The Sounding Joy - ICS137

This card is entered in the Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge #137.
Products:
Stampin' Up!
Ink - Ruby Red, Garden Green
Stamps - The Sounding Joy, Peaceful Season
DSP - Frostwood Lodge
Cardstock - Real Red, Whisper White

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Flocked DSP --- Who says it's girlie?

Hi there! This is my entry for the Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge  #135 . Honestly, I totally love this DSP, Mocha Morning Specialty. It can run both feminine and masculine. I really love to play with the patterns and textures as well. The black/gray is flocked and it's FAB-U-LOUS! If you'd like to purchase any of this beautiful DSP you can get it RIGHT HERE!

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ICS - a fond farewell

This is the Inspirational Card Sketches Sketch I chose to use for my creation...

 Here's the card I created. I've used those F-A-B, dsps from Stampin' Up! Pocketful of Posies again!!! The base cardstock is Chocolate Chip. I've added a piece of the 5/8" white satin ribbon through the center. I've punched with the NEW Lace Ribbon Border and the Scallop Trim Border punches. My sentiment is a stamp and has been punched using both the Curly Label and the Decorative Label punches. I tied some SU twine and made a bow. Called it a card and now it's ready for a co-worker of my hub's who lost their beloved family dog yesterday.

This is my design for the Inspirational Card Sketches challenge - pick your own!

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ICS#119

hello - Inspirational Card Sketches #119. I just really loved playing with varying shaeds of torquoise. I am very happy with the way this one turned out.

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Old Fashioned Christmas - ICS113 & CCC22

Old Fashioned Christmas - I posted this card to 2 challenges - Inspirational Card Sketches #113 and Christmas Card Challenge #22. I must say, the troop at ICS sure did give me a challenge this week! This sketch, although it creates a beautiful pattern it is a challenge to cut all the pieces to fit. Still it was F U N! The Christmas Card Challenge was to use metal. I think I took a little artistic license with this one in that my "ribbon" accents are gold and I used a gold ink on the bells in my main image. I just wanted to say, that beautiful ribbon rose at the bottom right hand corner was HANDMADE by ME!!! I am so proud of that little accent. My SU pal, Deb Segler and I went to a SU retreat this past weekend and Amy (her last name excapes me ATM) showed us how to make these. She only showed us one time and today I made my first one!
Hope you enjoy my card and I hope the CCC folks can appreciate my take on the "metal" challenge. :O)

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friendship - ICS112

Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge #112

Cardstock, stamps, ink, punch and pink ribbon are all from Stampin' Up!

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Thanks - ICS95

Thanks - Inspirational Card Sketches #95. Dps are from a CupCardsToGo kit. The bird is chipboard covered with pale blue tissue then a rub on was added. Sentiment is from Stampin' Up! Perfect Punches stamped in Cherry Cobbler.
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Holiday Greetings - ICS89

Holiday Greetings - Inspirational Card Sketch #89. Fun, fun, fun! I enjoyed this sketch! I used dps in from the same collection. Stamps were from different companies and collections. I stamped with Versa Mark then heat embossed with silver embossing powder.
Too much fun! I love these reindeer stamps from LOC! The punches are from Stampin' Up!
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Merry Christmas in Blue - ICS87

Merry Christmas in Blue - Inspirational Card Sketches challenge 87. I kind of fudged the sketch on this one. I wanted to keep it clean and simple. My ornaments are stamped on marina mist iwith whisper white and embossed with clear embossing powder. The 'snow' is stamped on whisper white with marina mist and embossed with clear embossing powder.
Stamps: Stampin' Up! Artistic Etchings #120573, Elegant Ornaments, Itty Bitty Backgrounds, All Year Cheer III
Ink: Stampin' Up! MarinaMist,Whisper White
Cardstock: Stampin'  Up! Marina Mist, Whisper White

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Happy Anniversary Amour - ICS84

This card features the Inspirational Card Sketches sketch #84 and two sentiment stamps from SU. The lovely poppies are a digital from PaperInkColor that I colored with Copics : rv42 salmon pink, r29 red lipstick, ,r22 light prawn and yg63 pea green. Happy Anniversary is stamped in Stampabilities brown and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. Amour is stamped in ColorBox Olive and heat embossed with clear embossing powder. I added some Ranger Glossy Accents to the centers of my poppies. I also spritzed some Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in olive vine onto my green cardstock masking of the already glittered scalloped border.

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Merry Christmas - ICS83

Merry Christmas - Inspirational ard Sketches Challenge #83. This weeks challenge is sponsored by InStyle Stamps. My tea cup image is from Treehouse Stamps and was colored using PaintShoPro. I colored the image once and printed it 3 times. Then I used dimentsional adhesives and made it 3D. I added ribbon and a paper flower with a button and a stick pin.
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Hello - ICS81

Hello Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge #81. Paper Romance is their sponsor this week.

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Flowers - ICS77

Flowers - Inspirational Card Sketches #77 sponsored by Paper Romance. The green gate fold card is from a monthly kit club which I no longer belong to. The dps on both cards are from CupCardsToGo kits. The images are my own and you can purchase them in MY ETSY SHOP for $1.25 each. The pink base cs is from DCWV. The orange flower was colored with copics and American Crafts markers. The pink and blue card was colored with Copics and chalks. The quote on the green card reads: To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. - Beverly Nichols. The quote on the pink card reads: If friends were flowers...

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Wishes come true... ICS76

May all your Wishes come true. Inspirational Card Sketches #76. The challenge this week is being sponsored by Paper Romance.

I kept this card very CAS as that's how I interpreted the sketch.

CS: Pacific Point, Baha Breeze, Whisper White

Stamps: Heard from the Heart, Embrace Life

Ink Pacific Point, Baha Breeze

Embellies: slide from COLORBOK chipboard accents, metal dots from COLORBOK, pearl from KAISER CRAFTS, button from KEEP IN TOUCH kits.

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thinking of you - ICS72 & CTD99

thinking of you - Inspirational Card Sketches #72 and Color Throw Down #99 - cream, chocolate and turquoise. These colors really worked well with this sketch and each other. I started with a base of cream and added turquoise and chocolate mattes. I didn't have any dp with these colors so I made my own by cutting strips of chocolate, turquoise and cream. I adhered them to the chocolate cs with my Elmer's Glue Stick. I used some ribbon over cs stock as one of the elements of the sketch.
I used my aqua painter and my tempting turquoise to paint the hat and the water in my image. The image is from Stampin' Up! summer by the sea and the sentiment is also Stampin' Up! always in my thoughts. Ribbon and stick pin are from CupCardsToGo kits.
The Inspirational Card Sketch is sponsored by Debra ICSDT  this week challenge with this yummy candy below, it includes:
26 sheets of 6"x6" paper
30 ribbon roses
1 pack doodlebugs clear stamps
Thank you so much Debra.


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Birthday Surprise - TPE70-ICS69

Birthday Surprise - The Pink Elephant Challenge #70 and Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge #69. The Pink Elephant challenge is to use red, scallops and a bow. Of course Inspirational Card Sketches challenge is to use their sketch. My dp is Basic Grey. My little flower branch stamp is from Stampin' Up! The sentiment is from Verve. The ribbon is from Cosmo Cricket and my little punched flowwrs and green border on focal image is from We R Memory Keepers White Out Collection (Christmas - Jolly).

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Celebrate! - ICS62

Celecrate! - Inspirational Card Sketches Challenge #62. This week the sponsor for the challenge is PaperMom so I dashed right over and purchased several of her images. I just loved everyhting I saw. But I purchased only 4. One of which is this little cuppy! I believe what I like the most is how simple and clean the inage is. There's not a lot of fuss and muss with this one. Just add a little bit of color and go baby, go!

The desinger paper is a two sided pattern and is from Fancy Pants. The sentiment is a sticker. All the cards tock is from American Crafts. My cuppy was colored with Copics and I highlighted with my Signo gel pen. My polka dot flower is a digi from Fred, She Said.

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Piling Up - Belated Happy Birthday - ICS60

Piling up... Belated Happy Birthday - Inspirational Card Sketchs #60. This is a belated birthday card for my brother in law, Big Joe. His birthday was March 13. I am sooo behind and like the card says, things just keep "piling up" on me. :O)
The sentiment on the inside says :
Belated Happy Birthday!
Sorry this is so late but,
things kept piling up on me.

Hope it was a great day anyway!

Cardstock - patterned and plain are from a RAK. The little flourish corners were purchased one line a LONG time ago and I just kept hoarding them. Thought they'd add a little sumpin' sumpin' to this card. My pile of chickies is from Stretch N' Bubbles. I colored the image with my Progresso Koh I Noor woodless color pencils.

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Happy Easter - ICS57

Happy Easter - Inspirational Card Sketches #57. The Stamping Boutique is sponsoring this week's challenge at ICS. My 'sleeping chick' is a Pocket Patootie from The Stamping Boutique. The image is colored with Copics. I tried to stick with pastels. The striped cardstock is from DCWV Nana's Kids stack. The green, pink and lavendat cardstock are from Stampin' Up! Ribbon is a scrap and the paper clip and flowers are from Keep In Touch kits. Thew chick border is a Martha Stewart punch.
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small Wonder - ICS55

A simple card for a simple sketch. I could see these being created in multiples. The sketch is from Inspirational Card Sketches #55. Loved this sketch and I love green so the two together makes for a pretty terrific outcome!

I stamped the flowers in varying shades of orange and then came back over with ColorBox Cat's Eyes in heliotrope, lime, scarlet, orange, marigold & canary. I stamped the Swirls twice; once in ColorBox chalk in Olive Pastel and once in CTMH New England Ivy. I heatd embossed all the flowers and the swirls with clear embossing powder.

DCWV Pocket Full of Posies stack - pp cardstock.

Stampin' Up! stamp - small Wonder sentiment

Autumn Leaves Stamp - Swirls

KaiserCraft stamps - Flowers

Bazzill - green cardstock

May Arts - green check ribbon

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