A Pocket of Strawberries for a Special Lady

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 592, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 582 - A Real picnic in the Sand with Cucumbers with dessert of "picnic". For Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 585 - All Around Border I stamped the small flower in sahara sand all around the white panel and for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 376 - For A Special Lady. I will handwrite on the white panel pocket piece when the time comes next year. I chose to use this sketch opportunity to make a pocket card. I used basket weave embossing folder for the top slanted piece. I stamped the berry image in black then colored with copics, matted on real red then popped it up on dimensionals. Hope you like it. 
RECIPE:

Stamps: Flourish - Strawberries

Paper: white, Sahara Sand, Real Red

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Crisp Cucumber, Sahara Sand

Accessories: copics, Basket weave EF

Techniques: 3D, copic coloring, dry embossing, all around border

More Merry Chritmas Messages WOW Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 569 - Gate Fold. You can follow the SCS GATE FOLD CARD TUTORIAL to make yours. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 360 - Snow and Ice and last weeks CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 359 - WOW Them where we were to use only white on white cs and 1 ink color for the sentiment. These 2 CAS challenges just had to be done together for me. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 431. I have got to stop with the Christmas cards but this was the 1st thing that came to mind.

RECIPE:

Hope you like it.
Stamps: More Merry Messages 
Paper: white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, deer die, Christmas Tree die, Snowflake EF, stickles 
Techniques: 3D, Gate Fold, dry embossing

It's your 10th Birthday Makayla

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a Stamp, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You Happy? and today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 429. We have 3 granddaughter's celebrating birthday's next month so I made Makayla's today who will be turning 10, WOW where does the time go. I cut the circle with a Marvy circle punch then I inked the negative side of the HB embossing folder with watermelon wonder then ran it thru the cuttlebug. This panel is popped up on dimensionals. the panel under that was inked with Tim Holtz Splatter stencil using all 3 colors then matted on watermelon wonder.

The sentiment on the inside and envelope were stamped in watermelon wonder. Hope you like it now let's get back to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday 
Paper: white, crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Ink: crisp cantelope, watermelon wonder, crumb cake 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug Happy Birthday EF, Tim Holtz Splatter Stencil 
Techniques: 3D, stenciling, cuttlebug negative inking

Sidekick Blessings from Heaven

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 561, for Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 551 - Blushing Saffron Pears, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 554 - Watercolor those Diecuts, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 3456 - CAS-ing HYCCT. Today I choose to do LEND A HAND and DON'T COLOR BETWEEN THE LINES. I water colored my rectangle panel using all three colors then cut with spellbinder rectangle die then stamped my sentiment in black ink and matted on blushing bride cd. I embossed the so saffron with cuttlebugs Leaves EF.

On the inside I stamped the praying hands in blushing bride then stamped the sentiment from Blessings from Heaven over that in pear pizzazz ink and then again on the envelope. Hope you like it. Now let's go earn some money. Hobby Lobby opens in Tifton next week and I plan on being there. We are just too excited to have one closer to us.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sidekick Sayings, Blessings from Heaven, Praying Hands 
Paper: white, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, so saffron, blushing bride, pear pizzazz 
Accessories: Spellbinders Rectangle Die, Cuttlebug Leaves EF 
Techniques: watercoloring, watercoloring dies, dry emboss

Happy Fall Color Blocked Costume Bears

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 558. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 548 - Who Crushed my Cherries and the Pumpkins in my Garden?. I could not resist color blocking the pumpkins on both side with crushed curry and pumpkin pie cs for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVER CHALLENGE # 551 - Color Blocking with Card Stock. My pumpkins and CAS style are for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 342 - It's Punkin' Time. I color the image with copics E34, 35 & 37, R59, YG63 & 67 and YR12 & 14.

I stamped all sentiments and the bottom of the inside and envelope with garden green. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Happy Fall Yall, Costume Bears 
Paper: white, crushed curry, pumpkin pie, garden green 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green 
Accessories: copics, MS Grass Border, Sizzix SunRay EF 
Techniques: copic coloring color blocking, paper piecing

Somtimes it's all about the shoes

FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE # 288 - Add Something gold, Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 546 - Make it Metal, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 555, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 545 - Metallic Gold meets Very Vanilla, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 339 - Tag It. We have a couple of co-workers getting married soon and so today I made another wedding card. I used my Argyle embossing folder today and created some tags and colored them gold with my metal gold paint pen. I stamped one with a sentiment from All Holidays and the other I added a gold vintage shoe. These are both popped up on dimensionals. I had to free hand my sentiment on the front. I have seen something similar in a sentiment but not sure who made it.

I used the same sentiment today on the inside and stamped the envelope with the same ink color. Hope you like it.
This is for today's
RECIPE:
Stamps: Stamps usedTrust God, All Year Cheer I, All Holidays 
Paper: vanilla, Metallic gold 
Ink: Delightful Dijon, gold paint pen 
Accessories: tag, gold cording, vintage shoe, dimensionals 
Techniques: dry embossing, tag

Madison's 13th BD Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 542 - Elegant delightful Cajun meadows, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 545 - Fussy Cutting, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 336 - Under the Stars, and my layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 409.
I used a set I have not used in years from when I was on the DT for H&M which is no longer in business. I stamped the image on white then on 3 of the colors in todays CC then fussy cut them out to paper piece them. I used some dp from a new paper stack that was as close as I could come to and punched a star to fussy cut around it. Hope you like it, now off to work I go.

RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Birthday Greetings - SU, Livin' The Girls Life - H&M Stamps 
Paper: white, elegant eggplant, deightlful dijon, cajun craze, mossy meadow, colorbox Carvnival dp 
Ink: momento tuxedo black, elegant eggplant 
Accessories: dimensionals, cuttlebug Star EF 
Techniques: paper piecing, fussy cutting, 3D

 

Sleepy Kitty in Love

This is for today's FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE # 259 - To the Moon, Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 517 - Kitchen Love, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 526, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 516 - Pink and White Melons and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 239 - Love is in the air.
I used Anne's technique with wax paper stamped in versamark then sponged with pink pirouette around my image. I colored the rest with copics leaving my kitty white. My mood did not show well enough so I popped it up on dimensionals along with my double layered hearts. I embossed the melon mambo base with a heart EF and the white vellum with the border heart EF with a strip of pink pirouette under it. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Sleepy Kitty digital image, short & sweet 
Paper: white, pink pirouette, melon mambo, vellum 
Ink: pink pirouette, melon mambo 
Accessories: dimensionals, vellum 
Techniques: 3D, emboss resist, dry embossing

Fleas Navidad

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 514 - Speaking Foreign, Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 523 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 513 - Basic Bermuda Slush. I have had this idea in my head all day and tried to forget it but it just would not go away. I have no foreign language stamps so I had to free style this. I will give this to my darling hubby for Christmas since it reminds me of the mutt he brought home last year and grew into a horse. LOL.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Woof You - SNS 
Paper: White, Basic Gray, Bermuda Bay, Strawberry Slush 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black 
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Darice Paw Print EF 
Techniques: dry emboss, paper piecing, doodling, Cut Out

All Holidays Mother's Day for MIL

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 512 - Bride in the Berry Meadow and Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 379.
I found this darling digi image in my enormous stock of pre-printed images and had to dust off my copics. I have not used them in such a long time and almost forgot how. I still wish I could color as good as most of you here on SCS but it is what it is and I am just thankful to get to play again today. My sentiment is from All Holidays and stamped in Rich Razzleberry. I used old olive to ink up the embossing folder then embossed on blushing bride. This will go to my MIL in May. She loves my handmade cards. Hope she likes this one too.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Holidays, Digi Pansies 
Paper: White, Rich Razzleberry, Blushing Bride, KI Memories Doilies DP 
Ink: Rich Razzleberry, old olive 
Accessories: Ribbon, Copics, Cuttlebug, CB Victorian EF, Glitter Pen 
Techniques: Dry Embossing, dry embossing inked 

Season's Greetings 2013

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 453 - Always Baked Cherries wiith a Dessert option of Holiday Card, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 456 - Wreath Building, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 247 - Inspired by Music my music is "it's begining to look a lot like Christmas" that song is stuck in my head today. Everywhere you go all you see is Christmas decorations. I would just like to make it through Thanksgiving first. Oh well. It has been a while since I played along but could not resist this morning. Creative juices were flowing and why would I hold them back? LOL.
Hope you like it
RECIPE:
Stamps: Season's Greetings - SU 
Paper: vanilla, always artichoke, baked brown sugar, cherry cobbler 
Ink: Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Ornament EF, Martha Stewart Fern Punch, Cropadile punch, Stickles 
Techniques: dry embossing, Make a Wreath

All Natural Thank You

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 446 - Crazy Suede Starfruit, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 449 - Faux Whitewashing, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 240 - Pinterest Inspiration Photo, and Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 313.
How could I not put all of these together when they all fit so well. Thanks for setting it all up for me.
I had fun with this creation even if I may not have done the TLC right. Not sure if I did or not but I did finish it. My circles ended up WAY bigger than I needed but again Oh Well. It is what it is.
Hope you like it.

RECIPE:

Stamps: All Natural 
Paper: Cajun Craze, Soft Suede, Summer Starfruit 
Ink: Cajun Craze, Versa Mark 
Accessories: embossing powder, cuttlebug, victorian ef 
Techniques: Faux Whitewash

Blessings from Heaven in Hues of Blue

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 422 - Monochromatic Madness and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 418 - Midnight Muse Breeze was certainly the right color combo choice so how could I not use it?. This is also for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 213 - Limited Supplies where we were to use single line images (no silhouettes) and my layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 286.
I used some midnight muse ribbon across the top vertical panel, stamped my sentiment in midnight muse and doodled on the top and bottom with marina mist marker. I cut the cross and popped it up on dimensionals.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Blessings from Heaven
Paper: white, midnight muse, marina mist, baja breeze
Ink: midnight muse, marina mist
Accessories: dimensionals, Fiskars scallope border punch, ribbon, Cuttlebug Diamonds and Dots EF Techniques: dry embossing, 3D, doodling, CAS

Sanded Love and Sympathy

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 423, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 413 - White Lucky Tangerines and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 416 - Dry embossing with Sanded Pattern Paper where I used another sheet of The Paper Studio - a day at the Beach pattern paper dry embossed with The Paper Studio "Script" folder then sanded.
I stamped the long sentiment in basic black on white cs then inked the flower image using my stampin up markers and huffed then stamped over the sentiment.
I stamped the shorter sentiment using tangering tango on white, punched with oval punch then layered with tanger tango oval punched cs.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Love & Sympathy
Paper: white, tangerine tango, lucky limeade, TPS-a day at the Beach PP
Ink: basic black, tangerine tango, lucky limeade
Accessories: oval punches, cuttlebug, TPS - Script EF
Techniques: huffing, sanding, dry embossing

Sweet Citrus Love

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 413 - White Lucky Tangerines, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 416 - Dry Embossing with Sanded Pattern Paper, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 207 - Theme - Love is in the Air and for my layout last Saturday's SKETCH SATURDAY CHALLENGE # 245.
I used a piece of pattern paper from The Paper Studio "a day at the Beach" stack matted on white, embossed with Cuttlebug "Leaves" then sanded. on the white oval I inked the image with Stampin Up's Markers Tangerine Tango and Lucky Limeade Markers, huffed and stamped. I stamped the large citrus image in Only Orange Craft Ink them heat embossed with clear irridescant powder and tried several times to get a good pic showing the shimmer :( oh well it is what it is. I cut it out and popped it up on dimensionals. I tied some orange twine. I stamped the sentiments in tangerine tango.
I have a granddaughter that LOVES sour things and fruit so this will go to her Thursday even though I rarely tell her she is "sweet" ;) LOL.
Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Citrus & Such, So Very - SU
Paper: white, Lucky Limeade, Tangerine Tango, TPS - a day at the Beach
Ink: lucky limeade, tangerine tango, only orange craft ink
Accessories: twine, embossing powder, dimensionals
Techniques: 3d, heat embossing, dry embossing, sanding

Embossed Happy Anniversary

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 411 - Best of 2012. I choose TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE 398 - Try A Little Dimension for this card. I also included today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 202 - Postage or Faux Postage. I have been MIA for a couple of weeks so I also added the last color challenge from last year COLOR CHALLENGE # 407 - Silver, Gold, and White.
I have had this embossed image since I bought my Cuttlebug eons ago and never used it. I embossed the image in white and gold then cut the ribbon and bells out to attach to the white layer for dimension. I cut and embossed the white and gold layer using Nestabilities Postage Die and popped the white panel up on dimensionals. I matted that on silver. My card base is 4x4 white.
RECIPE:
Paper: white, silver, gold
Accessories: Cuttlebug, dimensionals, Nestability Postage Die
Techniques: dry embossing, 3D

More Merry Messages of Christmas

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 403 - Real Gray Gumballs. My layout is from Saturday's WALTZING MOUSE SKETCH CHALLENGE # 125.
I used my new favorite Christmas sentiment set for my focal panel stamped in real red ink then cut and embossed with Nesties circles, then sponged some gumball green ink on the inside with the die in place. I used some ribbon for my gray color and strips of real red and gumball green cs for the #2 panels embossed with Holly embossing folder.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: More Merry Messages
Paper: white, real red, gumball green, K&Company dp?
Ink: real red, gumball green
Accessories: ribbon, dimensionals, Cuttlebug, Holly EF, square paper punch
Techniques: dry emboss, 3D, sponging

Come to Bethlehem Embossed Edges

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 404 - Embossed Edges, for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 197 - Color Challenge. My layout is from today's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 268. I used some perfect plum ink to stamp my image and sentiment. Pale Plum cs for the focal image cut with Fiskars circle template. Going Gray 1 in circle and crumb cake cs embossed with Cuttlebug Stars embossing folder. I used my perfect plum marker around all 4 edges of my white panel then embossed the edges using my versamark pen and glitter embossing powder.
Hope you like it and now I am off to work my 1st of only 3 days this week. Whoo Hoo.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Come To Bethlehem
Paper: white, perfect plum, pale plum, going gray, lavendar lace, crumb cake
Ink: pefect plum, versa mark
Accessories: fiskars circle template, circle punch, cuttlebug, Stars EF, glitter ep
Techniques: embossed edges

New Beginings with Chevron

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 396 - Rich Mustard at Midnight with Chevron as dessert.
My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 262.
My layered butterflies are for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 398 - Add A Little Dimension.
I stamped the largest in rich razzleberry then the middle in the same ink after stamping off, the smallest was inked and stamped in midnight muse, all on mustard cs.
The sentiment is also stamped in rich razzleberry on more mustard cs.
I did some doodling around the more mustard cs short pieces and ran the rich razzleberry throught my cuttlebug using the Chevron EF.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: New Beginings - SNS
Paper: rich razzleberry, more mustard, midnight muse
Ink: rich razzleberry, midnight muse
Accessories: dimensionals, butterfly dies from SNS, SU Marker
Techniques: dry embossing, 3D

It's Your Rivetting Birthday

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE # 394 - Tags.
My layout is from Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 404.
My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 394 - Navy Pacific Sand.
My panel 3 is sahara sand dry embossed with Seeing Spots embossing folder then I inked the raised spots with pacific point ink for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 396 - Make Your Own Polka Dots.
I embossed the night of navy used for panel 2 with Swiss Dots embossing folder. I stamped the image from Riveting once in night of navy and then in pacific point ink then on the night of navy image I did 2 step stamping with sahara sand after stamping off once. I used circle punches to punch the entire image in night of navy then just the center image from pacific point. I popped both circles up on dimensionials. The sentiment is from "It's Your Birthday" and is stamped in pacific point.
Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday, Rivetting
Paper: white, night of navy, pacific point, sahara sand
Ink: night of navy, pacific point, sahara sand
Accessories: circle punches, Seeing Spots & Swiss Dots embossing folders, SU corner punchs, ribbon, crop-a-dile, cuttlebug
Techniques: Polka Dots, 3D, tags