Sweet Sunday Phone

How awesome is that telephone die cut?  It was a gift from the fabulous Jenny of Crafting in the Country. She sent me some X-Cut dies and also a bunch of die cuts including this phone in red and black.  As you can see I did a little mixing and matching and thought the black phone was more fun with a red centre!  And look at all that patterned paper!  I love it!  Fun and funky methinks.  :)  Not only did I used patterned paper but I also followed the sketch from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge.  Patterned paper and a sketch on one card??  What is this world coming to!  I'm also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes Challenge.


Cardbase:  Handy Hippo
Patterned Paper:  (Circa 1934) Cosmo Cricket

Stamps:  (Sentiment from Just Saying Hi) Hero Arts
Inks:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko

Embossing Powder:  (Clear) Ranger

Die:  (Nesties Large Labels) Spellbinders

Balloons Make Every Birthday Better

I've only played with Sweet Sunday Sketches once before and that was waaaay back in January.  It's another one of those sites that I look at every week but rarely get around to playing along with - probably due to my sketch allergy!  :)    I'm also finally getting organised enough to play along with Friends With Flair over at the Unity Blog.  I'm so excited to be linking up with the fun!  I dug out these long forgotten Doodlebug papers to make a rainbow background and paper piece the balloons. I punched both sides of a strip of cardstock with the Fiskars Threading Water border punch to make the central strip and then I added some Glossy accents to the balloons.  I love the bright cheeriness of this card and one can never have too many birthday cards on hand! 
Supplies Used:
Cardstock:  (White) Bazzill Basics, (Black) Paco
Patterned Paper:  Doodlebug
Stamps:  (Image and sentiment from February 2011 KOM - The Best Is Yet To Be)  Unity Stamp Co
Ink:  (VersaFine Onyx Black) Tsukineko
Punches:  (Threading Water border punch) Fiskars, (Corner punch)  Marvy Uchida
Other:  Glossy Accents

Curtain Call 63 & Sweet Sunday 98

A gloomy, rainy day today - perfect for cozying up in the Craft Cave - not so good for picture taking.  I read a few different tutorials and spent some time playing with the camera and a light box today.  Not much improvement, I'm afraid!  :)  Will keep experimenting and have also signed up for a digital photography class which will help I hope!


This card is for the Curtain Call 63 and Sweet Sunday Sketch 98 challenges

Supplies: Card Blank: Handy Hippo; Cardstock: SU Always Artichoke, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip; Stamp: Doodlebug Designs; Ink: Bashful Blue, Whisper White

Clean and simple.  I took a white flower and covered it with SU Bashful Blue ink - my fingers are still blue!