From the Heart

Hi, hope you had a wonderful weekend! It feels like the days are flying by so quickly and I'm falling behind with my list of to-dos. But, well, I really can't complain as I got some new goodies to play with over the weekend.  And, I did ink up some stamps that are in a box just waiting to be used.

Here's my card:

from this  TCM's May Sketch

This time I stayed true to the sketch pretty much, it's fun just to do so.  No fancy colouring, just a few Copics on that beautiful dress (V000, V01, V04 and RV10, RV13, RV14 for the sash).  The dress was cut out and adhered with pop dots onto the card, where I've also stamped the dress form image with Memento Rich Cocoa.  I added a piece of sheer gathered trim at the bottom of the dress.  The dress form and the sentiment are from TCM's Sew Lovely and the flowers from Simply Delightful stamp set.

Here's another closer look at the card..

There's plenty of time still to play along this challenge if you'd like to.

Since this is a CAS card, I'm submitting it for the Simon Says Stamp challenge as well.

Have a Fabulous week!
Kary

Products used : The Craft's Meow stamps sets Sew Lovely & Simply Delightful, Memento Rich Cocoa & Sweet Plum, Copic Markers, Viva Decor Pearl Pen - Lilac, i-rock crystals, sheer gathered trim, Stampin' Up Embossing folder Square Lattice, Hero Arts Layering paper Lilac.

Just For You

I must admit colouring this fuchsia is totally from my imagination ;)  But I suppose that's the fun in colouring, you can have flowers in any colours you fancy.  The fuchsias are from The Craft's Meow's lovely stamp set Celebrating You while the sentiment is from the stamp set Simply Delightful.  I coloured the fuchsias with Copic Markers - Leaves (YG21, YG23, YG25), Flowers (YR20, E000, B91, B93, B95), Outline (BG0000).  The card inspiration came from this Color Challenge for TCM's Birthday Bash:

If you would like to play along, please visit TCM's blog for the details.

Have fun!

Kary

Sunflowers

Sunflowers are such happy flowers, aren't they?  Just looking at them brings a smile always.  Today's card is in response to the Sketch challenge at The Craft's Meow.  It's part of their birthday celebration bash and I just love ALL of their new releases.  Can't wait for them to arrive.  The card above is based on this sketch, and I flipped it around for my card.

The image is from TCM's set Lovely Birds.  I coloured it with Copic Markers - Sunflowers (YR23, Y08, YR23, YR20), Leaves (YG21, YG23, YG25), Fence (E23, E25, E29), Birdhouse (E31, E33, E35, E37, E95, E97), Background (BG0000).  The patterned paper is from Pink Paislee Nantucket.

There's still time to join the challenge, if you'd like to, just check out the details at TCM's blog.

Thanks for stopping by today.
Take care!
Kary

Monday cards & A Winner!!

Hi Friends!  It's Monday and the start of another new week.  This is the week to get all Christmas cards mailed.  I am determined to get really organised and finish what is required.  These are my recent creations - I guess you could say they are based on the same layout/sketch.

I am seriously in love with the Lily Bee Jingle papers, most of my Christmas cards are made using them.  And, I used the same sentiment & image stamps and dies from Taylored Expressions - Wreath of Joy, Seasonal Wreath Die & Basic Bow Die. 

Now, to announce the final Winner of my Birthday Giveaway.  Instead of checking through all comments, I decided to just take the comments from the first post of the week (as of midnight Sunday my timezone), and then have random.org to pick out a number.  Then I'll check that the person has commented on all my postings.  So... here's the result:

From the 15 comments on this post, random.org picked out Commentor No. 1, and so... the prize goes to...

Wendy ten Hove

Hoi, Wendy, Big Congrats for winning the Spellbinders Wonky Rectangles dies!! Woo-hoo, I know you have been wanting them, and I am SO glad your number was chosen.  And because you are a follower, I'll be sending you a special something too.  I'll let that be a surprise.  

Thank you, Everyone, for sharing the Birthday celebration month with me.  Your kind words and comments have meant a lot.  I hope you'll be back to visit soon.

  

Have a Happy Week!!

Stamps : Taylored Expressions Wreaths of Joy, The Craft's Meow Timeless Tags (the sentiment frame on the second card)

Dies : Taylored Expressions Seasonal Wreath, Basic Bow 

Paper : Lily Bee Design Jingle 6x6 pad

Ink : Memento Tuxedo Black & Bamboo Leaves

Have A Lovely Day!

I love simple sketches, because I'm just not good with anything complicated.  What about you?  Most of my card designs are pretty simple with one or two embellishments.  The only constant is I love to have my images coloured, most of the time.

Today's card follows the sketch at Lily Pad Cards which incidentally is by Nina Brackett.  And, I have used two of her stamp sets to create the card above - Lovely Birds & Timeless Tags (frame for sentiment).  The patterned paper is Pink Paislee's Nantucket & Lily Bee Design Picket Fence.

Lily Pad Cards is giving away four of Nina's stamps sets, and they are Awesome!  So, everyone should play along for a chance to win the sets. {grins}

I'll be back on Thursday for another Inspired Stamps inspiration.

See you!

Stamps : The Craft's Meow "Lovely Birds" & "Timeless Tags"
Paper : Pink Paislee Nantucket 6x6 pad, Brown cardstock, Lily Bee Design Picket Fence 6x6 pad
Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa
Copic Markers : Fence - E31, E33, E35;  Bird - BG11, BG32;  Sunflowers - YR24, Y15, Y17, colourless blender; Leaves - YG91, YG93, YG97; Bird house - E23, E21, E31; Background - BG0000
Other : Seam binding, Webster's Pages Sparklers

Just For You

I'm so glad to finally have some time to make a card for The Craft's Meow's sketch challenge.  It's been a long time since I made my own patterned paper/background... so I did a quite some stamping and colouring for this card using just one stamp set, "Simply Delightful" (love this set).  I kept the card pretty simple in two colours, lilac & pink.

The sun is out today, and I know tomorrow will be another beautiful day.  I hope the weather is lovely where you are.  Enjoy your weekend!

Stamp : The Craft's Meow Simply Delightful

Paper : Hero Arts Layering Papers Lilac & Snow

Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa & Sweet Plum, Memento Marker Angel Pink

Other : Paper flower, Zva Creative pearls

So Sweet Of You

I have a CAS (Clean and Simple) card to share today.  This card came together pretty quickly with the Simply Delightful stamp set by The Craft's Meow.  The images were stamped directly onto a piece of white cardstock with Memento inks.  No colouring needed!  (This is getting fun, I'm beginning to like solid images like these and put away my markers).

My card was based on the colour scheme below by Embellish Magazine.  I'm usually not very good with colour challenges but this was a breeze.  Do play along for a chance to win a stamp set from The Craft's Meow.  The details are here. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a good day!

Stamp : The Craft's Meow "Simply Delightful"

Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa (sentiment), Rose Bud & Cantaloupe (flowers), Bamboo Leaves (stem)

Paper : PTI Kraft cardstock, Hero Arts Layering paper Grass Green

Ride of Your Life

One of my favourite things in life is rollercoaster rides.  Many years ago, when my brother and I visited Orlando, we'd hop on every ride in all the theme parks we visited.  It was one of our most memorable trips together.  So you can imagine how excited I was to see this stamp set from The Craft's Meow called "Life is a Carnival" and better still, to have won the set.  So cool!!

The above card was created with this sketch at TCM's blog:

I stamped the various images onto a ledger patterned paper and coloured them with some copic markers (using lighter colours).  I used the ticket stamp as a border strip and the sentiment frame was from Timeless Tags.

Thanks for visiting and have a Lovely day!

Stamps : TCM Life is a Carnival & Timeless Tags

Paper : Making Memories Ledger paper

Ink : Memento Rich Cocoa & London Fog & Versafine Smokey Gray, Distress Ink Antique Linen

Other : Zva Creative pearls, CLD French Pastry Doily die

At The Beach

I love this stamp by The Craft's Meow of Frieda at the beach.  She wears a dress which reminds me of one I had as a kid.  I had fun colouring her and the bird - have you ever seen a bird with those colours? Yupe, I had a moment where I just wanted to create my own little bird.  Here's a closer look at the card:

I did some piercing along the base patterned paper and then connected the piercing with a white gel pen, and I must say it does look pretty close to real sewing... for those who read my blog, you know I have issues with my sewing machine...LOL.  I also added the white gel pen dashes & dots along the edge of the focal image.

This card was made for the Stampin' Sisters in Christ challenge this week.  I enjoyed the sharing by Marilynn on Faith, so true isn't it we often long for tangible evidence and favourable outcome in order to believe.  But sometimes, faith is found in difficult situations and calls for a trust in the One we cannot see.

Enjoy today!

Stamp : The Craft's Meow Little Frieda at the Seashore

Paper : Cosmo Cricket Odds n Ends, PTI white cardstock

Ink : Memento, Copic markers

Other : Sakura White gel pen, Sakura Clear glitter pen

Hello There!

Hello there!  I can't recall if I've ever made a colour block card, but it's always fun to try something new.  I used a butterfly stamp fom The Craft's Meow to showcase the blocks of colours.  To frame the blocks, I used some Baker's twine secured in place with Glossy Accents.  I'm really loving theses twines from The Twinery.
 

For more info on the Color Block challenge and to view the awesome samples, click here.

Enjoy the colours around you today!

Stamps : The Craft's Meow Butterfly Kisses & Little Frieda at the Seashore (sentiment)

Paper : White cardstock

Ink : Memento Cantaloupe, Bahama Blue, Lady Bug, Bamboo Leaves, Tangelo, Rich Cocoa

Others : The Twinery - Maraschino,Caribbean, Lemondrop, Honeydew, Mandarin

CPS Challenge #222

It's Saturday today, and I'm off to a lunch with some friends a little later - we're having Japanese.  I can't wait! But, before that, here's a card for the CPS Challenge.  I love MFT PI a lot, I'm sure you already know that... cos I've said it so often.  I think this card could be suitable for celebrating a number of ocassions like a new baby, a wedding maybe, etc.  I tried a new pink combo using copics RV11, RV02 and R00 for the little girl's dress and R30 & R32 for the flowers.

Oh, here's the CPS sketch and also the link to where you can post your entry to play along.

Enjoy your day!

Stamps : MFT Bunch of Blooms, Lawn Fawn Teeny Tiny Backdrops (hearts background), TCM Timeless Tags (sentiment)

Paper : October Afternoon, pink and white cardstock

Ink : Memento

Other : MFT Faux Crochet die-namics

The Craft's Meow parade

Hi again.  A new favourite stamping company of mine is The Craft's Meow.  I ADORE their stamps and I really wish I can buy every set in the store.  I think their stamps are quite my style, if I have one..haha..

Here are the cards: 

The first is a simple card and very easy to make. I stamped the fuchsias from Celebrating You set along the top of the card with Memento Lulu Lavender for a tone on tone effect. I stamped the fuchsia again on a white cardstock and coloured it with copic markers V000 & V01 & cut out one flower.  The sentiment label is from Timeless Tags set and I punched a hole on both ends of the tag to string the jute twine.  I think I'm going to make several colours of the same card to go in a set to give a friend.

You can see this card evolved from the above one. I decided to cut along the edge of the fuchsias and placed a piece of darker purple cardstock underneath.  I loved how fast and easy it was to colour the fuchsias using V000 & V01 and so I coloured all the flowers on this card.  The leaves were a little of a challenge and I used several colours of YG's (YG01, YG03, YG11, YG13, YG91, YG93, colourless blender) till I achieved a look I like (haha.. sometimes I don't know what I'm doing..).

Now, this last card is something that comes rather easy to me.  Love this image from Sending You Sunshine set.  The trees and the bird & bee are part of one image and the clothes are all separate images. I used a mix of Jillibean papers here for the border and paper piecing.  The rest I coloured using various copic markers choosing the same colours from the floral border paper.

I guess you realise I'm having so much fun with these stamps, right?  There are a couple more cards in the making still from another two stamp sets.  Will share these soon...

Have a creative day!!

Stamps : The Craft's Meow Celebrating You, Sending You Sunshine, Timeless Tags

Paper : Jillibean Watermelon Gazpacho 6x6 pad, Blossom Soup 6x6 pad

Ink :  Memento Lulu Lavender, Tuxedo Black & Rich Cocoa, Copic markers

Other : Pearls from Zva Creative, ribbon, white gel pen.

For You

Today, I have a card made to play along with CAS-usal Fridays challenge.  My card recipe is Emboss, Felt, Twine, and here it is:

Click on image for Close up to see the embossed patterned paper

Emboss = embossed the pattern paper using an impression plate
Felt = the green felt grass
Twine = jute twine around the focal image

The card didn't take long to make, I did some really quick colouring on the digital image, cut out the stamped sun & cloud image, die-cut the felt grass and made a little sentiment tag.  The end result was a summery card.

Have a marvellous day!

Stamps : Daisy Doodles Digi Daisy Daisy (focal image), The Craft's Meow Sending You Sunshine (sun & cloud), Unity Jillibean Dutch Mustard Soup (tag sentiment)

Paper : Jillibean Soup Watermelon Gazpacho, Gina K PLC cardstock

Other : MFT grass die-namics, jute twine, PTI Linen & Canvas Impression plate

Make A Wish

After some weeks of admiring The Craft's Meow stamps, I decided to join the club and purchase them ;)  I'm really pleased that it didn't take long before I received my order.  Here's my first card with Butterfly Kisses set by a lady I admire, who creates beautiful cards and stamps, Nina Brackett.  Tell me... can anyone not love this cute image?

I created the card based on this sketch at CAS-ual Fridays:

If you like The Craft's Meow stamps, come play along at CAS-ual Fridays, and you can win this set :

I can tell you it's a wonderful set to have, so do join the challenge. 

Stamp : TCM Butterfly Kisses

Paper : PTI Spring Moss

Other : CLD French Pastry Doily die, trim.