Triple Easel Card

This fun Triple Easel card was made using the tutorial on Splitcoast Stampers this week.  It was so much fun to make and I didn't stamp a saying or anything yet as I don't know what I will use it for. All dies are Spellbinders large scalloped circles and regular circles. The papers are from Wild Rose Studio and the little punch is a Martha Stewart.  Thanks so much Kim for this tutorial!!!  
I'm also entering this in the Flourishes Scalloped challenge.  

Fourishes Timeless Tuesday and Split Coast sketch

Wrap it with Ribbon is the theme this week on Flourishes blog.  The sketch is from Split Coast Stampers.   I used Flourishes beautiful Tulips for Friends stamp and Labels 4 from Spellbinders.  The background is made entirely of ribbons, sheer ribbon and turquoise ribbon with pink ribbon lace over the top of the sheer striped ribbon.  The sentiment is from this same set and I used a Spellbinders fancy label.  A little gold edging from a Krylon pen finishes the card.   

Cheery Lynn Doilies and No stamping

I made this card for the doily challenge at Cheery Lynn.   I started the card with a gorgeous French Flair die and then added the French Flair doily stacker over it.  I totally love this shape and use it a lot. In the lower corner I used the center of the Nautical Wheeler doily, layered a leaf from Judy's bloom and then made my flower with the large rose strip and cuties 2.   I added some leaves from the flourish leaf strip behind the flower.  I totally love that die!!  The darling butterfly is from the small Exotic butterfly set.   The peel off saying is on a spellbinders twisted metal tag.   I'm also using this card for the "no stamping" Learn a new technique on the Split Coast forum. 

As you graduate

Our Daily Bread Shinning Light challenge this week is a color challenge. Pink Black/grey White/cream and the challenge on Cheery Lynn is for the grad.  I chose the stamp set from ODBD As you graduate for this challenge. Stamped in memento black and added some pink copics in RV02 and RV63 to the butterflies.   I added some fine pink flower soft  and meadow flower soft to the trees to add some dimension and color. I cut the image with the scalloped cove rectangle and silver coved rectangle.   The fanciful flourish, small exotic butterfly,Victorian  fence,  I cut the size down on the fence,  grass border and rose medium flower are all from Cheery Lynn.
  Be sure to check out all the design team creations on both blogs.  They are always inspiring and beautiful.  I'm also entering this into the IC338 Charming Charlie challenge on Split Coast stampers. Here is my inspiration for this card..  

Our Daily Bread Design sketch challenge

The challenge on Our Daily Bread Design is this sketch.  I chose to use the stamp set, The mighty Sea for this challenge.  I used some paper from GCD studio Ella Blue collection, added some brown and blue strips and ran the blue through the dot cuttlebug.  I took a Swedish spring oval from Cheery Lynn Designs, then I did the same die in white and cut out the center part to stamp on.  I stamped the image in Memento black and colored with copics. I added a bow and some bling pearls from Prima.  I edged all the papers in a gold pen to finish this card.  I'm also using this for the Split Coast Monthly Fan Club Challenge Life is like a box of chocolates by using the browns and beige.

Casing Selma!!

Do you know about Selma's blog?  It's fabulous and she is one of the queens of Marianne Dies.  I made this card for the challenge on Classy Cards N Such, the butterfly on the front is Cheery Lynn die with the angel wing behind it.  Some of their dies have solid ones for backing them. All other dies are Marianne, I tried to CASE Selma's card today, LOL  it was fun but I had challenges with it.  I didn't have the exact same dies so I improvised on a few things.  This is also using the Technique challenge on SCS for Patina.  I cut the edges on the back piece and then cut the pretty circle and ran it through on a cuttlebug folder. Then I applied some inks and versamark and embossing powder to get the patina look.  I added some peel off borders, a bow dyed with the same inks and flower to finish the card.  Selma has a step by step tutorial on her blog to help you make this card. 

A cool breeze challenge

The challenge on Split Coast is using some fans as inspiration.  The fan die is from Sissex and I used some gorgeous taupe paper with gold threads in it.  The leaves are from Cheery Lynn Olive branches and the larger leaf flourish is the center of the Victoria Garden Frame.  The BG paper is from my stash and no package so I don't know the name.  I added some prima flowers and a silk bow and some filler from Michaels.  I used a gold pen to edge the paper and fan. 

Cheery Lynn Doily challenge with Calla Lilies

This pretty frame is the Victoria Garden Doily Frame from Cheery Lynn.  This is a 5x7 card with printed vellum for the background. I cut the frame from white CS and added a piece of white behind it. I sponged spun sugar and peeled paint around the frame for some depth.  The flourish leaves are the center of the frame die cut. I used olive leaves and pine branches and sponged the peeled paint and crushed olive on all the leaves and added some glitter to some of them.  The gorgeous Calla Lily stamp set is from Flourishes    I embossed in gold and used H2O's to color them.  I made this for their spring challenge also.  I added a double bow and a MS butterfly with some gems to finish the card.  This also fits with the Best Buds challenge on Split Coast. 

Doily challenge, and many more

Our challenge this week at Cheery Lynn is to use doilies!!  I took this challenge very seriously, I started by cutting the French Pastry doily and using the Canadian Kaleidoscope and cutting it apart to make the oval on the top and bottom behind the French Pastry.  I then cut a standard circle from Cheery Lynn, laid it over the ribbon and stamped this pretty circle with a butterfly in the center from Botanical butterflies from  Classy Cards I cut an Exotic butterfly medium #2 and #3.    The butterfly #3 fit perfectly over the butterfly on the image. I added some gems to finish the butterflies.  The corners are the inside doily die that is part of the Polynesian Sails Oval and I cut it apart to make the corners.  The Fanciful flourish frames the doily and I added some prima flowers and a pearl stick pin.  Have you seen the beautiful flower dies from Cheery Lynn, they are next on my wish list, you can make gorgeous matching flowers with these dies!! Check them out!
I will be adding this to the following challenges
Just Rite
Classy Cards N Such
Joan's Garden
Cheery Lynn
Best Buds, SCS
Stampin Sisters in Christ

Best Buds and Daisy Frame

Well I actually made this for a different challenge but I goofed up and used the wrong colors, LOL  so I'm using it for a few other challenges!!  Cherry Lynn has a frame challenge going on and this is their beautiful Daisy Lace Frame, cuts out so perfect and easy! I also used their fanciful flourish and olive leaves die cuts as well.  I took a small strip of DP and a MS border punch and put that on the left side with a pretty ribbon over it.  The oval is the scalloped oval from Cheery Lynn and I used some peel off words on it.  The pretty flower is from Prima.  I can't wait to fill my wish list from Cheery Lynn and get their cuties so I can make my own flowers to match anything I use.  This is for the Best Buds from Split Coast and Stampin Sisters in Christ flower challenge.

Arcrylic Distress and Best Buds

This pretty background is a version of the Technique lovers challenge on Split coast Stampers.  I had to improvise on this technique because I don't have any acrylic paints.  I used a 5x7 Madison cuttlebug folder and I took white washed coordination's paper used TH scattered straw distress ink all over it.  Then I ran it through the cuttlebug and the color in the core was teal so I sanded off much of the teal and then used a Marvy ink pad to highlight the raised ridges.  I then took shimmer mist and sprayed it on a paper towel and removed some of the color to make it look distressed. That worked great because now the background shimmers also.  The borders are the gorgeous Border Carnivale from Cheery Lynn. The pretty calla lily is from Flourishes I colored it with copics and then cut it out.  I added a bow and some gems to finish the card.  I'm also using this card for the Monthly fan club theme, Best Buds.   Remember for a mere $25 per year you get to interact with the Dirty Dozen on SCS and see their gorgeous creations, you also don't have to wait to have your uploads approved and many other benefits by paying this little amount to help keep SCS up and going.   I'm also using this for the Stampin Sister in Christ flowers challenge.  Be sure to check out all the gorgeous creations on all the sites.

Featured stamper Darsie Bruno

The featured stamper on Split Coast this week is Darsie Bruno, check out her gorgeous card that I CASED!!  I changed several things but kept the layout and idea the same. My colors are different, and my embellishments are different.  Congrats Darsie, this is well deserved.  The beautiful heart die is the back plates from Cheery Lynn's  Heart to heart die set. The tiny heart is a spellbinders.  I used some pretty lace and ribbon from my stash and prima flowers and pearls to finish the card. The little saying is from the new Flourishes set. 

Charleston Gardens Inspiration

Our challenge on Split Coast Inspiration challenge this week is to go to the Charleston Gardens website and choose something to case.  I chose this gorgeous pillow for my inspiration.  I'm using several ODBD design stamps to create this card.  The flower is from Happy Easter, the top right bird and sentiment are from You will find refuge, the bottom bird is from the
Sing to the lord set. 
I distressed the edges with vintage photo ink and a copper pen.  MS butterfly punch with some pearls. The wheat is from Our Daily Bread set.  

Split Coast Everything Turquoise

Our challenge this week on Everything Turquoise over at SCS is a photo with these colors.  I used some K&Co paper and the gorgeous corner die in taupe is from Cheery Lynn.
The leaves and ferns are a MS punch and prima flower.  I used a 3.25x5 inch piece for the frame and a spellbinders die to cut out the center.  The saying is from Just Rite sympathy set released this month.  This layout is sort of a "case" of Kittie C card.  She does amazing layouts and gorgeous flowers on her cards. Here is a link to her blog

Center step Belleek Valentine

One of the challenges that I made this card for is the center step card challenge on Flourishes blog.   I started the card with Stardream white gold card stock, it's a gorgeous cream with gold shimmer. I inked up my Cuttlebug for the layers with Antique linen distressed ink and ran it thru the machine. This is for the Technique challenge on Split Coast which is to make a card like Belleek pottery.    This beautiful heart stamp is From the heart set from Flourishes latest release. I stamped it with Antique Linen and cut it out with the spellbinders straight heart die, they fit this image perfectly.  I edged all the layers with a Krylon 18k gold pen and then added some peel off lace and pearls along the bottom and some pretty flowers, butterflies from Michaels. The leaves and ferns are punched out of the white gold CS with a MS punch, and then I added some antique linen ink on them.    The letters are gold glitter letters from Michaels.  I'm also entering this into the Heart Challenge at Stampin Sisters in Christ.

Casing the featured stamper SCS

Our challenge today on Split Coast Stampers is to CASE Julie and make a card like one of her's in her gallery.  I'm using a Flourish Peony, colored with copics and cut out with spellbinders die. The fancy tag I cut in two and put some on each side,  I'm uploading her card that I cased and changed several things on it. Mine is 6x6 and this flower didn't fit in any of my ovals so I used a different die, and added some bling to mine.  Here is her card!

TLC Stacked Card and Crafty Secrets Square it

This little cuties is my granddaughter McKenna at age 6mos. This cute idea for the card is from Split Coast try a new technique, TLC338 Stacked cards this week. The square design is for Crafty Secrets forum on SCS also and I used the pretty French Flair dies from Cheery Lynn.  They are listed on the page under XL stackers, they have scallops, regular and stitching plates to match.  I ran them through my cuttlebug with the pretty Kassie folder.  All the sayings and peel offs are from Crafty Secrets Baby Girl peel off sticker sheet.   I attached them with gemstone brads and you can swing them around and stack them all on top of the largest square to mail.  Please check out all the design team cards on these sites and enjoy the inspiration from all of them.

Crafty Secrets and Dirty Girls, get out those paints

Our challenge today on the Dirty Dozen is to use paints on the image. I chose this gorgeous Crafty Secrets rose and painted it with acrylic paints.  The beautiful paper is from K&Co journey and it matched the color perfectly.  I used a spellbinders scalloped circle die behind the image, and a MS shell border punch and fern punch.  Gold peel offs finish the card. The beautiful sketch for this card came from Priscilla's Midnight Madness blog!! Be sure to check out all the DT's cards on these sites, they are always amazing!!!

Dare to get dirty, SCS Dirty girls challenges

I made this cute card today for the Dirty Dozen challenge on Split Coast stampers. If you are not a paid member of SCS it is so worth the mere 25 per year.  This is one of 5 challenges this week and we were to use Kraft paper on our card today. I'm also using this for the Stampin Sisters in Christ challenge of using a "creature" on our card.  I love the birds and butterflies in this.  Main image is from Backyard birds by Just Rite stamps.  I had some of these stamps for years and never used them because I could NOT get them to stamp nicely. After a lesson last week I now LOVE these stamps and they work great if you get them to "snap" into place on the blocks.  Paper is from Memories Minuet and the birds and butterflies are a MS punch. 

Sweet Stamps, TLC333

This pretty new image is from Sweet Stamps.  Our challenge this week is to use Silver and Gold on our card.  I have sliver and gold pen lining the edges and a silver peel off best wishes.  I colored the image with copic markers and used a MS border punch. Cuttlebug embossing folder for the background.  Some pretty lace finished the card. The reverse masking is for Split Coast Try a new technique challenge.