Sweet Sunday Plane Awesome

It's time for this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge, SSSC221.

I had fun making this masculine birthday card for one of my flying friends. I flipped the sketch to work with how I envisioned the card. I love it when a plan in my head comes together on paper. One little boo-boo I did notice though, after my card was completely assembled (of course!), is the vertical blue strip should be going overtop of the orange layer. Oops!

But then I wouldn't have been able to add as much dimension. Check it out!

The image is from the Plane Awesome stamp set from Taylored Expressions and I used the coordinating die to cut out the plane. There is a 'happy birthday' sentiment in the set but it's curved and I wanted a straight sentiment, so I used one from Pure Innocence All Occasion Sentiments by MFT.

I decorated the inside and stamped a sentiment from Plane Awesome along with the other airplane image.

I hope you'll play along with this week's sketch and link your creation on Karen's blog. Now it's time to hop around and see what the rest of the Sweet Sunday Stampers created.

Barbara Anders

Dana White (she's taking this week off)

Jackie Pedro

Jenny Peterson

Jodi Collins

Lisa Henke

Lori Tecler

Lynn Put

Sarah-Jane Kalé

Tracy Clemente

Vicki Burdick

and Karen Giron

Here are the supplies I used:

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Thanks for stopping by!

Karen

It's Your Birthday

Happy Monday friends!!!

I'm honoured to be playing along with Taylored Expressions today. The 5th birthday bash is continuing this week with the Share Joy Campaign benefiting Union Rescue Mission of Los Angeles, Prodigal's Home of Phoenix, and Iowa Homeless Youth Shelter. These wonderful charities work tirelessly to bring comfort and care to many homeless individuals and families throughout the year. One way they are sharing joy each and every day is by celebrating the birthdays of their members, and you can help by sending in your handmade birthday cards!

These charities need birthday cards of all kinds: child, adult, baby, so send in your funny, sweet, elegant and masculine works of art and know that you'll be brightening someone's day in a way that only a handmade card can.

It's a wonderful opportunity to donate some of the cards we make (and I know that I definitely have more cards in my stash than I can send) to be given to deserving people. Read all the details on the Taylored Expressions Blog. Card size is restricted to A2 only please, and you do not need to include envelopes.

I created a fun, masculine birthday card using Joan's colour challenge. I love these bright colours for a birthday card!

I started with a Sweet Tooth card base then added a layer of Banana Split. The patterned paper is from the My Mind's Eye Fly a Kite collection.

I used the It's Your Birthday stamp for the sentiment, stamping it with Memento Tuxedo Black onto X-Press It Blending Card, then I coloured it with copic markers. I gave the letters three coats with my clear glaze pen so they're super shiny in real life.

Don't forget to hop over to the Taylored Expressions blog for all the Share Joy Campaign details, and for a list of today's participants. There will be challenges each day this week to inspire you to play along.

Here are the supplies I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen

Bicycle Trio

I'm back today to share another project for the Splitcoast Love Fest challenges. This one was for the day 9 "A Little Love" challenge sponsored by Taylored Expressions.

I created a trio of 3x3 notecards using the In the Park stamp set. I'd forgotten just how fun it is to make small notecards and how quickly they come together!

I started with a card base of Kraft cardstock then added a layer of Berrylicious, which I ran through my swiss dots embossing folder. Then I stamped the bicycle image with Memento Tuxedo Black onto X-Press It Blending card and coloured the bikes with copic markers. No fancy shading...just straight colouring, which is why I forgot to take a picture of the markers I used. I used my Circle 1 STAX Die-namics to cut out the images and stitched them in place. The I used my Fishtail Flags Layers STAX Die-namics to cut out the Orange Fizz and Wild Cherry sentiment flags. I attached them along the bottom of the cards then added Orange Fizz and Wild Cherry buttons tied with Hemp Cord.

Here's the orange bike:

Here's the red bike:

And here's the blue bike (my favorite of the three eventhough my bike in real life is red):

Here are the supplies I used:

Thanks for stopping by!
Karen