MFT Sketch Challenge

I had so much fun with the MFT Sketch Challenge, that I decided to give it a second try!

This time, I combined the sketch with the gorgeous inspiration photo from The Card Concept.  I was drawn to the florals and the golden touches of the photo...but my card became more whimsical than formal when I used a stack of fun, peachy prints picked up at Tuesday Morning for only 99 cents.  (Might be bragging about my bargain here!)  My second stack of TM papers included a light woodgrain print...perfect for the background.

Thanks so much for visiting!
Christine

Linking to:

MFT Sketch Challenge

The Card Concept

Word Art Wednesday

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

The House That Stamps Built A/G

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Happy Friday!  It's time for another Fun Friday Challenge at Jo's Scrap Shack where the theme is always Anything Goes.   This week the design team is showcasing some adorable images from Sasayaki Glitter.  The super-cute Baby Elly's Birthday can be found here.

Please take time to see the design team's samples and to link up your own creations.  It's always fun to see what you have to share!

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

3. THREE entries per person are allowed for each challenge and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

Thanks so much for taking time to visit,
Christine

Adorable Elephants~Happy Birthday

The designers' work with this week's MFT Sketch is just stunning! Their creativity1

My card features MFT's Adorable Elephants, one of my favorite things!

Have a fabulous day!
Christine

Linking to:
MFT Sketch Challenge
Word Art Wednesday
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge
The House That Stamps Built A/G

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Wedding Wishes

Just a quick share.....this wedding card was created using Verve's Joyful Blooms and Love Everlasting sets. After embossing the joyful blooms, I watercolored them with various inks and a water brush.  The leaves were die cut from Verve's Sprightly Sprigs and the gold was echoed in the scalloped edge cut from PTI's Edgers dies.

Thanks for stopping by,
Christine

Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday  A/G
SSS Wednesday Challenge A/G
Time Out Challenge (Warm Colors and Warm Wishes)
The House That Stamps Built A/G
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Atlantic Hearts Sketch 270

Oh, yes, I am inspired by sketches! After taking one look at this one, I knew that it was perfect for Verve's Kind Words set.  The background was created by swishing and splattering all four blue and green shades of watercolors in Prima's Pastel dreams collection. What fun!

Hope your week will allow some crafting time and that you will give the Atlantic Hearts sketch a whirl!

Thanks for visiting,
Christine


Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday A/G
SSS Wednesday Challenge A/G

Birthday Wishes: CASEing Stamp Girl Tanja's Beautiful Tag

Isn't Tanja's tag (shown to the left) an absolute dream?  I love the soft background and the delicate flowers...and pinks and purples are my favorites!

I set out to CASE her tag...and couldn't find my package of tags, so I die cut a scrap of watercolor background.  A red rubber script background stamp and YNS's Flower splatter are stamped in Desert Sand ink as is the sentiment from Verve's Joyful Blooms.  The flowers are "practice pieces" from a new Reverse Confetti set, Banner in Bloom.

Thanks for the inspiration Tanja, and Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!

Thanks for visiting, Christine

Happy Birthday, Stamplorations!

Vickie Dutcher's  card is absolutely stunning!  I just love the bright bouquet with the cheerful dotted paper, so it was easy to decide to CASE her beautiful project.

While I love her vivid color scheme, pencils are my coloring medium, and tend to be much paler.  I aimed for a soft blue and white polka dot for the panel, but the flowers image looked washed out, so I selected this more intense paper in a green-blue tone. I used Floral Bliss from Simon Says Stamp.   The panel is cut with a  Reverse Confetti Lacy Scalloped Frame die, and the word die was layered three times for a bit of dimension.  

Vickie's original card is shown below.  Thanks, Vickie, for sharing this beauty.  It was fun to CASE!

 Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
Stamplorations Fifth Birthday: CASE the Stampgirls

Sunday Stamps --Tropical

The card "recipe" includes Reverse Confetti's Build a Bunch, MFT's flamingo dies, and Frames and Flags from Newton's Nook.  The sentiment inside:  "Tickled pink it's your birthday".

Linking to: Sunday Stamps ((Inspiration photo)

4 Crafty Chicks

Thanks for visiting,

Christine

Hugs and Smiles

It's so much fun to combine color and sketch challenges!  To pick up the colors from the CAS-ual Fridays encouragement challenge photo, I applied Prima Pastel Dreams watercolors in teal, pink and blue to watercolor paper and die cut them with MFT's Stitched Flowers.  The frames were cut with MFT Stitched Squares Die-Namics.  A few enamel dots and a sweet sentiment from Verve's Kind Words finished off the card.

Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:


CAS-ual Fridays Encouragement Challenge
MFT Sketch Challenge
SSS Wednesday Challenge:  Bright and Cheerful
Crop Stop
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"Time Out" to say "Happy Birthday, Stamplorations"

Wishing Stamplorations a very happy fifth birthday!  I so enjoyed reading Shery's story of how she started the company, and I could feel the dedication of the designers as she shared how so many of them started with her five years ago.  Congratulations on your courage, creativity and success!

I chose to case Kathy's amazing card shown at the left.  Love the sizable coffee sentiment she used...I imitated this with a stamp from A Jillian Vance Design centered on a watercolor panel using Prima Pastel Dreams.  The coffee cups are my favorites....from Verve's Coffee collection.  The patterned papers are all MME scraps.

Thanks so much for visiting,
Christine

Linking to:
Stamplorations Birthday Celebration Casing Kathy Schweinfurth
Time Out Challenge (Warm....coffee and these colors are certainly warm!)

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MFT Sketch Challenge: Ham it up on your birthday!

Love how the MFT sketch lends itself to tiny vignettes and had so much fun using Hog Heaven to create the little scenes.  I used stitched squares and stitched mini scalloped squares for the shapes.

Thanks for stopping by!
Christine






Linking to:
MFT Sketch Challenge
Word Art Wednesday

Build a Bunch: A Bright Hello

This is my second card using a collection of watercolored blooms from Build a Bunch.  This time, the softly colored blossoms are layered over a vivid floral panel which was muted with a vellum frame.  A script-y hello from W Plus Nine completes this  card......now I must be off to cook dinner.

Thanks for visiting,
Christine




Linking to:
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash
Word Art Wednesday
SSS Wednesday Challenge--Bright and Cheerful
Four Crafty Chicks

Build a Bunch: Thinking of You

I am most grateful for a Reverse Confetti prize won during a blog hop and have had a wonderful time playing with this new set called Build a Bunch!  After heat embossing a whole sheet of watercolor paper with blooms and leaves, it was fun to color them with various inks using a water brush.   These were layered over PTI's Oval Shape Shifter die, and the Verve greeting is stamped on one of RC's tags from the Tall Tag Trio.

Many thanks to Jen and to Kelly for this awesome prize!

Christine

Linking to:

Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Challenge
Word Art Wednesday

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Grace Art Journal Page

Is this an art journal page?  I've never made one before, but I was enchanted by the one Esther shared at Crop Stop.  Her use of a bit of a tissue paper sewing pattern and the incorporation of the scripture was just so clever, and the whole page is so bright and eye-catching.

Anyway, when she challenged participants to a twist in the current challenge, I decided to give it a try.  Rather than an art journal, I chose to use my work as the first page inside a disk-bound journal I use for sermon notes.  I made a mistake when punching the holes, so I mounted the whole page on a sheet of metallic card stock which left a pretty gold border and covered the back of the watercolor paper.

Project steps:
1. Watched youtube videos by Tiffany Solario...fun and informative.
2.  Sponged Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink over watercolor paper.  Added water, Prima watercolors, and metallic gold paint splatters.
3. Dabbed gold paint through a MFT Magical Mandala Doily (=homemade stencil)
4.  Printed Amazing Grace from a website, cut with a deckle-edge Spellbinder rectangle and stamped "grace" from a Verve Plain Jane.  I actually masked off the rest of the text with an extra die-cut banner in my scrap bowl.
5. Stamped the scripture and butterflies from Verve's Butterfly Grace.
6. Smooshed Peacock Feathers ink directly on a chipboard cross I won forever ago from Word Art Wednesday.
7.  Added "Flower Splatter" stamping from YNS and a butterfly corner stamp from ODBD and put the whole thing together.
8.  Added gold cards tock after making a cutting error!!!

Actually, this was a blast, but I don't know if my fingernails will ever be clean again.

Thanks for looking and reading (or skipping) my ramblings,
Christine

Linking to:
Crop Stop
SSS Wednesday Challenge (Bright and Cheerful)
Word Art Wednesday

Newton Scoots By

Love the cheerful colors in the Newton's Nook inspiration photo, and it was such fun to color Newton Scoots By and to create a background using the Frames and Flags dies.

Linking to:
Inky Paws Challenge
SSS Wednesday Challenge (Bright and Cheerful)

Rosy Hello

I combined Reverse Confetti's Stock Your Stash challenge to make a hello or just because card with the gorgeous inspiration photo from The House that Stamps Built.

Card Recipe:
Reverse Confetti Rose Garden stamped in Canary Ink (CTMH)
Reverse Confetti Wreath
Reverse Confetti tag fromTall Tags Trio
Verve Elegant Leaves cut from vellum
Scalloped Background Newton's Nook Frames and Flags

Thanks for dropping by,
Christine

Linking to:
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash--Hello
The House that Stamps Built Inspiration Palette
SSS Wednesday Challenge Bright and Cheerful
Word Art Wednesday A/G

Cast Your Cares on the Lord

I knew just which scripture I wanted to share on this card and found a Verve sketch to showcase the vertical sentiment from Scripture Medley Five.  I already miss the Verve sketches, but lucky for me, there are many that were around before I started stamping.  It will be fun to try out some of the older ones.

Thanks for your visit,
Christine

Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday
Crop Stop

You will find refuge

This dear scripture is from Papertrey Ink's Year of Psalms and works beautifully with What the Doodle Feathers.  Praying it will comfort a friend.


Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge Frame It
Word Art Wednesday

Framed Hello

The Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash Theme is "Hello/Just Because".  The focal point of the card was created by cutting the center from the Gift Card Holder Tag to create a frame.  It is adorned with watercolored images from Banner in Bloom.  The "hello"  word die was sponged with soft pink ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by,
Christine

Linking to
Reverse Confetti Stock Your Stash
SSS Wednesday Challenge (frame it)
Word Art Wednesday
Crop Stop

Glowing with Happiness

Love watching fireflies on summer evenings with my husband, so this cute set from Lawn Fawn just jumped into my cart when I had a recent win at Simon Says Stamp. It took a lot of patience to wait for school to end, to finish my summer community service activities, and to reach my goal of cleaning my craft room before playing with these cuties, but it was worth the wait!  

Thanks for visiting, 

Christine

Linking to

SSS Wednesday Challenge (Frame It!)

Word Art Wednesday

Best Wishes for the Mr. and Mrs.

So excited to have an upcoming wedding to attend!  I've been busy organizing my stamps and dies "the Jennifer McGuire way", and I gave my desk a good cleaning.  Both  seemed to do a lot for my creativity.

Card Recipe:
PTI Noted Scalloped A2 Die 
Verve:  Beautiful Things and Love Everlasting

Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
SSS Wednesday Challenge (Frame It!)
Word Art Wednesday
Crop Stop

Fun Friday Challenge with The Paper Shelter

Happy Friday!  It's time for another Fun Friday Challenge at Jo's Scrap Shack where the theme is always Anything Goes.  The design team has been provided some wonderful images from The Paper Shelter.  This adorable digital stamp is called Pixie Caramel Macchiato, and I chose to use the pre-colored version for a quick tag.

 Please take time to see the design team's samples and to link up your own creations.  It's always fun to see what you have to share!

Challenge Rules

1. Please post a direct link to your blog post that includes your challenge entry project, using the linky tool below. 

2. Be sure to include a link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering your project into

3. THREE entries per person are allowed for each challenge and you must post a separate blog post for each entry.

4. For all entries -NO BACK LINKS ACCEPTED- 
The date on your blog post should be dated between the start date & the end date for the challenge you are entering, in order to be eligible for the challenge & prizes

5. You may link up to other challenges but be sure to link back to Jo's Scrap Shack and to the challenge post you are entering 

 * All entries that do not meet the challenge requirements

WILL NOT be eligible for the top 3, any sponsor wins or any random wins by Jo
All random wins will only be mailed within the US and Canada only.

Thanks so much for taking time to visit,
Christine

Love in actions and in truth

Just a quick post to share a card made with Verve's Scripture Medley 5.  If you haven't heard, all items in the Verve Shop are on sale due to the store's closing.  I'll treasure my Verve stamps all the more, and applaud Julee's decision to spend more time with her family...guess that fits the featured scripture!

Thanks for taking a look,
Christine

Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday
PIP Challenge
4 Crafty Chicks (Love is in the Air)

Because He bends down to listen, I will pray

Such a sweet Psalm including a beautiful picture of God bending down to listen to our prayers  and  a commitment to continue to pray.  May this verse be an encouragement.

Thanks for visiting,
Christine

Linking to:
Word Art Wednesday
PIP Challenge

Inspired By Challenge: Some People Make the World Brighter

"Summer on the Porch" is the title of this amazing inspiration photo provided by the Inspired By Challenge.  I am going to use this card as a thank you to someone special.

Thanks for visiting,
Christine

Linking to:
Inspired By Challenge
Word Art Wednesday