SSSC190-Birthday Cinnamon

Hello and welcome. It's time for the next Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  I inked up the Cinnamon Spice girl from There She Goes and created a fun teen birthday card. I thought the Amy Tangerine-sketch book papers would be a great fit with this image. 

Here's my card:

The sketch is another good one. Aren't they always?!!  I LOVE the cluster of images in the corner and the two long strip elements. Here you can see the sketch, now.

I used a few MFT Die-namcis for those border strips. I cut the Harlequin Border from the hot pink woodgrain paper and the Small Open Scallop border from a green polka dotted print. I love the pink and green combo. 

I colored her up with my copic markers and pieced the heart on her dress with some of the same green polka dot print. Speaking of Paper Piecing....there are two paper piecing  challenges  going on right now. I am linking this up for both. 

• The There She Goes Challenge 218 this week is Piecing and I just so happened to use a TSG stamp set. Yes, I did plan that. 

• I also stumbled upon the Crazy 4 Challenges blog lately. It's chuck full of a fabby, talented DT. You should check it out, if you haven't. This is my first time playing along. Thanks to Sarah Gough's post yesterday. This week's challenge, C4C197 is also paper piecing. Love that!

For my embellishment cluster, I used a stamp from the same set (TSG-Cinnamon), a button, and a rolled flower. I stamped the hearts onto some more pattern paper from the same paper pack and added a bit more color with some Copics. I gave it a touch of glam with a bit of Distress Glitter. You can't really tell in the picture but I also touched the edges of the rolled flower with the glitter, too. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to play along and link up your card, using this Sweet Sunday Sketch 190 to Karen's Blog. 

Need more inspiration?? Check out the gorgeous samples from the SSSC DT. 

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Jodi Collins 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put

Melissa Hubert 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

See you later. 

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Sweet Sunday Sketch! no.188

It's a fabulous day for a Sketch Challenge. I'm so excited for my first offical post with the Sweet Sunday Sketch team. I had a lot of fun with this week's sketch, and I'm sure you will too. You have two weeks to play. I hope you'll find some time to play along.

We are in full on Summer Mode around here. We just spent a long weekend at the lake and swim suits and flip flops are pretty much the dress code all day long out there. Life really is better in Flip Flops!

This stamp and sentiment are from  Unity's July KOM-Spirit of Summertime! It's such a fun mix of Summer! 

Here is a close up of the fun flip flops. I colored them with my Copics and added a spritz of color with my SU Color Spritzer. I did the same thing to the sentiment circle. 

I cut the sentiment out with my Circle Stax 1 & 2 Die-namics and then tied on some of my favorite Hemp Twine and topped my double bow with a small little daisy.  Cute, huh?? The Open Scallop border is also from MFT (you can find any of the products I used in the links below). 

Here is the sketch:

Be sure to link up directly to your blog post or gallery image which features your card to Karen's Blog with SSC188.  Here is the list of inspiration from the Sweet Sunday crew. 

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Jodi Collins 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put-on break 

Melissa Hubert -on break

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope you have had a great weekend and the start of your week is even better!

SSSC187-you're awesome

Today I am playing along with this week's Sweet Sunday Sketch. I love Karen's sketches and the DT is awesome. I always get excited when I can play along.  If you have been around my blog for awhile, then you'll know I am a sucker for circles. I ♥ this giant circle element for the sketch. I let it take center stag, showing off my sentiment. 
 I needed a card for my neighbor (he's a 12 yr. old boy), that helped us out while we were away on vacation. This  sentiment is from Unity Stamp Co.'s June SMAK kit, Epic Moments.  I Iayered it onto a Circle Stax 1 Die-namics piece that I had first embossed with a Chevron embossing folder. 

On the orange rectangle, I added grid, polka dot background from  April's  KOTM, You Make My Heart Puffy. Love those dots.  I also added an Orange Fizz button to help accent the sentiment.  There's a tiny File Tab Die-namics tucked behind the orange cs layer. I sponged on some Orange Fizz ink to help it stand out a little. 

Here is this week's sketch. Come Play along. SSSC187

I'll see you back tomorrow with some more crafty goodies from me.