Graduation!

So we are closing in on that time of the year again... Graduation season.

Well this year my little sister Hailey is graduating from my Alma Mater

(Go WHS Jags)! I decided I wanted to make a few cards for my Etsy 

shop so I bought two cute graduate digis from PaperAddictions on Etsy

because I thought they were too cute and they 

only cost $3 for the both! After I put together these cards

(using the most recent Verve sketch) I decided I might not put these

ones on Etsy and instead give them to my sister and her longtime 

boyfriend who is also graduating from whs :-)

My creations:

Their school colors and red, black, white and silver

Supplies:

Paper Studio and Recollections paper

Paper Addictions digi stamps

buttons, twine, stickon gems

colored pencils and OMS

Retro Sketches #56

One more card before bed... Another last minute entry

as the Retro Sketch deadline is in an hour.

I did this card with the same paper pack as the last one.

My new pack from Recollections. I love the colors, very spring like

and pastel. It's actually quite different for me to have

purchased this pack cause I usually am not a 

huge fan of pastel-ish colors but I sure am loving the mint!

My creation:

Supplies:

Recollections paper

Button, twine

Original sketch:

Sweet Stop 203!

I have whipped out a card just in time for

The Sweet Stop! I liked this sketch, nice and simple

and I really like banners lately! I used some new paper

called My Favorite Things from Recollections.

My Creation:

Supplies used:

Recollection paper

stamp from CTMH

Versamark and glitter black ep

button, twine

Original Sketch:

Elephants!!

So this is my first ever time to make a card that I will

enter in more than 1 challenge... This card will be entered into 

four challenges! Yay! 

Now for my Creation!

Supplies:

Paper Studio Paper

colored pencils, OMS

Stick-on pearls

I'm entering this card into:

Deconstructed Sketch #93


{PIN}spirational challenge


Twisted Tuesday Challenge: banners and pearls

Pile it On: Dots

{PIN}spirational Challenges DT Call

I was checking out fellow Twist of Faith DT member Zella's Blog
(Joyful Expressions) and decided to check out {PIN}spirational challenges
that she designs for and saw that they are having a DT call... Their challenges

look great so I thought that I would submit and entry.

Here are some of my recent creations:

Fearfully and Wonderfully Made ToF #30

It's a new week and time for another challenge from Twist of Faith!

What great entries we had this past week for our Easter challenge!

Are y'all ready for a new challenge?! We have a great challenge for y'all this week!

Make it SPARKLE!

What fun there is to be had with this challenge!! As soon as I found

out the challenge, my card came straight to mind! I have some

black glitter ribbon and some shiny hot pink ribbon that I just love!

After thinking of the colors I immediately looked to see if I had any shiny

pink and black zebra print paper and sure enough! One sheet left!

Our sponsor of the week:

Melonheadz Illustrations will give the winner of this challenge

one image bundle of their choosing!

Nikki over at Melonheadz has so graciously given the DT

some wonderful images for us to use for our cards!

It was so hard for me to pick! I loved all of the images!

I finally decided on the image Bucket Girl. I loved her little pigtails

and thought she had the perfect outfit to color to 

match the color scheme I was going with.

My creation:

Supplies:

Paper Studio paper (HL)

Verve clear stamp

Melonheadz bucket girl digi

Versamark ink, glitter black embossing poweder

Glitter black ribbon and shiny pink ribbon from Michaels

pink and diamond stick-on rhinestones

paper flowers and pink button from Michaels

black and white bakers twine 

colored pencils and OMS

Viva la Verve March week 3

This is a great sketch! It took me a bit to figure out what 

I wanted to do until I flipped through my paper pack

and saw the big flowers and thought it

would be perfect!

My Creation:

Supplies Used:

Authentique Paper pack

Verve Stamps

A Cut Above by Verve All a Flutter die

Nesties lacey circles and reg circles

Original Sketch:

Deconstructed Sketch #94

I loved this weeks sketch over at Deconstructed Sketch!

I had fun making this card! I just love the teal, blue

and brown colors of this paper from Authentique!

My Creation:

Supplies used:

Authentique Paper

Stamp from HL

Seam binding, twine, button

Nesties circles dies

Original Sketch:

Try Stampin' on Tuesday #110

Have another card for today. This one using the sketch

from Try Stampin' on Tuesday! I found this digi

girl online and thought she was too cute so I colored her to 

match the paper and added a little sentiment.

My Creation:

Supplies used:

Authentique Paper 

Verve stamp

Stazon brown ink

borderabilities die

colored pencils and OMS

original sketch:

Freshly made sketches #78

I took a week off from sketch challenges but I'm back!

I decided to make one more Easter card

using this weeks sketch from Freshly Made.

My creation:

Supplies:

Paper Studio paper

CraftSmart stamp

Stazon brown ink

Borderabilities die

colored pencils and OMS

Original Sketch:

He has risen! ToF #29

Hey y'all! I have some great news! I am a new design team member for a wonderful card challenge blog called Twist of Faith! Their challenges start on Tuesdays and end on Tuesdays (depending on your time zone of course).There is a different challenge every week with the 'twist of faith' being to add a scripture or other encouraging or uplifting sentiment to your card. Sounds great right! :-) I hope if any of you have not participated in this card challenge that you will!

This is my very first challenge to participate in as a designer! This weeks challenge is Easter. We have a great sponsor this week, Robyn's Fetish who will give the winner of the challenge 5 digis of their choosing! How awesome is that?!

For my card, I used the sketch for this weeks challenge from 

Try Stampin' on Tuesday. I have has this great chevron pastel paper just
sitting around for awhile and thought it was the perfect time to use it! I
added some solid pastel paper to it, and die cut some flowers as well.

Mt 'he has risen' rubber stamp is from Hobby Lobby

and the Easter egg that I colored with colored pencils

and OMS is one of the digis available at Robyn's Fetish.

My Creation:

Supplies used:

Paper Studio paper

Stampendous stamp

Easter egg digi from Robyn's Fetish

Stazon black ink, clear ep

lace ribbon (HL)

colored pencils, OMS

Spellbinders lacey circles and standard circles

Original sketch from Try Stampin' on Tuesday:

Viva la Verve March week 2

Another great Verve sketch! I just love anything I can layer!

After making the anniversary card for my 

grandparents last week using my Echo Park paper

I decided to do that again with this sketch.

My creation:

Supplies:

Echo Park Times and Seasons dp

Paper Studio solid cardstock

Verve stamp

Versamark ink, bark ep

jute, button, creme floss

Original sketch:

Just for Fun!!

I have just started to work with coloring with colored pencils

and odorless mineral spirits (OMS) and am having

fun with it! I decided to make a little set

of 3x3 gift tags for baby using my fairly new set of 

baby stuffed animal stamps I got a few weeks ago.

Supplies:

Inkadinkado Welcome Baby stamps

Paper Studio paper

Crayola colored pencils, OMS

Marvy corner punch

Mojo Monday 284

Time for another Mojo Monday! I just love these

sketches that are put out every week! Always so good!

Again I'm having a great time with my 

paper pack called Times and Seasons from Echo Park.

The colors are just stunning! Love the rich tones... My pictures don't

do them justice! Especially since I am taking them with my phone 

because my camera memory card got corrupted and

I haven't replaced it yet :-/

My creation:

Supplies:

Echo Park Times and Seasons dp

Paper Studio solid cardstock

Verve stamps and All a Flutter die

Versamark Ink and bark embossing powder

Spellbinders circles, lace circles, and borderabilities dies

Stick-on pearls and green seam binding

Original sketch:

Sister Act Card Challenge design team call!

I just came across this new card challenge called Sister Act Card Challenge.

They are brand new and looking for a design team! I absolutely

love card challenges, and try and participate in as many as I can!

I thought I would through my hat into

the ring and see what happens!

The rules for submitting are to put your three favorite/best

cards in one post and link it to their site. Wow having to pick my 

three best is hard! I decided to go through the cards I have

made in the past few weeks and pick a nice variety from those

so without further ado, here are my top 3 cards!
Thanks for taking the time to look!

email: inkandpapercardshopAThotmailDOTcom

Card 1: Baby Boy

Click here for original posting.

Card 2: Birthday Boy card

Click here for original posting.

Card 3: He Has Risen

Click here for original posting.

Top Three!

My cards I have made for the past two weeks for

Try Stampin' on Tuesday have made

the top three!

Top 3 for week of 02/26/13

Top 3 for week of 03/05/13

Sketch Challenge SC426

I have not done a Sketch Challenge over a t

Splitcoaststampers in a while so thought I should participate 

this week. I liked this sketch, has a lot of layers

which are my favorite thing! I'm still on

my masculine card kick...

My creation:

Supplies:

Authentique paper

Verve stamps

Versamark, citron and bark ep

Cuttlebug spots emb folder

SU! Sizzix chevron emb folder

Original sketch:

Try Stampin' on Tuesday #108

Been working on some more masculine cards...

I just love these ties from Stampin' Up! I am also

a huge fan of blue and green so I am having a lot of fun making

cards using this paper pack from Authentique 

that I got at Hobby Lobby

My creation:

Supplies:

Authentique paper

Stampin' Up! stamps

Versamark, citron and brown ep

Borderabilities die

Original Sketch:

Freshly Made Sketches #76

I really enjoyed this weeks sketch! I thought my

new butterfly stamp and dies for perfect

for the three spaces on this card. I cut out 2 butterflies for every

color and on one set I stamped in Versamark

and embossed in bark ep.

My creation:

Supplies:

Authentique paper pack

Verve stamps and A Cut Above die

Versamark ink and bark ep

Original sketch:

Mojo Monday #283

It's contest week over at Mojo Monday! I made another

mother's day card since I got my new stamps in.

I got a new butterfly stamp and die 

from Verve. I love them!

My Creation:

Supplies used:

Authentique paper pack

Verve stamps and butterfly die

Versamark and bark ep

Original Sketch:

Sunday Sketch and Stamp #146

I decided to make another masculine card with my new paper.

This time a fathers day card. I just love this

mustache paper! It's too cute!

My creation:

Supplies:

Echo Park times and seasons paper

Verve stamps

Studio G green ink and clear ep

button and twine

Original sketch:

Tuesday Morning Sketches #188

I got some new paper this past week from Echo Park called 

Times and Seasons and I just love it! The colors

I think are just beautiful and the masculine feel of some of the papers is great!

The pack also comes with two sheets with stickers on them that go along

with the paper. I used one of them in my card.

My creation:

Supplies:

Echo Park Times and Seasons

Paper Studio solid cardstock

Stampin Up! stamps

Stazon black ink, clear ep

button, twine

original sketch:

The Sweet Stop SSS200

This weeks challenge over at the Sweet Stop

was a perfect sketch to do these bow ties that I wanted to do after

a friend showed me a picture of a card saying

it looked like something I would do lol. To make the bow ties

I cut out 1 1/2 squares out of various paper

and them by free handing, trimmed them into triangles.

It wasn't too hard... 

My creation:

Supplies:

SU! stamp

Stazon brown ink

Authentique paper pack

buttons, twine

Original sketch:

Retro Sketches #53

For my card this week for Retro Sketches I got to use

my new stamps from SU! I used the stamp that has five ties but I 

only used three of them and stamped them all separately 

so I could make them different colors.

I also flipped the sketch and used a rectangular card instead of 

a square card. I think it turned out well.

My creation:

Supplies:

SU! stamps,

Colorbox and Stazon inks

Authentique paper pack

Cuttlebug spots embossing folder

buttons and twine

Original sketch: