Just Because...

I need a card so I suppose it's time to step away from the tags and make one.

The preschool at my Church is in desperate need of donations for their scholarship fund. Being temporarily relocated a state away, I am mailing my donation. Hence the need for a card.

The inspiration came from S&S sketch #171.

This is my interpretation

Echo Park "For the Record" and BasicGrey Basic Kraft

White Zing Embossing Powder

Butterfly, flower & sentiment stamps from various sets

Thanks for reading!

Gift Cards Are Perfect

Whoever had the original concept of gift cards was a genius!

I have a niece and nephew that live in Kentucky. They are 24 and 18. The older they get, the less I get to see them. As with all young adults, they are finding their own way in this thing called Life and it doesn't include driving nearly 500 miles to see your aunt!

Thanks to their mom and dad, both are wonderful, caring, honest, well rounded, extremely funny, human beings.

Every so often I like to send them a little surprise in the form of gift cards seeing how they're now "on their own." My niece has been sucked into the cult known as Starbucks and my nephew is a broke college kid that likes to eat and really likes Zaxby's.

Here are the cards I made to mail the gift cards along with a brief note. I used S&S Sketch #146 for the design. I have decided I love this sketch!

Paper: MME Lost & Found Two "Sunshine" and Stella & Rose

Stamps: Inky Antics "Simple Sentiments

So, two small pieces of plastic have inspired me to make two cards, blog about the cards and will hopefully make two very special people in my life happy!

Gift Cards = Brilliant

S&S Sketch #127

This weeks Stars and Stamps sketch:

My super clean, simple and quick interpretation:

Lost & Found "Sunshine" 6x6 paper pack

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Random brads

Thanks for taking a look! Have a great week!

S&S Sketch 122

It's Sunday and that means a new S&S Sketch has been posted.

My interpretation

Designer paper by MME "Lost & Found"

Hero Arts stamp set CL456

Have a great week!

S&S Sketch 119

Once again, another stressful Stars & Stamps sketch for me! First off, I'm not one for circles. Then there were the 2 strips behind the circle. Being two different shades of gray in the sketch, I immediately think it needs to be two different patterned papers! EEK!

Anyway, I started playing around with it and after a short while had an "aah ha" moment and ended up with this interpretation:

Patterned paper: Echo Park "For the Record"

Sentiment: Hero Arts

Punches: EK Success Butterfly and Fiskars Border

Thanks for taking a look! Have a blessed day

S&S Sketch #115

This week's Stars & Stamps sketch can be found here.

To be honest, the sketch really didn't appeal to me at first. 

But after playing around with it, I think I like my interpretation.

What I don't like, however, is that all of my sentiment stamps are at the Gorilla! 

Luckily I had my handy dandy Dymo Label Buddy.

Paper: Bo Bunny "Timepiece Collection" and some very old Basic Grey.

Thanks for taking a look! 

S&S Sketch #114

When I saw this week's Stars & Stamps sketch challenge, I thought "gate-fold." But I've never done a gate-fold card! So I gave it a whirl.

Paper from MME "Lost & Found, Union Square"

S&S Sketch #113

My interpretation

I've had the rub-ons for so many years I've forgotten when I bought them.

No clue who the patterned paper is by.

I bought it for a project 5 yrs ago and this was all that's left.

The ribbon is from the inside of a sweater to keep it on the hanger. 

It was annoying me and when I cut it out, I envisioned it's real purpose!

Thanks for reading. Have a great weekend!

OWH S&S Sketch #109

Here's my interpretation of Operation Write Home's Sunday Sketch Challenge #109.

Flower stamp from Stampabilities (colored with Faber-Castell Aquarelle pencils by me!)

Sentiment stamp from Hero Arts set 184

Background words by a stamp I'm sure every card maker in the universe owns.

S&S Sketch #108

This weeks Stars & Stamps sketch:

My interpretation:

Patterned Paper: MME "Stella & Rose"

Stamp: Stampabilities

S&S Sketch #107

Two sketch challenges in one afternoon? I'm out of control!  Actually, these scrap pieces of paper were almost exactly the size of this week's S&S sketch. Here's my interpretation:

Now it's off to a Super Bowl party with friends.  I hope everyone has a good week ahead!

*Oops, failed to mention the stamp is from a Stampabilities acrylic set that has a bunch of great words with definitions. 

Stars & Stamps Sketch #106

It's been a while since I've tackled a Stars & Stamps Sunday sketch.  This is actually last week's challenge.  Even though I've missed the window to post it to the S&S blog, I thought I'd post it to mine anyway.

Stamp from Stampers Annonymous

Patterned Papers: "Lille" from 7 Gypsies and "Stella & Rose" from MME