sweet sunday sketch winner

Hello! This week's Sweet Sunday winner is Emily Wundrock! Congrats Emily - I love her take on the sketch this week with the flourish flowing over the panels. Beautiful! You can see more of Emily's great cards over at her blog, Emily's Expressions. Be sure to come back this Sunday for another Sweet Sunday Sketch.

sweet sunday sketch challenge #15

Good morning - It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! Here is the deal: make a card with this layout and use Mr. Linky down at the end of my post to enter your card. On Thursday at 2 PM (Mountain Time), I'll randomly select one card to feature on my blog. So, as long as your card is linked in the Mr. Linky box by 2 PM Thursday, your card will be in the drawing. Be sure to link directly to the blog post or gallery image which features your card. You may post a picture of the sketch on your blog, but please save the image to your computer first. Use the keyword SSSC15 if you plan to post your card at SplitcoastStampers.

Thank you all so much for your birthday wishes! I had a fantastic night out with my husband - we ate dinner at Hibachi Japanese Steakhouse and I thought someone was going to lose an eye. Yep, that's the mom in me - I just can't leave her behind, ha! It was amazing to see the chef flip all the food and utensils all over the place. Very fun and very stuffed by the end of dinner. Then I got to open my card and inside was our grocery money - I had to laugh at that. Basically he was telling me "lets go shopping". I've been wanting a new camera for SO long, so he took me to pick one out. Isn't he the best? Very nice birthday. Thanks love.

Ok, on to my card - I've been in a baby blue/navy blue mood lately and here once again is another blue card. I wanted to make something for Mother's Day to sell in my Etsy store for a while and I finally managed to finish one. I used my oval Nestabilities for this card (another new goodie for me) along with some of my favorite flower punches - use these ALL the time.

You may have noticed my new Sweet Sunday logo on my sketch and I've made a badge for you to put on your blog if you'd like. It's in my sidebar and you can get the HTML by clicking on "want this badge".

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Ok, now it's your turn - have fun!!
Karen


recipe -
stamps: all holidays
ink: night of navy
paper: bashful blue, night of navy, whisper white cardstock, retired dsp
accessories: 5/16" brads, 6-petal flower punch (ek success), flower trio punch, oval/scallop nestabilities (spellbinders), stampin' dimensionals


Come back on Sunday for another sketch -

happy birthday

Yep, it's another birthday card - you know why? It's my birthday! Woo hoo! So why such a masculine looking card for MY birthday? That's just where the mojo took me this morning. My dad's birthday is coming up, so I'll give this one to him. I used Taylor's TECC65 for this card today, but left off the scallops. This little cuppie stamp is one of my favorite images from Sweet Celebration - I just love the look on that little cuppie on the bottom and the joy expressed in the one up top. Too cute!

Today Sarah-Jane Kale' and Beckie Carlson are celebrating their birthday too! I love sharing my birthday with such wonderful stamping friends!

Have a fantastic day - I'm off to tidy up before my big night out with my wonderful hubby.

Karen


recipe -
stamps: sweet celebration (taylored expressions)
ink: memento tuxedo black, copic markers
paper: bashful blue, bravo burgundy, choice buttercream (taylored expressions) cardstock, four seasons dsp
accessories: ice rhinestone brads, 5/16" brads, stampin' dimensionals.

sweet sunday sketch winner

And the winner is.... Trish Hughes! Trish made a darling card - full of warm summer colors and a very fun border punch I haven't seen yet. Love it! You can see more of Trish's beautiful cards at her blog, Hand Full of Stamps - she has a wonderful Father's Day card for you all to see today.

Thanks so much for playing this week - I'll be back with another sketch on Sunday.

Karen

birthday wishes

Happy Thursday! One day closer to Friday - sweet! You are not going to believe how long it took me to make this card... yes, it took me about 4 hours!! "Why", you ask? Well, see I got some new goodies and I *needed* to use them in this one card for some reason. I worked with them, tweaked the card here and there, stamped and cut out the butterfly in about 5 different colors... sigh. I do not like mojo days like that. I made it SO difficult! I love the result though, especially the stamped background, but my desk is a disaster and I need to clean it up so my mojo will come back.
Here are some of my new things I used in this card. Of course the butterfly is from that delightful Basic Grey set, Butterfly Bitsy stamps (I think this may have been retired because I've looked for it online and it is nowhere to be seen), I have some new Spellbinders - Curved Rectangles Mega Nestabilities and 5-1/2" Victorian Border Piercerabilities. SO much fun!

Thanks for stopping by today - see you back soon!
Karen


recipe -
stamps: butterfly (basicgrey), sincere salutations
ink: blue bayou, groovy guava
paper: soft sky, blue bayou, whisper white cardstock, blue bayou prints dsp
accessories: curved rectangles nestabilities & victorian border piercerabilities (spellbinders), 5/16" brads

you take the cake

Hi! Today I thought I'd try out this week's sketch challenge over at Splitcoast, and check it out, it's Wednesday and I'm posting it! I'm usually finishing sketches waaaay after they come out, so this is an exciting day. I love this little cupcake guy from Sweet Celebration, isn't he sweet? I framed him using the square nestabilities and scallop - these are really addicting, if you haven't been able to tell that from all my cards lately, haha!

I hope you are having a wonderful week!
Karen


recipe -
stamps: sweet celebration (taylored expressions)
ink: memento tuxedo black
paper: tempting turquoise, pumpkin pie, stampers select white cardstock, party pieces simply scrappin' kit
accessories: 5/16" brads, so saffron grosgrain ribbon, square/scallop nestabilities (spellbinders)

sketch set

I've seen some stampers put together a set of coordinating cards using weekly sketches from around blogland and today I thought I'd post mine. I made these at the midnight crop (yes, I should have been working on scrapbook pages, but I didn't have any photos ready, shame!). I am nearing the end of my Maine Blueberry paper pack and I think this is the first time I'll use the whole thing! It's so sad - bye sweet blueberries.... I'm also using Trendy Trees (sentiments) and Cheep Talk for my images.

My first card is from Taylor Van Bruggen's TECC64. There isn't an ounce of ribbon on it - what???!

My second card is from Lori Craig's WSC77 and it turns out this card is pretty much exactly like Dawn Easton's card HERE. I swear I didn't case her - we just think alike *wink*. It's very eerie we used the same exact sets on our cards.

My last card is from Verve, VSAPR3. I'm always finishing these late and can't enter the contest for free stamps. Bummer! Maybe one day...

I hope you enjoyed my tour of Blogland. I'll see you back soon!
Karen



Recipes -
card 1
stamps: cheep talk, trendy trees
ink: not quite navy, old olive
paper: old olive, bashful blue, not quite navy, whisper white cardstock, maine blueberry dsp
accessories: rectangle/scallop & circle/scallop nestabilities, stampin' dimensionals

card 2
stamps: cheep talk, pocket silhouettes
ink: not quite navy, old olive, bashful blue
paper: bashful blue, not quite navy, whisper white cardstock, maine blueberry dsp
accessories: bashful blue striped grosgrain ribbon, mini twinkle dots (a.muse), word window punch, rectangle/scallop nestabilities, stampin' dimensionals

card 3
stamps: cheep talk, trendy trees
ink: not quite navy, old olive, pumpkin pie
paper: bashful blue, not quite navy, whisper white cardstock, maine blueberry dsp
accessories: not quite navy stitched grosgrain ribbon, latte buttons, square nestabilities, stampin' dimensionals

sweet sunday sketch challenge #14

Good morning - It's time for another Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge! Here is the deal: make a card with this layout and use Mr. Linky down at the end of my post to enter your card. On Thursday at 2 PM (Mountain Time), I'll randomly select one card to feature on my blog. So, as long as your card is linked in the Mr. Linky box by 2 PM Thursday, your card will be in the drawing. Be sure to link directly to the blog post or gallery image which features your card. You may post a picture of the sketch on your blog, but please save the image to your computer first. Use the keyword SSSC14 if you plan to post your card at SplitcoastStampers.

Since our girls weekend was cancelled, my friend and I decided to go to a midnight crop and I came home with this adorable Butterfly (bitsy stamps) set from BasicGrey -LOVE IT!

Ok, now it's your turn - have fun!
Karen

recipe -
stamps: butterfly bitsy stamps (basicgrey), fresh cuts (su)
ink: bashful blue, not quite navy
paper: bashful blue, not quite navy, whisper white cardstock, maine blueberry dsp
accessories: bashful blue striped grosgrain ribbon, scallop edge punch, labels 1 nestabilities (spellbinders), mini twinkle dots (a.muse), stampin' dimensionals

Please join us next week.

sweet sunday sketch winner

Another fantastic round of cards! You all amaze me. This week Random.org picked #3, Emily Wundrock - congrats, Emily!! Stop on by her blog and check out her fabulous cards! I love this card she made for the challenge with the flowers popping up from the card. Beautiful!

Well, I'm off to create another sketch for Sunday. I was going to be out of town this weekend for a girl's weekend away, but half the state is going to be in a winter storm warning, so that may put the kabosh on our plans! I'll have the sketch ready just in case we go though *wink*

OH! I almost forgot to let you know that I've added some reverse watermarks for those of you who have requested something to put on light backgrounds or cards when the white watermark is difficult to see. I hope you like them.

Have a fabulous day!

Karen

a little peek

Good morning! I have something fun to show you over at the Stamp A Sweet Impression blog today. You don't want to miss it!

Karen

brief watermark tutorial

I have added some instructions to the watermark post, so if you are wondering how to use a watermark hop on down 2 posts and check it out.