Tulle and a Limelight Sketch

It is time for another Limelight sketch and product focus. This week pull out your Tulle and put it to use. I did and boy am I glad. I forget how fun this stuff is and what great texture it can add to your project, and not to mention how pretty it is. Here's the sketch. So, yes, it's another big circle to work with and I was thrilled. This time I decided to give my sewing machine a test run in circular form. I wanted to do a zig zag stitch and it didn't turn out quite right. My circle was more of an ellipse. LOL! Free form, straight stitching was going to work much better for me. I did score a circle on my cs before I began stitching, just so I had a template to follow. When in doubt, take it around two or three times to help "hide" any imperfections.

Here's what I used to make this card.

Stamps: Something Within by Unity. LOVE these quotes. I stamped in Versamark, ran a mellow moss marker over the word Friend, and then clear embossed it. This helped is stand out a bit more on the kraft cs.

Paper: Sugared dp by Basic Grey, kraft, pink pirouette and kraft cs (all SU)

Accessories: Tulle, BitterSweet Brads, Janome sew mini, clear embossing powder

So here are the rest of the deets about the sketch. Read them and come play along! You can win some Tulle!

**Use the sketch provided and think TULLE! You can CERTAINLY be flexible with your interpretation of tulle, and you may definitely skip it if you don't have any!! In fact, we hope you win if you do not have tulle....because we'll get to send you some! :)

**Key word for SCS upload is LLPC021.

**Post a comment with a link to your card Mandy's post by Sunday, May 17th, at midnight (or before winner is drawn Monday a.m

PRIZE ~ Five yards of tulle of the winner's choice!(Winner is chosen randomly from all participants.)

ALL ORDERS of $35 or more will receive one jar of Shimmerz for FREE!! Now's the time to shop!

Check out my fellow DT members for their fabulous take on the sketch. JenMarie, Lee, Amy, Lorie, Mandy, Ryann and our guest designer this month, Amy!

Hugs, Lisa

Backyard Fun

I am so proud of myself for how good I've been keeping up with my scrapping. I guess it helps that I keep finding these great easy sketches to work with. Jennifer Buck took the week off from posting her CAS sketches and I had this one sitting on my desk waiting to be used. I found it on this blog, Bean Talk. You know all that yummy Jillibean Soup dp Becky sent me (btw, Becky it's almost gone. thanks again for sharing) whelp, they have a blog full of cute, inspiring creations. Check it out!

Here's my page. I only had 6x6 pieces of cs, so I cut two different patterns and pieced them together to create a 4x12 strip. I added some zig zag stitching to pull it all together. The title was stamped with the Fresh Alphabet set by PTI in Vintage Cream ink. I cut out a few of the butterflies from another pattern of the JBS paper. Busy, busy week as always this time of year. Hope your week is going well! Enjoy! Lisa

CAS and Some Rock-n-roll!

This week's CAS challenge on SCS is to use the rock-n-roll technique. I inked up the large damask stamp from PTI's Damask Designs with melon berry, rocked with raspberry fizz(love this combo). I think I have mentioned this before, but the PTI Melon Berry color is sooo close to SU's retired Groovy Guava so I was able to use up some textured cs and stitched ribbon (I pulled out the stitching, remember that trick?). Okay, back to the rock-n-roll. I also did the same with the sentiment. This is a birthday card for a dear stamping friend (won't say who, in case she's looking ;) Check out the challenge here. It is now also listed on the homepage of SCS along with the other challenges-yeah! In case you were interested, there is also a DT call for this challenge. Check out those details here. Thank you all for looking! Have a great day! Hugs, Lisa

Birthday Fishies

A quick post for you to get the week going. I made this card almost two weeks ago for a friend's birthday. I love the little fishies from the SU set, Just Beachy (you can order it now from the Occasions mini, contact me to place your order). I combined it with a PTI Pond Life sentiments set to make it into a cute birthday card. I used my slot punch to create the waves and the Good Morning Sunshine dsp was a perfect background for the "water". The layout is from this awesome blog, Clean & Simple. I used Fall to Layout #39. Have a great start to your week!

Hugs, Lisa

First Unity Kit Challenge

Here it is, the last of my Unity Birthday Challenge cards. Jimmi asked for us to create with our first Unity kit we ever purchased. I know I told you yesterday and if you have been following my blog you already know how much I {{{{heart}}}} Giggle Grove. It was what started it all! Here's what I did, a Pop-Up card. Closed... ...and Opened!Eeeee! I just think it turned out great! Yes, I love myself (in my best Jan Tink voice!). I included some other firsts with this card. The chocolate card base is stamped with my first Unity background-distressed dots, and the sentiment is from my first Unity KOTM-November. This set is also dear to me since I got my first publication in CARDS magazine using it. Okay, I'm outie! Enjoying a quick visit to MI with my BFF from college! Happy Mother's Day to all you fabulous MOMs out there! Hugs, Lisa

The Pressure is Off

After last weeks whirlwind of challenges for a chance to win some AMAZING prizes, I feel free this week to create just for the fun of Hip Hop! I was able to crank out 4 cards yesterday. I had some fun with my old favorite, Giggle Grove as well as the April KOTM! Here are my Hip Hop Challenge cards.

This card was made completely from scraps! Not hard to do in my craft room. I have a big ol' basket full of all my paper scraps, big and small (it is about time to sort through it though, it's getting pretty full). The ribbon and linen thread are even little scraps I had laying around. The images are from my April KOTM. I colored the sweet little birdie with copics. The dp is by American Crafts.

The other HH challenge was to create a card for some challenge already posted, either in the SCS general challenge section or from last week's Unity Birthday challenges. I did this one (along with another one, I'll share tomorrow) for Jimmi's First Unity Stamp Challenge. Yep, you all know that Giggle Grove was my first Unity kit. I still LOVE it and decided to focus on the birdies for this one. So CAS, gotta love it! Be sure to see what the rest of the Unity Peeps created this week. Find the full list of HHH post here! TGIF!

Hugs, again, Lisa

Stamp Something Birthday-celebrating Melissa!

Okay, it's week two of Stamp Something celebrating it's DT members. Erin and Denise will be choosing new DT members over the next few weeks since most of the DT is movin' on (I'll still be around, so you're stuck with me for a while). When you upload your creation to the Stamp Something Blog, be sure to add DT after your name so they know you are interested. You can enter as many times as you want this month.
This week we are honoring the sweet and talented Melissa. I CASED this card of her's. I love the layout, the colors, and those rounded corners. I changed up the colors just a bit, but since PINK is her favorite color we had to use it on our creation. Join us this week and Stamp Something with a Birthday theme and some pink!

This one is going to my niece who is turning 8 next week. Happy Birthday Peyton! Stop back by later today and check out my Hip Hop Hangover post, did lots of Unity stamping yesterday!

Hugs, Lisa