Thinking of You

Wow, I had a hard time coming up with a card for this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch challenge.  It really shouldn't be that hard, but between my new job, trying to prep for my stamp a stacks and keep up with all my sketch challenges I feel like I'm striking out!  Simple...I need to think clean and simple!  Not that this is bad, just not what I was thinking it was going to be.  I do love the colors together though. :)  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Happy Watercolor & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Calypso Coral & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pad:  Calypso Coral

Stampin' Write Markers:  Calypso Coral & Basic Black

StazOn:  Black

Embossing Folder:  Fancy Fan

Punches:  Modern Label & Word Window

Smooch Spritz: Vanilla Shimmer

Love Banner

Today's card is brought to you by the Dynamic Duos color challenge.  I need a Valentine's card for this month's stamp a stack and liked the thought of using black and pink for the card.  I skipped the option of umbrellas for this sketch since it didn't go with my theme and I don't have one!  Of course I had to use a few new goodies from Sale-a-bration which starts soon!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Banner Blast & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Basic Black, Melon Mambo & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Melon Mambo; StazOn:  Black

Embossing Folder:  Decorative Dots

Punches:  Full Heart, Small Heart,

 Heart to Heart (retired) & Banner

Thank You Stars

It's time for another Friday Mashup challenge and this week challenge is from Lisa.  Her challenge for us is...

Create a project with "Stars."

Create a set of "Thank you Cards with Matching Envelopes". 

Or Mash it Up and create a set of "Thank you Cards & Envelopes using Stars."

Believe it or not I hardly have any stamps with stars on them.  I had to dig through my sets and found one in a sale-a-bration set Banner Blast.  I've been seeing a lot of cards made using this set, but they all use the banner.  Not me since I'm all about stars today. lol  I decided to make 3x3 cards since I think they're so cute and if I don't use them myself I can give them away as a gift for someone else to use. :)  

Don't forget to check out what the other designers made HERE, and to play along if you get the chance!

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Banner Blast & Sassy Salutations

Card Stock:  Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding,

Coastal Cabana,  Wisteria Wonder & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Strawberry Slush, Pistachio Pudding,

Coastal Cabana & Wisteria Wonder

Punch:  Star (retired)

Pretty Petite Petals

It's Tuesday, so that means it's time for another sketch challenge from Try Stampin' on Tuesday.  It's a great sketch this week and the twist is "well worn".  Don't forget to check out what the other designers made this week HERE.  It's my in-law's anniversary later this week so I thought this would be a great sketch for an anniversary card.  

While working on this card I was hoping to stamp the piece under the flowers directly on the card stock so I wouldn't have to cut the shape out.  I'll do fussy cutting, but would rather skip it if I can! lol  As you can see I ended up cutting it out, but I also managed to get the "words" from the embossing folder onto the stamped image.  How did I do it?  It was actually on accident!

I embossed a scrap piece of paper to see if I could actually stamp over the embossed words.  As you can see in the pic below it didn't work out too well.  Only the cursive embossed letters got ink on them.  However when I turned my stamp over and looked at it this is what I saw.  I thought to myself, "Hmm...cool!  Let's see what it looks like after I stamp it again."  So I huffed on the stamp to get it damp again and stamped it... 

and this is the image I got. :)  I thought it was pretty cool and thought I'd share it with anyone who reads my blog.

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Petite Petals, Everything Eleanor & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Soft Suede, Crumb Cake & Very Vanilla

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Soft Suede

Embossing Folder:  Pretty Print (retired)

Punch:  Petite Petals

Jewels:  Basic Pearls

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Sponges

Soft Serene Silhouettes

This is another fun sketch I had to work with from the Red Hot Stampers.  Not sure why I went with purples, but that's what popped into my mind when I saw the sketch. :)  I just might use this as one of my stamp a stack cards, but use sponges instead of the brayer for the background.  

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets:  Serene Silhouettes & Express Yourself

Card Stock:  Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder,

Pink Pirouette & Basic Black 

StazOn:  Black

Embossing Folder:  Fancy Fan

Punches:  Large Oval, 3/4" Circle & Scallop Edge Border

Brayer & Sponges

Love You

It's Friday Mashup time again and today's challenge is from Heidi.  What is the challenge?

Create a project using the Colors "Coastal Cabana, Real Red & Crumb Cake."

Create a project using "Hearts & Arrows. "

Or Mash it Up and create a project using "the above colors along with Hearts & Arrows."

This was a fun challenge to work with and I think my card turned out pretty cute...and it's pretty clean and simple.  Love that about it! :)  Too bad the words "love you" don't show up in the pic.  Not sure what happened there, but I can see it just fine when looking at the card. :)

Head on over to the Friday Mashup HERE and check out all the other cute Valentine's Day cards from the other designers.

I had to use the left over heart pieces and put them on the inside for a little more fun. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Set:  Hardwood & Express Yourself 

Card Stock:  Real Red, Coastal Cabana & Crumb Cake

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Coastal Cabana & Crumb Cake

Punches:  Smalll Heart & Banner (Sale-a-bration 2014!)

Framelits:  Hearts Collection

Smooch Spritz:  Vanilla Shimmer

Walk in the Wild Christmas

Hi everyone...ready for another Christmas card?  I know, it's been a few weeks since Christmas, but here at Tis the Season we're creating Christmas cards all year long!  Today's challenge was a hard one for me!  I just wasn't sure what to make and finally decided the closest thing I had to a deer was a moose.  Now to make that into a Christmas card! lol  I decided to put the moose out by the moonlight and to be safely inside while looking at him through the window.  Not the perfect window, but I wanted to get the "wooden" look since that was a part of the Inspiration Photo Challenge.  It was definitely a good challenge and I love the way my card turned out.  Now I know the hunters in the family will be getting this card for Christmas, although it would make a great masculine birthday card too. :)

Now on to the inspiration photo challenge.  Don't forget to visit us HERE to play along and check out what the other designers created.  Lots of different great ideas. :)

Thanks for looking and have a great day!

Sara

Stamp Sets: Walk in the Wild, Hardwood & Teeny Tiny Wishes

Card Stock:  Island Indigo, Night of Navy  & Whisper White

Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pacific Point, Island Indigo,

 Night of Navy & Basic Black (to color in moose).

StazOn:  Black

Punches:  1 3/8" Square (retired), Decorative Label,

Modern Label, 1" Circle & Small Oval

Candy Dots:  Regals

Brayer