Freshly Made Sketches - Pumpkins

Hello, today I have a card that I did using this week's Freshly Made Sketches. I had originally planned on showing you some of the Christmas cards and ornament I did last week for a Christmas bazaar but I forgot to take a picture of them. :( So I'm working on doing some more of them but in the meantime here is a card for this week's sketch which can be found on the Freshly Made Sketches blog.

I thought this looked like a fun sketch and I wanted to use the Fall Fest stamp set and dies before I could no longer use them. I also used the Motley Monsters DSP. On the black cardstock, I stamped the Handcarved stamp and embossed it with Iridescent Ice embossing powder. It gives it a fun glittery look. For the 2 circle images in the sketch, I used the starburst framelits. I stamped 2 pumpkins from the Fall Fest stamp set in Tangelo Twist. I also used the marker to give the pumpkins a little definition. The sentiment is from Good Greetings and that is stamped in Bermuda Bay. And the final touch was orange sequins that were from September's Paper Pumpkin.

I hope you are inspired to play along with this sketch. It was a fun one! Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Fall Fest, Good Greetings
Paper: Black, Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, Hello Honey, Motley Monsters DSP
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Tangelo Twist, Lucky Limeade
Accessories: Fun Fall Framelit Dies, Starburst Framelit Dies, Orange sequins, Iridescent Ice embossing powder

Baby Announcement and poster - MDS

Hello! Well it's been quite a while since I've posted. Unfortunately that's because I haven't been able to get too much craft time in lately. I have no idea where the times goes. We were preparing for a garage sale at the beginning of October so that took up a bit of time. But now here we are in the middle of October and I have no idea what I've done! Haha!! Since I haven't really done anything crafty lately, I will share the baby announcement I did along with a poster I did for her room. Both were done in My Digital Studio. The poster was something I wanted done since I had something similar for my son. The one for my son was a gift and I wanted my daughters to be fairly similar. I looked all over etsy for something but just wasn't finding what I wanted and then I realized that I could just do it myself in MDS. So now I was able to get exactly what I wanted. I plan to frame this and hang it shortly but for now, I will show you the digital version of it. I just designed this in MDS, exported it as a jpeg and then made a word document in the size poster I wanted (8 x 10), copied the jpeg and then printed it out. Cute right!

For the baby announcement, I found inspiration from Etsy but designed it in the colors I wanted. I love how it came out! I used various punches and stamps and then added my photos. I also exported this to a jpeg and just printed them out as 5 x 7 photos. I had a fun little photo shoot to get these pictures. Luckily she cooperated pretty well. I would have liked one more picture with her eyes open but I will take what I can get!

I hope you enjoyed today's post. I have some Christmas stamps on their way and I can't wait to get some craft time in with them. I have ideas floating around in my head so hopefully my stamps arrive today and the baby cooperates tomorrow for some crafty time!

Pink Camera

Happy Thursday! I have a fun card for you today. I used the super cute Snapshot stamp to create this card. I stamped the camera twice. Once on Pink Pirouette cardstock and then on white cardstock. I colored the lens with the Lost Lagoon marker and then cut it out. The designer paper is from the Moonlight paper stack. The ribbon is the new silky taffeta in Lost Lagoon from the Holiday catalog. This ribbon is so nice and ties very well. The sentiment is from the Good Greetings set again. I'm telling you this set has been getting a lot of use from me. I stamped the Hello Love in Lost Lagoon, Crisp Cantaloupe and Pink Pirouette. I used the banner punch for the ends. Then I finished it off with more sequins. I picked out the Crisp Cantaloupe sequins.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Snapshot, Good Greetings
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Lost Lagoon, Pink Pirouette
Paper: Lost Lagoon, Sahara Sand, Moonlight DSP paper stack, Pink Pirouette
Accessories: Banner punch, Lost Lagoon silky taffeta ribbon, Sequins

More Halloween

Hello! I have another Halloween card to share with you today. This also uses new product from the Holiday Catalog. You can now purchase items from this catalog. Again Stampin' Up! put out another great catalog. I want so many things from the catalog but I can never get everything because I don't have enough time to play with it all. But the Halloween stuff was just too cute to pass up. I used the Fall Fest stamp set and Fun Fall Framelit dies. I stamped all of the pumpkins in Tangelo Twist then I used the dies to punch them out. So easy!! The background paper is from the Motley Monsters DSP. I cut out some Blackberry Bliss from the On Film Framelit dies. Then I embossed some Crumb Cake cardstock with the woodgrain embossing folder. The sentiment is from Good Greetings and I stamped that in Bermuda Bay. For the finishing touch, I added White and Tangerine Tango two-tone trim and a gold button.

I hope you enjoyed today's card!

Stamps: Good Greetings, Fall Fest
Ink: Tangelo Twist, Black, Bermuda Bay, Pear Pizzazz
Paper: Crumb Cake, Blackberry Bliss, Motley Monsters DSP
Accessories: White and Tangerine Tango two-tone trim, Gold buttons, Fun Fall Framelit dies, On Film Framelit dies, Modern label punch, Woodgrain embossing folder

Halloween card and an update!

Hello! I have a Halloween card for you today and a little update on the new baby. Jillian Nora was born on August 9th at 4:21 pm. She was a week late so we had to evict her, haha! We are both doing good. So far she sleeps a lot which helps when I am at home with my son too. Since he's a little wild, it's helps that she has been calm. Here are a couple of pictures of the peanut.

And I will just quickly share a Halloween card I did the other day. It uses items from the holiday mini catalog which will be available tomorrow!! I don't normally buy Halloween paper since I don't use it as often but I fell in love with the Motley Monsters DSP. There are some non Halloween papers in the pack that I can use for other types of cards, so that helped to justify my purchase, haha! I also used the Fall Fest stamp set and dies for the ghost. The sentiment is from the Good Greetings set which you can receive for free with a $300 workshop!

Thanks for stopping by. I have another Halloween card that I hope to be able to share this week.

Stamps: Fall Fest, Good Greetings
Ink: Bermuda Bay, Sahara Sand, Smokey Slate
Paper: Sahara Sand, Bermuda Bay, Tangerine Tango, Hello Honey, Motley Monsters DSP
Accessories: Fun Fall Framelit Dies, Circle Dies, Chalk Talk Framelit Dies, Modern Label punch, White and Tangerine Tango two-tone trim, pearls, Decorative Dots embossing folder

Baby Thank yous

Happy Friday! I have one last quick post for you before I get induced tomorrow. Please pray for a quick and easy delivery!! I'm just worried that it's going to be a long drawn out day. I just want this to go by as quick as possible. Anyway, while I had time the other day I decided to get a head start on some thank you cards. I figured that we will probably get some gifts once the baby is born so it will be nice to have thank you cards ready to go since I probably won't be crafting the next few days. I printed out a bunch of the bunny images from My Digital Studio. I don't have this stamp set but I love that I can use MDS for stamps that I don't have. Plus I enlarged it so it could be a bigger focal point. I love having the option to make it any size I want. I colored the bunnies with some copic markers and Stampin' Up! markers. Then I used some designer paper I had leftover from Sale-a-bration (Sweet Sorbet) and cut it out using the Labels Collection framelits dies. The thank you sentiment is from Regarding Dahlias. I stamped it in Baked Brown Sugar on Pistachio Pudding and punched it out with the modern label punch. Overall these were pretty quick and simple thank you cards. The coloring took a bit of time but since I like coloring, I just watched some tv and went to town. I find coloring very relaxing and when you have great markers to work with (such as Blendabilities or Copics), it makes it so much more fun.

I hope you like today's cards and thanks for stopping by. Next time I post I should have a new baby to talk about!! :)

Stamps: Regarding Dahlias, Baby We've Grown (My Digital Studio)
Ink: Baked Brown Sugar
Paper: Sweet Sorbet DSP, Crisp Cantaloupe, Pistachio Pudding
Accessories: Labels Collection Framelit dies, Oval Framelit dies Modern Label Punch, My Digital Studio, markers

Hello Dahlia Love!

Yup it's me again. I haven't done this much crafting in such a long time. It feels great to get back into it. I know that any day now, I will be on a break for a bit with the new baby so I'm crafting up now while I can. Which looks to still be some time, haha! This baby does not want to come out. For today's card I was in the mood to do some coloring. I do not have the blendabilities yet but I hear they are fantastic. In the meantime, I used my copic markers to color the flower. I stamped the flower onto watercolor paper and watercolored some Coastal Cabana on the background. Then I used several yellow markers to color the flower in. I stamped the flower twice so I could add a second dimensional layer to the flower. I think it's a nice little touch. The background paper is the Moonlight DSP paper stack. Then I used the On Film framelits to cut out the Blackberry Bliss cardstock. I used the new Good Greetings set (I told you it was versatile) for the sentiment. I stamped the flower image again on the sentiment banner just to make it not look so plain and then I added a Very Vintage designer button with a sequin in the middle. Of course I couldn't leave out the sequins on this card either. I just scattered them over the card where I felt like it. Then I just added some Crushed Curry chevron ribbon.

I hope you liked today's card and I hope you are inspired to do some crafting of your own today!!

Have a great day!

Stamps: Good Greetings, Regarding Dahlias
Ink: Memento Black, Coastal Cabana, Smokey Slate, Blackberry Bliss
Paper: Moonlight DSP paper Stack, Basic Gray, Watercolor, Blackberry Bliss
Accessories: On Film Framelit dies, Crushed Curry Chevron ribbon, Gold sequin trim, Copic markers, Aqua painter, Banner punch, Very Vintage Designer buttons