A Day Late and a Dollar Short-Retro Sketch #154

I know I posted yesterday that I have had a hard time between creating and then having the time to blog it. This is one of those times. I made a card using Retro Sketch Challenge #154, photographed it and then did not blog about it. Now the challenge is over so I never was able to enter it. I hate when I do that!!

I figured I would post it anyway.

This card actually got me my mojo back. It has been a few weeks since I was able to sit down and be inspired to make anything.

Here is the inspiration sketch:

Instead of making a square card, I chose to make the design a square. However, the colors were NOT the inspiration for this card. I really, really wanted to use my new Paper Smooches "Roses" Wise Dies. I LOVE these flowers!!

So the first thing I did was die cut a rose and two leaves out some white paper. I then used an ink dauber with Picked Raspberry and Spun Sugar distress ink to color the rose in and Hero Art's Shadow inks for the leaves.  I am not going to go into detail about the rest of the card because it is pretty simple. I will say that my last design decision was to cover the rose in Stickles to give the flower a little bit of punch.

Don't you think it would have been too plain without the sparkle? Don't answer that because it is too late to change it and I like it.

Have a fabulous Monday. Stay warm!

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Cupcake Inspirations "Sparkle" Challenge

Happy Sunday! It seems like it has been FOREVER since I have blogged. My life has been busy and since I have had to choose whether to craft or to blog, the crafting has come first. How do you schedule it all in? Do you craft late at night? Do you blog a full week at once? Enquiring minds want to know!! Okay, maybe just my enquiring mind. The way other people do things always fascinates me.

It is snowing AGAIN here in Connecticut. What else is new? Actually, we had a full week without snow but had bitter temperatures. I will take that any day! My daughter wants a snow day tomorrow but I think she will be disappointed.

Today I am sharing a card I created for the Cupcake Inspiration Blog's "Sparkle" challenge. It is the 300th Challenge celebration so come on over and join them. It is also one of those self imposed "on my desk" challenges that I often make myself do. My desk is A MESS and making myself use the bits and pieces helps clean it up.

Here is the card I created:

Here is the Inspiration Image:

As soon as I saw this photo, I knew I was going to use my Paper Trey Ink "Baker's Dozen" cupcake image that was lying on my desk. The cupcake was stamped in Memento black ink and colored in using Copic markers. To give the image a bit of sparkle, I decided to add some gold Stickles.

While the Stickles were drying, I cut a piece of blue polka dot paper 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" (also lying on my desk) and adhered it to a white card that folded from the top. Next I used Paper Trey Ink's "Center Stage Cover plate" that I had previously die cut from white paper and adhered that over the blue.

I knew I wanted to use a glitter star die cut that I had bought from JoAnn's but it just did not look right against the background. I decided to use a white strip to break the background up. I embossed a line on the top and bottom and then stamped a sentiment. This was the only element that was not actually on my desk!

After adhering the white strip, I then used a liquid glue to adhere the chipboard star. I then used foam adhesive to adhere the cupcake over the star. I really LOVE the way this card came out!!

That is all for today. I appreciate you stopping by. Have a great night!!

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Always Playing with Paper Sketch Challenge

Happy Saturday!! I am so glad it is the weekend!!! I only had three days of work this week but somehow it seemed longer then a normal week. Anyone ever feel that way after going back to work after a few days off?

It is FREEZING here in the Northeast. Snow is forecasted for tonight and we are supposed to have a bit of a warm front come through tomorrow with rain. I am really not looking forward to the rain since it is supposed to go down into the teens on Monday. I am not a huge fan of an icy mess.... Here's hoping that the weather man is wrong.

Since it is cold outside, I have spent the day scrapbooking and I created a card for a challenge. My mojo has not been around this week and I always feel off when I don't have the will to create. It took me making myself sit down at my desk today AWAY from the computer screen to get a bit of it back. It was fun to play around with my stuff again.

Today I will share with you the card I created for a challenge over at Always Playing with Paper Blog. The challenge was to use the color suggestions AND the sketch OR just the sketch or the color challenge. I chose to just use the sketch and here is what I came up with.

It is a bit of a bright card but I wanted to try and use the colors in the cup cake for the background. The cupcake was stamped with Paper Trey Ink's "Baker's Dozen" stamp set that I bought a few weeks ago. I then colored the image in with Copic Markers. I have to admit that I am a sucker for cupcake stamps. I have a few different sets and it always makes me so happy when I use them.

Here is the challenge image:

In place of the butterfly, I chose to use the cupcake. I used a matching die from the set to create the frame I used on my card. I had to cut off a piece that held the banner so I could turn horizontally.

You can see by the above photo that my cutting was not perfect. It was a difficult angle to get it how I wanted it. I created one banner at the bottom of the card and in place of the second banner, I used a row of die cut hearts.

The last step was to place Pretty Pink Posh Sequins randomly around the area and on the cupcake to give it a little zing.

It was a really easy card to put together and I am happy with the way it turned out.

Now I need to clean up my extremely messy room before we go out to a belated birthday dinner for me tonight. I turned 46 (Ugh!!!) on February 15th and it was just too cold to go out that night. Instead we ate home made birthday cake for dinner. That is my kind of birthday!!

I thank you for stopping by and hope the rest of your weekend is fabulous.

xoxo

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