Twinkling Tuesday - MTTSC24

Madelynn's back with a super sketch...so here it is!

And here's what I made. It's a quick, easy card this week since it's my scrappin' week, and most of my focus is on my scrapbooking class tonight. I figured I'd do a fun "boyish" type card. It's easy for me to come up with girlish cards - but harder to make fun boy cards, which is funny since I HAVE 2 boys.
Check out the other creations of the Twinkling Tuesday team members - and this week Madelynn came up with an AWESOME card. I'm guessing she'll post it on her Twinkling Tuesday blog sometime today. I saw it this morning and it's adorable! Have a great Tuesday! Happy stamping. Hugs, Darla

Twinkling Tuesday MTTSC23

Another beautiful spring day here in Chicagoland, and it's Twinkling Tuesday time! This week we have another guest Sketch Man - Jacky, Madelynn's younger brother. Here is his sketch, and here's what I came up with. I substituted the circle for a star in the middle. I copied this owl from a card in the June issue of Stampin' Success magazine. So fun! I figured since it's almost graduation time, I would make a graduation type card. I didn't have small words for congratulations graduate, so I substituted "Celebrate" and "One smart cookie" instead. I had to figure out what to do with those little tabs on the sides. This was fun to make. It uses lots of different SU punches and a great way to use up scraps! Enjoy!

Twinkling Tuesday MTTSC22

Today is beautiful spring Twinkling Tuesday - YEA! We have a guest designer this week - Kimmie Doktor's son Nicky. Instead of a sketch to follow, we had 3 colors to include in our card: orange, purple and blue. Hmmm....what an intereting color combo. I wasn't sure what I thought at first, but I like how it looks! Great job Nicky! So, here's what I came up with.

This is an awesome new technique that apparently someone showed at a Stampin' Up! Seattle Regional, and it has been spreading like wildfire across the country. I watched a video tutorial from Patty Bennett to get the details. I used shimmery white cardstock, and embossed the flowers from Fifth Avenue Floral with white embossing powder. Then use a spray bottle to make water puddles in the flower. Choose a couple colors of re-inkers and add a drop or two of each on a plastic plate. Using an aquapainter (or wet paintbrush) pick up a dab of color from the re-inker dot, and touch each puddle of water in the embossed flower petals, and it instantly fills the whole space with color. COOL! Then you can go back and add coordinating colors to shade the flower as you desire. It doesn't matter if it goes out of the lines, because you'll be cutting it out after it dries. This is a fun and addicting technique. Give it a try!
The colors of re-inkers I used were Pumpkin Pie, Apricot Appeal, Orchid Opulence, and Bashful Blue. (All Stampin' Up!)

If you'd like to play along with this weeks sketch, you can upload your card using the title MTTSC22. It's great fun! And check out all the wonderful creations of the Twinkling Tuesdays team members. Their links are on the sidebar.

Happy and creative stamping!
Darla

Why I didn't make the Twikling Tuesday challenge this week...

Sorry no card this week! My parents are here from Utah, and my son was baptized this weekend. It's been a very busy weekend...hence...no card today! :-( In our church, the children get baptized when they are 8 years old, and my son just turned 8 a couple weeks ago. It was a neat weekend. My husband baptized him. So, here we are..my hubby Jack and my son Brandon (in their white clothes right before he was baptized) and myself. Next week I'll be back on track for the challenge! I'm looking forward to checking out all the Twinkling team members' blogs to see the great creations. (Tomorrow after my parents fly home!)

Twinkling Tuesdays...Ribbit!

That time of the week again. Our guest sketch man this week is Madelyn's younger brother Nick, who loves frogs. So, it's frog fest this week! No sketch to follow - just frogs or other little critters. This is a quickie-as I have scrapbooking class tonight and that's my focus on the 4th Tuesday and Wednesday of the month. I used the Unfrogettable set - which is a retired Stampin' Up! set. Such a fun set! I realized looking at the picture that the ribbon end is about stabbing the poor frog in the eye!Ouch! Oh well...enjoy! Check out the other Twinkling Tuesday's gals creations - I'm sure there are some fun cards on those blogs!

Twinkling Tuesday again

Happy Tuesday everyone. This week's sketch is broght to us by Madelynn's 7 year old brother, Jack. Great sketch Jack! I used one of my new favorite Stampin' Up! sets, Fifth Avenue Floral. Paper is Kiwi Kiss, Basic Black, Glossy white, and Naturals White. Ink is Kiwi Kiss and Basic Black. Also used - Word Window Punch, and mini brads. The sentiment comes from the set "Simply Said".
Check out what the Twinkling Tuesday team gals have come up with. You can also check out the Twinkling Tuesday blog with our featured Stamper, Bonnie. Link is in the right hand column. Enjoy!

A cup of tea...

I learned how to make these "mug" cards a long time ago, and decided to use my Fifth Avenue Floral set with it and make a more spring-like card. This might be fun for mother's day. I used Baja Breeze Cardstock with matching ink, glossy cardstock and Basic Black for the flower, and it's using 1/2 piece of cardstock. (cut 8 1/2 x 4 1/4 folded in half, and then the remaining cardstock folded and cut into a handle. FUN!

Twinkling Tuesday again...

It's that magical day of the week again - Twinkling Tuesday with Madelynn. This week's sketch was a bit of a challenge for me. I didn't get in the groove and kind of had to force myself with this one. I used Baja Breeze, one of my favorite colors, and Baroque Motifs, a nice classy set. My original visions of this sketch weren't looking as good on paper as they did in my head. Oh well....next week will hopefully flow easier! Check out the other creations by the talented Twinkling Tuesday gals. Thier blog addys are in the right hand column.

Twinkling Tuesday again!

Our Twinkling Tuesday challenge this week was to use a stamp that we have not used before. You know...the stamp that you just HAD to have, but haven't used yet. So, this is hostess set "God's Beauty" was the first hostess set I picked out in the new Stampin' Up! catalog. However, I hadn't used the Butterfly yet. And I haven't used this sentiment yet from the "Smarty Pants" set. I paired them together in this card. This card is totally CASED (Copy and steal everything)from my friend Julia's card below. I just changed the color combo and the punch, and whaa laa...a new card! Thanks for the idea, Julia!
Check out all the other wonderful cards from the talented Twinkling Tuesday gals in the right hand column.
Recipe: Tangerine Tango and Natural white cardstock, Kiwi Kiss, Tangerine Tango and Basic Black Ink, God's Beauty and Smarty Pants stamp sets, watercolor pencils and blender pens, eyelet lace punch, kiwi kiss striped ribbon, leaf wheel

My friend Julia's card...that I copied to make my card!

Baseball fun...instead of Twinkling Tuesday challenge

Our Twinkling Tuesday challenge this week was do make a card based on a Mickey (as a park ranger) and Minnie Mouse romance and wedding. I don't have any Disney type stamps, and couldn't think of an original wedding type card based on the challenge. Sorry! Plus, I have scrapbooking class tonight and tomorrow night, so I'm busy getting all ready for that. I'm posting a baseball scrapbook page instead of the card for this week. We made this layout last fall in scrapbook class.
Check out what the other Twinkling Tuesdays team members have come up with - they're a creative bunch and I'm sure there are some awesome cards that rocked the challenge.

Twinkling Tuesday time again...

It's spring break week here in Chicagoland, so life is a little more hectic this week. My time is not my own for awhile! Here is the sketch and my creation. This is a retired set, but it's fun. I guess it would have to be the right type of person to give this card to. Ha ha ha... Enjoy!

Twinkling Tuesday Color Sketch Challenge

Here are the colors for our Twinkling Tuesday challenge of the week. Below is my creation, and in the right hand column are links to the other Twinkling Team members, and what they did with this color combo - check it out!

Long Time Friend - Tile Style!

It's Twinkling Tuesdays time again! And it's St. Patrick's day too - so Happy St. Patty's day! This week's sketch challenge wasn't using a particular sketch, but a color challenge. The colors to use were: Garden Green, Close to Cocoa, and Whisper White.
It was a beautiful spring day yesterday, so I was in the spring mode...and hadn't used this retired Stampin' Up! set for awhile - Long Time Friend. I pulled it out and used a technique I haven't used for awhile - the Tile technique. Enjoy!

Supplies used: Sets; Long Time Friend, Weathered Background, and Linen Background (All Stampin' Up!) Garden Green, Close to Cocoa, Whisper white, and Brocade Blue cs, Basic Brown ink for image, close to cocoa ink for background,(creamy caramel for linen background on top of image) watercolor pencils and blender pens, versamark pad with ultra thick embossing powder for tile effect, grosgrain ribbon, oval punches. The versamark pad with embossing powder makes the cocoa cardstock look much darker.

Twinkling Tuesdays Sketch 13

So, above is the sketch that Jacky, age 6 1/2 came up with (let's not forget the paper piercing!!!) And below is my card, made using the sketch as a template. I figured, since a guy came up with the sketch, I would make a more "masculine" type card. Fun sketch Jack - good job!

Loves me...loves me not....LOVES ME!

I wanted to use a bunch of scrap white cardstock, so I stamped the petals on it from "Pick a Petal" Stampin' Up! set. I cut them out and made flowers on a scrapbook page, with one of the flowers being 'picked' with the loves me, loves me not idea. I don't know if my son is that crazy about being on a scrapbook page with flowers on it, (he's all boy!)but I think it turned out fun.

Think Spring...think spring...think spring!!!

I can't tell you how excited I am that winter is winding down and spring is on the way. So, I pulled out my Inspired by Nature set to play with last night. Here are a couple cards I made. I colored the stamp with markers, then lightly misted it before stamping. I used the linen background stamp on it, to give it a different texture.
Fun! I'm hoping if I stamp with flowers, that I'll be encouraging spring to come a little faster! We can only hope...

Here's the sketch challenge....

This is my first official "Sketch Challenge". So, here's the sketch...and below is the creation!

My first Design team sketch!!!

This was a fun card to come up with - it's my very first design team sketch challenge. I am now a proud member of Madelynn's Twinkling Tuesday design team, and this is sketch challenge number 12. I couldn't decide if I liked it better with a cupcake in each corner, or a cupcake in 3 of the corners with just the sentiment in the corner instead of a cupcake. What do you think?

I used Stampin' Up! Raspberry Tart DSP, Pink Pirouette and Regal Rose cardstock, Stampin' Up! markers, Dazzling Diamonds on top of Liquid applique for the frosting, Large oval punch for sentiment, 3/4 inch punch for small punched out cupcakes, and 1 inch circle punch for the DSP circles under the cupcakes image. Great sketch Madelynn!

Cute as a bug!

I used my retired "Build a Bug" set to create this page. I have never gotten rid of it becuase it's such a fun set. I have such cute nieces and nephews that I thought this set would be a fun way to showcase them.

More summer time fun pages

I saw a popsicle card, and I thought, what the heck...I can put that on a page! So I added the popsicles as part of the title decoration.
The page layout was a little more work than my normal scrapbook class pages - coloring in the images, punching stars and making popsicles...but it all adds to the warmer season theme.

Let's throw a card in here!

Stampin' Up's annual "Sale-a-bration" sale is in full swing till March 31st. Here is a card made using the Polka Dot punches sale-a-bration set. It's embossed with white, punched with circle punch, and Bella Rose paper accenting it, with a Satin bow around it. Quick and easy - that's how I usually make my cards!

Camping with Grandma and Grandpa

More SUMMER pictures here! This is kind of a fun layout, but in thinking about how thick the pages are - the hemp that I used to tie the tags on is pretty darn thick hemp, and makes the page pretty bumpy. Note to self: use thinner hemp!

Picnic Fun

I felt like throwing a few "summer type" pages in here, since I'm so sick of winter! After one of my scrappin friends made this page at class last year and brought it home, her 10 year old son asked, "Why are the ants carrying the chips TO the basket instead of AWAY from the basket?" Hmmmm....good question! So I need to re-create this page with the basket and the tablecloth switching places!

Celebrate your day

As I'm looking at the pages I've posted so far, I realize I've used a lot of BLUE! Maybe that's because I have 2 boys - 2 very active ALL BOY boys. I'll try and take some pictures of other, more feminie type pages and post them later on. I used my Big Shot with the large Scallop Circle Die. And of course the scallop punch along the bottom. The Crazy for Cupcakes set (Stampin' Up!) is one of my favorite sets right now. So darn cute!

Bundle up Baby....it's COLD outside!

This winter has been a tough, cold, snowy winter...especially for those of us living in Chicagoland. So the title of the page is especially applicable!
I used 1 1/4 inch squares (punched out using my square punch). I wanted to use a bunch of my scraps of cardstock, so I used my Big Shot and some Cuttlebug embossing templates to give the cardstock some fun texture.

A trip to Nauvoo

This is a layout that you could use for a variety of themes. Every year, our family goes to Nauvoo, a little town on the Mississippi River that has been restored to the 1840's time period. We learn how they made rope, bricks, candles, horseshoes, wagonwheels, bread in the bustle oven, etc.. We love the oxen pulled wagon ride too - especially when we get to meet and pet the oxen.

They look like such Angels while they're sleeping!

Nothing is sweeter than the face of a sleeping child. Here we have a sleeping page. There is a bed on the right hand side of the page - but I missed the bedframe when I took the picture. oops!

Lego time~!

I teach a scrapbooking class, and I've had a few requests to come up with a lego page. In my monthly class, we make 3 double page spreads in a 3 hour class, so the pages have to be relatively simple. Here's an easy idea to make legos. Just use a 3/4inch square punch for the larger legos, and a 1/4 square punch on the small legos. The size of the legos along the bottom is 4 inches wide and 2 1/2 inches tall, using the square punch along the top.

Starting out!

Okay...I'm making a commitment now...I'm creating a blog dedicated for scrapbooking and stamping. Maybe sometime if I find a great recipe, I'll even post that. I'll use this blog to post pictures of scrapbook pages, as well as cards and maybe even some gift ideas. Here we go!