SMC/SSDS: Follow the Sketch & Follow the Hop

It's a Blog Hop for Stamp Scrap and Doodle and as one of the former founding members, I was invited to join them. The "Hop into Love" blog hop will begin Feb 12th at 10am CST and will end Feb 14th at midnight CST. All we had to do was follow this sketch.More details on my card after some information about the hop.

There are lots of prizes for the hop: You will need to comment on everyone's blog and then comment on the SSDS blog letting them know when you are done. There will be a prize for someone who comments on everyone's blog. A prize for someone who completes the sketch and links it to the SSDS blog before the end of the crop. And one prize for a new follower. That's 3 prizes!.

Here is the blog hop order in case you get lost:

SSDS (http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/)

Regina Jones (http://rjones-scrapcreations.blogspot.com/)

Angie Cortes (http://angiecortesdesigns.blogspot.com/)

Jennifer Kupiec (http://customcreationsbyjenn.blogspot.com/)

Lisa Vaughan (http://lisaspaperfun.blogspot.com/)

Diane Davies (http://www.princessscrapgirl.blogspot.com)

ME Cheri Graves (http://creationsdecheri.blogspot.com/ )

Micki Harper (www.artfulxpressions.net)

Terri Scott (http://triesmakingcards.blogspot.com)

Boni Boutelle-Jones (http://bonibleauxdesigns.blogspot.com/)

Shana Tedrick (www.scrapinshana.blogspot.com)

Carlie Mays (http://carliebugcrafts.blogspot.com)

Rene' Bailey (www.creativelycapturingmemories.blogspot.com)

SSDS (http://ssdschallenge.blogspot.com/)

And now for my card...Of course you are going to see a Sew Many Cards image. (FINALLY: THE CARD you're thinking, aren't you. LOL) First, I took the sketch and rotated it. (If you want to see a card with the sketch's original orientation, go to last week's SMC card.)
SMC's challenge is a color challenge to use Red, Pink and White. I used a pink card stock base, a left over piece of Christmas wrapping paper (the vertical piece), a scrap of pink DCWV paper (the horizontal piece) and regular typing paper for the oval. I used a white ribbon, red button, white card stock (from the baby card I made Tuesday), and red colored acrylic discs, a.k.a. "dew drops". I colored my SMC image Heart Gumball Machine with colored pencils (the hearts inside the globe), Prismacolor markers for the "main body" of the gumball machine, and I used Glossy Accents to make a shiny globe.

Now for the card challenges I tried to incorporate into my card (not as many as I usually try for because I'm already combining two challenges, one from SMC and one from SSDS):
Penny's Paper Crafts: Love/Valentine
Crazy 4 Challenges: Be my Valentine
Bee Crafty: Romance
Other Lovelies: Use digital stamp
Saturday Spotlight with Hidden Potential: Teeny Tiny (I claim my tiny hearts)
Stampotique Designer: Create a Love Theme Card
Ink on My Fingers: All you need is Love




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SSDS Challenge: Follow the Sketch

Here's the Sketch!

And here's my card!

We also had to use a rubber stamp that was sent to us from Michele's Pixie Cottage. It's been a long time since I used a rubber stamp and digital has so spoiled me for making various sizes so I could have made the image smaller to make it fit in the small rectangle as required by the sketch. :) And the rubber was unmounted and I couldn't find any EZ Mount foam but it was suggested that you just mount it temporarily on your acrylic block anyway and it worked out just fine. It IS a cute image, and the sketch called for flowers on the right side so I think I did pretty well with this challenge.
I colored it with my PrismaMarkers and I used DCWV cardstock, OTC flowers, and some pre-sticky ribbon that I got from Walmart years ago but can't remember name on package (it's been out of the package for a long time).

Thanks for looking and please look at the SSDS blog to give the sketch a try and to see what the rest of the design team came up with. This is my last post with them.

SSDS Challenge: Inspiring Color Challenge

Today's challenge is to use the photo of fall trees and use those colors. I saw red, yellow and green leaves as well as neutrals in the tan colored bridge. I didn't really use any neutrals unless you count the tree branch.
Speaking of the image, we also were to use a used Sue McMahon Five Design and this is the one I picked because the photo had trees. I probably should have colored my leaves on this tree more fall like (more yellow and less green). I used red paper and yellow and green cardstock from the DCWV Fun in the Summer Sun 8x8 pack. The green cardstock was embossed with my friend's Impressibility texture "plate" (it isn't really a plate but I'm not sure what else to call it). I need to try more cardstock shims but I moved the Impressibility to see the embossing and couldn't figure how it went back. I didn't distress it because the embossing came out so light I didn't think I'd do a great job and I'd end up with a ruined piece of cardstock. You can see it when you hold the card in your hands but I can't make it show up for the photo.

Be sure to go to SSDS and see what everyone else came up with. Thanks for looking at mine.

SSDS Challenge: Recipe

It's time for another Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturday Challenge. The recipe is to create a 4x7 card, with 3 designer papers, 5 flowers, glitter and wet embossing. There was some discussion among our group about embossing glitter (a comma can make quite a difference - just read the book Eats, Shoots and Leaves for hilarious consequences of placing commas in the wrong place), so I took up the challenge to use my glitter embossing powder. I used it as a border around my DP blocks. I applied the embossing ink from the EK success pens along one side at a time and embossed it with Inkadinkado Sparkle Embossing powder. My DPs were from different paper packs (probably DCWV) and I loosely followed the sketch provided by Doodle Street Challenge #3. The flowers are from Oriental Trading Company and I used my faithful Matte Accents for the center of the flowers (I tried to hurry the drying time by using my heat gun (it was out after all) and ended up making the liquid bubble/boil so it looks a little "funny" and feels rubbery). The image is from Sewn Together and was yesterday's freebie so be sure to get your copy of this image. I colored it with colored pencils. I should have left it alone, but I did also use a blending stump too.

SSDS Challenge: Halloween

It's a bit early for me to think Halloween but I know somepeople can't wait for September to end so they can start decorating their yards with mummies and witches and spiderwebs (my webs are all natural - I let the spiders do all the work- LOL). So this is what I came up with.
I used a Sure Cuts a Lot file from either SVG cuts or My Scrap Chick (I forgot now, but it'll come back to me when I am trying to go to sleep tonight). They both have free cutting files so sign up for both of them.
Next, I inked the top of the casket with black to make it look really dirty and spooky. I tried to keep the inside of the card as clean as possible so it was still possible to write on the cream colored cardstock.
Thanks for looking and be sure to check out the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Challenge blog to see what everyone else came up with.

SSDS Challenge: Follow the Sketch

Today, we had to follow the sketch over at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle. The sketch lent itself nicely to using scraps and that's exactly what I did. The bear image I forgot where I got it but he is colored with Prismamarkers and I used some studio G glitter gel to his music.

SSDS Challenge: Inspiring Color Challenge

It's time for another SSDS challenge and today we had a photo to use. See the SSDS Challenge blog for the photo as well as the other DTs creations. I colored this image from DULEMBA. I loosely based my card on sk082209 from PaperCraftPlanet. I used my cuttlebug and the spiderweb folder on the orange card stock and sanded it a little to help the webbing show up better. The flowers are Primas, while the brad is a Making Memories Hul-la-ba-loo and the ribbon is an Adhesive backed ribbon from Darice.


Thanks for looking,

SSDS Challenge: Recipe day

I am late getting this posted. I got the card made, but (as you could tell from my last post, my carpet got soaked from a backed up drain for the water softener so my room is a shambles right now) couldn't find time to post. Well, I guess it's better late than never, right? The challenge is to use one digi image (I used one of Recese's Designs), 3 designer papers (all by Creative Memories), 1 ribbon/lace (I found a small piece in my sewing stash that was just about the right size). I followed a SplitCoastStampers sketch SC242.

Thanks for looking and be sure to participate in the challenge over at SSDS.

SSDS Challenge: Follow the Sketch

It's time for another Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays Challenge and this time we had to follow a sketch. I chose to follow Challenge 46 at Secret Crafter which was to use Turquoise and Brown. I used my Prisma markers to color this digi image by Digital Ink - Co. of Charlie the horse (used the colorless blender to make the appaloosa spots on his rump). The turquoise printed paper is a Lindsay W. design. I also ran the DCWV brown cardstock thru my Cuttlebug with the Swirls folder and sanded the raise design so the white core showed.

Don't forget to check out my fellow design team members

• Angie
• Boni
• Carlie
• Diane D.
• Jenn
• Lisa V.
• Micki
• Regina
• Rene' (a.k.a. Ne'Scrap)
• Ria
• Shana
• Terri

Thanks for looking and
I can't wait to see what you create

SSDS Challenge: Monochromatic

It's challenge day over at Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays again. This time you have to make a monochromatic color item. I chose to find a challenging color scheme (or at least a color I haven't used for a while). For the card, I picked orange. I took a DCWV cardstock and ran it thru my cuttlebug for the dry embossing. Since the textured cardstock is white underneith, I took my spongy sanding block and exposed it. Then I had this one orange Flora-Doodle flower from Petaloo available. I then used my Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot program to cut the Happy Birthday phrase from velum (I was hoping the orange would show thru but it's thicker velum than most scrapbook velum so it looks whiter).

Next I did a scrapbook page. My youngest started Kindergarten Wednesday and brought home this great report. It is also done in a monochromatic scheme. Sorry, I don't have a wide scanner nor do I know how to "stitch" two scans together to make one photo. I used a Fiskars punch to create the mat (someone was giving it away at work so I snatched it up LOL) then glued foam dragonflies on a couple of spots that didn't work out right. The fancy border qualifies it for the Scrapmaster's Paradise Finally Friday challenge and the dragonflies qualifies it for the Paper Cutz "It flies" challenge.
Don't forget to check out the rest of the design team - one of us made something extra special.

Thanks for looking, and have a great weekend

SSDS Challenge: Boy! oh Boy!

My card this week for the SSDS Challenge was to create a Boy Card. The card stock I used for this project is American Crafts Celebration Tightrope because I love stripes. My image is a rubber stamp called September - Scottie by JRL Design. I'm so spoiled with digital because I couldn't make this smaller - LOL (I wanted to enter it in the PCP sketch challenge but the image was too big). I colored my image with my Prismacolor markers, then matted it with orange and brown card stocks. The ribbon is an adhesive backed ribbon from Darice and I printed the sentiment on a scrap of the orange card stock (left over from the mat) and cut it into the peanut shape, then inked it with a brown marker.

Thanks for looking and be sure to stop by my fellow design team member and see how they went with the Boy Theme challenge. I can't wait to see your take on it.

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• Angie
• Boni
• Carlie
• Diane D.
• Jenn
• Lisa V.
• Micki
• Regina
• Rene' (a.k.a. Ne'Scrap)
• Ria
• Shana
• Terri

Sleeping mouse

I tried to cram in as many challenges as I could for this one. I picked the colors that If the Shoe Fits blog wanted and they wanted Orange, Brown and Pink. I had an orangier orange, but decided it was too close to my pink (which is an orangeish pink IMHO) and hunted for a lighter orange. I doodle stitched on the orange and on the inner star shape because Crafty Muse had the sketch I wanted to use and they wanted doodling too. I altered the sketch a little by putting the dots outside the star shape. The dots are pink glitter glue by Studio G. My dairy queen curlie-q's flattend into ovals which wouldn't have been bad if they had all pointed towards the center better. I used my Sure Cuts a Lot software to create the star shape and cut it out with my Cricut. The Cuttlebug Challenge wanted a digital stamp so I chose the baby mouse in the tea cup (former Simply Sassy image). I colored him with my Prisma markers and cut him out. Dare You 2 DigiStamp wanted to see distressing so I used my little pink tool to rough up the edges of the inner star then ran the outer star thru my Cuttlebug machine and sanded the pink color to show the white core.

As always thanks for looking
and have a great weekend.
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