TSG145 Warm Birthday Wishes

I everyone! I thought that I would try something a little different today by channeling my inner Laurel Seabrook! :) I had a chance to meet this paper piecing diva last weekend when we traveled together to Washington State for a Pajama Crop with numerous other ladies from There She Goes, The Ribbon Carousel, iSpy Sketches and Sparkle Creations.

Laurel inspired this card because I was looking for a relatively quick birthday card and she managed to fly through her amazing creations while at the crop...so out came the patterned papers and away went the tombows. I used my Dance and Sentimental Birthday sets and paired them with my My Mind's Eye Fiddlesticks paper pad to create this card for the TSG145 sketch challenge.

What did I learn from re-visiting the paper piecing technique you may ask? I learned that it would have been a whole lot quicker to water colour those flowers! lol I'm glad that I did piece the flowers together though because I really love how the card turned out :)

Thanks for coming to visit me today and I will be back again on Friday with a new challenge card from iSpy Sketches :D

Card Recipe:

Stamps: There She Goes Dance and Sentimental Birthday
Paper: Gina K, Grey, MME Fiddlesticks
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Artichoke, Rose, Plum, Caramel, Suede, Curry
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Zva Creative Pearls, Sizzix Leaf Die, Rhinestone Brads, Chalk Pencil, Sponges, Ascot Grey Vintage Seam Binding, Dimensionals, SU Scallop Punch

ISSC04 - Flowers for you

Happy Friday everyone! Now that it's the end of the week you all know what that means don't you? Well if you don't, let me fill you in. It's time for another iSpy Sketches challenge (ISSC04) *insert cheers of joy* :)

This week our sketch is based off of this card by Heather Klump. I just love her cards that this sketch is no different :) I used the image called Flower Garden by Stamping Bella and water coloured it with my tombow dual brush pens. I then added some re-inkers for the background, some chalk for shading and then finished off the image with some sponging.

My image was a little bit on the larger side so I had to adjust my measurements accordingly so it's not completely true to the original card but that's were creative liscence comes into play :) While I was at the PJ Crop in Washington this past weekend I picked up these pretty papers :) The pink is from My Minds Eye Lime Twist line and the Blue (Stella Rose) is a 6x6 My Mind's Eye paper pack that I purchased from The Ribbon Carousel :)

Thanks for joining me this week and don't tell the rest of the girls that I have included this but here is a photo that was taken of a few of us iSpy Sketch girls from the crop ;) They are going to have my heads for posting this! lol

*Warning* 

No cosmetics, hairbrushes, or decent wardrobes were used in the making of this photo...it was a PJ crop after all :D

 

Left to right: Angela Thomas, Kim O'Connell, Jessie Knight Rone, Me (no judging people) and Tobi Crawford

Card Recipe:

Stamps: Flower Garden from Stamping Bella, SU Fancy Flexible Phrases

Paper: Watercolour, Black, My Mind's Eye Lemon Twist and Stella Rose

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Suede, Marina Mist, Baja

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Ribbon, Hodgepodge Hardware, Clear Embossing Powder, Tombow Dual Brush Pens, Water Brush, Chalk, Sponges, Rhinestones, SU Scallop Punch

A blog hop full of donkey's!

Are you ready for this??? 'Cause I'm thinking that you might not be ;)

This week I am blog hopping with a the There She Goes Trendsetters with a very special and secret stamp set that was inspired by a group of stampers that got together from both Canada and all over the USA this past weekend. If your not sure of what I'm talking about then please visit this post :) The new set is called Ba Donkey Donk, and for all you snarky, tongue in cheek stampers out there, THIS is the set for you!! With three different styles of donkey's, and 9 AMAZING sentiments to go with it...really, there ISN'T an occasion you can use these for!!

Ba Donkey Donk is a 4x6 stamp set of 12 stamps that will sell for $15!

Would you like to win the new Ba Donkey Donk stamp? Here is what you need to do- visit the Trendsetter’s, and Guest's blogs that are participating in each of the blog hop challenges below and comment on their creations as you go. One of the Trendsetter’s blogs (from each hop day) will be randomly chosen as the ‘it’ blog and a winner will be picked using a random number generator from the comments left on that Trendsetter’s Blog Hop Challenge post. You will not know which blog has been chosen so the more you comment on the better your chances are of winning new stamps! The Blog Hop Challenges will be open until 5 PM Eastern Time Saturday February 26th, with the winner being announced during the release party chat.

Here is the list of participants in today's Blog Hop