March Card Class!!

My March Card Class this time shows you how to use a waterbrush to color in images with your ink pads. We will be using my two must-have stamp sets of the CTMH Spring Idea Book: "Love You Forever" and "Togetherness". These cards also use the fun "Topstitch" paper that perfectly coordinates with the "Togetherness" stamp set.

If you live in the Seattle area, and you'd like to come to my second installment of my card class this month on Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm at my home, please e-mail me at skunamuffin@yahoo.com. The cost is only $7 for these 3 cards! Please RSVP by Sunday, March 28th. Feel free to invite a friend.

When I first saw this uber-cute "Love You Forever" set with the momma/baby combos of different animals and the quote from the children's book by Robert Munsch, I knew I had to have it. So perfect for baby cards and very fitting for Easter.

"Togetherness" is another great "stitching" stamp set. I really like the random look of the stitching used on the card below. The set also includes the fun flowers used on the last card.

Hello Maisy!

So here's the card I created around this ribbon, which is actually from the packaging that came from my new slippers. Totally had to save this! So can this paper be any brighter?! Lol! But what other image is a perfect fit for this paper than a Ketto? Maisy was calling out to ink her up.

Hope you all are having a great week. Getting ready for card class tomorrow.

Materials
Stamps: Ketto-Stamping Bella, CTMH For All Occasions and Fringed Phrases
Paper: Scrap dp, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, CTMH inks, misc. ribbon, EK punch, rhinestones

Wild Card MTSC#59

Another challenge card today. This one is for CA&F Wild Card Wednesday which asks for green and purple (one of my fav combos) and follows Mercy's sketch for this weeks MTSC#59. The purple Copics photographed kinda weird....and I kicked myself again for not stamping the sentiment BEFORE I ran the paper through the Cuttlebug. Oh well.

Materials
Stamps: Reeta-TFG, CTMH Fringed Phrases
Paper: DCWV dp, CTMH cs
Other: Copics, CTMH ink, CB folder, Robin's Nest pearls, foam tape, misc. ribbon

I believe in fairies!

Especially super cute ones designed by my blogging friend, Amy! This week she is a guest over at Quixotic Challenges where her Sweet November stamps (which are available HERE) are featured in the "I Believe In Fairies" challenge. All you have to do is incorporate a fairy somewhere in your creation. Since I {heart} Amy's fairy sweets, I decided to use Fidget for my main image. Can't wait to play with the new releases that should be arriving on my doorstep sometime next week!

The sketch for this card is very loosely based on the Sweet Sunday Sketch #54, very loosely. I just bought this MS border punch with my coupon at M's the other day and I love it! Makes a mess though with all those dots.

Materials
Stamps: Tangle Goblinspider-Sweet November Stamps, CTMH Say It In Style
Paper: KI Memories dp, CTMH cs
Other: CTMH ribbon, inks, and paper piercer, Copics, foam tape, CM flowers, AC button, Recollection apoxy stickers, Spica white gel pen.

Rotic invites for Josie

So it's that "love"ly time of year again where we all spend way too much money on our significant others on candy they don't need and flowers that will die in a few days. That's why I say "Bling!" show me the jewelry! Lol!

It's also that time of year for my friend Josie's annual "Rotic" luncheon. (romantic without the man--get it?) She asked me again this year to make her invites and this is what I came up with:

I had to make her 10 invites, two of each paper pattern. I based my sketch off of the Mojo Monday 121 sketch that's one of me favorites. I used the same fun paper that I bought at Target in the $1 bin. Yay $1 bin!! The quote stamp is one from a set of six clear stamps I bought for $3 at the Craft Warehouse in Wenatchee. Bargain bob's! Josie loved them since she invites all the special women in her life to share in the great food, love, and strong women.

Here's a close up of the sentiment. I printed the invite info on the inside on a separate sheet of paper and just put them in there loose. At the end of the invite I told them to "Go Green" and reuse the card by giving it to another friend. Good way to get my business info out there twice. :)

Materials

Stamps: CTMH Playful Flourishes and Soul Mates WP, Heidi Grace Love Quotes

Paper: CTMH cs, $1 bin dp at Target

Other: CTMH inks and bigger brads, Memento ink, Stickles, EK border punch, foam tape

....and too cute Chelsea

Yay! I've used ALL of my new Sprouts! ....well that is until I get Gigi in the mail from my winning card I made for CA&F's release party. ;)

Can you tell that my corner rounder has been my best friend lately? That, and the sentiment and music notes from my Love Birds ss. I think Chelsea is so darling. I think I'll have to make another card with her colored to look like Josie again. Josie is NEVER without her iPod, but she rarely wears a skirt.....

Well, I'm at the tail end of my paper from Amy. I have just a few random pieces left with no idea of how I'm going to use them. I'll think of something. Hope you all have a great weekend!

Materials
Stamps: TGF Chelsea, CTMH Playful Flourishes and Love Birds
Paper: Sassafrass Lass dp, CTMH cs and Bella dp
Other: CTMH inks and ribbon, Copics, Stickles, foam tape, EK corner rounder.

Super cute Ruby

I think Ruby is my favorite of the new Sprouts over at TGF. She kinda reminds me of my dear friend Josie. Their hair is similar, their style is similar, and sometimes Josie gives that slight grin that makes you wonder what she's thinking. Which is why I think I'll give her this card for her birthday next month.

The layout of this card is based on this sketch by Pam over at CA&F for the Sketchy Saturdays challenge. Again, another card with an oval. Think I need to invest in some oval Nesties.... but until then, using Ruby's shape as the oval had to do. This is one of my top 5 favorite cards I've made in the last few months. I love everything about it and I'm so happy with how it turned out.

Materials

Stamps: TGF-Ruby, CTMH-Say It In Style

Paper: Sassafrass Lass dp, CTMH hollyhock dp and colonial white cs

Other: CTMH inks, brads and sunflower waxy flax. Copics, PTI buttons, misc. ribbon, foam tape

January Card Class

Here are the cards we're making at Card Class today. The first two use the NEW Veranda paper (my favorite) and yes, that "Love Birds" stamps set again. Also used the Felicity stamp set that is part of the promotional kit for National Papercrafting Month.

I thought having a more masculine birthday card might be in order. I always tend to design girly cards, and since there ARE men in the world still it might be nice to make something for them every once and a while too. So on this first card, I used the Felicity set in a "manly" way. The main image is a stamp designed to be used as a bird like in my last card, but I thought if I just don't ink up the beak, then it looks like a paisley. That paired with the cool argyle stamp from the same set as well as the cocoa side of this dp, and everything is set for a dude's birthday card.


Told ya you'd be seeing this Love Birds ss again! It's just too cute not to! Same idea with the stamping as in Wednesday's card as far as adding dimension to the bird cage and having the music flow out of the cage. The sentiment is so fun!


The third card also uses the paper from the Felicity kit and you might recognize it from a previous post. I didn't really feel like designing another card, so I just decided to use what I already had. ;)
Materials: All CTMH. Veranda L2pp, Felicity promo kit, Love Birds ss, Fringed Phrases ss, desert sand and bamboo cs. Cocoa, juniper, barn red, olive, hollyhock, and garden green inks. Juniper, buttercup and olive markers, hemp, basic button collection, Wishes card template.
Other: foam tape

Can it be?....

.....I did another Mojo card?! I know, I know. I can hardly believe it myself. When I saw this sketch over at the Mojo Monday blog, I totally fell in love with it's simplicity and usability (is that a word?). I know I'll definately be using it again.

Isn't this stamp so cute? This is one of the NEW sets from the CTMH Spring Idea Book called "Love Birds". The sentiment is darling, and I liked pairing it with the singing bird. You'll be seeing more of this set too. The paper I used for this card is a bargain bob from the $1 bin at Target. Set of 16 sheets of 5x7 Valentine paper. AND, I used my brand-new-yesterday EK crest border punch. LOVE IT! I've seen it used on quite a few blogs lately and fell in love. So excited when I saw it a JoAnn's yesterday, and at 40% off! :D

Materials

Stamps: CTMH Love Birds

Paper: Valentine paper-Target, CTMH cs

Other: CTMH inks, Crayola colored pencils, misc. ribbon, Kaiser rhinestones, Heidi Swapp felt flower and gel flower, EK crest border punch and corner rounder, foam tape.

From Dahlia, with love

I'm really happy how the coloring turned out with Dahlia on this one. Plus, it might sound weird to TGF lovers, but I think she actually tones down the boldness of this Lemonade paper. I almost forgot that I had the matching Lemonade buttons until I ran across them the other day cleaning up my craft room. Lol! Amazing how your craft room can look like it was hit by a tornado so quickly. ;)

Materials

Stamps: TGF Dahlia, CTMH Playful Flourishes and Say It In Style

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH cs

Other: CTMH inks and edge distresser, BG buttons, Stazon ink

Pretty in pink Dahlia

I don't color blonde hair that often, but after coloring this Dahlia I need to do it more often. I like how she turned out. More Sugared paper. You getting tired of it yet? ;)

Lazy football day today. I love just lounging around in my comfy clothes watching football and movies all day....maybe some crafting too. Such a hard life!

Materials:
Stamps: TGF Dahlia, CTMH Felicity and Say It In Style
Paper: BG Sugared, CTMH cs
Other: CTMH inks, Copics, Nestie, Kaiser gems, foam tape

"Hello" Lolli!

Another Lolli Anya card this time using some more Lemonade paper. Pretty much the same layout as yesterday too. I really need to buy a green Copic that matches that green better....

Materials

Stamps: TGF Lolli Anya, CTMH For Every Occasion

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH cs

Other: Copics, CTMH inks and embossing stylus, BG buttons

"Love"ly Lolli

Let the stretch of Valentine cards commence! You're going to be so sick of them soon. Lol! So here's some more of that Sugared paper. I'm totally loving my Noted Backgrounds from CTMH; adds just that right amount of umph.

Did I mention that I received my first consignment check from The Sweet Spot earlier this week?! Yay! So excited that my cards are selling! Lara says she has another check ready to mail. We might make the move to straight wholesale sale instead of consignment soon, with the exception of holiday cards. :)

Materials

Stamps: TGF Lolli Anya, CTMH Noted Backgrounds and Say It In Style

Paper: BG Sugared, CTMH cs

Other: Copics, CTMH inks, AC buttons, Nestie, Heidi Swapp chipboard heart, foam tape

Oops! Late post

I got my new Sprouts in the mail today!! Hence, the late post. Isn't Stella stinkin' adorable?! She was designed by my friend Amy Young. So talented that lady, I tell ya!

The layout for this card is inspired by a card by Robin at Club Anya & Friends. I found this old BG Sugared paper at that craft store in Wenatchee for only 20 cents a sheet! Yippee! The only problem is that it only has hearts printed on 1/4 of the page, so I used a stamp to add my own.

Off to finish making tacos. Yumm!! My fav! Have a great night!
P.S. GO TIDE!!

Materials
Stamps: TGF-Stella; CTMH Togetherness, Noted Backgrounds, and Say It In Style
Paper: CTMH cs and Bella dp, BG Sugared
Other: CTMH ribbon, inks, and paper piercer; Copics; foam tape

More Chibi

Here's a card using my last printed Shibuya. It also uses some of the last of my blog candy I got from Amy quite a while ago. Notice that the houndstooth stamp was my favorite lately? ;) Same with my new apron punch.

Now that the 12 Days of Sketches are over, I'll be able to share more of the cool new products and candy I've gotten recently. It's all sooo fun!

Materials
Stamps: TGF-Chibi Shibuya, CTMH Say it in Style, Noted Backgrounds, Notice the Details
Paper: Sassafrass Lass dp, CTMH cs
Other: CTMH inks, Copics, EK punches, Prima flowers, sparkles-Michaels

Chibi Chibi! Last of the 12 Days

Whew!! What a world wind of challenges! The 12 Days of Sketches challengs over at TGF officially ended Sunday night. It was a lot of fun, and lots of work to try and complete all 12 sketches.

Yay Chibi! So I've been stalling a bit on purchasing Chibis. At first I was kinda creeped out by their big buggy eyes, but after seeing them around blogland, they've really grown on me. Since I purchased some of the new release stamps over at TGF, I decided to buy 3 Chibis while I was there. Thank goodness they're digis so I could play right away!

I actually made three cards using this Chibi image, but these two used the final two sketches I had to complete for the challenge. Both of the sketches included an oval shape, and since I didn't have any oval die-cuts, I just used the shape of Chibi to mimic it. The first sketch is from Day 2 and the second is from Day 7. I'm so pleased with how both of these turned out. :)

Materials

Stamps: TGF-Chibi Shibuya digi. CTMH Playful Flourishes, Say It In Style, Notice the Details SOTM, Noted Backgrounds.

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH cs

Other: CTMH inks, black ribbon, and liquid glass; Copics; AC buttons and green ribbon; BG buttons; Heidi Swapp chipboard hearts; Stazon; foam tape.

I don't know about this one....

First of all....I was looking at all the entries in the TGF Gallery for the 12 Days challenge and noticed that I forgot to upload two cards. One got in on time, but the gallery was so overloaded with people scrambling to upload before the 8pm CST deadline that my last one got in a 8:01. :( I hope I'm not disqualified from the contest especially since that was the one I finished last week and put on my blog on the 1st.

Oh, well...just bummed me a little....now onto today's card.

I love this sketch from TGF's 12 Days of Sketches, and I had an idea, but when I put it all together I don't know if I really like it. The "disembodied" Anya head kinda creeps me out now I guess. Lol! This card also used Club Anya's hourly challenge from Friday for the 4pm hour which asked us to "sparkle". I had to angle the card to get the sparkle to show up.

***UPDATE*** I guess my card is good since it was chosen as the WINNER of this challenge over at Club Anya and Friends!! Yay! Thank you!

Materials

Stamps: TGF-Me Time Anya, CTMH-For Every Occasion and National Papercrafting ss

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH cs

Other: Copics, CTMH ribbon and inks, $1 bin sparkles, Gellyroll pen, Coluzzle

Triple challenge card

This card actually uses 3 TGF/CA challenges. The first is TGF's 12 Days of Sketches #12. Next is two of the hourly challenges from Club Anya from Friday's challenges. One is the 11am spot which called for "flower power", the other is the 7pm hour which called for using black & white with one other color. I always love using B&W with a pop of color. It's elegant an understated all at the same time.

Materials

Stamps: TGF-Dahlia

Paper: CTMH cs, Bo Bunny dp, MAMBI b/w dp, misc. dp

Other: Copics, Nestie, MM paper flowers, CTMH ink, CB folder, Heidi Swapp ribbon, $1 bin sparkles, foam tape, Sakura gel pens

Double challenge card

I hope this is legal....I'm using sketch #9 from TGF's 12 Days of Sketches and paired it with Club Anya's 10am spot of their hourly challenge today. Otherwise, I'm never going to get all these challenges finished! The 10am hour of CA's challenge called for sewing, so I used faux stitching since I don't have a machine.

Materials

Stamps: TGF-H/G snuggle, CTMH-Simple Stitches and Togetherness

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH cs

Other: CTMH inks, Nestie embossing die, Copics, EK punch, misc. ribbon, foam tape

Give me a 10!

First off....HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

#10 sketch that is! This is another card designed with TGF's 12 Days of Sketches, and yet another one where I just saw an image and knew it would fit with this sketch. It's been a while since I've played with this set. I had fun paper piecing the balloon.

Materials

Stamps: TGF-Fly Away, CTMH-sentiment

Paper: BG Lemonade, CTMH Jingle L2 and cs

Other: CTMH inks, ribbon and sanding kit, Copics, CB folder, EK punch, foam tape