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Sunday, May 10, 2015

CYCI #69 The Bestest Sketch

So today is Mother's Day and I had another opportunity to make a Mother's Day card, this time to actually give to my sweetie. See, even though I have made about 3 MD cards this season, I couldn't give her any of the those since she had already seen them all (plus I didn't actually make them for her...Lol!). Well, thank goodness CYCI came along to inspire me with a sketch!

I flipped the sketch and traded the banners for doughnuts...take a look!

As soon as I saw it, I knew I just had to use Stampin' Up's new Cherry On Top DSP. If you know my style, you know that I like to have fun with my cards...and what's more fun than candy and doughnut paper? But of course, I always like to do something different, so I couldn't settle with just telling her that she's the best...when I could remind her that She's The Bestest! I used the "You're the Best" sentiment from the brand spankin new Friendly Wishes stamp set and created my version with a masking technique. The card base and sentiment ink is also brand new - Tip Top Taupe! Again, the doughnuts, candy paper, and banners are all from the Cherry on Top DSP pack - so much fun!

Thank you for joining me and I hope you come back later this week...there is a blog hop on Thursday, a new TGIF Challenge on Friday, and another CYCI on Sunday...Man, it's going to be a busy week of Stampin since I don't have any of those projects done yet! Yikes! I better get going....

Sunday, March 29, 2015

CYCI #63 - Whale of a Sketch!!

Hello again! Well, last week was certainly a busy/productive stamping session...3 blog posts and 4 cards...that's pretty good for me! Lol! Hope you were able to visit my post from the Creative Hop on Monday, and if not, link is HERE; it's a lot of fun, I promise!

On to this week's CanYouCaseIt challenge for the week. Today we have a trusty sketch to be inspired by! Here it is:

Here's my interpretation:

I was completely inspired by the Maritime DSP for this card. I went with the whale (fussy-cut from the DSP) as my shape and lowered the sentiment a tad. I also used the DSP for the water and the fishy sentiment accent circle. The Night of Navy school of fish and silver embossed anchor images came from the Sea Street stamp set. The sunset is a twist on the Bokeh technique (sponging a few colors then stenciling the white on). I was very happy with the bright and colorful fun and graphic card...looking forward to reusing the sunset technique for another card soon! I can also see the fun Maritime DSP working perfectly for a boy themed birthday card, invitations, even party favors! The more I work with it, the more I keep finding uses for it, too. I even made a party hat out of one of the flags in my last post!

I hope I have planted a seed of inspiration for your own creation. Please visit CanYouCaseIt.com to see more of the design team creations, the great entries that we have, and don't forget to upload your own project and play along. TTYL and see you next week!

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Sunday, March 1, 2015

CYCI#59 Sketch Challenge (aka Fun Times!)

Today's post has been brought to you by CYCI, your local purveyor of fine card making challenges. This week, we were inspired by the following sketch...

And here is the card that I came up with...

I had a lot of fun making this card. When I first saw the sketch template, I immediately thought of a Polaroid picture. The challenge was to create a card that would fulfill my vision. I wanted to do a semi realistic image, and Stamin' Up's Adventure Bound paper stack had the perfect variety for me to work with. I tried a few different things, but the grass background and the Cheerful Critter bunny ended up going together so well that I just ran with that combo. I cut a slit in the DSP for the bunny's torso then shredded it to mimic the blades of grass, and I added Dimensionals behind the sign to help it to pop out of the picture. The banners were die cut using the balloon framelits and colored with Blendies. To round out the celebratory theme, I textured the background layer with Lucky Stars.

Please click the link at the top of my post to play along and upload your own creation. I would like to see what you come up with. What kind of Polaroid can you create? How does the sketch inspire you? You can't win if you don't play...

See you next week with another challenge, and hopefully sooner if I can get up off my rear and make another card. Over the last couple of weeks, I have been a "Weekend Warrior" when it comes to stamping, so bear with me and I hope I can at least get a few projects a week out to share with you. Thanks for visiting and see you soon!