Merry! Merry! Who-Ville Greetings using Unscripted Sketches #154

Here's my creation for today's sketch #154! If you are keeping track - this is Christmas card number 16. The background paper, zig zag stripes and the Grinch's trusty Pup is from my Grinch Paper Craft Pad. It is chock full of fun images and sentiments...and enough embellishment pieces to make at least 50 cards. The wavy blue frame is a piece of fun foam that I embossed with a candy cane stripe embossing folder to add some texture. The dog sentiment was a pinch out from a die cut sheet that I mounted on a larger piece of white cardstock. I made a wonky square shape and mounted on a scrap of the red patterned paper. So fun and festive!

What is Sketch it Saturdays at Unscripted Sketches? Every Saturday morning a new sketch is posted for the week. Flip the sketch, rotate it… create a card, a scrapbook page, a wall hanging, digital, paper, fabric, paint, anything your imagination comes up with! There is no right or wrong way, as long as you are using the Unscripted sketch as the inspiration for your creation! And everyone is invited to join in the fun...and post your creation on their page for all the world to see!

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On May 5th I will be having my online "LIVE" debut on the Odd Show National Scrapbook Day Live Extravaganza. There is a Cricut Expression 2 being given away at the event - this is a fundraising raffle for the Charity Wings organization. Prize will be shipped internationally. Click HERE to get your tickets before they are gone! Just $5 gets you three chances to win and all proceeds go to charity...a WIN - WIN for you and for Charity Wings!

Festive Friday #7 Combined with a Creation Using Unscripted Sketches #148

Welcome to the seventh installment of Terri Sproul's 2012 Festive Friday Bloghop! Spring is in full swing - unless you are in South FL (spring has skipped us). You should have arrived here from Amanda's Page. To get back to the beginning of the bloghop CLICK HERE.

This card was created using Sketch it Saturday's #113 over at Unscripted Sketches. This project began with leftovers from another holiday project, {I love using up my scraps}and a bag of mulberry paper pieces I picked up at crafty yard sale held at my local SB store. I stamped and colored in these festive trees using my water brush with markers and the ornaments are colored with gelly glaze pens.

Even though my creations may look perfect, they are indeed an adventure, each with their own, ups and downs and near misses. I have to confess a mistake on my card. Under the sentiment is another melted embossed mess of the sentiment.

I point this out because I want everyone to know that I am not an expert at the art of stamping, but I am a PERFECTIONIST. I usually make a couple tests prior to stamping on my final project, which leads to a LOT of extras and leftovers...so I didn't do that this time. My stamped image came out fine first time out, but then I decided to emboss it with some gelly glitter embossing powder - WHOA...what a mess. This product ended up filling in most of the letters because I couldn't get the extra EP out of all the holes. So what did I do???? I found a scrap of the paper that matched up to the striped pattern and restamped and plain embossed with clear EP. I cut the bottom edge with a fancier scallop to mirror the bottom edge and to take away from the fact that I was pasting over a mess. I like to call this a "happy accident"! BTW this card is available at my shop SalonD'Arte on Etsy along with some of my other crafty treasures.

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Three weeks to go until the Big ODD Show National Scrapbooking Day Extravaganza!!! I will be part of this LIVE online streaming event {YIKES!!!}. Don't forget to purchase your raffle tickets for the Charity Wings Fundraiser and the grand prize Cricut Expression 2 giveaway  : ) Sb

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The next stop on the Festive Friday Bloghop

is Laura at Scrappin' Daphne - CLICK HERE.

Happy Spring...Happy Easter, too!

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter and share my fully embellished embroidery hoop to hold my "painting with stamps" project I did for Viva Las Vegastamps! It didn't take much. A section of vintage lace, some pink seam binding around the outer edge layered with a frilly purple ribbon. Topped off with a large purple organza bow! Simply lovely : )

This plant is next to where I park at work. I have an observation about this year's CRAZY weather...this plant has flowers that bloom once a year. This is it's SECOND bloom since January. Very strange but these flowers just make me smile!

Hoppity...Hop...Hop...Easter's here! Twenty-seven days and counting!  Sb : )