Tuesday Morning Sketches #139

Good Morning Crafters -

It's a busy day today!! Here at Tuesday Morning Sketches we have a great sketch and a new sponsor. DT member Jessica designed today's sketch and our sponsor is My Creative Classroom. I've taken a couple of classes from them and have enjoyed them. Be sure to check out their blog and their list of upcoming classes. What's cool is that one person will win a free seat to a class of their choice.

For my card today I used a Workshop on the Go Kit called Mayberry. I bought this set and today is the first day it's seen ink. I feel like I'm just obsessed with buying and then I never use. I need to get better at this and use a lot more of the gazillions of stamp sets that I have.

I spent part of yesterday with TSG DT member, Karen Giron and she taught me how to take better photos and edit them. I hope this looks better than some of the photos I've posted. I think I still have some work to do because it's my old tired eyes having to make all the adjustments!! Either way, I like my card. It came out a lot better than I expected. 

Here is today's sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by. Be sure to stop by the rest of the DT to see their amazing creations. I can't wait to see what you make. 

Have an awesome day! 

Recipe: 
Stamps: Close To My Heart (Mayberry)
Papers: Close To My Heart (Mayberry)
Ink: Close To My Heart (Olive, Holiday Red); Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Ribbon (stash) 

Flowers of Happiness

Good Evening Crafters -

I am a wee bit late with this post. This past week was There She Goes Again! week at There She Goes. I so wanted to play along, but life got in the way for me. I had the images all colored up and just needed to get them onto a card - and I never got that far.

Flowers of Happiness is the name of this set and it was one of my first sets of stamps from There She Goes. I really enjoy coloring flowers (they're the easiest - and my favorite). This set is great because there are 3 different types of flowers, leaves, and great sentiments.

This coming week is release week and is this ever going to be a fabulous week. Be sure to come back for some great new stamp sets. 

Isn't that ribbon just yummy? It was part of my March Ribbon Kit of the Month from The Ribbon Carousel. I think I need to get more - 1 yard is never enough!!

Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome rest of your weekend. 

Recipe: 
Stamps: There She Goes (Flowers of Happiness)
Paper: Bazzill Basics (white); Teresa Collins (Everyday Moments)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Copics
Accessories: Close To My Heart (pearls); The Ribbon Carousel (ribbon)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #138

Good Morning Everyone -

It's a great day at Tuesday Morning Sketches. It's also the first day of Spring - yeah!! I hope that we don't get snow, but it's so cold here tonight you never know what will blow in. This week we have a fabulous sketch by DT member Kathy and a fabulous returning sponsor - The Stamping Boutique.

We are all very excited at TMS - we have reached 500 followers. Now if we could have that many participants how fabulous that would be! To celebrate 500 followers Melissa will send a randomly drawn winner a small prize package containing some ribbons, buttons and a few other fun little embellishments. I will also send the winner a surprise. Here's how to be in the drawing:

1) Play along with the challenge

2) Visit each of the DT blogs to leave a little love

3) Like us on our Facebook page (see sidebar link - on TMS blog)

4) Come back here to link your project and leave a comment here that says I DID IT!!

For my card today I needed a birthday card for my teammate. Her birthday was yesterday and I totally forgot! I really like how this card came out. I would've never thought to put green and purple together and I think it looks awesome! I also learned to use the Cricut Craftroom and pulled the ovals together to make one cut. I still need a bit of work in getting the scallops behind it to be a bit more tighter, but it works. 

I hope that you liked my card. I appreciate your stopping by. 

Have an awesome day!! 

Recipe: 
Stamps: Close To My Heart (Pemberely Workshop on the Go)
Paper: Close To My Heart (Sonoma paper pack)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black and Copics
Accessories: Close To My Heart (pearls); The Ribbon Carousel (seam binding) 

There She Goes Sale!

Good Morning Everyone!


I hope you had a fabulous weekend! It was a beautiful weekend here in Denver. I'm afraid it's the calm before the storm - we always get a huge snow dump in March and so far nothing for this month!!

In the event that it's not so nice where you are, or you're just looking for a reason to buy something, there's a sale going on over at the There She Goes store all this week! Jessica is featuring four stamps sets ~ Hunny Bunnies, Bear Hugs, Flowers of Happiness, and Tweeterpated. For this week only you can get the sets for 15% off!!

Be sure to head over to the There She Goes blog and check out the inspiration all this week featuring past and present Trendsetter cards using these sets. 

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be featuring some of these sets this week my self so be sure to stop back by. 

Have an awesome day!!
 

Stampbook Saturday - There She Goes

Hi All, I am back with photos of Kaylee, my cousin Andrea's daughter and my Stampbook Saturday post. One thing about Andrea is that she is very generous with her children's photos. I am making my own scrapbook of Kaylee. I also made this page to show Andrea how easy and how much better it is to make scrapbook pages with stamps versus stickers.

I saw this card from former Trendsetter, Jackie Rockwell and thought World's Best was the perfect stamp set for these photos. Plus I wanted to show Andrea that you don't always have to color stamped images. TSG stamps are very versatile and there a lot of stamps that just require a stamp pad or are optimal for paper piecing.

So for my scrapbook page I stamped the stems on designer paper and the flowers using the silhouette stamp and the color Cotton Candy from CTMH.

Isn't she the most darling little girl? I tell you she truly is the happiest baby I have ever met. She always has a smile - even when she wakes up. The only time she gets fussy is when she wants to eat (who doesn't right). 

Thanks for stopping by. I can't wait to hear your thoughts. Have an awesome day. 

Recipe: 
Stamps: There She Goes (World's Best) 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Close To My Heart (Cotton Candy and Sweet Leaf)
Paper: Close To My Heart (Lucy-paper pack)
Accessories: Crystal Stickers (pearls); Cricut (Ribbons & Rosettes cartridge)

Anything But a Card

I have had so much fun hosting the There She Goes blog this week. I'm excited that beginning this month Dollar Friday Find was changed to Anything But a Card - now I'm not limited!! Although this project didn't cost me too much (less than $12) it looks like so much more.

For my project today I used the fabulous The Fairy Best stamp set. My dearest cousin Andrea had a little girl about 9 months ago and her name is Kaylee. She is the happiest baby I've ever met. This is for Kaylee. I had to pick the fairies and the colors pink and green. It's befitting for this beautiful little girl.

Sit back, relax and enjoy the photos. I can't wait to hear what you think of my project. I'm sorry that the photos aren't the best, I am still learning to take photos and edit them.

Isn't this just darling. I also want to give credit to where I got the idea. In the new Close To My Heart catalog there is a photo introducing the Lucy paper pack and they made a banner, but mine is better because I have TSG stamps on mine!! 

Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome day!! 

Recipe: 
Stamps: There She Goes (The Fairy Best) 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics 
Paper: Close To My Heart (Lucy); Bazzill Basics (pink)
Accessories: Close To My Heart (buttons, mini banner (chip board) Art Philosophy Cricut cartridge), Crystal Stickers (pearls and elements); Ranger (liquid pearls); ribbon (stash) 

There She Goes Wednesday Trends

As promised - it's another project for There She Goes. Today is my Wednesday Trends Post. I totally love how this card came out.

I like seeing cards where crafters have put backgrounds like clouds, leaves, etc. on their cards. I managed to do clouds, but one afternoon I was using my Cricut and thought about the negative cut that was left when I cut out the image I wanted. I thought why not use the negative to make an image. It's the same concept as making a mask or stencil. So I gave it a try and this is what I came up with. I love the subtle effect. It gives it some texture and doesn't over power the image.

I think it's just darling. I used Love Birds. I hope that you'll head over to the There She Goes blog and see the tutorial I put together. 

I also used the Mojo Monday 232 sketch for the layout of my card. Thanks for the inspiration.

I can't wait to hear what you think of my card. Thanks for stopping by. Have an awesome day!! 

Recipe: 
Stamps: There She Goes (Love Birds) 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Close To My Heart (Heavenly Blue) 
Paper: Bazzill Basics (white); Lost & Found (Sunshine & Portobello Road); Teresa Collins (Everyday Moments); Close To My Heart (Twilight) 
Accessories: Spellbinders Shapeabilities (Fancy Tags); Close To My Heart (button and Art Philosophy Cricut Cartridge); Ribbon Carousel (seam binding)