TST #68 Daisy Wishes & Polka-Dot Dreams

It's time once more for Try Stampin on Tuesday.  Today I have a very cheerful card for you which could be referred to as "Daisy Wishes and Polka-Dot Dreams".

I had planned on making this card in the portrait view, but once I got the background segment cut out for the daisies to sit on I knew it would be much better shown as a landscape card.

Lots of die cutting in this one.

A real "girlie-girl" card.

Then it was time to move on to a more masculine card.  I pushed the sketch a little out of the box but this is what I came up with.

OK, it's your turn, lets see what you can do with the sketch.  Don't forget to post it on the Try Stampin site.

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy

I like to know what you think, so please leave me a comment.

Masculine Monday 28/5/12

Masculine Monday once again.  Today I have a card for you that could be used as a masculine card or a general card.  This was created for a friend of my Daughters who was gracious enough to pick her up at the airport.

Can you tell I really love the "Lovely As a Tree" stamp set.  This is four weeks in a row that I have shown you cards made with this set.

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy

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Time to... Unscripted Sketches #160

I get lots of emails for different sketch challenges and this weeks challenge at Unscripted Sketches caught my eye and I decided to give it a go.  I also decided to combine it with another challenge going on over at Dynamic Duos.

I started with a simple white card base and stamped with Composer's Dream.  Little did I know I had stamped it upside down until I removed the stamp.  I really should place arrows on the my stamps that say "Top" and "Bottom".  I did manage to cover up my booboo with the bird from Punch Potpourri.  I then took a piece of Marina Mist CS and punched a hole and placed the band over the Composer's Dream stamp.  The flowers were stamped out twice and then slit to just shy of the centre so that I could give them a little dimension and have the petals appear like they were more individual petals.  To tie the top and bottom together I punched out the leaves from the Two Step Bird Punch and placed them cascading from the flowers and under the bird.

I hope you enjoy it.

Nancy

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TST #67

It's Tuesday so it must be time for Try Stampin on Tuesday.  Jen has given us another great sketch this week.

I did have some trouble coming up with a card for this one.  I was able to go with the band, but had trouble with the background piece.

I shaddowed the oak leaves from the SU Leaves #2 Die with Tempting Turquoise to make them stand out and added a little silver bling with black floss.

The inside of the card follows along with the outside theme.

I actually started out with the card below, but ended up settling for the card above as my submission this week.  The card above could be used as a masculine card whereas the card below is definitely for a female.

I hope you like what I have come up with.  Now it's your turn.  Make sure you post your card on the Try Stampin website so I can see what you have come up with.

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy

I like to know what you think, so please leave me a comment.

Masculine Monday 21/05/12

First I would like to start off by wishing all our fellow Canadian's out there a Happy Victoria Day!  Long weekends...you got to love them!

Today I have the final card of three that I created using Lovely as a Tree.  These cards as I mentioned a few weeks ago were created for my Dad's Birthday. Today's card was created using the square lattice embossing folder for the background and then tree was stamped onto a piece of whisper white after I had sponged in a skyline.

Below are all three cards that were made for his special day.  I think I see a pattern here, don't you?!

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy

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TST #66 Write Me a Song

Jen has been at it again with another great sketch for Try Stampin on Tuesday. Her sketches just get better and better each week.

When I looked at the sketch I knew right away I wanted to do an antique looking torn bottom on the one layer of the card so I decided to go with my Composer's Dream stamp and start with that.

The next thing I had to determine was what I wanted my top stamped piece to be.  I had just recently picked up Rue Des Fleurs and decided to run with that. I tried several different angles and mounting backgrounds before I ended up with the Curly Label punch and a straight pen. I accented the pen marks with two small pearls and then following along with odd numbers I added three more to the bottom instead of a sentiment.











Since I had stamped the pen a couple of times I ended up cutting out one of them and used it on the inside of the card.

I hope you like what I have come up with. Now it's your turn.  Show us what you can do.
Nancy

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For Me! Thanks

Sunday as we all know was Mother's Day.  The card I am showing you today was given to me by my daughter who made this especially for me.  It's not often that I am not in my craft room so don't exactly know when she made it. She managed to get enough scraps together to cut out the letters by hand and use my punches and inks.

I was very touched by her attempt at this card and it will definitely go into my keeper box.

Thanks so much for acknowledging what I love to do most.

Hope you enjoy.

Nancy