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Retro #64

Today’s card is for a Fabulous Sketch over at Retro Sketches #64.

As soon as I saw it, I was hoping I would have some time to play along.

I have made two additional cards this week and didn’t get either of them linked up on time…UGH!

Hate when that happens, but in the grand scheme of life is that really what matters?

I get upset with myself when I get upset about something so petty when there is tragedy surrounding us each and everyday!

Watching the news just breaks my heart!! Those children and teachers must have been so frightened!

God Bless all of them!

So, today I will be thankful for the little things and the things that don’t get done….really don’t matter after all.

This card is going to a fellow co-worker whom unfortunately is being displaced next year….

but that is another sad story in itself.

Details:

Cardstock : Stampin Up

Stamps: Verve-sentiment and Stamp TV-Lovely labels

Ink: Angel Pink Memento

Tools: Cuttlebug

Embossing folders: Juli’s Garden by Cuttlebug

and Square Lattice by Stampin Up

MS lace border punch, MFT diecut

Acc: flowers

Thanks for dropping by I am thrilled when you do,

CAS…Pastels

May12

Happy Mother’s Day!!

I have for you today the next challenge over

@ CAS on Sunday. The challenge this time is to incorporate

pastels into your creation. I have had a very stressful week, so this

card I will confess had to come together rather quickly. If I had had

the time or strength to make it again… I would have. Some of the pastel

colors didn’t come out as strong as I had hoped and it’s hard to

see them in the photo.

Please won’t you join the girls and I over @

Just click on the logo!

We would love it if you did… and here is the cool prize you will receive if you win!

Have a wonderful day…however you choose to spend it!

See you over @ CAS on Sunday!

Card Details:

Cardstock: SU

Ink: Various

Stamps: SU-Delicate Doilies

Sentiment-Verve-So Happy

Embossing Folders- SU

Nestabilities- petite ovals

Acc: pop dots

JUGS #188

May11

Long Post…stick with me!

What a crazy week we have had at the Leppek house!

Quick re-cap to explain my LACK of posts!

Last Friday, we moved my son from Tally to home for the summer

(Insert major happy face here!)

and while we were putting things in the storage shed

he cut his hand on a piece of aluminum siding…

off to the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital for stitches. Then my Uncle

who was visiting from out of town broke his hip on Sunday 3 hours

after he arrived….. off to the Hospital again. Finally, on Tuesday my dad

took a terrible fall and has road rash all over his body,

stitches on his hand, along with a fractured

collarbone…off to the Hospital again.

I wish I had time to go into more details about

how my father was 1/2 mile from home and

managed to walk all the way back after he had fallen,

while bleeding profusely…..

but that is really not why you are here….now is it?

So that sums up why I have been so QUIET lately!

Things will probably remain rather quiet

for a little while longer until my dad can

take better care of himself.

But enough of that…let’s get to the GOOD stuff!

This week Tangii from the JUGS team has a wonderful technique for us to try.

Here is what I did with it!

It appears that I used a dusty blue pencil on my card…but I promise I didn’t. It’s WHITE!

Although, I decided to capitalize on that color and used it behind the sentiment.

Details:

Cardstock: SU

Stamps: Wild Rose Background

Ink: Color Box White

White Prisma Colored pencil

Tools: SU punch

Acc: Pink ribbon and Pop dots

I so appreciate all my followers and my visitors ….

you make my day….. and all of this worth while!

The rest of the JUGS team has some wonderful samples to get your inspiration going,

so just pop on over to the Just Us Girls blog, and check out what the Design Team has created.

Then put your creativity to work and add your card/project to the

challenge post on the JUGS blog for the chance to be selected as Chic of the Week.

Hope you have a great day!

Sketch Challenge @ CAS on Sunday

Apr28

We have a Clean and Simple sketch challenge for you this time over at CAS on Sunday!

It is once again sponsored by team Utopia…which is a Stampin’ Up team!

This is the awesome Ink Pad you could win with some ribbon to match!

I sure hope you are able to stop on over and join us sometime over the next two weeks!

Can’t wait to see what you come up with….just remember to keep it CAS!

This little bear is so cute isn’t he! He is from Bugaboo digi stamps.

Still working on my coloring skills…some days are better than others!

I am also linking this card up to Addicted to Stamps and More.

They asked us to “Make Your Mark”

Card Details:

Cardstock: Stampin up and Creative Memories

Stamp: Digi Image from Bugaboo Stamps

Sentiment: Gina K Designs

Pens: Spectrum Noir

Have a great day!

Hosting @ Just Us Girls and More…

Apr26

I am thrilled to be your HOSTESS this week for my first hosting job as part

of the Design team at Just Us Girls.

When I realized my first challenge was going to be a photo challenge,

I immediately thought of pink and black (my favs) and hopped on over to google images.

After just a couple of seconds, I found these two photos that I knew would be perfect!

I picked two images so that you might have a few choices.

You may either get inspirations from the color pallet and take that route,

reproduce some flowers like I have done,

or you may be intrigued by the damask pattern on the purse.

You decide!

Now the details: I used my spectrum Noir pens and colored the BACK of my flowers

after I heat embossed them on Vellum with white embossing powder.

LOVE this look!

I first saw this technique over at Driven to Ink blog….a few years ago.

Over at the Pink Elephant that is the challenge this week… to “Lift” or “Case” a card or technique.

So I chose the Technique of Embossing and Coloring on Vellum!

So, I will also be linking this card to their challenge as well as

over at Addicted to CAS.

My second entry!

They asked us to use flowers.

The sentiment is from Close to My Heart.

I’m THRILLED to have hosted the fun with Just Us Girls, this week…

PLEASE WON’T YOU JOIN THE GIRLS AND I !!

Can’t wait to see what you link up!

Chase the clouds away….

Apr23

Hello Crafty Friends,

It’s my turn to post a project for April’s Stamp Challenge over at the

Crafty Card Gallery and this is what I have in store!

For this challenge we we’re asked to either use a stamp set that’s been sitting on our desk a while,

something you bought and forgot about, or your most recent purchase.

Well, My card today has a mixture of all 3.

First, The Umbrella stamp I decided I have had for at least 8 years.

The Washi tape under the green paper is something that was sitting on my desk and

I had yet to put it away.

Finally, The sentiment on this card is new! It is from Close To My Heart…..and I love it.

The stamp set is called Card Chatter- Sympathy Occasions… and I highly recommend it.

The inside of the card reads…..”and chase the clouds away!”

Made the clouds myself and the scallop is a Die cut from MFT.

The green umbrella was paper pieced.

Have a great day!

Black / Gray and Flowers

Apr22

Hello Friends,

Hope you had a great Monday!

Today’s card didn’t take long to whip up and it’s for this week’s

Dynamic Duos Black and Gray challenge along with the

Code-Word Flower over at Addicted to CAS.

I am not sure you can tell in the photo, but the DP has a gray pattern mixed with creme.

Creme, white, or kraft are the approved colors you may add to the

Dynamic Duos color pairs for the week.

Recipe:

The Cardstock is Stampin up.

The DP is from DCWV.

The stamp is from a stamp store in St. Augustine,

that I have had for years!

The sentiment is CTMH.

Add a ribbon and Gems and you are all set!

So glad you stopped by for a bit!

Make sure you stop by both the Dynamic Duos and Addicted to CAS if

you are looking for great challenges!

Happy Craftin,

You Are In My Prayers

Apr21

I have a very simple card for you today that is for

this week’s Fusion Challenge.

If you have never heard of this site it is very new and very unique!

You have your choice…we all love choices right!

You can either follow the sketch or the photo inspiration separately,

Or you can create FUSION by combining BOTH challenges into one card.

I elected to Fuse them together this week!

This is what I came up with!

The colors in the photo didn’t come out as deep as they actually are.

The ribbon is more of a dark pink and not maroon as it appears.

The stem of the Flower is from Stampin’ UP ( one of the first stamp sets I ever purchased).

The flower is from Verve!

The sentiment is from Close To My Heart.

The DP is from Colorbok.

Hope you have a great start to your work week!

Happy Creating,

Happy Thoughts!

Apr15

Hello friends,

I couldn’t wait to make a new card and to

take a quick photo with my new photo box! YooHoo!

So I looked at my favorite challenge sites and came up with

this great sketch @ CAS(E) this Sketch and vibrant color

challenge over @ Dynamic Duos. I am not sure I

have ever made a card with orange and blue

before because it reminds this Noles girl of the

Gators…but I sucked it up and forged ahead! LOL

Here is what I came up with!

I hope it’s okay that my scroll lines mimic the diagonal panel

on the sketch! Trying to think outside the box!

Still think I need to get brighter light bulbs….think I will make a Walmart run tomorrow!

Hope you are having a terrific day!

So glad you stopped by!

Recipe:

Cardstock:Stampin Up

Stamps: Stampin Up and Close to my Heart

Ink: Spectrum Noir (blue) and Calypso Coral

Tools: Scor-pal

Acc: pop dots

Ombre Technique…

Apr13

If you saw the title of this post you might be curious…

What the heck is an Ombre Technique?

Well, it just means using gradient colors from either

light to dark or dark to light. Simple right?

This week Jugs challenge is being sponsored by

Dare 2B Artzy!!!

Yep, that’s right – the winner of this week’s challenge will get to choose

the stamp set they want! Thanks so much Cindy — so generous of you!

Today’s JUGS challenge was so much fun to make.

Here is what I came up with.

The first thing I did was…

embossed the script background onto a piece of white card stock

using Opaque embossing powder.

After I heat set it, I took some SU Pool Party ink and my sponge

dauber and applied the ink from light to dark.

This wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be, I realized it is hard for

me to apply a small amount of ink. I must be a heavy sponger just like

I am a lead foot driver. TeeHee! So this is my second attempt.

In-fact, I think now maybe I should have tried again. Next, I added

some images (Close to My Heart) around the perimeter of the card using the same ink.

The sentiment Beautiful is actually from Prima.

My borders are both Martha Stewart and My Favorite Things.

The tag is from Spellbinders and the letters Y.O.U and floral swirl

I cut out with my cricut. Added some flowers for a final touch!

Don’t let my 2 attempts scare you away…

You can achieve this effect using papers instead of ink as well!

I hope you enjoyed my card and what I really hope

is that you will pop on over to JUGS and join the team and I

and show us what you can do with this great….. Ombre Technique!

Have a great day!

Scrapper@heART

Color my world with family, friends and some time to be creative!

Tag Archive | Thinking of you

Retro #64

CAS…Pastels

JUGS #188

Sketch Challenge @ CAS on Sunday

Hosting @ Just Us Girls and More…

Chase the clouds away….

Black / Gray and Flowers

You Are In My Prayers

Happy Thoughts!

Ombre Technique…

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