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Showing posts with label Teresa Collins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teresa Collins. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2022

Sketch Challenges

 This weekend we had nothing planned and I was able to spend almost 2 full days in my craft room getting inky.  It was productive and my mojo was flowing pretty well.  I completed 30 cards (some were multiples) but was proud that I got so much accomplished.

Of course, my favorites are always sketch and color challenges as it gives me a jumping point.  

You can definitely see the theme of what I was creating (floral):


For the Fusion Card Challenge, I used the colors in the photo with the sketch to base my card on.  I pulled out my Simon Says Stamp Even More Spring Flowers and Verve Stamps Poppy Birthday along with some glitter washi tape and Teresa Collins Now & Then patterned paper from my stash.  I colored the floral image with my aquapainter and inks and embossed the sentiment.



For my next creation, which was more of a challenge because it's the Freshly Made Sketches and it's SQUARE which I don't do often.  
Again, with the floral theme and pulling out some of my patterned papers along with one of my favorite images from Taylored Expressions, Sketchbook Florals and dies.  I colored my image with my copic markers and added the little tag sentiment on.



Hope you've enjoyed the creations and appreciate you stopping by and saying "hi".  


Monday, April 5, 2021

Eucalyptus Card Set


 

This weekend was a struggle trying to create cards-I couldn't seem to get in a groove, but I managed to create a few CAS ones.

My first was a small set of cards using the Layered Eucalyptus set from Gina K. and Timeless Tropical set from Stampin' Up! for the sentiment.

I utilized the FMS479 sketch which I rotated to fit my image.


Card details:
Stamp Sets:  Layered Eucalyptus from Gina K. Stamps, Timeless Tropical from Stampin' Up!
Cardstock: Basic Black, Teresa Collins Far & Away,  PTI Rustic White, Burgundy unknown
Inks: Simon Says Stamp

Friday, January 30, 2015

BC404: Cheers to You




Today's blogger's challenge theme is "Cheers to You".  This was a card I created with good friends in mind-so cheers to those that are always there for us and are amazing!

I really enjoyed using this layout which is from Retro Sketches #149 although once I decided to use my sentiment as the focal point I was at a loss with all that space in the bottom right side so added in some washi tape.  I used a Design Seeds color combination for this adding in the touch of green.


I am also entering this into the Seize the Birthday Challenge this week which is Anything Goes.

Hope you like it and join us for Blogger's Challenge this week.
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Card details:
Stamps: Simple Sunflower by Papertrey Ink, Birthday Messages from Simon Says Stamp
Cardstock: Cherry Cobbler, Daffodil Delight, Teresa Collins Far & Away
Inks: Cherry Cobbler, Summer Sun, Wild Wasabi
Embellishments: Stampin' Up pearls, washi tape




Wednesday, October 1, 2014

SDC167: Masculine



Happy Hump Day!

I'm so excited to host the challenge this week as it's one I'm always struggling with.  In a home where the males outweigh the females, you wouldn't think it wouldn't take much to create a masculine card, but it's something I have a hard time doing every time I sit down to make one.  I challenge you to show me your best masculine cards this week-are they ones that come naturally to you or do you draw a blank when you need to create one as well?

Can't wait to see all the possibilities you come up with this week!

This was one I created for my 15 yr olds birthday-I still struggled with creating it even though I love masculine colors-it's the images and design I struggle with, but I like how it turned out.
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Card details:
Stamps: 10018 Typewriter Alpha, 9005 Happy B-day, 4013 Wolfie King by Stampotique Originals
Cardstock: Teresa Collins Far & Away, Basic Black, Rustic White
Inks: Archival Ink by Ranger
Embellishments: Crystal Lacquer, Scattered Straw Distress stickles, stapler

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Building Blocks Duo


Sharing a few more cards I created using the Building Blocks Sketch Challenge.  This card uses sketch #1.

Again, trying to use up some of my patterned papers and keeping some cards pretty simple.  
I love the ability to combine different stamp sets with these sketches.

For my card above I used the Poppy Birthday set from Verve and the Birthday Sampler set from Paper Smooches.
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Card details:
Stamps: Poppy Birthday by Verve Stamps, Birthday Sampler from Paper Smooches
Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Not Quite Navy, Teresa Collins Now & Then
Inks: Not Quite Navy



For this card I used sketch #2 and didn't add anything extra to it.

Card details:
Stamps: Oh Happy Day by Avery Elle
Cardstock: Pear Pizzazz, Not Quite Navy, Teresa Collins Now & Then
Inks: Not Quite Navy 


Monday, December 30, 2013

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

Friday, October 18, 2013

DO NOT ENTER


Todays blogger's challenge is Halloween.  I haven't been able to play a lot lately so am glad that I happened to have a few of these in my stash that I had yet to share.

I don't have all the paper details as most of the paper I pulled out of my stash of 12 x 12 that I had cut down to 6 x 6 and then I had purchased a Teresa Collins Masquerade Die Cut Acessories sheet and Bella Blvd. Trick or Treat sheet to embellish with. 

My husband suggested on the one above I needed to create some more web to it, but I got too frustrated doing it and gave up :-)


Hope you enjoy the few Halloween cards, I actually sent some out this year which I normally hoard them all so I'm doing better about that.


Join us over at Blogger's Challenge this week and show off your Halloween stuff.



Tuesday, October 8, 2013

New Sentiment Set


This weekend I got a little time to put some ink to paper.  I can't say it came easily to me, after taking a bit of a break from stamping I'm trying to make my comeback.

I had some new releases to work with and this was one I knew needed to be used immediately.  I love the fancy script letters on the formalwords2stamp set from The {Stamps} of Life

Make sure you head on over to the gallery and checking out all the fantastic creations from the team using this set.


For my first card I wanted to do a little embossing with my sentiment and used a combination of a sketch to give it a bit of an envelope look.

This card uses the Love2hug set as well which I stamped directly on the patterned paper.
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Card details:
Stamps: Formalwords2stamp, Love2hug from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Teresa Collins Memories
Inks: Regal Rose, Versamark, Basic Gray
Embellishments: grommet from SU, clear embossing powder


My next card I also did some embossing on the sentiment, with a clear embossing powder and wanted to create my own background with the back2basics set.

I used the OWH#193 sketch for this card adding some pink sorbet twine and Kaiser Craft Crimson sparklets.
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Card details:
Stamps: Formalwords2stamp, Back2Basics from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Baja Breeze
Inks: Crumb Cake, Pixie Pink, Baja Breeze, Versamark
Embellishments: Kaiser Craft crimson sparklets, clear embossing powder, pink sorbet twine from The {Twinery} 


I kept my last card pretty clean and simple using the floral image as my focal point.  I paper pieced the flower and colored the leaves with a copic marker.
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Card details:
Stamps: Formalwords2stampsea2flower, flowers2share from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon
Inks: Ranger Jet Black, copic markers
Embellishments: Want2Scrap-turquoise


Thanks for stopping by to visit my blog today, I always appreciate my visitors and you leaving comments.  


Sunday, September 15, 2013

Introducing ABC Letter Die


Today the new ABC die from The {Stamps} of Life was released.  This is a fun die set that coordinates with letters2color, zebra2letter and outline4letters so a lot of different sets to work with it.

I've been using it in my Project Life album, it's perfect for scrapbooking.

My first card I created some of my own patterned paper and then die cut the letters out of it.


Card details:
Stamps: Daisies2Garden and Tinytitles2stamp from The {Stamps} of Life
Card Stock: Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Confetti White
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Licorice and Banana
Embellishments: My Minds Eye Boy Crazy enamel dots, ABC dies from The {Stamps} of Life

Wanted to get creative with this card and combine it with some of the sentiments, so I emphasized the Happy Birthday with just using the die cut for the first letter of the sentiment.


 Card details:
Stamps: Greetings4birthday, Letters2color from The {Stamps} of Life
Card Stock: Soft Sky, Confetti White, Teresa Collins Memories paper
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copics

By far one of my favorites of my collection and am sorry I couldn't get a better picture of it.  I love using the Sizzix die to create these layered flowers.



Card details:
Stamps: Letters2color from The {Stamps} of Life
Card Stock: Basic Gray, Confetti White, Real Red, Teresa Collins Memories Paper
Inks: Basic Gray, copic
Embellishments: Sizzix Flower Framelits, Letter die from The {Stamps} of Life, Want2Scrap pearls

Hope you are having a great Sunday and thanks for stopping by to visit my blog!

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Happy Boo Day!


A few weeks ago when I was at Archiver's with friends I got borrowed some stamps from Libby and Susan and got to work on some Halloween cards.  This set I was working with was Hero Arts Monster Fun.

I don't have all the paper details as most of the paper I pulled out of my stash of 12 x 12 that I had cut down to 6 x 6 and then I had purchased a Teresa Collins Masquerade Die Cut Acessories sheet and Bella Blvd. Trick or Treat sheet to embellish with.

I kept most of them pretty simple as I wanted to create a good stash of them.  I think I got about 8 made that day which I was thrilled with but have a bunch more I need to make.


Hope you enjoyed, loving this little Monster set, they make some fun Halloween cards!


Friday, August 16, 2013

I love you...


Today at Blogger's Challenge our theme is "Flower Power".  This was a card I had created awhile ago that was in my stash I had yet to post.

I am a big fan of flowers, I love all floral stamps and use them quite frequently in my creations.

I stamped the flower from the Blessings set multiple times, colored them with my copics and then cut them out and adhered them with some dimensionals.

The sentiment is stamped directly on the patterned paper.  I added a strip of cardstock and washi tape to the bottom as it looked kind of plain.

The August Diva Dare at Verve Stamps is "Pile on the Sweetness"-or use lots of layers and today I added on a lot of sweetness (flowers).  

Hope you will join us at Blogger's Challenge this week.
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Card details:
Stamps: Blessings by Verve Stamps
Cardstock: Melon Mambo and Daffodil Delight from Stampin' Up!
Patterned Paper: Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon
INks: Perfect Little Black Dress from Clear & Simple Stamps, copic markers
Embellishments: Hero Arts gemstones, Dimensionals from Stampin' Up, Little B tape

Friday, August 9, 2013

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

Sunday, July 7, 2013

Banner Dies

Looking for a great banner stamp, The {Stamps} of Life has one that works well with the Sizzix Framelits Banners #2 die.  I know this is one I'll use often in my scrapbooking-perfect for party pictures.

Here are a few I created with this set, Banners2Cut that was released today.  Hope you enjoy.


Card details:
Stamps: Greetings4Birthday and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Confetti White, Pumpkin Pie, Cool Carribean, Teresa Collins Tell Your Story
Inks: Pumpkin Pie, Cool Carribean, Memento Tsukineko Gray Flannel
Embellishments: Janome sewing, Sizzix Framelits Banners #2


This is by far my most favorite card in the group, I adore the color combination of the dark brown and bright pink against the craft paper.

Card details:
Stamps: Daisies2Garden and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Confetti White, Paint the Town Pink, Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Chocolate and Guava
Embellishments: Sizzix Framelits Banners #2



Card details:
Stamps: Mums2Love, MoreMums2Love and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: River Rock, Hibiscus Burst, My Mind's Eye Portobello Road
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Bubble Gum and Guava, River Rock
Embellishments: Sizzix Framelits Banners #2, Basic Grey Candy Buttons


This card I used one of the stamps to created the framed background on my card.  I like how it turned out and will try to space a little in between next time to give it a little more of a different pattern.

Card details:
Stamps: Crayon2Stamp and Banners2Cut from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Confetti White, My Favorite Blue Jeans
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard in Cornflower and Chocolate
Embellishments: Twine, Stampin' Up! basic pearls

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Summer Fun with Lemonade

Today is the first of the month, and that means an exciting new release set at The {Stamps} of Life. This set is perfect for the summer time and I got myself a little more inky than usual playing with this set.

Hope you enjoy the nice cool, refreshing, Lemonade2drink.



Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Melon Mambo
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, copic markers, Stephanie Barnard Sprays-Guava
Embellishments: 3D Crystal Lacquer, Want2Scrap Mother of Pearl Rhinestones


Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Confetti Cream, My Mind's Eye Be Amazing
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Chocolate and Mustard
Embellishments: Stephanie Barnard Sprinkles Chunky Glitter, SparkleNSprinkle dimensional glue


Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Marina Mist, Real Red, Naturals White, Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice, Cornflower Refill and Stephanie Barnard Sprays-Banana
Embellishments: My Mind's Eye enamel dots, seam binding dyed with Stephanie Barnard Sprays-Banana


Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Whisper White, Basic Black
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice and Banana
Embellishments: Want2Scrap Black Pearls


Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Whisper White, Cool Carribean
Inks: Cool Carribean, Eggplant Envy


Card details:
Stamps: Lemonade2drink and Cards2Drive from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Naturals White, Marina Mist, My Mind's Eye Be Amazing
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard- Licorice and Cornflower, copics
Embellishments: circle punches





Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Alpha Fun

This week The {Stamps} of Life released 3 more sets, moreladybugs2love (one that coordinates with the ladybug set I used last week), a swirls background and this adorable Alpha4Fayleen set.  

If you've been to any of the stamps shows that The {Stamps} of Life has attended, you may have met Fayleen yourself as she attends many of them helping out.

Never can have enough love cards and this sentiment was perfect for what I had in mind.  I sewed my little banner on my cardstock and then embossed the little hearts from the ladybugs2love set in red.


This next card has to be one of my favorite color combinations.  I'm not sure what it is about the turquoise/orange/black combination but I am always turning to it.  (Maybe why the Teresa Collins-Tell Your Story patterned paper pack is one of my favorites).

I simple stamped the hello from the Alpha4fayleen set on my paper and used the mums2stamp and moremums2love to create a focal image.


Hope you enjoyed seeing the use of the new alpha set and if you want to see some more incredible creations, jump on over to The {Stamps} of Life gallery to see what others are doing with it.
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Card details #1:
Stamps: Alpha4Fayleen and Ladybugs2love from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Basic Gray, Whisper White, Real Red
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Strawberry, Versamark
Embellishments: Janome Sewing, Clear Embossing Powder, mini rhinestones

Card details #2: 
Stamps: Alpha4Fayleen, Mums2stamp and Moremums2love from The {Stamps} of Life
Cardstock: Basic Black, Whisper White, Teresa Collins Tell Your Story
Inks: Color Box by Stephanie Barnard-Licorice and Tangerine
Embellishments: Zva Crystals

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Never Give Up


Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations our theme is to use our Favorite Embellishment.  My favorite these days are pearls and rhinestones.  I can't seem to get enough of those and have a variety of colors in them.  I love that you can just get a clear color as well and color them with your copic markers to match whatever color you may need.

This is a simple layout in which I used some patterned paper from Teresa Collins and went with the butterfly theme as my focal point.

Hope you will join us with your favorite embellishment over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations.
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Card details:
Stamps: Borderline from Verve Stamps
Cardstock: Creamsicle Cardigan from Clear & Simple Stamps, Chocolate Chip from Stampin'Up!; Patterned Paper: Teresa Collins Tell Your Story
nks: Colorbox by Stephanie Barnard in Chocolate
Embellishments: Butterfly Die from Papertrey Ink, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder from ProvoCraft, Basic Pearls and dimensionals from Stampin'Up!, Spellbinders circle die

Friday, February 22, 2013

Friend Ships


Today over at Blogger's Challenge our theme is "Friendship".  I have to say I have made so many friends through stamping, and some of them have become my best friends.  It's always wonderful when a hobby can bring people together no matter how far or how close they may be, only to discover they have other things in common bridging that friendship even more.  I'm fortunate to say that our Blogger's Challenge "MOM" and I have become great friends over the year and I always look forward to our girls weekend when we both can escape.  

I love how this card came out.  It was actually a submission reject but still one of my favorites.  This sentiment from the Text Objects set from Verve is just perfect!

Hope you will join us over at Blogger's Challenge this week and celebrate friendship with us.
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Card details:
Stamps: Text Objects from Verve Stamps
Cardstock: Crumb Cake, Real Red, Night of Navy from Stampin' Up!; Patterned Paper: Teresa Collins Tell Your Story (the yellow strip is from the perforated top of the paper pad)
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics BG73, R17, W1 & W3
Embellishments: Sweet Pieces "Snapshot Fun" from Sweet Stamp Shop, dimensionals from Stampin' Up!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Ten Minute Cards


Had a few minutes to create some cards so went with the newest challenges that came across my blog feed yesterday.  I love to participate but sometimes it's WAY after the fact which is okay.

This one is always a big challenge-creating a card in under 10 minutes for the 10 minute Craft Dash.  The card above was a big FAIL as I was getting side tracked while creating it.


The card below is actually the first card I made and it did make it in just under 10 minutes (9:50).  It's nice to be able to pick out your papers and supplies, but still doing that sometimes things don't work out the way you envision them to and you end up going over the time limit.

This uses the weekly sketch from MFT which my panels are just a tad off, but still am happy with how it turned out.



Card details Thank You:
Stamps: Great Friend from Verve Stamps and Simple Sentiments from Sweet Stamp Shop
Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Hibiscus Burst, My Mind's Eye Blush and Teresa Collins Tell Your Story
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, copics
Embellishments: SU pearl colored with copic, dimensionals, scallop border punch

Card details Happy Birthday:
Stamps: Great Friend from Verve Stamps and Simple Sentiments from Sweet Stamp Shop
Cardstock: Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, My Mind's Eye Blush and Teresa Collins Tell Your Story
Inks: Memento Rich Cocoa, Regal Rose
Embellishments: Want2Scrap Le Creme pearls

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