Cinema Saturday #74 - UP!!

Every Saturday, over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog, we feature a different movie from which we create a card, layout etc. inspired by some element in the movie. This week we are featuring the 2 time Oscar winning and "UPlifting" 2009 Pixar movie called UP. This movie also won 38 other awards (check out all of the wins and nominations here)!!! The beauty of this movie is that its not just for children, but really in a way - its for everyone. Children love this movie and the adults really embrace the heartfelt themes of life and love that are beautifully brought out in this movie! If you haven't seen it yet - you must - the animation, humor and sweetness will touch your hearts! This week's challenge requirement is to use balloons in a way that was inspired by the movie.

When I was making the challenge banner for this movie - my son was sitting next to me and was so excited as to what card I was going to make - so I made this card for him - in the spirit of adventure. I used Taylor's Friday Sketch challenge #108 to make this card, which I absolutely had so much fun creating! One of my favorite parts of the movie is when the house takes off - WOW! How beautifully they animated that part and the music to that part is just perfect! It gives me a thrill every time I watch it! My other favorite part is when Mr. Fredrickson puts the special pin on Russell at the end - what a sweet moment (and can I just say, that Russell is one of the CUTEST little boys! I LOVE his spirit of adventure and his sweetness! and his slight lisp :)))
I used 5 different stamps from Taylored Expressions to create this card:

• The house is from the Frightful Night stamp set
• The clouds are from the Branching Out Coordinates stamp set
• The birds are from the Wings of Joy stamp set
• The balloons are from the Beary Special Accessories stamp set
• The sentiment is from the Places You'll Go stamp set

It was so much fun combining all of these stamp sets to create this card:

Here is a close up of the sentiment. I love this sentiment by Dr. Seus! It has so much spiriti of adventure in it!

And I loved making this card with all the ballooons carrying the house, just like he wanted :) I attached some embroidery floss to the balloons and attached them to the house.Here is a close up of the balloons and string:
I wanted to give some whimsy to the card (because a house being carried off by balloons wasn't whimsy enough :) lol!!) So I added some birdies to the mix, here is a close up of a birdie flying by :)

I LOVE how this card came out - I added a little glaze and some stickles to the card and called it a late late night...errr.. day :) Hop on over to the Taylored Expressions blog to see more details of this beautiful sketch and also hop on over to the Cinema Saturday Blog - we have three wonderful guest designers joining us this week, and you can see their gorgeous and inspiring samples and play along with us!!!

I promise it will be fun to play along - putting balloons on anything makes it fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!!
Hope you have a beautiful weekend!!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

CSAYL#44 - Wings of Happiness

Good Morning Everyone,

Every friday over at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog, there is a fun new challenge to help inspire and keep us motivated all year long with making holiday cards and I can't tell you how much I am so happy to be part of it... especially as the weather gets warmer and it is hard to pull out all the snowy goodness of craft winterland :) Today, for the 44th challenge, Debbie has come up with a wonderful inspiration that is kind of springish for our challenge today - which is to create a card based on the pic that a) uses the colors in the photo, b) has lots of white space and c) has a bird! LOve that! And isn't this inspiration picture soooo lovely!?! I {heart} Pottery Barn - as much as I wish our house looked like the catalog, the reality is that it wouldn't last more than 20 seconds before my kids made it umm... "lived in"... Here is my card based on this inspiration picture using one of my fave images from the Wings of Joy stamp set from Taylored Expressions. - and it was really nice to be able to keep a lot of white space :)

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Choice Snowwhite cardstock and Prism cardstock Taylored Expressions

Stamps: Wings of Joy from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento Ladybug Red and Tuxedo Black

Accessories: liquid pearls, corner rounder, may arts ribbon, spellbinders, cuttlebug embossing folder, snowflake punch from MS, rhinestones from Want2Scrap.

I loved using this sweet inspirational picture and am glad to add another card to the pile - yay :) If you have a chance to play along please check out all the details at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog and see all the lovely cards for this week's challenge!

Happy Friday! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Big hugs,

Sankari :)

First Christmas card of the New Year (woot woot!) :)

Good Morning Everyone!

How has your week been?

Can you believe its already Friday?

Can you believe its almost March!

Can you believe its 2010! lol!

I sure can't! I feel like this year has been flying BY and I am so happy that the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog is starting up again with all new yummy challenges! Doing a christmas card every week last year was such a help by the time October rolled around and I didn't feel like there were a jillion Christmas cards to be done all at once, so I am excited to be part of the team again this year and get started on my holiday cards :) This week, Vicki has created a card making recipe challenge:

2 layers, 3 buttons and glitter!

can't beat a recipe with glitter in it! ;)

Here is my recipe card using the Wings of Joy stamp set from Taylored Expressions:

Card Ingredients:

Paper: MME Colorful Christmas and Prism Cardstock

Stamps: WIngs of Joy by Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Spellbinders, stickles, liquid pearls, sponger, buttons/ribbon from stash, gel pen

If you want to get your christmas cards going -join in on the fun and check out the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog to see what all the lovely ladies have created with this awesome recipe challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping in and TGIF!!!

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Happy Friday :)

Good Morning Everyone,

Wow - I can't believe that it is Friday - the last few days have been so busy and each day has been one late night after another - I wish I could say it was crafting but it was all the things that I have been putting off doing that I finally had to do.... and so I was so excited last night that I had a moment to craft :) yippeeeee! I couldn't wait to use Taylor's newest set: Wings of Joy and used the color combos from this week's color challenge from Debbie at the Christmas Stamping all Year Long blog :) I adore adore these sweet little birdies perched on their birdhouse and the sentiment: "May Joy take flight in your heart this season, bringing Love to all around you."

Card Details:

Paper: Prism cardstock fromTaylored Expressions

Ink: Not Quite Navy from SU!

Stamps:Wings of Joy from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spellbinders, Delightful Decorations punch, eyelet and cropadile, green flimmer ribbon, corner rounder, liquid pearls, liquid glaze and ribbon from TE

I don't know about you - but winter is arriving waaaay too early here in Iowa and so I wanted to make a summery happy card :) And so I pulled out the Berries and Cherries set from Taylored Expressions and made a fun little quick card with one of my fave sentiments: I love You Berry much :) (I was browsing for a fun sketch earlier today and found one from a while ago - but now can't figure out which sketch this is from?)

Card Details:

Paper: Prism cardstock from Taylored Expressions, red gingham paper from stash and black and kraft cardstock from stash

Ink: Ruby Red from SU!

Stamps: Berries and Cherries from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Cuttlebug Swiss dots, eyelet and cropadile, black gingham ribbon from TE, liquid pearls,Sakura of America pens and Inkessentails gel pen

I can't tell you how much happier I am after stamping a little always good therapy to get a crafting done in the corner :)

Hope that you are having a happy friday and are happy to get your weekend groove started!!!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog :)

Big happy friday hugs!

Sankari :)

Wishing You Holiday Happiness!

Good Morning Everyone,

Its Monday Morning and that means that there is another challenge from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog, where today Debbie challenge us to use the above colors in our holiday card making. I have to say, that it was definitely a challenge - but I couldn't wait to try it! I used the stamp set: Wings of Joy that Taylor just released this weekend over at Taylored Expressions and colored the image with copics, cut it out with spellbinders and added some ribbon and some buttons and of course - some liquid pearls (lol!).

Card Details:

Paper: Prism cardstock from Taylored Expressions

Ink: Memento Expresso

Stamps: Wings of Joy from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: spellbinders, kaiser rhinestones, adirondack expresso liquid pearls, Savannah buttons

I hope you have a chance to play along with us! And as Christmas is approaching, I feel the need to sit down one day and crank out a ton of holiday cards - I just can't believe how quickly the holiday season is coming up upon us!

Check out the lovely creations from this week's color challenge over at the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog!

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!

Happy Monday!

Big Hugs!

Sankari :)