Some Bunny Loves You – Freshly Made Sketches 174

by Shannon Jaramillo // February 20, 2015 // 8 Comments

Hello there friends! I’m so happy to be stamping again! I saw Cindy’s sketch over at Freshly Made Sketches and I was immediately inspired to pull out this darling bunny…

I know it’s a bit early for Easter but I have so many fun sets that if I don’t start now, I’ll never use them all! That’s what happened for Valentine’s Day…so many sets will have to wait a whole year now…so sad 🙁

This darling stamp, die and sentiment are from Clearly Besotted Stamps Hoppy Easter set (Yes, I bought it last year…). I’m not a very confident colorer (is that a word?) so I love that there are two bunnies in the set, one in outline so you can color him, and one stamped image for the rest of us (wink).

My Favorite Things Vertical Stitched Strips Dies just arrived in my mailbox yesterday so I pulled them out and put them to work! Now, they are supposed to be vertical stitched stripes but as you can see, they work horizontally just fine. I ran the pattern paper through the Big Shot with the die, then positioned my die cut on a slant on my card base and then cut off the overhanging sides with my guillotine paper trimmer from Stampin’ Up! It’s retired now, but will never retire from my stamp room (I have a replacement stashed in my closet so I should be good for a few years…lol)

The bunny and sentiment are stamped in Raspberry Fizz ink. I then applied Wink of Stella liberally to him.I think he looks velveteen!

I used a small die cut border in MFT Grape Jelly card stock to add a bit of separation between the pattern paper and the card base. A few adorably colored sprinkles are the perfect jewelry!

I appreciate your visit here to my blog today, I would love to hear any feedback you would care to share!

Wishing you joy and blessings! (And warmth if you are back east)

Products Used:

Cardstock: Stamper’s Select White by Papertrey Ink; Grape Jelly by My Favorite Things

Pattern Paper: Springtime by Doodlebug

Ink: Raspberry Fizz by Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Hoppy Easter by Clearly Besotted Stamps

Tools: MISTI

Dies: Hoppy Easter by Clearly Besotted Stamps; Vertical Stitched Strips by My Favorite Things, and Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!

Embellishments: Bubblegum, Blue Jean and Limeade Sprinkles by Doodlebug Designs

Je t’aime – Freshly Made Sketches #170

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 24, 2015 // 6 Comments

I cannot explain the allure that Paris and Le Tour Eiffel hold for me, but they do. So when the newest release from Clearly Besotted included a stamp set with it, it immediately went to the top of my ‘must have’ list!! This is a beautiful rendition of the Tower, including an adorable heart right smack in the middle of it…perhaps they should modify to real Tower to include the heart, it’s pretty darn cute!!

I truly do not know where this vintage-y style is coming from…but I love it!! I, of course, went through my paper bin and found these delightful papers that just scream Paris to me, and then I built the card around them! I wanted something for the Tower to sit on…I didn’t want it floating on the page, so I pulled out this adorable pierced tag set from My Favorite Things. I dye cut two tags, in different patterns, and got a bit inky with my Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

In fact, every layer ended up being distressed, it took the ‘newness’ out of the papers. Can you see the pretty pattern in the top tag? I trimmed it specifically to include those swirls, no need to add any more stamping to it! And the fiber…isn’t it amazing? It’s part of my collection that I have had for-ever! It feels so good to use some of my pretty supplies!

And with all this gong on on the outside, there was no way I could leave the inside blank so…

Voila! Another pretty pattern paper and a lovely swirl stamp from a retired Stampin’ Up! set called Elements of Style. I inked it up in the Vintage Photo Distress Ink and then stamped off before stamping on my card. Love!

The sketch for today’s project is courtesy of Freshly Made Sketches…such a fun sketch this week!

And that’s all folks! I hope you and the folks over at Freshly Made Sketches enjoy my creation for the challenge this week!

I will be back tomorrow with another fun challenge for you from the talented designers at The Paper Players!

Wishing you joy and blessings!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Vintage Cream by Papertrey

Pattern Paper: Lost & Found: Rosy by My Mind’s Eye

Ink: Early Expresso by Stampin’ Up! and Vintage Photo Distress Ink by Tim Holtz

Stamps: Je t’aime by Clearly Besotted Stamps and Elements of Style (retired) by Stampin’ Up!

Dies: FPierced Traditional Tags by My Favorite Things and Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!

Tools: MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

Embellishments: Retired Fiber from Making Memories and unknown brad

My Lucky Stars

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 19, 2015 // 1 Comment

I really enjoyed The Paper Players challenge yesterday and decided to keep the theme going…

This card was quick and fun and showcases some new (to me) products…the Pierced Square STAX by MFT and the Lucky Stars stamp set from Wplus9.

I found this beautiful small patterned paper and fell in love with the shade of blue and pops of Calypso Coral so I mimicked those colors for my stamping. I love the flecks in this Rustic White cardstock by PTI, I thought it would work very well for the sweet, slightly vintage feel of this card…

I wanted the Calypso Coral to be a backdrop for this beautiful sentiment so I stamped off once before stamping onto my cardstock. I added an itty bitty banner to the base of my top panel and two teeny stars to make a complete trio of Calypso Coral stars. I completed the card with a beautiful envelope liner…so pretty and soft!

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

I have a fun idea for a card so I’m off to stamp some more!!

Wishing you joy and blessings!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Rustic White by Papertrey

Pattern Paper: Persimmon by Basic Grey

Ink: Calypso Coral and Midnight Muse (retired) by Stampin’ Up!

Stamps: Lucky Stars by Wplus9

Dies: Pierced Rectangle STAX by My Favorite Things and Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!

Tools: MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

Embellishments: None

Crazy in Love – CAS(E) this Sketch & Fusion Card Challenges

by Shannon Jaramillo // January 12, 2015 // 17 Comments

Woo Hoo! Happy Monday to you, my friends!! It rained all day yesterday but that was a great excuse to stay home, play with paper and watch football!! My favorite team lost (sniff) but my second favorite team won, and so it continues next weekend!

While watching football I was also looking for challenges to participate in and found two…CAS(E) this Sketch and Fusion Card Challenge.

I decided to go with the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch and then was inspired to incorporate pink into my card by the picture from Fusion. Then, still watching football, I skimmed through my 6×6 paper storage for pink paper and pulled out some stamps to ponder as well.

Finally, the creative juices were flowing and I abandoned football (sorry Payton) and got busy creating!!

What do you think?!? I fell in love with this paper! I tried adding a cardstock layer to it, but it didn’t seem to need any other color at all. I got completely lucky and found ink that matched the paper perfectly!! And the MISTI made stamping my eye chart a breeze…

Isn’t this stamp just too fun?? It’s called (strangely enough) Eye Charts and is by My Favorite Things.

I needed an embellishment to meet the requirements of the sketch and kept trying to add a cute little die cut of glasses, but it just wasn’t working for me. So instead of focusing on the eye chart, I focused on the sentiment and found this adorable matching heart and die set in the Locking Hearts Stamp & Die Set from Simon Says Stamp. They are perfect!! And too cute too…

I kept the inside simple with these hearts from the Countless Sayings II Stamp Set by Stampin’ Up!. The set is retired but has some beautiful heart stamps in it!

And just because I’m sure you want to see it again…

Yep, I love it. How about you??

Thank you so much for stopping by, I know it takes a minute to leave a comment but if you have a minute, I would really love to hear from you!! Thanks bunches!!

Wishing you joy and blessings!!

Products Used:

Cardstock: Vintage Cream by Papertrey

Pattern Paper: Sky’s the Limit by My Mind’s Eye

Ink: Melon Berry by Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Eye Charts by My Favorite Things, Locking Hearts by Simon Says Stamp and Countless Sayings II by Stampin’ Up!

Dies:Locking Hearts by Simon Says Stamp and Envelope Liner Die by Stampin’ Up!

Tools: MISTI by My Sweet Petunia

Embellishments: None