Showing posts with label Sketch Saturday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sketch Saturday. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Fluffles Strikes Again.

 When I saw the new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge I knew I had to dig out Fluffles again. The prompt is W is for Whimsical and I think this fills the bill.


The current sketch challenge at Sketch Saturday is pick a sketch from the archimves and I picked #509 from 2018. It worked well with my image. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.


Close up, the baubles and star were coloured with spica glitter pens


Finished the indside with some scraps of patterned paper and a favourtie vertical sentiment from Stampabilities.

I am adding this to:

ABCChristmas Challenge ~~ W is for Whimsical


Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Not a Creature was Stirring


Sketch Saturday ~~ 2018 Sketch # 509


Thanks for stopping by today and have as great week. 







Sunday, March 21, 2021

The Holly and the Ivy..............

 Are you singing the Christmas song?, I was humming as I typed.  I started planning my card a week ago, the stamp was on my desk waiting but it wasn't until Sunday I managed to get it going, which was just fine because Sketch Saturday's sketch is perfect for the image I chose. I haven't entered a Sketch Saturday challenge in quite a while. 


Of coure I had to use Fluffles  hanging from the garland, which I coloured with my spica glitter pens. 
I did a "flip" on the sketch but there is still a lot of "white" space left. 


The holly space on the inside was a great idea but in the picture it looks like bats, close up it's holly and berries. I hope you are giggling as much as I am over that. A favourite sentiment on the inside.

I'm entering tis in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ The Holly and the Ivy 







Show Us Your Pussycats ~~ Furrything goes

Thanks for visiting today and have a wonderful week. Stay Safe

 






Tuesday, June 9, 2020

It's UFO time at Shopping Our Stash!!!

No we are not going outerspace or flying saucers we are looking for UnFinished Objects, you know the stuff you cut extra of, or go on a colouring frenzy one weekend and have a box of coloured images,  I suggested the theme for the simple reason two or three valentine's ago I had the making of a card done, base, two layers, colour fussy cut image and a few other odds and ends so while contemplating what parts I was going to use they disappeared. I searched for a couple of days to no avail and made another simpler card. Here is the grouping I lost.


All the parts disappeared and one day while I was sorting cardstock, must have set them down and put something on top and it was almost 2 years later I found them. So those are just some of my UFOs and here is what I did with them.


I decided it was a long way to Valentine's day so I would make it into a birthday card, since I'm at the cottage I have limited supplies, #1 I forgot my guilliotine cutter again, #2 I only brought 3 paper pads with me but one was a Christmas pad that had oodles of plaid. The image is a stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie I have had it for years. I fussy cut the image and popped it up on the heart.


Finished the inside with a couple of snippits of plaid and a sentiment from Impression Obsession.

I followed Sketch Saturday's Sketch (loosly)
I am entering this in:


There you have it, my story of my UFO and now I still have a UFO valentine base to use in February, now you have seen mine head over to the Main Blog and check out the rest of the UFOs.


Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Love is in the Air!!

It's February and you know what that means..........Valentines Day!! Shopping Our Stash is giving you lots of time to get a Valentine for your sweetie made and enter it in Challenge #413 My Heart is on Fire which gives you the option of Heart/Red/Valentine/Fire. Love to see what you can create with our theme.  Here is what I came up with using Valentine.


I used a super sweet House Mouse Design stamp, I loosely followed the new Sketch Saturday sketch. The paper I used is a couple of years old and the image has been stamped for a while in my box of to be coloured later images. 


I couldn't resist a close up of the two love mice. 


Since I still haven't looked for my Valentine sentiment stamp I used With Love die cut.

I am entering this in:


House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes option of Love/Valentine

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out what the rest of the Design Team have made for the challenge. 

Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Happy Birthday Dude!!

Challenge #383 at Shopping Our Stash was chosen by teamie Donna, I'm sure she wanted us to change our mindset from Holiday cards!! Happy Birthday Dude is the theme and since I have been in "snow" mode for the last few challenges it almost stumped me, masculine cards are so hard to make and this is the quickest card I've made in a while. So we want to see a Birthday card for a Dude....a big guy or a little one.


Sketch Saturday had a really great sketch this week so I wanted to use it as it was perfect for this double sided designer paper from Stampin'up that I think I've had for almost a year as well as the matching cardstock, (just opened the pack to make the card. The vertical Happy Birthday is a couple of years old and I think I've used it once. The glasses brad is the first from a pack of brads from eyelet outlet also over a year old. 


Very happy the one sheet of DSP had both design on it (bonus) 


Finished the inside with  a scrap of paper and a sentiment from a bin at Michaels Craft Store.

I am entering this in:
Saturday Sketch ~~ week #542  I flipped the sketch to vertical
I took a few liberties with it.


Thanks for stopping by  and check out all the Dude cards at the Main Blog.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

It's Jingle Belles Time!!!

How great to be keeping up with the Jingle Belles this year!! I haven't missed one and it's a really cute challenge this time, While Shepherds Watched their Flocks which translates to they want to see CRITTERS on your holiday card.


I have a trio of cute critters for the challenge from Bugaboo designs and a fabulous sketch from Sketch Saturday. 


Close up of the super cute kitties.


Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and an Impression Obsession sentiment.

I am entering this in:
Jingle Belles Rock ~~ While Shepherds Watch their Flocks


Sketch Saturday ~~ October

Thanks for visiting today and stay tuned Rudolph Days are coming soon.

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Love Coffee?

Coffee Lovers Spring Blog hop is getting close to the end but I finally have a card made for the hop! I had it finished over the weekend but I really wanted to use the super cool Coffee die cut I had in my scrap box but of course I was not at home where it was, so without further hesitation here is my card.


I have a few images stamped and hidden in my Design team book, just in case I want to do some colouring well along with the uncoloured ones was this sweet house mouse image already coloured  in blue. Now you see why I wanted to use the coffee die cut. Sketch Saturday posted their new sketch on Saturday I knew I wanted to use it and it was perfect for the image. The washi tape strip I have no idea who's it was but I know I bought it before washi was the "in" thing at a flea market. 


Clse up of the image.

I am entering this in"



Sketch Saturday ~~ #515 

Thanks for stopping by today and have a creative week.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

It's a Panda Bear Birthday!!!

Happy Tuesday!!! Time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and Mimi has picked a perfect theme for the challenge ~~ For the Kids!!! It's perfect for me as my Great Grandson turns one in June and I needed to make a couple of birthday cards and the theme of the party is Teddy Bear Picnic, so I chose to made a Panda bear card.


Although the panda bear stamp is reasonably new all the papers were scraps out of the scrap box, the polka dot piece was an extra base for an ATC card quite a few years ago. As soon as I saw Sketch Saturday I knew it was perfect for my image. The Panda is from the Sale-a-bration promotion in March and was free (with purchase of course)


close up of the image.


Since it's his first Birthday I wanted to put the 1 on the card, which ties in with Seize the Birthday's challenge "it's just a number"

I am entering this in:
Sketch Saturday  #513 
Seize the Birthday  ~~ It's just a number (mine is one)

Thanks for stopping by today and for lots of fantastic inspiration head over to the SOS Blog and check out the rest of the design team's projects.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Spice up your Life...............

At Shopping Our Stash this week Challenge #315 is Spice up your Life!!!  No we don't want you to use spices we want a project inspired by one of the Spice Girls ~~ Baby Spice (could be a baby card or something cute) Ginger Spice (could orange or food inspired) Sporty Spice ((sports theme or colour of your favourite team) Posh Spice (something elegant maybe?) or Scary Spice (skulls, bats, Halloween)  Now those are some really helpful hints.  You can also get some great ideas from the Design Team projects at the main blog.  


I went with Ginger Spice just because I had this super cute Kraftin' Kimmie stamp which had Big Ben in it so I thought since the Spice Girls were a British group it worked well for the challenge. It also worked well for the Saturday Sketch challenge. The colouring was done with copics and spica glitter pens for the hat and dress just to make her sparkle.



Close up to show the sparkle.


Finished inside and in hindsight I think the orange ink would have been better.

Stash I used: NBUS stamp, NBUS SU die, Lace stick on ribbon

Challenges I would like to enter:

Thanks for checking my blog today and I'm looking forward to see which Spice Girl you choose.








Sunday, February 26, 2017

Napping in a Tulip

We have had some fabulous "spring' weather for February, it's been so warm the tulips, daffodils and crocus are confused and starting to grow.  It was wonderful but back to reality this weekend with a dusting of snow. I was in a spring mood and when I saw Sketch Saturday's sketch I thought wow I want to try it and my house mouse designs stamp was perfect. I decided to go out of my comfort zone and use "YELLOW" and here it is.


I used the last bits of some Stampin'up papers and daffodil delight base and ribbon, it needed something to tone down the yellow so I used a layer of black. The flower was from a prize bag I got several years ago and the brown center is a home made candy dot.


Close up of the flower and candy dot.

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The finished inside of the card.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Sketch Saturday #452 this is an awesome sketch.

House Mouse & Friends Challenge ~~ use a bow or anything goes (which I used)

Thanks for joining me here today and I hope you get the Spring feeling I was going for with this card. It already has a new home at our neighbour's inTurkey Point, we stopped by to check the cottage and deliver the card.   


Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Shopping Our Stash #286 ~~ Fantastic Beasts

Unicorns, Fairies, Dragons, Aliens and much much more to be found at Challenge 286 at Shopping Our Stash!!! What a great challenge theme Alica decided for us this week!!! it sure pushed me to be searching for something I have never used before, I have a lot of angels from Sweet Pea but there were none I haven't used at least once so next a search for a dragon well I have a couple of those...yup used them before several times so pinterest here I come and found one in my digi images that I have never used but of course I do not know who's it is there was no name on it.  Here is what I ended up making.


Guess you know by now my favourite colour is Purple and I decided this beauty had to be purple. I used the current sketch from Sketch Saturday I also used three dies from Elizabeth Craft Designs
  and an adorable dragon brad from Eyelet Outlet & brads which I purchase from Uniquely Yours   Craft and Photo. I also used some washi tape from the dollar store to go along with the sketch.


I used wink of stella on his/her spikes.


Couldn't resist a close up of the super cute brad from the Eyelet Outlet.+


Finished the inside with a scrap of patterned paper and a left over die cut I just couldn't throw out those little dots that were out of the die cut so added them for some interest. 

I would like to enter this in:

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you can join us for the Fantastic Beasts challenge.