Wisteria Romance

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with great food, family and friends.  We sure did!  We ate too much and had a wonderful time visiting with family.  I generally don't venture out on Black Friday, as there really isn't anything I need so bad that I will be at a store @ 4a or battle an unruly crowd.  So, here I sit with a card to share.  The ladies over @ Sketch Frenzy Friday have a sketch that I am sure you will love.

Here is what I did with it:

For me this is not my typical card.  I love layers and embellishments and this and that.  So, here is a lot of white space.  The card is pretty simple.  My main panel is actually a piece of water color paper.  I stamped the floral image in Staz-On jet black.  I used the reindeers to water color the flowers with my aqua painter.  I created the large scallop from a scrap piece of silver glitter paper.  I tied a piece of the ruffle ribbon in Wisteria Wonder.  My sentiment is the tiny tag, that I attached to the simple knot with a tiny safety pin.   To jazz up the simple image, I added half pearls and rhinestones to the flower centers.

I hope you have an opportunity to play along with us @ SFF!  We would love to see what you create with this fabulous sketch!

happy crafting.  hugs, Sharon W.

yellow and blue

This has been my first whole week back to work.  And, all I can say, is that I am happy for the weekend.  I'll be spending this weekend cleaning out a few closets and organizing my ribbon 'collection'.  {smile}  I don't know why, but when I get my crafting space cleaned up, it feels wonderful.  I know, how silly.

Anyways, today is Friday.  And so that means its time for another blog hop with Sketch Frenzy Friday.  Robbie is our hostess this week.  so that means that she has designed the sketch that we are working with.  And let me say, Robbie has given us a very workable sketch.  If you create a card without any embellishing, you'd have a CAS card.  Or, you can embellish it, like I did, and create beautiful card.  Let's look at Robbie's sketch.

Here is Robbie's sketch:

And here is what I did with it:

I had a lot of fun creating this card.  The card base is pool party card stock.  The pattern paper is from the Comfort Cafe DSP.  The ribbon is new this year.  The ribbon color is summer starfruit.  I gave the ribbon a few pleats for visual interest.  I used a piece of water color paper to create the tag.  I stamped the floral image from Bordering Romance stamp set in Jet black Staz-On pigment ink.  I used re-inkers and an aqua marker to 'paint' in the image.  I added rhinestone jewels to the flower centers and pearl jewels to the tiny floral centers.  I stacked two different sizes and card stocks of butterflies.  The sentiment banner was created with a scrap piece of very vanilla card stock and basic black classic ink.

Now continue on with our blog hop, and stop on by Tammy F.'s blog to see what she has done with Robbie's sketch.

Thank you for looking.  Now, lets see what you create!  

Sweet

This week, has been very busy!  Yesterday, I ran a bunch of errands in the morning, and went to the grocery store in the afternoon.  While at the store, I picked up several pints of fresh strawberries.  I made Strawberry Lemony Jam and Vanilla Strawberry Jam.  I don't really know what came over me.  Just an urge to do some canning.  I have only done the water bath canning.  I have never done any pressure canning.  Maybe that will be something I do, once our garden starts producing some green beans and tomatoes.

Ok, enough rambling about my Martha Stewart adventures.  Today, is a sketch challenge over @ Stampin' Queens Sketch Challenge.    Love the sketch, but I really couldn't get it to work as is.  So, I turned the sketch on it's side, and stretched out the circle to create an oval shape.  I added an embellishment where the sentiment is.

I needed a little more inspiration.  So, I headed over to CR84FN Color Challenge.  And look at these pretty colors.  I am a huge fan of pink and brown.  And when I saw the colors: Medium Pink, Tan, and cream, I fell in love with it.  I used crumb cake in place of tan.  

So, here is my card:

I used some crumb cake dsp to give my card some visual interest. I thought the plain solid card stock was too boring, no excitement.  I used the bordering on romance stamp set.  I used the aqua painter 'color' the blossoms with pretty in pink and pink pirouette re-inkers.  The sentiment was stamped in crumb cake classic ink.  The butterflies were cut from silver glitter paper.  I tied a scrap piece of pretty in pink taffeta ribbon around the middle of the card to cover up the seam of the two pattern papers.

I hope you to get a chance to play along with us over @ Stampin' Queens Sketch Challenge.  Thank you for stopping by.  I'll post a photo or two of my home-made Strawberry Jams, soon.

It's week #22 over @ Stampin' Queens Sketch Challenge! and they have a super cute sketch for us to work with!  Here is the sketch:

This sketch has alot of potential, which is what I like.  I love a sketch that has shapes that are interchangeable and pattern that are easy to work with.  Well, this is it.  So, please play along with us.

I am also entering this card is an exclusive challenge that Stampin' Up! is hosting to those demonstrators who are attending Leadership this year.  The challenge, use a new stamp set from the Occasions mini, and win a prize.  So, here is one of the cards that I am entering in both the SU! leadership challenge and the Stampin' Queens Sketch Challenge.

The new DSP is Twitterpated.  Isn't it just beautiful?  The stamp set I used is called Bordering on Romance.  It's an outline stamp, so you can use all sorts of coloring mediums to make this image so pretty.  To color these flowers, I did use the water color crayons and an aqua painter.  I love how smooth and easy it is to color with this medium.  I did cut the shape out of water color paper, with the new Labels Collections framelits die..  I stamped the flowers in jet black Staz-On.  I had to use the tasteful trims die with the first edition dsp. I love the soft feminine colors of this card, so I just had to add the mini vintage tag.  The 'hand crafted' stamp is from the Tiny Tags stamp set.  I just love the small size of these stamps.  And that cute little button is a Twitterpated designer button.  How cute is that?  So, play along with us and wish me luck on this challenge @ Stampin' Up!