Sankari's Sunshine Corner

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop #6

HI Everyone!

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops #6! Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps! This week, it’s most of the Copic design team and Certification instructors! So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

For today's card, I used the sweet stamp Christmas Nested Frames from JustRite stamps with the Clear Horizontal stamper seen to the left. I love how the frames fit in within each other and for this card, I cut the smaller frame out and popped it above the larger frame.

The smaller holly leaves were colored with copics and then I dotted it with some Adirondack Dimensional liquid pearls (red). I layered the sentiments and added some edging with the EK success border punch which I filled in with some green and red bling. I LOVE this red ribbon from May Arts and added a little heart over the ribbon with a little bit of bling. This was a fun card to make and I love this sweet sentiment: " Hearts come home for the Holidays" :

I can't wait to create more cards with this lovely nested frames set! Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous Christmas projects they have for you on the hop today!

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy Hopping!!!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Home is Where the Heart Is

HI Everyone!

Hope you guys had a great weekend - I am still recovering from all the festivities of this weekend - but am excited to show you this card that I made for a friend of mine who wanted to give a card to her friend who just bought her own first house.

I am on the fence about getting a Cricut - so while I am trying to make up my mind - I go over to play with my friend's Cricut :) and used one of her cartridges to print this house out. I used the Echo Park Paper Summertime papers and some extras from my Summertime Project Pantry Kit from Taylored Expressions for the house and trees. And used the beautiful sentiment "Home is where the heart is" from the Love Everywhere stamp set from Taylored Expressions (I love that the "O" in Home has a heart in it").

I used the sentiment: "Congrats" from one of my most favorite stamp sets: Hangin' Out stamp set from Taylored Expressions. I used the grass border punch from Martha Stewart and finished it off with a wee bit of bling and Adirondack Liquid Pearls.

I also added a bit of glaze to the windows and used my Swiss dots embossing folder to run the house portion through. This card ended up being a bit more heavier than the usual card sent through the mail :) But I really do like how it ended up turning out :)

Have you been checking out all the wonderful videos that Taylor has been creating to celebrate a handmade Christmas? She gives such great ideas and there are a ton of deals in the Taylored Expressions store waiting for your crafting pleasure!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!!!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Funny Farm Blog Hop: Hogs & Kisses :)

Hi Everyone!

Happy 10-10-10 - what a special day in this century! How did you spend you're weekend? Ours was filled with family and friends and lots of yummy food! Tonight, over at Gina K. we are having a fun little blog hop featuring the sweeeeet and funny stamp set that was just recently released called Funny Farm. This stamp set is also part of Gina's card kit of the month so with purchase of this stamp set (for a limited time only!), you also receive a free card kit! Sweet!

I loved all the images in this sweet stamp set, but these little piggies totally captured my heart with their sweet expression that totally cracks me up! I wanted to make a card just of them - so I stamped them four times and then colored and cut them out and placed them on a vertical panel with some dimensionals.

The sentiment: "Hogs & Kisses" just cracks me up :)The red background is embossed with hearts and then I used an eyelet to pop the sentiment out. I cut the sentiment in a tag shape and attached little hearts to them and popped them up on the cardstock with some dimensionals. I finished it with some grass, some liquid pearls and a little bit of buttons. This was a fun card to make - and those little piggies still have me smiling! Hop on over with me and check out what all these wonderful designers have created with this fun stamp set!!!

For even more samples with the Funny Farm stamp set prepared for tonight's hop, please visit these designer's blog links:

Then, check out the StampTV gallery using this link: funnyfarm to see all the projects added there from our entire GinaK community. It will continue to be filled with even more samples as new projects are being added!

******For a limited time, the coordinating card kit designed by Jessica Fick is included for free with the purchase of the Funny Farm stamp set. To view the full card kit, visit Jessica's blog post here for all the details.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!
wishing you a great week ahead of you!
Hogs & Kisses ;)
Sankari :)

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge #98 - Dead Poet's Society

HI Everyone!

Every Saturday over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog we pick a different movie to create a card from - I LOVE doing these movie challenges - because aside from loving watching movies while crafting, I love getting an idea from a movie and then trying to figure out how to create it :) For our 98th challenge, where this week we are featuring the 1990 Oscar winning movie: Dead Poet's Society. This movie is set at a conservative Prep School, where the lives of the senior boys are changed during the course learning from their English teacher who inspires them to see the world with a new perspective, to think outside of the box and to become inspired by words, ideas and the essence of the human spirit. This is an inspiring story, heartwarming and we thought for the challenge requirement this week that it would be fun to use "felt" in your creations - as it reminded us of the prep school fall uniforms and also that all poetry should be felt with the heart :)

I loved watching this movie in college and being inspired by the way Professor Keating taught his students and inspired them to "Seize the Day". The phrase "Carpe Diem" was something that he taught them on the very first day - that for every moment of this precious life, we should seize the moment and make our dreams a reality! So for my card, I wanted to create a card with the sentiment Carpe Diem as the main focal point.

I used the Myriad Pro 50 pt. stamp set from JustRite stampers to spellout the word Carpe Diem and then stamped it onto the DP with Rich Cocoa brown ink from Memento. All of the JustRite font sets are awesome - they make it a cinch to create your favorite sentiment and then stamp it over your DP easily. I mounted the letters onto the clear horizontal Acrylic block in a line for the long sentiment and in two lines for the grade card. I love these papers from Crate Paper - and had so much fun cutting out the little different colored report cards. I stamped the same sentiment a few times on some of the grade cards in a softer ink (Desert Sand) and then arranged them in a fan shape. I wanted to colors to be more masculine since the movie was about a boy's prep school.

Card Ingredients:
Paper: Prism cardstock and Crate Paper
Stamps: JustRite Myriad Pro 50 font stamp set
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa and Desert Sand ink
Accessories: ribbon from stash, Tim Holtz paper clip, Adirondack liquid pearls, MFT scalloped die and felt, EK success scalloped punch, corner chomper and dimensionals.

I had a lot of fun playing along this week!! Hope you have a chance to play along as well! The challenge ends this coming thursday - you can check out the Cinema Blog here for more details!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!!
hope your weekend is happy and lovely!
Big hugs!
Sankari :)

Friday, October 8, 2010

Verve New Release Spotlight: Day 3 Harvest Blessings

Hi Everyone,

Its Release Day over at Verve Stamps!!! Woo-hoo! Today (October 8th) at 12 noon Mountain Standard Time, Julee will be releasing 4 New Stamp sets and 4 Plain Jane stamps! Woot!

Today, the Verve Divas are previewing the gorgeous stamp set: Bountiful Harvest and Julee has created such adorable and beautiful pumpkins and sweet sentiments in this gorgeous set! The little trio of pumpkins is so adorable - I stamped them and colored them and created a little scene for them using the tree die from Tim Holtz and some background embossing. I stamped the sentiment and added it to the corner with some nesties and finished it off with a bit of ruffled ribbon and a red button from Bo Bunny.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Prism Cardstock (oraange, yellow, and shimmery black paper)

Stamps:Bountiful Harvest by Verve Stamps

Ink: Tuxedo Black from Memento Ink

Accessories: Spellbinders, button from Bo Bunny, gold twine from stash, Tim Holtz tree die, MS grass punch, Cuttlebug folder, glaze, copics and ribbon from stash

I wanted to make another card with some of the single images of the sweet pumpkins in the set - the hard thing was to choose one of the pumpkins - they are all so cute! I stamped the pumpkin onto some Basic Grey DP and sponged the edges and covered it with glaze.

I layered it onto a sheet of copper cut with the nesties added some sweet leaves from the Abundant Blessings stamp set and added them to the corners of the Spellbinders pennant. The sentiment was layered onto a copper panel as well and finished with a bit of pearl trim and some yummy satin ribbon from May Arts.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Scraps of DP and Prism Papaya cardstock

Stamps: Bountiful Harvest by Verve Stamps

Ink: Rich Cocoa and Tuxedo Black from Memento Ink

Accessories: Spellbinders, EK success punch, bling, ribbon from May Arts, glaze, copper squares, copics, Adirondack Liquid pearls, Circle punch 1 3/4 punch and dimensionals.

I had so much fun playing with these beautiful stamps and can't wait to make more cards with these beautiful stamps!!! Julee is sooo sweet and generous - she has a hidden prize on one of the participating blogs each day, so leave a little comment love as you hop around and you will be entered into a drawing to win that day's featured stamps! Deadline for comment entries is 10PM Mountain time on Friday. AND one lucky someone who plays all five sketch challenges will win the ENTIRE release this month!!! Check out all the details here!

And check out all the beautiful Bountiful Harvest projects created

by the Verve Divas today using this beautiful stamp set:

Mercy

Jen d.
Charmaine
Michelle
Tosh
Teresa
Lynda
Andrea
Amy
Laurie
Susan
Jackie
Sankari
Amber
Julee
Shannan

Thanks so much for stopping by today!
Hope you have a wonderful Friday and weekend!!
Big hugs!
Sankari :)

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Release Day: Taylored Expressions!!!!!!!

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Today is Release Day over at Taylored Expressions!!! Woo-hooo!!! All the peeks this week were so much fun from the Baker's Dozen girls!!! Taylor is releasing SOOO many things this month!

There are 9 NEW stamp sets!!! GASP!!! Here they all are:

Gobble Gobble - Thanksgiving Cuppie
Merry Little Cocktail - Perfect for holiday parties and cheer
Penguin Pals - the cutest little penguin holiday stamp
Take Note Holidays - Perfect for holiday planners (coordinates with Taylored Dies)
Keeping Tabs - A mini stamp set that coordinates with the above stamp set and will coordinate with a newly released die called the Keeping Tabs Die from Taylored Expressions
Tag You Are it - An awesome set of stamps that make it simple to create a bunch of tags and coordinates with the Favor Frame Die
Winter Wonderland - beautiful snowflake wonderland that coordinates with the Winter Wonderland Snowflake Die
Sparkle and Cheer - gorgeous silhouette images that makes Christmas card making a cinch!
Hangin' Out at the North Pole - continuing the Hangin' Out theme - lots of images (22 stamps) to create the perfect mix and match wear for hangin' out at Christmas

PLUS - Taylor will be releasing 2 new Project Pantries: The Tinsel and Twing Project Pantry and the Sparkle and Cheer Project Pantry! I LOVE LOVE LOVE both of them! And can't wait to get more! I love how everything coordiantes perfectly! For today - I used the Sparkle and Cheer Project Pantry with the Hangin' Out at the North Pole stamp set and the Winter Wonderland Snowflake Die. I LOVE LOVE this jolly little snowman and couldn't wait to ink him up!

I created a little frame for him from my nesties and used the papers and ribbon and cardstock from the kit to coordinate - isn't he just the happiest EVER!!! LOVE this guy!!!

I finished the card with a wee bit of glaze and liquid pearls :) I can't wait to see what yumminess the Baker's Dozen girls have in store for you today!

I am heading over to the Taylored Expressions store - hope to run into you there!!! Don't forget to check out the Fresh Out of the Oven items at the store - there's a ton of new products over at the store along with all the items from the release!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

hugs,

Sankari :)

Verve New Release Spotlight: Day 2: Autumn Splendor

Hi Everyone,

I have been loving all the new Verve stamps that Julee has created for the October Release - and today's stamp set that the Verve Divas will be previewing is one of my favorite - it is called Autumn Splendor and its definitely a must have! The leaves in this stamp set are so awesome and there is every kind of leaf both filled and not filled and large and small and is perfect for making a quick card!

I really wanted to make a wreath out of all those leaves (it was so therapeutic to cut out the leaves :) I paper pieced some of the leaves with some fallish DP and then I colored some of them in. I made a circle base with my circle nesties and then curled and placed the leaves over the circle. The bottom of the wreath was finished off with a little bow from May Arts. I popped up the wreath with some dimensionals:

Here is a close up of the leaves - aren't these leaves the cutest? And there are a TON more leaves in this stamp set!!!

I had a hard time choosing which sentiment - because they are all so sweet - but I had to go with Autumn Splendor because that is really what Autumn is - splenderifious!

I remember walking down the street back out East in the Autumn and just loving the colors of fall as colors changed from summer green to gorgeous reds, yellows and purples - so so lovely! There was one street that was lined with maples and so anytime you would walk down the street and looked up - there was an archway of golden light - so magical! I love this sentiment - it just reminds me of my childhood :)

Tomorrow, Julee will be releasing 4 new stamp sets and 4 new Plain Janes at noon Mountain Time!!! And guess what? There is a hidden prize on one of the participating blogs each day, so leave a little comment love as you hop around and you will be entered into a drawing to win that day's featured stamps! Deadline for comment entries is 10PM Mountain time on Friday. AND one lucky someone who plays all five sketch challenges will win the ENTIRE release this month!!! Check out all the details here!

And check out all the beautiful Autumn Splendor created by the Verve Divas today using this beautiful stamp set:

Mercy

Tosh

Amy

Susan

Andrea