It's officially Summer!!! - Two Sketches and two Summer Cards :)

Good Morning Everyone,

Its Official! Its summertime here - school is out and the graduation parties are in full effect :) I wanted to celebrate by making some fun summer cards. I LOVE this new stamp set from Tayloed Expressions called Beach Bum which has all kinds of stamps perfect for summer fun! I also used the coordinating Beach Bum Key Ingredients kit - which is perfect summer colors (comes with cardstock, coordinating DP, ribbons and bling - you check out more details here). I love it when cards come together quickly - and it was fun to make these two summery cards all from the same kit:

Today is my friend's son's Birthday - so I wanted to make a fun bday card for him - so I pulled out Cuppie riding the waves and surfing! I still can't get over how cute it is that a cupcake is surfing! LOVE it!!! I used this week's sketch challenge from  Jen Del Muro who hosts a sketch challenge every saturday: Sketch for You to Try. I loved that this stamp set has the expression "Cowabunga Dude!" I think it is perfect for a guy - and so for his bday card (he is 12) I went with this sentiment instead of the usual happy birthday. 

I paper pieced the cupcake's "bathing suit" (LOL!) and the surfboard and then painted in the waves and added some liquid pearls and glitter of course. I also had a piece of vellum lying on my craft table (i usually used whatever is on my craft table and hasn't been put away :) and so I added the vellum because it kind of felt like some kind of water element. I really had so much fun making this card and can't wait to give it to him! :)

Card Details:

Paper and Ribbon: All from the Beach Bum Key Ingredient's  Kit

Stamps; Beach Bum stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Scallop Punch SU!, Circle punches from Creative Memories, liquid pearls, coarse crystal glitter from Martha Stewart, making memories brads, vellum from stash and dimensionals

Once I made one card - I just couldn't stop and had to make another one with Beach Bum Cuppie and the Beach Bum Key Ingredient's set. I used Taylor's Friday Cupcake Sketch Challenge for this fun summer card. I stamped Cuppie onto one of the sheets from the Beach Bum Key Ingredient's kit which kind of looks beachy. Then I paper pieced Cuppie and the bucket from some of the papers from the kit. I colored in the sandcastle with my Prisma Color Pencils and then popped it up on dimensionals. I love these fun papers!

I made this card for my friends who are heading out for summer holidays at the beach and we won't see them till school starts again. Speaking of summer vacation - what are your plans for this summer holiday?? Are you guys planning some big or little trips? We are planning some mini trips here and there - can't wait to get out and let the kids run free at the cabin!

Card Details:

Paper and Ribbon: All from the Beach Bum Key Ingredient's  Kit

Stamps; Beach Bum stamp set from Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Circle punches from Creative Memories, liquid pearls, Prisma Color Pencils, and dimensionals

 

I hope that you are all enjoying the start of summer holidays and for my wonderful Aussie friends - I hope the approaching winter isn't too wintery - sending everyone lots of sunshine-y cheer!!!

Thank you SO much for visiting my little corner :)

Big hugs!

Sankari :)

Buttons and Ribbons Holiday Card Challenge

Happy Monday Morning,

Hope you had a great weekend! We had a fun weekend going to some grad parties and bday parties - and that means that the festivities of June are in full gear!! Which also means its halfway to Christmas :) I am happy that I am part of the Christmas Stampin All Year Long group where we create a card every week - so that Christmas isn't too stressful with holiday card making :) 

This week's challenge was to have fun with ribbons and buttons :) How fun is that? I love this craft stamp that I got from JanLynn.com called Joyful Trees designed by the artist Tara Reed. It is such a fun group of trees. I paper pieced them with different scraps of greens that are still on my table from this week's projects that I hadn't cleaned up yet :) and after paper piecing the trees, scalloped some snow edging and added clear buttons fro snowflakes and big green bow to the center. 

And with that ribbon, CLEARLY - this is a card that needs to handed to another in person and not arrived squished and smushed in the mail - lol!

I took this pic at night - so I will have to retake things in the morning light :)

Hope you are all doing great! And will join us as we try to make the holidays less stressful with card making and more enjoyable with spending time in holiday making merriment :)

Check out the rest of the awesome bows and buttons creations at the Christmas Stampin Year Long blog!

Thanks for visiting my little corner :)

Hugs, 

Sankari :)

2 Sketches 4 You - Laura's Sketch #27 - Up Up and Away!

Hi Everyone,

I am so excited that I had a chance today to play along with Laura and Kazan and the awesome DT over at 2 Sketches 4 You! This week, Laura and Kazan are beginning the celebration of their anniversary and have started the Ultimate Card Showdown with Laura's Sketch #27. For more details about the Ultimate Card Showdown, check out this post.

I flipped Laura's Sketch 180 degree's so that it was kind of upside down and made a fun little graduation card :) Our cousin's niece is graduating next week and so I wanted to make a card for her graduation party. I thought the sentiment Up, up and Away, was perfect for a highschool grad about to enter the journey of going to college!

I loved stamping with these balloons - all of which were paper pieced and sponged and then popped onto dimensionals and blinged up a little. the baskets were also paper pieced as was the tree.


Card Details:
Paper: Patterned paper from Taylored Expressions
Stamps: Up Up and Away from Verve
Ink: Martha brown, Riding Hood Red from SU!
Accessories: Bling, dimensionals, ribbon from stash, corner rounder and sponger.

I can't wait to mail out her little grad package on monday! I always love this busy time of year - and after having gone to two grad parties already this week - I feel that these graduation ceremonies have given me a chance to look within and see what all I have done since my graduation from highschool and college and all the things I have already crossed of my list of things to do, all the things still remaining and all the new lists that I am making :)

Congratulations Laura and Kazan on your first anniversary of your sketch challenge blog!!! You have managed to create such an amazing community around the world, that come together every Monday to get their creative juices flowing! Thank you for everything that you do! Its been so much fun to play along with your awesome sketches and see your inspiring works of art!!!

And thank you for coming over for a visit to my little corner :)
Happy Weekend!
Hugs :)
Sankari :)

Cinema Saturday #35 - Some Like It Hot

Good Morning Everyone,

Welcome to our 35th Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - where today, we are featuring the 1959 Oscar winning movie: Some Like it Hot, which has won an Oscar for best costume design and won 10 other nominations. It was voted #1 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 Funniest Movies!! Wow! Number 1! Well, we couldn't wait to feature a number one movie! If you haven't seen this movie - your local library store might have it. And if you can't find it, you can find snippets of the song and movie on Youtube. We hope that you have a chance to see this movie and see these legendary actors shake it up!'

Well, I have to say that I was at a little loss where to start creating a card from this movie! It was a challenge for me to find a starting point - so I started by watching one of my fave scenes - Jack Lemmon disguised as a woman Daphne, dancing the tango with Super Millionaire:L Osgood Fielding the third! It cracked me up how into Daphne (aka Jack lemmon he was) and how in the first part of her tango with him s/he wasn't really into it and kept "leading" him - but by the end - s/he was totally tangoing it up! I just thought his character was hilarious in the movie - especially that s/he Daphne is really into being engaged... ha! Lemmon is hilarious comic actor.

Card Details:
Paper: Stash
Ink: Stazon Black
Stamps: Just Rite (Times font)
Accessories: velvet ribbon stitched to create a ruffle, other ribbons from stash, beads from stash, tacky red tape, flowers from stash (bling and brad too)

This comedic duo just had me cracking up. I love the way they were trying to walk in heels and then wondering if women have "Jello-in their springs" to make them move like that in heels :) The other funny part to me was how Jack (whose female character is Daphne) gets engaged to Osgood Feilding III and when he tells his partner Joe about it here is the exchange between them from Wikipediia:

Joe: [trying to get Jerry to face reality regarding his engagement to Osgood] Jerry, Jerry, will you take my advice? Forget about the whole thing, will ya? Just keep telling yourself: you're a boy, you're a boy.
Jerry: I'm a boy.
Joe: That's the boy.
Jerry: [coming around] I'm a boy. I'm a boy. I wish I were dead. I'm a boy. Boy, oh boy, am I a boy. Now, what am I gonna do about my engagement present?
Joe: What engagement present?
Jerry: Osgood gave me a bracelet.
Joe: [takes it and inspects the stones with Beinstock's glasses] Hey, these are real diamonds!
Jerry: Of course they're real! What do you think? My fiance is a bum?

I made this card using the You're a Star Sketch Challenge over at Paper Craft Planet and created the sentiment: Care to Tango? I loved expressions on Jack Lemmon's face throughout the dance - you can watch clip of the dance on YouTube especially when the switch roses in the mouth.

Hope you have a chance to play along with us this week! For more information and to see what the rest of the crew has been up to - please check out the scoop over at the Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge blog!

Thank you so much for coming over for a visit!

See you at the movies

Hugs to All,

Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions JUNE Release DAY!!!

Good Morning Everyone,

Well - today is the day Taylor is releasing 5 new stamp sets over at Taylored Expressions.
I am so excited to show you a peek of two of those sets, one called: Beach Bum and the next called Faith and Hope. I love these sets - its hard to not to ink up all the images because they are all so awesome :)

Beach Bum Stamp Set

This set that Taylor is releasing is the perfect summer set - seriously awesome! And she has a whole set of Beach Bum Key Ingredients to go with it! (The Key Ingredients include, cardstock, coordinating design paper, awesome brads, matching ribbons - there are a ton of product in each Key Ingredient set - so that you can make a ton of cards from one coordinating set!)

Okay - I had a BALL making this card - I was totally giggling the whole time making it -- LOL because it is all about a cupcake dreaming that he is a surfer... hahaha! It was so much fun to use these adorable stamps!! And a cuppie surfing!!! Are You kidding me!! LOVE IT!! I couldn't decide which one to use (a cuppie sunbathing or a cuppie surfing) so I decided to combine it and use the sentiment "California Dreamin" and suddenly, i have that song stuck in my head! :)


All of cuppie's "bathing trunks" (lol!) are paper pieced, as is his surfboard with papers from the Beach Bum Key Ingredients. I cut up the waves that surfer cuppie is going through and popped it on dimensionals for a more "wave tunnel" look - and then painted on some liquid pearls for a more wave foamy look. The waves on the beach are from tearing the cardstock like waves and then layering them and then covering it with liquid pearl foam :). I am SO ready for summer after working with this set! After the winter we have had here, I am ready for some summer heat!!

Faith and Hope

This stamp set called Faith and Hope is the first stamp set in a brand new collection of stamps sets from Taylored Expressions called: Lasting Impressions. I love these beautiful sentiments in this set - and they are perfect for bringing some sunshine to the lives of those around us - whether people are going through a hard time - or - whether they just need an upliftment of the spirit. I had a wonderful experience using these stamps to create some projects for my family and friends.

1. A Scrapbook page for my Father

As soon as I saw one of the sentiments in this awesome stamp set was a quote for Tagore - I got kind of emotional. Rabindranath Tagore is one of India's most famous poets. The Indian National Anthem was composed by him and in 1913 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his visionary works of poetry. My father used to quote to me the very sentiment that is on this awesome new stamp set by Tagore ever since I was a little girl ( Faith is the bird that sings when when the dawn is still dark). And so I wanted to make something for him... so I decided to make a little scrapbook page that I am excited to give him when he visits us in a couple of weeks! This is a 6x6 page that fits perfectly in the calendar stand that is available at Taylored Expressions - I love making a page and then immediately displaying it in the house :)


This photo is a photo of the hands of my two children and myself in the middle. It was actually an accident of a photo because I was trying to take a picture to see whose fingers they have, my husband's or mine (lol!) and it ended up being more shadowy - but I kinda of liked it. I knew right away that I wanted to use this photo for my dad's scrapbook page. It reminded me of reaching for the light and through any dark period in your life - knowing that the dawn is approaching.

I used the paper from the Prudence collection from Taylored Expressions. I also used the Branching Out Stamp set from TE and the Branching Out Coordiantes set. I LOVE this stamp set - and it was just so perfect to use it with this quote. This sentiment still guides me - it has guided me through some uncertain times in my life and it brings me hope when things are rough and unsettled. I feel this quote in my heart. And it was so healing to create this page with this sentiment for my father - he is my rock, my teacher and my best friend.

2. Faith can Move Mountains

I loved this sentiment: Faith can move Mountains - it just shows the power of what is possible with faith - and I immediately had a vision of a quiet moutain scape.

I tore some different brown papers to create a mountain and scalloped some green papers from my scrap stash for some flowing waves of grass. I ran the cardstock through my Spellbinders tags and stamped and sponged and liquid pearled the sentiment tag and finished it with some coppery shimmery ribbon. I love how this card ended up coming out - it's always so nice when cards come together easily :)

3. Miracles:

I love this sentiment: "Out of difficulties grow miracles" - it is such a wonderful and versatile sentiment that can be used with so many images and for so many different occaisions. I wanted to keep it clean and simple - so I kept most of it white. I used the flowers from Taylor's Fresh Flower's Stamp set. I colored it in with my prismas and added a touch of bling.

I used my Spellbinders tag and then sponged and added some fruit punch organdy ribbon to both ends. I love how simple it was and it is a great card to have in your card supply to send someone who needs a little cheering up!

4. Graduation Present: Bag with Uplifting Sentiments

All of these sentiments in this set are just simply beautiful and uplifting. I wanted to make a little something for our cousin's neice who is graduating from highschool next weekend - a little bag of sentiments of faith and hope that she can pull out anytime. As she begins her new journey to college - this is just a simple little bag of sentiments to cheer her up on days when she is feeling uncertain of the future.

This bag is a template from a K & Company set and I added some of the flowers from the Fresh Flowers stamp set along with the different ribbons from Taylored Expressions.

I stamped the sentiments from this beautiful set Faith and Hope and then attached it with some ribbon that she can pull out and have a quick read anytime she wants :) I hope she enjoys it - it was so wonderful to create a personalized gift for someone. :)

These past few days have been so much fun to show samples from these wonderful stamp sets! I really had so much fun - and couldn't really stop inking them all up :) Taylor is offering an awesome deal for a way to have all these stamp sets in her Stamp Lover's Package (and it comes with a free Binder Box - which is a great way to store all these great stamps!).

Don't forget to check out the fantastic creations of my fellow Design Team members!

Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin
Ana Wohlfahrt

and of course: Taylor VanBruggen


And hop on over to the Taylored Expressions Store - where everything that you have been seeing for the last three days are available for purchase!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Hugs!
Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions - Day Two of Sneak Peeks!!!

Good Morning Everyone,

Its Day 2 of Sneak Peeks over at Taylored Expressions and can I just tell you that I am in cupcake wonderland!! Today's sneak peeks come from the set called For the Love of Cupcakes that will be available tomorrow June 5, at 8am PST over at the Taylored Expressions store! Seriously - this set is beyond sweet - I had so much fun creating some samples - it was hard to stop :)

Along with this sweet stamp set - Taylor is releasing a coordinating Cupcake Key Ingredients set! The Key Ingredients will include cardstock, coordinating designer paper, brads, glitter, ribbon - all in one place and there are so many quantities of each included that it is easy to make a ton of cards from one Key Ingredients packet!

1. Blingy Cupcake Birthday Cards
I love all the different cupcake options in this set and couldn't wait to ink them up! I used a previous sketch from Taylor to create this little birthday card - I love the sentiment: "Wishing you a birthday filled with cupcakes!" Who doesn't want that!!! The little cupcake brad in the bottom is so delcious :) - I added a little bling and some liquid pearls (I can't help it - I think i am addicted to them :) and finished the card of with a bow from the Key Ingredients set. All the pieces of the card are paper pieced from papers from the Key Ingredients package.


I love the candle stamp in this set - and had fun stamping and cutting them out and adherring them onto the card. I made a second card - simillar to this one using the same elements - and used Julee's Mojo Monday Sketch #89 for this card. I love the brads that come with the Cupcake Key Ingredients - the little ice-cream brad on the bottom is my favorite :)

Here is a close up of the plate of cupcakes - I added a little crystal effect to create a glass like look - here is a closer peek at that:



2. Quick Birthday Card Set:

Have you ever needed just a quick birthday card? I always feel like I can never keep my birthday card drawer fully stocked and June is a busy month for us - full of birthdays and so I needed to renew my birthday card supply. I decided to make a little set of birthday cards using the Key Ingredients papers and For the Love of Cupcake Stamps. I loved my fellow DT member Karen Giron's Sweet Sunday Sketch and so I used the same sketch to make all 4 of these cards.

I love the papers in this Cupcake Key Ingredients set - they are so fun and festive and make creating cards so easy. Here is the first two cards in this set of four:




for a little embellishment, I created little quilled circles and filled it with a little rhinestone bling - here is a close up peek of the little quilled embellies:


3. Happy 29th Cupcake Birhday

Today is my friend's birthday (Happy Birthday D!!!) She is turning 29 (again ;) and I made a her a little yummy birthday card filled with stacked cupcakes! I really LOVE this particular cupcake image - it is just so delcious! I used Taylor's Friday Cupcake Challenge #70 for this card:

I used some liquid pearls for the frosting on the cupcakes and then covered it with liquid glass.

On the inside of the card I stacked up some cupcakes (paper pieced and liquid pearls for frosting - (totally inspired by Laurie Schmidlin's stacked birthday presents from her sneak peek yesterday) and stamped the number 29 and adhered it on top (I LOVE that there are numbered candle stamps in this set!!!).



4. Cupcake Die Cut Card:
Taylor has these awesome Cupcake Die Cuts that are so versatile in what you can create with them. You could create one to hold a gift certificate or even just a birthday message. I ran the die cut through with a sprinkled embossing folder and then on the inside created a happy birthday message using the word cupcake from a set of glittered sheets (also I sprinkled some glitter on the cherry). I LOVE how quick this was to assemble!

You could write a message on the bottom or even add a little gift card to it and it becomes both a card and a present :)

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I love all the options that are included in this set and the Cupcake Key Ingredients - I have so much more supplies left over to make some more cupcake yumminess! Good thing too because there are still a lot of birthday cards to make before June is over :) Here is the skinny on an awesome packet of goodies that Taylor will be releasing tomorrow - this is the Cupcake Bundle! It is packet with yumminess!

Don't forget to check out the fantastic creations of my fellow Design Team members - some of us will be featuring another new set that will also be released tomorrow called the Beach Bum set! Don't want to miss that!!!

Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin
Ana Wohlfahrt

and of course: Taylor VanBruggen


Don't forget to stop in tomorrow for some more sneak peeks of TWO more sets that will be released tomorrow!!!!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Hugs!
Sankari :)

Taylored Expressions - Day One of Sneak Peeks!!!

Good Morning Everyone!

I got a makeover! Well, my blog got a makeover :) Thanks to the creative genius of Nancy McKinney!! Nancy is also the designer artiste for the stamps that the Taylored Expressions Design Team will be previewing sneak peeks for today!

Today starts the first of the three days of sneak peeks! Can I tell HOW excited I am to be able to show you Taylor's newest stamp sets that will released this Friday, June 5th at 8am PST and will be available at the Taylored Expressions Store!!! Seriously - all of these June release stamp sets are beautiful and adorable!!!

Okay - so this is going to be a long post - so grab a cup of chai and a cupcake!

The set that we are previewing today is called Beary Special and the Beary Special Accessories stamp sets. These two sets are part of the charitable program called the Taylored Expressions Giving Tree. A portion of the proceeds from each stamp set will be donated to the Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids) - which is a health care community dedicated to improving the health of children. You can check out more details on Taylor's blog post today - and also stop by our stamp designer (and blog makeover artiste extraordinaire!!) Nancy McKinny's blog today as well - and read how her family was directly helped by this amazing organization!

I absolutely ADORE this stamp set - seriously - I couldn't stop using it in projects... they are beary stinkin' cute!!!! These sets are so versatile - you can use them in every project :) and as you can see - I couldn't resist with just one sneak peek sample :)

1. Baby Shower Teddy Bear Gift bag with card:

This is made for a dear friend of mine who is expecting a wee little boy wonder soon! It was so nice to know that it is a boy (I could actually throw a little blue in the mix and not just the neutral green and yellow :)

Below is a sneak peek of the bag (a regular brown bag from the craft section). I love all these beautiful images of the different teddy bears and stuffed animals that are available as part of this stamp set - they are so cute!!

Here is a closer sneak peek at the card for the baby shower - It shows one of the bears from the set - holding a little sign from the set that says "sweet little one" - I love this jolly little teddy bear guy - so cute!! I used a layout that I saw on the lovely Jodi's blog for this card to make my card - but instead of Jodi's awesome piercings - I went with my addiction with liquid pearls :) lol!

Here is a closer sneak peek at my sneak peek :) I added some crystal effects to his nose and to the sign.

Card Details:

Paper: Martha Stewart

Ink: Stazon Black, Adirondack Expresso

Stamps: Beary Special, Beary Special Accessories (available June 5th)

Accessories: Corner Rounder, Kaiser Rhinestones, Buttons, Star punch, liquid pearls, circle cutters, Prisma Color Pencils, Crystal Effects, Crystal Stickles.

2. In Honor of Harold our Teddy Bear :)

Ever since our son was 2 days old - Harold has been there for him :). Harold is the cutest little bear that was given to us by Caty - one of our dearest family friends. My son adores Harold - he comes with us on all of our travels and has a special place on the bed. Here is a little layout of Harold and my son at 4 months and then at 4 years old. This is a 6x6 layout and fits perfectly into the Calendar stand that you can then display around the house:

I made this page using the March Key Ingredients set - which already comes with papers, buckles, ribbon, cardstock with coordinating design papers. The chipboard is from American Crafts.

I love this little bear and I love that the Beary Accessories Stamp set comes with a scarf!!! How perfect because it totally looks like Harold now with a matching scarf :)

Card Details:

Paper: March Key Ingredients

Ink: Stazon Black, Adirondack Expresso

Stamps: Beary Special, Beary Special Accessories (available June 5th)

Accessories: Corner Rounder, white gel pen, silver marker, everything else comes with March Key Ingredients kit.

3. Birthday Bear Card:

I simply love the versatility of this set. By pairing it with different papers - there are so many different looks that you can create :) Here is a little birthday card for a little boy using the Beary Special and Beary Special Accessories stamp set. I used the TECC69 sketch from Taylor - but kinda got carried away with adorning all the corners instead of one :) - couldn't help it - I had such a ball making this card and adding the glitter and crystal effects to the ballon :)

Everything in this card is paper pieced. The bear, the presents, the bows on the presents. The present is part of the Beary Special Accessories stamp set. All of it was paper pieced :)

4. Keep Truckin :

This week the 3D challenge at Paper Craft Planet was to create a truck - and I couldn't think of anything cuter than a little bear in a truck - (love the bow tie and hat that the Beary Special Accessories stamp set has!). You can check out all the details here about how to create this fun truck. You can attach a little gift card on the back of this truck - so its a little truck bringing a little present :)

5. Believe Bear Card:

Okay - really - how could I not create one more card when there is this sweeeeeet image of wings and wand - I couldn't resist!!! And when I saw that there was a sentiment that read: Believe - I knew that I had to use it with my winged bear - there are so many kinds of cards that you can make with this - something for a child, something for someone who is going through a rough time - something just to lift the spirits:

Card Details:

Paper: Martha Stewart

Ink: Adirondack Expresso, SU! Caramel

Stamps: Beary Special, Beary Special Accessories (available June 5th)

Accessories: Corner Rounder, rhinestones, glitter, crystal effects, liquid pearls, ribbon.

Wow - that was one long post!! Hope you enjoyed these peeks of this awesome stamp set! Because the purchase of this stamp set goes to help this awesome Organization - in order to save costs on manufacturing and to be able to donate even more to this foundation, these sets will have to be trimmed from the sheet of rubber.

Don't forget to check out the rest of the Beary Awesome ;) creations from my fellow Design Team members:


Donna Baker
Jodi Collins
Jen del Muro
Dawn Easton
Laura Fredrickson
Karen Giron
Charmaine Ikach
Denise Marzec
Karen Motz
Laurie Schmidlin
Ana Wohlfahrt

and of course: Taylor VanBruggen

Don't forget to stop in tomorrow for some more sneak peeks!! And tomorrow's are extra sweeeeeeeeeet!

Thanks so much for stopping by!!
Hugs!
Sankari :)

Create a Holiday Card with Numbers!

Good Monday Morning Everyone,

Happy June 1st!!!! Can you believe its JUNE!!!! We are half way through 2009 and I am psyched to have almost 20 holiday cards - thanks to Maria's inspiration to start a blog where we do different challenges every week to make holiday cards all year long: known as the Christmas Stampin All Year Long Blog!

Today is Monday and that means its time for another card from the Christmas Stampin' All Year Long blog - where today - I am your hostess!!! I thought for Challenge #19! to mix it up a little and have some fun with numbers :)!!! So the challenge is to create a card where you use numbers (either in the embellishment, stamps, paper, etc) as the main focus of the creation :) As soon as I thought of that and sent it to Maria - our awesome blog coordinator /creator/genius :) I suddenly panicked and thought... Uh-Oh, I don't think I want to play along in my own challenge :) because suddenly it felt a little hard to figure out what to do with numbers - 

 but I tried by playing around on my computer and came up with this card that is for Season's Greetings All Year Long (24-7-365 meaning: 24 hours of the day, 7 days a week, 365 days in a year). I downloaded a calendar for December from this site and flourished it up with a little blue flourish and added a little pinkish red dot on the 25th of December for accent. The Tree is a craft stamp and paper pieced and is a Tara Reed Design from Janlynn. Oh and by the way - I just found out that Janlynn is having a HUGE blowout sale - I mean huge!!! Check it out!!

This tree is part of a 7 tree cluster craft stamp called Joyful Trees but I just used one for this card and embellished it with some pink rhinestones. I had to use some liquid pearl (I tried my best not to... but I couldn't resist!!! lol!) and created a little half circle element with the liquid pearls and some glitter :)

Card Details:

Paper: Scenic Route (Sonoma) and 

Ink: Martha Steward Brown

Stamps: Joyful Trees (by the artist Tara Reed from JanLynn)

Accessories: RicRac ribbon from stash, silver marker, Kaiser Rhinestones, Martha Green Agate glittler, liquid pearls, dimensionals

Show Watched: Pride & Prejudice for the 400th time :)

I hope you play along! It's really been helping each week to add a card to my holiday card pile :) yay! I am psyched to be able to actually have cards to give out during the holidays :) yay :) unlike last year where it was just a last minute holiday shopping, wrapping, crafting frenzy ... ugh!

Check out all the fun numbered creations from the lovely ladies over at the Christmas Stampin All Year Long blog!!!

Hope your Monday is off to a great start!!!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!!!

Ciao for now :)

Sankari