OCL Sketch Challenge #33

Welcome to Friday & the weekly OCL Sketch Challenge!  I love knowing what I'm going to post each week ~ it takes the guess work out of at least one day of blogging.  Blogging every single day can get to be a bit much, and at some point I may start taking a day off here and there, but I really do enjoy sharing my creations with all of you.  I do want to say a big thank you to all of my faithful blog readers.  I've gotten a few really sweet emails over the past week & I want you to know that you all really made me smile.

So on my sketch for today, I used the adorable set called Under the Mistle-Toad.  I just love the frog with the antlers.  I paired this cute guy up with some gorgeous paper by Basic Grey called Jovial ~ YUMMY!   Make sure you post your creation to the OCL Blog so you can be entered to win this month's prize!

Supplies from i{heart}papers: Stamps ~ Under the Mistle-Toad; Pattern Paper ~ Basic Grey, Jovial ; Ink ~ Palette; Copic Markers (E33, E31, E07, YG95, G20, R29, C1); Trim ~ Maya Road; Linen Thread ~ May Arts; Sparkly Fluff ~ Brown Sugar, Rockstar Red; Nesties (Labels 15); Spica Glitter Pens.

SCS Sketch Challenge #300!

This week the Sketch Challenge over on Splitcoast Stampers is celebrating #300!  WOW!  Our Craft Lounge is giving away a set as part of the challenge along with some other great companies. 

On the card I made for the sketch challenge, I used two adorable & perfectly coordinated sets by OCL  ~ Tweet Thang & Tweet Trees.  I also used this great new paper from My Minds Eye called Alphabet Soup!

Make sure you leave a link for your creation over on Splitcoast for a chance to win some great prizes!

Supplies from i{heart}papers: Stamps ~ Tweet Thang & Tweet Trees; Pattern Paper ~ My Minds Eye called Alphabet Soup; Ink ~ Palette Noir; Copic markers ~ R81, R83, R85, YG13, YG05, BG72, YR18, Y17, R27; Sparkly Fluff ~ Juicy Orange, Cotton Candy Pink, Appletini Green; Nesties ~ Labels 15.

Fall Finds...

I was searching through my files on the computer for a few ideas for a class & ran across these samples that I completely forgot to blog.  I guess I need to organize my computer images so I don't keep forgetting to blog things.  Although, it is a nice problem to have extra cards to blog that you weren't expecting!

My first card uses a cute Halloween set from Our Craft Lounge from the release last year called Witch to Wear.  It's oh so cute and spooky!


My next card uses the turkey and fall images from the Holiday Cruiser set.

Guess I'd better go look a little deeper and make sure I don't have any more hidden cards in my computer that are begging to be blogged!

Hero Arts Class Project

It hasn't started snowing in Northern Indiana (thank goodness), but I do have yet another Christmas project to share with you.  I made this cute card at a Hero Arts class that was taught my Jennifer McGuire (one of my favorite crafting artists).  So this is HER design, not mine ~ I just made it. 

The card is a standard 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" base that is scored at 4 1/4" and then at 2".  I used some adorable new Christmas sets by Hero Arts for this card that are available at i{heart}papers ~ Merry Christmas Trees & Tree-Mendous (sentiment).  After stamping the trees with black Palette ink on white paper, I sponged green ink on them and cut them out.  Then to add some shimmer, I sprayed some Psssst! Shimmer Spray in Frost.  Then I added the red gems to the trees.   The felt & gem snowflakes and the background stamp are all from Hero Arts.

LAD Sketch Day!

Today it's my turn to present the weekly Lizzie Anne Sketch.  It's always fun presenting this challenge for the Lizzie Anne girls.  So here is the super simple sketch...

And here is what I did with the sketch.  I used the October Monthly Mix called Sweet & Spooky along with the very cool Autumn Mix Digital Paper Pack.  I'm sure you are wondering why in the world Lizzie Anne would put PINK paper in the Autumn Digital Paper Pack ~ well they didn't.  I pulled up the pattern in Photo Shop Elements and played with the colors until I got a good pink.  Then I scaled down the pattern so it would be smaller for the card.  I love being able to do that on digital papers. 

 

Don't forget to play along this week & leave your link or card on the Lizzie Anne Facebook page for us to see!

Football Sunday!

Are you ready?  I AM!!!  I'm a huge football fan so I love Saturday's & Sunday's!  Yesterday was a great day since my team won.  Today's card features the Football All-Star Set by Our Craft Lounge.   Enjoy your day and Go COLTS!

Quick and Easy Christmas...

Just a quick and easy little card using my new Lizzie Anne Designs Single called Vintage Merry Christmas!

Have a great weekend!

OCL Sketch Challenge #32

Isn't it crazy to be making Christmas cards when it's still 90* outside?  Never the less, that's what I did yesterday for the weekly OCL sketch challenge.  I used a fun set from last year's release called Happy Holly-Days.  It's one of my favorite OCL Christmas sets.  I paired it up with some wonderful new paper from Basic Grey called Jovial ~ super yummy huh?  Play along with the sketch and don't forget to add your direct link to the OCL Blog.

Supplies from i{heart}papers:  OCL Stamps (Happy Holly-Days; sentiment from Ole St. Nick); Pattern Paper ~ Basic Grey (Jovial); Copic Markers ~ E07, R27, YR23, YG95; Ink ~ Palette Noir; Sparkly Fluff (24 Kt Gold); Nestabilities ~ Labels 17; Trim ~ Maya Road.

Back to School Display

Hey Peeps ~ Well school is back in session and we are all running around like crazy people to get book bags packed, lunches made and homework checked. I've also been making samples galore for stores. The following samples were for the September store display boards for Our Craft Lounge.

We featured three fun OCL sets ~ Bookworm, School Notes and Football All-Star. They are all perfect for this time of year!

This cool set was designed by my friend Kisa Peters ~ I just love that background stamp she added to the set.

These two school sets designed by Debbie Corbari are perfect together!

OK ~ off to make cookies for the volleyball team! Go Concord!

LAD Sketch Day!

Today I played with this week's Lizzie Anne Sketch challenge. I used the Sweet & Spooky Monthly Mix for October along with the super cute Autumn Mix Digital Paper Pack.

You can find all the details on the Lizzie Anne Blog and then don't forget to post your own creation on the Lizzie Anne Facebook page.

By the way ~ today is the last day for the 20% off sale at Lizzie Anne Designs.

See ya tomorrow!

Halloween Peep Pops!

It's Challenge Day for the i{heart}papers Design Team! I always love challenge day & today is especially FUN because this one is filled with yummy Halloween Treats & Table Decorations.

My project for today is a jar of Halloween Peep Pops. I took some of the Halloween Ghost Peeps (which I found at the grocery store), put them on a stick & then poked a hole in the bottom of the bag so I could slip the stick through it. I gathered up the end of the bag with some fun May Arts Ric Rac and then trimmed the edge of the bag with my pinking edged scissors. To decorate the jar, I used this fabulous black crocheted ribbon from May Arts (which also comes in brown, white, and ivory) & then more orange ric rac.

For the cute little tag, I used a new stamp set by Our Craft Lounge called Spooky Tags & stamped the image in Palette Noir Ink and the sentiment in Palette Orangeire. I used the set called On the Fence to add some bats to the orange mat that was cut using the Nestabilites Label 17.

The i {heart} papers design team girls are going to have lots of yummy things to show you today ~ so hop around and see treats (or tricks) you find.

Carolyn
Cathleen
Deb
Gretchen
Kendra - You are here!
Loretta
Lori
Lynn
Megan
Tracy
Kate

LAD Release Day!

Happy Monday and new release day for Lizzie Anne Designs! WOOHOOO ~ release days are so fun. My first sample today is an adorable tall snowman that I have totally fallen in love with ~ isn't he fabulous????


My second sample is from the Vintage Birthday Stamp set & the cute party hat paper is from the matching Digital Paper Pack.

Take a look on the Lizzie Anne blog for pictures of the sets, more projects and links to the other DT girls! AND... to celebrate New Release Day, Lizzie Anne is having a HUGE sale ~ 20% off everything in the store ~ Have fun shopping!

Lizzie Anne Sneak Peeks!

Tomorrow is a big day for Lizzie Anne Designs ~ they have 2 new Little Bits Stamp Sets, 2 Digital Paper Packs & 2 single stamps all being released. Exciting stuff! Today I'm showing you one of the Little Bits stamp sets called Vintage Birthday along with the matching Digital Paper Pack. One of the great things about using digital paper is that you can change the size of the pattern and even the colors if you want ~ so cool!

And here is one of the two new Single Stamps ~ Merry Christmas! I paired it up with this amazing fabric Christmas tree from Lolly Chops.

Take a look at the Lizzie Anne Blog for more links, projects and tomorrow you'll see pictures of the sets & they go on sale!

Make & Take Projects

Today I'll be at a new local scrapbook store here in Northern Indiana offering a free Make & Take & you're invited to attend. More Memories is having their Grand Opening celebration from 9am to 2pm and I will be doing the Christmas Tag make and take projects from 11am to 1pm.

So if any of my Goshen, Indiana area peeps can make it over, I'd love to see you! The store is located at 19260 County Road 46 (corner of CR 46 & SR 15), New Paris, IN 46553 (574) 831-4500. It's super easy to find!

Sets by Our Craft Lounge ~ No Peeking & Reindeer Games.