Created these for the blog 365 cards  sketch challenge today-Sophie’s Sketch.  I have such problems with these simple, straightforward sketches….I feel like I have to FILL up all that space….lol…but I think I accomplished the sketch!

Stamp sets used: Love Bites Papers: Club Scrap, brown lunch sack (my dd used a bunch the other day for a project, and she cut off the tops…I have a bunch in my scrap basket….so what the heck..thought I’d give them a whirl…I LIKE it!)   White card base-Halcraft A2   Inks: Cats eye-warm red, SU whisper white, Memento-black,  StazOn-black, Ancient Page-Flannel gray   Colors: Triart/Copics  white gel pen for highlights      Techniques: TJ-wisped frames Vol. 8 Issue 3-Feb. 2010    Nestabilities-Label 3, CB embossing folder-Argyle

I like this one better than the top one…lol  What do you all think?

tfti!

Theme: Love Lyrics/Romance Songs

I had SO many ideas for this theme: “Do you love me… check yes or no”; “She signs her letters with xs and os”….and ended up with “Hey Mr. Postman….is there a letter for me???” lol…go figure! I’m writing a sweet note to my dh and mailing to his work addy….wont’ that be a fun surprise when the mail cart comes thru?? grin  The birds remind me of a kids song my mom taught us when we were younger (in German) about a little bird that that ” lands on my foot, with a letter in her beak from my mother.”  I was found myself humming it the entire time I was making this card…lol…

Please Mr. Postman....

A few close ups

close up dew drops (hand colored)

and this:

close up die cut bird; love note

Stamp set used: Heart Strings, You Hoooo, With a Flourish, Snail Mail, Going Postal (retired)      Digital image used: Conversation Heart Papers: Plain white cs, copy paper, DCWV blue scrapbook paper, Halcraft Card base-6.5×5             Colors: Copics, Triart Markers       Inks: Adirondack-sailboat blue, yellow sunshine; Stampabilities-baby blue; Memento-black          Extras: Sakura gelly roll pen-clear star, white    Ribbon-Michael’s;  hand colored dew drops

Steps:

1. Inked the background of a plain white card base with yellow and blue inks, using a kitchen sponge.
2. Stamped the postage stamp, added the heart image (heart strings), colored the heart and then stamped the canceled postage images (Going Postal)
3. Stamped the flourishes in baby blue on one side.
4. Printed the digital image-plain white cs. Stamped the heart inside the large heart, (heart strings) colored  all, then stamped the XO (heart strings). Ink edges using Whisped Frames (TJ)  technique
5. Stamped the larger blue bird (on a die cut-coming soon) (You Hoo) colored with copics accented with white gel pen.
6. Stamped the phrase at the bottom (Snail Mail), folded a small white piece of copy paper, inked edge (baby blue) stamped words (heart strings) for note.
7. Mat digital on light blue paper, add ribbon to top. Pop dot larger bird, add a small slit in beak, add a bit of glue to back of head to give the note a place to hold on to.  Attach bird to top of digital/ribbon. Add a bit of glue to card base, so bottom of note also stays in place.
8. Add a bit of glitz with the glitter pen, carefully go over some of the black lines, swirls only.

Blog Hop Details:

This is a “circular blog hop” where the only beginning is wherever you start!!  You no longer have to go to a ’starting blog’, or try to find your way to the ‘ending blog’. You will know you are at the end of your blog hop when you’ve come back to the blog you’ve started from!  It’s not a huge circle…so it should be easy to remember where you started. :0)

BLOG CANDY!! One winner will be chosen from a mystery blog hostess…so you’ll want to leave a comment on EVERY blog so you don’t miss out! It’s like a treasure hunt inside a blog hop…he he he Prize?     A free stamp set, of course!! (my choice)

Your next stop is URSULA!!

I stumbled across this kool blog the other day, called 365 cards. She’s having a fun direction challenge, here’s the link to the post if you want more info. I thought my cross country sets would be great for a card in this theme. Here’s what I did.

Stamp sets used: Cross Country 1 and CC 2, Create  A Scene , Doodles-Inspire Me (retired)    Colors: Copics and Triart markers         Inks: Memento Black, Color Box Chalk-Chestnut Roan, Cat’s Eye-Cyan, Yellow Citrus; Adirondack-Lettuce, Pesto, Meadow   Papers: DCWV, Club Scrap, plain white cardstock-Office Max brand           Ribbon-Michael’s

Here’s a close up of the signs…he he he

TFTI!

My dd (15) has been in my studio for days now making her own valentines. Here are 2 she did using digitals. She uses background paper colors in such interesting combinations.

Digital images  used: Conversation Heart Rubber Stamps used: Be Mine (retired)   Papers: Club Scrap   Colors: Triart and Copics

by Elizabeth

Digital images  used: Cherish You Papers: Club Scrap   Colors: Triart and Copics

by Elizabeth

tfti

Stamp sets used: Heart Strings Inks:Cats Eye-Warm Red, Memento Black     Colors: Copics, Triart          Extras: Ribbon-Joanns Etc, bling-Dollar bin Target ; Punches-EK Success-corner and Paper Studio-border        Papers: DCWV Spring Block, white cs (Office Depot brand)

TFL!!