Four way combo

Here is my card for th Sweet Stop Sketch challenge AND the Artful Sentiments Copic Challenge AND the TJ challenge to post a card with a TJ technique AND my Sweet N Sassy digital image for Sweet Stop Design Team members.  The whole image is of a little boy pulling the wagon with the pumpkin but since the copic challenge colors were just orange, yellow, and a W (grey) copic, I decided to only focus on the pumpkin.  You can see the sketch challenge and the copic challenge home pages by clicking on the links and banners to the right column.  The TJ challenge was to use any TJ technique.  Well....believe it or not, I had never done Score grid.  At least I don't remember doing it.  It is quite easy!  Always nice to have another way to use my Scor-It (which I love BTW). 

And..........make sure you click on the Sunbeams flashing blinkie to the right side column.  Sweet N Sassy stamps is celebrating their second birthday and they are having a give away.  WOW......can you believe that it has been two years already!  Congratulations, Korin!!

A little wine!

Would you like a little bit of cheese with that wine?  Thought I'd color up a few tumbled coasters for my sale since I had them in the Stamp Hole and would like that room for something else.  They were stamped with black StazOn ink and colored with prismacolor pencils.  I have a coaster that I stamped and colored this way several years ago and it has done so well.  So........I have several boxes of the tumbled tiles so I'll do 3 or 4 different images on them.  I like this wine one.  If you were buying them, what other images would you like to see on them?    I needed to watch Zander today while his mommy and daddy celebrated their 5th anniversary.  Hard to think that it has been 5 years already.  They took the underground tour in Portland.  I'll be anxious to hear about that.....we've wanted to take that tour for a while now!  They will be eating dinner in the restaurant where Adam proposed to Leah.  We went to the Portland City Grill for my daughter, Angie's, birthday.  So being there with lots of family was easy.  Adam had talked to the waiters and had a special costume set aside in a back room.  After our dinner and while we were waiting for dessert, several of us went out to go to the bathroom.  Perfect timing for Adam to sneak out and get dressed.  He had borrowed a real helmut and breastplate of a knight (his were leather) as well as a real sword.  He was sooooo nervous. It was also natural for us to have our cameras there since it was Angie's birthday.  My daughter, Leah, didn't see Adam coming back but all the waiters and waitresses were gathered and knew what was going to happen.  He walked up and told her that he wanted to be her knight in shining armor forever and would she marry him.  I'm sure she remembers all the words better than me.  When she said yes, all the waiters and waitresses and half the restaurant cheered.  It was such a fun time. 

So.....now after that long story, please remember to tell me what other images you think would be great for the coasters!

Why oh Why?????

Why oh Why haven't I used these stamps before.  The rose on this memo pad is by Kitchen Sink and I soooooo love using this set.  I tried it once before and it just didn't work well for me.  This time I vowed that I would get this rose stamped and I think that the colors that were picked this time were the real key!  I sooo love their stamps and see more of them in my future! 

Cute little memo pads

I'm making some covered memo pads for my upcoming sale.  They are very cute and easy to make.  I'll have four done of each image.  Here is the first image using Branch Out.....my oh my.....SU really made a mistake when then didn't have this set in their current catty!!  It is one of THE best trees!  I angle cut the inside of the front flap so you could store receipts in there.  Sorry that the ribbon covered part of the front, it isn't there permanently!

H1N1?

Here is one of the last get well cards I'm doing.  It is my tribute to the swine flu this year!  Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it!  Nothing special technique wise on this one......I just hope that you enjoy!  It was colored with prismacolor pencils and gamsol.

Old Sick old Lady out of the box.

Hee hee.......I just had to do another 'out of the box' technique.  They are so fun and so effective.  This card also uses paper piecing.  The chair, pillow, Old lady's dress and sweater are paper pieced.  Talk about little pieces!  They were smaller than they looked at the beginning.  The image is one that I got used from Novell at a SCS shoe box gathering we had in Oregon.  I believe it is an Art Impressions stamp.....that old lady's fingernails look pretty familar.  It is funny though that the block of wood has no company listed only "factory second'.    The only second part about it must be the block of wood and the image on the top of it....they are kind of mushed.  I'll try to do one more get well card design for my sale then on to something different.  Hope you enjoy her!  I think her name is Ethel....what do you think?

Yup......another out of the box sickie!

Okay.......so these images just lend themselves to being out of the box technique images......You'd do it too, right?!  This is another of the images from the get well set from Our Craft Lounge....they are so cute.  I just love them.  I knew right away that the end of the thermometer needed to have a red jewel, which lead to red jewels on the corners too!  I wanted to do something different with the sentiment and remembered somewhere I had see the little flag type for the sentiment.  This design will be for my upcoming sale.  I've been making 4 of each design that I post.  Have at least two more Get Well card designs to do!  One will just have to be flowers, right?  Enjoy!!

One sick out of the box card.

Sounds like the card is sick, doesn't it!  Well.......the card IS for someone who IS sick but nobody I know.  It will be for my upcoming sale.  My daughter, Angie, requested this image.  I've used it before and she really loves it.  Since I colored it with copics this time, I was able to use the blender and make some 'bubbles' in the green liquid.  Glad she's not coming for me!!  The needle is really narrow so I needed to reinforce it so that it wouldn't just break off.  Out come the packing tape!!  This technique of reinforcing small cut out pieces is so slick and easy.  Just place a piece of clear packing tape on the back of the image before you cut it out and it gives the paper just a little more stability when it is really narrow like this needle.  After I punched the layer for the ribbon, I thought I'd use the same punch to 'adorn' the corners.  Pretty neat way to get some extra umph for the corners without shaping them or using brads or eyelets.  I believe that the image is from Lasting Impressions with Panache!

Out of the box twice!

When I posted this card to my TJ group I had entitled it "Out of the Box Twice"....then I realized that not only was the image 'out of the box' but so were the tissues!  That's my quirky sense of humor!!  The stamp is from Our Craft Lounge and is in a set that is really cute with running tissue, thermometer, and nose.   The out of the box technique using the Nestability is described in a post a couple of days ago.  It is so easy and looks soooo cool.   I colored the tissue with light blue so it would show up a little better.  I've been diligently trying to use up old patterned paper.  I really love this one....it is by Magenta. 

First is last and Second is First!

I know a little double talk and a small reference to a Bible verse!  HA!  Here is the explanation. 

These two cards........yup.....they are for my sale!  The first is the last of my sympathy cards.  The design was inspired by Markie's Mom on SCS.  Thanks, Faith!  The second is the first of a number of Get Well cards for the sale.  The running nose stamp is part of a get well set from Our Craft Lounge.  These designs were drawn by Marianne Walker (my copic instructor extraordaniare).  And you thought the title was something really heavy, huh?!   Enjoy....

I hoping to get a few more get wells done today and will post when done.

My website for my sale!

Yeah!!  My darling son came today and helped me solve some of my website issues.  Thank you sweetheart!  I have my own website to show some of my cards to the people I have invited to my home card sale.  It is a very simple site.  You can see it here:  http://www.createdbyann.com/.  Once we got the pictures into the correct directories and created a site on my home computer for the files (I guess it was different than a directory), then my problems were eliminated.  There is a picture of my mom on the site too.  She is 84 as of yesterday!  I think she is a pretty good looking lady for her age!  Other than playing at church, getting the website done and spending a little time with family......no creating got done today!  Tomorrow, I'll have to really get on the ball again.....only one week left!!

AND one more!

I've been creating like mad today.....at least this one came together quicker!  The beautiful tulip stamp is from Endless Creations.  The decorated paper is from Hot Off the Press and has shiney gold stripes on it.  The gold brads scanned dark and they aren't really so that makes it look kind of strange.  The tulip was colored with copics.  The inside has a sympathy sentiment.   The tulips were cut out and mounted up with foam tape.  Sorry for all the posts today.  I hope that you have enjoyed them!  I do have one more that I created today but will post it tomorrow.

And yet more!

You know sometimes you go to the Stamp Hole to create and cards just fall together like they were meant to be.  Then on the same day, you go down and it is like pulling teeth to pull that card together.  This card didn't start out anything like it ended......that seems to be the story of my life lately!  I originally had a piece of small uneven purple check.  Chucked that pretty quick.  I was going to recolor the leaves after I had bleached them and the cardstock wouldn't bleach out any more than the color you see.  So I shelved the recoloring idea and the cardstock was fighting me.  Sheesh!  So.....I hope that the end result is okay.  It is another sympathy card and the inside says "With Deepest Sympathy".  The leaf stamp is from a set of three from Stampin Up but I have no idea what the name of the set is.......I got rid of the plastic containers long ago before I cared about the set names.

AND more!

This card turned out TOTALLY different that I first imangined it.  Which happens often!!  I was originally wanting the dark layer on top of the image so the shell was recessed but the cut edge to the inside of the nestie just didn't look right.  I thought that maybe impressing the nestie shape on the shell would give the umph that I wanted under the dark layer but no go......so I flipped the layers and voila!  Success!  The shell is colored with copics and is an image from a Stampin Up set that I purchased from Kimm!  Thanks, Kimm.....I LOVE my set.  If you look real close you can see that there is a little Gelly Roll sparkle on the shell.  It was terribly hard for me to just leave this card as it was.......I really wanted to jazz it up with more layers and embellishments but know that some people like more simple cards so I tried to create some! Funny how the outside light changed the color of the card too.....is more golden looking that the picture.  Thanks for looking! 

More!

I have a number of different cards I need to make today.  Here is one that I did during the week and didn't have time to post.  This was one of the DTP cards that Michelle Zindorf featured on her blog a couple of weeks ago.  I didn't have the colors she suggested.....only a few.......but I like the result.  My mountains are a little dark but I still like the overall effect.  This was a FUN card to make....I made four of them and each look different, like a little piece of special art.  Thank you, Michelle, for your great tutorial on this one.  I think she makes her cards much bigger than I do....probably 5 x 7.  Mine are only the 1/4 sheet size so my palette is a little smaller.  I hope you enjoy!!  I didn't have a sentiment small enough so I scanned in the River City Rubber Works "In Sympathy" and reduced it in size.    The words to the side were from an unmounted stamp that I got AGES ago before I was really worried about keeping track of who made what.  Probably Stamp Camp or Rubber Stamp Ave.  The trees, leaves are SU  The flowers at the base were from Inkadinkado.  I hope you enjoy my mini canvas!