Saturday Sketch Challenge

Each Saturday Amy at My Creative Clutter posts a card sketch. In honor of some cooler California weather, I inked up this Sugar Nellie Splashing Maggie stamp. It is one of the six that I won over at the Sugar Bowl last month. I found this rain cloud paper in a DCVW spring stack. It took me a few tries to color it. I added a little crosshatching with a dark grey pencil to the underside of the umbrella and some white lines to the top of the umbrella to give it a little more dimension. Amy's card sketch is shown below. Be sure to hop on over and check out her blog!

Recipe for this card:

Stamp: Sugar Nellie Splashing Maggie

Papers: Stampin Up: Bashful Blue, DCVW Spring Stack

Embellies: Prima flowers, brads

Prismacolor pencils: PC949, PC904, PC917, PC993, PC1086, PC1022, PC927, PC1040, PC1058, PC948, PC936

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Busy Bee Bloggers 1st Challenge

I finally had time to put a card together for the Busy Bee Bloggers 1st challenge. The challenge was to add some pop to your card. I added some pop dots under the image and under the flowers and buttons to give it a little dimension. I realize the color combination is a little funky but that is because I actually used the card as a three in one challenge. The color combination is for the August Wish RAK card challenge at SCS and the card sketch is from the Sugar Bowl. This cute image is called Sweet N Sassy and is another Sugar Nellie stamp.

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Sugar Nellie Challenge 16

Isn't this little girl adorable! The stamp is called "Giddy Up" and is a line from Sugar Nellie. I love to look at all the design team cards over at the Sugar Bowl challenge blog and decided to give this week's sketch a shot. I inked the edges of all my papers with some Chestnut ink to give it a more aged look. The brads are a little crooked at the bottom - but that's what happens when I get in a hurry. Anyways hop on over to the Sugar Bowl and check out all the great cards. This week's prize is a Sugar Nellie 6 stamp pick'n'mix.

Party Princess MOJO98 Challenge

I finally got a few minutes to make another card. I have been a little challenged due to what I like to call a "creative mess." My other half says he doesn't know how I can even make anything because things are so strung about. I just organized this room six months ago with some storage cubes and a bookcase from IKEA only to later realize I am not a sit down crafter. I would much prefer to stand at the dining room table -- or even better -- the kitchen counter. Guess it's time to rethink the craft room situation.

Anyways I was able to dig up enough stuff to put this card together tonight. I used the sketch over at the Mojo Monday challenge blog. I have been dying to ink up some of my new stamps from Sugar Nellie's Gorjuss Girl Set #3. I love this cute little Party Princess stamp and thought these papers would go perfect. I am still working on my knot and bow tying. Thank heaven's for YouTube!

Create4fun Challenge Week 31

I was doing some blog hopping yesterday and came across another weekly challenge. There are more challenges out there than I realized. It is hard to choose which ones to participate in but since I am a beginner so I try to stick to the easy ones. I found this sketch challenge over at Create4Fun that really pushed by limits. This long type of card is not something I am familar with. I wish they would give some dimensions for us newbies to use. After staring at the sketch for 30 minutes and looking at all the gorgeous cards by the design team members I decided to give it a try. I used some scraps from that same Daisy D pack of papers I used the other day along with some Stampin' Up cardstock. I needed five coordinating papers so that made it a little easier. I inked up this Just a Girl stamp from Sugar Nellie's new Gorjuss Girl line and colored her with prismacolor pencils. I added this hand crocheted butterfly, a few pearls, some pink organza ribbon and this cute little "Made With Love" charm. After a few hours I finally finished it.

Thanks for stopping by. Check back later this week as I am going to start giving away some blog candy. As part of my blog theme "All Stamped Up and No Place To Go" I will periodically be giving away sets of stamped images.

Sugar Bowl Challenge 15

This week's challenge over at the Sugar Bowl was to use Gayle's sketch and add ribbons or bows. I have been dying to use this Little Goth Girl stamp from new line of Gorjuss Girl stamps over at Sugar Nellie. I found this zebra print paper in a stash of paper I had put aside for my daughter and paired it with some teal Bazzill cardstock and grossgrain ribbon. I topped it off with this little skull and crossbone charm. I had to throw this together in a hurry as I just realized the challenge ends at 10 p.m. UK time on July 30th and wanted to get my name in the drawing for the new set of Manga Kids stamps from Sugar Nellie.