Snuggly Hope

Nina and I are pretty sure she's the Hope in the TGF Hope & Grace duo. Grace seemed the bit more edgy of the two. Whereas Hope seemed sweet...and cuddly. Or something.

Or maybe it was the other way around?

Anyway, I used this past Friday's TESC sketch. It's the 100th sketch for the Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge. When I saw the sketch I new immediately that I wanted to ink up my new HG Snuggle. I found the dp paper at my LSS store and found it went very well with this week's Copic Challenge Colors of R29 (lipstick red), RV23 (pure pink) and B12 (ice blue).

I sponged the edges of the spellbinder circle with some Memento ink and stamped her in memento. And I even added some Doodlebug crushed velvet flock to make her bunny fluffy and snuggly. I was soo excited when I got it, showed my honey and he says, "You bought lint. Great."

Pffftt...What do boys know?


The Dets:
Stamps: TGF HG Snuggle, Verve Practically Perfect, PTI Polka Dot Basics I
Paper: MB notecards, MME dp, vellum
Ink: Memento black & angel pink, Versamagic pixie dust, copics
Accessories: DD crushed velvet flock, ribbon, spellbinders scalloped & standard circles, button brads

A Bellarific Valentines Day

Happy Valentines Day!

For my card today I used this week's Mojo Monday sketch, MOJO125. I stamped my Bella's shower Bugg on a standard circle nestie and sponged the border w/ Memento angel pink. I layered it w/ a scalloped circle. I used half of the largest circle to do the curved part of the DP layer. And I broke out my fancy square punch I got from my LSS to layer the sentiment (from TCP).

The Dets:
Stamps: Stamping Bella shower Bugg, TCP Puppy Love
Paper: MB sweetheart paper pack & notecards
Ink: Copics, Memento black, Spica pink glitter pen, Copic multiliner black
Accessories: standard & scalloped nesties, fancy square punch, PTI raspberry fizz ribbon

The Anti-Valentine

Okay so I dont know how anti a valentine can be if it's got hearts in it. But anti sounded better than non-trad.

This week's Monday Mania Challenge on Club Anya was to do a Vday card using no pink or red. Thus eliminating all my vday dp paper. So I decided to use a bit of kraft heart background from the Verve card I did earlier this week. And what better non-traditional, TGF-themed vday card would be better than an Edward-centric one.

I didnt feel like using any sappy If I could dream it'd be about you sentiment, b/c lets face it, its just not me. But this Kryptonite quote, perfect. I had to handwrite it b/c I was too lazy to get it printed properly. One day maybe I will actually use my printer for something other than printing airline boarding passes. One day...

The Dets:

Stamps: TGF Edward, Verve Sweet Valentines

Paper: SU!, MB notecard, PTI kraft

Ink: Memento black, Spica glitter, Copics

Accessories: MS punch, ribbon

Swissy Wednesday

This is not a valentines day card. Actually I'm not quite sure what occasion this card is for, I just dug the color scheme.

I tried the white gen pen technique that I've seen on other blogs...but I think I still need to practice. I ran the green panel through my bug using Spots & Dots. And the image is my brand spankin' new Birgitta. I picked it up when I was home this past January. I also picked up a few others but sadly I had to relinquish them to Nina. Who asked me to pick them up for her but really that's besides the point.


The Dets:
Stamps: CC Designs Birgitta Swiss Pixie
Paper: MB notecards, SU!
Ink: Memento black, copics
Accessories: cricut storybook, cuttlebug spots & dots, kaiser pearls, ribbon

A Taylored Valentines

So continues the valentine's parade of cards.

I've been eagerly awaiting the return of Taylored Expressions Sketch Challenge after the two week hiatus. I dont always participate but I do love looking. The DT-ers make such fabby dabby cards.

So I inked up my newish TCP Puppy Love set. I used my spellbinders to line up one circle for the rocket and another to nestle it in the rectangle panel. I went over the rocked with a clear spica glitter pen but it didnt photograph at all. I did go with the classical colors of pinks for the card. But I should have at least one more with a non-trad color scheme.

The Dets:
Stamps: TCP Puppy Love
Paper: MB notecards & sweetheart paper pack
Ink: Copics, Memento black, spica glitter pen
Accessories: PTI ribbon

A late mojo monday

I finished this card before the big game yesterday but had to leave for a friend's house. So I didnt have a chance to post this last night in time for the Mojo Monday deadline.

Anyway I went with a nontraditional teal, kraft and black color scheme for this valentines card. I inked up my Verve Sweet Valentine and broke out my new MS punch. I also went over all the hearts w/ a clear spica glitter pen, but it doesnt really come up in the pictures.

The Dets:
Stamps: Verve Sweet Valentine, PTI Polka Dot Basics
Ink: Copics, Versamark, Spica clear glitter pen, Memento black
Paper: SU!, MB notecard, PTI kraft & black
Accessories: BG button, MS punch, prima flowers, krafters floss

Quickie PTI Challenge Post

Tonight's going to be a real quickie post b/c the hubs said it was time for bed.

Nichole Heady, who is just a genius, posted a challenge to use emboss resist on a card. I've been avidly, read obsessively, watching her blog for the past few days as its a countdown to PTI's third anniversary. I'm so excited that I got a chance to play along. I inked up my Turning a new leaf set, which in my opinion is just perfect for this technique.

My camera was being finicky though. My pictures either didnt represent the true colors well or they did but there was too much of a glare that you couldnt see through the embossed areas. Oh well...maybe next time.

The Dets:
Stamps: PTI's Polka Dot Basics, Turning a new leaf, Text Style Backgrounds
Paper: MB, PTI kraft & pure poppy, neenah white
Ink: Memento, Versamark
Accessories: kaiser jewels, ribbon, MS punch