Butterfly Thoughts

Another Tuesday means another wonderful sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. This one threw me a little bit at first because there is an image in the oval. Of course, that was only to suggest an image or die cut and not to be taken literally, but my mind kept focusing on that image - duh! Took me walking away from the sketch entirely before I could wrap my mind around what to do. 

Instead of using a literal die cut shape on top of my oval, I used the oval to cut out a picture from Heartfelt Creations. It is one of their many beautiful pre-colored card toppers. I used papers from the same pad (Lovely Lilacs) for the background and the three strips at the bottom.

I added a dimensional bead butterfly and black gems to give my card some dimension.  I added three small black gems to the body of the butterfly in the oval, and three along the right upper corner. The butterfly under the oval is the bead.

I used one of the sentiments from the paper pad for my top, fishtail piece. 

The prize for this week's schedule is a brand new Night of Navy ink pad from Stampin Up. 

Please join us this week by creating your own lovely card using our sketch and posting it on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog.

Have a great week, and a great weekend.  

I Will Care for You

Are you enjoying the sketches we've been using lately at Tuesday Morning Sketches? I have. They have been so easy and wonderful to use, and I've really liked all the cards that I've been making using our sketches. This week, Melissa has provided another wonderful sketch, and I hope you will give it a try.

I started with a white 5 x 7" card base. The green background is a scrap from a piece I previously used. It is from a Recollections 12 x 12" pad. I debated on matting it with black since I was matting my image and my die cuts with black, but decided the white card made a nice "matting" for the green and white paper. As I said, I did mat the image (from Heartfelt Creations) with the black and punched two black circles to "mat" my cut outs.

The anchor and star fish dies are from Marianne Dies and Crafts. They went perfectly with the Heartfelt Creations paper as both images can be seen in the seascape. I lightly inked the die cuts with CTMH Oak Brown ink. 

My daughter found the ribbon among my stash, and it is a perfect compliment to this card. Not only is it the "right" color, but it is slightly textured, reminding me of beach sand.

Have a wonderful week, and do take a little time out to do something you enjoy (perhaps even use our sketch and join this week's challenge). 

A Special Hug

It is Tuesday morning again, so time for another wonderful sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches. This one looks simple, but is also quite versatile. It can be elegant or fun -- the look depends on you and the papers and images you pick.

I have gone with a little bit of a sophisticated look since many of the people I send cards to these days are older adults. This one uses a print from Heartfelt Creations. (I do so love the papers and images from them.) I started with a deep purple (actually plum) as the base card. The dark green printed paper, the purple printed paper and the image are from the Classic Petunia Collection pad. 

Had I planned ahead a little bit better, I would have used my Classic Petunia stamps and dies to handmake the flowers; however, being quite slack lately with my creativity, I had to use flowers from Recollections. The purple has a lovely pearl center and matches the petunias in the print. The green roses, also by Recollections, matches the light green petunias in the print. 

The sentiment is from the same pack. It original read "A special hug for you." However, the full sentiment was too long for the card, so I trimmed it down and then matted it with a piece of the green.

Hope you will have a great week with some time for crafting, and if you are so inclined, we would love to have you use our sketch and share what you make with it. Our prize this week is a bag full of happy!  What do I mean by that?  Melissa has got a bag filled with all kinds of lovely paper flowers -- big ones, little ones - all kinds of colors.  You're going to love it!

Delightful Daisies

I know the flowers on my card aren't really daisies, but I liked the alliteration of the two words I used in my title (smile). This week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches is another one with lots of possibilities. I can't wait to see what all our followers do with this.

I have used a paper from a digital set by We Are 3. The set is called Sunflower.


I used a white 5 x 7' card as my base and cut the We Are 3 piece to 4 3/4 x 6 3/4". I cut a piece of orange card and a piece of yellow card to make the band across the bottom. The two flowers were from my stash (I've had for ages and ages), and I created them by combining smaller flowers with larger ones and adding an amber colored gem. The sentiment is from a stamp that I've had for quite some time. The card was simple as 1-2-3, but turned out quite nice looking. The look will vary depending on the paper and the flowers (or other element) that you use.

I have not seen what this week's prize is going to be, so can't let you in on that. You'll need to check the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog sometime tomorrow. However, we hope you will join us this week by making your own card and sharing it with us on the blog.

Have a good crafting week! 

Butterflies and Flowers

This week's challenge prize. Isn't it darling? You are going to want to try for this little set (and then send it to me - LOL)!

Have you been enjoying the sketches lately from Tuesday Morning Sketches? I certainly have. They have all been so fun to work with. This week's is no exception. I took the basic sketch and upped the game a little bit. Isn't the card lovely?

I started with a white 5 x 7" card base. The periwinkle background is from Heartfelt Creations. My three circle images are from a sheet of vintage clipart. The 8.5 x 11" sheet contained over a dozen beautiful circles, so I chose three of them. I punched them with a 1.5" circle punch. I also took my 1 3/4" scallop bunch and cut the three white scalloped circles. I then cut another piece of white for the top half of my card and punched a pretty border using a Martha Stewart border punch. Before adhering the white topper to the card, I added a periwinkle blue ribbon and bow. I then cut the sentiment from another piece of Heartfelt Creations paper and adhered it on top of the ribbon.

This card was so quick and easy but looks beautiful! I really love how it turned out.

You are going to want to go over to the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog and see all the different cards the DT made. Each one of them is entirely different in looks, but are absolutely amazing. We have a very creative and talented design team, and this week really shows that. Prepared to be wowed!

Sweet Roses

We have another lovely and classic looking sketch to share with you this week. For my sample, I used a piece of green card that I cut to form a 5.5 x 5.5" base. I used my corner rounder and cut each of the four corners with it. The lovely paper on top of the green card is We Are 3 digital paper from "Spring Letter" set. I also trimmed the corners with the corner rounder.

The scalloped background was created using a QuicKutz nesting Lace die. I cut it from a piece of the same green that I used as my card base. The image that I used is a vintage clipart from the web. I layered a piece of pink satin ribbon between the die cut and the image.

I do so like anything that is vintage or has a vintage feel, so I am especially fond of this card. It would make a lovely birthday card, sympathy card, thinking of you card or get well card. 

We've been having some very lovely cards entered in the weekly challenges of late. I always enjoy seeing what our followers do with our sketches. If you have a chance, would love to see you make something and enter it on the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog. You just might be the lucky winner of one of the weekly prizes.

Summer Butterfly

This week's sketch from Tuesday Morning Sketches is a quick and easy way to make an elegant looking card. Depending on the papers, the image and the embellishments, this sketch can actually be cute and fun or elegant and lovely. 

Again, I have used papers from the We Are 3 Digital Papers collection called "At the Beach." The top one is gray polka dots on a blue background. The bottom one is the "boardwalk" pattern with lovely greens, blues, browns, pinks and gray. 

I used a white base card and used approximately a 1/3 to 2/3 ratio of the two papers. I covered the "meet up" area with seafoam green ribbon to cover the seam. Instead of the circle, I used a Heartfelt Creations butterfly die, cutting the butterfly and swirls from a solid seafoam green card weight paper. I used this piece as my base in place of the circle. I then stamped the butterfly using seafoam green ink (Color Box), cut it with the die and adhered it along the body to the base butterfly. I folded the wings upward to give some dimension. I finished off my card with crystal gems to the left and slightly under the butterfly. 

Hope that you can join us this week at the Tuesday Morning Sketches blog. We really would like to see what you do with this lovely sketch. This week's prize is this lovely embossing folder called "Tiger Lily."