Skipping Stones Design Sketch Tuesday

It's Tuesday which means Sketch day over at Skipping Stones Design. Hope you all are having fun participating in their sketches. Here is todays sketch:



My card is made using the coffee stamp set from Skipping Stones Design. I also used some of the dot paper from Bo-Bunny, Coffee paper from Flair Designs and the dark brown is some shimmer paper from Cuttlebug. The word coffee is cut from From The Kitchen cartridge on the Cricut. I also inked the edges with Vintage Photo Distress Ink from Tim Holtz.

Skipping Stones Design Tuesday Sketch

It's that time of the week again...Skipping Stones Design has their Tuesday sketch out. Head on over and check it out. Below is the sketch as well as my card.



My card is made from the Margarita Birthday set that I love so much. My paper is from K & Co. It's their Halloween Whimsy paper from last year and the purple is from a shiny stack I got at Wal-Mart awhile ago. The flowers are by Petaloo. I inked the edges a bit with Tattered Shutter Distress Ink from Tim Holtz. Also dipped my blending pen into the ink and inked a bit of the margarita glass.

Skipping Stones Design Tuesday Sketch

Head over to Skipping Stones Design for today's Tuesday Sketch. Here is the sketch



And my card:


I used the Funny Bra's Volume #1 stamp set from Skipping Stones Design, I also used Rusty Pickle's Pirate Princess paper that I have coming out my ears because I've bought about a 1/2 ton of it and can't bring myself to use it. I crystal effects my dots over the image on the patterned paper and used some pink and pearl bling on the ribbon. I also stickled the lace on the bra.

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Skipping Stones Designs Announcements

Skipping Stones Designs is doing a call for Design Team members. Check out the link HERE to see what you need to do to apply. They are also doing a call for Sketch Artists so if you have the gift of making sketches, check out the link HERE to see how you can apply for that as well. Always looking for more talent to join our team.

And don't forget Sketch Tuesday. Lots of good stuff coming your way!

New Moon Experience

The challenge over at Twilight Tuesday this week was to scrap your New Moon Experience. Since I made my cousins take pictures with me that night for the soul purpose of scrappin' them, I thought this was as good of a time as any. Since the movie poster for the movie was all in sepia tones and kind of woodsy (see picture below) I went with that theme.


There were a lot of 1st on this page for me but I had this image in my head that I had been toying with and it ment using a bunch of different methods to accomplish it. I started with some Bo-Bunny dot paper, I used the suede side and sponge inked some of the edges and corners in Vintage Photo distress ink from Tim Holtz. Then I used the swirl from Fictionally Speaking set from Artful Inkables to stamp the paper (EEK!!! That was a 1st). Then I wanted the moon on the paper but sort of subbtle so I didn't want to use paper. There again I inked around where the moon was going to be and then used some Glimmer Mist in Daffodil in the inside of the moon (EEK!!! Another 1st). I love how that turned out!
My trees were all cut from Doodlecharms in various different sizes and papers, some bo-bunny dot paper and some shimmer cuttlebug paper. Then I pop dotted a few.


This is by far one of my most favorite layouts. Here are some close ups that are a little blurry but you get the idea of the techniques I used.



I also distressed the matting on all the pictures and inked the distressing. (EEK!!! Another 1st!)

Skipping Stones Design sketch challange

Skipping Stones Design has a sketch challenge so make sure you rush over there and get going on the sketch. Here is the sketch:



And my card: Made with the Skipping Stones Design Hula Girl birthday stamp set. I used some Lime Rickey paper from the Basic Grey stack, distress inked the edges, threw some bling on there and crystal effect's on the palm leaves. I used the gold paper as sort of a sun image.



While creating this card I thought how much this palm tree on blue paper reminded me of the visual I got while reading Breaking Dawn of Isle Esme so, I created it blue too. Used the Lime Rickey paper again, also used the Fictionally Inspired stamp set from Artful Inkables. Same effects as the green card, bling, crystal effects, shimmer gold moon, inked the edges, etc.

Cards galore

Because Debbie made my shirt in the previous post, we traded, my shirt for some cards. I thought it was a pretty good trade. While I had a few days off this holiday weekend I threw a few cards together. (I also made doubles of these to give to Skipping Stones Designs as part of their design team).

1st card is done with my set from Skipping Stones Design called Funny Bras Set #1 (yes, there are 3 sets of bras, all great!). The blueish paper is I think by Bo-Bunny. It was a halloween paper. The black circle stuff was in my stash of scraps. I used some black ribbon, bling and stickles and sponged the edges of the image with some Tim Holtz Distressed Ink.



Card #2: All my paper is from Altered Art on this card, not sure what the line is though. It was recently purchased however so I'm sure if you head down there she'll still have some. The images is matted on Bo Bunny's dots cardstock that I love so much. I cuttlebuged the yellow batting and sanded it with a nail file. I stickled the flames and glossy accented the frosting on the donut. Yum! The stamp set is from Skipping Stones Designs and is called Donut Birthday (I think). This one isn't on her website yet.



Card #3: This card is made with some coffee paper from Flair Designs, a little bit of pearl bling and the mug is sponged with Distress Inks. The inside says "Hope your birthday is good to the last drop". This set is also from Skipping Stones Designs but also not on her site yet.



Card #4: Also made with the coffee set from Skipping Stones Designs, the paper is from Hobby Lobby. I feel in love with it! The ribbon is from a ribbon swap I was in and the flower is by Petaloo and the matting paper was from my scrap stash. Sponged in Distress Inks. I love that technique.



Card #5: This is made with Margarita Birthday stamp set from Skipping Stones Design. Yes, I know, this is wine, but it's also on this set. The ring however, is from the coffee set. Those are done in Versa Mark ink, the glass is covered in glossy accents and matted on the dot card stock from Bo Bunny.

New Moon shirt

Kathy at Altered Art told me about Tessa having some cool shirts made for her kids. She went and visited the cool people on the Dis Boards who will design a logo for a shirt for you to print as an iron on and put on a shirt. After seeing the ones she did with the Twilight theme, I had to have a Team Edward for the opening night of New Moon. My friend Debbie who owns Ponderosa Sportswear screen printed the image on my shirt for me. How cool is this?

Fangs or Fur?

Because my obsession has been with Edward, I thought it was time to give Jacob a little love as well. This is a bookmark card, the bookmark is perforated for the recipient to remove and use. I found this paper at Hobby Lobby and thought it was perfect! The stamps are from the set I got at barnes & noble. They have gotten lots of use. The stamp on the inside of the card that says Imprinted is from my new set fro Artful Inkables called Fictionally Inspired. Love them!


(Not sure why this came out an odd shade of brown, it's the same as what's above.)

I've been bitten.....and I like it!

I have always been one of those people who doesn't do things because everyone else is doing it. Because of this I didn't get on the Twilight craze when everyone else did. I watched the 1st movie, thought it was a little corny and swore I would never read the books. Thanks to a few girlfriends persuasion, I envoked an a whirlwind journey with Bella and Edward and have falled head over heals in love with the Twilight Saga! "Forget the prince on the white horse, give me a vampire in a Volvo!"

The following are my Twilight inspired cards.


This image is from The Greeting Farm and is called Edward. I used some distress inks on the edges of Edward and the patterned paper with the sponging technique. Also used stickles on Edward to make him sparkle because we all know, Real Men Sparkle! Embelished with a Prima and a little bling. I pulled the paper from my scrap box so I'm not sure where that came from but I know it was graduation paper that I got at Altered Art in 2008.

The next card is made from my newest stamp set purchased at Barns & Noble. Again, no clue on the paper, distress inks on the edges of Edward. Bling and Ribbon from Michael's. The Apple was cut from Doodlecharms and the paper is Bo-Bunny's dot paper.

Coffee and a book (mark)

Here is the cute little bookmark card I made for a swap. I used the coffee stamp set from Skipping Stones Designs. I used the versa mark frost for the cups and the saying on the bazzill cardstock in artesian blue and the book mark itself is from the Bo-Bunny dot collection. I colored the poor little coffee lady with watercolor pencils and used some diamond stickles on her robe. Added a little prima in the corner with some bling and there ya have it. The book mark is held to the card with magnets.

Precious Little Prayers

I made this card for my friends daughter who has Leukemia. I thought the digi stamp looked a lot like her. She's such a fighter!

On the card the digi stamp is from Mo's digital pencil. The paper is some pink glittered paper called Princess Pixie Dust from the Princess Disney collection by EK Success. The card base is Bazzill Bling's Pink Cadillac. Had to put a little bling on the card as well. The digi stamp is colored with watercolor pencils.

A Sweet Thanks

I used the new donuts set from Skipping Stones Designs for this card. I used some brown sprinkle looking paper from my scrap stash, colored with water color pencils and stickled the sprinkles on the donut. The ribbon is from the $1.00 bins at Target and the blue paper is bazzill cardstock artesian pool color.

Bread recipe

I did this card for a swap I joined. The paper is by Die Cuts With A View and the cut is from the new From Your Kitchen cricut cart. I used diamond stickles to make it look like the glitter on the paper. Also used some ribbon from my stash. The blue paper the cut is out of is Bazzil.

This is Halloween

Well Halloween is my FAVORITE time of year, hands down! I joined, or rather was roped into a halloween card swap by my bestie who was the host. Here is my submission:


Stamped image is from MTF stamps, the paper I got at Altered Art but forgot the name or who it's by, the cree goo is the Martha punch with green glitter paper from Walmart (don't ever buy this, it doesn't stick to things well) some purple ribbon from my stash and the flowers were also purchased from Altered Art a long time ago. My images were colored with watercolor pencils and then stickled with regular and distressed stickles. I even roughed up the edges with a nail file.