Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Kinda Eclectic Thinking of You

Here's another card for you for this week's Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch challenge.  Not sure what I think of this card, but it will have to do.  It is a lot prettier in person since it has one of my favorite things on it...shimmer. :)  I just couldn't get it to show no matter how many pics I took.  Anyway I've been wanting to use the new set Kinda Eclectic from Stampin' Up! and finally had my chance. 


I did skip one of the strips on like on the sketch, but it was SO much easier to divide my piece of card stock into just four pieces.  Yup, guess I was just being lazy...and running out of time!
Make sure you check out what the design team made HERE and if you get a chance play along too. :)


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Supplies used on this card:





Friday, August 8, 2014

Corner Garden Display

Today's card is a little different than my norm, but I still like it. :)  I know, the top right of the card is a little bare, but I decided to wait until I knew what I was going to use my card for before putting words on it.  And since it's Friday any of you that follow me regularly know this card is for the Friday Mashup challenge.  This week's fun challenge is from Lynda and it is... 


Create a project with " Melon Mambo, Wild Wasabi, Basic Black & Whisper White". 
Create a project with a "Wood Element".
or Mash it Up! and create a " Project using the colors above & a Wood element". 



I did say the first time I used the Corner Garden stamp I would emboss it instead of color it and that's exactly what I did!  I used the VersaMark Pad and stamped it on Basic Black card stock and embossed it with white embossing powder.  Then I did the same thing except on Whisper White and carefully cut out the flowers and leaves from the white card stock.  Then I used my sponges to color in each of my flowers.   I could have colored it with Blendabilities markers, but I love sponging so I opted for that to get Melon Mambo and Wild Wasabi on my card.  I also ran one piece of Whisper White card stock through the Woodgrain embossing folder to get the wood element part of the challenge.


Make sure you head over to the Friday Mashup challenge HERE to see what the other designers created for this challenge.


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Supplies used for this card:

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Train Traveler

Today I have another masculine card for you.  Surprised?  Probably not.  I made these cards for a card swap with the Red Hot Stampers.  It's always fun to be involved in a swap.  I definitely got a lot of great cards from it!  I'll have to share them with you later on.  


This card wasn't too difficult to make.  I brayered the naturals vanilla card stock with Crumb Cake, then Soft Suede and finished with Early Espresso.  Then I stamped the World Map stamp in Soft Suede.  To stamp the train on both pieces of card stock I first stamped it with Early Espresso on the Soft Suede card Stock, then put my Naturals Ivory card stock exactly where I wanted it, used my Stamp-a-ma-jig and stamped onto the Naturals Vanilla and it matched perfectly.  If you don't have a stamp-a-ma-jig I'd consider buying one.  You can line images up, place an image exactly on your card stock where you want it, and definitely no more crooked sentiments if you have this great tool!  Since I don't have a lot of candy dots, but wanted them on the 13 cards I made I punched out some circles about the same size as the candy dots, put them on my silicone craft sheet, dropped a bit of  crystal effects on them and let them dry (give it a good six hours for candy dot size to dry).  They turn out the color of the paper you use underneath them. :)  I used Early Espresso on this card.


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Supplies for Train Traveler:

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Punch Art and Pom Poms Winner...

So I totally didn't post who won my card for Punch Art and Pom Poms yesterday.  The Winner is Kim P.  Congrats, Kim. :)  I was told by a few people that they didn't know how to post on my blog, so I guess if I do something like this again I'll have to write a list of everyone who comments on all of my galleries and go from there.  Maybe I'll get a better turnout that way too! lol


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara 

Friday, August 1, 2014

Punch Art & Pom Poms

Happy Friday Everyone!  I'm SO glad it's here. :)  Since it's Friday you all know that it's time for a card for the Friday Mashup challenge, and I have a fun card to share with you...at least I hope you think it's fun!  If you do keep on reading to see how you can win it! :) This week our challenge is from Avery...and boy did she challenge us, but WOW did the design team come up with some great cards!  Here is this round's challenge...

Create a project with "Pom Poms".
Create a project with "Punch Art:
or Mash it Up! and create a "Punch Art project with Pom Poms on it".

I have to say I had NO idea what to do for this at first since I was determined to mash things up.  But then I started thinking about palm trees and maybe how I could make the pom poms their leaves, then that made me think about the funky Dr. Seuss trees.  Yes, my mind totally wanders like that!  Does yours? lol  Anyway, after thinking about Dr. Seuss tress I started thinking about Horton Hears a Who.  That's when my older daughter informed me I was thinking of the wrong movie and she told me to look up The Lorax.  Yup, those were the trees I was thinking of!  Now how to create the Lorax???  I asked her to grab me my owl punch and things started flying from there.  She tossed my bitty butterfly punch on the table and said use this (look at his head, mustache and eyebrows...totally made using that punch!).  Then it was time for her to go to bed and that meant me too since her "room" is kind of in my craft room right now. lol  Can you imagine having and idea in your head and not being able to run with it right then and there.  Yup, she totally did that to me, but I survived...whew!




Make sure you head on over to the Friday Mashup blog HERE to see what the other designers made and to play along because we'd love to see what you can create too!


Ok...would you like a chance to win this card?  If so just let me know by posting a comment on my blog  here at the bottom of my post.  Yup, that's all you need to do have a chance at winning this card...post a comment. :)  I'll be using a random number generator on Excel to chose the number for me.  I'll post the winner next Monday the 4th so stay tuned.  If this goes over well maybe I'll have to give it a try again in a month.


Thanks for looking and have a great day!
Sara

Stamp Set:  Bloom with Hope (stem for tree trunks) & retired b-day stamp
Card Stock:  Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight & Whisper White
Classic Stampin' Pads:  Pumpkin Pie & Daffodil Delight 
(used for light sponging on the Lorax),
Soft Sky, Pool Party, Island Indigo,
Pear Pizzazz & Old Olive (brayered background)
Memento Ink:  Tuxedo Black
Stampin' Write Marker:  Basic Gray (trees), Island Indigo & Basic Black (eyes)
Punches:  Owl Builder (Body, hands & feet), 
Cupcake Builder (circles for eyes and nose, but cut down),
Bitty Butterfly (head, mustache & eyebrows)
& retired 3-heart punch (for arms...legs were hand cut from owl punch)
Pom Poms are from Sale-a-bration 2014 Deisgner kit Heartfelt Banner
Brayer & Sponges