Sweet Stop Sketch SSS138

This is today's sketch at the Sweet Stop.

Card size is A2. Used the Crop A Dile corner chomper on opposite corners. The papers are from DCWV.
The KennyK image was colored w/Copics and highlighted w/Stickles. The edge punch is EK Success. The rose and leaves wee cut using the Cricut w/Close To My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge. The rose is highlighted with glimmer mist. The final touch is the swirl bling. Thanks for looking.

Challenges entered:
The Sweet Stop - sketch

Winter Wishes

Right now I'm not doing a lot of crafting. I am four weeks post-op from total knee replacement surgery. OUCH! Let's just say nothing anybody told me prepared me for what I've been going through. The surgery and the first two weeks were okay but that last two have been horrible. I wake up every night in excrutiating pain and although I'm on massive amounts of painkillers, they give me the shakes. What does that have to do with this blog? I'm not able to color because when I do it looks like a two-year-old did it! Anything I'm creating now is with images that I'd colored in advance.

This image is from KennyK and colored w/Copics and gel pens. I've been stuck on the glitter paper for some time now and used it to cut the evergreens with my Cricut machine using the Christmas. The snow was also cut from glitter paper. The circle was cut with the same paper as the background but it is the reverse side. The sentiment is a sticker from my stash. I really like being able to use an image that is otherwise not a Christmas image but being able to use for the occasion as I see fit. I used 1/4" pop dots to add dimension to the card. Lastly I used a Gelly Roll pen and shorthand to add some interest around the edge of the card.

Challenges entered:

Craft Your Passion - Anything goes plus glitter
Paper Makeup Stamps - cut out your image
iCopic Weekly Challenge - color black hair
Make My Monday - add some glitter

Christmas Wish

The Sweet Stop Sketche Challenge blog has this sketch as their sketch of the week.

This A2 card has as its base Kraft cardstock. The background papers are from a two year old DCWV Christmas stack. I used a Fiskars punch for both the borders and the snowflake. The image is from Sassy Studio Designs was colored w/Copic and die cut w/Nestabilites. Using the Nestabilities as a stencil, I added Close To My Heart "Topiary" colored ink. The swirl bling was colored w/Copics. The finishing touches include green & white twine, a button and a Tim Holtz "adage ticket."

Challenges entered:

The Sweet Stop - sketch
Craft Your Days Away - Buttons or Bows
Catch the Bug - Anything goes
2 Sisters Challenge - Punches/and or dies
Scrappy Frogs - use Kraft cardstock
Come and Get It - Anything Christmas

Dare to be Sassy Thursday #101

Time again for Dare to Be Sassy Thursday at Sassy Studio Designs. The challenge is "Holiday sparkle." Break out your bling and glitter and show us your most sparkling creations.

I started with an A2 card base and used a 1/2" Crop-A-Dile corner chomper to jazz it up a little. I found the glitter swirl paper in my stash. Using the Doodlecharms Cricut cartridge I cut the snow globe from white and red glitter paper. The evergreens and the reindeer were cut from the Christmas cartridge. Of course the super sexy image is from SSD and colored with Copics. The sentiment is a sticker and from my stash while the holly was cut from the Art Philosophy Cartridge and highlighted with bling.

Challenges entered:
Divas by Design - Anything goes
Fab n Funky - Anything goes
Paper Shelter - Anything goes
Simon Says - Anything goes

Happy Birthday Diva

I made this card for a friend's birthday. This image is from KennyK and was colored with Copics. I started with an A2 Kraft cardstock base. Next I added the zebra print paper from the Paper Studio. I embossed and matted the solid black and adhered it to the zebra print. The image was attached using 1/4" foam squares. In keeping with my effort to incorporate more Cricut cuts in my cardmaking, the roses are from the Close to My Heart Art Philosophy cartridge and the leaves were made with a the Martha Stewart rose leaf punch. I sprayed both with glimmermist. Lastly, I added Recollections swirl bling from Michaels, Tim Holtz's Ideology Film Strip Ribbon, and Stickles. The sentiment was printed from my computer and punched with a Fiskars extra-large oval punch.


 Challenges entered:
Krafty Girlz - DT call
Drunken Stampers - Monochromatic
Pinkgemchallenge  - Monochromatic