You're a Special Tweet!

I choose this weeks sketch from Friday Sketchers for this card. First, I stamped my Calico Cat from Stamp Shoppe Creations and the Bird's nest from Memory Box. Then colored all the images with Copics. I then, cut out the nest and popped it on the tree branch after I stenciled clouds in the background. I used the Large scallop Nestabilities to mat the cut out images. All papers that I used were from We R Memory. The special tweet stamp was from High Hopes and was the perfect sentiment for this card. Notice!!! I used the NEW, just came in, Tim Holtz sun rays texture fades embossing folder. Then I distressed the embossing to make it POP! Hope your day is a real "tweet" :)

You're One in a Melon

I am doing two challenges today!! First I used the sketch #88 from Friday Sketchers and then used the Spots and Dots theme from the Cute Card Thursday Challenge. Did I ever use dots!! Starting with the background paper from Cloud 9 there were dots galore. Then the dot ribbon from Bo Bunny and also the pink cardstock with the swiss dot cuttlebug folder. I cut out the circle with the Nestabilities. Then I airbrushed the background sky and grass. After the girl was stamped, I colored her with Copics and cut her out. I popped her on the circle.

Viking treasure!

I am doing two challenges in one today! I am using the Sketch, with a twist, from Friday Sketchers and using the Pink and Gray theme from the Cute Card Thursday challenge. This Viking was a request from my 10 year old son, Nolan, so I have been wanting to use this Viking stamp and the new fleur de lis cuttlebug folder. So that is just what I used for these challenges. The pink and gray background dp is from Karen Foster. Because I don't have a lot of gray/pink paper, I used a ribbon for one of the strips on the sketch. My saying didn't fit in the circle punch out, so I used one of the Nestabilities labels instead. Using a brad, I attached the heart charm to the sentiment!

Bee Mine!

Here's my Friday Sketchers card. I liked the unique sketch with the angle papers. I just never think of doing things like that. The Mr. Bee and Bee Mine stamps are new from our Stamp Shoppe Creations line. Be sure to check our store blog often, because there will be new stamps put on daily!!!

Friday Sketchers Christmas Challenge

Here is the Friday Sketchers Christmas Challenge for this week. Be sure to do this sketch challenge this week and link it to your blog for a chance to win stamps from Stamp Shoppe Creations!!! Then join the blog hop to see the beautiful cards from the Friday Sketcher's Design team. You can start with Claudia and just hop your way through...

Here is a sample of my sketch for this week. I used a sample of the stamps that I will be giving as the prize for this week. I am not planning on winning, but I love to do the challenges and I also wanted to encourage you to try too! Have fun with the blog hop and I hope to see some of your cards!

Friday Sketchers Challenge #83

I am running a day late, but here if my Friday Sketchers challenge! I wanted a silent night look for my snow guy, so I got out my airbrush from Copic. Did that ever work great! I love the look and it was the look I was wanting to achieve. I stamped "Here's Trouble" on my paper, then made a mask of him. Then I made a mask for the snow. I used my B23 and C7 Copic markers and airbrushed the sky. After I was done with the airbrushing, I removed the masks and colored the image and added white dots with my Signo White Gel pen. I noticed after I removed the mask that there was some airbrushing on the image, so I used my Copic blender and faded out the ink. Then I added some glitter to the snow. I also had the chance to use the new Winter borders from Nestabilites on two of my strips of blue paper for the background. I wasn't liking the different layers of decorative papers and I didn't like the just plain cardstock. The cuttlebug did the trick!! I made this into a square card. It gave me the extra room to add all the layers. Hope you have a great weekend!!

Friday Sketchers Challenge #82

As I was surfing some of the different blogs and card ideas, I noticed the friday sketchers challenge. I thought it would be a great one with my Martin the monkey stamp. I stamped extra palm boughs to use as my floral embellishments...call it a little creative license :) I flipped the sketch to work for this card. The papers were some of Magenta's decorative paper and all stamps are Stamp Shoppe Creations. Hope you all had a great weekend!