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

Wonderful Birthday

Hello! 

Here’s a birthday card for my lovely friend Maureen, aka Mau.  I was in the mood for a different size card, and this ended up being 4”x8” – just sort of ended up that way. 

I don’t have a lot of commentary for this one – thanks for visiting!

What I Used:

Paper:  Papertrey Ink vintage cream cardstock; Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral and Barely Banana cardstock; Basic Grey Two Scoops/Creamsicle designer paper

Stamp:  Inkadinkado Nostalgia set

Ink:  Stampin’ Up! Cameo Coral

Accessories:  Cuttlebug: D’Vine Swirls embossing folder, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels one; dimensionals; ribbon; Kaiser pearls