CYCI 68 Sketch Challenge

Hello and Happy Sunday!  I hope you've have a nice weekend!  I had a nice relaxing Saturday and by the looks of things, Sunday will be a pretty chilled day too!  I have a card class planned for next Saturday so I will need to work on my cards for that at some point this week, just not sure if that is happening today! lol 

This week over at Can You Case It? we have a Sketch Challenge for you.  I really love sketch challenges.  It is so nice to have a starting point and to make it your own.  For this sketch I decided to turn the sketch on it's side for my card.

I started with a 8 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of Basic Gray Cardstock scored at 4 1/4" for my card base.  I layered on a piece of  the Moonlight DSP that I ran through my Big Shot with a Lil' Inker's Stitched Rectangles Die.  I heat embossing the "Sunshine" sentiment from the Feel Goods Stamp Set with Crushed Curry Embossing Powder onto Whisper White card stock. I then ran that through the Big Shot with a smaller Stitched Rectangle Die and layered that on the larger Rectangle.   I stamped a flower from the Crazy about You stamp set in Crushed Curry and punched out with the coordinating Scallop Circle Die.  I stamped two flowers from the Flower Patch Set, one in Cherry Cobbler and one in Smoky Slate and cut them out with the Flower Patch Framelits.  I glued down the Scallop Flower with Tombo and popped up the Cherry Cobbler flower with a dimensional.  The Smoky Slate flower was glued down at the base of the flower only.  I used some Doodlebug Mini Pearls in the centers of the two flowers layered on top.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you'll be sure to check out all of the cards that the Design Team has for you this week!

Blessings,  Tina

Here are the Stampin' Up Products I Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

The Non-Stampin' Up Products Used:  Lil' Inkers Stitched Rectangle Dies, Doodlebug Mini Pearls

CYCI 67 Mother's Day Challenge

Hello and Happy Sunday!  It's been a beautiful week here in the Mid South but unfortunately the gorgeous weather was the start of allergy season for me.  Even worse for me, allergy season meant a sinus infection!  Ugh!  After fighting sickness for a few days I finally went in for a steroid shot and hopefully will be feeling better soon!

Over at  CYCI  this week, the Challenge is all about Mom!  I hope you're checking out all of the wonderful inspiration that the super talented CYCI Design Team has for you!

The Stampin' Up! set that I used for today's card is Snuggles and Smooches.  I LOVE the scribbled blossoms as well as the sentiments. My favorite sentiment in this set is "Oodles of Love". Oodles is one of my Mom's "words".  She has used it so many times over the years that when I read it, I thought of her immediately and knew I wanted to use it on a card for her!

My card base was in the retired "Primrose Petals" cardstock.  I LOVE this color and thankfully have a small stash that I hope will last me until I get over it's retirement!  lol   I layered on a 5 1/4" x 4" piece of Crumbcake Cardstock stamped tone-on-tone in Crumbcake Ink with both the large and small scribble blossom stamps from Snuggles and Smooches.  I used more of the Primrose Petals cardstock to cut out one of the blossom dies from my new Ellen Hutson Bold Blossom die set.  I then coated the blossom die cut with versamark and clear embossed it.  I layered the clear embossed blossom over more primrose petals for contrast.  The leaves were cut from the same die set in Mossy Meadow cardstock and also clear embossed.  I glued down the leaves and then popped the blossom up with dimensionals.  I stamped the sentiment in Primrose Petals Ink onto Whisper White cardstock.  I cut it out and backed with more... you guessed it.. Primrose Petals cardstock.  I popped the sentiment up with dimensionals as well.   I added a few Pretty Pink Posh Pink Blush sequins and ran a piece of seam binding across the front with a multi-layer bow and topped with some bling.


These are the Current Stampin' Up! Products Used:

Built for Free Using: My Stampin Blog

Non Stampin' Up! Products Used:  Ellen Hutson Bold Blossoms Dies, Pretty Pink Posh Pink Blush Sequins

Blessings!

Tina