Happy Birthday - STB#6

This week at Seize the Birthday the theme is Masculine and it gave me a chance to use a new Art Impression stamp. I just love their fun, humorous stamps.

Here is the great sketch we are using again this week.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

snowflakes - part III

I am having a little love affair with snowflakes here and my last three post have had them both on the cards and in the title of my post.

Yep, soon as I saw this post from Retro Sketches I knew I just had to do a fun glittered chipboard snowflake on it.

I used papers by Studio Calico from the 'darling dear' collection along with a Maya Road chipboard snowflake that I painted silver and then added glitter to while it was still wet. The button is by October Afternoon and the twine is by Jillibean.

I am also entering this into the Paper Players challenge for this week which is to use snowflakes.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

silver and gold PP122

(this is my second post today, scroll down to see the other one)

A couple of quick cards for you today that I created for this weeks challenge over at the Paper Players, this week the challenge is to make a project using silver or gold.

This first card was really easy to put together (my favorite kind). I used a big silver glitter star that I picked up at Target in the Christmas ornament aisle. I added a 'winter wishes' flair badge and put it all on top of a piece of solar white linen paper that I embossed with snowflakes.

This next card took a couple more minutes to make. I used a Maya Road chipboard snowflake that I painted with Adirondack Metallics paint dabber. I added some Stampendous 'shaved ice' to the snowflake while it was still wet. The sentiment is Paper Smooches. After all that I felt it needed just a little bit more so I used the same embossing folder and a couple of gold dew drops from my stash. I layered the embossed piece with some gold stardreams paper.

Since I love how these cards turned out I might have to make a few more for the holidays.

Thanks for stopping by my blog today it really means a lot to me. 

 ~ hugs Sherry ~

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Another quick card to share with you that I created for this weeks Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

I used papers and embellishments from the Little Yellow Bicycle collection "Splash" along with some American Crafts "thickers" and the sentiment is by Maya Road.

Here is the sketch that I used for inspiration.

Thanks again for stopping by my blog. 

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I have a quick card to share with you that I created for the newest cardabilities sketch.

I used papers from the Stella and Rose "hazel" collection by MME for my card, along with a handmade flower using some Maya Road tulle ribbon and October Afternoon stickers.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

Thanks for stopping by to look.

Enjoy!

celebrate today

Yesterday would have been my Dad's 84th birthday and this coming Saturday is my Mother-in-laws 84th birthday (don't tell her I told you) so I had to make her a card.

I recently picked up some of the 6x6 pads by Simple Stories and I used the "generations" collection for my card along with some Maya Road rose ribbon.

I used the Card Patterns Sketch 136 for my inspiration. Such a fun sketch to use and you could just use scraps that you have laying around for this one. 

Thanks for stopping by to look. I will be back tomorrow with either a card or a layout.

Enjoy your day!

basic white

I have come to the realization that I only make white cards. This came about last night while Skyping with my friend Michelle. I don't know why I am afraid of doing a card in any color other than white. I will put that on the list of things to work on.

With that said let's meet today's cards.

I created this first card for the sketch challenge over at "simply less is more". I used some papers from my new Cosmo Cricket 6x6 pad "UPcycle" and new spellbinders dies that I got from Claudia and Company.

The perfect CAS card sketch.

Next up is my card for this weeks Clean and Simply Stamping challenge. Although this looks simple enough I had a heck of a time with this card and must have made it 3 times before I got the look I was going for. 

This is one of those sketches I know I will use again in the future.

Hope you enjoy your Sunday!

catching up ~ part II

Yesterday I posted some of the layouts I had been working on and today I want to share some cards that I created this past week.

I received an order from Two Peas this week and couldn't wait to rip into my new Crate Paper 6x6 Portrait pad and Maya Road ribbons.

I created this card for Mojo Monday card sketch.

I wasn't sure if I liked the color combo at first but after looking at it for awhile I really like how it turned out. This is fast becoming my favovrite stamp.

Enjoy!