Deconstructed Sketch #24 - Happy Birthday, Grandma!

Hello! It's Thursday, which brings us a new sketch from Jen at the Deconstructed Sketch blog! Yesterday was my grandma's birthday, so I made a card for her using this weeks sketch (yes, this card is going to be a week late by the time it gets to her, lol!)

For my card, I flipped this sketch horizontally:)

I've been cleaning my stamp room and found this GinaK Designs set that I've had but NEVER took it out of the packaging, *gasp*! This set is too pretty to not see ink so I set about creating my DS24 sample with the Lovely Labels 3 set! Since it's my Grandma's (83rd) birthday today, I thought I'd make the card for her:) The label (stamped in Pink Lemonade Fresh Ink) coordinates with Spellbidners Labels 18 dies. The sentiment was stamped on the ribbon tags die. 

The circle pattern paper is from MME's Lost and Found line, but I forget which pack it came from.

The twine is from The Twinery and the buttons are from PTI.

Be sure to hop around and check out what the rest of the Deconstructed Sketch Design Team has made!

• Amber Hight
• Angela Sowell
• Anna Maria Nilsson
• Arielle Gordon
• Donna Wardle
• Emma Eads
• Jen Shults
• Jessica Diedrich
• Kadie Ensley
• Lori Boyd
• Sheri Gilson

Thanks for stopping by today!

A couple challenge cards!

Good morning! 

Today I was feeling full of Mojo and decided to tackle a couple challenges. The first one I knew I wanted to try was Mercy's Tuesday Sketch challenge! Only problem is, I left the vertical panel off, boo! I just completely brain-farted it! It's all good though cause my version didn't have any room, anyway, lol! But I still drew inspiration from this layout so I wanted to give credit where it's due:)

I used one of my new PI girls from MFT for this challenge. This one is Lil Pumpkin, isn't she cute? I colored her and the pumpkin in with Copics and then paper-pieced her dress. The papers are from a paper pack from the Michaels brand, "Recollections". I really love the colors and patterns in this stack and think I'll hoard the rest for next year, ha!

The next card I created today was for two challenges (go me!, lol!): Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #89 and the Gina K Color Challenge!

I really love black cards and don't do them often so I was determined to make this work! I stamped the flowers from Hugs and Prayers in Versamark and then clear embossed them. The rest is self explanatory. The bird and sentiment are from the same lovely set! I stamped the bird and then cut it out and mounted it on the card with dimensionals. To finish this card off, I distressed the edges, love that look:)

Well, that's all I have today, thanks so much for stopping by!

See you tomorrow!

GinaK Sketch Challenge

Hello! So I've been buying GinaK stamp sets like they're going out of style and haven't had any time to ink them up! Today, it was a rainy gloomy day outside and I thought I'd go ahead and play with my new GinaK! 

I was looking for a challenge to use as inspiration and when I checked Stamp TV, I saw this sketch challenge!

I flipped the sketch 90 degrees because I had already stamped this gorgeous frame (from Lovely Labels 2). The sentiment stamped inside the label is from Lovely Labels 1!

The patterned paper is from Chatterbox. Do you remember them? I was going through all my old papers and found my stash of CB. Gosh I miss them, are they still making paper? I never hear about them anymore and they were always my favorite *back in my scrapbooking days, lol!*

I embossed my Fresh Asparagus panel with my Seeing Dots Cuttlebug folder and the stamped frame was cut with my Labels 14 Nestabilities.

The ribbon is from SU! and that FABULOUS bobble is from 7Gypsies! The pearl flourishes are from Zva and I got a big ole' box of these not long ago from 7 Kids College Fund!

Thanks for stopping by today, I'm off to unwind on this lovely Sunday evening:)