Everything that is you...2S4Y - Kazan's Sketch 5

Another great sketch!!! to work off of over at 2 Sketches 4 You by Kazan this week.

This card is made for my friend, Mary, who I refer to as Rose Mary as she gives me tons advice on my rose bushes (I have over 30 rose bushes!) Her birthday is next week and wanted to give a few roses to her by card form.

So here's Kazan's sketch that I worked off of:




And here's my take on it:



















Gardening Tools for this creation:
CPs: The Paper Company's Pastel Pink, Pastel Pink Texture, Ivory Parchment & On-White Translucent Oxford and Bazzill Basics' Passionate
DPs: DCWV The Luxury Stack - Pearlized Metallic
Stamps: Inkadinkado's Coffee House Alphabet, Handmade-Flower-Mug & Get Well (cut the rose from it), SU! Jumbo Wheel Doodle, All Night Media Happy Birthday Presents and Hero Arts Clear Design Cupcake Set
Fluid Chalk Inks by Colorbox: Rose Coral, Rouge & Merlot
Pigment Inks by Colorbox: Black & Chianti
Blossoms: Prima's Got Flower? Ivory or Winter #3 (not sure which bottle I have)
Rhinestones: Darice Finishing Accents self-adhesive
Cricut: Plantin Schoolbook using the Award cut
scrapNfonts: DB Frilly Frames, DB filly Words & CK Jacque
Misc: Markers, water pen, embossing powder, pink/mauve thread, mini pot dots, MM sticky squares

TFL!!!

B-day Party Girl and 2 Sketches 4 You

Whoo-hoo, another fun sketch to work off of from 2 Sketches 4 You with this week featuring Laura's 3rd sketch.

This week I needed to make two b-day cards for two friends of mine that are twins. They look very much alike but their personalities are a bit different. And I have to admit that I'm not too good of a friend to them since their b-day was this past weekend and I'm just making their cards now! This one is for the twin (Lori) that loves to get everyone together so I went with the Party Girl Theme to go with her personality. I did a lot of popping up on the dresses by cutting some from the left over paper and used sticky squares to pop them! Then I dressed them up with some Stickles and Glossy Accents. I'm also getting into this stitching thing, I don't know why I was so nervous to give it a try...

Tomorrow I'll get working on the other twin's card (wish me luck!)

Here's Laura's very cool sketch:



And here's my take on it:





















Party favors for this creation:
-CS: DCWV "Pink #1 Texture" & "Robin #3 Texture" and The Paper Co "Pastel Pink Texture"
-DP: Colorbok "Black Dress"
-Blossoms: Colorbok Layered Flowers
-Various Round and Flower Rhinestones
-Self Adhesive Pearls
-Fluid Chalk Inks: Colorbox "Rouge" & "Ice Blue"
-Stickles: Waterfall, Turquoise, Pink, Diamond, Yellow, Burgundy, Lime Green, Cinnamon & Copper
-Cricut Carts: PS for the scallop cut at 1" and stretch to 8" tall using the CDS, Doodletype for the letters girl using the bookplate feature cut at 1" & for Party with the shadow feature cut at 1 1/2" & also for the letters Lori using the bookplate feature cut at 2"
-Computer fonts: scrapNfonts - DB Borders B-day for Happy Birthday (character "y") & Presents (character "h") and DB Frilly Frames for the frame (character "n")
-Misc items: Glossy Accents, Prismacolor Pencils, aqua thread, sewing machine, diamond ribbon from stash, fuzzy string also from stash, MM sticky squares and All Night Media mini pot dots

TFL!!! And have a very happy and safe 4th of July!!!

Morgan & her time with us...

A year ago I lost my cat, Morgan, to cancer at the young age of 13. For those of you that are cat and/or dog people, you know it is like losing a member of your family. Morgan couldn't have been more like my very own child. She had been with me for almost all of my adult life and always there for me. So over the last year I've been going through pictures to put a memorial journal together for her. Well I finally decided to sit down and actually start it when the latest Bitten By the Bug contest came around. This especially works as the journal was definitely going to have "Morgan & ..." (hadn't figured out what the rest of it was going to say until today). This is definitely far from finished...many more pages to come but at least I finally have it started and here's the 1st 3 pages which two of them are designed for BBTB contest which was to use the Ampersand from either the PLANTIN SCHOOLBOOK or the GEORGE CARTRIDGE. The cover of Morgan's journal uses the ampersand from PS and the 3rd page uses the one from George. Also this is my 1st attempt at doing an acrylic album, it has been quite interesting and challenging (in a fun way) to figure out how to make the other side of each clear acrylic page just as pretty as the front. Stay tuned for more pages to come...







It's a little hard to read the tag above Morgan, it say "No Peaking"






Morgan, kisses to you forever
October 11, 1993 - April 30, 2007