Skipping Stones Design #87-Victorian Summer Butterflies

I stamped the butterflies from the new set Victorian Summer in Blushing Bride on white cardstock, then stamped them again in White Craft ink on pink vellum, cut them out and added some pretty pink pearls.  I really don't use pink very much, tend to lean more toward the masculine or earth tones, but I like the way the vellum and pearls turned out.  I also changed up the sketch a little, which is odd for me, I usually follow the sketch to a fault!

Check out the other DT members creations at Skipping Stones Design.   Be sure to play along and use SSD 87 if you upload to any on line galleries. Here's the sketch for this week:

 Here's our great line up for August:
Sketch Artist - Teri Anderson
Guests - Karen Baker, Kryssi Ng, Maureen Plut, Stephanie Mino

Here is the color inspiration from Play Date Cafe:

Red, White and Blue-Sketch Tuesday #82 and Play Date Cafe #87

I couldn't resist using this set for the color challenge this week at Play Date Cafe:

 This set is not only great for a 4th of July card, but think of the scrapbook pages you could use it for, not to mention the patriotic cards you can make...and...it's on sale right now!  Check out these awesome images:

And as usual, we'd love to see your creation with this weeks Sketch Tuesday at Skipping Stones Design.

Sketch Tuesday #81 at Skipping Stones Design

Here's a sketch challenge and a Color Challenge...Play Date Cafe #86

And Skipping Stones Design Sketch Tuesday #81 for my first round card:

Using Sassy Shoes:

And the very popular (sold out) Birthday Purses:

As always, we love to see you play along...this one is SSD 81.

Feature Friday with Skipping Stones Design and Play Date Cafe!

Hi there!  TGIF!  Today I have the opportunity to showcase one of my favorite 'Oldies but Goodies' from Skipping Stones Design.  This was the second set I purchased way back when (if you go to the shop, the oldest sets are at the very bottom).  This is called Margarita Birthday and has some fabulously funny sayings:

And not only that, Play Date Cafe #83 is sponsored this week by Skipping Stones Design!  Go to their site to find more awesome creations using the following color scheme challenge (Black and White with a Splash of Green) and some great stamp sets!

Hope you have a fabulous holiday weekend!

Sketch Tuesday-Fight Global Warming!

I got the inspiration for the layout from Skipping Stones Design April Guest Sketch Artist, Laurie Schmidlin.  This is challenge SSD 71.  We also have two new Guest DT members for April, Mona Pendleton and Diana Fisher.  Be sure to visit and play along with Sketch Tuesday at Skipping Stones Design.

I got the inspiration for the color from Play Date Cafe Challenge #75.

Thus the silver cake plate...I used the metal embossing technique I did several weeks ago for the Skipping Stones Design 'Tips and Tricks Thursday'.  It was quite simple really, I stamped the image from SSD set, Green Birthday on the back of a Spellbinders metal sheet, waited a couple minutes for the ink to dry, then used my stylus to emboss over the image, then flipped it to the front side and trimmed with my little pair of craft scissors.  I was pretty excited how the little cake stand turned out!  The original tutorial can be seen on my blog at this link: Tips and Tricks-Metal Embossing.

Sketch Tuesday #56 at Skipping Stones Design with Play Date Cafe

Hi there ~ is everyone ready for Christmas?  I've got all of my shopping done but as usual I haven't wrapped one gift!  Even the two I need to mail to California for my niece and nephew!  I know, I need to get off the computer and wrap them so I can get to the post office tomorrow at lunch.  But before I do that I want to share my take on this week's Sketch Tuesday at Skipping Stones Design.  Here is the sketch for you to play along, be sure to use SSD 56 if you link to any online galleries.

I flipped the sketch upside down so I could fit the reflection of the cute little penguin from the new set Brrthday.  I also thought this set would be perfect for the color challenge at The Play Date Cafe to use Black and White with a splash of Yellow:

Here's a close up of my take on PDCC#60:

 Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you and yours have a wonderful holiday season!

Jacob or Edward

 For all of you Twilight fans out there, it's almost time for the release of Eclipse on DVD and to celebrate, this set is on sale at Skipping Stones Design.  I love the cute sayings...I am actually Team Edward but I do like this sentiment:

I made this card for two challenges, The Play Date Cafe PDCC57

and also Mojo Monday MOJO166

Thanks for looking ~