Monday, January 30, 2023

Valentine's Day Card

 We've got a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we reveal the DT Members examples and announce the 3 winners from the previous weeks challenge. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us!

Here's my take on the sketch


Here's the sketch


I played around with this sketch for quite some time, nothing just seemed to work until I tried a less is more approach. It worked, I love how it came out. I embossed the strip of hearts on white cardstock and layered that on red. The branches were cut with my Cricut and I cut the leaves off and added the punched hearts. Stamped and embossed the sentiment and layered that on top of the branches. 

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Cadence

I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. This months theme is Out with the Old and In with the New. We're trying to use up our older stash before we buy anything new. Yeah, like that's ever gonna happen!


My challenge was to use some ribbon on your page or maybe even some fabric. If you don't have either, which I find hard to believe, lol, you can use twine or even thread.
I started with a white background and covered it in clear gesso so the watercolor background wouldn't make the paper bubble. I sprayed some pink and green Glimmer Mist around the page and then dipped a paint brush in water to push the mist around and thin it out a bit. The layers behind the photo are from a Paper Studio pad called Uptown Flair. The film strip name I picked up years ago at a Scrapbook convention. Unfortunately the company that made them has gone out of business.

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Monday, January 16, 2023

Love Card

 We've got a new card sketch challenge up today at Atlantic Hearts Sketches. Every Monday there's a new card sketch and on Wednesday we reveal all the DT Members examples and announce the top 3 winners. I hope you'll stop by and play along

Here's my card


Here's the sketch


I really liked this sketch a lot, I think it was the 2 thin rectangles that got me. This paper is from a very old DCWV paper pad called The Spring Stack. I cut the thin rectangles and the hearts out with my Cricut and I found the doily in my stash and inked the edges with some Picked Rasberry Oxide Ink.

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Sunday, January 15, 2023

Walking the Boardwalk

We've got a new sketch up over at Sketches in Thyme today. We have a new one each week and if you play along you may win a $10 gift certificate. My layout is about my family's annual trip to the Jersey Shore. This trip was to Ocean City where we walked the boardwalk every night looking for fun things to do and of course eat some yummy treats.

Here's my take on the sketch


Here's the sketch by Jenessa Franco


This was such a fun sketch to work with. I started with a background from Vicki Boutin...it reminded me of water rolling up on the beach. The layering papers are from an old Paper Studio pad called Barnwood Pretty 2. The doily was white and I inked it with gold. The seashell stickers and the saying have been in my stash forever. It always feels good to use up old stash!

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Friday, January 6, 2023

I Love Softball

 I've got a new challenge up at Cookin' Up Creations today. Our theme this month is Out With the Old and In With the New meaning let's use up some of our old stash. We've all got it so let's use it!


So I'm challenging you to use up those stickers, at least 4 of them along with some paper from an older paper pad. And then just for fun do some inking on the old paper.
I've had these softball stickers for a while now and since this was the last year my granddaughter played softball, I really wanted to use them up. The torn papers are from an old Paper Studio pad called Barnwood Pretty. The paper is so thin that I hardly ever use any of it and the pad has 180 pieces of paper.....it'll last me forever!

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Monday, January 2, 2023

Happy 75th

 There's a new card sketch up at Atlantic Hearts Sketches today. We have a new sketch every Monday and on Wednesday we announce the previous week's winners and reveal all the DT members examples. I hope you'll stop by and play along with us.

Here's my card


Here's the sketch


I needed a card for my friends birthday and thought this would be perfect. I started with a black card base and then used papers and stickers from Simple Stories Simple Vintage Lemon Twist collection. The leaves and the blue circle were diecut using MFT dies and the scalloped circle and the sentiment were cut with my Cricut.

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