Wednesday = Challenge!

I thought with Valentine's Day around the corner I'd use the challenge today that could be used as a love card :) Here is the sketch for today's challenge:

A great layering card. If you participated in this challenge leave a link in your comments, I'd love to "see" what you created :)
Here's my card:

Stamps: Whether Or Not, Short & Sweet
Paper: Real Red, Whisper White, Chocolate Chip, Creamy Caramel, Regal Rose, DS retired SU
Ink: regal rose craft, real red marker, chocolate chip
Accessories: ribbon, stampin dimensionals, cuttlebug & embossing folder

Caught Up Challenge

I squeezed in some stamping time yesterday to do THIS WEEK'S challenge (again from SCS). Very fun indeed. It is wet and mucky here in BC (the joys of a west coast winter) and so the blah's were in full swing at our house. Everyone wanting sunshine... so I thought I'd go with bright, happy colors for my card challenge. I used the scallop punch as the base of my flower and then built it up with prima flowers. Here's the sketch for you to try....


Stamps: Love Matters
Paper: Old Olive, whisper white, pumpkin pie, basic black, DS (my stash)
Ink: brilliance black & SU Stampin' Write Markers
Accessories: corner punch, slot punch, prima flowers, scallop punch, 1/16th punch, brad, pink rhinestone
How do you find inspiration? Do you just sit and go for it when you stamp or do you CASE ideas you love?
.j.

Sketch it Wednesday.

Each Wednesday there's a sketch challenge over on SCS. I always seem to be one week behind (story of my life - LOL) so I thought I'd share with you LAST weeks sketch Challenge (aka SC160). I will work on today's challenge & hope to share that with you too. I seem to have caught the dreaded cold/flu my kids have so I'm suffering through that and moving a tad slower than usual. We also have to clear out the entire upstairs (except kids' closets as they actually sleep in there... oh the joys of living in an unfinished house!)as our floor starts getting put down tomorrow! HOW EXCITING IS THAT!?! We were able to log fir trees off our property and get them milled & dried and are using that for our hardwood floors -- pretty cool. They are wide plank board too. Beautiful. I'm just so excited to get some flooring down as that means it's ALMOST time to unpack! Living in/out of boxes & suitcases for nearly two years.... how sweet will this be. OK, back to stamping!!!
Here's the sketch. I hope by showing you the sketch, you'll be able to sit down and give it a try too. I find when I'm in a stamping block, following a sketch works amazingly well!

Here's my card using the frolicking frog set by Stampin' Up!

Enjoy your day, find time to play!
.j.