Tuesday Morning Sketchs #696

 

Sketch Link: Tuesday Morning Sketches: Tuesday Morning Sketches #696

Stamps: Nature's Prints (Stampin Up) 

CCL - Halloween Humor!

 

 

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It's the 15th of hte month so it's time for another Classy Card Ladies challenge! This month Darlene and I are hostesses and we decided on a a humor theme. Since it's October, I also went with a halloween themed kit for Barb, Suzy, Carol and Kelly to play with! 

The sentiment is "I know the voices aren't real, but they have some great ideas"  Ha ha I love that one. The sentiment and cat image are from CMS 407 Snarky Cat Halloween by Tim Holtz. I believe it is a 2020 release (TH never retires his stamps by the way) I sent a variety of sentiments with the cat image so I am curious to see what everyone else will pick! 

Also I used hte sketch for this week's Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge so I iwll be entering this card in that challenge! 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

CCL - August - Howdy!

 

Howdy Ya'll! 

Our them this month for the Classy Card Ladies is "Wild, Wild, West". Suzy has sent us (the diamonds) a western themed kit. Which I totally love :) The Cowboy Cat image is from The Graphic Word. I used my own sentiment (MFT). I colored the image with my Stampin Blend Markers (SU) and used a number of dies from Taylored Expressions. The enamel dots in the upper left hand corner are from Gina Marie.

Since I have been travelling the last 10 days I have not been able to check out what the rest of the ladies have created. That will be on my to-do list this weekend as I relax and get ready to go back to work on Monday. :) 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

CCL - On Cloud 9

 

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It's the 15th of the month so it's time for another Classy Card Ladies Duel! Kelly is our hostess this month and she set us a bright and cheery card kit with a sweet little girl from CC Designs. When I first saw the cloud frame die from Scrappy Tales, I immediately thought it would be perfect for a shaker card. I really don't remember the last time I made a shaker card, or how I made one so I kind of "winged" it :) I didn't have acetate which is what I guess is normally used for shaker cards, but I had some page protectors so I trimmed one of those down. The sweet girl image was colored with Stampin Blends. 

I honestly haven't looked at clouds for random shapes in a number of years. I did especially when I was younger. I am a bit of a weather geek so I get a little excited when a wall or shelf cloud rolls in ahead of a thunderstorm. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Sunday Stamps #260

 

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Another day another sketch challenge! I tend to do these in spurts. I recently came across the Sunday Stamps Challenge Blog and I really liked this sketch so I decided to give it a try using Everything is Rosy (retired) from Stampin Up! I can always use more Birthday cards! 

Here is the sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #612 - Land of the Free Because of the Brave

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Thought I would get out the "Celebrate America" 12X12 collection from Echo Park that I have and make a few 4th of July cards. I can't believe June is almost over already! 

I used the new Tuesday Morning Sketch (#612) with this card. 

Thanks for stopping by  ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Classy Card Ladies - Fun In the Sun!

 

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June is our "break" month from Classy Card Ladies. So why am I posting on the 15th? Well because our sweet Kelly decided to send us all the same kit this month to play with. Here are the details: 

I live in Miami and we are all about the beach and tropics and a popular saying here, as well as stickers on nearly every car, is #SaltLife! I looked through my stash and saw this ‘roaming gnome’ ready for summer and bought the matching paper for us to use. The rest is all from my stash.

Image: Photo Play Tulla and Norbert's Excellent Adventure Collection and matching paper collection and stamped onto #110 Recollections with Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.

Embellishments are from my stash: Altenew enamel dots, prima flower, brads are Making Memories, etc\ Ribbons: Hobby Lobby, misc brands

I had a lot of fun playing with this colorful kit and I am sure everyone else did too! I colored the main image with my Stampin Blends die cut it with Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles, then used a stitched tag die from Paper Rose. I absolutely love these tag dies. I punched out the sentiment with a circle punch then layerd it up 2 more times on some matching cardstock from my stash. I finished it up with some enamel dots and twine that Kelly included in the kit

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

Classy Card Ladies - May 2021

 Hello ~ 

It's well pass the 15th of the month, but here is my card for this month's Classy Card Ladies Card Kit. This month Carol and Shelly are hostesses and we are going to the chapel to get married.........No not really! Ha ha! the theme was based on this video: 

Going to the Chapel

This song didn't remind me of a wedding per se, but two of my favorite movies happen to be wedding related, The Wedding Singer & My Best Friend's Wedding. 👰

The image is from Coloardo Craft Company. I colored it with Stampin blends. Carol also sent a wonderful assortment of patterned and specialty papers, most were longer and narrow so I decided to make a slim-line card. The bling is one continuous adhesive strip. So so pretty. Carol always has the most prettiest gems to share!  

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Hugs ~ LJ

FMS #481 Just a Little Note

 

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Back with another challenge card - this is for Freshly Made Sketches #481. I have quite a few scraps left yet from the Pretty Petals 6X6 DSP Stack from Stampin Up so I used some of those up on my card. The sentiment is from Stampin Up! (Lots of Heart) which is the current Occasions Mini Catalog. The punched butterfly is an old Martha Stewart punch. 

Here is the sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #601 - Howdy Friend

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Another day another card :) I made this card for the most recent Tuesday Morning Sketch Challenge. Andrea always comes up with fun sketches and this one does not disappoint! I am not one normally for slim cards - but I am really happy with this cute cowgirl card! Images and sentiment are from My Favorite Things, Patterned paper & die-cuts are from October Afternoon (Sasparilla collection- retired) 

Here is the sketch:

Thanks for stopping by! Hugs !~ LJ

Classy Card Ladies - Tuesday Morning Sketches # 592

Hello hello! It's once again the 15th of the month And this month Darlene and I are hostesses for the Diamonds and the Pearls. I am a Diamond and Darlene is a Pearl. As we looked through the prior list of challenges, we (well, Darlene) realized we have not done a sketch challenge! 

Since sketch challenges are right up my alley, I am super excited about this challenge! I emailed my friend Melissa, owner of the Tuesday Morning Sketches Challenge! You may remember I used to be a Design Team (member) for TMS! She graciously gave us permission to use one of her sketches for this month's challenge and I chose sketch #592 (you can find the link below) 

I kept my card simple, using the images, paper and some of the enamel dots. I colored the flowers with my Stampin Blend Markers (Light & Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Pumpkin Pie, Light Cajun Craze and Light Old Olive). I colored part of the sentiment with Light Pumpkin Pie. 

All of the card kit details can be found below. Now there is a surprise. while everyone is getting images from the same stamp set, using the same sketch and other supplies, there is one noticeable difference with each card! I hope everyone can find it!  

Sketch: Tuesday Morning Sketches: Tuesday Morning Sketches #592 (this is a sketch from last year and was a favorite for 2021 - #592 is the favorite sketch)
Stamps: Tim Holtz (new 2021 spring collection) - Stamped with GIna K Amalgam Back Ink on Neenah Solar White Cardstock
Paper: Origins (Basic Grey 6X6 pad)
Ribbon: Stampin Up
Twine: JoAnn Crafts
Other Embellishments: From my stash

Can't wait to see what everyone created! thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

Paper Players #534

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I have two cards today to share using the current Paper Players Sketch Challenge

I used more of the Echo Park Welcome Easter Collection

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ! LJ

 

TMS #598 - Hoppy Easter

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I'm digging into my stash of new Easter supplies and thought I would enter a few challenges. This card was made for Tuesday Morning Sketch #598. My card uses patterned paper and die cuts from the Welcome Easter collection from Echo Park. 

Another couple of cards are coming tomorrow :) 

Thanks for stopping by ! LJ

Class Card Ladies (March)

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It's the 15th of the month so of course it's time for another Classy Card Ladies card! This month's kit comes from Barb in wonderful Waukesha, Wisconsin. The theme is butterflies and I love the kit she sent! The image and sentiment is from Tim Holtz. Patterned papers are Stampin Up (retired) I also used some of the ribbon and pearls Barb Sent with the kit. I colored the image with my Stampin Blend Markers (Stampin Up) 

Can't wait to see what everyone else has created! Hugs - LJ 

Looking Sharp Today!

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It's the 15th of the month so of course it's time for another Classy Card Ladies card! This month's kit comes from Suzy in Texas. The cactus image is from Dead Beat Designs and the sentiment is from Texana Designs, I colored the image with my Stampin Blend Markers. 

Can't wait to see what everyone else has created! Hugs - LJ

Freshly Made Sketches # 472

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Decided to play along with the latest Freshly Made Sketches Challenge I kept  my card very clean and simple using a sentiment from the Happy Thoughts Stampin! Up Set, Flower and Field Designer Series Paper (DSP) from Stampin Up & some Rhinestone Basic Jewels (also SU). My card base is Soft Sky. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ 

Classy Card Ladies!

 

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Welcome to the inaugural Classy Card Ladies Card Kit Challenge! You may remember that I used be in the Dueling Divas Group Card Kit Challenge - that group went on for TEN years! Crazy! As times change, so do we (kind of)! We decided to turn a new leaf for 2020 and start fresh with a new challenge group. We lost a few members (they are fine - just not crafting with us anymore) but the rest of us are still here & ready to go. For our new group we have the Diamonds and the Pearls! I am a Diamond with Barb, Carol, Kelly, and Suzy. The Pearls are Darlene, Deb, Jeanette, Shelly and Tracie. 

This month's kit to kick it off comes form Kelly! I had so much fun with these cute animals making snow angels! The stamps are from Gerda Steiner Designs & the set name is Snow Angel. Kelly also sent some fantastic patterned paper, and some glistening embellishments!  

I can't wait to see what the other Classy Card Ladies have created this month! 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

                           

TMS #587 - Enjoy Today

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Popping in with my card for Tuesday Morning Sketches #587, I used Good Morning Magnolia from Stampin Up. 

Here is the sketch: 

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ~ LJ

FMS #466 - Thanks

 

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I guess you could say I am getting a good head start on on my new years' resolution which is to pick up blogging again 😃 Today I have a card for Freshly Made Sketches Challenge #466. For this sketched I used Sailing Home from Stampin Up! 

Here is the sketch (the challenge is open until January 4th 2021): 

Terry's Monthly Swap - Use Your Words

 

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It\s me again ~ posting two days in a row. 😀

This a card I created for Terry's monthly swap. I made 6 of these. The stamps are from Gina K Designs. I think most of the stamps I used are about to retire or are on her retiring list. Any way the theme is use your words, the words need to be a focal point. This Hello stamp is one of my favorites. I stamped it along with the butterfly in Plum Punch & the leaves and smaller sentiment are stamped in Fresh Asparagus. 

Thanks for stopping by - Hugs ~ LJ