wednesday with a jillian vance design...

Hey friends!!  Popping in to let you know that I have my weekly post up on the A Jillian Vance Design blog today.  Here is a little peek of my card:

I hope you will take the time to head over to the AJVD blog, have a look and let me know what you think.   Thanks for stopping by today...

ETA:  Big thank you to my sweet friend Greta for alerting me to the fact that I had not included the photo of my project or the links!! 

rain or shine...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a card that is very appropriate for this time of year in the Pacific Northwest.  I put together this card for the current Paper Players challenge (rain or shine), as well as the March Viva la Verve sketch challenge.  Viva la Verve switched from havign four sketch each month challenge to having two sketches per month and I'm still having trouble participating!!  Hoping that will change with this month.  When I saw the Paper Players challenge I just had to play along and use one of my favorite Verve sets:  Rain or Shine.  Still on a quest to use up my stash of 6x6 paper pads and I made another small dent when I made this card.  I used some sweet papers from the My Mind's Eye Sweetest Thing Tangerine pad.  Absolutely no die cutting on this card which was kinda weird for me.  I don't think I have made a card without die cutting at least the main panel in ages!  I stamped the umbrellas on to the patterned paper using orange and dark pink inks and then trimmed them out.  The umbrellas were stamped again on the sentiment panel using the same inks.  I added some partial embossing to the pink main panel before adding the patterned paper.  The edges were then roughed up with a distressing tool.  I cut the sentiment panel, stamped the sentiment and the umbrellas, roughed up the edges and adhered it to the main panel.  Finished by adding my paper pieced umbrellas. 

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  white and pink cardstock; My Mind's Eye patterned paper; Stamps: Verve Rain or Shine; Inks: Tuxedo Black, SU! Pumpkin Pie and Melon Mambo; Embossing folder:  SU! Decorative Dots

24 karat friend...

Hey friends!!  Popping in with a card that I made for the current Essentials by Ellen Mix It Up challenge (mixing Essentials by Ellen products with Pretty Pink Posh products), as well as the current Fusion challenge.  I think I will also post this to the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of touchy feely since the glitter paper has a nice texture to it.   For the challenge I used the Essentials by Ellen Hello Gorgeous set and since the only Pretty Pink Posh products I own are sequins I used those  (4mm gold and 6mm sparkling clear).  Obviously I only followed the sketch portion of the Fusion challenge.  I die cut my panel from white cardstock and then die cut a strip of gold glitter paper using the same die for a cleaner look.  A thin strip of black cardstock was cut to add additional contrast.  I stamped the gems using Delicata Golden Glitz ink and then over stamped the sentiment using Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  Love how it turned out.  Finished things off with the sequins, but I'm not super pleased with how they look.  Definitely need to get some PPP 6mm gold sequins... not really sure why I don't have any, lol!  I must say that the Pretty Pink Posh gold sequins are some of the prettiest I have seen.  The gold is a nice warm gold... love it!

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp fog, Recollections white, PTI black, My Favorite Things Gold Sparkle; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen Hello Gorgeous; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Rectangle Backdrop; Inks:  Tuxedo Black, Delicata Golden Glitz; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh

sparkly stuff...

Hey friends!!  Happy Friday!!  Got some time on Thursday to make another card... YAY... and created this one for a few challenges:  Reverse Confetti March Sketch for You to Try, Merry Monday Christmas challenge (tropical) and Color Throwdown.   When I first saw the current Merry Monday challenge I wasn't sure I would be able to play along, but when I saw Bonnie's card using a flamingo I knew right away that I would go in the same direction and use my RC Fabulous Flamingos stamp set along with sentiment from Tinsel 'n Trim.  Using the colors from Color Throwdown made it a bit more tricky, but I think I came up with a pretty cool looking Christmas card.   I die cut and stamped the flamingo using dark pink ink and then wrapped a little bit of tinsel trim around the flamingo's neck.  The tag was die cut using the RC Tag Me die and the squares using the RC Shakers 'n Frames die set.  I had to hunt around through alots of stamp sets in order to find one that had a small Santa style hat that I could use for my flamingo, but finally came up with something.  I stamped the hat on white cardstock and then on the teal, carefully trimmed them out and then adhered the teal piece to the full hat.  I added some crystal Ice Stickles for a bit of sparkle.   I stamped the sentiment on the tag and then added the flamingo.  Layered everything up and I was done.

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Supplies:  Cardstock:  white, Stampin Up! Taken with Teal; Patterned paper:  My Mind's Eye Kate & Co; Stamps:  Reverse Confetti; Dies:  Reverse Confetti; Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Melon Mambo; Tinsel Trim:  Michaels; Ice Stickles; Hemptique teal hemp twine

you're my kind of peep...

Hey friends!!  Finally got a chance to make a card for a few challenges.   I recently got the Simon Says Stamp March card kit and so I pulled it out to make this fun card.  I'm going to be posting it to the following challenges:  Freshly Made Sketches, AAA Cards (embossing) and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (touchy feely).   Originally I die cut the little bunny peeps from some of the patterned paper in the kit, but then decided to use some of the felt I have had for several years now and never used!  I used black ink to add the little faces to my peeps once they were die cut.  That is the "touchy feely" element I added to the card.  The sentiment was stamped on the white cardstock strip using VersaMark watermark ink, black embossing powder applied and heat set.  I tried to get a close up of the sentiment in hopes that it would show the embossing, but it still just looks like I stamped the sentiment with black ink so you will just have to take my word for it...  After die cutting my panels from the dark pink cardstock and the patterned paper I layered everything up and then finished the card off with a few sequins.  Pretty cute don't you think?

Thanks for stopping by today...

Supplies:  Cardstock:  Simon Says Stamp white and Doll Pink; Patterned paper:  Carta Bella Spring; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp My Kind of Peep; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and Simon Says Stamp My Kind of Peep; Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black, VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing powder: Filigree Black Fine Detail; Sequins:  Lawn Fawn; Felt:  My Favorite Things

wednesday with ajvd...

Happy Wednesday everyone!!  Just popping in to let you know that I have post up on the AJVD blog today.  Here is a little peek of my card:

 

I hope you will pop over to the AJVD blog, have a peek and tell me what you think!  Thanks for stopping by today...