Punching It Up With Speedy

Welcome to Monday!  Here I am again with another Friends of Speedy TV challenge.  This challenge is all about using punches, specifically more than three punches.  At first blush, it seemed harder that I thought.  After I settled down at my craft desk, it came to me.  I stamped and punched out my brick wall.  Next I stamped out my sentiment and punched it out.  {A little tip here:  I used the same square punch for my brick wall to punch out the forked end of my flag.}  Then I punched out my Martha Stewart butterflies, added some bling and gave them a little pop off the wall!  My card base looked a little plain to me, so I did a little subtle embossing. 

If you have today off, I hope you'll enjoy it!  If not, I hope you work day passes quickly with little trouble!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will play along with the Friends of Speedy TV this week!

Details: Stamps: Brick Wall (Mark's Finest Papers); Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Mellow Moss, Prima Annalee dp; Ink: Veramagic Chalk Ink, Early Espresso; Accessories: 1 1/4" square punch, word window punch, MS butterfly punch, M's rhinestones, glue dots, stampin' dimensionals, paper snips.

Tulip Time

Tulip Time is just around the corner here in the Skagit Valley.  Just last week, the Kiwanis members delivered tulips to the front office at school as part of their annual fundraiser.  This card came about via one of the mini VSN challenge from last weekend, called Tulip Tones.  Heather challenged crafters to make a card using a floral image, bright green and your favorite tulip color.  My favorite tulips are the Negritas.  They are a luscious deep purple, accomplished here with some Rich Razzleberry ink!

I also used a CPS sketch to get the job done here!  I really love how this card turned out.  I hope every one had a wonderful weekend and those that have a day off tomorrow really take advantage of it!

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Details - Stamps: Floral Symphony (Verve), Wordy Birds (Verve); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Rich Razzleberry; Accessories: Nestabilities, Copics. 1/8" black taffeta, glue dot, M's rhinestones, stampin' dimensionals, Charming Oval die (Verve).

Happy Valentine's Day

My daughter will be handing these out today in her Kindergarten class.  I have to admit, it was a fun little project for us to do together and it didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.  She helped with the design idea and wrote out the names of all her classmates and teachers, in addition to writing her name 25 times.  I wrote to and from 25 times, punched 50 scalloped circles, punched 25 pink circles, punched 25 white circles and then stamped a sentiment and heart on each white circle.  Then I glued them all together after my daughter chose a pencil for each person.  The packaging for each pencil is a 1" by 8" cellophane bag that has a peel and stick flap and we picked up the pencils at a local party store. 



I hope your Valentine's Day is incredibly enjoyable.  With my hubby still out of town, it will be my daughter and I celebrating tonight.  She has already asked to have Funfetti Pancakes for dinner.  I'll have to justify that will some sausage, eggs and cantaloupe. Wish me luck!

Details - Stamps: Love Notes (Verve); Paper: Real Red, Pretty in Pink, Whisper White; Ink: Real Red, Tuxedo Black; Accessories: Scalloped circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1x8 cello bags, scor-tape.

The Inside of Monday

Happy Monday Peeps!  It's time for another Friends of Speedy TV challenge and today is all about decorating the inside of your card.  Whoa, this is something I rarely do.  But before I go ahead and share the inside, I wanted to give a shout out to my fellow MFP designer, Kathy Bradley, who is the Featured Stamper on Splitcoaststampers this week.  Woohoo, go Kathy!  I cased one of Kathy's MFP beauties for the challenge.  With that said, I can go back to my card now.  Since I rarely decorate the inside of my cards, I decided to do a little repetition of the Winter Crocus and the patterned paper.  Since the set has other great sentiments, I added another one.

This is what I came up with.  What do you think?  I like the end result. 

I popped my crocus off the front of the card in order to submit it for one of the VSN mini challenges this weekend too.  Tracy called for popped up flowers in her Poppin' Posies challenge. 

Hey, thanks for stopping by and I hope your Monday eases you gently into the week!

Details - Stamps: Winter Crocus (Mark's Finest Papers); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, In Color dsp; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black; Accessories:  Copic Markers, Nestabilities, paper snips, M's rhinestones, corner chomper, black taffeta ribbon, stampin' dimensionals, scor-tape, scallop border punch. 

A Little Bit VSN...

A little bit CPS.  I've been having a very crafty weekend due to the mini VSN on Splitcoaststampers.  I have spread out my play over the whole weekend.  VSN started Friday at 2 PM my time with five challenges in all.  I'm all done with the five challenges, but I'll have to wait to post my challenge number four until tomorrow.  This card is for Heather's challenge called Tulip Tones.  I decided to go with my favorite purple tulips a la Verve.  The color is almost dead on to the tulips you see in the field.  I got my sketch from CPS.  They are celebrating their 5th Anniversary and bringing back some really great sketches.  This is the Day  3 sketch.  Now, I think it is time for me to start some dinner and think about tackling the 52 Valentines that I need to make before Tuesday morning.  Can you feel my anxiety?

Happy Sunday folks!

Details - Stamps: Floral Symphony (Verve), Wordy Birds (Verve); Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Rich Razzleberry; Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Rich Razzleberry; Accessories: Nestabilities, Copics. 1/8" black taffeta, glue dot, M's rhinestones, stampin' dimensionals, Charming Oval die (Verve).

Coming Home

I am {im}patiently waiting for my hubby to come.  He's travelling right now and has been gone for about a month at this point.  I am really ready for him to be home.  So today when I saw the Day 7 challenge for Papertrey Ink's 5th Anniversary all about including hearts, I got an idea.  I opted to make a welcome home card for my husband.  I thought it was a good way to release some of that impatience and I will have a nice card for him too.  I die cut my heart shape out of the heart paper.  I chose the curry color as it worked better for a masculine card.  I did have blue, but my hubby isn't a blue kind of guy.  I rogued a sketch from Day 6 and called it a card.

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Details - Stamps: A Wreath for All Seasons (PTI); Paper: Very Vanilla, Early Espresso, Welcome Neighbor dsp; Ink: Early Espresso; Accessories: Neutrals button assortment; Framelit Heart dies; yellow twine, glue dots, scor-tape, stampin' dimensionals, Linen & Canvas Impression Plate.

Not Using Red or Pink

It's Thursday again and time to Use It over on Splitcoaststampers.  Hannah is our challenge hostess today and she wants us to make a Valentine without using red or pink.  Can do!  I dipped into some older designer paper I have hanging about in my craft room and got to die cuting, embossing and punching!  There just isn't much else going on for this little number. 

I think I'll keep this short and sweet as I am up too late for a girl who has to work in the morning!

Thanks for stopping by!

Details - Stamps: Teeny Tiny Wishes; Paper: Whisper White, Ballet Blue, Pawsitively Prints dsp; Ink: Ballet Blue; Accessories: Heart to Heart punch, Heart framelits, Houndstooth ef, stampin' dimensionals.