stickles, diving swirls embossing folder