VLV Febsketch2: You Make My Heart Flutter

Hi Everyone,

I am so sorry to have been MIA - I have been having a series of health related problems that are making it a bit difficult to craft - the last two weeks have been full of daily difficulties - I am trying to take it easy - and make sure that the stress level is low - but that is pretty difficult with a full time job outside the home and a full time family life at home - sigh! I am always happy when I have a few moments to get my craft on - and this week, I am the hostess for the Viva La Verve (VLV) Sketch challenge on SCS and to the left is the sketch that I drew up (and Julee made super Verve-y purrrty!) for this week.

I used the vertical  strips in the sketch to create a line of hearts that then I added a line of buttons strung together with twine and tied in a bow at the top and added the sentiment "You make my heart flutter" from the super cute stamp set Twitterpated created by the super awesome Julee :)

Card Ingredients:
Paper: MME and card stock from PTI
Stamps: Twitterpated from Verve Stamps
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: heart punch from Martha Stewart, twine, buttons, glue dots, dimensionals, sponger, red tacky tape, corner chomped, prima red rose bud, paper clip

Each Friday, there will be a VLV sketch posted and playing along with the sketch and uploading it to the SCS gallery with the keyword VLVFeb2012 will upload your card into the Feb. VLV gallery. Completing all 4 sketches in the month of February will be eligible to win this month's prize!! YAY! Please check out all the details here!

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

Embellish Color & Border's Challenge!

Good Morning Everyone, 
Are you guys as ready for spring as I am? Well, today, there is a wonderful springy color, inspiration challenge that is happening over at Embellish Magazine that Julee, the owner and creator of Verve stamps is sponsoring. Here is the inspiration pic and I absolutely LOVE these colors!! Just looking at them is such a breath of fresh air - its like spring is just around the corner!! Woo-hoo! 
I don't know how much more winter we can take (or rather, "I" can take!) the kids seem to LOVE it everytime it snows, but to me, this late in the winter season it means more shoveling, more de-icing, and more crazy driving! Oh to be a kid again and sip hot chocolate after a hard days work of sledding!!! lol!


Well, what a better way to "think spring" than to create something with these yummy colors! The challenge is also to do something with borders in your creation.I used Amber's beautiful sketch for Viva La Verve (Week 4) for this card using Julee's beautiful stamp set Thankful Hearts.

Card Ingredients:

Paper: Prism cardstock (frosted yellow, papaya puree, razzelberry light, frosted kiwi)

Inks: Memento Rose bud

Stamps: Thankful Heart stamp set from Verve

Accessories: MS/EK success punches, circle punch, rounder, CB swiss dots, Marvy scalloped heart punch, embroidery thread from Bazzil, Sakura white glaze pen and buttons/ribbon from stash. 

Here is another view of the card from the other side:

You can check out the challenge over here for all the yummy details and some yummy prizes as well! 
Thanks so much for stopping by today!!
(will be back in a wee bit with another post :)
Happpppppy Friday!
Big hugs,
Sankari :)

Carrying my Love for You :)

Good Morning Everyone :)

I finally had a moment to craft during this insane week at work - and was so happy to play along with awesome sketch#26 from Kazan and the lovely ladies at 2S4U (2 Sketches 4 You) and I was psyched to play along with the ladies at Cardvaarks - where this week's challenge was to create a card using a verse or quote. I simply love this sentiment that reads: "a hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you." This goes out to one of my bff's, whose friendship has nourished and guided me through some difficult times. It was so much fun to make this card thinking of those wonderful moments of our friendship :)


Stamps: Verve: A hundred hearts
Paper: March Key Ingredients Kit from Taylored Expressions
Ink: Adirondack Expresso, Pumpin Pie, More Mustard and So Saffron
Ribbon: I LOVE this ribbon that looks like leaves - it all comes with the Key Ingredients kit from Taylored Expressions
Accessories: Liquid Gold Paint for the heart and dimensionals

I am so grateful for all the dear friends in my life and all the new wonderful friends that I have met in blogland! You are all truly treasured!!!

Lots of love and hugs!
Sankari :)

Mojo Monday#82 - Sweet Friends (Taylored Expressions)

Good Morning Everyone,

Its hard to believe how quickly this week is flying by - I don't know how it happens because when I turned around it was just sunday and here we are at Wednesday! I love Julee's sketch #82 this week over at Mojo Monday and wanted to play along. I love the Downtown Diva set from Taylored Expressions and was excited to use the papers from the Sweet Branch Collection - and so I made this card for a dear friend of mine.

I just wanted to thank all of you, who wrote such sweet comments about the little family accident etc. from the last post.... I am truly grateful for each of you who wrote such sweet words - it really gave me so much comfort...It's amazing to me how a sweet word from a friend can suddenly uplift you - how kindness and and understanding - can make such a difference in how you face things - from thinking that you are alone - to feeling that you are supported. So, this card is dedicated to all of you! You are all priceless and are the sweetest! Thank you so much - you don't know how much it has touched my heart!

I love the heart between the two cupcakes - it says sweet friends! and the sentiment reads: Friends like you are priceless! Here are the deets for the card:

Card Details

Paper: Sweet Branch Collection and Birchtone Medium

Stamps: Downtown Diva set by Taylored Expressions (April release)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Martha Brown

Accessories: Chocolate grosgrain ribbon (1/4"), corner rounder, liquid pearls, silver marker

Technique - Paper Piecing

Show watched: Simple Explanation episode of House on Hulu (I still canNOT believe about Kutner! what was that about!?!)

You all are just priceless and I am so grateful to have met you in blogland! Hope that all of you are having a wonderful Wednesday - and that you have a chance to stop and smell the roses...! 

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner :)

Sunny hugs to all,

Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - #16 - The Wizard of OZ

Good Saturday Morning Everyone,

This Saturday, Brooke and I are so excited to feature the movie: The Wizard of Oz for the weekly Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge First of all, can we just say that we are impressed and blown away that you guys could guess that from those itty bitty sneak peeks!!! Seriously - you are all amazing with your guessing ability! The movie the Wizard of Oz was released in 1939 (can you believe that this movie is 60 years old!!!) according to Wikipedia movie received an Academy Award for best Original Song and was nominated for several Academy Awards as well as being nominated for Best Picture. This movie is often ranked in the Top 10 in film circles and the song "Somewhere over the Rainbow has been voted as the Greatest Song of All Time by the American Film Institute. Last week we had a Color Challenge and this week we wanted to have a different challenge - that your card, layout, project that is inspired by the movie: The Wizard of Oz have something metallic in it (it could be some brads, metallic paper, ink, etc.)


When I watched this movie when I was young - my favorite character was the Tin Man - he was always so sweet and always getting rusty. My card is inspired by his quest for a heart. The sentiment of the card is inspired by the song "If I only had a Heart" sung by the Tin Man. I love the line: "I hear a beat, how sweet!" So this sentiment reads: "My heart beats for you, sweet!" I combined the silver elements from the Tin Man with the Ruby sequins of the Ruby red slippers that Dorothy wears. This card is super shiny and shimmery in real-life - it is so hard to photograph - but I tried.


One of the hearts is very 3-D and the silver heart is actually a broach that I cut and adhered to the cardstock. This is an early valentine's day card for my DH that I surprised him with this morning - with some hot cocoa and pancakes :) Pancakes, hot cocoa and the Wizard of Oz ... that's what I call a great start to a day! I used the sketch that my fellow PaperCraftPlanet DT member, Jessica from iEmbellish from Gina K. created for the Saturday Sketch going on at PaperCraftPlanet. This week, all those who participate in the sketch challenge at PaperCraftPlanet will be entered into a drawing for a free stamp set from Gina K. (valued at $19.95) in honor of celebrating Jessica's birthday!!!



So are you ready to play along!! We sure hope you join us this week!

All of you have to do is make a card that has metallic component (brads, metallic paper, faux metal embellishment, etc) that is inspired by the movie Wizard of OZ and link your creation to our blog by commenting on this post. If you are uploading to SCS please use the keyword: CSCC16 and if you are uploading it to PapercraftPlanet - please use the keyword: cinemasaturday (all lowercase and all ONE word :).

Please link to our blog by this Thursday, January 30, 2009 by 12pm PST.

Please tell your friends about this challenge and have them join us in this fun challege.

The card chosen from this challenge will be featured on PaperCraftPlanet - so come on and join the fun!!!

Can't wait to see your creations!!!

Hugs to all!
Sankari

Kristina Werner Color Inspriation #38 - Elephant Valentine's

Happy Friday Everyone,

I have been feeling like its been Friday since Tuesday- so I am really happy that today is the real thing!  Nothing like celebrating Friday with a little color challenge from Kristina Werner. Her latest color inspiration challenge (#38) uses four colors: ruby red, pumpkin pie, whisper white and pretty in pink. Fun colors from an awesome inspiration piece of a notebook from her co-workers desk from SeeJaneWork.  Here is my offering for the challenge: 

I liked all the white with the little color in the inspiration piece - so I tried to keep it simple. I was trying to figure out some simple Valentine's cards to send out that I could make quickly in an assembly line - this might be one. I have totally fallen in love with this little elephant - my son has named this elephant "Sweetie" (he just turned 4 - and I totally love that he wanted to name the elephant Sweetie).

I embossed the sentiment on white cardstock, The elephant is cut out three times on all the colors (except white). I cut out the ears from the orange and pink colors and adhered the orange one under the die cut and the pink as a shadow to the ear. The same thing I did with the hearts. I was surprised at how quickly the card came together - and that is always a plus :)

Hope you guys are having a wonderful Friday!

Thanks for coming to visit :)

Ciao for now,

Sankari 

Paper Company (pink: HInt of Dawn), DCVW  orange, Red and white from stash.

Stamps and Ink - none

Accessories: Fiskars threading punch, Martha heart punch, Sizzix Elephant #2 die cut, Sizzix valentine embosslits, Making Memories silver brad, Orange stickles, dimensionals

Movies watched: The movie for tomorrow's movie challenge of course!