Tuesday Morning Sketches #634

Whoops, I forgot to set my post to post!!  Here is what I made for Tuesday Morning Sketches #634.  Thanks to Thanksgiving I got this done but then I forgot to post it.  I’m working retail now and putting in TONS of hours.  My goal is to get out of retail by next holiday season.  

My favorite part of this is the corners.  It was fun to revisit a technique from when I first started stamping 25+ years ago.  It is folding all corners into a square and then cutting in half.  It’s a great way to add vintage photos to a scrapbook also.  

I hope your week was nice and that your coming week is wonderful!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #633

Hello hello!!  

Thanks for being here :o) 

I got the background ready for our so nice Tuesday Morning Sketch #633 by Debbie a week early.  I knew that I wanted to use non traditional Christmas colors so I backed some SU flocked paper with CTMH Mulberry colored paper.  Next was going to be to cut out a poinsettia and it sat on my desk for a week even though I had it ready in Cricut Design Space I just wasn’t in the mood to clear off the space behind my machine (I know I’m soooo lazy sometimes!) 

Anyway, I finished it and went in to add it to TMS and Debi did a big poinsettia also and she did a way and I mean WAY better absolutely beautiful job than I!!  At first I just thought oh well I’m posting it anyway because it took me so long to get a good cut of “Christmas” because of how tiny some of the lines are.  

I don’t know if I can shorten this long story but I decided to make another card so I did one with this pretty fox stamp that was a CTMH stamp of the month a while back.  I imagined it with a messy watercolor technique but when I did it at first I didn’t think it looked intentionally messy - do you know what I mean?  Sometimes things are cool and intentionally messy and sometimes they are just a hot mess. 

So, I decided to just stamp it and keep it simple because by that time I really spent a lot of time on what should have been a super easy card.  I swapped out the first poinsettia card with the black and white card then I played with the water colored card and thought maybe if I made some abstract watercolor paper and cut the “happy” out of that it would look ok - and it did YAY so I swapped out the black and white card for what is posted on TMS.  

Story continues….I was going to put the B&W one in my card bin as it was but I couldn’t leave well enough alone.  I added some glitter and gems and now I love that one too - double YAY!  I actually think that one may now be my favorite but I was NOT going to swap out the card on TMS again. All that said I do want to share it and hope you like them all ok. I also hope you have a blast with your first try and all your subsequent tries if you make more.  

Here they are have a look and then head over to Tuesday Morning Sketches and get inspired :o)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #632

 Hi you!!

Thanks so much for being here.  I’ve been reminiscing a lot this past few days.  My daughter & granddaughter’s birthday is this week and I’m a little melancholy regarding not seeing them.  

Nevertheless I did have some fun making this quick and easy cheater card for Tuesday Morning Sketches #632. No stamping - just put a few things from the CTMH Holly & Ivy paper packet together.  I really wanted to get another pack but they are all sold out.  I also added some flocked paper that was retired from SU a while back.  My very favorite part is the cute deer stickers, there is a coordinating stamp & thin cuts set that I would like to order so I will never run out of the cute little deer. 

I hope I shake off this sad feeling soon and that you have a happy week and fun time creating with this cool sketch by Melissa!  

Tuesday Morning Sketches #631

 Oh boy I know I’m running really late this week.  Truth is I just forgot.  I had lots going on and the good part is that most of it was really fun.  

Our Tuesday Morning Sketch #631 is by Debbie and one that would be fun to create a lot of but it really made me wish I had a die in that banner shape.  

This was made will CTMH current products.  

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a NICE week!

Tuesday Morning Sketches #630

 Hi!  

Thanks so much for stopping by! 

Here is what I made for our Tuesday Morning Sketches #630 by Andrea. At first I felt too lazy to do a shaker card even though it was perfect for that.  One thing led to another when I went shuffling through papers to decide what to do.  I cut the little scene out of CTMH Holy & Ivy paper and knew that my Diamond Dust that I’ve had for years would be perfect to make it a snowy scene.  

I still have over half of a 14 oz jar left if you want to come on over and make cards with me!!!  Wouldn’t that be nice??!!  

Also, as mentioned last week, here is the card that I made using the pink and yellow giraffe.  Sooooo what will you do with this great sketch this week?  :o)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #629

Happy Tuesday, I’m sure glad you’re here!

Isn’t it just so amazing how quick each week flies by? This Tuesday Morning Sketches #629 by Andrea was sure was a fun and easy sketch. I guess I’m on a roll making baby cards :o) one reason for that is because I recently realized I was out of them and the other reason is because I love making them so much.  

It was high time for me to use some Stickles - I can’t remember how long I’ve had this color but it has been at least a few years.  It was fun and I added the dots right before I was leaving to work so I knew they would have plenty of time to dry without me messing it up as I have in the past.  I have also had this cute ribbon in my stash for years — what is wrong with me that I still buy more when I have so much already??

My tip this week is that if you color with markers i.e. alcohol etc that cover or fade your ink it’s nice to have a Misty or other stamping tool so that you can stamp it again after you color it.  I didn’t originally stamp it with the tool but I cut others out with it and then I could easily put the one I already colored back into the spot and re-stamp it.

I really think I need to start having friends over for card making days so I can use up my stash. I’m really hoping that you can visit and leave some love for our team and of course play along with us this week - if you do I’ll be visiting your creation soon :o)  

Enjoy your week!

You’ll see this little pink & yellow giraffe below on my card next week :o)

Tuesday Morning Sketches #628

 Hello - yep it’s Tuesday again already!! 

So glad you are here!  And I really mean that even though I felt like I lost my battle with creative block this week. Here is my creation for Tuesday Morning Sketch #628.  I started out with a piece of Tim Holtz watercolor distress paper and I watercolored the hills and sky - blotting out a few clouds with a tissue. Then it was all warped so I sandwiched it between a few books and stood on it while eating Birthday Confetti Hershey Kisses and trying to figure out what to do next.  

My first thought was a hot air ballon but didn’t feel like searching for one in all my stamps.  My second thought was a cute critter holding balloons but I was still uninspired.  I went though a bin of old stuff trying to trigger an idea and this is what I found and what happened. 

I came across my Baby Boy stack of paper from DCWV, fussy cut the tree and alligator, die cut the oval BOY and layered them all on the card with different thicknesses of dimensional foam tape. I wish that I cut it all out a little better but my heart wasn’t really in it.  I was going to call it done so I took a pic and realized that I left out the little elements so I drew in some birds with a marker and added CTMH Prisma glitter with a glue pen and drew in some grass with a Stabilo Carbothello pastel pencil.  Kinda thinking that all that was a little too much but here is the before and after - let me know what you think!  

Looking back it was enjoyable but I really need to clean my pigsty studio and then I hope to feel a little more creative again.  

I can’t wait to see what you make with this!!!  Head on over to see what our team created at Tuesday Morning Sketches and have a great week!