New Moon Blog Hop – Today’s the Day!

Welcome, welcome, blog hoppers!  If you came here from Monika’s blog, you are in the right place!  

Today to keep us all in the mood, I’m sharing a New Moon-related project that I made for a past Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge about the villains of Twilight.  And why am I sharing a previously-made project?  Because I am in a hotel room in Austin, Texas, as I type – and heading to the movie theater on Friday morning with Tonya and Beth!  WHOOHOOO!  Cannot.wait.

With this digital layout, I tried to sort of illustrate one of the scenes from the book, when Bella encounters Laurent when she revisits Edward’s meadow.   I had to include Edward as the figment of Bella’s imagination – you just HAVE to get Edward in there – and there is a nice reference to Jacob in there as well.  (Look for the wolf paw prints on the lower right hand side.)  I can’t wait to see this scene on the big screen!

Now, keep on hopping – it’s time to visit one of our very special guest designers, Beate Johns! 

Have a great time at the movie, everyone!

More Fun with Sketches

I am still working with sketches this week! Or I should say, with ONE sketch. Twilight Tuesday’s Dani came up with an awesome sketch for the latest Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge, and here’s the second card I’ve made with it.  

This one is a kid card and was SO fun to make.  The bright colors make for a good time!

Here’s a look at the entire card:

And a closer look at the glittery little lion:

There is nothing simple about this card; I just kept embossing and layering until I could fit no more on there!

Thanks so much for visiting!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock, Stampin’ Up!  Apricot Appeal, Lavender Lace, and Tempting Turquoise cardstock; DCWV designer paper

Stamp:  Stampin’ Up!  Short & Sweet (sentiment); The Paper Company clear stamps – Jungle (lion)

Ink:  Stampin’ Up! Lavender Lace and Elegant Eggplant; Ranger Archival Ink in Jet Black

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Floral Dots & Swiss Dots embossing folders, embossing border from the “With Love” set, and tag die; Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels 1 dies; Making Memories brad; embroidery floss, Sakura Jelly Roll pen; Prismacolor pencils and Gamsol

Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge 9 – A Great Birthday

A new Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge was issued this week, and it’s a great sketch to work with!  Here is one card I made using the sketch, and I’m just about to make a second with it as well. 

This is a masculine birthday card, and the sketch helped to make this one come together really easily.   Visit Twilight Tuesday so that you can play along with this sketch challenge too!  

What I Used:

Paper: Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream & Enchanted Evening cardstock; Graphic 45 Times Nouveau designer paper

Ink:  Papertrey Ink Enchanted Evening & Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Tea Dye

Stamp:  Inkadinkado

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Swiss Dots and Distressed Stripes embossing folders  & Spellbinders Nestabilities curved rectangle dies; Crop-a-Dile & eyelets; Stampin’ Up! ticket corner punch; brad; dimensionals

Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge 8: A Little Dream

Hey everyone—I have a Twilight Tuesday project to share with you today – although we might have to use our imaginations to find the “twilight” in there.  But that’s okay.

I made this simple card for the Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge, one of two for the month of August.  The sketch challenges have been such a hit that we’re doing more of them now!  Click here to get the details on the sketch that I used for this card (TTSC8).  And the lovely Design Team member Dani just posted the latest sketch as well, which is another great one that I’ll be using soon.

So, for TTSC8, I flipped the sketch around and used the same color scheme from my card from last week’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge (pictured at right).  I am really in a purple mood lately – I am actually about to start working on yet another purple card today! 

With this card, the main image is the center of things, rather than the sentiment.  For the sentiment, I used a very small stamp on a very small tag – pretty low-key.

I glitzed up the image a bit with my trusty Sakura Jelly Roll pen – one of my fave tools ever.  (But I think I’ve mentioned that a time or two before…)  As always, the glitter effect is tough to see in photographs, but this close up might show it a bit.  There are a couple of purple Dew Drops there as well.

I know I have not been posting quite as much lately – but there is a reason, I swear!   I’ve been working on several bigger projects, and since they’re all in various stages, they just haven’t been ready to be posted.   I’m altering a jewelry/treasure box (haven’t decided what to call it!), and I’ve also been working on several fabric-covered Bind-it-All books.  And I just got a Cricut too!  I’ll be dreaming up some projects using that soon. 

So, due to my severe perfectionist tendencies, I can’t seem to post things until they’re truly, truly ready.  And since my new projects have a bit of a learning curve, that makes for fewer posts lately!   I think that I’ll end up with a bunch of things that I can post soon, though, so I’ll definitely be blogging more. 

Thanks to you lovely, lovely people who are still hanging in and reading.  I appreciate every single one of you – truly! 

What I Used:

Paper: Stampin’ Up! Elegant Eggplant, Almost Amethyst, and Lovely Lilac cardstock

Stamps:  Inkadinkado from Nostalgia set (floral, butterfly); Anna Griffin (dream)

Ink:  Stampin’ Up! Elegant Eggplant

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Floral Fantasy embossing folder & tag die; Spellbinders Nestabilities Petite Oval dies; Making Memories brad; Sakura Jelly Roll pen; Robin’s Nest Dew Drops; dimensionals

Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge 43 – A Love Song for Edward & Bella

I’m sitting out for today’s Twilight Tuesday Inspiration Challenge; you can find all the information here. 

I’ll be back later with a card for the Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge (the first challenge of two for August).  See you then!

Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge 7: Be Safe

Hello everyone!  Here is a card for the latest Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge.  Dani has been coming up with great sketches to work with, and I really love this one.  Click here to get the challenge details and play along!  Our sketch challenges have gone so well lately that we’ll be doing them more often going forward.

For this card, I was in the mood to use red and white for a Twilight feel, but but…I wasn’t up for using the classic black.  The black was just too heavy for this feminine-looking card, but  Chocolate Chip was just right.  I really like this red and brown combo. here.

I combined two stamps on the circle – an Inkadinkado flower and Edward’s famous “be safe,” from Artful INKable’s Fictionally Inspired set.  The flowers were given a little Cullen-style bling from Stickles. 

This card was for the lovely and sweet Jacquie, one of my fellow members on the Twilight Tuesday Design Team.  I hope she likes it!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink white cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Bella Rose designer paper

Stamps: Artful INKables from the Fictionally Inspired Set (sentiment); Inkadinkado from the Bohemian Flourishes set (flower)

Ink:  Stampin’ Up!  Riding Hood Red

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: Sizzix damask embossing folder and Spellbinders Nestabilities petite circle and petite scalloped circle dies; ribbon; dimensionals; Stickles in fruit punch; gems by K & Company

If I Could Dream At All: Twilight Sketch Challenge

Here’s a card that I made for the Twilight Tuesday Sketch Challenge (TTSC6).  Dani has provided a great sketch for this month – check it out here and play along!

The challenge is to make a Twilight-themed card with the sketch, and I was a little liberal with that since the card is so very bright and not all that Twilight-like.  But they can’t all be red and black, right?  I was really in the mood to use this designer paper that matches very well with Stampin’ Up! Rose Red.  So I brought it back to Twilight by using a quote stamp from the Artful INKables set Fictionally Inspired set:

“If I could dream at all, it would be about you.” 

Oh, swoon-worthy Edward.  What a way with words he has.

Card components:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink Vintage Cream, Stampin’ Up! Rose Red cardstock; Anna Griffin designer paper; Hambly Screen Prints transparencies

Stamp:  Artful INKables Fictionally Inspired Set

Ink: Stampin’ Up! Rose Red

Accessories:  Cuttlebug:  Birds & Vines embossing folder, Spellbinders Nestabilities long oval dies; ribbon; dimensionals; Kaiser pearls