CPS 100

You know me... I had to try out CPS100 and have been working on this car since Sunday... I'm still not 100% satisfied with this but hey I have the rest of the week to try and come up with another one. Now on to this cad....



I love this image from Whiff of Joy and it so reminds me of Valentines so What better theme. I also found a pack of Dollies that I had to have and have been hording for over a month. I knew I wanted to use them on a project. I still have other ideas to use them on.

You can find the sketch over on the CPS Blog here. I finally got my hands on Spellbinders labels 2 and used them for my focal pieces.
I colored my image in with my copics and then added some shimmerzs to give it some sparkle. These are one of the easiest ways to add sparkle. I also added alittle white gelpen for the ibbon on her shirt sleve and the dots along the bottom of he shirt.

I hope you all are having a great week... I love my vacation and wish I could have stay for one more week... Here is alittle shot of some of the snow I got to play in...

Two cards in one day.....

Yeah... I feel like I got something done... Using CPS64 as a starting point and then grabbing some designer paper Stampin Up! Fall Flowers I then grabbed my one of my newest Magnolia girls....



This one was fun to color... I tried to find the closest matches to my DP in my copics and I think I got pretty darn close, Don't you....
I love coloring in these magnolia stamps. I've got some new ones on the way... can't wait to get them.

I also took my cuttlebug and Bundle flower dies and rolled out a few flowers for my blooms to the side... Well I hope you are having a great evening I'm off and maybe when I get back tomorrow I'll let you know what I thought of Prince Caspien.....

Supplies:
Stamps: Magnolia spring tilda, pretty posy bg
Ink: adirondack espresso
Cardstock: groovy guava, wild wasbi textures cs, fall flowers dp, stampers select white
Accessories: Copic markers: E31,E33, E21, E00, YR02, YG63, BG10, B00, Y00, Y06, Y17; Bundled flower die, nestibalities rectangle die, corner rounder, crystal stickles, soft sky double stitched ribbon

Berry Sweet

Yup that is exactly how I feel about this card today...



I want to thank everyone for the kind words and prayers. Our car was fixed yesterday and I am very thankful that that was the only damage we had during the storms. My Husband and I went out Tuesday and worked with the red cross delivering food to the areas hardest hit by the storms. The areas were hit so bad.. it actually look like a scene out of a movie. Our area is not used to Tornado's like this we are more prepared for a Hurricane than a tornado so this was unexpected... We were lucky because there were no deaths during this storm. And this really was luck because of the time of day it hit... most people were at work, in school or getting off work. But enough about the storms lets get back to the card....

Last night this hit me after browsing around a few blogs.. My DH didn't like that I stayed up to finish it... but oh well. This designs is the CPS62 sketch of the week.

I colored the House Mouse image in with my copic markers... isn't he so cute with his belly full of strawberries. After coloring my image in I used my newest set of nestiablities, megabilities dies to cut him out and then I also cut a scalloped mat out. I embossed each edge with these dies too. I place a piece of papertrey inc ribbon along the bottom edge and attached a tag to it that says You're Berry Sweet... My Background paper was stamped with Papertrey's anniversary set... I got it for buying 12 unique sets last year and guess what you can get a free set in Feb 2009 just by buying 12 unique sets this year. Well I'm off to get somethings done today... hope everyone has a great afternoon...


Supplies:
Stamps: Papertrey Inc Aniversary set, House mouse sleeping with strawberries
Inc: Adirondack espresso, papertrey berry sorbet
Cardstock: papertrey sweet blush, papertrey stampers select white, papertrey pink patterned 6x6 pad
Accessories: Megablities long rectangle dies large scallop and large regular, copic markers, cuttlebug tag dies, cuttlebug, berry sorbet stitched ribbon

Sympathy cards....

Sympathy cards are so hard for me to make. I guess that's why I always find myself making one when I need it... never seem to keep them on hand. Today a friend of ours lost a parent so I'm in need of two cards... This is the first one I made and needless to say I'll be making the other one latter.



I used CPS sketch #56 for this card and then grabbed one of my Thomas Kinkade stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms. These images are perfect for sympathy cards.

I colored this with my copic markers... these images are so fun to color. Before coloring it in I stamped it on whisper white cardstock with my adirondack slate inkpad. After finishing the coloring I masked out the oval and embossed it with UTEE. The embossing powder makes the colors really pop. I then created a frame for the image with a piece of creamy caramel. I used my Fiskars finger tip craft knife to cut the center out for the frame. I really enjoyed coloring and coming up with this card... I hope it brings some comfort to my friend and their family... I'm off to try and make the other card. Have a great afternoon.

Supplies:
Stamps: The Open Gate Vignette by Thomas Kinkade stamps from Cornish Heritage Farms, Out on a Limb by Papertrey Inc
Ink: Adirondack slate, basic black craft ink, versa mark
Cardstock: Wild wasabi, groovy guava, creamy caramel, whisper white
Accessories: heat gun, UTEE powder, copic markers, gold spica glitter pen

Simple but fun...

This weeks CPS49 sketch challenge was actually quite challenging considering the simple design... I have a hard time limiting myself but I think I may have done it with today's card.



I had fun trying to create my border to split the card... And I grabbed another one of the stamps out of my SAB set So Many Scallops to help create my flowers alonge with the sentiment in the center of them...

I also played with one of my new tools, my crop-a-dile. I love to be able to set eyelets now with out the loud noise of a hammer. I placed a small amount of glue in the center of the eyelet and added to glitter. Well I'm off today to see how much I can get done for tomorrow.. it is my DH birthday and I hope I can make my card for tomorrow tonight and post it first thing tomorrow cause I'll be running all over the place tomorrow... have a great afternoon.

Supplies:
Stamps: fancy pants simply stated, So Many Scallops
Ink: Always Artichoke, rose red
Cardstock: Old Olive, Fall flowers DP, Whisper white
Accessories: Crop-a-dile, jumbo eyelet pewter, glitter

CPS and Cornish Heritage Farms...

I know I said this week would be only SU but I had to play with CPS's sketch design this week....


And here is what I came up with... using of course my cornish Heritage Backgrounder Trees. you can find it and other great backgrounders here. I then grabbed one of my new Thomas Kinkade images, 'The Open Gate Vignette' to use as my main image.





I had fun with this one... Over on CPS they also mentioned a color combo contest for Prism papers so i went through my SU cardstock and came up with the closest colors to those and use them for my card too... you can find all the info for it here.

This was a fun card to come up with... and I hope you enjoy the eye candy it provided... have a great day.

Supplies:
Stamps: 'The Open Gate Vignette', 'Trees Backgrounder', stampin up retired warmest reguards
Cardstock: bordering blue, creamy caramel, stampers select white, apricot appeal, brillant blue
Ink pad: 'Expresso' Adirondack Earthtones InkPad
Accessories: Copic markers, snaps, grey taffeta ribbon, sponge, gold spica glitter pen

Playin with New Rubbah!!!

Yesterday I got several packages of rubbah... some I had ordered and some I had won on a blog... Well today I started inking up some of it. I decided to play with my Cornish Farms stamps first. I have been eyeing some of their Mushroom Lane stamps for a while but had yet to buy any... That line can be found here. So Friday last week I was putting in an order for some other stamps and threw in this image here. I thought it was so cute.

Today I inked up that image and create this card...


The card layout I used was from The CPS Blog. It is CPS #45. If you ever get stumped on a layout this blog is a great source for design sketches...

To color my image I again combine both my copics and my prisma pencils. The two combine seem to give an image a better depth. I also took my clear spica glitter pen and added sparkle to each window to create a glow from inside the mushroom house... isn't the image just too cute... Well I'm off to play with some more new rubbah... My sisters have given out a challenge an I feel the need to try and come up with something.... Have a great afternoon and Happy Stampin....

Supplies:
stamps: 'Special Friendship (Mushroom Lane Inspirationals)'
Ink: Adirondack ink Espresso
Cardstock: Night of navy, scrap designer paper, white cardstock
Accessories: copic markers, prisma pencils, white souffle pen, wide white organdy ribbon