Pearls, Satin & A Blog Hop at Sassy Cheryl's

Have to say I am quite pleased how this card turned out.  This is the first image I fell in love with at Sassy Cheryls.  It is called "Sassy Opinion" and you can have it this week on sale or for free if you are lucky enough to win at the Blog Hop.  There are prizes galore and the grand prize is a $25.00 gift certificate to Sassy Cheryl's.  So click here for the details and join in the fun.  Unfortunately you have to act fast because it ends tomorrow night at 8:00 EST.

I colored with my copics and used White Opal Liquid Pearls for the polka dots on the dress and bow.  The tights were glittered with a combination of Cotton Candy and  Diamond Star Dust Stickles.  The shoes and the glass mirror were done with Paper Glaze.  I cut out the digi with the Top Note die from Stampin UP.  The border punch is MS Goo, but I thought it looked like a bunch of tongues wagging.  Pearls and Satin Ribbon is from my stash.  The sentiment was my creation made in word and cut out with the scalloped rectangle Nestabilitie.  The butterfly was cut from a scrap in my scrap bin.

I have this Sassy little birthday card ready for one of my Sassy little friends!  I can just see her doing this to herself on her birthday.  But alas, suck it up girlfriend you are just getting older whether you like it or not!

Guest Designer Spot

Last Saturday My daughter and her daughter, Ashley and one of her sons, Jonathan aka Fin aka Finny came up from Charleston for a Coffee and Cards.  Jeni and her Mom, Jan and her daughter, Savannah came over  and we cut and pasted and colored and had the best day.  (Until my grandson fell and dislocated his knee and a trip to the hospital ended the festivites).
Cami has been a scrapbooker for several years, but was never interested in card making.  She had 3 birthdays in her family so she decided to make the cards for them this year.  I was so impressed by my daughter's talents, I had to post them on my blog.

The first card is for her Mother-In-Law, Joan whose birthday is March 3rd.

The  second card is for her son Chase, whose birthday is March 3rd.

 The third card is for her Grandmother Riedel (my Mom) whose birthday is March 3rd.

Didn't she do a fantastic job.  This was her first attempt at cards and she even colored Chase's card with Copics which she had never used before.  I think she needs to do this more often don't you.

Sassy Cheryl's Show Me Thursday 14

It is that time again to peek at what I am working on.  I have a whole bunch of Flower Soft that I bought from a fellow stamper.  Carol just didn't like working with it, so she sold a whole big bag of goodies to me at a really good price.  Now you all know it is against the law to pass up a bargain and there is one thing I am is Law Abiding.  .)

I am working on a tree that I stamped with the SU Pendant Park set and added flower soft and a cute little turtle from Denami Designs.  The Sassy Cheryl digi is the one I have to finish tonight for this weeks satin and pearl challenge. 

That cute little flower pot card I made at my Inky Digits club Tuesday night.  Susan taught the class and we had a ball with this one.  You can tell we all have spring fever real bad when we fought over the flowers.  Everyone thought I took too long choosing mine.  I think I may have heard the name "flower hog".  :)

So come on and join in the fun.  Take a picture of what you are working on and post it on Cheryl's blog.  Click here and it will take you where you need to be.  Then you can snoop at everyone's site and get some new ideas for yourself and you might win a Sassy Cheryl Digi to play with!   Come on you know you want to snoop.  Don't be shy.

Sassy Cheryl's Challenge 52 Spring or Easter

WOW what a time I have just had.  I had to make 5 cards this weekend and take a trip to the hospital and to Charleston and then this ancient computer I am using decided to show it's power over me and not work.  I quick posted the card and came back to tell you about it.  It is another one of Cheryl Alger's precious drawings that I had to have.  To give the efffect of motion, I ran it through the printer twice.  The second printing was slightly off of the first so it looks like the bunny has motion.  (I really didn't plan it that way, I really made a mistake and liked the end result lol)  I colored it with my copics, cut it out with my oval cutter from Creative Memories.  The papers are from K & Company and the floral paper is My Minds Eye.  The ribbon is from my stash and I edged in yellow rick rack for a border.  Lovin the spring colors and hope the recipient will like it too.  No sentiment so I can use it for a number of occasions.

PS: the trip to the hospital was for my precious grandson Jonathan aka Finny.  He fell over his new lab puppy and dislocated his knee cap.  Then I had to drive him back home to Charleston.  He is ok now, but out of commission for 6 weeks or so. 

Whew I am tired.  I think I will go put my feet up and rest before I start my next card.  LOL  Have a happy one fellow crafters!





Sassy Cheryl Recycle Reuse or Repurpose Challenge

Well Cheryl has gone and done it again. Another gotta have it image. This one is called Tricycle Fun Girls. If it is a "gotta have it" image for you too, you can click here and get it real quick. LOL. When I first heard the challenge this week all these images ran through my head. Should I alter a checkbook box, a matchbox, a cute jar (but Ann did that so beautifully I couldn't match or top that). I had some old buttons and lace, shaped pasta even popped in my mind. But when I saw the lttle girls on the tricycle I knew immediately that I would use drywall tape as a sidewalk for them to ride their bikes on. How do you like it?

I used my Exacto Knife to trim the wheels and right shoe to allow me to run the drywall tape under the wheels. I left all the digi stick up a little bit so it looks like the bike is really on the sidewalk. I sponged on some SU Soft Suede ink to give the dry wall tape some color. Background is sponged with Brilliance Sky Blue ink using a cloud mask. I sponged a bit of green to give it a subtle hint of grass. I had to use this little dog. It is a stamp I bought at the show on Saturday. My precious dog, Bonnie, looks like her, so I will probably be using it on every card I make, ha ha. The dress is paper-pieced with some PaperTreyInk paper. The digi is colored with Copics and I used Prisma pencils to highlight and shade the hair and clothes on the girls. The little girl I am making this for is strawberry blonde, so I attempted to match. Not real pleased but this is my first attempt, so I will have to do some practicing in the future.

Ribbon is Martha Stewart and the 2 is a sticker on white circle that I edged in blue and then Paper Glazed glued on a larger circle stamped with a Just Write Stamp. Cardstock is Almost Navy and Pretty In Pink from Stampin Up. The DP is from Hobby Lobby - Jen Wilson's Breaking Free collection. This sentiment is from here . Doesn't it match just perfectly.




Hope this brings a smile to Our Little Jillian who is celebrating birthday #2!  Since I seem to be on a "2 theme" today I will just enter this card in a second Sassy Cheryl Challenge, the Color Me Challenge.

Sassy Cheryl's Show Me Thursday #12

Well Cheryl I took the dare.  Here is my mess.  I went to the StampScrapArt Show yesterday with some of my dearest enabler friends and dumped the mess on my table for you to see.  My wonderful, most awesome daughter drove up from Charleston to go with us and we had the best time.  Left the house at 6:30 A.M. and didn't return until 10:00 P.M. We ooed, awed, gotta have it and laughed for 15 1/2 hours.  I found some things I had been looking for and some that I didn't know I was looking for.

You can tell by my stash that I am ready for Spring by all the pastels I bought.  The Muy Caliente stamp is one I picked up at Scrapbooks by the Sea.  It was designed by a local artist and I am working on a "hot" card with that stamp.

The little "Just A Note" notebook is something my best bud, Denise taught us at our Inky Digits Stamp Club Tuesday night.  It is an altered chipboard book with a stack of post-it notes inside. Just so darn cute.

Well enjoy your snoop my nosey little bloggie friends.  Gotta get to work playing with all my new goodies and I have a Sassy Cheryl repurpose challenge to finish.  TTFN

Forest Thanks

I have been making my cards with my digis and ignoring all my other "Have To Have" stash.  I decided to challenge myself in 2011.  Here is how it goes:  Every morning I randomly grab a stamp set, white paper, black and brown Memento Ink Pads  and my Copics pop them in my pink tote and off to work I go.  If I don't go out to lunch that day I sit in our break room, stamp and color.  Then at night I make a card out of whatever I stamped at lunch. 

This is the second card I made.  The stamp set is a SU Hostess set called Picnic Parade.  These little characters have so much personality.  I thought it would make a cute group thank you card. All the paper is from my scrap drawers.  I do know the cardstock is Stampin Up because I always use their cardstock.. I love the color variety and the quality of their paper. 

I cut the shapes with Spellbinders and the white swirl was a scrap already embossed in my stash.  The ribbon flower and pin are all from my stash. Unfortunately, I unpack my supplies and put them in storage containers so I don't know the brands.  I need to come up with a better storage solution so I can store the labels with the embellishments.

Hope you enjoy.  I'll post some more cards as I make them.  Maybe I'll even find a challenge to enter them in.

Happy Valentines Day

This isn't exactly a Valentine Card, but it is a lovey card.  The fairy and frog card is a quick cut out from the Once Upon a Springtime line from 2010 Graphic 45.  I picked up the paper at Scrapbooks By the Sea in Pawleys Island.  The 12 x12 sheet contains postcard sized pictures and postcards you can cut out and make into a quickie card when time is short.  Love this line of paper.

But if you follow my blog you know I can't leave it at there, so I paper glazed the frog to give him a shine and hilighted the fairy with my copics and colored pencils.  I had some little pink flowers left over from a border punch and I glued them on for color and dimension.  I used SU punches for the corners, side tag and the sentiment is actually a SU Christmas ornament punch.  The sentiment is a SU stamp and I popped a little tulle and pearl gem on for some bling.

Optimistic

This is the image Cheryl Alger donated for Help for Katie!  It is the third image I have used from that group and each one has taken me outside my normal comfort zone.  If you would like it, you can only get it at the Help For Katie site.  Click the badge on my sidebar and it will direct you to the site to donate.  I have had so much fun creating with the digis and hope we raise bunches of money to help Katie and her lovely family.  I don't know how much we have raised, but it sure has generated a lot of love from the Crafting World!  We wish you well Katie and keep you in our prayer circles!

Cheryl called this littl guy "fishing days".  I called my card Optimistic because he is optimistic he will catch fish for dinner and the little worm is optimistic that he will escape the hook.   I am optimistic that Katie will beat this awful cancer.

All of my paper is from Stampin Up except the DP and I found that in my stash.  It is very old, I do know that.  I stamped the clouds with a SU stamp "Good Neighbors"  I stamped the fish on the inside of my sentiment with a SU stamp from Something Sweet.  I used a little  Meadow "Flower Soft" for the gras.  Doesn't it look soft and cushy for his little bare feet?  I used a little Paper Glaze to make the sneaky worm look gooey and yucky.  I hit the reel with a little Paper Glaze too for effect.  The red is cut from SU "Top Note" die and the corner punch was a Creative Memories punch.  Brad and twine are from my stash and the sentiment was typed on the computer.

All this was for Sassy Cheryl's Challenge #50.  Sassy Peggy gave us a color challenge and this is my take on these colors.  Whatcha think?

                                               

A Stylin Packer Birthday Girl

Haven't posted in a week.  I injured my right hand and have had to give it a rest.  I choose to believe it was due to so much border punching I did last weekend, rather than the arthritis I suspect it may be.

My beloved Packers won our Super Bowl XLV last night so I made a birthday card in the green and gold!  This little Sassy Girl is a decked out for the Super Bowl parties.  Won't she just be the belle of the ball. 

Recipe:
Colored with Copics
Glitz with Stickles
Lenses of Glasses - Paqper Glaze
Happy Birthday Cuddlebug Embossing Folder
MS Daisy
Swiss Dot Button from stash
Bakers Twine
Paper from stash