Beautiful Bouquet

This Week Tuesday Morning Sketches and Double Trouble Paper Crafting are joining challenges.

Here is the sketch

I have a beautiful bouquet of flowers to share.

Double Trouble Thing One challenge is "Keep Calm and Stitch On"

I used the Whimsey Embossing Die Cuts from Stampin' Up! for the border of the white piece. The 2 paper strips are from the stash. The pretty bouquet is from a package of pre-colored floral die cuts that I have lost the label. 

I have a commission to make 2 retirement cards, one for male, one for female. So I just continued with this sketch and did a twofer and threefer.

The sentiments are done on the computer. On the feminine one instead of a strip of paper, I used a piece of netting which came from a package of a variety of specialty textured pieces from a facebook ad. I don't remember the company but I really like all their pieces for accents.

On this masculine one I rotated the sketch and stamped the globe form a Tim Holtz travel set in the background.

Check out all the design team ideas from these 2 blogs to get some inspiration for a creation of your own to share with us. 

You have extra time with this challenge. It will run until December 3. 

Encouragement

 Here we are another week has passed. One week closer to Christmas. I should be working on Christmas cards but I needed a thinking of you card. I used the new sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches

All the papers and sentiment are retired Stampin' UP! Good way to use up some scraps.

I hope you get inspiration from our sketch and share your own creation.

Cute Boots

 This month's challenge at Let's Craft and Create is with a twist of stitching. 

I am using the stitched whimsey die from SU!

The image is a pre colored digi from Wink Wink. Don't you love the pre colored versions? It saves so much time. I am not so good at coloring so these pre colored ones are great for me.. I added my own sentiment on the computer. I popped up a rain cloud at the top. A light brush of Pool Party ink adds a puddle under the boots.

Inside is another computer made sentiment with the same stitched whimsey die around the edges.

Flowers

 Playing today with Time Our Challenges with this gorgeous photo inspiration. They are actually giving away this pretty floral bag as a prize.

My card is made with Stampin" UP! colors of  Seafoam and Melon Mambo

The sentiment is computer made. The flowers, leaves, and butterfly are preprinted die cuts from my stash. I don't remember what company made them. Hard to see in the photo, I winked the butterfly wings and added black Nuvo drops to the body. Then I used a gold gel pen to highlight around the leaves of the flower.

Fun Birthday

 Oh wow! Do you realize there are only 49 more days until Christmas? This is the first week of November. The first Tuesday and election day. Have you voted yet? I am pretty faithful about voting but boy am I disgusted with all the political negative ads on TV.

On a more cheerful note, it is a day for a new fun sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches

I have a fun birthday card to share

The image is a Bugaboo digital. For the scalloped portion of the sketch, I dug out an old pair of deckle edge scissors.  It sort of looks like the irregular edges of cow spots.The background is gingham paper from SU! There was more room on the left of the image so that is where I placed my sentiment.

Inside is a computer made sentiment with "cow spots" accent made with an SU! diaroma die.

I hope you will try our sketch and share your creation on the blog.

2 cards 1 Sketch

This is the newest sketch from Sketch Saturday 

I am working on my stock of get well cards getting ahead of the flu season. 

For Her:

Papers are retired Stampin" UP!. Same sheet, reverse sides. Card stock is Bubble Bath. The stems are from SU Nature's Harvest. The get well is also SU. 3 little sequins to reflect the sparkle of the patterned paper.

Once you figure out the dimensions for one card, you should go ahead and make another.

For Him:

Another Penguin

 I am really having fun with the new Penguin Builder Punch from Stampin' UP!.  

This little guy is having so much fun sliding around on his little frozen pond during snow flurries. 

The E/F is by Cuttlebug. The pond is a diaroma die from SU. The sentiment is also SU.

I winked up the black part of the penguin to make him look shiny. I streaked some Stickles Glitter Glue around the pond to make it look icy.

Check out the other 2 penguin cards here

I am entering this at  Just Us Girls challenge CAS #704 with the prompt to  use just the center of your card.

Fall Theme

Last Tuesday of October and it is Halloween. I am sharing more of a general fall theme card for this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches

The papers are from Carta Bella and Park Lane. The rest is from Stampin' UP!

Inside I stamped and colored 2 more pumpkins.

I hope you will check out the design team inspiration and share a creation of your own.

Penguins

 Penguins are one of my favorite zoo animals. I would love to see them in their natural habitat but don't like the cold that much. I bought the new Penguin Builder punch from Stampin' Up! I love it so much I couldn't stop playing with it. 

The background paper is from my mountain of Christmas papers. The sentiment I've had for a long time. It may be from My Favorite Things. 

And a twofer:

See, I told you I couldn't stop playing with it. Their little feet can be positioned in front to make it look like sitting or in the back to look like standing. The white piece is die cut with a curvy die from SU. Background papers again from the stash. I added some small punched snowflakes and coated them with glitter glue. They really do sparkle but the photo doesn't show it well.

Entering this also at NBUS

A Dog Christmas

A cute dog card for Cardz 4 Galz challenge #210 dogs/puppies.

The 2 patterns are from a Memories and More card pack from Stampin' Up! The dog is fussy cut out of one of the coordinating papers. Doesn't he look so proud of himself all decorated for Christmas? The sentiment is an old one from my stash.