Sunset in Negril layout for Sketches in Thyme

 Hello and welcome.  Today I am using the latest sketch over at Sketches in Thyme Facebook challenge group.  I found a wonderful sunset photo from Negril, Jamaica.  I piled on tons of embellies sprinkled with some older tools and even older papers! I love to use my stuff!

Here's the sketch.  You can play along HERE.

You can see the beauty of gold foiled embellishments from My Mind's Eye at this angle.

A close up of the cluster.

Ingredients:

My Mind's Eye Palm Beach Mixed Bag Foiled Ephemera

Kiwi Lane Cedar Trails 1B

K & Co shell sticker

Fun Stampers Journey gold sequins

Creative Memories papers and misc card stock

Don't forget you can play along with this sketch and three others until the end of the month on the Sketches in Thyme Facebook Challenge Group.

Thanks for reading my post today.

Alicia

Shine Bright with Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Argyle dies for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hello, today's card uses Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch 586.  I had fun playing with this die for the first time.  It's always hard to know exactly how all the pieces work together the firs time around.  I think it worked out great.  I wanted a lot of pink. I gave this to my niece for her high school graduation.

Here is the sketch.

Another view of the elevation of the die cut pieces.  I did not use any foam tape, there is just a lot of individual layers.

Ingredients:

Spellbinders Kaleidoscope Argyle dies

Scrapbook.com Howdy and Yeehaw stamps and die

Scrapbook.com Brights 6x8 smooth cardstock

gems

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/ until 7.22

https://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/07/230-lets-celebrate-dt-call.html until 7.29

https://cardsgalorechallenges.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-crafts-galore-encore.html until 7.29

https://aperfecttimetocraft.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-perfect-time-to-craft-open-challenge.html until 7.30

https://dianamlarson.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-and-dlart-thankful-thursday.html until 7.30

Play along with us until Sunday evening.  Link up HERE.

Thank you for stopping by today.

Alicia

Stampin Up and Scrapbook.com for Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge

Hello and welcome to my blog today.  I have my latest card for Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch #584.  I decided to mix up some patterns.  I hope you find it to be a success and not a hot mess.

Here is Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch #584.

Here is another look at my creation. Die cutting and building has to be one of my favorite pastimes.

Ingredients:

Scrapbook.com Market Bloom Florals dies

Stampin Up Etched in Nature sentiment

Stampin Up Tranquil Tide ink

Spellbinders label die

Stitched Circle die

Stampin Up papers

Scrapbook.com Vacation and Market Blooms papers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/sweet-stampin-fabulous-flowers.html until 7.4x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/07/july-2024-anything-goes.html until 7.31

Play along until Sunday with Atlantic Hearts Challenge Sketch #584.

Thank you for stopping by

Alicia

Fly Over the Rainbow! Kindred Stamps

Welcome!  I could not let this month go by without a rainbow card.  However, this one is a bit on the dark side.  I used some darker paper scraps to create this unique rainbow.  I also added used some Kindred Stamps on the inside.

A peek of the inside.

I thought a darker image was appropriate for the inside.  I created the sentiment by using pieces of the sentiments in the set.

Ingredients:

Sizzix Fold-a-long Rainbow card die

Kindred Stamps Journey Home stamps

Various alcohol markers

Versamark black ink

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/06/welcome-to-elizabeth-craft-designs-for.html until 6.30x

https://paperfundaychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-2024-challenge-66-anything-goes.html until 6.30x

https://secretstamper.com/2024/06/anything-goes-with-a-fun-fold-for-creative-creases-85/ until 7.3x

https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2024/06/soss-251-d-is-for-die-cut.html until 7.4

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/cut-it-up-challenge-307-critters-real.html until 7.10x

https://craftygalscornerchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-256-anything-goes-wtwist.html until 7.10x

https://pinkgemchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/wk-13-anything-goes-card-making-paper.html until 7.12

Winner!

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you had a wonderful Pride Month.

Alicia

Shining before me like a moonbeam concert layout for Sketches in Thyme

Hello and welcome.  Today I am creating for Sketches in Thyme. I am still working on my Connecticut trip from 2020.  I started with some recent papers I purchased second hand and my Kiwi Lane templates. I thought the sketch called for their wavy templates.  I will also state these are not my photos, they are professional and I left the watermark on the photos.  They were much better photos than I got at this show.  I had front row...well that's a whole story but I ended up on the back row!  So far away but it was 2020, I did NOT care.  I was in my square watching LIVE music!  I was still appreciative.  

Here is the sketch I used. This is the fourth sketch of the month. If you are so inclined there are three more to play along with until the end of the month.

I was listening to this show while creating the layout.  I currently have a free subscription to Nugs.net, here is the LINK to the concert. The show is Warren Haynes and Danny Louis from 10.1.2020.  While reliving the memory I heard a song I have not heard before and pulled the title from the lyrics.  

I will admit a little scrappy secret.  First you must know I purchased these thickers second hand from one my city's two creative reuse stores, Scrap It Up.  The sheets did not contain all the letters but was pretty full and very reasonable priced.  Now, this is a pretty long title and I ended up needing a couple of letter.  I dug way back into one of the oldest tricks I know and performed letter surgery!  Bonus points if you can determine which two letters I manipulated!

Ingredients:

Recollections Constellations 12x12 paper pad

Kiwi Lane Madison Avenue 1 A & B

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress 12x12 paper

Jolee's guitar sticker

Thickers sticker letters

misc card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/lm-704-my-favorite-things-favorite.html z I love this sketch because the waves are so unique.  

Don't forget to play along with Sketches in Thyme until the end of the month.

Thanks for checking out my post.

Alicia

Scrapbook.com Hello Sunshine for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Today I am playing with my new Scrapbook.com Fruit Slices A2 Decorative die and the latest Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.  I had fun playing with the fruit dies and background die. I also threw in some inking behind the fruits on the background die.

Here's the sketch.

Close up of my sentiment. I chose to ink the popped up fruit with black to help it pop off the yellow citrus background.

Ingredients:

Scrapbook.com Fruit Slices A2 Decorative die

Scrapbook.com Fruit Shape dies

Scrapbook.com Hello Sunshine Word dies

Scrapbook.com Market Bloom A2 paper pad

Tim Holtz Distress Squeezed Lemonade ink

misc card stock and paper

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/f-is-for-fruit.html until 6.27x

https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2024/06/nbus-challenge-63.html until 6.30x

https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-2024-anything-goes-woptional-twist.html until 6.30x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/06/welcome-to-elizabeth-craft-designs-for.html until 6.30x

https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2024/06/soss-251-d-is-for-die-cut.html until 7.5

https://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-318-summer-colours.html until 7.22

Don't forget to play along until Sunday at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Thank you for reading today.

Alicia

Stampin Up Whiskey Business Father's Day cards

Greetings.  I am posting some recent cards I created for the holiday. I have had this set for a while and this year I was determined to make Father's Day cards with it.  I got my motivation when I recently participated in Justine Hovey's Fearless Card Making challenge.  Although using premade pieces was not an actual part of the challenge I was inspired to do so by the challenge.  Essentially, Justine gave us "deep thoughts on card making".  One of the these questions to think about was what is holding you up?  And I have piles of ideas/half made cards that have stalled because of my indecisiveness.  I was motivated to grab some pieces, stamp and die cut more to create these cards.

The first card began with the idea of using the Whiskey Business set and the embossed and inked wood grain background.  It ripped on the edge and I just added it to my embossed background pile.  Every time I picked it up, I was like ugh...I can't use this.  However, this go round I was inspired to die cut the piece and get rid of the ripped area.  I experimented with Distress inking on this panel.  I wasn't that happy with it but I was encouraged by the challenge to push on through and make a card.  

The inside of the card is where I stamped the Father's Day sentiment.

Here is a second card I made with same stamp set.  I colored the pieces the same but here I used a different sentiment.  I sent this one to my friend's father who turned 101 this month.  this one began with the premade card base.  I went with one layer die cut panel.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Whiskey Business stamps and dies

Copic Markers:  B00, Y32, YR18, E35

Spectrum Noir: Bright Orange

Prismacolor: Cool Grey 10% and 20%

I would like to enter these in the following challenges:

https://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/227-b-is-for.html until 6.16 B is for Bourbonx

https://doubletroublechallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/Challenge-168.html until 6.16x

https://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/06/fathers-dayspecial-man.html until 6.21x

https://cardz4guyz.blogspot.com/2024/06/349-fathers-day-uk-us.html until 6.24x

https://craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-674-make-it-masculine.html until 6.27x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/06/welcome-to-elizabeth-craft-designs-for.html until 7.1(rectangles are my favorite shape)x

https://alohafridaychallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/aloha-friday-challenge-11-masculine.html until 7.2

Thank you for stopping by

Alicia

Stampin Up Tree Rings with Hero Arts Mushrooms & Ferns for Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge

Hello and welcome to my blog today.  I created this beauty as soon as the embossing folder and dies arrived from Stampin Up.  However, they sent me the wrong stamp set, so I had to make do with another sentiment.  I also added dies from Hero Arts.

Here is the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge sketch:

I die cut in primarily white/off white and used distress inks to color the die cuts.

The embossing here is very three dimensional so I went ahead and put a foam dot underneath to keep the dimension.  I also dotted the white dots of the red mushroom with a white gel pen to make them pop.

Ingredients:

Stampin Up Tree Rings embossing folder and dies

Hero Arts Fancy Dies Mushrooms and Ferns 

Tim Holtz Ranger Distress inks:  Fired Brick, Hickory Smoke, Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo

Brutus Monroe Enchanted Forest stamps

Stampin Up gems

White gel pen

misc papers

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://alphabetchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/e-is-for-embossing-wet-or-dry.html until 6.12x

https://cutitupchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/cut-it-up-challenge-305-anything-goes.html until 6.12x

https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2024/06/nbus-challenge-63.html until 6.30x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/06/welcome-to-elizabeth-craft-designs-for.html until 6.30x

https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2024/06/soss-251-d-is-for-die-cut.html until 7.5 (c10)

Don't forget to play along until Sunday at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by.

Alicia

Mystic Pizza Layout for Sketches in Thyme

Welcome to my blog today. I hope you are enjoying the holiday weekend.  I am scrapping for Sketches in Thyme today.  I have a some photos from my visit to Mystic, Connecticut.  We visited a pizza joint made famous in the movie of the same name Mystic Pizza starring Julia Roberts and one of my favorite actors Vincent D'Onofrio.  

Here is the sketch I used from Sketches in Thyme.

All of the printed papers I used were from Kindred Stamps, don't you just love the darling pepperonis?  

This image I colored with my alcohol markers is also from Kindred Stamps.

I stamped, colored and die cut all these little pizza slices from the same Kindred Stamps set.  The larger slice is part of the pizza sign.  I just trimmed off the sign to create a couple of different size pizza slices.  I die cut the entire sign and snipped off the words.

The paper pack is a 6x6 so I pieced the strips of red gingham "table cloth" to cross the scrapbook page.  I cut the title with my Cricut.

Ingredients:

Kindred Stamps Kindred Town Italian & Pizza stamps

Kindred Stamps Kindred Town Italian & Pizza dies

Kindred Stamps Pizza Night 6x6 papers

Alcohol inks:

Prismacolor Crimson Red

Spectrum Noir TriBlends:  Muted Brown Blends, Red Brown Blends, Ice Grey Blend, Ice Grey Shades, Brown Grey Blend, Tan Blend, Tan Shades, Light Green Blend

Spellbinders Circle Nesting Dies

Cricut Title cut

misc card stock and papers

gems

I would like to enter this in the following challenge:

https://kcclayoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/05/lm-702-inspired-by-movie.html until 5.31

Thank you for stopping by today and you can play along with Sketches in Thyme until the last day of the month.

Alicia

Magical Crystal Ball card for Atlantic Hearts Sketch challenge

Welcome to this week's magical inspiration for Atlantic Hearts Challenge.  I recently obtained this Sizzix die set and could not wait to play with it.  The first card is always kind of a protype.  I definitely learned some tips to construct my next crystal ball.  I could not find any details on what all the pieces cut.  I will do better next time.

Here is this week's sketch.  It should be an easy one with which to play along.

I had fun selecting the fanciest complimentary papers I could find in my stash.

I had to select a few views since the iridescent papers catch the light different in every photo.  

Ingredients:

Craft Smart Stay Magical 12x12 paper

Momenta Alcohol ink paper 12x2

Sizzix Crystal Ball die set

Kindred Stamps Magical word die set

acetate

misc papers and iridescent card stock

I would like to enter this in the following challenges:

https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/wednesdaychallenge/ until 5.22x

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2024/05/ellibelles-crafty-wednesday-may.html until 5.30x

https://mynbus.blogspot.com/2024/05/nbus-challenge-62.html until 6.1x

https://die-cut-divas.blogspot.com/2024/05/may-is-time-for-waffle-flower.html until 6.1x

Don't forget to play along with Atlantic Hearts Challenge until Sunday evening.

Have a great day!

Alicia