MFT WSC #420 - Turtley Adore You

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Here is my second post for today (my first post is below this one). I created this card using "Too Cute Turtles" from My Favorite Things for this week's MFT Sketch Challenge. The bling at he bottom didn't photograph very well, but those are heart bling from Tim Holtz. the patterned paper is from Simple Stories. 

Here is the sketch:



Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

FMS #371 You are Paw-Some!

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I have a few cards to share today (separate posts) as I have been working on some challenges this week. My first card today is for this week's Freshly Made Sketches Challenge. For my card I chose to use a Gina K Designs Set - Liam And Liz . I die cut the cute image with my Scan N Cut and colored in in with Stampin Blends.

Here is the sketch:



Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs LJ

TMS #486 - Andreas Pick!

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** If you are looking for my Dueling Divas post, please scroll down - as I have two posts today :) 

It's Tuesday Morning Sketch time again and we are visiting the Design Team's favorite sketches from last year! This week we have Andrea's pick which has quite a few layers to play with! I used a stamp set from Taylored Expressions on my card. 

The sketch is right here if you would like to try it out and join us this week! 

January Duel - Encouragement

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** If you are looking for my Tuesday Morning Sketches card - please scroll up - I have two posts today :) 

Welcome to this month's Dueling Darlings Duel ~ Judy is our hostess this month and we have an "Encouragement" theme for this month. 

Here are the contents of the kit, some which are used on my card: 

Included in your kit:

Designer Papers: s e i "Field Notes"; DCWV "Copper Luxury"; echo park "Handmade Journaling"; and an unknown

Stamped Image: Paper Pretties "Flutterby" (girl and sentiment "Flutter your wings and fly; There She Goes "Spread your wings and fly" sentiment. Images have been stamped with Momento Black Tuxedo ink.

Embellishments: ribbon, twine, paper flowers and leaves, pearls, rhinestones and butterfly brad from various companies.

Thank you, Judy for such a fun kit! I will be sending this card off to someone soon that needs a little encouragement :) What a great theme! 

Thanks for Stopping By ~ Hugs LJ

Gina K Monthly Mix it Challenge

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I played with a few challenges tonight and I thought I would share what I came up with. 

The Gina K Designs Monthly Mix It Challenge for this month is "My Sentiments Exactly"  What it means for the challenge is to use a sentiment ONLY!  No stamped image or patterned paper image is to be used at all! 

I thought this would be very challenging for me - I LOVE patterned paper and using colored images on my card. Then I remembered I had Gina's  "A Very Merry Christmas" set - and I saw THIS sketch from the 52 Christmas Card Throwdown  and thought I would give it a try. The most challenging part was spritzing the ink on to the Gina K Luxury Heavy Weight Cardstock - took a few tries - as I tend to over spritz. 

Here is the sketch, I did a traditional A2 (5.5 X 4.25) sized card instead of a square card: 

thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~ LJ

TMS #485 - In Memory of Jessi

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Thank you for joining us today and Happy New Year!  This is when we usually kick off the new year featuring our favorite sketches of 2018.  But it is with great sadness to share that our former design team member, Jessi Fogan, passed away on December 27th.   So to honor Jessi we will be featuring one of her last sketches. Unfortunately I never got the chance to work with Jessi - as she was on the TMS DT before me. I'm positive that I was inspired by her, as I used to visit her blogs often and I participated in TMS sketches while she was on the Design Team.

My card for this week's sketch features images from Mama Elephant and patterned paper from Carta Bella. The image is colored in SU! Stampin Blends. Now that the holidays are over I'll be making more general themed cards (but you will see a Christmas card sprinkled in once in awhile!) 

Here is Jessi's sketch for you to try out. I hope you will join us this week! 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Hugs ~ LJ

FMS #369 - A is for Astronaut

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Today I want to share a card for a new swap I have joined in 2019 called the A to Z swap on Splitcoast Stampers (SCS). We start at the beginning of the year, and make two cards per month using the letters of the alphabet to pick our theme/subject! Also the 2 cards we create each month are sent to another participant, so in January I will receive 2 cards ("A" and "B") from Emily and I will send my two A & B Cards to another person! So it's kind of like a "Round Robin". At the end of the 2019 I will have an entire alphabet of cards from 12 other swappers. Since there are 26 letters there will be 2 months were we make and swap 3 "letter" cards.

Anyway - on to my card. I chose the word "Astronaut". so that I could use my cute space-themed set from Lawn Fawn and one of my favorite paper collections - Rocket Age from October Afternoon! I used this weeks' sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for inspiration (sketch below)

As always, thanks for stopping by! Hugs ~LJ