Sweet Sketch Wednesday

Here's this week's sketch challenge over at Sweet Sketch Wednesday:

Here's my take on it:

Materials:
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Misc. Bazzill cardstock, SEI - Field Notes - Kaleidoscope 8-6805
Stamps/Inks: PTI - Beautiful Butterflies and "A Big Thank You", Tim Holtz Distress - Fired Brick, Memento - Tuxedo Black
Cutting/Embossing: PTI - Beautiful Butterflies dies,
Misc.: Dimensional adhesive, ribbon, pearl and jewel embellishments, Tim Holtz Distress marker - Fired Brick, water pen

CPS

Here's this week's sketch over at the CPS challenge blog...

Here's mine:

Believe it or not, I actually whipped out the Bow-Easy and Imaginisce ribbon-trimmer for this one!
Since I have long since forgotten how to use the Bow-Easy, I watched this video for a review. 

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Neenah Solar White
Stamps/Inks: Market Street Stamps - Sweet Lace, Amuse Studio Ink - Cranberry, Hero Arts - Sentiment from clear sentiment set, Memento - Tuxedo Black
Cutting/Embossing: EK success border punch, corner rounder
Misc.: Ribbon from Michael's

Some Easter Cards

Here are a couple of cards that I made just for fun this week. Loving to get together with the ladies at the church up the street to stamp/craft...


Here the first one:

Materials:
Paper: Lawn Fawn - Bright Side, Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress - Faded Jeans, Magnolia - Tilda with Straw Hat (Butterfly Dreams Collection)
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals
Misc.: Copic markers, ribbon, jewel embellishments

Here's the second one: 

This is a background blending technique using copics that was recently featured over on PTI's blog.

Materials: 
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Paris Dusk, PTI: Beautiful Butterflies, Hero Arts - Easter sentiment
Misc.: Copic markers

What if? Wednesday Sketch Challenge

Here's this week's sketch challenge over at Repeat Impressions' Challenge blog...

Here's my take on it:

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, Doodlebug Design Inc. - Hello Spring - 3257 - Springtime Stripe
Stamps/Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paper Smooches - A Little Lovin', Market Street Stamps - Cane, Hero Arts Shadow Ink - Green Hills (mid-tone), Repeat Impressions - 1305-G - Eggs-tra Special
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard Ovals
Misc.: Copic markers, twine from The Twinery,

Weekend Projects

Here's what I've been up to all weekend.... ribbon baby blankets. I'm definitely not very good at sewing, but here's to a start. A learning experience.

 Front

Back (flannel)

Fabric - Cotton, Flannel, Minky - Cotton and Flannel are from Hancock's, Minky and one of the cotton prints is from JoAnn's

And, from my trip to the Twin Cities, I picked up a few of the new Tim Holtz Distress markers. LOVE THEM. Here are a few cards that I made using them.

The craft room is a mess, because we had to move things around to measure for windows. As a result, my lighting is now off in the light tent. Not sure if I should bother to fiddle with it, or just wait until the new windows are in.


Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock
Stamps/Inks: Tim Holtz Distress Inks and markers: Faded Jeans, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, PTI - Beautiful Butterflies, Hero Arts - Art of the Card - Untitled Love
Cutting/Embossing: PTI: Beautiful Butterflies - Dies
Misc: Dimensionals, ribbon from Stampin' Up, PTI - button, twine from The Twinery, pearl embellishments

And, a little knitting: 

Ruffled Tulip Hat
Yarn: Plymouth Yarn Fantasy Naturale Solid
Size: Small (white) and Medium (blue)
Needles: Size 7 circ and dpn

Lawnscaping Challenge Post

Here's this week's challenge over at the Lawnscaping Challenge Blog...

Here's my inspirational card, from the talented Britta Swiderski. Isn't it cute??

Here's mine: 

Materials:
Paper: Misc. Bazzill cardstock, kraft
Stamps/Inks: Lawn fawn - Cruising through Life, Paper smooches - Sentiment Sampler, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Tim Holtz - Tea Dye.
Misc.: Stampin' Up button, twine from The Twinery, dimensional adhesive, copic markers

CAS-ual Fridays

Here's this week's challenge over at CAS-ual Friday's...

CFC44:  It's as Easy as 1-2-3  Create a Clean And Simple project using 
1. A Pattern
2.  An Image
3.  A Sentiment
Sound easy?  Remember to keep it CAS!

Here's mine:

Materials:
Stamps/Inks: Paper Smooches - Fruitastic, Lawn Fawn - Critters Ever After, Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress - Broken China
Cutting/Embossing: Spellbinder's Nestabilities - Standard and Scalloped Circles
Misc.: Copic markers, jewel accents, Perfect Pearls Mist - Perfect Pearls, Smooches Spritz - Blue