Sending Happy Thoughts

Good Morning! I'm back to work today. It's was a nice vacation but now I need to earn a living so I can continue to afford to buy all my new stamping toys! It's amazing to me how much is out there and how I need it all!

Here is another adorable Sugar Nellie girl. I love the colors in this card. Tomorrow is September 1st and when I pick up an image to color I am starting to think primary colors instead of all pastels. When I was looking at my Copic chart trying to decide what colors to use I went to my papers first. I usally don't do this because it backfires on me. I pick out paper that I think will go perfectly and then once I start coloring and blending my colors on the images end up not matching. I was please to see it worked out well this time.

I love all the Basic Grey 6 x 6 packs. Using these papers has expanded my comfort zone. The papers I used on this card are not papers I would have been drawn to if I was buying individual 12 x 12 sheets. I have alot of 12 x 12 paper but I always go to my 6 x 6 packs first. I wish everyone would make small packs. It is much easier to go through the larger paper to find what you want.

Thank you for stopping by my blog. I hope you like my card.


Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Rose Red, Regal Rose
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie, Impression Obsession
MISC: Primas, Michaels Ribbon

True Friend

Good Morning! I hope everyone is having a good week. It is so hot here. They say it should be cooler and drier today. I hope they are right. I want to shut off the AC and open the windows again!

This is a stamp I received by mistake. Funky kits sent to me instead of one I ordered. They were so nice about it. They replaced the missing stamp and let me keep this one! There's nothing like good customer service!!!

I made this after finally going outside this weekend and cleaning all the weeds out of my plants. It called to me when I was looking through my stamps. I really like coloring the Sugar Nellie Honey & Pip images. They are so cute. I realized when I was looking through my stamps that I better get to making some cards with Summer images. In a few weeks I will be looking at fall stamps.

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you like my card.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Tempting Tourquise
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Sugar Nellie, Cornish Heritage Farms
MISC: Primas, Brads, Cloud maker, Jewels

Watermelon anyone, 3CTC24

It seems like the weeks these days are just flying by. I have not had a chance to participate in Kerry's Thursday challenge in a while and when I saw this weeks theme I thought it sounded fun, especially because of the humid weather we have been having lately. I bought these watermelon stamps from Yvonne Albritton Designs last year and she sent me the saying for free. I think it is great when a company does that. It really says they want their customers to be happy.

I was itching to try my new spellbinders pendant dies so naturally I worked them into this card. The pendant is square so I had to modify it by cutting the smaller die in half and adding them to the sides to make it a rectange to fit my image. These were a little frustrating at 1st to get the paper out of the dies but I found that if you take something thin (I used the spatula that I use for my embossing paste) and slide it under the middle of the big die you can work the paper out. For the smaller die I used the pen I bought to pick up crystals. The pen has a putty in it so stick so it pulls up the paper. I'm probably not explaining it right but at least I won't pass using the dies because they are difficult.

I covered the watermelon's with crystal effects and then I cut out one of the slices and popped it up. I had some white dots from Joannes and added them to the corners instead of brads. Sometimes I find brad bend DP so these worked out better.

I hope everyone is having a great weekend. I'm off to do a couple of errands and then I will be back to finish another card I have been working on.

I hope you like my challenge card. Thanks for stopping by.

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Wild Wasabi, GP white
DP: Basic Grey
STAMPS: Yvonne Albritton Designs
MISC: Spellbinders, Joanne Dots, Crystal Effects

This week has flown by. I am extremely busy at work and I am getting ready to go on vacation next week (one of the reasons I am extremely busy at work). I can't wait!!


This stamp is from High Hopes. I love their last release with the Ants. They are so cute. I am so happy I like this card because it was a little frustrating to make. I had the image colored. Loved how it came out and then when I went to stamp the grass I got a streak of green ink from the block across my image. I was so disappointed. I decided I would color another one. I wasn't as happy with how the leaves came out so, I checked my original image. The streak of green missed the leaves so I cut them out and popped them up on this image. As you can see I really wanted this grass so I did give it another try, this time being more careful. As usual, I used my cloud template. I liked the DP but didn't know if I could find anything to match it. Cranberry Crisp is a color I do not use often and was happy that it went perfectly.

I feel like the colors makes this a Fall type card which I hope for everyone in the Northeast makes them feel cooler. The hot weather has finally arrived here and my body is not use to it yet.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. Let me know what you think of my Ant..

Peggy
SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Wild Wasabi, Cranberry Crisp
DP: Basic Gray
STAMPS: High Hopes, My Favorite Things
MISC: Copics, MM Brads

TSSC 70

TGIF!!!!! It's Friday of a long weekend YEAH!! It's is suppose to be beautiful this weekend. Not Hot and Humid like it was yesterday and suppose to be today.
I hope to relax, plant some flowers and make some cards. Right now I don't have alot planned which should give me plenty of time to do anything I want.

I made this card for Mary Jo's sketch challenge. It's not often that I use all paper on a card. I kept thinking that this card was missing something and when I pulled out the sentiment I realized that I didn't stamp on the card. I can't remember the last time that happened.

I love the colors and pattern of this Basic Gray paper. I love the 6 x 6 packs. They always contain paper that I may not have picked in the 12 x 12 but I find I like.

Well, got to get back to work. I thought it would be a slow week but that's not the way it turned out. Maybe it will slow down this afternoon.

I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday weekend. Thanks for visiting.

Peggy

SUPPLIES:
CS: SU Night of Navy, CTMH Beige
DP: Basic Gray
STAMPS: SU
Misc: Flowers, CTMH Brads, Misc brads