Saturday Sketch Challenge 153

Happy Memorial Day. Thank you to all those who put themselves in harms way to protect our way of life, our selves and our children.

It just occurred to me that it's probably not such a great idea to create my stamping 411 card SO early that I post my card after the holiday that it was intended. :)

Not that it matters too much, this card could be really used for any occasion and is sporting my signature brad bow. So ~ I guess it's not so bad that it says happy Mothers Day. :)

In fact, you could probably choose almost any sentiment from the teeny tiny wishes, less fathers day, and you'd be pretty close!

This card uses my retiring BFF, bordering blue and the greenhouse garden stamp set, stamped with bordering blue and rich razzleberry. I know if you read my blog often, YOU know how much I'm going to miss this color combo.

I used the polka dot embossing folder for the 3rd layer.

Stamp Sets: 113824 Greenhouse Garden, 115370 Teeny Tiny Wishes Stamp set
Ink: 102265 Bordering Blue and 115658 Rich Razzleberry inkpads
Cardstock and measurements:
Base: Rich Razzleberry cardstock 11 x 4 ¼”, scored and folded in half at 5.5”
Layer 2: Bordering Blue 3 7/8” x 5 1/8”
Layer 3: Whisper white 3 ¾” x 5 (note**layer 2 is 1/8” larger than layer 2… just count two linesover on your 16 line papercutter. ~ I also pre ran this through the bigshot (for time reasons)
and used the polka dot embossing folder from the mini catalog.
Layer 4: 3 1/8” x 4 1/8” (cut from an 8 ½ x 11 piece, you net 6 for one piece)
Layer 5: 3x4” whisper white
Layer 6: Rich Razzleberry Scraps used for Modern Label Punch (116630)
Layer 7: Sentiment of your choice, stamped in rich razzeberry and punched with the word
window punch 105090.
Extras: Snail adhesive (for the ribbon), paper snips, word window punch, Modern Label Punch,
110755 tombo multipurpose adhesive, Mat Pack, Clear Rhinestone Brads 113114

I'll be leaving for a mini vacation Friday morning. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and time to maybe play along with one of the challenges we have going on over on the 411 site. Patti's color challenge and the weekly simple Saturday Sketch challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Rubbah hugs,
Selene

Stamping 411 Reveal... Name that card. :)

Here we go! First, I posted Connie Babbert's card this week and Patti was right, she posted my card! Here is my creation for stamping 411 this past week.
Did you guess this was my work? :) I created a similar card for my masculine class last week, and converted the supplies that were already cut to make this fun and masculine birthday card.

Good Luck on winning some of the stamping 411 loot! :)

Stamps: 118084 Birthday BlockInk: 101406 Black Stazon Ink Pad, markers, 100052 real red and 100077 summer sun
Paper: 100730 Whisper white, 102851 basic black, 102482 real red
Accessories: 114348 Basic jumbo grommets, 110755 tombo multipurpose adhesive (to attach the grommet and everything but the ribbon), 104332 snail adhesive (for the ribbon), 117285 black satin ribbon.

For a little more fun, I'll let you in, that the operators had no idea who's card was who's.. Here are their guesses and the actual answers. :) too Funny!

So the names across the top is who was guessing, and the actual is on the end! :)
Hopefully on your screen you're seeing this is one chart. Blogger is being funny about this today.

Here are the guesses from the operators and the actual answers on who made what card. :)

Connie's	Lee's	Kerin	Patti	Tiffany	Robin	Gretchen	Actual
1. Patti	1 Selene	1. Patty	1.Patti	1-Patti	1 - Patti	1. Selene	Patti
2. Gretchen	2 Gretchen	2. Robin	2. Robin	2-Connie	2 - Selene	2. Gretchen	Gretchen
3. Selene	3 Kerin	3. Selene	3. Connie	3-Robin	3 - Me	3. Robin	Robin
4. Robin	4 Robin	4. Kerin	4. Kerin	4-Kerin	4 - Lee	4. Kerin	Kerin
5. Lee	5 Lee	5. Lee	5. Lee	5-Lee	5 - Kerin	5. Lee	Lee
6. Tiffany	6 Tiffany	6. Tiffany	6. Tiffany	6-me	6 - Tiffany	6. Tiffany	Tiffany
7. Kerin	7 Connie	7. Gretchen	7. Selene	7-Selene	7 - Connie	7. Connie	Selene
8. Connie	8 Patti	8. Connie	8. Gretchen	8-Gretchen	8 - Gretchen	8. Patti	Connie

Featured Artist Regina M

Good Afternoon Friends!

Today I'd like to share this gorgeous card with you made by my good friend Regina.

(re)Gina is so darn talented. Here she used very vanilla, cameo coral and ruby red. Some of these colors are going out at the end of the month. To read more about that, you can check out this post.

The Cameo Coral base measures 8 1/2 x 5 1/2" and is scored and folded in half at 4 1/4"
Layer 2: Very Vanilla 4 x 5 1/4"
Layer 3: Cameo coral 4 1/4" x 3 1/4"
Layer 4: very Vanilla 3 x 4
She cut out several of the flowers from the Vintage Vogue Stamp set (one of my favorites) and stuck them together. I don't think the picture does it justice.

She used the distressing tool from the cutter kit to rough up all the edges and added lots of glitter and a few brads for effect. What could be better!

Gina is one of the most talented ladies I know (and yippee, she's a part of my team). :)

Happy Tuesday!

Rubbah hugs,
Selene Kempton

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Supplies Used
Stamps: 118598 Vintage Vogue Stamp set (clear mount)
Ink: 102259 Ruby Red Ink Pad, 103035 Cameo Coral Ink Pad
Paper: 100475 Cameo Coral Paper, 101650 Very Vanilla Paper
Accessories: 106958 Cutter Kit, 110755 Tombo Multipurpose Adhesive, 100425 Two way glue pen (to apply the glitter), 102023Dazzling Diamonds Glitter, 109026 Vanilla Taffeta Ribbon

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Monday Morning Mojo

Good Morning Friends!

I'm still thinking about what to do for club this week. I don't like coming so close to the wire. I need to remember to keep it simple. My gals like the simple ones better. :) While this one would take too long for my one hour club meetings, I'm really in love with this card.

This one was a little difficult to photograph this morning. I have great lights for crafting in the studio, but I kept catching a glare on the glossy paper. So I took this one out on the front steps to photograph it. I'm thinking the black little clip on the left might be lost in this photo... It's ever so cute and the card needed something there (just like the sketch) but I didn't want to put some huge embellishment either. The hubby is home this morning, and he likes it. :) that's always cool.

I started by using some Bordering Blue and Rich Razzleberry reinkers on a baby wipe. I drew a line with them, and I left a big white gap between my colors. Maybe 2"? Then I inked up a brayer and rolled the color on my glossy card stock. I picked up my brayer in between, and just kept going over it in between. I've seen some folks in class go back and forth like a rolling pin, but I push across my cardstock, pick up the brayer, and then push again from the starting point. That way, if there is any imperfections, they'll get taken care of on one of my pushing swipes. :) Next I added the tree line from the Nature Silhouettes stamp set. I stamped that and the mighty Elk in Black Stazon Ink. For the background I found some older DSP hanging out and just waiting for this card.

I love plain black and white dsp, because it matches everything.. Well, almost everything.. I love this color combination, and have already ordered multiple packs of bordering blue for when it retires. It's the ONE color I'm going to really miss. Maybe baja will work in it's place?

I'm planning on doing a tutorial at some point for my friend Lee Conrey's bowtie style bow. I really love it on anything masculine and I'm thinking I may have to make a few for build a bear cutouts with my daughter later this week. It's the last week of school, so I'll be back on full time mommy duty next week.

I'm really chatty this morning ey? I need to get back in the studio and stamp something simple. What a wonderful way to start the week. Thank you to the crew at mojo Monday.. Fantastic Sketch!

Supplies Used
Stamps: 111542 Nature Silhouettes, 115370 Teeny Tiny Wishes
Ink: 101406 Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad, 100940 Bordering Blue Reinker, 115664 Razzleberry Reinker
Paper: 102851 Basic Black, 102630 Bordering Blue, 115316 Rich Razzleberry, 100730 Whisper white, 102599 glossy white paper
Accessories: 117285 Black Satin Ribbon, 109857 Mini Library Clips, Embossing Folder, 112208 Curly Label Punch, 110755 tombo multipurpose adhesive, 104332 Snail Adhesive, 102395 Brayer

Also, please note that Only Orange and Sage Shadow 8 1/2 x 11" and sage shadow 12 x 12 are completely gone and will not be available any longer. Due to higher than anticipated demand, I expect that this list is going to grow very quickly.

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Have a great week!
Selene Kempton

The Sweetest Thing Sketch ~ Bow Study

Hello Everybody!

I have stamp club here this week, and I'm just playing. I recently found a sketch challenge blog called Sweet Sunday. I thought this sketch was kind of neat with the background and the three elements on the left hand side.

I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with my friend Lee Conrey yesterday. She has the cutest little bows, that she taught me how to tie, with no visual, over the phone. God bless her. :)

Although I felt like a slow student, she was patient and walked me through the process. I'm going to need to do a tutorial at some point, but for now, I just want to play with them... And play I have! I've made about 100 of these cute bows since.. I just cant stop myself. LOL

I most certainly want to come up with a card for club that will incorporate this bow. I will say, this is all tied on the one piece of ribbon, and it doesn't use much ribbon at all in fact. I thought it might be kind of fun to try and do three in a row. I really had a blast. I just love the sketch. This card is much more sparkly in real life, I hope the photo does it justice. It's really adorable in real life.

We're gonna need a tutorial for this one.. it's so simple and pretty.

I hope you all have a wonderful week.

Rubbah hugs,
Selene Kempton

Saturday Sketch Challenge 152 ~ Happy Anniversary and BIG LOOT BLOG CANDY

I've got card number 8, submitted by another stamping 411 operator... Can you guess which one of my girlfriends made this sweet creation?

There is HUGE Blog candy over at the 411 site that you can win, by playing along, playing the guessing game with us!

I dont want to say too much and give it away, and since I'm the only one who knows who's card is who's this week... I feel a responsibility... but I so hate to keep secrets.. ;)

I'm going to try some measurements here.

This talented girlfriend started with a bashful blue base.

Base: bashful blue 8 1/2" x 5 1/2, scored and folded at 4 1/4"
layer 2: Kraft 4 x 5 1/4"
Layer 3: DSP 4 x 2"
Night of navy ribbon, and then night of navy card stock used in the big shot first to cut the cute envelope, then to emboss it!

It's so fitting that I ended up posting this person's card... I've been playing with masculine cards all week, and this one really looks masculine to me! Wonderful card girlfriend!

You should go check it out! It's going to be a fun week!

Bloggers Challenge ~ Sketch challenge

I {heart} sketch challenges, and this one by our list mom Lisa Somerville is a beauty!

I used this sketch for a card that I used last night as part of my masculine card class. We all determined, that glitter was perfectly okay on a man card, when it was to show paint on a car or motorcycle! :)

To make the mix, I start with a big glob of crystal effects, and add one drop of reinker, then I added dazzling diamonds glitter to the mix and just use the mixture to paint it on.

I used an aqua painter to pull some of the night of navy ink across the page, and painted my paint with the crystal effects ~ and that's all folks!

Those big honkin brads are fantastic on a guy card.. they look like hubcaps to me! :) I really loved this sketch and can't wait to see what the other bloggers challenge girls are up to this week!

(((rubbah hugs)))
Selene Kempton