A LA Card Monkey! Post 97

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  We are still recovering or trying to recover from the flu at our house.  Poor Jayden has missed a week of school and I am still not sure about tomorrow.

Anyway on to something fun!  A la card Monkey!

This week was a sketch plus anything goes!

Here is the sketch

I love this sketch and think I may be doing a couple of cards with this one this week.

Here is what I came up with

 I went Basic Grey for the base and used the Edgelits and matching embossing folder and stamp for the edge of this simple card.  I used Perfect Plum for the middle band and embossed it with the Big Shot. I created the main image with the Apothecary Stamp set from the Occasions Mini.  I heat embossed the image with Black and then coloured the image with Perfect Plum, Wisteria Wonder and Pear Pizzaz.  The Phrase was added with dimensionals and heat embossed with versa mark then Perfect Plum and clear embossing powder.

Inside I stamped with the adorning accents and used and embossed piece of Perfect Plum that matches the front panel.

I hope you join us at A la card Monkey challenge.

Glittery Hugs

Kathryne

A LA Card Monkey! 96

It is sketch number 96 over at A la card monkey and there is a hint of excitement as they approach sketch 100!  Look for blog candy and more coming soon.

Here is the sketch we had to work with this week and the theme is moments.  I love birthday moments so I chose to make a birthday card.

I chose tempting turquoise for my base and embossed it with a cuttle bug embossing folder.  Next I used a piece of Sweet Shoppe DSP and ran some real red through  the big shot with the Tasteful Trims big shot die from Stampin up!.  I used the Big Cupcakes die for my Cupcake image.  The icing is Whisper White cardstock that I smooched some Frost White Shimmer Paint.  The next step was to use my stampin pastels and a sponge to add some pretty in pink to the icing.  This techniques leaves a swirly icing texture and some shine.

The sprinkles were cut out with silver glitter paper and then I used three different reinkers to colour them.

I made a banner from whisper white and stamped my birthday greeting from swirls and curls verses.  And added some Jelly Bean brads.

I had a slight paper injury when I was making this card and got some blood on the top of my card  (ouch) so I added some of the organza ribbon that you can receive free during Sale-a-bration with a purchase of $60.  You also receive some buttons and some Lucky Limeaide organza in the set!

Don't forget to join in the fun at A la Card Monkey Challenge!

Glittery Hugs

Kathryne

Guest Designer Week! A-LA-Card-Monkey #95 AND HSS Challenge!

This week I had the honour of being a guest designer for A-La-Card Monkey challenge.  So I got the sketch and theme early and was able to create ahead of time to be featured on the monkey site for this week with some other wonderful designers.  Don't forget to go and check it out and play along of course!

Here is this weeks Sketch

Look at that cute little hamster dude!  He is so happy to be playing in the flowers!

I love a lot of things but one thing I love for cards are hearts!  You can use them for any occasion and they just make me smile.  I used the new Framelits hearts for my card this week and was able to do some really cool layering effects with them.


I am going to have this card do double duty this week and enter it into Shirley's Valentine Hop as well!

I started with a Basic Black card base and then added some DSP from Sweet Shoppe This paper is textured and has a great look to it. Next I used the largest heart in the Framlits and cut out a Wisteria Wonder heart then used the next size to create and opening in the heart and ran it through the big shot with the Polka Dots Embossing folder.  I cut out a large heart from the silver glitter paper and spritzed it with Wisteria wonder to give it a purple hue to match the card.  

This Card Shines like crazy!

I hand cut the base of the arrow in Basic Black and added white trim stamped with pink hearts from the PS I love you Stamp set.

I used the retired double photo corners punch to create my arrow head and "feathers".  Over top of this I layered a Concorde Crush Heart cut with Framelits. Then I layered the heart with hearts stamp that I punched with the Large Heart punch.

I added a bow to the corner of my main layers.  Stamped a Cupid and layered it again and added the banner.  

The Inside is plain white card stock spritzed with two different colours of Purple to jazz it up.  Also added some basic Rhinestones to the front for some more bling!

Hope you enjoy this weeks card




So to join in with HSS for this Love is in the air Challenge click here

Glittery Hugs

Kathryne

A-La-Card Monkey #93

It's time for A-LA-Card-Monkey Sketch again!

I thought the sketch this week was perfect -- I have had this idea in my head for awhile now and the sketch just pushed me over the edge with my design

And how adorable is that little kitten???

So here is what I came up with for this sketch

I love how it turned out!  The base is Cherry Cobbler and standard card size.  The next layer is WW and I ran it through the Big Shot with a Non-Stampin Up! Embossing folder that is hearts and squares.  I them used our new Blushing Bride Smooch Spritz so that it is pink and sparkly.  I used my Piercing tool and mat pack to make holes in each side of the WW layer to add the Square Fire brads.

Next linen thread for the bows and the string for my banner.

I punched 4 WW doilies with the Doily punch and popped them up with dimensionals.

Multi coloured pink hearts were created with the Fashionable hearts sizzlit.  I popped them up on the Doilies and added a Basic Rhinestone to each one.

I added some pleated blushing Bride Ribbon and used a retired stamp set called Love you Much.  I coloured the image in with Stampin' Write markers in pinks again. I added another heart to the flower image.

I used a piece of Regal Rose and ran it through the Big Shot with the heart embossing folder from Adorning Accents.  

Added some more Fashionable hearts and stamped Happy Valentines Day from Teeny Tiny Wishes.

Hope you come and play along with us at A-La-Card-Monkey.

Glittery Hugs

Kathryne

A LA Card Monkey! #89

Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a fabulous time over the holidays!  We certainly did!  The highlight was spending time with family and FINALLY meeting my new Sister-in-Law to be Marnie!  LOVE HER!  Marnie has two children Cohen and Landon and they are just as wonderful!  So now I get to add a new niece and a new nephew to my list!!  Very exciting.

Here were are in 2012 and the first A LA Card Monkey for the year.  This is a new challenge for me, as I have only participated once but it is run my non-other than Shirley and Terry so how can I go wrong?

This is the sketch we had to work with and Fresh Start was the theme.  One of my resolutions this year is to make more Male type cards.  So this is my Fresh Start Card

So I started out with the idea that I wanted to use the new framelits from the Occassions Mini which starts today!  YAAAA!  as the center raised center.  I looked through my stamps and was astonished to find I had very few that you could call Masculine!  Then my fingers found Not So Seriously - and it all came together.

I used Scraps of DSP from Well Worn and Letters to Santa to create the quilt like pattern in the center.  I just used snail and attached them to a piece of scrap VV and cut both out at the same time with the Framelit.  I used Always artichoke for the larger framelit and VV for the Dog Stamp.

I coloured the dogs with Stampin Pastels and Blender Pens.

The sentiments inside and out are from Not So Seriously too.

 I don't know the sayings in this set just crack me up!  Although my kids will tell you I am a little cracked already anyway!

Check out the rest of the challenge here

Look for more exciting posts this week showcasing new products from the Occasions Mini!  You are going to love them!

Glittery Hugs 

Kathryne