Tuesday Morning Sketches #583

Hello, thank you so much for stopping by!!  

I let the week get away from me again!!  Here is what I made for our Tuesday Morning Sketch #583 I finally got started on Christmas cards!  This stamp is from a previous CTMH Stamp of the Month called beautiful friend so I made a couple of these in Christmas colors to send to a couple beautiful friends this year. 

I stamped on watercolor paper with CTMH Intense Black Ink using my Misti so I could stamp over a couple times to get a nice soaked in image then used watercolors - sooooo fun!!! I was really happy to have my Misti as well as my little Tim Holtz brush tool to get all the little pieces out of the lacy die cut.  I also made a couple more cards while I had the paper etc. out on my desk.  

I hope you had a NICE Thanksgiving and that gratefulness pours over for the remainder of the holidays!!  Let’s not let overly fearful - just careful and enjoy the reason for our celebrations!  Sound good?  

I’m looking forward to seeing your fabulous creations - a definite highlight of my week!  Have a NICE week!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #582

Helllllloooo & happy Thanksgiving week!

I’m so grateful for so much but since it’s time for Tuesday Morning Sketches #582 I want to shout out for Melissa, Debbie & the rest of our wonderful design team!!!  I love being a part of this group and it totally makes me craft pretty much every week and I need that!   I know I’ve mentioned that in the past but it is still very true!!

I keep meaning to try and acknowledge anniversaries so now if I’m ready for the next couple that comes up.

Have fun, I’m looking forward to seeing what you create!!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #581

 Hello!!!  I hope you’re having a NICE Tuesday!! It’s time already for Tuesday Morning Sketch #581!

We are quickly approaching the time of year that the runaway freight train of time is traveling at it’s fastest pace. At least for me anyway how about for you? 

I know life looks a lot different for a lot of people but I have already been working from home for over 4 years so that big chunk of my life has remained the same in the midst of the pandemic.  So how will the holidays be for you -more complicated or less complicated?  I work in retail so I haven’t had a Christmas or Thanksgiving with my family since 2014 - that makes me a little sick to my stomach and I really need to work on changing that for next year. Especially since we know all too well more than ever that one just never knows what tomorrow may bring.  

So, even though I’m busier I’m going to make a concerted effort to send everyone a special Christmas card that I made just specifically for them. So now that I’ve just blurted that out I have a couple other types of cards for the next several sketches LOL being the procrastinator that I am!!  

Here is what I made for TMS#581, sadly I’ve had two of my favorite neighbors move out of town the past few months.  So that means I need a couple of welcome to the neighborhood cards.  I was too lazy to go though and find my welcome to the neighborhood stamp set that I know I have but not sure where so I used some old alphabet stickers from CTMH they are over 5 years old, I still love them, they have a tiny dot resist so you can sponge them any color you want.  They really do match perfect even though the card doesn’t show that so well in my photo.  To top it off I rather tacky-ly (my own made up word) wrote out part of the sentiment.  Hey is’t all about the thought and being hand-made right???

Thankfully I still have quite a few favorite neighbors but the two that moved I will be friends with forever no matter where they go!  

The houses are CTMH stickers from the Lovely Paper Packet and the neat little kraft envelopes I found for 50% off at Hobby Lobby. 

Now it’s your turn to play right after you check out what the rest of our wonderful team made at Tuesday Morning Sketches!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #580

Good morning & happy Tuesday!

I totally enjoyed this fun and simple sketch by Debbie and I know you will too!  Making this really quick again due to running like crazy these days it seems!  If you have any questions of course I’ll be happy to answer if you leave a question in the comments :o). 

So here it is my creation for Tuesday Morning Sketches #580 I hope you head on over asap and check out what the rest of the team made and they play play play!!  I’m going to send this to my daughter for her birthday this week.  

Tuesday Morning Sketches #579

OMG so just today I realized that I never posted my card for TMS#579!!!  I’m sorry to everyone including myself!! I put a lot of work in this even just threading all those buttons ;o) and then I didn’t even post!  I don’t know what happed to the week but without further ado...here’s what I made for Tuesday Morning Sketches #579!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #578

 Here we are already another Tuesday and the last Tuesday in October at that!! We have only 58 days until Christmas! With that said I should be making fall or Christmas cards but noooo I’m still playing with flowery pastels - my favorites by far. 

I needed a card for a friend who is going through a lot right now so I got out a set of verses that I won from Verve Stamps years ago when Mojo Monday was up and going. I was happy to remember on the second card that the cross would look neat as a watermark behind the verse—I’ll have to remember to do that more.  I also used the new “Lovely” paper pack from CTMH.

For some reason it took extra effort for me to figure out the dimensions for the pieces for this so I thought I would put that work to a little more use and make two cards.  

Now it’s your turn head on over to Tuesday Morning Sketches #578 for our Design Team inspiration and to play along!! I can’t wait to see what you make!! 

Tuesday Morning Sketches # 577

Hello thanks so much for stopping by!!

Here’s what I made for Tuesday Morning Sketches #577.  I was learning a little about abstract art in an attempt to get out of my box.  I’ve never tried it ever until this week and I found that it isn’t as easy as I thought it would be to make something I actually like.  I was also in the mood to get out my alcohol inks and they made it a little easier but still this was at least my 4th try!  I guess I must have had beginners luck the first time I tried them a couple years back because I really liked the two things I made back then.  If I find them I’ll try to add to post. 

I didn’t think this style lended itself to a bow like the sketch called for and I couldn’t think of a suitable substitute so I left it simple.  There’s soooooo much you can do with this great sketch by Melissa, so head on over and get lots of inspiration from our team.  I hope you have a blast playing with it and I’m looking forward to seeing what you create!!

Have a fabulous week!!