A Couple of Sketches

Happy Friday!

Sorry I didn't share a creation yesterday, my son stayed home sick from school and was diagnosed with Strep again and so all my plans went right out the window! He's feeling better today, but boy and am I happy it's FRIDAY! What a week! Very much looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow I'm heading out with the girls to a local scrap book convention. Hopefully we'll find lots of great deals!

Stamp Something

I have two cards to share today. First is my Stamp Something card which is also a birthday card for my hubby. His birthday was yesterday and you should have seen the cake I made....I can handle making cards just fine, but cakes, not so much! It tasted much better than it looked!

Our challenge at SS this week is a sketch created by yours truly. You can flip it, rotate it, and embellish it however you like, but please make sure we can still see the sketch on your creation. Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp and we have a $20 gift certificate for one lucky player!

For my card I went with some fun and funky Lime Rickey BG papers and aqua and navy card stock. The image is Gift Horse from the Whimsy Stamps Digital Collection and it's been colored with Copics. I've stitched all the paper edges on the sewing machine and then embellished with buttons, hemp twine, a piece of ribbon, and some brads. The sentiment is from Snippet Set 1 available at Whimsy Stamps.

This card also fits the challenges at:
Creative Cottage: Circles (I have buttons and brads)
Stamptacular Sunday: Sew Special
Sundays with Crissy: Dots (I have dots on the paper and I doodled dots on the happy birthday sentiment)
Cute Card Thursday: Make Your Own (I made my own paper with a birthday stamp)

Just Magnolia

Next, I have my card for Just Magnolia and this week we also have a sketch challenge for you. Our super talented Bev has created this sketch and I know you will have fun using it! As always, please use a Magnolia image when playing along. And, just a friendly reminder that your creation must be NEW and it must include our challenge theme/sketch to be eligible for prizes. 

I recently ordered a few new Magnolia stamps and to my delight and surprise they arrived on Tuesday, so I just had to ink one up for this challenge. This is Tilda Blowing Bubbles! I used some MME papers and stamped on some postmarks from the Whimsy Circle Postmarks set. The edges have been stitched on the sewing machine. The card stock is chocolate and sky from SU!. I've embellished with lace ribbons, gardenia and cherry blossom flowers, and some Stickles.

This card also fits the challenges at:
Deb's Creations: Girlie Cards
Charisma Cardz: Girly with Flowers
Lili of the Valley: Summer Themed Cards

Thanks for dropping by today. I hope you have a wonderful weekend!

Happy Stamping,