Art Impressionism

 Can you believe this is the last Tuesday of October. Christmas is coming fast and I have been working furiously on Christmas and other cards for a Christmas Marketplace coming next weekend. 

Melissa has a fun new sketch for us at Tuesday Morning Sketches

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I have a 6x6 pack of paper from SU! that looks like impressionist art. I had 3 2" strips left over so trimmed them to use here.

For the focal point, I used SU Painted Poppies. I colored the stamp with markers and then stamped it on a piece of white. It gives a bit of a watercolor look. The sentiment is an old unlabeled one. 

Inside is a computer sentiment and I stamped a single flower from the same set.

I look forward to see how you will interpret the sketch. 

 

When you find a good sketch, you should just use it again.

Frosty the Snowman

 Tuesday Morning Sketches has a new sketch by Debbie. 

You know shapes are a suggestion. You can use any shape and orientation you like as long as the sketch is evident. I flipped my side to side and used a snowman for the oval.

I die cut 3 sizes of circles to make the snowman. I glued it just off the edge and then trimmed the excess, The hat is made with a trimmed down rectangle die with a black strip and red strip at the bottom of it. Die cut holly leaves and red sparkly dot accent the hat. I fussy cut a nose and scarf. A sharpie was used for the eyes, mouth and buttons. Red ink on a q-tip made the rosy cheeks. The black gingham is from SU backed by red and glued to a white card base. The sentiment is SU on a fish tail banner. I added 3 silver glitter paper die cut snowflakes. 

I look forward to seeing how you interpret our sketch.

JOY Tag

 New challenge this week at The Paper Players is "Tag Your It

When I was searching through Christmas stuff, I found a metal stencil I don't even remember having.  I pulled it out and made a bunch of Christmas tags with it. When this challenge came up, I decided to use one of the tags on a card.

I started with a Kraft card base. The red stripe background is retired Stampin" Up!, The red stripes are not as bright as Real Red and not as dark as Cherry Cobbler. The tagis vanilla from JoAnn's. I sponged red around the tag to make it stand out.  For the stencil, I used Real Red, Balmy Blue, and Mossy Meadow with a red glitter gel pen for the holly berries. A Cherry Cobbler ribbon ties it all up.  

Peace.

 For this week's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches, 

I have chosen a serene blue peaceful card.

The card base is Blueberry. The paper is retired from Stampin" Up!, The paper is 6x6. I cute the 4" x 5 1/4 and split it off center. The center rectangle is from the remaining 2" strip. The sentiment is from SU. The pine branch is also Blueberry swiped with some white ink. A punched snowflake anchors the corner. I used some clear glitter glue on the snowflake to make it sparkle.

I hope you have some time to create this week and share a creation with us.

Autumn

 Today is a new sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches.  This is a fun one. I look forward to seeing how everyone  interprets it.

I have a parody on a Christmas song:

It's beginning to look a lot like autumn, everywhere you go, take a look at the reds and  yellows, clinging to the trees....

I used a Darice E/F for the leafy background and sponged lightly with yellow, orange, and red. I used Stampin" Up!'s curvy dies to cut the layers of orange, yellow, and red. I used alcohol markers and alcohol to color a piece of vellum and stamped leaves from Serendipity Stamp. The vellum alone did not show up well so I backed it with white. The sentiment is an old unlabeled one. This was all placed on Kraft card base.

Go on over to the blog and check out the design team makes. I hope you have some time this week to craft and share a creation with us. 

Nativity

 October 1st--time to get busy on those Christmas cards. A good opportunity is using this new sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketche

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You can always change the shape--just so the sketch is recognizable. I used a rectangle.

The back ground is a scrap from SU. This sweet image is from Stampendous. I colored it, then cut it with a deckled edge rectangle. I cut another frame from the same rectangle. Adding a silver and white ribbon anchors the image. 

I hope you get some time to create this week and will share with us at