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Weekend Sketch Challenge #95. You can get Beate’s Sketch here.  I was in the mood for some solid images and some colored ink pads last night. I do miss straight on stamping every now and again.

I paired Wildflower Silhouettes by SweetMissDaisy with CosmoCricket’s Earth Love papers.  Oddly, I was hesitant with all the layers in the sketch, but happy with how this came together. I hope the other sketch girls had fun with it. I can’t wait to see what they’ve got. Check them out: Beate, Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn, Laurie, MaryJo  (posting later) and sweet Sharon.

• Stamps: Wildflower Silhouettes - Whipper Snapper Designs 
• Cardstock: Earth Love - Cosmo Cricket, Ivory Layering Weight Pure Luxury - Gina K Designs, Suede Dark Brown - Prism 
• Ink: Butterscotch, Rust & Terra Cotta - Ranger  
• Accs: rhinestones - Taylor’s Tiny Twinkles, buttons, twine ribbon - SEI and butterfly punch - Martha Stewart

When I’m tired but can’t sleep, I don’t count sheep. I stamp. This was cranked out at 2 a.m. last night just for fun. So, now I’m going to type a quick blog post and take a nap then start the Mom Taxi and the dinnertime hoopla.

The WhipperSnapper images were colored with Copic Markers below. I’m sure you’ve seen and read about the new extra light Copic colors that became available last week. (You can find them in stock and on sale at  eclectic Paperie.) These are great for shading and blending. I used the BG0000 for the sky background, and my personal favorite the Warm Gray 00 for shading. So hard to photograph, but these extra light hues let your colored projects shine and highlight on their own. The shading and shadowing should be really subtle and soft.  It should should not scream, “SHADED! SHADOWED!”. You’ll get that with these new extra light colors.

One quick note: if you frequent my blog, you know that the 9th of the month is usually when I post my Divine Design challenge for the month. I wanted to let you know that I’ll be posting next week on the 16th, along with Angel, Nancy and Jami.

Thanks for stopping by. It’s time to mash potatoes.

•  Stamps: Fish Friends by Anna Wight for Whipper Snapper Designs
• Cardstock: Curry, White & Real Red - Stampin’ Up! and Road Maps Collection - October Afternoon
• Ink: Black Memento
• Accs: Copic Markers, button & twine

It’s the last day of school around here…early, I know! But, we only get a 2 day spring break, and it seems we’re always out very early compared to my friends’ kids. This was the one photo that turned out halfway decent from my oldest daughter’s teacher gift. I totally stole this idea from Beverly Rousch, stamper extraordinaire.  I thought it was an adorable play on words with the What’s Cookin‘ set from Whipper Snapper Designs.

It was perfect for our little truffle boxes. Of course, I had to explain the sentiment to my 8 year old who wondered why her teacher would need to take 2 aspirin. Let’s see 24 eight year olds? Is 2 aspirin enough?

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Used up some scraps from that piece of cute Jillabean Soup paper that Alli sent me to use yesterday. I stamped images from Simply Bloom, set from Whipper Snapper Designs, illustrated by Anna Wight.

The images are stamped with Memento Dew Drops and accented with Tiny Twinkles from Taylored Expressions. The card base is StarDream Metallics - Flame (orange). I get mine at CutCardstock.

Told you it was a quickie. Thanks for stopping by. I’ll see you tomorrow.

Just for Marianne, I’m sharing a quickie today that I created with the set, Little Critters, illustrated by Anna for Whipper Snapper Designs.

I colored my little elephant with a custom shaded Copic marker.  I used a combo of BG000 and Copic Blender solution to create my custom color. I love those low numbered blue/greens, and adding blender solution lets you get varying shades of your favorites. You can check out  Marianne’s excellent tutorial today. I have done this to create several of these ‘custom color’ markers that I use frequently My other favorite color combo is YR31 and Copic Blender solution. (That one’s a trick I learned from Debbie O).

Patterned paper is from the Girl Friday line - Cosmo Cricket.  Finished card is 4×4 square.

Thanks for stopping by! And, happy tax finishing day if you are a deadline lori, like me!

I’m celebrating another great Anna Wight release at Whipper Snapper today. Isn’t this fun? The sweet chicken and her bowl are from a set called Chicken’s in the Kitchen, and the sentiment is from a set called What’s Cooking - both being released today. All images colored with Copics. The main image panel and the paper pieced apron decorative papers are from a 4×4 pack of Jenni Bowlin papers. Love them on the small scale. Chocolate frosting was added with Chocolate Dimensional Pearls from Ranger.

So, do you lick the spoon? If my sweet hubby, Mr. Food Safety, reads this - I rarely NEVER eat raw cookie dough and I do NOT let his sweet, cherub children taste cake batter. Ghastly, nasty, dangerous food borne illness could be harbored in that sweet, succulent, delicious cake batter… Never the lips shall touch!

You can see other fabulous Whipper Snapper samples from today’s release of three sets from these rock stars:

Beverly Rousch • SCS Gallery • Blog

Danielle Kennedy • SCS Gallery • Blog

Natasha Trupp • SCS Gallery • Blog

Shannan Teubner • SCS Gallery • Blog

Anna Wight •SCS Gallery • Blog

Have a wonderful Monday.

You know what happens after a wonderful, busy, blissful vacation? Everyone else trots into work or school all happy-go-lucky. They are rested and ready to face whatever challenge awaits. You know what happens to Momma? She starts the endless piles of laundry, grocery shopping, going through the mail, cleaning out the car, catching up on committee work, searching through bags for her camera card, etc., etc., etc….

Ah, it’s so good to be home. I think.

Sharing two quick Whipper Snapper cards today using Anna’s set, Sending Happy Thoughts. I have found this flower pot so easy to work with. Have loved paper-piecing the pot, glazing over it and then simple coloring on the flower with Copic Markers and Spica Glitter Pens. The top sample features Urban Prairie paper from Basic Grey. The second sample uses paper from a current Stampin’ Up! pack that I cannot remember the name of.

The dryer is buzzing yet again…If you have any questions about my supplies, please ask. I’ll get you the answers you need.

See you tomorrow!

My simplified version of sweet Cami-licious’ Weekend Sketch. Isn’t this a fun layout? Cami rocked it. Beware - the squares are smaller than they appear. This card was super-sized to 6×4 when I realized that my squares wouldn’t fit on an A2 cardbase. I’m fine with that.

The image and sentiment are both from Anna’s collection at Whipper Snapper Designs. The strip of cut ring was made with my Hello Kitty Ribbon die, coming soon from Sizzix.  Third flower pot colored with Copics, paper pieced with Basic Grey paper and accented with a Spica Glitter pen.

I’m gonna check out the other ‘girl friday’ friends, and then I’ve got plans to see some of my oldest friends this weekend, and I couldn’t be more excited. Check out: Cambria, Charmaine, Jenn, Mary Jo, Laurie and sweet, sweet Sharon.  I’ve got to get a move on the Friday work schedule.

• Stamps: Sending Happy Thoughts & Friendly Expressions by Anna Wight - Whipper Snapper Designs
• Cardstock: Blush Red Dark (Prism), So Saffron & patterned paper (SU!)
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento
• Accs: Ribbon (Taylored Expressions), Spica Glitter pen, Copic Marker, Square Nestabilities, Hello Kitty Ribbon (Sizzix)

Some quick little notecards to send to a few people in town who bless my life. This little bee is from the set, Little Critters, by Whipper Snapper Designs. I colored him with Copics, put crackle accents and a little dazzling diamond glitter on his wings. I love to do that with bees.

These are one panel for a short note.The patterned paper is Urban Prairie from Basic Grey.

I’m finishing up some deadline work and ‘nailing jello’ today - that’s what I call housework. As soon as you get one thing done, someone is coming along right behind you to undo it… It’s like nailing jello to a tree!  See you tomorrow for the Friday Sketch Challenge.

Have a great day!

I’ve been keeping a secret…holding out on you, all of you…I don’t even think I told my hubby … I’m excited to share samples from Anna’s release of  Whipper Snapper Designs images this month! Anna Wight has created two darling sets, Sending Happy Thoughts and Little Critters. I have loved working with them. You can see the full sets previewed on Anna’s blog, Sweet & Sassy Notes, and you can see darling samples on blogs of the other Featured Designers for this release. I think these girls are ROCK STARS.

Beverly Rousch • SCS Gallery • Blog

Danielle Kennedy • SCS Gallery • Blog

Natasha Trupp • SCS Gallery • Blog

Shannan Teubner • SCS Gallery • Blog

Anna Wight •SCS Gallery • Blog

I’ll have more to share in the next few days. Still several other projects from my weekend stamp session waiting to be photographed. Have a great Monday!

PS: Whipper Snapper is offering a special on Anna’s cling sets until March 20th! Pick up any of her cling mounted sets for $14.99 each (regularly $19.99).

• Stamps: Sending Happy Thoughts - Whipper Snapper Designs
• Cardstock: Blush Red Light, Suede Dark Brown (Prism),  Honey Pie (Cosmo Cricket) & White
• Ink: Tuxedo Black Memento
• Accs: Copic Marker, Spica Glitter Pens, brads (Making Memories), Nestabilities,