Variety of Fun

While doing a facetime chat with my friend Vicki Garrett from Summerthyme Studio a few weekends ago we were talking about all the crafty stuff we collect and I mentioned my 6 x 6 paper stash.  I love the one-sheet wonders, and of course, if you visit my blog you know I love card sketches.  I was looking for more along the one-sheet wonder line for 6 x 6 cards and Vicki mentioned this youtube channel by Call Me Craft Al.  

The next day I was watching video after video of hers and started creating like crazy using up some of my stash of 6 x 6 papers.  I was creating sets of 6 cards in most cases, so I built up a stash quite quickly.  I tried to change up my sentiments or leave them blank to add in later

Hope you enjoy the creations I made, I kept them pretty simple not using too many embellishments, if any at all.

#suysnov2020 #showusyoursheetload

Stamps: Verve-Great Friend, Mama Elephant-Organic Blooms

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#suynov2021 

Image is from Avery Elle-Knotty

Sentiment from Taylored Expressions

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#suysdec2019

Sentiments:  The Ton-Penned Sentiments & Simon Says Stamp-Birthday Messages

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#suysAug2020

Sentiment-Clearly Besotted-Scrumptious Sentiments

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#suysNov2022

Stamps:  Paper Smooches-Swanky Snowdudes

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#suysaug2020

I changed up these cards a little from the original sketch based on the tags and sentiment I was using

If you have any questions about the supplies used, let me know.  I wasn't great about jotting down what I was using at the time.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Merry Christmas Snowman

Hi there friends!  I know, it's been ages since I posted on here and I've been saying I'm going to get this back up and going but haven't yet.  

I've been having some fun making some holiday cards for an order, and since I had them out just have kept on making some to send out.

This card I used the Freshly Made Sketches #464 along with one of my most favorite images from Paper Smooches.  I colored him with some winter colors and added a few gems to the paper and his scarf to give him some flare and mounted him on some Echo Park Christmas paper.  The sentiment is from the CZDesign Sentiment Strip.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

 

Is anyone there?

Is anyone there...hello???  hello???

I know, it has been a good year since I've blogged, can you believe it?  I can't and I'm finally starting to get back into the swing of creating some cards.

Last year shortly after my last post, we put our house of 15 years on the market in search of something a little larger for our family.  It was not an easy process for us, as you can imagine, we collected 15 years worth of stuff and had 2 more kids than when we moved into the house.  We got a storage unit, lots of cleaning and purging and my stamp stuff joined some other stuff at the storage unit to clear out my office.

Fast forward to beginning of 2016 and we finally got an acceptable offer on our place.  It happened very quickly and we were left scrambling to find a place to live.  Thankfully our awesome realtor came through after looking at what seemed like a zillion houses and we closed and moved in the last week in February.

First thing on my list at the new house was to get my stamp area together and make my office what I always wanted it to be.  Granted, I'd love a bigger office, but I will take what I can get.  So with the help of my wonderful husband we spent many house painting, assembling cabinets and shelving, arranging and re-arranging and I finally got my office/studio together. (not a great picture, but you get the idea anyway)

Now, I will admit I have to do some more purging and definitely some more organizing but am slowly getting a few cards made here and there in my new area.

Hoping to be more regular when I have the time and always enjoy the comments and seeing others work so thank you for sticking around if you are still following!

The cards at the very top were some quick thank you's I put together after we had a little welcome to our house party.  Hope you enjoy!

Creative Blog Hop

Today my friend Toni Tessler asked me to do a creative blog hop and answer some questions about myself and my creativity.

I grabbed one of my newer sets from Paper Smooches called Party Posse and combined it with a sketch and color challenge.  The sketch is from the Fusion Card Challenge and I used the picture as inspiration (primarily the colors) as well as the sketch turned side ways (although I just realized my circle is off from the sektch-oh well).

I'm going to share with you a little about my creative process with some questions we were to answer:

1.  What are you working on now?  I've been working on a new release for Stampotique Originals who is the only company I design for.  This is one of their biggest releases and such a variety of stamps.  I'm always working at building up my birthday and thank you card stash as that seems to be the ones I use the most.  I'm also a scrapbooker and this is my fourth year doing Project Life so that's ongoing week to week for me.

2.  How does your work differ from others in your genre?  Oh, I'm not sure my work is different.  I'm a pretty clean & simple stamper I think who loves to utilize patterned paper in my creations.  I don't work well with inks and messy stuff-drives me crazy and although I step out of the box once in awhile and dabble in it, I still prefer the clean & simple look.

3.  Why do you create what you do?  I love creating and giving homemade gifts.  They always seem that much more special that you take the time to think about that person and what they might like.  I also love to create for my kids so that they will have memories when they get older of all the things we've done and experienced.

4.  How does your creativity work?  I'm a list person so I generally will write a list of challenges I want to work on and I'm also a HUGE hoarder of sketches.  I love that jumping point of using a sketch and will often visit pinterest for ideas on colors.

Thanks Toni for letting me be a part of your creative blog hop this week!

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Card details:

Stamps: Party Posse from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Espresso, Rustic White

Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa

Embellishments: button from My Mind's Eye, twine

Wish Big

This week over at Paper Smooches SPARKS Challenge the theme is anything goes.  I got this set My Guy a few weeks ago and wanted to use it to make some masculine/boy cards to put in my birthday stash.

I colored my car with copic markers and added some gelly roll pen to the headlights and taillights of the card.  I kept this pretty simple keeping in mind most of my boy cards go to younger kids.

I used the SC525 sketch from Splitcoast Stampers for this card.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting today!

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Card details:

Stamps: My Guy from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Soft Sky, Night of Navy, Glitz Unchartered Waters

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Rich Cocoa, copic markers

Embellishments: twine and gelly roll pen

Just a Note

The other night I was quite inspired to craft and my hubby took charge of the kiddos and let me escape for a few hours down to craft.

I had ordered this little card kit from Mish Mash's little shop and went to work creating with the supplies.  I ended up making 6 cards in which I'll share 2 today and the rest over the next week or so.

For my card above I used the SFYTT for January-didn't get it posted on my blog in time to play along but still had fun using it.

For my next card I channeled my out of the box thinking and inspiration from a fellow stamper who's style I've admired for a long time and she's been so supportive in making me stretch out of the norm for me.  Monika Davis has some of the most amazing creations and I was really drawn to this card and her "clustering" of elements.  While I didn't quite capture it as well on my first try I'll definitely be attempting it again.

Again, I used the elements from Mish Mash's shop on my card and I used theVerve set Take Note to stamp the tag with some typewriter font.  Love how these cards turned out and that's not often I'm feeling that way.  For the string circle, I actually cut off the string that was on the tag, colored it with my copic which stiffened it just a little.

Thanks for stopping by to check out my creations!

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Card details #1:

Stamps: Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Paper: Basic Gray, Chickaniddy Crafts-Date Night, Creamsicle Cardigan

Ink: Basic Gray

Accessories: Washi Tape, Scalloped Square Nestabilities, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack from SU, Instagram photo courtesy of Michelle Wooderson, brads

Card details #2:

Stamps: Take Note from Verve Stamps

Paper: Basic Gray, Chickaniddy Crafts-Date Night, Creamsicle Cardigan

Ink: Basic Gray, Apricot Appeal

Accessories: Lace Ribbon, Scalloped Square Nestabilities, Itty Bitty Accents Punch Pack from SU, Instagram photo courtesy of Michelle Wooderson, brads

Thoughts of you

I got a few sets this weekend and wanted to immediately play with them so thought I'd take a little time to get something created.  Part of my goal this year is to craft a little more, even if it's before I start work for 1/2 hour or whipping up a quick creation, I want to do more.

I got these cool gold doilies from Mish Mash's shop in a kit for cards-but wanted them to use on other creations.

This card was created using the Paper Smooches Sparks Challenge.  I went off the beaten path from the sketch with the doily but I like how it turned out.  I popped the eyes on the bee up a bit to give it a little more dimension.

To finish off my card, I wanted to add in a pop of color so colored my heart red and added some red sequins.

Thanks for stopping by today and visiting!

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Card details:

Stamps: Word Up and Bee Mine from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, My Mind's Eye Now & Then-Milo collection

Inks: Archival Ink-Jet Black

Embellishment: gold doily, red sequins, dimensionals

Birthday Fishes

This took me a few times to get it to look like I was imagining in my head.  I saw this sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #169 and thought it looked like a fishbowl and these images came to mind.

This is for a birthday card swap I'm doing with a friend (we were both creating 5 different cards to swap).  I'm always in need of birthday cards and miss swapping with people.  

I used the Pink Paislee Color Wash set to create my water background.

Thanks for stopping by to visit!

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Card details:

Stamps: Briny Blue and Birthday Buddies from Paper Smooches, Color Wash from Pink Paislee

Cardstock: Cool Caribbean, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Inks: Marina Mist, Bermuda Bay, Cool Carribean

Embellishments: buttons, twine, tiny bubbles cuttlebug folder

Happy Bird*day

The first sketch I used above was with Operation Write Home #236 and the one below uses #221 Sketch.  

I dove into some neglected Stampin' Up! Stamps to use on my one below and really left it plain with no embellishments other than the stickles on it.

The one above, one of my favorite stamps and sentiments.  Love coloring this image and know it will be a fun birthday card for someone.

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Card details:

Stamps: Mini Mates by Stampin' Up!, Birthday Buddies from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: My Mind's Eye Kraft Funday, Whisper White, Cool Carribean, Baja Breeze, Cherry Cobbler

Inks: Archival Ink Jet Black, copic markers

Embellishments: circle punches, stickles

You are Loved

On a crazy clean & simple roll here-creating a lot of different cards using favorite sketches and my 

6 x 6 paper stash.

The cards above use the Operation Write Home #220 and the cards below use Operation Write Home #185 sketch with a little liberty on the placement of the square.

I decided to break out some of the die cuts that are included with the paper pack on these cards and like how they turned out.  Sometimes they are easy to incorporate, but not always.

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Card details:

Stamps: Splattered Mug 10017 from Stampotique, Chit Chat from Paper Smooches and Treasured Words from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Crumb Cake, Kaiser Craft Peachy Keen collection

Inks: Chocolate Chip

Embellishments: circle punches, pearls

29 Again?

I love this paper!  The leaves have a wonderful felt feeling to them and of course this is one of my favorite colors.

I know you all will be tired of all my 6 x 6 paper posts, but I'm so happy to be putting them to use-now to just remember to send the cards out or put together some little gifts for the holidays.

Keeping in theme, using another Operation Write Home Sketch #173.  I made the circle flowers out of some of the patterned paper scraps I had.

Enjoy the cards!

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Card details:

Stamps: Birthday Sampler and P.S. Chit Chat from Paper Smooches, Circle Scribbles by Papertrey Ink

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, Kaiser Craft Peachy Keen

Inks: Chocolate Chip, Baja Breeze

Embellishments: circle punches, pearl jewels

Merry Christmas

I am having such a great time getting back into my stamping and using all this patterned paper-I've created 16 Christmas cards last weekend, 4 sets of 4 different designs).

For my cute little paper pieced snowman I wanted him to appear as a polaroid and with my theme of using little embellishments I only chose to use some twine and then added some pearls to my sentiment strip.  I also stamped it again on my patterned paper and paper pieced the scarf on my snowdude.

I'm joining in this month with the Paper Smooches SPARKS challenge which is anything goes.

Hope you enjoy seeing my Christmas cards-now to see if I'll mail any of them out.

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Card details:

Stamps: Christmas Sampler and Swanky Snowdudes

Cardstock: Confetti White, Basic Grey Jovial

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: twine, pearls, sponging

Birthday Duos

Had some birthday cards I needed to get in the mail so decided I'd sit down and make some cards this weekend.  My BFF and Mom's birthday's were this week-of course I missed one of them and was late mailing it out.

I love when I'm able to get in a creative mood and use the same paper pack for multiple cards.

The card above used the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.

The one below I saw on pinterest from Starry Nights Sketch.

Hope you enjoy the birthday cards.

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Card details:

Stamps: Birthday Sampler by Paper Smooches and Gorgeous Grunge by Stampin' Up!

Cardstock: My Mind's Eye Cut & Paste, Calypso Coral, Pool Party

Inks: Ranger Archival Ink

Embellishment: silver sequins, Want2scrap black pearls

My Coolest Friend

Trying to break out some of those Christmas stamps and get a few in my stash.

I got these stamps at the Archiver's store closing and hadn't used them yet-so decided they needed to be inked up.

I used last week's Retro Sketches challenge for this.

Thanks for stopping by and visiting me this week!

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Card details:

Stamps: Coolest Friend and Christmas Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Confetti White, The Pier by Crate Paper

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers

Embellishments: twine, Rounded tag framelits

Patterned Paper Trio

I feel like a bit of a dingy as I had pre-set some of my blog posts, but failed to add in my creations.  I appreciate all of you who stopped by to let me know there was nothing there-so this post will encompass all of those in one.

These sets of cards I created for a friend for some raffle baskets she's doing.

Card details:

Stamps: Birthday Messages from Simon Says Stamp and Harvest Berries from PaperTrey Ink

Cardstock: Basic Black, Rustic White, Fancy Pants Memories Captured

Inks: Archival Jet Black, watercolor paints

Embellishments: Sakura Clear Glitter pen, stapler, Flag-It die set from Verve Stamps

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #210

Card details:

Stamps: Chit Chat from Paper Smooches and Blessing from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Fancy Pants Memories Captured, Basic Black, Rustic White

Inks: Archival Ink Jet Black, So Saffron, Pear Pizzaz

Embellishments: Aquapainter

A Random Thursday sketch challenge.

Card details:

Stamps: Everyday Greetings from Mama Elephant and Poppy Birthday from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Rustic White, Fancy Pants Memories Captured

Embellishments: My Mind's Eye Find Your Wings & Fly Up & Away Enamel Dots

With Gratitude

This was another set of cards I created for a friend using up some patterned paper packs I have.

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge #210

Card details:
Stamps: Chit Chat from Paper Smooches and Blessing from Verve Stamps
Cardstock: Fancy Pants Memories Captured, Basic Black, Rustic White
Inks: Archival Ink Jet Black, So Saffron, Pear Pizzaz
Embellishments: Aquapainter

Get Well

Everyone these last few weeks seem to be sick...and I've been one of them that got hit before the holidays with a horrible cold.  Luckily not the flu that is going around.

Hope you have stayed healthy and have a rockin' New Year!

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Card details:

Stamps: Spring Groves and Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Wild Wasabi, Going Gray and Whisper White from Stampin' Up!, Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon

Inks: Memento Grey Flannel, Ranger Archival Ink- Jet Black, copic markers

Embellishments: Scrapbook Adhesives 3D Foam squares

Glittery Birthday

I despise working with glitter, it seems to get everywhere anytime I use it; but, I do adore the way it looks and of course could not resist purchasing some while I was shopping at a show awhile ago.

This wasn't easy to create either-tried really hard not to mix the glitters but think it turned out pretty good.

Kept the sentiment very simple-I love the Sentiment Sampler set from Paper Smooches!

Card details:

Stamps: Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Tempting Turquoise, Elegant Eggplant, Whisper White, Basic Black

Inks: Ranger Ink Jet Black

Embellishments: Want2Scrap Self Adhesive Bling rhinestones, Scor-pal tape, Periwinkle, Misty Blue glitter from SparkleNSprinkle

You're One Cool Chick

Today over at Blogger's Challenge our theme is "Farm Fresh".  While I like to think I have a lot of country looking stamps, when I went looking I didn't have as many as I thought I did.  

I pulled out this cute stamp from the My Peeps set from Paper Smooches and colored it with my copics.

This sentiment cracks me up and was perfect for a card that I wanted to make for a friend of mine.

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge.  Looking forward to getting crafty with some friends this weekend at Archiver's.

on a non-crafty note:
The kids started school yesterday and loved it, here's hoping they have an enjoyable year and have fun every day learning.

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Card details:

Stamps: My Peeps from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, River Rock and Teresa Collins Memories

Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

Embellishments: Crown circled dies and circle dies

Happy Birthday

Hope you all had a wonderful and safe 4th of July.  We had some fun with friends for a BBQ and fireworks.

I've been enjoying my week without the kiddos and although I haven't stamped quite as often as I had intended to, I have gotten a few cards done.  I'm looking forward to some scrapbooking tomorrow with a friend.

I love the flowers in this set from Verve stamps and especially love layering them.  I used some patterned papers to create this layered flower.

This is creeping in just under the wire for the Retro Sketches, this is one I will be using again, loved how quick and easy it came together.

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card details:

Stamps: Sentiment Sampler by Paper Smooches and Great Friend from Verve Stamps

Cardstock: Confetti Cream, Night of Navy, My Mind's Eye Blue Bell

Inks: Night of Navy

Embellishments: Michael's pearls