The Deconstructed Sketch No. 204

Hello there!

Welcome to the final edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

For my last card, I wanted to use my favorite papers, stamps, and dies to create something to express my gratitude to Jen for choosing me to be on her team 120+ sketches ago. It has been fun and challenging. I love how her sketches always stretch me to see things differently and try new things.

Thank you Jen, and all of the members of the Design Team for inspiring me to become a better papercrafter. It has been an awesome ride!

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired  by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults
• Kadie Ensley 
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  
• Tracey Pickersgill 

If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Stamps: Many Thanks {Mama Elephant}

Dies: Thanks Script {Mama Elephant}, Cross Stitch Circle STAX, Blueprints 25 {My Favorite Things}

Paper: Nightmist {Bazzil}, Homespun {Simple Stories}

Embellishments: Tag {American Crafts}, Silk Ribbon, Crochet Trim {May Arts}, Twine {Hemptique}, Sparkling Clear Sequins {Pretty Pink Posh}

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 198

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has a super fun and unique sketch for us to play with this week. I really enjoyed it.

This time around, I used my all-time favorite stamp and die set from Mama Elephant: Up and Away. Those little critters just make me happy. I also used the fabulous Birthday Creative Cuts and Cross My Heart stamp set as well as Lawn Fawn's Beachside Pint-Sized Patterns 6x6 paper pad. I used Copics to color the animals and balloons and then added a coat of glossy accents to the balloons for a little extra fun.

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults
• Kadie Ensley 
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  
• Tracey Pickersgill  (sitting out this week)

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 195

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

I haven't been feeling too good this week, so I kind of took the quick and easy route on this card. 

The fun thing about this sketch is you can dress it up or down... so versatile! 

I used We R Memory Keepers Inked Rose collection this week along with the tiny sentiment stamp from Mama Elephant's Hello stamp set.

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults
• Kadie Ensley  (posting later this week)
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  
• Tracey Pickersgill  

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 187

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of  The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has created another great sketch for us this week.

For my card today, I used Mama Elephant's Cross My Heart stamp set with My Mind's Eye Now & Then Izzy "Happenings" paper. 

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Kadie Ensley
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  
• Tracey Pickersgill  

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 178

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

This week, Jen has a circle sketch for us to work with. It is also a two-week sketch, so we will be using this one until after the US Thanksgiving holiday next Thursday.

I have to admit that circle cards are always a bit of a challenge for me, but this week I was ready to take it on, and take it one step further! I have never jumped on the whole shaker card band wagon, mostly because I like to go my own way and not take after trends. It seems like "everyone" is doing shaker cards lately, so I have steered away from doing so. Buuuuut.... I have seen some really cool ones floating around blogland this holiday season, AND I just got some gorgeous new sequins from Pretty Pink Posh, sooooooo, I hopped on this shaker card band wagon with everyone else! And, I have to say, it's pretty fun! ☺

I started by cutting a couple of 5" circles on my Silhouette Cameo, then layered on some papers from the 25th & Pine 6x6 paper pad by Basic Grey and then die-cut the deer using Mama Elephant's Winter Wonderland Creative Cuts from gold foil paper. The stamps are all from the coordinating Winter Wonderland stamp set. I didn't have any clear acetate, so I found an old 12x12 sheet by Hambly that had some printed frames on it, and just cut the circle out of that. Yay! I used 4 mm Marshmallow, 6 mm Marshmallow, 4 mm Sparkling Clear Sequins by Pretty Pink Posh and some Glass Glitter by Melissa Frances inside the shaker.

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  --- back with us this week! Yay!
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

I will also be linking this up to the Mama Elephant and Me Challenge Blog. The challenge for November is Holiday Cards and Tags!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day! 

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 176

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has another fabulous sketch for us to work with this week!

I had so much fun with this one. I finally had time to pull out some new goodies and put them to use! I recently ordered the new Songbirds stamp and die set as well as the Holiday Double Cuts die set from Papertrey Ink and have been anxious to get them out and create with them. Today's sketch was a perfect fit! I also recently placed a first time order with Pretty Pink Posh and received the Stitched Borders 1 Dies and an assortment of gorgeous sequins. You can see that I managed to use those products on this card as well! ☺

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Kim O'Connell  
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain  (sitting out this week)
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day! 

Supplies used:
Paper: Classic Kraft, Vintage Cream, Ocean Tides {Papertrey Ink}, Peppermint {Bazzill}, Joyous {My Mind's Eye}, Gold Vellum
Dies: Songbirds, Holiday Doublecuts {Papertrey Ink}, Femme Frames, Dainty Bow Creative Cuts {Mama Elephant}, Stitched Borders I Die {Pretty Pink Posh}
Stamps: Songbirds {Papertrey Ink}
Other: Memento Toffee Crunch Ink {Tsukineko}, 4mm Marshmallow Sequins {Pretty Pink Posh}

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 174

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

For my card this week, I used some brand new Mama Elephant stamps (I super love this set!) and some fun new paper from Authentique that I picked up from my LSS yesterday. I stamped the snowflakes from Mama Elephant's Season's Greetings set on the polka dot background paper, and then heat embossed the sentiment from the same set with Zing! Black embossing powder. Some trims from May Arts and the Embellished Tag die from Mama Elephant finish things off. Pretty simple today...

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see how they were inspired by this week's sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Kim O'Connell  (sitting out this week)
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain 
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day! 

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 163

Hello there!

Welcome to another edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has another awesome sketch for us this week -- so full of possibilities! The DT has so many different takes on it. I always love to see how everyone interprets the same sketch. Creativity is so fun!

.......

I sometimes have a little trouble coming up with a color starting point... there are just so many options to choose from, and I don't like to get stuck in a rut, just using my favorite colors over and over again. Well, I came across this website called Design Seeds (that is probably not new to anyone else except me!) :) and it is FULL of wonderful color inspiration!

I chose this as my inspiration piece:

...and came up with this:

I had a lot of fun with my little Cuttlebug and several new and old favorite dies. I also used a Tim Holtz stencil and embossing paste for the background texture.

Here is the list of the other Design Team members so you can check out what amazing things they have created using this week's awesome sketch!

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults
• Kim O'Connell
• Sheri Gilson
• Tammy Hershberger
• Tangii Crain 
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog!

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your day!

Supplies used:

Paper: Nightmist, Candy Hearts, Cotton Candy {Bazzill}, April Lovely (Core'dinations}, Vintage Cream {Papertrey Ink}, Mint to Be {Avery Elle}

Dies: Darling Poppies, Effera Butterfly Wings, Rhone Butterfly Wings {Memory Box}, Fishtail Flags STAX {My Favorite Things}, Hello Script {Mama Elephant}

Other: Tim Holtz Gothic Stencil {Stamper's Anonymous}, Wendy Vecchi Embossing Paste {Dreamweaver Stencils}

You Brighten My Life

Hello there!

I have a fun little card to share today.

My bff/roommate is a nurse and commissioned me to make a thank you card for another nurse who helped her out recently.

When I saw Lawn Fawn's latest release with the new Get Well Soon stamp set, I knew we had to have it! Not necessarily for get well cards, but for all kinds of nursing related cards. That little bird is just the cutest!

I also used the Spring Showers die set, and a sentiment from the Life is Good stamp set. The thank you sentiments are from Mama Elephant's awesome Many Thanks stamp set. The papers are from Lawn Fawn's Let's Polka 6x6 petite paper pack.

I am linking this up to Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Challenge for June which is just to share something you create!

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 156

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has created a super fun sketch with lots of layers for us this week!

I decided to pull out one of my favorite 6x6 paper pads -- Fresh Cut by Basic Grey -- and start there with the inspiration for my card. I just love the colors and patterns in this collection... they make me happy!

The beautiful Lunette Butterfly die is by Memory Box and the sentiment is from the Water Blooms stamp set by Mama Elephant. The fabulous ribbon is by May Arts.

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see the amazing creations they have come up with using this week's fantastic sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Joanne Basile (sitting out this week)
• Kadie Ensley
• Kim O’Connell 
• Sheri Gilson (sitting out this week)
• Tangii Crain 
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog! 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 153

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

For my card this week, I finally got to play with Mama Elephant's new Splendid stamp set aaaaand I FINALLY got my hands on some embossing paste! Yay!

Earlier this week, Laura Bassen posted a video showing how to color the paste with Tim Holtz Distress Ink, so I gave that a try and I love the way it turned out. I can't wait to play around with this fun product some more!

I did some selective inking to separate the sentiment and white heat embossed the word "awesome" on the Mama Elephant Bold Banner Creative Cuts Die to really make it stand out.

Some Studio Calico gold stars and May Arts silk ribbon finish things off.

Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see the amazing creations they have come up with using this week's fantastic sketch:

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults 
• Joanne Basile 
• Kadie Ensley
• Kim O’Connell
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain
• Tracey Pickersgill 

I hope you are inspired to give this fabulous sketch a try. If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog! 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!

Mama Elephant Photo Inspiration Challenge

Hi there!

Just popping in to share a card I made for Mama Elephant's Photo Inspiration Challenge. I have been trying to play along all month, but life just kept getting in the way, so I am getting this in just before the challenge ends. Of course, I have to play because there is an awesome prize to be won: a 6-month spot on the ME Challenge Team. Mama Elephant is my FAVORITE stamp company, so I at least have to try! :)

Here is the inspiration photo:

And here is my take:

I absolutely love the new Hello die and of course, the Femme Frames is one of my favorite ME products. I used watercolor paper, and did a broad swipe of color and traced the letters with clear Wink of Stella.

Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy your day!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 141

Hello there!

Are you ready for another fabulous Deconstructed Sketch? Jen has created another awesome sketch for us to work from this week!

I combined a couple of Mama Elephant stamp sets on this card. I just love that sentiment on the fishtail banner: I say that to my sisters and best friend all the time, so I had to have this set as soon as I saw it!

The beautiful cardstock is Papertrey Ink's new Tropical Teal. Love this color!

Stamps used: Filigree, Water Blooms {Mama Elephant}

Thanks so much for stopping by! Here is the list of the other DT members so you can see the fabulous creations they have made with the sketch this week!

• Arielle Gordon
• Cresta Woodruff
• Jen Shults
• Joni Wilson
• Joanne Basile
• Judy Rozema
• Kadie Ensley
• Kim O'Connell
• Lori Boyd
• Sheri Gilson
• Tangii Crain
• Tracey Pickersgill

If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog! 

Hope your day is awesome!

The Deconstructed Sketch No. 134

Hello there!

Welcome to this week's edition of The Deconstructed Sketch!

Jen has another fantastic sketch for us to work with this week... I just love it! So many possibilities... I can't wait to see how you all interpret it this week!

I also used the inspiration photo from the Mama Elephant blog for my card today.

To create my card, I used the Fair Feathers Creative Cuts and coordinating stamp set by Mama Elephant, as well as a sentiment from the Hello stamp set. The tiny little arrow is from the Embellished Tag Creative Cuts. The heart border die is from Savvy Dies, the embossing folder is Anna Griffin for Cuttlebug, and the patterned paper is Yours Truly by Pebbles.

Be sure to visit the other DT members to see what amazing creations they have come up with using this week's sketch! Here is the list:

Arielle Gordon

Cresta Woodruff 

Jen Shults

Joni Wilson

Judy Rozema 

Kadie Ensley (sitting out this month)

Kim O'Connell

Lori Boyd 

Sheri Gilson

Tangii Crain

Tracey Pickersgill

If you want to play along with us at The Deconstructed Sketch this week, the linky tool and details are over on Jen's blog! 

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your day!