100th Sketch @ Retro Sketches

The lovely girls over at Retro Sketches are in celebration mode this week as they have published their 100th sketch challenge.  I love playing along with their sketches and this one is extra special as it's such a huge milestone for them.

Speaking of milestones my daughter and most of her friends will be celebrating their 21st birthdays in 2014 so I thought I would use this sketch to begin my collection of 21st cards so they are ready for the parties and events that lay ahead this year,

So here is the amazing and very cool 100th sketch from the girls at Retro Sketches

And this is the card I created from the sketch:

 

I noticed that one of the guest DT cards had taken the main elements of the sketch but shrunk them so I thought I would do something similar and use the elements to create the central part of the card and then mount it a second time before putting it on the card.

 

 

My banner strips are sitting underneath a little pocket created with my new MFT die namics pocket treat die. This was topped off with a velum die cut butterfly once again from MFT die namics.  The butterfly is a Mona Pendleton design and I just love the effect you get creating with vellum.  I cut the base butterfly once and the patterned wing overlay twice.  I have added some of me new Japanese twine firstly by tying the bow through the button then by scrunching some and putting it under the button.

 

 

Inside the pocket was the tag I created by cutting the pocket die again and trimming it down.

 

The little tag was finished off with a 21 cut from the MFT by the number die namics die, some pearls, punched heart, paper and a BBP rub on.  The peg was from Typo and the colour just worked so well.

 

Papers were from Echo Parks Beautiful Life and Simple Stories.

 

Thanks again for stopping by my blog!

 

Retro Sketch #98 - Shout Out

Thanks again to the girsl over a Retro Sketches for the shout our for my card I uploaded to the #98 challenge.  Just love playing along with the challenges!

Heres the announcement - click here.

Here is my original post - click here

This is the card I made!

Retro Sketch Shout Out!

Very excited to wake up this morning to discover that the girls over at Retro Sketches have given me a shout out for one of my cards that I uploaded to their RS97 challenge.

Thank you all so much for the honour!  Just love playing along with the challenges they post and to get a shout out is an added bonus!

Here is the card:

Click here to see the shout out
Click here to see my original post

Jillibean Joy and RS98

I arrived home from work yesterday to my first bi-monthly delivery of card making kits from The Card Kitchen Kit Club at Jillibean Soup.  I decided to treat myself to a kit subscription for 2014!  I absolutely love their products and designs and I am really looking forward to sharing the cards I create.

My addiction to MFT die-namics and to Jillibean Soup is a little extra special as I was lucky enough to work with one of their talented designers when I lived in the US - Laina Lamb. So I love seeing what she creates and designs and then I get to play with them too!  She is so talented so stop by her blog and take a look! Click here!

So for my first card I stopped by one of my favourite sketch challenge blogs - Retro Sketches.  So here is their sketch:

And here is the card I created:

 

I decided to flip the sketch upside down and move the embellishment a little while still trying to keep true to the overall sketch.

 

The papers were from the Jillibean Card Kitchen December Kit which featured their Cold Avocado Soup collection.  I also used some of their Pea Pod Parts, my MFT Blueprints 3 and a Carl leaf punch.

 

 

The flower was cut from MFT's gorgeous felt (love working with it!) and I added some stitching too!

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look at my card!



Retro Sketches 97

The heatwave continues and so does the card making!  This time I decided to play along with the lovely girls over at Retro Sketches.  I just love the sketches they put up each week - they are the perfect springboard to get me started.

Here is the sketch from the girls:

And this is the card I created:

The papers for this card were from Carta Bella - Rough and Tumble.  I love the mix of the papers in this collection as they lend themselves to masculine and little boy cards so well.

As usual I grabbed out my MFT dies. I broke open one my brand new January release favourites - the Distressed Hearts Frame and teamed it up with one of my all time favourite go to dies for male cards - the stacking stars.

The stamp I used was from MFT as well and I used the Weathered Wood Tim Holtz distress pad to shabby up the sentiment. I also used a bit of his tea dye ink around the other elements  on the card as well.

Thanks for stopping by!