wishing you well

I have a real quick card to share with you before I head out to the Minnesota Historical Society with my cousin. We are hoping to do some family research today.

Notice all the stitching I did on today's card? I decided to get a little brave on this one. I love the sketch and it was perfect for adding a handmade organza bloom, mixed with some Memory Box papers from the "minuet" collection and one of my new SRM stickers from the "wishing you well" collection.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card. It is sketch 102 from Card Patterns.

Enjoy!

saturday

I have two quick cards to share with you today before I head out to work at Anchor Paper Express.

My first card is for this weeks sketch at Clean and Simple Stamping. I have once again used papers, chipboard stickers and journaling cards from the Twig collection by Little Yellow Bicycle.

And here is the sketch that I used.

My next card is for this weeks Get Sketchy challenge . For my card I used papers and buttons by My Minds Eye from the "fine and dandy" collection. 

Here is this weeks sketch.

Enjoy!

bloom brightly

I received an email from my friend Amy yesterday saying she thought one of my handmade blooms would be perfect for the sketch over at CPS well you know that was all I needed to get me creating a card.

I had just finished making about 10 new blooms using lots of fun fabric scraps that my bff Judy gave to me last weekend.

I just love the pink color of the bloom and it goes so well with those Memory Box "pixie" papers and hot pink Esse cardstoc. The sentiment is a vinyl rub-on by EAD and the ribbon is by May Arts. 

Here is the sketch that inspired my card. (thanks Amy)

 Stop back tomorrow as I will have a couple new cards to share with you.

Enjoy!

you make me happy

Friday and that can only mean one thing...It's new release day at A Day For Daisies and if you are like me you are going to fall in love with this weeks collection that Tammy has created.

For my card I chose to use the Little Boy Loves image from the "you make me happy" collection.

 I knew immediately when I saw this image I would make a clean and simple card this week. Arielle who is also on this design team had done a very similar look with one of the digital images a couple weeks ago and I wanted to give it a try this week.

For my card I used Neenah solar white linen and distressed the edges and added the red felt heart for a little pop of color. I think I will put this card away and let Micah give it to his Mom this coming Mothers Day.

Check out all of the new releases for this week and let me know which one is your favorite.

Enjoy!

brrrrrrrrr

It is freezing here in Minnesota and without the windchill the temp is -12 degrees fahrenheit. I am so ready for Spring.

I was telling my friend Amy how much I love the EAD vinyl rub-ons and she told me about today's challenge where if you enter a card you get 25% off your purchase...so I had to create a card.

This week it is a color challenge and we were to use Olive, Ivory, Chestnut and Gold. I knew that my BasicGrey "curio" papers should have most of those colors and then I dug through the fabric scraps my friend Judy gave me last weekend and found this gold and brown fabric to make a flower.

Next up I have a layout to share with you that I created using the Sketchy Thursday sketch from last week. Yep, last week! I missed the deadline by one day. I still had to share it as I am on a mission to complete at least one layout a week this year.

I took these photos of Micah last fall on one of our fun play dates. I also took about another 50 photos and was going to create a mini book, but decided to just put the other photos into 4x6 sleeves and put them inside his 12x12 scrapbook along with this layout.

Hope you Enjoy!

hi ~ happy birthday terrylee

Growing up in a house full of 5 girls we all had knicknames. I was sherryann (combination of first and middle names) and my older sister Terry (4 years older than me) was known as TerryLee.

Well Terry is having a birthday in a few weeks and I always take the opportunity to rub in her age to her.

The sketch over at Clean and Simple this week was perfect for making her card. I used papers from Memory Box "brioche" collection, Martha Stewart doily, American Crafts foam thickers, and vinyl rub-ons by EAD (thanks Amy).

My next card was also created using some new Memory Box papers and these are from the "pixie" collection.

I was inspired by the sketch at Skipping Stones Designs. The red rose is Webster's Pages, the felt flower was another gift from Amy and the stickers are Cosmo Cricket. 

I am off to play with Micah today since the weather is cold outside and Mom did not want to take him with her today.

Enjoy!

hello

I have another quick card to share with you today.

I created this card for the wee memories "dust off your scraps" challenge. Who doesn't have lots of scraps laying around? I am also entering this in the "speedy the cat's friends" challenge which is to create a card using a homemade flower. The flower was created using some white muslin.

Paper scraps are from my Memory Box "brioche" collection, the rub-on is by EAD, and twine is from The Twinery.

Enjoy!

welcome home mojo ~ welcome home

I think my Mojo finally came back so I made good use of my time yesterday  and created a few cards to share with you over the next couple days.

I created these first two cards using new paper and cardstock stickers that I picked up at Archivers the other day. I love the colors and patterns. This is the TWIG collection by Little Yellow Bicycle.

For inspiration I used the sketch over at sfytt I added some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon and the card was complete.

Next up is a card I created using the WMS sketch for this week. Such a fun little sketch and using the stickers I decided to create a fun little scene.

Here is the sketch I used for inspiration.

I have a couple more cards to share and will do those in a separate post for you.

Enjoy!

ss49 ~

Wednesday and time for a sketch challenge over at Sasya's Sketches.

This week I pulled out some of my BasicGrey papers from the "marjolaine" collection as well as a woolie from the same line.

And here is this weeks sketch #49. 

I hope you find time to play along with us this week.

Enjoy!

thinking of you

Sunday I spent the day with my bff Judy at Archivers. I didn't get anything accomplished but the catching up with each other and shopping was wonderful.

I picked up a couple new Hero Arts stamps using my Archivers coupons along with some new papers that I am sure you will see in the days to follow.

This card was created as a just because and uses one of the new Hero Art stamps "leaf cluster" that I got along with some new Memory Box papers from the "minuet" collection. The honeydew twine is from "the twinery", button is BasicGrey and the stickers are from October Afternoon and kraft cardstock.

Thanks Judy for the wonderful day and the beautiful handmade tote bag. I love it.

Stop back here tomorrow for the new sketch challenge over at Sasya's Sketches.

Enjoy!

love you friend

I have a quick card to show you before I head out on this cold Minnesota day.

For my card I used one of the newest digital images by LORi designs called "love you friend".  I used papers from Memory Box from their new "brioche" collection. I just love the fun colors in this collection.

My card was inspired by this weeks Monday Lunchtime sketch challenge over at Techno Stampers.



Enjoy!

winner winner chicken dinner :)

Theresa said...

Awesome card Sherry! This is a toughy - I think I like the wheelbarrow and the gnome holding the lantern the best - he reminds me of those travel commercials.

February 4, 2011 9:23 AM

Theresa please email me with your address and I will get your ribbon in the mail and on its way to you.
 



be my valentine

I took some time today to get all my valentine cards ready for mailing. I still need to pick up a little something extra to go with a couple of the cards but will do that this coming week.

In the meantime I created two more cards today. The first card is for the sketch challenge over at Limelight Paper Crafts not only is it a sketch challenge but we are also to use red embellishments on it.

I don't know about you but I am loving my embossing folders lately and used my cuttlebug hearts on my cards. I created the felt flower using my PTI die, sentiment and the die cut shape are also by PTI. Cardstock is Neenah Solar white linen and French Papers pop-tone wild cherry.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card.

This next card is one of those "just because" cards that I wanted to create. It will go to a special friend that I haven't seen in awhile and I am meeting up with her this weekend to just catch up. Don't you just love that doily in the background? That was a surprise gift from my friend Michelle.

I used Neenah Solar white linen cardstock, BasicGrey button, The Twinery "blossom" twine, PTI blooming flower die, felt from my stash and "tiny type" stickers by Cosmo Cricket.

Enjoy!

in my garden ~ adfd new release friday

It is Friday and time for a new release from Tammy over at A Day for Daisies. This weeks release is one of my favorites and I had a hard time picking which image to use for my card.

I decided to use the image called "potted lavender" and after coloring up the image I added some purple liquid pearls and stickles to make it pop just a little more.

I tied on some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon and added some market stickers by October Afternoon.

Now let's meet this weeks new release images.

Which one is your favorite? Leave me a comment and I will pick a winner before next Friday. The winner will get 5 yards of my wrinkle ribbon in an assortment of colors (1 yard each of 5 colors).

Enjoy!

thank you

A quick post just to show the card I made for this weeks challenge over at CPS for sketch 203.

Enjoy!

my new hat

I have a layout to share with you today that I did of Micah and his new hat that his Aunt Karen made for him.

For my layout I used some new papers and buttons by My Minds Eye from the "fine and dandy" collection. The dark brown paper is BoBunny. Stickers are October Afternoon and chipboard is Making Memories.

I used an old sketch from Design Dollies for my inspiration.

It is a beautiful sun shiney day here and we are supposed to get to 21 degrees. Yipppeee. Much better than that below zero stuff we have been seeing.

Enjoy!

togetherness ~

I love the cosmo cricket paper collection "togetherness" so thought I would pull it out of my 6x6 stash and make a card.

I used this weeks sketch from Karen Giron for my inspiration along with the papers and buttons from cosmo cricket and one of my handmade satin blooms.



Enjoy!

hello ~ ss48

Wednesday and time for another sketch challenge over at Sasya's Sketches.

My card was created during the time that my Mojo was missing so I will apologize now that it just doesn't seem to flow like my normal cards do.

I used papers by BasicGrey from the "mellow" collection as well as Cosmo Cricket buttons and tiny type stickers. The stamp is by SU and was a gift from a friend.

Here is the sketch that inspired my card. I hope you will take a little bit of time to play along with us as well.

Enjoy!

ballet mouse

I have a card to share with you today using the "ballet mouse" digital image by Lori Boyd and for my card I used the sketch over at Techno Stamper as my inspiration.

I used papers by Cosmo Cricket from the "earlybird" collection, button and twine are from my stash.

Enjoy!

and the mojo continues...

As I said in my post yesterday I seem to have gotten my mojo back and here are a couple more cards that I created the other day.

This first card was created for the challenge over at Get Sketchy GS72. You can't see my cardstock panel too well due to the lighting but I used my scorepal to create lines like on the sketch below. I used another one of my satin bloom flowers and the sentiment is a rub-on by pebblesinc.

My next card is for the sketch at Clean and Simple and I used some old papers by basicgrey from the "boxer" collection. The sentiment is a vinyl rub-on by EAD designs that was a gift from Amy and to finish off the card I used some of my handmade wrinkle ribbon.

That's it for today.
Enjoy!