In the Spotlight

One more card today!

Time Out Challenges had a fun challenge to use a love/friendship theme with a twist of spotlighting part of the image, and Word Art Wednesday is sponsored by Taylored Expressions this week and would like to see cards with their images.  For this card, I used the sweet Taylored Expressions set Much Love and spotlighted the love-smitten hedgies.

Challenges:

Time Out Challenge - Love / Spotlight Twist

Word Art Wednesday - Using a Taylored Expressions set

Thanks for stopping by!! :)

Thankful for you

A few weeks ago now I was privileged to help out at Stamp Joy put on by Taylored Expressions in Ankeny, IA.  This was one of the stamp sets that I picked up during (one) of my shopping time(s).  I decided to spend some time coloring it today so I could play along with Day 2 of Kathy Racoosin's 30 Day Coloring Challenge.  Thanks for inspiring me, Cheryl!! :)

I colored my image with a mixture of Copics, ProMarkers, Spectrum Noir Markers and Prismacolor pencils.  With a white gel pen thrown in for fun! : )

Thanks for stopping by!

Tricia

Share Joy Celebrate!

What a week!  Between Bible School and recovering from an allergic reaction that just about put me in the hospital, I totally missed playing along with last week's Share Joy Challenge.  Sigh!  So I decided I would do it first thing when I got back from VBS today. : )  I decided to use the inspiration photo for my colors, although you can probably see the sketch in there, too.  My mojo is out playing in mud puddles because of my week, but this lion from Taylored Expressions' Mane Event set is cute enough on his own, even if I'm not very creative today and I need another birthday card to send out next week. : )

Here's the Share Joy picture for this challenge..

Thanks for dropping by!

Tricia

Share Joy Challenge - A Sunny Day

I have an older friend from church who just had knee replacement surgery, so I thought I could share some joy with her this week with this clean and simple card.   I used Taylored Expressions "Watson" for the flower and puppy.  (I hope that she likes dogs!) The sentiment is from another Taylored Expressions set - "Wildflower Bouquet".

Sorry for the darker picture today, but every time I would brighten it that rose colored enamel dot turned bright orange!  LOL  Apparently it has a mind of its own. : )

Thanks for dropping by!

Tricia

Wish Big

It's time to join in with the Share Joy Challenge and play tic tac toe! : )  I love those kind of challenges!  I went with stripes, red and gradient for my card...

I colored the sweet lion from the Mane Event stamp set with copics and then made a balloon with a circle punch, a triangle of cardstock and some twine to hold the sentiment that I embossed in white.  And easy background, a stitched die and some enamel dots pulled it all together and I have another card for my Birthday Club!! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Sharing Joy

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Hello friends!

I'm playing along with the Share Joy Challenge today following this week's sketch.  I've been having fun sending out lots and lots of birthday cards this year, and I don't necessarily care if they say Happy Birthday outside, so this one will go to someone special in a week or two. :)

I used Taylored Expressions Watson for the images and Woodland Cuties by Your Next Stamp for the sentiment.  Clean and simple and sweet!

Thanks for dropping by today!

So Thankful, So Happy

I just love Taylored Expressions Share Joy challenge, but I have been terrible at getting my card in under the deadline.  I think that one week I put it off and then I just got out of sync.  At least three or four times I know that I've forgotten that it closes on Wednesday noon and have been ready to post my card a half an hour too late.  Sigh.  Well, not this week!  I am posting the day of the challenge!!  Yay, me!! : )

I used my forever favorite stamp from TE - Zinnia Bouquet - and stamped it in Versamark ink.  After I embossed it, I watercolored it with markers and splattered a little marker around it for texture.  The sweet little words are from the Simple Stories I Am paper pack.  I mostly followed the sketch, but I tried to leave it fairly clean and simple, too, so I'd be covered... : )

I'm planning to send this out as a birthday card next week to one of the gals in my Birthday Club.  I'd love to have you join, too, if you'd like, even if you aren't a GraceWorks planner addict!!

Blessings!

Tricia

Patriotic Zinnias - Share Joy #36

Hi friends!

My afternoon stamping time was spent doing some watercoloring on this CAS card to play along with the Share Joy (CAS) and Time Out (Flowers) Challenges.  

I watercolored the Zinnia Bouquet from Taylored Expressions and then stamped a sentiment from the Wildflower Bouquet set.  I cut it out with a stitched rectangle from Your Next Stamp, matted it on a piece of patterned paper to add to the Fourth of July feel and mounted it on a scalloped die cut for color.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tricia

Sharing Sunshine

Hi everyone!

I have been missing playing along with the Share Joy challenge the last few weeks, so I decided I would make a card right away after it posted today. : )  I used the fun Much Love set from Taylored Expressions for the images and the Wildflower Bouquet set for the sentiment.  The paper is by Doodlebug.  I colored the images with Copics and Spectrum Noir markers and popped them up after fussy cutting them.   I tucked it into a package I was mailing this morning.

Here are the challenges that were inspiring me...

SplitCoast Ways to Use It - Use a tree

Share Joy #32 - sketch

Love to Scrap #76 - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Sepia Thanks

Hello again!

Today I'm playing along with the Share Joy challenge as well as celebrating The Card Concept's second birthday.  They have such a pretty picture to draw inspiration from!  I used the basic sketch from Share Joy and pulled the colors, script and rhinestones from the Card Concept photo.

Can you believe that I still have that Script background in my stash?  It was one of the first SU sets I got years and years ago.  I just ran and checked.  It's dated 1999!! :)  I combined that with the new Wildflower Bouquet set from Taylored Expressions.  I stamped the bouquet on Sand cardstock from Gina K and colored it with Spectrum Noir colored pencils, trying to aim for a sepia look.  I hope to send it out to a GraceWorks customer later this week.

Thanks for stopping by!!

Tricia

Taylored Thanks

Hello friends!

It is grey and gloomy outside today, so how about a card in warm colors?

I used the pretty new Taylored Expressions set Wildflower Bouquet that my daughter gifted me with, and stamped it with Versafine ink on watercolor paper, then watercolored it with distress markers.  I was inspired by the following challenges...

Share Joy - sketch and tic-tac-toe (watercolor, flowers, coloring) - for a friend who sent a sweet email the other day!

The Card Concept - flowers and mason jar... with a "sort of clean with lots of layers" card 

- is that a style??

The Paper Players - colors

Sharing Smiles TicTacToe - Thank You, Distress Ink, Plants

On a totally unrelated note...  do you enjoy using sequins on your cards?  I find myself remembering making dolls and ornaments out of styrofoam with hundreds and hundreds of sequins and little pins when I was about 7 or 10.   One little blond 4th of July doll with extra furry pipe cleaner arms and a bodice and skirt of red, white and blue sequins keeps coming to mind...  Isn't it interesting how fashions come round again with a new twist??

Thanks so much for stopping by.  Especially you challenge DT members who are busy, busy, busy.  Thank you for taking time to look and comment!

Loving Lion

Hello again!

I had so much fun today making some bookmarks for the library!  When I was done I decided to make a card with the new Share Joy sketch using the Mane Event stamp set that my daughter got for me. : ) I LOVE that it has the matching die included.  It even cuts out between the tail and the boday and between the head and the flowers.  So fun!  I want to send this to my other daughter and it isn't her birthday, so I'm hoping that I can find the sentiment stamp I have that says, "Until further notice, celebrate everything."  Only I can't remember if it was in a set, or just by itself!  Hmmmm....  

Here's the sketch I followed...

and, just for fun, here are the bookmarks that I made today using Sugar Pea Designs Prehistoric Pals set...

I just love the little one that is waving!

Tic Tac Toe

I'm playing Tic Tac Toe with my card today. :)  

Share Joy...

I used the twine, vellum, embossing row for my card.  The sentiment is a Verve Plain Jane and the bee and flowers are from Taylored Expressions Sunflower Wreath.

I plan to tuck it in an order this week, unless I send it to a friend that sent a Christmas letter and I haven't written back yet...  We'll see!

Have a wonderful day!

Tricia

Sharing More Joy

Hi again!

I'm back with another Share Joy card.  I was so late with the last one that they almost overlapped! : )

I followed the sketch provided, with my normal "wonky" panel, and used the Zinnia Bouquet as my image.  The sentiment is from Verve.  I watercolored my flowers with Distress, Tombow and SU markers and stamped both the image and sentiment in VersaFine Black ink.  The paper is some I got from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store - Simple Stories Pumpkin Spice.  I'll be sending this along to an SCS friend soon!

Thanks for looking!

Share Joy Ornament Card

I was inspired by the picture of the decorated tree for this week's Share Joy Challenge, so I made a faux ornament card.  

I stamped the snowman from Ready, Set, Snow onto watercolor paper and watercolored it with Distress Markers, then cut it out with a Stitched Circle die from MFT.  I backed that with a Spellbinders petite scalloped circle and layered it on a doily from the Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.  The scalloped rectangle is a combo of two dies.  First I ran it through the scalloped rectangle die from MFT's Blueprints 23, then I ran it through with the piercing from the SB pierced rectangles set (SSRS).  The paper is Wild Rose Studios Painted Poinsettias (SSRS).  I tucked a piece of gold string in between my top two layers and hooked it over the top of my base layer to make it look like it was hanging from the tree branches.

My card is for one of my online stamping friends over at SplitCoast.  Hopefully I can get it out today!! :)

{Share Joy Challenge} Gracious Words

My Share Joy card this week combines the Taylored Expressions Sunflower Wreath set with a Plain Jane by Verve.  Don't they look like they were made for each other??  I'll be tucking this in with one of the GraceWorks Sidewalk Sale orders this next week.   If you are looking for a planner for next year, you definitely should check us out.  We have beautiful pages and binders and accessories AND a sidewalk sale on right now with free gifts!!

Thanks for stopping by today!!

Tricia

{Share Joy Challenge} Ready, Set, SNOW!

My Share Joy card for this week is for my daughter in Florida.  She's ready for some snow about now! :)  I used an adorable set from Taylored Expressions called Ready, Set, Snow, some Winter Whimsy background paper by Gina K Designs, and I followed the Share Joy sketch for the week. with the addition of the circle that my main image is in.  I watercolored the image with Distress Markers.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Tricia

{Share Joy} Puppy Birthday

Hi everyone!

I've been stamping like a crazy woman the last few days...  I think I made, umm, 18 cards or so?  But I finished the Hope You Can Cling To challenges just now, so I think it will go back to a more respectable 2 or 3 cards a day now. :)

I wanted to jump on the blog and share my Share Joy card for this week using the TE Watson set and the sketch..  The sentiment is from a JustRite set called Furry Friends...

So what's better than one Watson?  TWO of them!!! : )

My daughter wanted it for her birthday in January, but I'm thinking it will go to my daughter in love instead since her birthday is this week! :)

Thanks for stopping in!

Tricia

{Share Joy Challenge} Buzzing By

Hi everyone!

I've been busy stamping, but I haven't taken the time to take pictures, so I almost forgot to post my Share Joy card this week!  I used the bee from the sweet Sunflower Wreath set to make a clean and simple card...

I think I'll tuck this in a package I'm sending to a friend today.  Just a quick hello!!

There are a few more hours to play along with the challenge if you haven't already!!

Tricia

Sending More Hope!

Hi everyone!

Just playing along with another Hope You Can Cling To challenge on Splitcoaststampers!
Today's theme was hugs and I had a couple of challenges that I wanted to enter, so I made two with that theme...

First, my Share Joy Challenge card for the week, using the sketch.  I'll be putting this in my HYCCT box that is going to the MD Anderson Cancer Center.  I used the snowman from Taylored Expressions Ready, Set, Snow set.  Isn't he sweet??

And second, this little sweetie.  I used the Viva La Verve sketch (although I had to cut off the circle some) and a sentiment and doodle from Verve's Always on my Mind.  The little girl is from MFT.

Thanks for dropping by today!

Tricia