Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #8

I came home last weekend to a box on my front porch from Papertrey Ink. It had my three new stamp sets: Green Thumb, Butterfly Kisses, and Little Lady. I was dying to use them but today was the first day I got to. I was reading all the blogs I follow on GoogleReader and there was Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge #8. I immediately wanted to use the Green Thumb set to make the card. Here is what I came up with.




I used the dandelion stamp and stem plus the saying "If friends were flowers, I'd pick you."

Paper: Barely Banana, Pretty in Pink, Rose Red, and Very Vanilla from Stampin' Up!

Ink: Rose Red from SU

Thanks Beate for these great sketches.

Beate's Weekend Sketch #5 and TLC 119

Again I combined two challenges into one card. This time I combined Beate's Weekend Sketch #5 with SCS's Try a New Technique Challenge (TLC 119). I used More Mustard cardstock and the new print palette in So Saffron. I really enjoyed making the origami shirt for this card. Beate's challenge was to make a gate card and I love how that turned out. The only stamping is the sentiment and I stamped that right on to the shirt instead of putting a tie on the shirt. This is the last of the four Father's Day cards that I have to make. I have to say thanks to my SU Demo for reading my blog and giving me more paper to make more cards for last week's challenge. I am still going to do it but instead of more Father's Day cards I am going to do Thank you cards.

Oh I used the tutorial on Cambria's blog to make the shirt.

Beate's Weekend Sketch #4

I had so much fun this afternoon that I decided to play with my stamps once my kids went to sleep. I really liked the sketch used in this challenge from Beate's blog and decided to give it a whirl. My father-in-law loves martinis and I had this awesome paper that I bought to use on a card for him, so this is the Father's Day card I came up with for him. The red part of the olives is actually a red rhinestone. How cool is that?