Oh la la!

Okay, so I was sitting in my car before work today and I had some extra time so I started jotting down ideas for card sketches and I thought to myself, okay...I've seen shoes and bras and panties and cupcakes and purses and a bunch other shape cards that I happen to love...what else can I make a shape card of? Well, I sat there and I was thinking and thinking of what *I* love that is super-extra-girly and I thought, "Oh! Perfume bottles!" So I sketched out a few ideas for some perfume bottles on paper, but they really weren't clicking with me...PLUS the implementation of the shapes that I was drawing just were going to be way too complicated (I'm lazy) to cut out.

Well, I was cruising through my Bloglines when I came across the CPS blog's sketch of the week and it was a circle card. *DING DING* I have several beautiful perfume bottles that are circular so why not take a circle and make a perfume bottle from it?

And here is my creation...you should just SEE the prototype I made up for it...LOL! It is green cheap-o cardstock with Scotch tape all over it. *snort* But it really did work..or at least I think! (Sorry for the dark-ish photo as it is 1am here so no natural light is shining in California...LOL!)

Thanks for looking!



Stamps: A Studio G stamp from Michael's CS and papers: All CS is from Stampin' Up! Pattern paper is Basic Grey Ink: Black StazOn and a black gel pen Accessories: Cuttlebug and Nestabilities, a silver brad for the "squirt hole", Tim Holtz grungeboard oval, rhinestone brads from...well I can't remember, and a tassel that was on a bottle of wine at Christmas time, a LOT of SU! dimensionals and oodles and oodles and oodles of red sticky tape.

Well, I don't hate it....

but I'm not in love with how this turned out. It is all part of learning, right? What goes with what and what doesn't. hee!

So this is for Beate's weekend sketch challenge. And truthfully, I love the sketch, but I was trying to use a paper with which I have nothing at all that I could find to match it. So frustrating. Anyway, it is a beautiful sketch and I have been seeing lots of pretty cards made with it. Mine, notsomuch. :)

Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! Thanks for dropping by. :)

Stamps: An ancient SU! set from 2002 called Hearts & Posies for the Forever Friends sentiment; CHF backgrounder stamp.

CS and papers: All CS is from Stampin' Up! Pattern paper is DCWV summer pack.

Ink: SU!

Accessories: Cuttlebug and Nestabilities; Tim Holtz Grungeboard (I love this stuff but I don't know what to do with it...I mean, obviously!)

And then the camera died...

Well, the camera didn't die. The battery ran completely out of juice. I knew that it was nearly dead because for the past few pictures I've taken, it would shut down and then I'd have to reopen the photo session on it. Anything to keep my lazy bum from having to hunt down the battery charger, right? hehe

Anyway, I made two cards to share BUT as I was taking the photos of the second, it just wouldn't work anymore. So the battery is on the charger and I'll just have to share that one later. :)

This card is a hybrid. Allison over at Stampin' When I Can had posted several days ago how to use clip art when making an image that you just didn't have a stamp for and really needed. Welllllllllllllll, I said to myself (out loud coz that's how I roll), "You have photoshop and illustrator, why don't you just make something for yourself, dummeh!" So I did!

I have always had a thing for owls ever since my grandmother embroidered me a jean shirt when I was five years old that had a sparkly (sequined) owl that covered the entire back of the shirt. It had sparkly green eyes, too! And a few years ago when my husband and I were in Kauai (on a trip that I won, thankyouverymuch) I found a spectacularly tacky and fabulous shell owl that I *HAD* to buy. I think it was like $5 or something. Wicked cheap. But anyway, I have a thing for owls and I have been seeing owls all over the blogosphere that were cute but just weren't what I wanted.

I used photoshop and illustrator to do up this cute little owl. I had purchased the original image from iStockPhoto a long, long time ago. He was originally colored all in with a busy background so I fixed that up so that he would be ready for coloring in and he'd look more handmade. I did have to leave his beak and his feet colored yellow so that they'd print.

Supplies:

Stamps: The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Eclectic Paperie's Cupcake set. The pumpkin cs is stamped with the Background Sampler for SU! (retired)

CS and papers: All papers and CS are SU! with the exception of the white which is Georgia Pacific CS.

Ink: I can't remember what black ink I grabbed when I did the sentiment. Probably Versafine.

Accessories: Photoshop, Illustrator, HP Photoprinter, Prisma pencils and OMS, Cuttlebug and Nestabilities, Cuttlebug photo corner die, Michael's shimmery Brides flowers that I colored with my Marvy Markers. Also I used my Marvy Markers to ink up the little background stamp.

This card was supposed to be for Lauren Meader's sketch this weekend but I borked it up. Well, it is the thought that counts, right? LOL!

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I'll have a card later along with blog candy. :)

Why am I always behind?

It seems like I'm always running to catch up on things. I don't know what happened! I used to be on top of everything and now I've just got my timing off.

Anyway, I made this card using Beate's Weekend Sketch Challenge for this week. I just love these sketches because they're usually simple enough for a beginner (like me) and challenging enough for the "pros" alike. She does a great job and I really appreciate her work!

On this card there is no stamping! Even the words aren't stamped, they're a SU! rub-on. Truthfully, I'm not a stamper. I like stamping and everything but I love putting together papers more than I like stamping. Anyway, I went to Michael's yesterday to look for the new Martha Stewart border punches but ours didn't have any so I bought a butterfly punch. Our Michael's really never has anything new. I don't know why I bother going there except it is the only place to get Martha stuff.

I punched the butterflies from scraps of Cosmo Cricket papers and mounted them on kraft because the white was way too stark against the brighter papers. I used the faux stitching on the butterfly paths as well as faux stitching around the Blue Bayou strip.

SUPPLIES:

CS and papers: Blue Bayou SU!, Kraft SU!, Cosmo Cricket DP

ACCESSORIES: SU mat pack and paper piercer, SU! rub-on for the sentiment, khaki grosgrain ribbon, corner rounder punch (to make a fake word window), black and white gel pens, Martha Stewart butterfly punch, nestabilities and Cuttlebug, dimensionals.

Thanks for stopping by here today! Hope you had a great weekend. :)