ISSC11 - Refreshing Friendship

I everyone! I hope you all will join me in this week's ISSC11 challenge over at iSpy Sketches because this sketch is awesome and I had so much fun working with it! Our sketch this week is by Julia Stainton (Julia S @ SCS) and is based on this card.

As usual, I water coloured my images from the Freeze the Moment set by There She Goes with my tombow markers and blended it with a water brush. I added some stickles on the sprinkles to make them sparkle a little and then some glossy accents on the sundae toppings. I added a little bit of Green Galore re-inker to create the background by the sundae and then topped it off with some sponging with antique linen and vintage photo inks.

Thank you so much for coming by today and don't forget to stop by and see what the other Special Agents have created for you :)

Tobi Crawford
Vicki Dutcher
Danielle Daws
Christyne Kane
Kim O'Connell
Vickie Zimmer
Angela Thomas
Jessie Rone
Jenny Peterson

On a little side note, I would like to mention that There She Goes is having a little Vacation sale due to the Jessica Knutsen (the owner) being on her daughter Kylie's Make A Wish holiday with their family :D Please note that 5% of the sale will be donated to the Make a Wish Foundation. It's awesome isn't it? Happy 9th Birthday Kylie and I hope that you have a fabulous trip full of memories!!! 

Card Recipe:

Stamps: There She Goes - Freeze the Moment
Paper: Gina K, Black, Water Colour Paper, Unknown DP
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Vintage Photo, Antique Linen, Green Galore
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Spellbinders, Seam Binding, Twine, Button, Clear Embossing Powder, Tombow Dual Brush Pens, Water Brush, Dew Drops, Chalk Pencil, Stickles, Glossy Accents, Lace

MFT Little Lady

Psssst....Guess what? Guess who gets to be the June Fab Friend over at the MFT Blog? You guessed it - me! :) I have been sitting on this info since December and now that it's here I'm choosing to debut it with this sweet Pure Innocence Ladybug set - which incidentally was chosen for my stamp collection and was completely inspired by this little lady...

This sweet little love bug is my daughter, Ashlynn when she was 3 years old at Halloween ;)

Anyhoo, back to the card shall we? The clouds were made using die cuts from the cloud trio die-namic and then sponged around and I used the Fresh Cut Grass Die-namic to sponge in the grass to complete my scene. This little lady was water coloured with tombow markers and then I added some chalk shadows for extra depth.

It's kind of hard to tell, but at the top of the card on the red polka dot paper, I die cut some scallops and used the Jumbo Scallop Die-namic and then carried on with the red in the buttons.

Thanks for joining me today and I will be back next week with another set from My Favorite Things to share with you :)


Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFT - Pure Innocence Ladybug
Paper: Gina K, Water Colour, Black, October Afternoon DP, My Mind's Eye DP
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Kiwi, Olive, Teal, Baja
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, MFT Cloud Trio Die-namic, MFT Fresh Cut Grass Die-namic, MFT Jumbo Scallop Die-namic, Spellbinders Dies, Sponges, Dimensionals, Tombow Markers, Water Brush, Chalk Pencil, Buttons, Twine, Clear Embossing Powder, Stickles, Corner Chomper

Getting Dirty with Holly

Today, I am thrilled to bring you a sample that I make for the ever talented Holly McMillan's (Toy's - DTGD10Toy) challenge for Dare to Get Dirty week! Holly is such a sweetheart and I was positively tickled when she asked me to be a sample maker :D




I used my favourite My Favorite Things set called Feelin' Fruity to create this "berry" delicious gift set. I took the opportunity to use up some excess scraps from my bin and pulled together this set that holds strawberry hard candies including the berries in the basket. I purchased the basket pattern from here.




The strawberry blossom that is on both the basket and the bag, was make with my boho blossom punch and my 5 petal flower punch for the leaves.



Thanks so much Holly for letting me play along with your awesome challenge! If you would like to play along to0, then please click here (SCS Fan Club Members only). If you are not a fan club member then take a peek at this page to see how you can become one :D

Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFT - Feelin' Fruity
Paper: Kraft, Water Colour, Black, Green, White, K&Co DP, Basic Grey DP, My Mind's Eye DP
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Green, Chocolate, Baja, Red
Accessories: Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Spellbinder's Circle and Scallop Circle and Square Nestabilities, Boho Blossom Punch, Brads, Sponges, White Gel Pen, Flower Punch, Ribbon, Button, Cello Bag, Linen Thread, Pop Dots, Sponges, Tombow Markers and Water Brush

SC284 - Flopsy Gardens

It's raining here again so I thought that I would put a little sunshine into my SC284 challenge card today by playing with these fun Cosmo Cricket papers :) A little while I ago I purchased this cutie from the buy and sell thread over at splitcoast. It's the first time this guy has seen ink from me so I pulled him out because he puts a smile on my face :D



The original sketch was a longer width card sketch, so I stretched mine out to make this card a top fold A2 style, just because that's how I roll ;) lol




I water coloured the flopsy bunny with an assortment of tombow markers and a water brush and then cut out 2 layers of him. I then placed him on my very haphazardly sponged die cut and had him hang over the edge to look like he's an "out of the box" cut out image. The carrot itself was glued to the die cut while the rest of the stem and flopsy have been popped up to look more dimensional. I tore up a piece of cocoa card stock and sponged it to look like dirt, cut it to size and then covered up the bottom of the carrot to make it look like the carrot is still in the dirt.

I used all Cosmo Cricked Garden Variety papers because I swear, these were made for this gardening fiend! The bright papers worked so well with the whimsical images and they are covered in smiley faced vegetables! What more could this bunny want?

Thanks for coming by today and if your day is coated with a layer of rain then I hope that this card brought some sunshine into your day :D


Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFT - Pullin' for you Flopsy
Paper: Gina K, Black, Water Colour, Cosmo Cricket DP
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Caramel, Cocoa, Baja, Navy, Garden Green
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Spellbinder's Circle Nesties, Sponges, Pop Dots, Clear Embossing Powder, Corner Rounder, Ribbon, Tombow Markers, Water Brush

CC273 - Pear-y Sweet

Whoo hoo! I'm so doing the happy dance here! This is the first time in a very looooonnngg time that I actually got a chance to participate in an SCS Colour Challenge in forevah! In fact, I can't even remember the last one that I played in. So let me re-iterate...WHOO HOO! :D

The challenge was Cocoa Banana Gardens (Close to Cocoa, Barely Banana and Garden Green) and we were allowed to toss in a bit of Soft Sky as a "cherry on top" if we felt so inclined to do so. I wasn't actually in the card making mood tonight but I found the colour combo too cool to resist as I had never even used my Garden Green package of card stock up until now :)



I was looking for a quick and easy image to water colour and one that I could match with the colour challenge so I pulled out this ever so sweet MFT Feelin' Fruity set that I love ever so much and don't get a chance to use too often. I water coloured it with my tombow markers and water brush then cut it out and popped it up on my sponged background. This card only took me about an hour to make so that's and even bigger bonus :D

I used some scrap Basic Grey papers and decided to get a little wild and crazy and place my sweet little creation on top of a GREEN card base. Are you as shocked as I was? *giggle* I always use white, but this created such a nice, fun pop of colour that I couldn't resist the temptation :D

Card Recipe:

Stamps: MFT Feelin' Fruity
Paper: Garden Green, Banana, Cocoa, Water Colour, Basic Grey DP
Ink: Saffron, Garden Green, Cocoa, Soft Sky, Black
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Spellbinders Dies, Sponges, Pop Dots, Clear Embossing Powder, Tombow Markers, Water Brush, Scallop Edge Punch, Pinapple Twist Ribbon (CDStamps)

Thank you cherry much!

Aren't these cherries so sweet? I have conveted this set from My Favorite Things for sometime and finally got around to ordering it a month or two ago and this is the first time that this set has seen ink! It seems that when ever I order some new goodies, I don't have time to play with them when I actually do get them! I think I'm going have to assume the title of stamp collecter soon ;) lol

This little note card was made for the SC269 sketch on Feb 23rd and I totally forgot to post it to my blog. I used some of my new October Afternoon papers on it and combined them with some K&Co scraps of blue paisley paper. Then cherries have been water coloured with my tombow markers and then added some crystal effects for some glossy fruit perfection ;)

Card Recipe:

Stamps: My Favorite Things - Feelin' Fruity

Paper: Gina K, Suede, Water Colour, October Afternoon Farm Fresh DP, K&Co DP

Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Antique Linen

Accessories: Sewing Machine, Cuttlebug and Embossing Folders, Spellbinders Nesabilities, Dew Drops, Taffeta Ribbon, Button, Linen Thread, Glue Dots, Crystal Effects, Corner Rounder, SAB Scallop Punch, Tombow Markers and Blender Pen, Water Brush. Sponges, Pop Dots, Stickles