FTL 70!

Hello! I hope all my American readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying all the shopping deals today. Here's this week's sketch. I decided to have some fun designing with the images from Stampin' Up!'s Digital Studio. I suppose I could have actually turned this into a fully digital card instead of just a sketch, but I figured I'd bring it to life with paper and stamps. So here's my take on the sketch. If you're wanting some dimensions...

• The card is 4.25x5.5.
• The apricot piece is just over 4.5x3.25.
• The turquoise piece is 1.75x3.25

Supplies: Stamps: Big Bold Birthday, Polka Dot Basics, Vintage Picnic Paper: Certainly Celery, White, Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal Ink: Certainly Celery, Rich Cocoa, Tempting Turquoise, Apricot Appeal Accessories, etc.: Chocolate Polytwill, brad, pop dots

10 Minute Wednesday & FTL69 - Grateful for You

Hi everyone!! Hope your day is going swimmingly. :) This card was created using the Fall-to Layout #69... And it took me less than 10 minutes. Yes, folks. Me. World's *slowest* stamper. 10 minutes. Whoohoo!! I can finally say I made a 10 minute card. :) If any of you are traveling over the holiday weekend, be safe and have a Happy Thanksgiving! :) Supplies: Stamps - Signature Greetings, Turning a New Leaf Ink - Fresh Snow, Ripe Avocado Paper - Kraft Miscellaneous - Purple Rhinestones, Corner Rounder

FTL69

I used the Brocade Buttons from Aimoobaroo Etsy store for my inspiration today which was the SCS IC270 challenge. I hope everyone here in the US has a great Thanksgiving! Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey Fall Elegance; Paper - PaperTrey Vanilla Cream; Ink - PaperTrey, Memento

FTL 69

I figured having a one layer card as the sketch was a bit overdue. On one layer cards the image placement is crucial, so hopefully this sketch gives you a decent starting point! If you find your final result too plain, consider adding some embellishments, like glitter, pearls, rhinestones or buttons!

Supplies:

Stamps: Vintage Picnic, For All You Do

Ink: Raspberry Fizz, Hibiscus Burst, Sweet Blush, Dark Chocolate

Paper: White

Accessories, etc.: Pearls, Buttons

FTL68 - Wishing You...

Hi everyone! :) Here's what I came up with using the Fall-to Layout sketch that Natasha posted on Friday. I'm not sure if you can tell in the photo, but the white snowflakes are actually the negative punched images that I had leftover on the piece of Raspberry Fizz cardstock I used.

Supplies: Stamps - Tree Trimming Trio Ink - Fresh Snow Paper - Smokey Shadow, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss, Stamper's Select White Miscellaneous - Summer Sunrise Grosgrain Ribbon, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Aqua Rhinestones

Ten Minute Monday 11/16/09

Here's an ultra quick card for you today. When I saw this set, I thought the party hat wearing dog was adorable, so I wanted the card to focus on that! Supplies: Stamps: Birthday Wishes (available at i {heart} papers today!) Ink: Tuxedo Black Paper: Kraft, White, Cosmo Cricket Early Bird Accessories, etc.: Copics, corner rounder

FTL68 Happy Birthday

I used the SCS CAS41 Inspiration Challenge to make this card. We were to find inspiration from the Vera Bradley handbags and purses. I chose the Pirouette Collection . All materials are PaperTrey except for the Versafine, Memento and SU! inks. Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey Beautiful Blooms, Birthday Basics; Ink - Versafine Onyx Black, Memento Dandylion, SU! Real Red; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - SU! Real Red marker, PaperTrey ribbon and Vintage button, yellow embroidery floss, SU! Dimensionals

Fall-to Layout #68

Happy Friday! Here's this week's sketch.

I decided to make use of a recent acquisition. I went down to the States for Remembrance Day to do a bit of shopping. Punches are ridiculously marked up here, so I picked up a few for cheap! One was this adorable cupcake punch. I paired it with some of the Loves Me paper (which always reminds me of cupcakes) and some of the coordinating ribbon.

Supplies:

Stamps: Cupcake Collection

Ink: Fresh Snow

Paper: White, Pretty in Pink, Dark Chocolate, Loves Me DSP

Accessories, etc.: Cupcake Punch (EK Success/ Martha Stewart), Ribbon, Button

Ten Minute Monday on Tuesday

I made several cards for the SCS color challenge and used the CPS141 sketch for most of the cards. The colors for the challenge were Burgundy, Vanilla and Kraft. Then I started using the colors and making more quick one layer cards or minimal layers that all took 10 minutes or less. I thought I'd share them with you. These first few use CPS141. These next two are not using the CPS sketch. Supplies: Stamps - Studio G, Inkadinkado, PaperTrey Holiday Button Bits; Ink - PaperTrey Scarlet Jewel; Paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Quickutz Holiday Words embossing folder, Cuttlebug Snowflake embossing folder and border embossing folder, Scor-pal, PaperTrey Vintage buttons, Glue Dots, SU! DImensionals.

FTL#67 Season's Greetings

Another great sketch from Natasha that I will use a lot! I used the PaperTrey Holiday Button Bits set and a sentiment from PaperTrey Holiday Greetings set. Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink - Versafine; paper - PaperTrey; Misc - Nestabilities, PaperTrey Vintage Buttons, Glue Dots, SU! Dimensionals

Fall-to Layout #67

Happy Friday! I've made two samples for this week's sketch. Because I've done similar layouts before, I have a few suggestions for this one. Keep the circular focal image part as a circle. Secondly, add some sort of embellishment on either side of the focal image. Lastly, keep the sentiment bottom center. Feel free to stamp it directly on your card or add a tag if your patterned paper is too busy or dark. Here's the layout: My first sample: Supplies: Stamps: It's a Snow Day Ink: Rich Cocoa Paper: Real Red, Close to Cocoa, Very Vanilla, Dots and Dashes Accessories, etc.: brads, nestabilities, corner rounder Copics My second sample: Supplies: Stamps: You're Tweet, Birthday Basics Ink: Ocean Tides, Rich Cocoa Paper: Early Bird, Very Vanilla, Old Olive, Baja Breeze Accessories, etc.: nestabilities, brads, buttons, saffron ribbon

FTL66 - Sending You Christmas Joy

Happy Monday! Hope your day has been flying by! :) This is what I came up with using the Fall-to Layout #66 Sketch posted on Friday. The sentiment is a little hard to see in the photo, but is much more defined IRL.

Supplies: Stamps - Vintage Ornaments, Polka Dot Basics 2 Ink - Vintage Cream, Pure Poppy, Aqua Mist Paper - Bermuda Bay, Dark Chocolate, Vintage Cream, Aqua Mist, Thoroughly Modern DSP Miscellaneous - Corner Rounder, Aqua Rhinestones, Aqua Mist Grosgrain Ribbon, Lemongrass Satin Ribbon

FTL 66

Hi there, hope you had a good weekend! There is actually no stamping on this card, just some chipboard and a rub-on. Supplies: stamps - none paper - aqua mist, white, Nutmeg (cosmo cricket) ink - none acc - celery gg, Nutmeg Ready Set Chipboard, rub-on (SU)

FTL#66

When I saw the rectangular panel in Natasha's sketch I immediately thought of the house from PTI's Boards and Beams and the Holiday Addition set. I also just got some new Cuttlebug Border embossing folders that I thought I'd use instead of patterned paper. My sentiment is a little high for this sketch but I think it works okay. I cut out the image with my long rectangle Nestabilities and attached it to the card with SU! Dimensionals. Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey Boards and Beams, Boards and Beams Additions; Ink - Memento Rich Cocoa; Paper - PaperTrey Stampers Select; Misc - Copic markers, SU! markers, Nestabilities, SU! Dimensionals, Cuttlebug Border embossing folders, Scor-pal

FTL 66

Happy Halloween Eve! One would think I'd have a Halloween card with the sketch tonight, but I don't. It's extra windy and chilly here tonight, so a wintery card seems more appropriate. Not that I really want it to snow (again) just yet, but the weather certainly feels that way!

As always, feel free to leave a link showing your awesome creations! I have to apologize in advance I have a huge stack of links to check out, I haven't had time the last weeks to comment. I will get to them though! Supplies: Stamps: It's a Snow Day by Chicken Girl Designs Ink: Paris Dusk, Summer Sky (Memento) Paper: Spring Rain, Brilliant Blue, White, Shimmer Blue Accessories, etc.: pop dots, Copics

FTL65 - Thank You

Hi everyone! Hope you've been having a great day. :) This is the card I created using the Fall-to Layout 65 Sketch posted last Friday.

I started with a Melon Berry base and stamped it with one of the Giga Guidelines images in white ink. Next, I cut out a 1 1/2 x 4 1/4" strip of white card stock and layered it onto two strips of brown card stock that had been punched with my Fiskars Upper Crest Punch. To finish up, I added some ribbon around the white strip, attached it to the card base, punched and layered the sentiment, then added stickles. Whew, that was wordy. :)

Supplies:

Stamps - Giga Guidelines, Fall Elegance

Ink - Fresh Snow, Melon Berry

Paper - Melon Berry, Dark Chocolate, Stamper's Select White

Miscellaneous - Melon Berry Grosgrain Ribbon, Small Oval Punch, Large Oval, Fiskars Upper Crest Punch, Stickles

Snowy Greetings

Here's my card for this week's sketch! I used the adorable penguin from It's a Snow Day as my sentiment embellishment shown in the sketch. My background was made by running shimmery blue paper through the Wizard with Impressabilities Snowflake background. I finished off the card with a scalloped border and a bit of stickles on the penguin's hat and scarf.

FTL#65

Here is Natasha's FTL#65. Don't forget when you play along to put a link to your card in the comments here! This sketch was really fun for stamping and creating my own background. The leaf images are from PaperTrey's Fall Elegance and the sentiment is from Autumn Abundance. I used my Cuttlebug leaf die for the leaf by the sentiment. Supplies: Stamps - PaperTrey; Ink- PaperTrey Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, Scarlet Jewel, Memento Rich Cocoa; Paper - PaperTrey Vintage Cream, Scarlet Jewel, Summer Sunrise; Misc - Cuttlebug leaf die, Cuttlebug Divine Swirls embossing folder, EK Success border punch, Spellbinders Tag die, Dimensionals

Ten Minute Monday- 10/18/09

Just a quick and easy holiday card. This was one of my entries for clean and simple holiday cards over at Papertrey Ink this month. Supplies: Stamps: Take a Bough (PTI) Paper: Kraft, Pure Poppy, White Ink: Landscape, Pure Poppy, Rich Cocoa Accessories, etc.: Square Nestabilities, pop dots

FTL64 - Thankful for You

Happy Sunday! Hope you've been having a wonderful weekend! :)

This is the card I created based off of the Fall-to Layout #64 sketch that Natasha posted on Friday. I stayed pretty true to the sketch, and tried to use more Fall-ish colors this week. I don't know what it is, but I find Fall colors harder to work with... LOL, it's probably because I always want to stick pink in there somewhere! :) Supplies: Stamps - Fall Elegance; Ink - Orange Zest, Stazon Brown; Paper - Old Olive, Aqua Mist, Orange Zest, Stamper's Select White, Dark Chocolate Bitty Dot; Miscellaneous - 2" Circle Punch, Spring Moss Grosgrain Ribbon