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CPS & JustRite Joyful Hearts

JustRite Stampers is sponsoring the CPS #152 sketch this week and I made this sample for it.  You can find the sketch over at the CPS blog and enter your card for the chance to win a brand new JustRite stamp set!

My card uses JustRite's new Joyful Hearts stamp set that will be available for ordering tomorrow, February 5th from the JustRite website!  It's a wonderful small oval set of these six sentiment centers and six interchangeable borders:

I stamped the floral border with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and die cut it separately from the image. The center image was stamped in both Memento Rich Cocoa (flowers) and Palette Belle Rose, which really does match the papers in person -- my camera is just disagreeing today! The images were colored with these Copic Spica Glitter Pens (Pink, Lemon, Orange & Olive):

 

The side "V" panels were machine zig-zag stitched to the card and the JustRite images popped up on foam tape.  I thought this card would make a nice birthday greeting for a sweet friend whose birthday is today! 

Stamps: JustRite Stampers Joyful Hearts
Paper: Neenah Natural White, Cosmo Cricket Mini Deck-Material Girl
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Palette Belle Rose, Ranger Antique Linen Distress ink. Copic Spica Glitter Pens: Pink, Lemon, Orange, Olive
Accessories: Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities Lg Dies 2 & 3 and Classic Scalloped Oval Nestabilities Lg 3 Die, Fiskars scalloped scissors, foam tape

Inchie Lockhart Cupcake Love!

 

I have another sweet new Lockhart stamp to share with you today ...a fabulous new Cupcake With Sprinkles!  Don't you love those heart sprinkles and heart cherry on top?!!  This week's CPS sketch #148 was perfect for an Inchie, I thought ... or in this case, an Inchie +!  That's what Inchie Arts calls their 1.50" squares and I used a white square under the cut out cupcake, with patterned paper adhered to it. 

The cupcake was stamped onto white cardstock and colored with these Copic markers:

 

Star Dust Stickles were added to the heart cherry on top.  The cupcake was adhered with foam tape to the paper-covered Inchie + White Square.  Those cute papers are the "Try Before You Buy" digital papers from Papertrey Ink, designed by Heather Nichols ... simply because I meant to order them last month but never got around to it!  They were punched out with a 1-3/8" square punch.

The white background panel was embossed with Cuttlebug's Love Language folder and mounted to a standard A2-sized Raspberry Fizz card base.

 

Have you noticed the little Blogoversary countdown over there ==> in my sidebar?  Yes, just 27 days until my 3 year blogging anniversary!  I'll be celebrating all month long with giveaways starting this week, so I hope you'll check back in for that!  Until then, have a nice cupcake for yourself!

 
Stamps: Lockhart Stamp Company-Cupcake With Sprinkles #7013
Paper: PTI Raspberry Fizz, Stamper's Select White & Simple Valentine Paper Collection-digital sample try before you buy
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copic markers (shown above)
Accessories: Inchie Arts Inchie + White Square, Cuttlebug Love Language embossing folder, PTI Raspberry Fizz satin ribbon, 1-3/8" square punch, corner rounder punch, Star Dust Stickles

WSC110: Wreath Angel

It's Weekend Sketch Challenge time again and Lori is hosting this week.  You can find the challenge at her blog and enter a link to your creation there.  My 7-year old dictated today's stamp selection.  She was playing with some of my stamps yesterday and left this one out on my desk ... fortunately, it fit right in with the idea I had for this sketch!

This is Karen Lockhart's lovely Wreath Angel.  I stamped her with Versamark and heat embossed her with gold detail powder.  I had heard Copic markers and embossed images didn't play too well together but I wanted to try it for myself.  I'm happy to report that I had no problems whatsoever between my Copic markers and the gold embossed lines!  (Maybe the issue is with darker embossing powders?) 

I was careful to not go over any of the embossed lines too much and kept most of my colors pretty light.  I think I'll be exploring this technique a little more and share my results with you all.

I used these Copic markers and Buttermilk Spica glitter pen on Angel's hair:

 
I think the rest of the card is pretty self explanatory and I seem to be having keyboard problems, so I'll leave it at that ... if you have any questions, just ask and I'll be happy to answer them!!  Be sure to visit these stampers blogs to see some more samples of the sketch:  Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn and Lori.  We hope you'll play along this weekend, too!

 

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Stamps: Lockhart Wreath Angel
Paper: Webster's Petite Papers-Holiday Collection, Neenah Natural White
Ink: Versamark, Antique Linen & Brushed Corduroy Distress Inks
Accessories: Gold detail embossing powder, Spellbinders Labels 8 die & Create A Flake 2, foam tape

WSC109: Pursue Happiness

The Weekend Sketch Challenge is provided by Jenn this week.  My sample uses one of the new stamp sets being released by Taylored Expressions today (10am CST) ... Discover Your Wings.  I stamped this cool, funky butterfly once onto pink patterned paper and again on olive cardstock; then cut them out and adhered them together to get the two-toned effect.

The butterfly was popped up on foam tape over a panel that I edge punched at the top.  For the top horizontal element of the sketch I used pearls that were originally yellow, which I colored with my Copic YG95 marker so they would match the cardstock.  I know they don't look too green in the photo above, but trust me -- they are!  My camera is just disagreeing with me like a 3-year old this morning, LOL!

And the pearls really are a lovely shade of warm yellow, but my camera is saying they look orangey to him today -- ugh!  :D  Anyway, I think you can clearly tell there is a difference in color once the pearls have been colored with the Copic marker!

Wide olive grosgrain ribbon was also given a two-toned affect by adhering a strip of pink patterned paper down the middle of it.  Love the beautiful fonts on this stamp sentinent!  This is just a sneak peek of what's to come at 10am CST today ... I hope you'll check back then to see a complete gift set of cards I made using this new stamp set and a fantastic new kit from Taylored Expressions!

Meanwhile, you can see what these awesome ladies did with this week's sketch and we hope you'll find time to use it this weekend ... perhaps to start your Christmas cards?!!

Beate, Charmaine, Jenn, and Lori.

Stamps: Taylored Expressions Discover Your Wings
Paper: Taylored Card Kit-Bloom & Grow
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Copic YG95
Accessories: Pearls & ribbon from Taylored Card Kit, Martha Stewart Loopy edger punch, Bow Easy