Get well wishes

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by. Well I'm feeling alot better today and I was very much in the mood to create something in leu of me being sick. Also to use this weeks Taylored Expressions Sketch challenge.

I started with Kiwi Kiss cardstock  for the base of the card, followed by this beautiful dsp paper from My minds eye from the quite contrary collection I found at the local craft store. The stamped image comes for SU!'s Fun and fast notes set. For the felt flowers, they come from SU! Flower fusion I & II. I hope you like.

Feeling under the weather.

Hello everyone. I'm so sorry I haven't posted anything lately. I've been ill for 4 days now and I cant seem to get rid of it just yet. It started with a tickle in my throat and then the sneezing and runny nose followed.... I know by the time I developed the cough that it's almost over...lol But the cough will most likely linger till I overwhelm it with cough syrups and teas... It sucks to be ill and not have the energy or will to be able to create. I've been staring at my desk and supplies for days now, really wanting to make something, but all I can muster,  was to turn on the computer and write a messege. I hope to be ble to post something by the weekend... we'll see. Tooddles.

Happy Birthday Bloom

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by. One more day till the weekend and you'll be home free. Unfortunately, if you live in L.A., you know the rain is coming again and the sunshine will elude for a longer time. In the meantime, it'll just keep me indoors creating more.... on to the latest creation. Today I want to use Splitcoast Wednesday Card sketch challenge #268.

I wanted to make the stamped images more pronounced, so I didn't use too much colored cardstock. Instead I just used the basic black & white, and for texture I dried embossed the background.

To follow the sketch, I duplicated the bottom piece of the flower stem and gave it a 3D effect by rising it with dimensional from SU!. And then added the colorful butterflies by themselves and then the solitary one on the blossom piece to make as though they're all in unison .All the stamped images come from the Inkadinkado Beauty stems clear set. I hope you like. tooddles.

Celebrate You

Hello everyone, I hope you're having a great week so far. Today I wanted to create a card using Taylored Expressions Sketch challenge . I used the Fall flower dsp from SU! that I absolutely love. I wish I'd bought more of it then, the colors are awesome!

This weeks Taylored expression is celecrating its 100th challenge, so I thought it would be cool to use the "celebrateyou"  sentiment for the focul point of the card. The rubber stamp set is from SU! Party Hearty, and the felt flowers are from SU! flower fusion. I hope you like, see you soon. Tooddles

Get well wishes

Hi everyone, I hope you had a great weekend and a very Happy Valentine's day. So I had a friend who went snowboarding this weekend and well it goes with out saying... an injury occurred, so I made this card with her in mind. For this card I used Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch challenge .

I really loved this sketch for this particular sentiment, because I wanted to center a small nature scene. The SU! Curvy words set was a perfect choice to depict the butterflies fluttering about. For the paper I used the basic black, old olive, baja breeze, Autum Vine dsp (discontinued), and Fall flowers dsp (discontinued).

For the background of my nature scene, I used a brayer using Baja breeze and old olive ink. The Butterflies came from the SU! Dreams du Jour set, embossed it and filled in the colors with real red and pumpkin pie ink pens. The circle scalloped edge comes from the spellbinder layer stencils. I hope you like.

R.I.P Alexander McQueen!!

Before I had a glimmer of creating cards, I went to fashion design school, and Alexander McQueen was one of my favorite designers along with all the other greats. My prayers are with his family and friends... the fashion industry just lost a great creator!

So in memory of this fabulous designer I wanted to make a card using one of his designs for a color sketch, along with this weeks mojo card sketch.

I thought this was a great way to pay tribute to his work. He's a bit eccentric for most people, but you have to love the colors and concepts he put together.

Engagement card

Hello everyone, one day away from the weekend..woohoo! So I was thinking about how many engagements usually resort from Valentine's Day so I thought I'd create a simple elegant one with the the following challenges:

The sketch challenge comes from Clean & Simple stamping  and the color challenge comes from the Color Dare blog Two great blogs I ran into while on splitcoast, check them out.... very fun site.

Pretty simple, huh? I used the SU! Together forever set for the flower image and the sentiment. The dsp was from SU! Walk in the park. I hope you like. Thanks for visiting.