warm wishes

The house is quiet here this morning as the hubby and son have run to the airport to welcome home the Minnesota Lynx basketball team who lost the WNBA finals last night to Indiana.

While they are gone I thought I would share with you a card I created for this weeks sketch over at Fall to Layout.

I pulled out papers from the My Minds Eye 'winter wonderland' collection along with one of my favorite wintertime embossing folders, some time and a button from my stash. The frame and white insert are nestability dies.

If you haven't noticed I LOVE a white card base. Makes this girls heart happy.

Here is the sketch I used for my inspiration.

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

~ hugs Sherry ~

enjoy your special day

The weather has definitely cooled down since last week and today it is a balmy 33 degrees and rainy.

I created this card using this weeks sketch over at Clean and Simple Stamping along with some new papers by Bazzill Basics Paper from the Vintage Marketplace collection. The sentiment is by PTI from "beautiful butterflies" and the butterfly is Martha Stewart.

Thanks for stopping by! I am off to run a few errands before it starts raining again. With this weather though wouldn't doubt we get a few snowflakes.

Oh Happy Day

There is a new challenge up over at Claudia and Company and I knew I had to play.

The challenge is to create a card using red, green and yellow.

For my card I used papers from the "modern homemaker" collection by October Afternoon along with my stamp girl with kite designed by Lori Boyd for Claudia and Co.

I had so much fun making this card. The card shape is a nestability die and the circle is embossed with a SU embossing folder called square lattice.

Enjoy!

for you ~ hope

It is a beautifully sunny day here in Minnesota and that can only mean one thing...it is cold outside!

I have a couple of cards to share with you that I created last night while watching one of my favorite movies "legends of the fall". I cry everytime I watch it, okay I cry several times while I watch it.

I have a couple of cards for you and this first one is for this weeks sketch over at Twisted Sketches and the twist for this week is "hope".

For my card I used papers from Cosmo Cricket's "togetherness", along with PTI buttons, Nestability die and "tiny type" stickers also by Cosmo Cricket. The border punch is Martha Stewart.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

My next card is an easy one using "circa" papers by Cosmo Cricket and a muslin flower that I made. The stickers are by October Afternoon.

Here is the sketch from CPS that inspired my card.



Enjoy!

noel ~ jolly good fun

Happy Tuesday and if the weatherman is right I should wake up to a couple more inches of snow on the ground today. We are having some weird weather here in Minnesota lately. Yesterday, it was 41 degrees and raining most of the day. Sure hope it isn't a skating rink out there this morning.

I have a couple cards to share with you and the first one uses some kraft cardstock and "mitten weather" by Cosmo Cricket.

I added a Martha Stewart snowflake and a PTI vintage button from the "holiday mix". My card was inspired by this weeks sketch 118 over at Clean and Simple.

This next card was fun to make and an easy one to color up. I used some BoBunny "midnight frost" papers, a couple Martha Stewart Snowflakes, buttons are from PTI and the embossing folder is by Sizzix.

My inspiration came from this weeks sketch over at Just add Ink. Isn't this a fun and easy sketch with lots of possibilities?

I hope you enjoy and I will be back tomorrow with this weeks Sasya's Sketches Challenge #39.

I hope you will leave me a comment and let me know what you think of my cards. Good or Bad I want to hear from you.



SS29 ~ have a merry

It is Wednesday and that means time for a new Sketch challenge over at Sasya's Sketches. This weeks sketch is a fun one which I think you will really enjoy.

For my card I used some Kraft card stock and embossed part of it with a Cuttlebug embossing folder, papers are by BasicGrey from the "Jovial" collection. The star is a nestability die, the sentiment is by My Sentiments Exactly, and the button is BasicGrey.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card. I hope if you find yourself inspired by this sketch that you will play along too.

Enjoy!

ho ho ho ~ sasya's sketches #27

When I saw the sketch for this weeks challenge over at Sasya's Sketches I immediately thought Valentine's Day, well I didn't want to rush the holidays so I changed it to a Christmas Card.

With that being decided I knew that I wanted to use some of my new BasicGrey "jovial" 6x6 paper pad and woolies for my card. I hate to say this but I think you are going to be seeing a lot of these papers in the coming weeks.

I kind of think the snowman is a little creepy looking and I kind of like that. lol

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

The embossed background is a QuicKutz die, the little snowflakes are from Spellbinders and the tiny type stickers are from Cosmo Cricket.

Enjoy!

joy

This is my 2nd post today scroll down to see my TPE card.

I haven't played along at the Mojo Monday challenge for awhile and decided to do so today.

This is one of the new pure innocence digital stamps that I purchased recently and I thought it would be perfect with the new BasicGrey "jovial" papers and my handmade wrinkle ribbon.

I am really enjoying using the digital stamps and am trying to work on my coloring which I don't have down yet.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card and as you can see I altered the sketch just a little bit.

Okay, I hope you enjoy my card. Leave me a little blog love as you never know when I am goinng to sling out some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon again.

water baby play ~ for Amy!

So a few days ago my friend Amy sent me this sketch from sweet peach crop shop and wanted to know if I was up for a friendly challenge. Well of course I couldn't turn her down, although I probably should have.

This layout took me 3 days to complete. It was a lot of trying out different paper combinations, adjusting the photo color, ripping off what I had put down, trying new papers, and new embellishments.

Well after working on it last night until the Tornado sirens went off I finally finished it up this morning. I think I am okay with it now, just wish I could of toned down my felt embellishments just a notch. Did you happen to notice the stitching around the largest piece of patterned paper? I finally brought out the machine and did some sewing. (not as hard as I thought it would be)

Enjoy!

~ supplies ~

paper: the paper company (cream white cardstock), we r memory keepers (72 and Sunny), neenah natural white

ink: ranger distress (vintage photo and tumbled glass

embellishments: felt circles, american crafts (thickers), nestability (label one), pti (die-namics banner), cosmo cricket (tiny type stickers), karen foster (scrappers floss)

one of those days!

Did you ever have one of those days where you had plans to do a lot of things and when it was all said and done, you didn't hardly make a dent in the to-do list?

Today was one of those days. I had plans to go and spend the day scrapbooking and ended up doing everything but that.

I do have some cards to share with you. this first one is for the challenge at Eat, Sleep, Stamp and for this card I used another new pure innnocence set that I bought at the last MFT release party. I also used some October Afternoon "thrift shop" papers.

My next card is for cardabilities sketch #7 ~ my friend Amy just made the design team over there and this is her first week doing the challenge with the rest of the team. For this card I used some new papers that I picked up at Archivers yesterday called So Sophie by My Mind's Eye. I love the fun colors.

My last card is for Clean and Simple Stamping and for this one I used a new stamp by Hero Arts called "elegant weeds" and some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon.

 I will try and post a layout or two tomorrow as my friend Amy has challenged me to a scrapbook layout challenge.

Enjoy!

Clean & Simple, Sketch Girl, & Limelight

I apologize for not posting yesterday. I had some cards done and just needed to get a photo taken of them and then do my blog entry. Well I don't know where the day went to, but I never got around to doing it so today you will see 3 of the 4 cards that I created.

This first card is for this weeks challenge over at Clean and Simple Stamping and it was perfect to use this new BasicGrey "cappella" paper pad. Sentiment is by A Muse and the flower is from Unity, and ribbon is May Arts.

This next card is for the challenge over at Sketch Girl and when I saw it i knew it would be the sketch I use for the card I am sending to my friend Tami's sister to welcome her new dog Annie that she recently picked up.

Papers used for this card are the new BasicGrey "max and whiskers", stamps are by inkadinkadoo. I had to show you the inside of the card too where I added some more of this cute paper and a little paw print.

My last card is for the challenge over at LimeLight PaperCrafts and uses more of the BasicGrey "cappella", Neenah natural white cardstock which was embossed using one of the exclusive european KARS cuttlebug folders, ribbon is May Arts, Stamp is by Endless Creations and butterfly is Martha Stewart.

I hope you enjoy these card creations and again I apologize for the long post. Have a great day.

loving easter greeting

I am finally getting some of my Easter cards done so that I can get them in the mail before it is too late.

This card is made using Card Patterns Sketch 57 along with some lovely Karen Foster papers, Prima roses, PTI buttons, pearl dew drops, Nestabilities, Martha Stewart ribbon from Tami, and Martha Stewart bunny punch.

Not sure if I like how the photo turned out. I took my camera outside to my front porch hoping to get better light.  Maybe I will stick to taking the photos inside.

Enjoy!

Paperback Books

I usually either give away the paperback books that I read but the last one that I read I did a little something different. Look at my card and see if you can tell what I created with the whole book.

Today's card is for Simply Scrapping December Card Challenege #3. Along with the sketch we are to use flowers.

I used poppystamps paper 'snow & cedar', kraft cardstock, nestabilities label 8, PTI new leaf button, gold & key lime pie glimmer mist, rangers vintage photo distressing ink, marvy large flower punch, and my Dear John paperback.

I hope you all had a great holiday spent with those you love.

Enjoy!