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!

Zoo Crew and Paper Smooches!

I have loved Paper Smooches stamps from day one. With all my design team work I rarely found time to stamp with other companies products. I am finding it sooooo liberating to create with whatever I want to. I now have the time and I am happy about that!
I picked up Zoo Crew and made sure to ink it up right away. I stuck to some pretty clean and simple designs for my cards. Both of these were made for some challenges on Splitcoast last week. 
I love Alligators.  Not the real ones, but the cute, and whimiscal ones. I also love the saying, "later Gator". So this was my choice when I went to make this card with the sketch on SCS. It was Card sketch 442.  

In place of the oval from the sketch, I opted for the Gator. I stamped him on x-press it blending card stock, colored him with copics,  and then cut him out. I placed him in a grassy panel and tied on some twine. I stamped the sentiment in Steel Blueink. 

Another favorite animal of mine is the giraffe. They are so mesmerizing, graceful, and beautiful. The one in this stamp set is a cutie-pie!

Beate has THIS awesome tutorial on Magical Masking tape. Once I chose my colors, this process was SO fast and I think it made a stunning card. It is an easy technique. You use Glossy cardstock and ink up some masking tape (I used painters tape, it has a lower tack and doesn't stick to your card stock) strips and stamp them onto your background. Once it's dried, you can stamp whatever you want over top of it. 

I used Brown Stazon ink so I didn't have to worry about my image smudging on the Glossy cardstock. My background was created with MFT inks in Lemon Drop, Orange Fizz, and Berrylicious inks.
Thanks so much for stopping by! 

RAK's and Wednesday Sketches

I have been stamping up a storm this past week and reconnected with some challenges out there in Blog land. You'll be seeing those later this week. 
 Today I have a duo of WSC cards. I love using similar product to create totally different cards. It helps stream line the process. Throw in a couple of great sketches and these two cards were done within an hour.   I am also making a point to send out some RAK's!!! It is always fun to brighten someone's day with a handmade card. 

First up is my card for the WSC129 sketch. With Independence Day coming up this week, I knew I wanted to ink up the sweet PI-Lady Liberty. I pieced up her gown, and added some shading with a copic marker. 

The rest of her was colored up with my copics. 

I used these colors to color up Lady Liberty. 

I then cut out some stars with the original Stacking Stars Die-namics and some Nightshift Blue cs. I love that these stars are all connected and I can cut a bunch of stars in a variety of shapes with one pass of my Vagabond.  I tucked in a few sequins for some sparkle. 
Since I had all these papers still out, I also decided to play along with WSC130.  I followed the sketch almost exactly, I just left off the flower element and decided to scatter the rest of the stars I had cut out from my first card over the Heirloom Label Die-namics. 

The sentiment is from the Bold Statements stamp set. It is out of stock right now, It was this month's FREEBIE with the Cherry on Top promotion. Good news is, you can purchase it with the next release when it goes into the general stamping circulation.  It's a fun one. 

I picked up this cool sparkly twine, Metallic Vintage Hemp Twine,  with my order from {iheartpapers} last week. It's so cool. 
Hope your week is starting out GREAT!!! I know for many of you this is a short week with a long holiday weekend in store.