Sketch Challenge!

HAPPY TUESDAY!  Have you ever needed a little 'PUSH' to get you started doing something?  I know I have!  And with card-making, starting with a sketch (also known as a layout) really does get me moving in the right direction.  I can look at the sketch and decide whether or not I should use a round focal image, or a tall one, then I look at the design and imagine what papers would look good together with the focal image I picked out already... Eventually, I get to this.................

This week 'A Crafty Little Place' has provided the first step for you!  A very easy peasy sketch to get your juices flowing!!!  I used some beautiful paper by Cosmo Cricket called Mittle Weather, available now at Die Cuts R Us!!  Isn't is all pretty in purple and snowflake shapes??  I love this!  I used Maree Truelove's Wreath for my card, along with a sentiment stamp from Stampin' Up!  And no card is finished unless it has some crinkled seam binding ribbon from Prairie Bird Boutique!  Tell Patsy I sent ya!  You get 15 yards (5 yards each of three different colors) for just $5.00!!!!!!  SUCH a deal and she's so fast, too! 

Pop on over to ACLP and play along this week using the sketch below!  You can tweak it just like I did, too, it doesn't have to be exact, it's just for inspiration!  Be sure to check out all of the creations by the ACLP designers using this sketch and these Mitten Weather papers over at "A Crafty Little Place" now!

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

A Sketch Challenge!

Patterned Paper: Die Cuts with a View Whimsy line

Stamps: So Random Up & Down Sentiment, Puddlejumpers Birthday Lily 

Buttons: Nook & Pantry buttons

Copic coloring

 This week's challenge at 'A Crafty Little Place' is a sketch challenge!! 

 

My card is based on a sketch by Lori Boyd this week!  The papers are one of my favorite sets from Die Cuts with a View, the WHIMSY line!  Such pretty muted colors from the entrire rainbow!  The papers and images can be found in the DIE CUTS R US STORE!!  Isn't that Birthday Lily cute??  There are a handful of new images that are just to die for in the DCRU store!  Go check them out HERE!

Be sure to play along with the sketch challenge this week!  You could just be in our Top 3 or even our WINNER!!  Here's what you will win!  A wonderful array of ribbons from My Mind's Eye!! LOVE these!! 

Hope to see you there!!

SSDS Sketch Challenge: Win WHIMSY!!

Here's my card for today's Stamp, Scrap & Doodle Saturdays challenge (PLAY ALONG!! you could win any stamps from WHIMSY STAMPS, including Melissa's images from her line "MELJEN'S Designs", which is what I used here on my card!!)  It's a sketch challenge!  I would love to see you all use this sketch from SSDS, it's a good one!!

OH, AND this is my first attempt at Prisma pencil colors with gamsol, etc.  It made it look soft and sloppy a little, a different texture for me, not COPIC!  I KNOW SHOCK SHOCK!!  Papers are by Die Cuts with a View, the Amber Autumn Fall Collections stack! 

ADORABLE papers, AND LOOK AT THAT RIBBON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Patsy from Prairie Bird Boutique sent me this extra hand-dyed ribbon in my order, isn't it to DIE FOR? OH MY GOSH!! Oh, and don't forget that I am going to be giving away a bundle of 15 yards of her ribbon here on my blog!!  See the details on that on SUNDAY!!!! YEP, tomorrow!! 

I'm gonna give this card to my Isaac's kindergarten teacher on Friday when he heads to school for his first day!!!!! She deserves more than a card, so I may just gift her some chocolates with this, too!!  Be sure to play along with this week's sketch challenge at SSDS HERE and see some cute cards using some images available from Whimsy Stamps, including Meljen's Designs images!!!!

Have a SUPAH SATURDAY!

But I need it....

HI there!  Sorry, I have been a little MIA lately.  I had to send my oldest son back to college for his 2nd year and it was hard!  I don't know what was wrong with me, I didn't even get this upset last year for his FIRST year of college!  Well, I scooted him out today and he's fine, so I think I will live! HA!

I first want to apologize or the crappy picture of this card!  If you are a regular reader you may remember me saying that my camera takes pictures of the color red/rust/coral HORRIBLE.  Well, here above is a FINE example of that fact!!!!!!!!  Believe it or not, but the lighter of the two colors of cardstock on my card is seriously the SAME color as the pearls!!!!!  YEP, a pinky coral!  I think his picture warrants a NEW CAMERA!!!!!!

Well, please look past the horrible color combo as it appears and think coral, burgundy, ruby red, ok?  I used this adorable DIGI PAPER by Amber Ink. that you can see HERE in the store!  I love the fact that for $1.00 you have a never ending supply of this paper!  Just simply PRINT it over and over as needed and you will have all the paper you need!  COOL right?

The sassy image is also by Amber Ink. called 'But I Need it' digi set.  For $7.00 you can use this over and over and always have a perfectly stamped image, since it is digital!  NO smearing here!! HEEHEE!  Check out this set and all of the images it comes with HERE at the store!

I used yesterday's SplitCoast Stampers SKETCH CHALLENGE SC293 for this card!  I love this layout, it's a good one!  The pearls are by Kaiser Scrapbook and the ribbon is by Stampin' Up!  Maybe I will re-take a picture of this card outside so you can see the real colors of this card!  It is actually quite stunning, not meaning to sound braggy, of course!!

Be sure to check back again later, I will have another post for you today!

TTFN! (TaTaForNow!)

New Releases and a SKETCH CHALLENGE!!

HOWDY MY PEEPS!  Here's another 'NEW RELEASE THURSDAY' featuring FIVE newbie digis by Melissa, fabuloso owner of Meljen's Designs!!  My card above is using 'Sunflower's Friend', just released a week ago!  I just had to use it! 

Without further ado....... Here's the newbie digis below.....

AND.... NOW see the new SKETCH Challenge facing you this week below..........

CLICK HERE to find out how to play to be entered into the chance to win THREE freebie digis by Meljen's Designs!!  If you just can't wait, just go ahead and shop NOW at the store HERE!! 

ENJOY!!

Geisha!

HAPPY SATURDAYYY!!! 

Ok, seriously, is it almost the end of JUNE???? What is happening!??  These days just go by faster and faster as you get older, don't they!? 

I finally was able to color up this beautiful digi that has been sitting on my desk since forever!  I just love this WhimsieDoodles' Geisha Miyako Tea {see it HERE in the store} girl, she's lovely.  I love oriental anything, from decor to digis, the Asian influence is just beautiful!  I used Basic Grey papers, some chunky cherry blossom embellishments that I found at Walmart along with a new stamp sentiment from Stampin' Up! for this Thank You note. 

My daughter is going to send it to her BFF to say thanks for her birthday presents (a jewelry box and stuffed doggie she now sleeps with every night!)!!  KayLee loved this card, maybe she will appreciate asian influenced decor, too!  I have a busy busy busy week ahead, so I BETTER GIT GOIN'!

Enjoy your day!

Hunny Bunny

Happy Tuesday!  Cardabilities revealed their Sketch #5 today!  What a fun sketch this time, AS ALWAYS!  I used a Meljen's Designs image called HUNNY BUNNY for my card along with a sentiment in clear stamp form from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps that you can find HERE.

I also faced this week's SPARKLE/GLITTER/BLING challenge at Meljen's Designs with my card by adding some rhinestones in my flowers!  Papers are by My Mind's Eye, copics for coloring, flowers from Prima and ribbon from Hobby Lobby!

I hope to see you play at Cardabilities Sketch Challenge HERE and at Meljen's Designs blingy Challenge HERE! 

See you tomorrow!

Cardabilities No. 4 Release

CARDABILITIES released their latest sketch today!  As always, the 30th and 1st of each month reveals an awesome new sketch from Karan Gerber!  No. 4 {HERE} and below is a fun conglomeration of circles and squares and scallops!  And you know me, I LOVE my Nestibilities, so I was only EAGER to get to this one!

I used a newly released digi by SWEET 'N SASSY STAMPS called 'Anemone Flower' for my card!  And as you can see I switched up the center section and put it on an angle.  I had originally planned to follow the sketch, but then as I was putting it together it got knocked this way and I was like, "WOW, that's cool!!" ; It is sized just right for a 5 x7 envelope, too, and I didn't even plan it that way!  Don't you just LOVE happy accidents? 

I hope you face Challenge No. 4!

Enjoy you Sunday!

PollyCrafts and a Sketch Challenge

HAPPY SATURDAY!

Another awesome challenge is facing you over at Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays!  This week's challenge is a sketch that I offered Regina to use this time!  I always think it is so very cool when I see one of my sketches come to life in so many talented ways by artists and paper-crafters!  Please join us and enter to win a prize with this week's sponsor POLLY CRAFTS!  If you are lucky enough to win, you will get five freebie digis of your choice from their STORE HERE!!

Below I used their Patchwork Elephant, ain't he cute??  I have to say that I came up with the sketch weeks ago and just made my card YESTERDAY!  And it came together rather quickly, so it must be a half-decent sketch, right?? HA!  I used some great papers by My Mind's Eye along with some Prima and Kaiser Bling!  Copics for coloring, of course!  This card is a 5x7 size, so I added extra flowers to the sketch!  Let me know what you think!!

I hope you join us over at

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays!

A MANLY SKETCH!

WOW, we are just zipping through these challenges this week!  I don't know about you, but I LOVE a good challenge!  And this one surely didn't disappoint!  Today's card is a COMBO challenge!!  Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays' challenge this week is to make something MASCULINE!  Fresh Brewed Designs is sponsoring this challenge and has a prize for you to win!  So CLICK HERE to see those details and other Masculine creations by the SSDS Design Team! 

I also combined the Masculine challenge with the LATEST and GREATEST sketch from Cardabilities to make this birthday card for a boy!!  How's that for tackling the challenges??

I used a super cute image from Meljen's Designs to whip this one up!  Some really cute jungle inspired papers by Die Cuts with a View along with a Stampin' UP! sentiment make this one so fun for a boy to receive on his big day!  Be sure to join in on these challenges if you lose your mojo, I know it always helps me!!!

Come back tomorrow

for another NEWBIE!

Cardabilities #2!

CARDABILITIES has released their SECOND sketch challenge this morning!! WOOHOO!!  I loved working with this sketch because I am not a 'symetrical' kind of designer, I guess you could say.  What'cha think?

I used a MELJEN'S DESIGNS image called STUFFED ELEPHANT along with some papers by Die Cuts with a View to make this icky sweet baby card!  Ribbon is from Hobby Lobby and ironically the perfectly coordinated ribbon flowers are from Michael's wedding section!  I cut out the baby bottle and safety pin from other papers from this paper line.  I overlapped the aqua ribbon with silver metallic elastic twine by Stampin' UP!.

I can't wait to see what you make using this sketch!  Be sure to hook me up and link it to the Cardabilities Blog post HERE!

Enjoy your Friday!!!!!

These are the Copics I used in creating this card!

DOUBLE POST TODAY!

Thursdays are always so exciting here at GOTTA HAVE PAPER!!!!!!!  Not only do we have new digis to see each Thursday (see previous post) but you also get to see how to get some FREEBIE DIGIS from Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps!

Over at the PaperCraftPlanet forum {HERE} or over at the ScrapbookNews and Review forum {HERE} you will find the latest Sweet 'n Sassy Challenge posted!!  This week it is MOTHER'S DAY !  See the details on the links above at both forums! 

My card above is using a sentiment from one of the digi sets you can get FREE today if you play along by midnight eastern time!  I used this 'FORGET-ME-NOT' image for my focal and used the sentiment from the 'SPECIAL LADY' set below to pull it together.  This card is inspired by this weeks sketch challenge at THE SWEET STOP SKETCH BLOG.  I love Korin's sketches and try to play along each week, it is a fabulous sketch challenge blog!!  I used papers from Die Cuts with a View, Stampin' UP! ribbon and Michael's bling.  Border punch is from Fiskars.

If you don't have time today to join the challenge, no worries, you can still earn a cute COCOA 'De-LIGHT-ful' image FREE by making a Mother's Day inspired card sometime before next Thursday's challenge is posted!!

Here's another card that I made with my Mother-In-Law in mind.  She's a bit more on the clean and simple side and doesn't like things that are too fussy!  So, I used this paper by My Mind's Eye (Out and About line), added a silky ribbon and punched out the sentiment and corner punched the corners.  FAST and easy! 

Here's what you get if you tackle the challenge TODAY::

Or if you don't have time today, you will get this below if you join us before next Thursday::

I hope you hop on over to the forums to see other Mother's Day creations!  These are great ideas for cards and gifts for those moms in your life!

Enjoy your day!

Remember Raggedy Ann!?

Doesn't this image by Meljen's Designs remind you of Raggedy Ann??  I LOVED Raggedy Ann and Andy as a child, so as soon as I found out I was having a girl, I made sure I looked for these dolls for her room!  She has two sets of them AND they are handmade, so they are very special to us!  Check out MELJEN'S DESIGNS boy and girl dolls and other new digis {HERE} that were just released on Thursday, they are too cute!

Today's card is inspired by this week's color challenge at PICTURE PERFECT CREATIONS!  Challenge #10 is AWESOME!  I think I am going to leave out these colors for my next card, too!  LOVE the boldness of the red and yellow and the compliments of the celery and blue, too!  Beautiful!!

I also was inspired by this sketch below by STAMPING 411 challenge blog!  I have known of this sketch blog for awhile and HAD (NOTICE the PAST-TENSE!) this in my Challenge Blog BLOG ROLL, but I lost it when I switched my blog url back in February.  However, a new follower SELENE brought me to it!  AND I just love her CARD HERE, it is so crisp and clean and to see Christmas again was actually refreshing!!!  So, leave her a HELLO and check out her beautiful first Christmas card of the year, if you have time AND join in on the sketch, too!!

ENJOY YOUR MONDAY!!!

SO CUTE!

Good Afternoooooon!  I am so sorry for this late posting!!  I won't go into WHY this is so late, trust me, you don't want to know! HA!  But, my migraine and allergies are better now so I finally got the mojo to get back to the craft room today.  My card is featuring a cutie patootie image by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps called MILTON READING that you can find HERE in the SNSS store!

I based my card on this week's Card Positioning Systems sketch above along with some My Mind's Eye papers and Prima Flowers.  I got the cream pearl dots from Hobby Lobby, I think they are their store brand.

Don't forget to check out all of the new Digis at the Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps store!  Korin just added some really cute images; I can't wait to get to those!  OH, and be sure you come back tomorrow for another card based on the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays challenge!!  It's a really pretty one!

Enjoy your evening!

ANOTHER DEBUT!!!!

It's HAPPENED!!!

The HUGE DEBUT

of

CARDABILITIES!!!

AND

the next MELJEN Challenge has been posted, too!!!

Using Meljen's Designs TeaCup Mouse image HERE, and the Cardabilities sketch #1 BELOW, I pulled this gorgeous card together!  This card is a favorite of mine of late!  I LOVE IT!  This week's challenge at MELJEN'S DESIGNS is to use a 3-D element.  Well, I guess mine is more 2-D, but with all of the stitching, texture, bling, pop-dotting, I thought this qualified for the challenge!!!  Be sure to join in on the 3-D challenge HERE!  And when you are done, take some time to yourself and go shopping for some new Meljen's Designs Digis HERE!

HOP on over to the Cardabilities blog to see all of the gorgeous creations from the Design Team based on the sketch above!  You will be impressed, I know I am!  ANDDDD, I nearly forgot!  Share with us your take on the FIRST EVAH Cardabilities Sketch HERE!  We'd love to have you join us!

Blessings on your Day!!

PPC #8 and a Happy Birthday WISH!

HAPPY MONDAY, Everyone!!!! 

AND

A HAPPY 8th BIRTHDAY

TO

MY ELI!!!!!

I probably should have used LESS PINK and quite possibly CUPCAKE TURTLE today instead of this cute THANKFUL TURTLE by Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps, but I just loved this image and still could give it to Eli today for his birthday!  He's such a super kid and takes everything all in stride.  You see, he's just 3' 10" and 42 lbs or so, quite small for his 8 year age (actually, the smallest in his grade).  But, I am thankful to him for the fact that he doesn't let kids teasing bother him.  He KNOWS he is powerful, eventhough he is a bit smaller than the rest!  HE IS AN AWESOME BOY!!

This is Eli on the right with his tooth barely hanging in there at top! LOL!  KayLee will be 7 on Mother's Day and Isaac just turned five last Wednesday... I guess you can see I have little kids, but aren't they the cutest??

I used this week's COLOR CHALLENGE at Picture Perfect Creations AND this week's Sketch Challenge from the SWEET STOP Sketch Blog {HERE} for my card today!!  WOW, what a shocker of a card, am I right?? That Melon Mambo IS eye-catching!! LOVE IT!  If you play along with this color challenge HERE, you will be entered to win this week's prize, as follows:

12 - 6x6 Raspberry Tart DSP (double-sided, SU Retired)

10 - 6x6 Sheets of Real Red,

Rose Red,

Cameo Coral,

Pretty in Pink,

Kiwi Kiss (SU Retired) (2 of each color)

1 yard - 3/8" Kiwi Kiss/Very Vanilla Satin Ribbon (SU Retired)

1 yard - 1/4" Real Red Grosgrain Ribbon

 

HOP on over to see all of the GORGEOUS creations that the BRAND NEW design team whipped up for your inspiration at the Picture Perfect Creations Challenge BLOG, you will just want to run to your craft space and join in on the challenge, I AM SURE!!!  

 

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

These are the Copics I used in creating this card!

And this is the Sketch that inspired my card today!

Unscripted!

Following this week's UNSCRIPTED SKETCHES, I used Whimsie Doodles' Swing Leah with some Lime Rickey Basic Grey papers to make this bright and cheerful card!  Get ya some rubber and digital WHIMSIE DOODLES HERE!

Back tomorrow!

What's he reading????

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!!!!  Can you believe that March is almost wrapped up!?  GOSH!  At least it is feeling more like SPRING instead of winter!  I don't know about you, but I am happy to see stamps and papers that look warm and springy with flowers and critters!! Those snowmen were getting to me!  I actually started thinking that one had come alive on my desk a few weeks ago! LOL!!!!!  JUST KIDDING!

I am excited to post today's card because this is my first EVAH Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays challenge card!  This week's challenge is a sketch Challenge:::

  

 This sketch had me stumped with those triple lines and something in EVERY corner.  I am not a very symetrical person, so this was... well... A CHALLENGE!  {Probably why they call it that, huh?!! LOL!!}  My card is using papers by Basic Grey, flowers by Prima, rhinestones from Michael's and a LOVELY image called MUSHROOM MOUSE by MELJEN DESIGNS that you can purchase {HERE} in Melissa's store... Doesn't it make you wonder what he is reading!?  He looks kinda excited! HEEHEE!

Hop on over to the SSDS Challenge BLOG HERE and see all of the creations inspired by this sketch from the Designers!  This week there is also a challenge 'sponsor' and you have a chance to win some freebie images from Sunshine's Stamps if you join in on the sketch challenge!  HOPE YOU DO!!

Enjoy your SPRINGY DAY!!

What is Today?

GOOD MORNING!! (I can still say that, since it isn't noon yet!LOL!)  Today is another Sweet 'n Sassy Stamps DIGI day over at the SNR GROUP HERE!  There's a challenge to be faced, and if you do, you get a freebie digi!!  And there's more, but I will let you read about the details HERE!

My card is using the Birthday Cake Cocoa image HERE and the sentiment is from the Sweet Birthday Wishes set HERE!  The sketch is from yesterday's SplitCoastStampers sketch challenge SC273, so I will have to go add it to their gallery next!  OH!!  The papers are by My Mind's Eye, ribbon from SUP, circles from Spellbinders Nestibilities and the COPICS I used to color the image in are featured below!  I hope you head on over to the SNR group for some chatter and inspiration! 

ENJOY YOUR DAY!

Whimsie Doodles latest PCP Challenge!

HAPPY HUMPDAY!!!!!!  There's been a ton of excitement going on lately, so I have been a bit scatterbrained!  My kids are home for Spring Break right now and that doesn't give me a break, as I am sure you can assume!  BUT, finally I am featuring my Whimsie Doodles PCP challenge card for this week!

This week we are to use the sketch below and a Whimsie Doodles image (of course!!!) to inspire us to make a fabuloso card!  Well, I LOVVVVE these new papers I picked up at Hobby Lobby by My Mind's Eye!  Although you can't tell the papers are all embossed with glitter!! They give quite a shimmer! LOVE THAT!

I used this cute BabyBear image and a sentiment on the inside!  You can purchase both of these HERE!  I love digis!  I made this sentiment HUGE to fill up the inside of the card!  I think this makes the card EXTRA special! 

Join me over at PaperCraftPlanet HERE at the WhimsieDoodles Forum!  You can chat with the WD fans, design team and even Melyssa, the owner of WhimsieDoodles, herself!

INSIDE:

Here's the sketch to follow!

Come back tomorrow for another cutie patootie card!