Just Because...

I made this card before Valentine's Day, with no intention of using it as a Valentine card. The layout is from a January sketch challenge my friend Joanne runs on the gallery forum of our LSS, and you know how much I {heart} sketches. 

I picked up the two large chipboard hearts at my LSS and knew exactly what I wanted to do with them. The scalloped heart is inked with Chocolate Chip to provide a good base colour. Then I covered the other heart with adhesive and set to work using up some ribbon scraps. Not sure what I was thinking, but I was convinced this card would put a dent in my scraps drawer. I think I'd need to make a hundred of these before I'd see a change in that ribbon drawer! LOL! The top heart is punched from Pink Pirouette then I added Hero Arts gemstones all around the edge. 

The papers are from Making Memories Paperie line and I stitched around the edge for some interest...my Janome was acting up though and the tension is all wonky...oh well. The rubon is from SU along with the chocolate grosgrain ribbon. 

Hey, I just now realized there isn't any stamping at all on this card...hmmm...how did I allow that to happen?  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

Swinging Friend...huh?

What were you thinking? LOL! It's a cute swinging Elzybell of course! I was feeling rather uninspired last night, eventhough I had been to my LSS in the afternoon and picked up this great Bella BLVD "Swing Into Spring" paper. I didn't end up stamping at all yesterday...gasp! But, as I was lying in bed, my mind started to put this cute little card together. The name of the paper is what totally inspired this card, and I remembered I have this sweet Elzybell on a Swing stamp. Of course I got this big grin on my face as I imagined how the card would look...and I drifted off to sleep, excited to know what I'd be stamping this morning.  :)

The image is stamped with Memento ink and coloured with copics. I shaded the blue around her with the technique that Candice shows in this great copic tutorial on Splitcoast. I love, love, LOVE the result!!! I drew in some grass with a fine black marker the coloured it with little swirls to look like the background paper. The image is cut out with oval Nestabilities and layered onto Pink Pirouette and Chocolate Chip. 

For the background I sewed a combo stitch around the edge. Can I tell you that I LOVE sewing!!! Not on clothes or fabric of course...just paper. Same as I don't iron clothes (well, rarely anyway) but I'd iron ribbon {grin}. Both patterned papers are layered onto Chocolate Chip and the card base is Gina K 120lb pure luxury cardstock. 

The ribbon is from my LSS...I think. The sentiment is also from AMuse and I cut it out with the smallest of the Spellbinders tags trio and attached it with a white jump ring (which you can't really see in the photo). 

The final layout ended up being the Feb card sketch challenge from my LSS gallery.

I really hope spring is on the way soon! Snow snow go away...bring instead a sunny day!

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Karen

Monster Bash

A really quick post for today. I'm exhausted...we were in Florida all weekend for a whirlwind of Super Bowl activities. I know, I know...you really don't have any pity for me for being at Super Bowl and now being tired...I completely understand. It certainly was a SUPER weekend though!   :)

I made this card a while back and forgot to share it here. My LSS started an online gallery (which anyone can join, by the way) and my friend Joanne runs a sketch challenge for the gallery. 

This card uses the layout from the first sketch challenge in January.

I was in my 'boy cards' mode when I did this one. The stamp is from the Night Light set by October afternoon. It's such a cute set, with different little monsters. I'd been "visiting" the set at my LSS, Right at Home Scrapbooking, for a while now so I figured it was time to "adopt" it cause it would be so much fun for boy cards.

The little monster is stamped with Memento black onto Gina K pure luxury cardstock and coloured with copics. I made the little banner 'happy birthday' cause I wanted it to look like he was holding the sentiment (which is from SU Bitty Birthday). Of course, he was just calling out for googly eyes...LOVE the googlies! The image is layered on orange patterned paper, then onto Night of Navy and Garden Green.

The card base is Gina K 120lb pure luxury, followed by some Night of Navy. The patterned papers are from Pebbles Inc. School Days line. I did a little piercing around the perimeter of the card, then added some buttons. The image looked like it was just floating in the middle of the card so I anchored it with some navy grosgrain ribbon and brass Hodgepodge. 

Hmmmm...looks like this post ended up being about the same length as my regular ones...so much for a quick post. See, I get energized when I do anything stamping related.   :)

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Karen