SKIPPING STONES DESIGN TUESDAY SKETCH 88

Good Morning everyone!  Hope this finds you all having a super wonderful Tuesday.  Welcome to my blog today and the newest Tuesday Skipping Stones Design Blog sketch challenge.  We are very fortunate to be able to design to the fabulously talented Teri Anderson.  This is her sketch this week.

I used an older set this week called "Friendly Fruit" for my CAS cards......

I did two cards using the sketch format:

Nothing fancy, just yummy looking!!  Please jump over to the SSD blog to check out the other Tramp creations!  Hope you also link your own take on the sketch!!

Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by!...........Tammie

SSD TUESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE 87

Good morning blogger buddies!   Happy Tuesday and welcome to my blog today.  Tuesday always brings another sketch over at Skipping Stones Design Blog.   We have a brand new sketch artist this month that I am really excited about.......Teri Anderson!!  I have been following her work as one of the Go To Gals for Papercrafts magazine for quite some time.  She seriously rocks, and I am very excited to have the opportunity to design to her sketches!  Lets get to the sketch for this week shall we?

LOVE IT!!  Sometimes I struggle with a sketch, but this one had me right from the start and I knew just how I wanted to tackle it.  I flipped the sketch for my take.  I also used a stamp set that we will be releasing later this month as a little sneak peak for you all......you seriously are going to love this set!!  Here is my card.

The bird, swirls, and sentiment are all 3 in the new soon to be released set....be sure to stay tuned to Skipping Stones this month as we will be having a blog hop to celebrate its release Audust 16th.   Anyway, I love kraft CS and had to use some on my card.  I also love white embossing on kraft so did the swirls in that.  I decided to stamp the bird on PTI Razzberry Fizz CS and cut her out....also enhanced her with a white gel pen to sorta tie things together.....and of course I had to throw in another of my favorite things...buttons.  I really like my little birdie..and isn't that sentiment nice too?
Hope you like!   Do not forget to hop on over to the SSD blog to see what the other Stamp Tramps have done.  Also we have some new Guest Designer this month:
Karen Baker
Kryssi Ng
Maureen Plut
Stephanie Mino
 
These girls all do such beautiful things you just gotta check them out!!  While at the blog don't forget to give a try yourself at the sketch, and upload your creation for a chance to win SSD stamps!   This is such a fun sketch....so go on...give it a try!!  You do NOT have to use SSD stamps to enter if you don't have any yet.....you may want to check out the SSD Store   if you have not purchased any of Heathers wonderful stamp creations.

Have a wonderful day, and please let me know you stopped by my blog by leaving a comment....I love hearing from you!       God Bless...........Tammie

SKIPPING STONES TUESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 86

Its Tuesday sketch day at Skipping Stones Design.  We have one last sketch from the fabulous Kim Kesti.   Here it is.........

For my take I pretty much totally flipped the swirls on the side and used a die cut approach......this is what I made for this week....

I used the new set released this month,  Victorian Summer....

Beautiful set.....I used the butterfly and thank you sentiment.   Do you ever have a day where no matter what you try to put together doesn't flow?....that was me, today, with this card.  My creativity is lacking greatly....probablly because I am loking at a barely started stack of wedding favors to stamp and put together...150 x 2 different things.  Once they are done maybe my MoJo will resurface!

Have a wonderful day, and stop over at Skipping Stones to check out what the rest of the Stamp Tramps and guest designers have done with the sketch!   Happy Stamping!      Tammie
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SSD 85 TUESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE

Happy Tuesday all, and welcome to my blog today.  It is once again Tuesday sketch challenge time for we Stamp Tramps from Skipping Stones Design.   We have another wonderful sketch from the super talented Kim Kesti!  This is her sketch this week.







This is my take on her sketch using the new SSD release "Victorian Summer".

I love the feathers in this set, so decided to use those instead of the square shapes.  I hilighted them with a white gel pen, and embossed them also....IRL they really stand out....very pretty and fun image to play with.

Hope you enjoy this weeks CAS card......don't forget to head on over to Skipping Stones Design Blog, and see what the other Stamp Tramps created, and upload your own take on this fun sketch.

Have a wonderful week!!                                                Tammie

SSD SKETCH 84 AND BLOG HOP

Welcome to my blog today, Skipping Stones Design Sketch Challenge 84, and the release of Victorian Summer! If you just came from Wendy's blog, you are in the right place. If you just happened along my blog today, you can start at the beginning of the hop at Skipping Stones Design blog. The entire hop order is there and you can hop from blog to blog with ease.


Be sure to hop along and leave comments on all the fabulous designers blogs. This month we are welcoming Kim Kesti, Karen Baker and Karen Christensen to our team as Guest Designers! Kim will be providing all the fabulous sketch inspiration this month including the fantastic sketch we're using in today's hop!

So..lets get started by looking at Kims fabby sketch!

So very fun!!  This is the set we are releasing this month called "Victorian Summer".

This is my take on the sketch and stunning new SSD set.....

I love the softness of this set. The flower stands alone beautifully! All of the images are so super versatile...definetely a must have set!

I will keep this post short so you can keep on hopping.....next head on over to Kim Kesti's blog, our super talented sketch designer this month.

Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by!            Tammie

TIPS AND TRICKS THURSDAY

Welcome to my blog today and  SSD Tips and Tricks Thursday. Today I have a quick way to add a bit of fun to a card! We are going to make a card you can scratch and sniff! It is very quick and simple to do...Kids LOVE to help with this! Lets get started......

You will need: Craft or embossable ink in color of your choice, clear embossing powder, embossing gun, stamps, and SUGAR FREE Jello in your choice of flavor.



Start by mixing 1 1/2 parts of clear embossing powder with 1 part sugar free Jello. Be sure to use sugar free or the sugar will burn when you heat it. I used a teaspoon and a half teaspoon from my measuring spoon set and mixed 1 1/2 tsp of EP with 1 tsp jello....I am playing with lime and strawberry today!



Stamp image or images with ink and sprinkle with powder mixture. Heat emboss until melted. When cooled, scratch and sniff!! If you do not have craft ink, you can stamp the images with regular ink in your choice of color, and then color in the part you want embossed with a versamark pen....this works super well also... FUN! Endless posssibilities and combinations to play with here. I used SSD "Friendly Fruit" set for my card which matches with lime, strawberry, watermelon, cherry and razzberry jello....perfect set to use....

This is the card I made using this set and the lime and strawberry set....

I cut out the images and put them on pop dots. It really does work....you can scratch the fruit and they smell exactly like they look!



Hope you have fun with this technique and the SSD set "Friendly Fruit". This is a perfect summer time card making project.



Happy Thursday All!

SSD TUESDAY SKETCH 81

ITS TUESDAY SKETCH TIME!!!!!   Once again....lets all us blogger gals check out this weeks sketch from Latisha Yoast, our fabulous guest designer for Skipping Stones Design all this month.  Her sketches have really been wonderful to design to....out of the box sort of designs that make you think...think... think...this is her sketch for this week....

I was thinking alright!.....WOW!  a circle!  What image...where should a sentiment go.....what fun can we have here....I would have loved to play with this alot longer, but here is my excuse....I am UP TO MY EARS in WEDDING INVITATIONS, for my oldest son who is getting married 9-10-11, and they would like them out by July 1st or so....and of course I wanted to do them myself....my beautiful DIL to be is right there helping,  but this weekend is the crunch time for the last of it...I got sooo engrossed I forgot about Sketch 81 until the last minute.....but let me share what I did in my last minute panic....

Simple yes, but look at the beautiful SSD image on the background from the set "Timeless Textures"...stamped in VersaMark and embossed with clear.  The black bling edge against the  white swiss dot cuttlebugged strip, is a zipper from an old garmet that I knew had some potential...(the rest will become a zipper flower)...but I liked the black with the red. In place of the bow on the sketch, I chose to put my sentiment there...the sentiment is from "Dandelion Dreams"...a saying I try to embrace every day.....LIVE!  LAUGH!  LOVE!   I do wish I had more time to add to this but I do need to do this post and get back to invitations and RSVP cards!....two hundred and twenty five stamped and embossed images need to be colored! 
Hope you all have a super week...before you go please say HELLO on my comments, and then stop on over to the Skipping Stones Design Blog, to see what the rest of the Stamp Tramps have been doing.

God Bless.......Tammie