Thank You Nurse

Good evening, 

This is my challenge card for the 4/24 Potluck Friday Challenge over on StampTV. We were to make a card that was not square or rectangle. I wanted to make my girlfriend at work (who happens to be a nurse) a thank you card, just for being a good friend of mine. We eat lunch together and this week she started walking with me during lunches. Being a nurse, she's also saved me a *few* trips to the doctor's office with her great advice as well. 

So with that, I made her this oval shaped card using Nurse Feelgood.  The nurse image was stamped on Gina K 80 lb. Luxury White with  Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored with Prismacolor Markers. I popped the image up on dimensionals. The oval card was made with the nestablities dies. Melanie has a great tutorial on how to cut shaped cards with your Nestabilities.

Have a great evening!

Hugs, LJ

Monday Mojo Sketch 84

Good Evening! 

Here's my card for this week's Mojo Monday sketch using Rupa's newest Gina K Designs set "Guiding Light". I love the images in this set. 

I colored in the image with Prismacolor Markers. I got the lighter shading on the wood post by coloring over it a few times with the colorless blender marker. I'm still learning how to color but I think I am getting better. 

Thanks for looking! 

Hugs ~ LJ

Hello, I have two Gina K Release Challenge Cards to share today (hopefully the 3rd one will come later today). The first one above is for the Yummy Recipe Challenge (#2) which was to use one pattern DP, two ribbons, and three eyelets. I also used Friday's Taylored Expressions Sketch (TECC65) and flipped it on the side. The horse stamp is another image from her new set Out West (Gina K Designs). The card base is Gina's new Chocolate Kiss Luxury Cardstock. I LOOOVE this stuff! It's so nice and sturdy for card bases! 

My second card (below) is for Gina K Challenge #1 - Adorn Your Corner. I wanted to try to use two of Melanie's Gina K Sets (Wee Tees and Have A Cookie) for this card. I used Basic Grey Cupcake Paper & Basic Grey Cupcake Brads. This card originally was going to be for the recipe challenge (above) but I started pulling out more Basic Grey paper for it and could not use just one pattern. 

Have a great afternoon, it's a cloudy rainy damp sunday here, so I am going to get some spring cleaning and hopefully more stamping done the rest of the day. 

Hey There Cowboy!

Howdy! 

Hope ya'll are having a great weekend! It's been stormy/rainy all day here, so I've been playing with stamps and watching sports all day ~ it's been so nice to have a weekend with no plans for a change! 

Gina K has a new stamp illustrator, Theresa! Ya'll gotta go check her blog too to see what she's doing with her newest set Out West! It's an awsome set! Just last week, I was looking at some western-themed sets on another site, and then this set came out, I'm SO GLAD I waited! The sentiments and images are great! You can make a lot of masculine cards with this set! 

Anyhow, this is the first card I have made with this set, I made six of them for Kate's Western Themed Swap. I stamped the image with Memento Tuxedo Black on Gina K Luxury 80lb White Paper, then colored it in with Koh-I-Noor Pencils and Gina K OMS. The DSP is retired from SU (I can't find the catty it was in, I'll add the name of it later if I find it) My main colors used were Really Rust, Chocolate Chip, and Sage Shadow. I also used 5/8" Chocolate Gross Grain, and SU Hodgepodge Hardware. 

Have a super night! :) 

LJ

More Wee Tees

Here are a few more cards I made for the Gina K Release Party that was tonight on SCS (still going on) LOL! 

Gina K Sneak Peek Day Three

Hello! 

Here is another sneak peek from Melanie's new set "Little Tees" . This time I made a little baby shower announcement using the SU Love Notes Cards. The front of the card is above, the bottom of the card is below. the size of the card is 3.75" X 2.75". I think I will be making a few more of these to hand out to family & friends.  The little onesie image was stamped with Stazon Timber Brown on Pink Pirouette and cut out. I then stamped the image again on DP and cut out the individual pieces and layered on top of the Pink Pirouette image. I colored in the "hems" with Close To Cocoa SU Marker. 

Thanks for looking! 

Hugs ~ LJ

REMINDER:

Don't forget to come join this week's Gina K Designs Release Party on SCS on Thursday evening from 7:00-10:00 CST! In addition to this must-have set, there are oodles of other sets that are being released this month! You will want to stop in and see the sneak peeks for those too! 

Gina K Sneak Peek ~ Day Two

Here is another sneak peek @ Melanie's Wee-Tees! Isn't the choo-choo train adorable? The onesie image was stamped on 80lb Gina K Luxury White, as well as the Train/sentiment with Memento Tuxedo Black. I then sponged over the image with Bashful Blue ink, colored in the train and "hems" with SU Markers, and cut the image out.  I thought the sponging would work well, how often to you see a perfect colored tee in a baby drawer? They wear them so often they just fade out! LOL! The oval layers were created with Nestabilities (Petite Ovals/Scallops). The "You're 2" sentiment was stamped in Night of Navy. The word "You're" is from one of Melanie's other sets "Tee Talk".

I'll be back tomorrow with another project (and more of my little niece Tavi!). 

Hugs ~ LJ

REMINDER:

Don't forget to come join this week's Gina K Designs Release Party on SCS on Thursday evening from 7:00-10:00 CST! In addition to this must-have set, there are oodles of other sets that are being released this month! You will want to stop in and see the sneak peeks for those too! I know I will be there checking it out!