Berry Sweet Chocolate

All Sorts #55

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Time is winding down!  Summer vacation is upon us and soon my house will not be my own!  And to boot, this coming week is going to prove to be a very hectic one --- graduation events to attend as our oldest graduates high school.  With that said there are visitors coming, food to prepare or pick up, a lawn to mow, a house to clean, not to mention cards, cards and more cards to make! 

I am hoping I made the deadline for 2S4Y.  They always have such simple and neat sketches.  That photo inspiration from All Sorts is just plain decadent!  So, what did I do?  I raided the fridge for the leftover chocolate frosting! Not exactly an entire chocolate cake, but I'll take it! 

SPIES:

Stamps:  Sentiment
Paper:  DP:  White Embossed Swirl - The Paper Company; Red Suede; Dark brown  and olive cardstock.
Ink:  Staz On Brick Red
Extras:  Red velvet ribbon, lace border punch, pearl gems, pearl brad, sizzlet strawberry die.

CHALLENGES:
2Sketches4You:  Sketch Challenge #53
All Sorts:  Strawberries and Cream Challenge
No Time To Stamp:  Stamp Simply Challenge #142 -Sweet Stuff!

Have a SWEET weekend!  Remember ~ Chocolate IS Sanity!


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Beloved Vintage

2Sketches4You #52

TGIF!  How I love Fridays!  I've been revamping my blog this week taking it to a more vintage/shabby chic look.  Let me tell you --- there are A LOT of vintage blogs out there and a boat load of free vintage stuff!  I have so much creative flow going on inside my head I don't have the time for it to flow out my fingers!  LOL!

Anyway, I tried the vintage style on this card and I used the layout from 2S4Y's challenge this week.  The photo's a little bright and so the ivory cardstock I used as my base card doesn't show up as well.  I also used my new Spellbinders Impressabilities floral & stone to emboss the red cardstock, which can be seen better in the second photo.

The center picture is actually a photo I took of a miniature china plate that belonged to my maternal grandmother, which I inherited.  I photographed it in front of some sage green vintage scrapbook paper and shrunk it down to size for the card.  I also used the same picture to make a die cut for a wooden vintage type plate I made to go along with the card.  Photo here:

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Sunny & Whimsy

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Finally, I'm back to the blogosphere!  Ten days of sinus headaches are not fun.  Today was such a gorgeous day with 70 degrees and sunshine.  So what better way to end it, but with a very bright and sunny card.  I know I may be under-performing now after my bouquet easel card.  I would like to thank everyone who left such wonderful comments.  I will strive not to disappoint and I hope that even the so-so inspires.

Tonight's card was inspired by a pinwheel I found in my wrapping paper.  I thought it would be really fun and whimsical addition to a card.  I found this tutorial online:  http://rubberstamping.about.com/od/projects/ss/Pinwheel.htm.  It's very simple and can be scaled down to smaller sizes. I was going to use a straw for the pinwheel handle, but it seemed too flimsy.  I had some unused kabob skewers, shortened one and wrapped in white ribbon.  The only thing I was really not happy with was how the sentiment turned out.  I wanted to stick with the color combo and black just seemed to stark.  Oh well.  Something that will be mulled over as I sleep tonight I'm sure.   Topping it off was The Play Date Cafe color challenge this week along with the 2Sketches4You sketch.

Stamps:  Circle graphs, Inkadinkadoo.  Sentiment, stash.
Paper:  Pollen, Bazzill; White cardstock.  DP from stash.
Ink:  Bright Yellow
Extras:  Yellow brad, yellow flower, yellow gingham ribbon, white ribbon, dark yellow decorative ribbon.



Sunny Thoughts to All!


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Irish Love

Bonus Sketch

Color Throwdown 76

Two Cards for 2S4Y #44.

LUCK O' THE IRISH --

Well, I think I got in just under the wire.  One of these days I will get things done earlier.  However, I am early for the Color Throwdown challenge.  I'm not completely satisfied with the Irish card.  Now that I look at it I did forget one element for the sketch on the bottom.  I was going for something a little quick and started out by making the colors of the Irish flag. I also wanted to use the shamrock stamp alongside my sentiment, but it was too large and since I was running out of time, I chose shamrock gems instead.  Still, it was a fun card to make. 

Stamps:  Shamrock stamp and sentiment.
Paper:  green, orange and white cardstock.
Ink:  Pine.
Extras:  Nestability die, green brads, shamrock gems, green and orange ribbon.


LOVE --

The Love card I like a litlte better.  It is for the bonus challenge.  Although now you cannot see the image on the patterned paper as well, the heart columns I made with a heart punch and gell pen mirror the image of the pink hearts hanging off of green vines.  The color scheme is from Color Throwdown 76.  Again, I had to improvise a little on the colors and get them as close as I could.

Stamps:  NONE!
Paper:  Patterned paper, olive, pale yellow and raspberry cardstock.
Ink:  NONE!
Extras:  heart punch, olive gel pen; Sizzis skittle dee doo alpha die, rapsberry patterned ribbon.

Well, it's late and I'm up as usual, but not for much longer.

Blessings!


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New Year Rockin Stars - 2S4Y Challenge

Another challenge for the new year for 2Sketches4You.  I made these as New Year's giftcard holder cards for my sons.  I left the middle of the center border as a pocket for the gift cards (see third picture).  

 

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Stamps:  Your Rock and Guitar from Recollections, I believe.

Paper:  DP is DCWV, The Rockstar Stack.  Black and powder blue cardstock from stash.

Ink: Versamark with black fine emboss powder.

Extras:  Black ribbon; Star die cut. Scallop border punch.

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Holiday Birthday & Snow Peace

 

Holiday Birthday - 2S4Y 41

Today's first post is a birthday card for my dad whose birthday is December 23rd.  I like to try and give him regular birthday cards since his special day is around the holidays.  This time I did incorporate the Christmas colors into his card as well as his love of lighthouses.  This card was done for the 2 Sketches 4 You bonus challenge.  Don't know why but I skipped right over their first sketch of the challenge and went right for the bonus!

Stamps:  Lighthouse stamp and Birthday sentiment.
Paper:  Cream and red cardstock; DP green plaid and pine textured paper.
Ink:  Versamark with Rich Red emboss powder for sentiment.  Basic black for lighthouse stamp.
Embellishments:  Cuttlebug mosaic emboss folder; scallop punch; Sizzix swirl die cut; Sizzix photo corners; Le Plume markers on stamp; green brad and red plaid ribbon.



Snow Peace -- PPA21

In thinking about all the people snowed in today all over the country, my second card is a holiday winter theme.  It is all my own creation, sketch and all but I did it in mind for the PPA21 challenge of a winter wonderland.  In the back of my mind was this snowman face and after sketching it out, it's finally done.  He was very fun to create.

Stamps:  Peace sentiment.
Paper:  White and canary cardstock; star and blue stripe DP from stash.
Ink:  VersaMagic Cloud White and white emboss powder.
Embellishments:  Royal gel pen for trim around hat; White flocking powder; Sizzix star dies; buttons, thread and clear gem.


Happy Winter Wonders!


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