TMS #501 - And a Winner! (applause!)

Hello Hello - It's Tuesday Morning Sketch time, but first - I would like to announce the winner of my blog hop candy from sketch #500! I used Random.Org to generate a random number between 1 and 23 - Our winner is #15 - Heather!  You can see Heather's card HERE  on her blog! 

Heather ~ Please email me at LJNygaard "at" att.net with your mailing address so I can get your prize out to you! Thanks and Congratulations!

Okay - on to this week's sketch......we cant's top at 500 :) I flipped this sketch a bit (actually by accident - but it works).......

Here is this week's sketch, we would love to have you play along with us on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog!

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs LJ

Challenge Your Stash - Up Up and Away!

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Quick share tonight of a card I made for a Challenge Your Stash challenge group on Splitcoast Stampers. The focus of this challenge is to create a card using a certain theme (picked out by someone in the group) using only supplies from your current stash (no shopping is allowed)

Our challenge this month was to use the color orange and a button. I knew I wanted to pull out my World Fair 8X8 pad from Graphic 45. I love the darker oranges in this collection. The stamp and sentiment is from a retired MFT set - Up Up & Away.

Thanks for stopping by  ~ Hugs  ~ LJ

TMS #500 is here!!!

Hello!  Thank you for celebrating with us at Tuesday Morning Sketches. This is our 500th sketch challenge and it is quite a milestone!  We're so excited about this accomplishment that we decided to have a blog hop.  Be sure to start (and end) with Tuesday Morning Sketches blog.

I'm LJ and I've been on the Tuesday Morning Sketches team for about 4 months. So I am one of the Design Team "newbies" but I have been a TMS follower and participant since the early days! I'm so happy to be here playing along with TMS #500!   Our sketch this week is a little challenging at first glance, but really it's super easy and open to so much possibility with stamps, dies and borders.  Here's my card and it features a beautiful floral set from Pink & Main. I actually won this set from a TMS Challenge a few months before I joined the DT! So I think it's so fitting I was able to use this set for Sketch #500 by just flipping the sketch!

The prize I am offering is....a border die and a Sack It Crab die from Taylored Expressions!

Be sure to comment here and link up your creation on the TMS blog to be considered for prizes.  Yes!  You can win here on my blog and the TMS blog. Just leave me some love here too (much appreciated ~ I do read every one!

The next stop on the blog hop is...  Lori

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #499 - Celebrate

Hello Hello! 

Welcome to Tuesday Morning Sketches #499  - which means #500 is right around the corner! Yay! We have some special things up our sleeves for Sketch #500 for you, but until then we have a lovely sketch from Melissa for Sketch #499. I chose to make a bright and cheery spring card using some flower images and dies from Gina K Designs! The sentiment is from a retired Stampin Up Set. Patterned paper is from October Afternoon. 

Here is this week's sketch:

As always - there is fantastic inspiration from the rest of the TMS Design Team - their blog links are on the right side of my blog -------->

Thanks for stopping by  ~  Hugs  ~ LJ

Monthly Duel - Out of This world!

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It's the 15th of the month so it's time to have another Dueling Darlings Duel! Terry S is the hostess of the Dazzlers and I am the hostess of the Divas this month! We chose a theme of "Out of this World". 

I sent the Divas the following kit contents and I can't wait to see what they make: 

Stamps: Rocket Age (October Afternoon)
Patterned Paper: Doodle Bug Designs

Accessories: Red, Blue, Yellow Ribbon, silver stars (Tim Holtz), gemstones (Michaels), buttons (stampin up) 

I decorated the inside of my card too (sorry for the shadows) 

Thanks for stopping by today! Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #498

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Welcome to Tuesday Morning Sketches #498 - There are a lot of fun elements to this sketch.
Once again, I mixed and matched leftovers I received from past card kits I received from swaps!

Here is this week's sketch:

Hope you will find time to join us! Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #497 - Blessed Easter

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It's time for another Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge!  I am so in love with Debbie's sketch this week. Butterflies make me think of spring! 

My card features Mini Detailed Butterflies from Tim Holtz & a sentiment from the Easter Blessings stamp set from Taylored Expressions . These butterflies are amazingly so intricate in pretty. I was so excited to find them at Hobby Lobby about a month ago! 

Here is the sketch if you would like to play along! 

Hugs ~ LJ