Happy Birthday Circles

Lil' Inker Designs is celebrating their third birthday. They have a fun challenge up and I am playing along.  You can read all the Challenge Details HERE.

I was inspired by the cluster of balloons in the Inspiration Photos. I don't have any of their balloon dies, BUT I have those freakin' amazing Stitched Mats-Circle dies, so that's what I used.. LOOOOVE them.

 At first I just cut out a bunch of circles from pattern paper. Once I arranged them on my card front, I felt like they needed just a little something else. Then.....I remembered the added feature of these dies.....the stitching is left on the positive AND the negative. It was perfect! I lined up the biggest circle I used onto my card base where I wanted those large circle to be. Then I cut them out of the white card stock, leaving behind a great stitched detail. I simply placed the pattern paper circle right back into the negative space.

The sentiment is from Flags and Tags and I used the matching dies to cut out the banner piece.  I embossed the sentiment with some neon green embossing powder. Yum!  A few festive enamel dots were scattered throughout.  I used a Sno Cone card base to mount my image panel on to. 

Here's the inspiration photo from this challenge.  Come Play along. There is an amazing prize up for grabs. 

and here are the Products I used:

A Challenge with Friends

Hello, hello! I'm a little late for my challenge post, but I know my friends won't mind...... Becky Carafa and Jackie Pedro.  We met many years ago because of a Swap Group we were a part of. That was in our Stampin' Up years. I've been lucky enough to have met  Becky  in RIL and although I have yet to meet Jackie, I have had the privilege of working with her on the MFT DT.  I love these gals. ♥♥   Last month we played along with a challenge together. We decided it was time to do it again. 

Becky picked it this month-CASE a project from any Stampin'Up! catty. Easy peasy and a nod to our early stamping years. While I don't use a lot of SU products anymore,  I do love getting the SU catalog every year. It is jam packed with inspiration.


 I went with a card from Pg. 119 from the current catty (the one in the upper right corner). I used a similar layout, just changed the orientation. I adored the vellum flower on that card, so I made one of my own. I also loved the texture in the background with the embossing folder, so I used my new Triangle Screen Die-namcis from MFT to create a similar feel on my card. I went ahead and added back in a few triangle pieces, here and there for some added interest. 

I decided to use a pretty fall combo with the new MFT colors Fuse Green and Brick Red. I added a pinking edge in SU Basic Grey cs.  I used the smalled flower from Upsy Daisy Die-namics (all links listed below. click the graphics to shop). I cut two of the flowers and stacked them on top of each other for added dimension. 

The stamps are from the gorgeous Reverse Confetti stamp set, Peacock Pretties. I loooove that circle sentiment, I stamped it in Amuse Slate ink and cut it out with a Circle Stax 2 Die-namics. The Hello Friend sentiment was stamped in Brick Red ink and the other border stamp was stamped in Fuse Green ink. 

I lightened the whole card up by adding the decorative panel to a Sno cone base. After I had the card together, I decided it needed one more pop of color and that was when I added in the two Royal Leaves in Sno Cone. It was the bit of balance the card needed. 

That's it from me. Be sure to join me and come check out what Becky and Jackie created. I know it will be gorgeous!

Products:

SSS191 {cake and ice cream}

It's time for the next Sweet Sunday Sketch. Are you ready for some fun??!! I think you're gonna love it. I do. I always have fun with a sketch that includes any kind of circle element. I ♥ circles. 

I used the Lil' Inkers Stitched Matts-circle Die to cut my larger circle out of the Kraft cs. It left a negative space so I could fill it with another yummy circle that I cut with MFT's Circle Stax 1 Die-namics in Sno Cone cs. I then stamped Lots of Dots (Reverse Confetti) in Sweet Tooth ink. So happy to have a white AND cream pigment ink to work with. 

I took advantage of the Reverse Confetti Birthday Sale last week and picked up few of the sets I didn't have yet. Love them! This one is Celebrate Cake. I used the new SU In Colors to make a yummy cone and to stamp my sentiment.  Here's a close up of the main image. 

Following the sketch, I tucked in a few fishtail banners from MFT Die-namics (see list below) and added a few sequins. Have you jumped on the sequin trend yet? It's fun and such a sweet embellie to add to almost any card. 

Here is this week's sketch. 

Be sure to hop on over to Karen's Blog for all the challenge details and for the link list.  We want you to play along! 

Before you go, be sure to stop by the rest of the Sweet Sunday Sketch Crews' blogs. 

Dana White 

Dawn Easton 

Jackie Pedro 

Jodi Collins 

Karen Giron 

Karen Motz 

Lori Tecler 

Lynn Put (sitting out this week)

 Melissa Hubert 

Sarah-Jane Kalé 

Tracy Clemente 

Vicki Burdick 

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MFT WSC137 {thank-you plaid}

I LOVED this week's sketch, and I loooooove the new Plaid Background Builder stamp set. If you were on FB the other day, you might have seen my post. I said the set should have a warning on it.....Addicting. hahaha! 

Here's my card. 

So yesterday's card I used only a single stamp to create lines in Fuse Green. Today.....I have full on Plaid and I just adore my color combo-fuse, berrylicious, and a touch of Steel Blue. 

I used the new Lisa Johnson set, Grand Greetings. This one is my favorite, something about that angled word. ♥

I used some bits and pieces from a few Blueprints Die-namics sets and finished this off with a flower created with the Flower Medley Die-namics. I added  a few polka dots from Darling Dots in the new Sweet Tooth ink...... It's yummy, I tell you! Some twine and a Sno Cone button complete the cuteness. 

There is a new way to play along with the WSC sketch challenge. Link up on the MFT Blog. You can read all the details HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today. I have a Unity card for you tomorrow and another challenge with Heather. I hope you'll pop on by to check it out. 

Happy Friday!!

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