How Loved You Are for Sunday Stamps

It's time for another challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun sketch from Deb!

My daughter is living in SE Alaska right now and I love sending her cards to let her know I'm thinking about her. This sketch was a perfect way to send her a sweet card just to say hi. I used retired paper from SU and a sentiment image from Power Poppy.

Make sure to head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with, and then play along with us!

Bundle of Love for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and we have another fun sketch to play along with!

My daughter is currently in SE Alaska and I'm putting together a care package to send to her on Monday, and I wanted a card to put in the box. This weeks sketch was the perfect starting point for the card. I took a little liberty with the design but the general elements are all there.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the team created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret the sketch!

Forsythia for Sunday Stamps

It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Stamps, and this week we have a fun color challenge for everyone!

As soon as I saw the graphic for this weeks challenge I knew exactly what I wanted to do. Stampin Up! Has a set in their mini catalog called Delightful Wishes and when I saw it I thought about growing up in MA and all the forsythia we had. I just adore the delicate yellow flowers on forsythia plants and just had to make my card with this set.

I'm not going to lie, I had a vision and I got right to it, lost in my own little world. It wasn't until I was done with the card that I realized my vision and the challenge colors didn't quite sync up. Oooops. Thankfully I still had everything out and I went right back to work, this time creating a card using the challenge colors. 

My first card:

My layout was inspired by the current sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the design team created and then play along with us, we've love to see how you interpret the colors! There is also still time over at Freshly Made Sketches to play along with them!

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this year we've changed things a little bit. Instead of sketch, color challenge, sketch, etc we are switching it up to sketch, sketch, color challenge. Everyone seems to love the sketches more, myself included!

For this weeks sketch I used Claire's great design to create a card for my grandson for Valentine's Day. He turned 2 in December and his personality is really coming out. His mom and dad will ask him what animal makes what sound and his little "rawr" for a dinosaur is just the cutest thing ever! The image I used is a digital stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil.

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the team came up with and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret the sketch!

Woodland Wonder

Is anyone still out there? I know it's been a very, very long time since I posted on here last. Life has been keeping me very busy and I let crafting fall by the wayside. I'm hoping to be better about that this year!

There is a brand new challenge over at Sunday Stamps and this week it's a color challenge. The graphic happens to be my very favorite mushroom, Amanita Muscaria, commonly known as Fly Agaric. I know fall is approaching in southcentral Alaska when I see these popping up all over the place!

For my card I used a set from Power Poppy called Wild Mushrooms. The clear set is no longer available but you can still grab some digital images HERE. I used copic markers to color the image and then cut the image out with a die from MFT. The card base is white and the patterned paper is a fabulous design from SU that I've been hoarding. I just love this paper!!

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what all the fabulous ladies came up with and then play along with us!

Miss You So Flippin' Much

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this time Stef has a great new sketch for us that uses a slimline design!

For my card I went with a min slimline card, so I could use the stitched mini slimline dies from MFT. The set I used is also MFT and is called Playful Penguins. I just adore this little penguin hanging out on a piece of ice.

I blended Stormy Sky and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide inks to create the water and the sky. When you're floating out there in the water it all kinds of blends together so I sprayed some water on the lower half of the card to make it look like water around the penguin and his ice shelf. After adhering the penguin to the card I then added some white dots in the sky as stars, because at this point I decided to add some stars that come in the set and make an evening scene.  I colored the stars with a metallic silver gel pen and then I added some Wink of Stella to the ice chunk for a little more sparkle.

I have a lot of friends and family that live far away so this card will come in handy!

Make sure and head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with this sketch!

Picture Perfect

I was doing so good, getting my cards made on time and posted and then boom, I got Covid for the 4th time and shortly after getting over that I flew down to OR to visit my youngest son and his girlfriend. Needless to say I got behind on card making but I'm back with this week's current Sunday Stamps challenge, albeit a few days late.

My youngest is a huge film buff so when I saw a recent MFT kit that was all about movies I had to get it. It's the first set I thought of when I saw this great sketch from Heather, although I did take some liberties with the sketch. The movie screen and curtains are the first panel and then the rows are the other 2 panels in the sketch.

Whenever I go visit my youngest we always end up going to the movies and the theater by his place is SO nice. The seats are recliners and they can be turned on to heat your back. Oh...my...gosh.....I always plop down, turn the heat on, stuff some popcorn in my face and then recline the chair as soon as the movie starts. Plus when you buy your ticket you pick out your seat, and there are specific spots I like to sit in so I love that we can choose our seating. I wish the theater by me here in Alaska would get a set up like that, I would probably go to the movies way more often than I do now!

Make sure to head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how YOU interpret the sketch!