Timeless Tuesday...Sketch by Tammy

Well it's time for Timeless Tuesday and it's a sketch challenge that Miss Tammy has designed for us to follow. I love sketch challenges but this one had me really challenged. I wanted to do a good job as this is my last week as the design team's guest...where did the time go??? I was having so much fun being in the spot light and now it's time for the curtain to come down. I have to tell you.. along the way I've met some new friends and have some new places to visit and delight in some wonderful blogs that offer up some great stuff. Enough blubbering...where's the dang Kleenex? On to the card.

Here's a peek at the sketch...

And, here's my card...

There are two cutie patootie papers on it,one is Basic Gray/Grey (the plaid) and the other (flourish) is K & Company. My image  of course is Flourishes  from the Strawberries set and then my little word "Smile" is from the Tag Lines set. I used the Spellbinder's Classic Circle and Eyelet Circle Nestabilities dies. My matching ribbon is from Mike and my little scalloped like border is from a Stampin' Up punch. Not my normal every day card but decided to get a bit funky and fun with these cute papers. Added some glitter glue and some white gel pen was used to make the seedy look on the berries, cause I'm a seedy kind of broad and I thought I should have that shown a bit.

If you want to see all the details of today's challenge, just head on over to the Flourishes Blog. And, be sure to hop on over to see the rest of the FTTC designers....

Betty
Maki
Silke
Cindy
Heather
Tammy

So there you go fellow stampers...off to a good week and hope to see you all soon again.

Pat   

Timeless Tuesday...It's in the bag!

Well today at Timeless Tuesday at Flourishes Betty wants us to use  brown grocery bag paper on the card/project. Fun huh? Well I went all out and made some paper flowers out of my brown bag with a Sizzix's die. Decided to go as DD calls it shabby chic. Me shabby?? Me chic?? To clarify that's chic (not sheikh as in Rudy Valentino's sheikh).Don't know if  I'm  either but  I can do a card that way if I want to and so I did.

My card base is kraft, with a mat of ivory, and then some "chic" dp bought at Mike's pad. Didn't show who put it out because I used part of it previously and so the name is gone..sorry people. It's a soft denim colored blue and ivory so I wanted to bring that out in my flower. After cutting the different size flowers I brushed them with denim colored ink that Adirondack puts out. Now for some fun I used the Scor-Pal and did a bit of pleating out of the ivory card stock and then added some crocheted ribbon stuff to give it that vintage look. Guess I need to use some of that on myself to add to my vintage look (mine is wrinkled skin and old age spots) not so  classy, me thinks. After I slapped it together I added the little flag sentiment "thank-you" found in the Hello Hyacinth set. Put a few blingers on and I'm through here.So now it's your turn to get a bag (not a live one like me) and see what you can come up with. There's lots of ideas out there, just tune into one of them and give it a go. Oh, and be sure to check out the design team's work...they are listed and linked below. For a look at the official challenge and all the rules, feel free to click HERE. 

Betty
Maki
Silke
Cindy
Heather
Tammy

Hope your week will be a goody one. See you again soon.

Timeless Tuesday...circles & squares

Hey it's that time of week again and the challenge over at Flourishes  is to use circles and squares on your card/project, use as many as you want but be sure to use both shapes. Well I know it's hip to be square, just ask Huey Lewis and the News (wow that takes me back in time quite a bit) and as Diana Ross might say..round and round you turn me sooo... let's do it people. Dang, I'll have those tunes floating in my lame brain all day now.

I decided to be square first by making a totally square card and adding a few more squares before turning myself into the round. Card base is the cute polka (shall we dance for awhile here) dotted fun colored green and we move on from there by adding green, white, and then a fancy schmancy square compliments of my Spellbinder Die Eyelet Squares. Then, I changed my tactic and started using some circle shapes. I stamped the new Zinnia flower and colored with my ...yep you guessed it my favorite water colored pencils and my faithful blender. I tried some new pencils put out by Derwent called Inktense and I like them. They're pretty vibrant. Not much to this card other then following the challenge and using my circles and squares and then adding a wee bow. So get to work and join the fun why don't you? Quit reading start stamping and then link up on the Timeless Tuesday post for today. Be sure and check out the design teams card/projects.....

Betty
Cindy
Silke
Maki
Heather
Tammy

Timeless Tuesday ...Father's Day card

Well it's time for Timeless Tuesday over at Flourishes and yours truly is sitting in for the entire month of June as a guest designer! Pretty exciting for this ole lady, I tell ya! This week Silke is asking for a Father's Day card ..easy peasy.. especially when you have Flourishes' What a Catch set.  So, here goes! I used gray/grey for my card base and went to work adding some manish type background papers. I love the hat and equipment this image shows, but I wondered where's the can of worms??? I like to thread them on the hook and lure the fish that way. I'm not big on phony flies, but to each his own. I stamped and colored with my faithful water colored pencils and used the blender to get the shadowy effects. Then around my phrase I did the Hokey Pokey and I turned myself around...oops! Once again, I got off track . What I meant to say was I did a bit of piercing (not on myself cause I'm too old for that foolishness) but on the phrase. I made a pretend like ribbon and made it manly by putting some of those nailhead thingys, and guess what??? I'm done here.

Be sure to hop on over and see the other Timeless Tuesday gals....

Betty Wright
Cindy Haffner
Maki Jones
Silke Ledlow
Tammy Hershberger -- she's taking the week off!
Iwona Palmountain -- she's joining us a guest this week!
Heather Jensen - she's one of the new team members!

Thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you all next week for another round of Timeless Tuesday! Be sure to click HERE for all the challenge details!

Front door is on...finally

Here is what my darling cottage looks like now that it is all painted and my door is back on. Too bad my grass is not in yet but it is what it is. I decided if I don't get some grass before the summer really rolls in I will go to Lowe's and buy some by the yard and throw it down...phony is better then none.