Sunflowers at Sugar Creek Hollow

Happy Saturday folks! It's a sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow and we have a great challenge for you this week.  Create a vintage or shabby chic card using Sunflowers images and theme.  I love sunflowers for their warm colors and the signal of late summer and early fall that they send.  So I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

The Sugar Creek Hollow design team has some amazing cards to show off the Sunflower theme this week, so please take a look at the Sugar Creek Hollow blog to see their beautiful work - it will surely be an inspiration to you.

We will randomly select a winner of the Sunflower challenge who will receive a $15 gift certificate to The Funkie Junkie's Boutique on Etsy.  The owner, Linda Coughlin, is an expert of creating cards in the vintage/shabby chic style and has some wonderful things in her Etsy Shop.  Linda is also joining us as a guest designer today.  Her work can be seen here at the Funkie Junkie blog.

This lovely sunflowers are a Hero Arts stamp that I've had for a while.  They were colored with Copics and Stickles added to the centers.  The papers are all from Creative Imaginations. I used the Italian Flourish doily die from Cheery Lynn Designs just behind the image.
I hope this has been an inspiration for you to create your vintage card with sunflowers.  Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Sensational Saturday at Sugar Creek Hollow

Happy Saturday! Today is the start to another sensational challenge at Sugar Creek Hollow.  This week we're challenging you to create your own designer paper using stamps or other unique treatments.  No purchased scrapbook or designer papers - just what you can create on your own.  And of course, create a card in a vintage or shabby chic style.

My card was created with background paper that I created by stamping on kraft-color cardstock using Papertrey Ink's "Damask Designs" stamps.  I also created the paper with the swirls using PTI's "Fancy Flourishes" stamps.

The main image panel features a Hero Arts image called "Bird Collage" also stamped in black ink on kraft cardstock that was tattered and then distressed with tea dye and old paper distress inks.  A few pearls, a fabulous stripe ribbon and it's complete. 

Won't you join us this week in the "create your own designer paper" challenge?  You'll have fun giving it a try.  Stop on by the Sugar Creek Hollow blog and see the design team creations for a little inspiration - you'll be glad you did!

Thanks for stopping by!

Make Your Own - MMSC62

Hello wonderful followers of my blog!  Today's card is for this week's Midnight Madness sketch challenge MMSC62 pictured below.  I had a lot of fun with this sketch.  And I love the Midnight Madness ladies  - they are lavish with their comments on the creations you enter in their weekly challenge - makes you feel so good! 

When I first saw this sketch a whole other idea came to mind. Until this morning when this card popped into my head and I rushed right off to bring the idea to life.

I grew up sewing as a kid - made doll clothes and by middle school was making my own clothes. I still sew but not as much as I would like - rubber stamping sort of steals all my time.  So I fell in love with this Hero Arts image called "Make Your Own" and fashioned after an old sewing pattern. Brought back lots of memories!  The other stamped image of a dress form is from Darcie's Stamps.

For the card I used, of course, Cosmo Cricket's "Material Girl" papers.  The background paper is also CC from "Garden Variety".  Both lines of paper coordinate together beautifully and I've been using them a lot lately.  Such nice warm colors. Plus a little bit of Antique Linen distress ink on everything helps add to the vintage feel of the card.

Instead of pure rectangles, I used an EK Success label punch for the curvy shapes.  For the main image panel background in Wild Wasabi I used my Nesties Label 8 die and sewed around the edge.  After all, a sewing-focused card has to have some sewing on it - right?!!  Oh ... and buttons (lots of  them) too!

Thanks for stopping by!







Recipe:
Stamps - Hero Arts "Make Your Own", Darcie's Stamps JCS112
Paper - Cosmo Cricket "Material Girl" and Garden Variety, PTI Vintage Cream, SU Wild Wasabi, Dusty Durango, Baja Breeze
Ink - Palette Noir Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink "Antique Linen"
Accessories - EK Success Label punch, Fiskars "Heritage" corner punch, Spellbinders Nestabilities Label 8 Dies, PTI Vintage buttons, Lace

Heide's Birthday

This card is for my dear friend Heide.  We had such a good time on her birthday with the rest of the gals from our stamping club.  We all spent the day at the StampScrapArtTour rubber stamping show - spending up a storm on new stamps, embellishments and gotta have "toys".  It was such fun!  And to top it off, I ended up winning a $100 gift certificate at the show!  I couldn't believe it -- and of course I didn't have any trouble spending it either, LOL!

For this card I used a new stamp from Hero Arts.  I really like this bicycle stamp.  I inked it up using my Stampin' Up markers in Mambo Melon, Soft Suede, Black and Razzleberry.  I added a touch of Curry on the pedal gear and the basket. 

In the basket, I thought it would be cute to fill it with flowers so I used my Flower Soft "Spring" and it really makes it pop.  From there the image was cut out using my Spellbinders Labels 4 dies.  The background paper is Basic Grey "Green at Heart" and the cardstock used is Soft Suede and Melon Mambo also from Stampin' Up.  I just added some free-hand doodles with a white gel pen around the soft suede image panel - an idea I picked up from the stamp show we were at today.

So that's it at the end of a wonderful day with my dear stamping friends and BFF Heide on her birthday.

Thanks a bunch for stopping in and visiting my blog today.  Let me know what you think...

Sharon

Butterflies & Branches

Made this card for the Featured Stamper challenge on Splitcoast today. The featured stamper this week is Minnidr. I chose this card in her gallery to CASE.

I was so taken with her card! For the challenge I changed the birds to butterflies, the colors used and some other slight modifications.

To get the cloud effect on the background, I punched out a SU scallop circle and sponged around it with Brocade Blue ink, moving it around the card to get the right effect. I had a perfect stamp for the branches - Hero Arts "Long Branch" - just stamped it on Chocolate Chip cardstock twice and cut them out. I used my Martha Stewart punch for the leaves.

The butterflies were stamped in Tangerine and Durango for a little variation and interest. I used glue to adhere the butterflies - only the centers so the wings can be folded upward. Topped them off with rhinestones 'cause you just got to have glitter somewhere!

Easy peasy card from a great inspiration piece! Thanks for visiting my blog!

Recipe:

Stamps: SU Great Friend, Hero Arts Long Branch

Cardstock: Brocade Blue, Durango, Mellow Moss, Artichoke, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Durango, Tangerine, Chocolate Chip, Brocade Blue

Accessories: SU Scallop Oval punch, rhinestones