You Are In My Prayers-Coffee And Cards With Celeste And Deb

 

Happy March! This month Deb and I are playing with a sketch. I love patterned papers and layers, so sketches are always a lot of fun for me, but I admit this one challenged me. I chose to do a mirror image of the focal panel on my card. I started by embossing some basic black cardstock using Simon Says Stamps Dotted Diamond 3D embossing folder and layering that onto my card base. I created the background by using patterned paper from Crate Paper's Pretty Party 6x paper pad. My focal panel was created by using stitched square dies from My Favorite Things sentiment from The Cat's Pajamas Simply Stacked Sentiments, Echo Park's Wintertime Braches Die set and more of the patterned paper, and some old black brads I had in my stash from forever ago. I opted to not create a bow on my card because I find it difficult to mail cards with twine or ribbon on them. 

For my coffee this month, I opted for a lovely caramel coconut shaken latte from my local Ziggi's. It was delicious! Now, be sure to head over to Debra's blog and see what fun she created this month with our sketch!

Cozy Vibes

 

Hello, happy Monday! I cannot believe that Thanksgiving is this week. I am way behind on creating my holiday cards this year, so the Freshly Made Sketches and Inkspirational challenges was not only fun, but useful in helping me get another card into my stash. I started by layering some pretty green snowflake patterned paper from My Mind's Eye Oh What Fun paper pad onto my card base. I die cut a white panel using a Paper Rose stitched rectangle border die and adhered that down. I created a fishtail banner using a banner die from Unity Stamp Company and adhered that to the focal panel. Using Echo Park's Wintertime Branches dies and paper from K&Co designer mat pad, I created the pine branches and glued them down behind what would be my focal image. I stamped the mug, gingerbread man, candy cane, holly sprig, and sentiment from the Essentials By Ellen Cozy Cuppa stamp set and colored them using my Copic markers. I fussy cut around the images and popped them up off of the card using thin foam tape. I finished the card off with some white gel pen details and sparkly clear confetti from Pink & Main. I appreciate you visiting my blog today!