Shabby 4 Patch Vintage Roses

Hello everyone! Happy Friday!
Today I wanted to get a card made for a couple of challenges. I wanted to play in the Shabby Tea Room challenge, which was an inspiration challenge about the comforts of home. I also wanted to honor Carol over on SCS who was today's Queen for the Day. I chose this card of hers to case. I used her basic layout, omitted the sentiment and replaced it with this floral swag. I used this card of Carol's to get my vintage inspiration.

I used my Layers of Color Art Stamps set, Vintage Roses for this card. I stamped with Memento and colored with Copics. I also sponged heavily with distress inks. I used a Sizzix embossing folder for the chocolate layer, as it reminded me of the stitching I do between squares on a quilt. The base is Bazzill, the DP is a combination of K&Co and The Paper Studio. I sewed the 4 patches on and popped up the image.

I hope you like my homey quilt. Wrapping up in a quilt is like a big hug!!!

Be sure to check back on tomorrow morning, when we will have the Our Daily Bread designs May release Blog Hop! Starts at 8am eastern!!! See you then!

Layers of Color Flowering Gemstones

Hello everyone!
I hope your week is going well! Today I have something different to show you. Beverly at Terryfic Times gave me this green die cut that she had cut at her store, and asked me to see what I could do with it. I ended up bending the cut circles backwards and stitching through each one to "tack" them down, adding a bead to each space. I paired it with these two shades of blue/aqua card stock from my stash, and decided that my Layers of Color "Flowering Gemstones" would look good with this layout. I stamped with Memento and colored with Copics, and cut out. I pierced my corner treatments with my Ornare template which I also got at from Beverly, adding the small cut flowers to the piercing. I added gold microbeads to the centers of all the flowers. Different, right? It was fun and actually went quite quickly!

I am linking this card to the following challenges:

Sew many Cards - Anything Goes

One Stitch at a Time - Flowers
Daring Card Makers - Die Cuts

Thought for today: Is. 40:26 "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these things..."

I hope the rest of your week is filled with blessings, and that you have time to see them! Thanks for stopping!

MMSC51 Jer. 29:11

Hello everyone! Happy Tuesday! I am just getting settled back in after visiting family this weekend, and celebrating our Granddaughter's birthday. When I saw the Midnight Madness Sketch for this week I knew I had to play along.

This is a sneak peek at one of the new sets to be released May 1 by Our Daily Bread designs, "For the Graduate". Since this is one of my life verses, I had to use it and I know I will use it often! I also used the floral image from the "Mom" set to stamp lightly in VersaMark for the background, and then I rubbed with Sage Shadow chalk. I wanted this card to be more feminine, so I used these pretty designer papers from Websters Pages, a Spellbinder's Scalloped (made out of the backing from my pearls package), some pretty Sage ribbon woven through the frame, ZVA Creative Pearls, a Prima and bling. I also sewed a simple zig zag stitch around the card.

Jer. 29:11 is such a wonderful verse... great for the graduate, but also great for encouragement. God totally has our best interests in mind... He IS love, and His plans for us are good... and FOR our good. I hope you believe that today and find comfort in these words, no matter what circumstances you find yourself in.
I am entering this in the following challenges:

Sentimental Sunday Challenge
Sew Many cards: Anything goes
Creative Belli Challenge- Die Cuts (scalloped frame)
Your Next Stamp - Stitching
Pennys - Open week
Clearly I Stamp - All Tied Up - Lace & Ribbon
Crafty Pad- Recycle it (the frame is the backing from my ZVA Pearls)
Spoonful of Sugar- 3d- the ribbon is woven in and out of the frame, the flower is very 3-D, and pearls)
The Pink Elephant- aqua
Our Creative Corner - blossoms
Daring Cardmakers - use die cuts
Stamptacular sundays....sewing and for someone special
Thank you for stopping by! I hope you have a blessed week!

A Wallhanging for a Mom

Hello everyone!  I hope you are having a wonderful Sunday!  Today's Stampin Sisters in Christ Challenge was chosen by Randi, and is based on  Ex. 20:12 "Honor your father and Mother, that your days may be prolonged in the land which the Lord your God gives you."   What a great verse!  It's the one commandment with promise!  We live in a day where children often don't respect their elders, and seldom "honor" them... but God must put GREAT importance on it!

Randi is challenging us to make a card or project for our Mom or one who is like a Mom to us.  My Mom is in heaven, but I do have someone special in mind for this... I hope she will like it.  Instead of making a "Mother's Day" card, I made a wall hanging that honors Moms.  I used Our Daily Bread designs "Mom" set.  I really went green on this project too.  The wood base for my wall hanging is a left over piece of kick plate from our kitchen cabinets.  The panel that I stamped on came from the packaging for some Prima Flowers I bought at Michael's.  I loved the color combo on it and felt it would make a great book mark... but it turned into a wall hanging!  LOL!

So I covered my wood base with Bazzill Chocolate textured card stock, then layered on a lighter shade that I had lightly stamped with the floral image from the Mom set with Adirondack Latte ink. I mounted the Prima packaging piece onto a piece of teal cs from my stash, and hand cut the corners to match the Prima piece.   I added an assortment of Primas, and pearls from ZVA Creative.  The lace is from my Christmas Tree decorations from years ago when I used to add lace bows to many branches.  Now I have lots of it for other things!  I added some sheer May Arts ribbon and done.  I had fun with this... I really enjoy altering things!  I especially love it when I find ways to re-use things!  I hope you enjoyed this little project!

This week's sponsor is Sofpencil Digital Stamps.

   Elizabeth Pujalka, the owner of Sofpencil Digital Stamps  is giving a prize of a

$15.00 Gift Certificate to her store!  

Thank you so much Elizabeth!

To see what the rest of the team has created for you this week, please visit: 

Candace , Chris , Kathy, Kristine , Linda, Lisa, Peggysue, Randi

I hope you will play along with us this week!

To be entered in the drawing, your card must be linked to Mr. Linky by 12:00PM PDT (GMT-8) Saturday May 1st. The winner will be chosen by random and will be announced on Tues. 3rd.

Please be sure to make your link direct to your project, not just your blog or gallery, and please place a link to Stampin Sisters in Christ in your post! I can't wait to see your creations!

 May God bless your week ahead and thanks for stopping by! I love knowing you were here!

I am linking this to the following challenges:

Our Daily Bread Designs - Mothers Day

Sew Many cards: Anything goes

Pennys - Open week
Practical Scrappers- ribbons, floss, fibers
Sentimental Sundays - use a sentiment and flowers on your creation

Paper Cutz Challenge - Mother's Day

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Challenge - Lots of flowers

Our Creative Corner - Blossoms

My Time to Craft - Quotes

S2G - Spring has Sprung with a Twist - Flowers

Charisma Cardz - Quotes

Alota - Mother's Day

Clearly I Stamp - All Tied Up - Lace & Ribbon

DCRU - Earth day - Flowers

Elegant Paper Fan and News!

Hello everyone! Happy Friday! I'm excited to show you a fun project I made and to share my happy news with you all.  I have been asked to join the Layers of Color Design Team, and I couldn't be more thrilled to be joining with another Christian Company!  I have been enjoying  using these fabulous images over the past several weeks and really love them.  I believe this will allow me to stretch myself in some different directions including some vintage things, which I do really love!  So to kick it off, I made this paper fan using Layers of Color Art Stamps set, Merci Bouquets.  I love all the little flowers in this set and it's such a versatile set!!! I know I'll be using it often!!!

I used the fan template found at Mirkwood Designs.  I traced the pattern and hand cut. 

I randomly stamped and embossed each blade with gold and colored with Chalks.  I ran each blade through the Cuttlebug with the Textile folder and then sponged with Adirondack Latte Ink.  Finally I spritzed them with Shimmerz in Baby's Breath.  I added very fine pink ribbon to the back of each blade, punched the hole at the bottom and added more ribbon and gold cord to which I added some beads.  The fan closes up nice and flat. 

 

I'd like to thank Laura for giving me this opportunity to work together with the rest of the talented Layers of Color team!  I already feel right at home!  For more inspiration, please visit my Design Team Sisters: 

Laura   Layers of Color Blog

Linda  Linda's Craft Central

Patter  Triple the Scraps

Kristine Breach  Ink Something 

Thank you so much for stopping by today!  I hope you enjoyed this project!  Have a blessed weekend!

Kitties for Lauren

Saturday is my Granddaughter's Birthday, and she LOVES kitties!  She finally talked her Daddy into letting her have one, and it's a little gray tiger kitty, and she named her Sophie.  This Wags 'N Whiskers image was perfect. I colored it with Prisma Pencils.  For my layout I wanted to honor Sue (Coffeestamper on SCS) who was last Friday's Queen for the Day.... so I cased this card of hers.  Better late than never, right?  I did have to add a few elements to the layout... I added the Spellbinder's Lotus Edgeability die cut and some MS Punch Lattice edges.  I changed the rectangle to a circle and added flowers because Lauren loves flowers.

Card Details:
CS: Old Olive
Designer Paper: Basic Grey Green at Heart
Accessories: Spellbinders Classic Circles and Scalloped Circles, Lotus Edgeability, MS Lattice Punch, SU! Circle and Scalloped Circle Punches, Old Olive Ribbon, Prima Flowers, Sacura Clear Glitter Pen

I am entering this in the following challenges:

Wags 'N Whiskers - Ribbon

Spoonful of Sugar~Birthday
Creative Card Crew- Happy Birthday
Magical Crafts fortnightly chall.~girly

PIO - Is Spring finally here 

Pennys - Open week

 Stamp with fun- animals

Other Lovelies - Embellishments

The Crazy Challenge - Don't Call me Flat

Thanks so much for looking!!!

Butterfly Collector

Hello everyone!
Today I have a real quick card I made to honor this week's featured stamper on SCS... Dara was the honored stamper this week and I have had the joy of meeting Dara in person a few times, and just had to play along.  Here is her card that I cased.  I used Layers of Color Butterfly Collector for my butterfly and colored it with Copics.  For my background, I stamped the flourish from Nature Walk over the BasicGrey graph paper.  The base of the card is a textured yellow from my stash, and I pierced the corners with the sun ray corner template by Ornare.  I matted with Old Olive and added some ZVA Creative Pearls.  You can't see it in the photo, but the butterfly is embossed with UTEE and popped up.  Also you can't see in the photo but the ribbon is really a pretty double sided green on one side/ aqua on the other, which picks up the aqua in the butterfly.   It is a super quick card but I had fun with it and it's nice to have one I can actually mail in a regular A2 envelope! LOL!