A Little Quick EPLS

I can't believe it's been since Tuesday since I've posted! What a crazy week! On the plus side...my desk is soooo super clean! You all are safe viewing here today! ...probably won't last...but today is a safe day! ;)

So how much do I love my Gina K's! Wow! These are such fun stamps! I have had so much fun playing with them. I have a few things to share but I will start with something that is EPLS.

This is one of my favorite hearts. It's just so cute and whimsical. I love it. Yes, this is probably one of the easiest cards around but I really like it. I used stickles. I really don't have very much experience with them....but they are sooo sparkly. I love them as well.

...just a giant love fest! ;)

Hope you are all having a great night. I am off to bed. I have a couple of cards to finish but unfortunately I am out of mini-glue dots! What a drag! I will have to make a quick Michaels run in the morning.

Post you all soon! :)

My Sketch Swap Example

I put this together last night but it was so late I just didn't have the energy to post it....

.....'How many monsters does it take to put in a light bulb?' .....'11'.... That was my joke of the day from my oldest son, Evan. I so love his jokes. Just smile and nod...and throw in a little giggle. Hey, it makes him happy.

Anyway, as usual, give me a sketch and I will run with it a bazillion times! When I am doing other peoples sketches I will usually stick with just one card as I am trying to keep the fact that I am obsessed with stamping a secret...but when it's my sketch....well, I already know how obsessed I am! Everyone in our little swap group is aware. Might as well just go with it! ;)

Here's what I did last night...

I flipped it....not a surprise. It's still the same sketch, it just gave me another option. I love options. I also really love this set.

I found a link to a My Favorite Things sketch last night....it of course was way to late for me to do anything with it...but it is my goal for today!

Hope you are all doing well and I will post you later!

Our Card Swap Sketch For February

Ok...keep in mind I am used to participating in these and not creating them! I do so love the card sketch! I love having a layout to follow and my card swap group spoke and obviously love the same thing so here you go! We are doing it again!

Here's the sketch I came up with...



This is based on one of my very first cards....

I was so in love with this stamp set. In fact, retired or not, I can't get rid of it! I am keeping it! I realize this is a really simple sketch...but again...I think this was one of my very first cards.

I will send out the evite with the specifics but since we had trouble viewing the sketch there last time I am posting here as well.

If anyone else would like to participate, we would love to see what you come up with. Please post us a link here to where you have uploaded your card and we will check it out. I will be posting our cards in a few weeks after the swap.

Hope you are all enjoying your weekend! I am off to participate in some really fun challenges! ...Beate's, Jen's, Sharon's! Soooo fun!

Post you soon!

Sketch Card Number 2

Ok...I pushed the easy button tonight! I still am eager to use my bind-it-all tonight but I thought I would give the sketch swap another try. Here's what I came up with. Here's the card 'closed'...

The second one is 'open'. I think this might make a nice variation for our card swap. I would almost do this same card but the rub-ons are already out! ...of this specific design.

You know, I have always tended to be a 'collector'. By this I mean that I have a habit of buying things and then storing them. I never use any of it for fear of running out. I feel like I have somewhat changed this habit lately as I have been using anything and everything! Hey, I actually used the metal flowers for not just this card but the Happy Heart one as well! That's saying something!

The rub-ons are going to be a bit of a problem for me! While they went on much better than I remember my past experiences with rub-ons, there is only one sheet of black and one sheet of white. Each sheet is covered with some image or word but if you were going to mass produce cards and use them they would run out...well after one card!

All that said, I have already prepared my first new catalog order and there are two other rub-ons in that order! Does that make me a walking contradiction? Maybe this will be the true test as to whether I have broken my collecting habit or not!

I have to break it...I am running out of room for all the really cool new stuff I keep finding!

Have a great night...if I don't go right to sleep after I put the boys down I will come back and work on the bind-it-all book. Otherwise I will hopefully post something tomorrow!

Take care!

Merry Christmas!

Hello to you all! I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas!

I wanted to work on my sketch card. I know I've said this a thousand times, but I really love sketch challenges! I do love how you can take one layout and produce so many different designs. The sketch is definitely a fav of mine!

Monday my Stampin' Up! preorder arrived so what better time to make a card than now. I am using all new stuff for this one. Ginger Blossom dsp and the Happy Heart Day stamp set. This is a really simple card but I am in between games right now! The boys got a few new ones for Christmas and we've been playing almost all morning. Bowling is really fun!

So here is the card....In all honesty, this card really needs the Nestibilities scalloped square punch. When I ordered mine a couple of months ago they were out. I just ordered them last night. I am hoping it is in! I tried it with the rectangle and it just doesn't work.

I used my copic markers on this one. Notice the highlight on the word 'heart'? This was totally cased from a super cute card that I saw Jen del Muro do which you can see here. As I was going through her site to find the link to the card I ran across this. Sooo cute! Anyway, as I was getting ready to color this in I googled copics and stampin up and guess what I found! This list! I knew there had to be something out there. Too bad I didn't google this before I ordered! I do see the need for getting a few different shades of some colors. It's just easier to shade that way. I used two different browns on the mouses face.

Anyway, bowling is calling. I hope you like this one. I am hoping to get something a little more fun out later this evening once everyone has gone to bed.

Take care & Merry Christmas!

Our First Card Swap Sketch Challenge!

A what?

I know that's what most of my swappers are saying right now! We are doing a sketch challenge! I thought this would be so much fun! I apologize that my sketch probably leaves much to be desired! Keep in mind, I am used to participating in these not creating them!

We are going to follow the rules that I found at SCS for this swap, in that, you can feel free to add to this sketch but you must be able to recognize the sketch with your finished product. All of our other card swap rules will apply.

For anyone out in the blogging world that happened upon this, feel free to participate as well! The more the merrier! If it's not too much trouble, be sure and post here with a link to your card so we can all enjoy.

Here's the sketch:

Again...never done this part before. I know this is not really to scale and well looking at it right now the strip across the card doesn't actually make it all the way across! oops. I did this in Microsoft publisher....I'm quite sure there is a better way!

If you have any questions feel free to drop me an email.

Take care!