No Joke - April Fool's Day!

This was the view from my house yesterday (April 1) as the April Fool's Nor'easter traveled through here and dumped all this white stuff on our spring hopes.

Today is a better day!  Sun shine and high 40's.  Yay!!!  The snow is melting.....
Have a great weekend!  

Floral Birthday Basket

I'm not sure where you live as you read this, but if you live in a cold, snowy winter weather area as I do, I'm sure, like me, you're about ready to see spring.  It has been a long, long winter this year in Maine - lots of snow and frigid weather (much of it below zero).  So, in an attempt to create my own spring, (until the real one gets here) I purchased this stamp set and made a birthday card for someone special!  

Details:  
Stamp sets - "Spring Basket" and "Basket Blessings" both by Melanie Muenchinger from GKD.  
CS - GKD Pure Luxury White and "Wild Lilac" (awesome brand new color).  DP- Memory Box "Spearmint".
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black
Misc - Copic markers (sorry, I don't remember what colors I used), paper heart doily, pearls, wrinkled seam binding (from Prairie Bird Boutique), Janome Sew Mini sewing machine, dimensionals.  
Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

Cheri

Celebrate in Style

I'm having some fun this weekend playing with some new stamps.  The stamp I've used on this card is one I just received and you can get it FREE with a $35.00 order over at StampTV.  The details are  HERE.  

I'm using this card in two challenges this week.  The first one is a color challenge over at StampTV 

Wild Lilac is the newest Gina K Pure Luxury Card Stock and it's a fabulous shade.  It's a fun color combo.


And the second is for the Trina's Wednesday's sketch challenge (SC0323) over at Outlawz  

Card details:  GKD Pure Luxury CS "Wild Lilac", "Sweet Mango" and "White".  DP is from DCWV "Cafe Mediterranean".  Stamp Set:  Celebrate in Style from Gina K Design, CB EF "Big Dots" and "Swiss Dots".  Ink: Memento "Grape Jelly".  Buttons and ribbon from GKD at StampTV.

Thanks so much for stopping by, I hope you all had a great weekend!  
Cheri

Love Red Shoes

Hi! 


Gina K has a new sketch challenge over at StampTV.  On Thursday I got some happy mail when my new StampTV Spring Silhouette Stamp Kit arrived.  I saw these shoes and new I had to ink them up right away.   Here's the sketch (STVSKSP18) that I followed to make my card.  

My card - 

Card details:  
CS Gina K Pure Luxury White, Black Onyx and Rd Hot.  
Stamp Set:  StampTV Spring Silhouette Stamp Kit.  
Inks:  Memento Tuxedo Black and Vivid Brick Red
Misc:  Nestabilities, CB Folder, Ribbon, Covered button from my stash, black pearls, 3-D Crystal Lacquer. (Tidbit - the covered button was navy blue, I used a PrismaColor Black alcohol marker and colored it black)


Thank you for stopping by.  Love your comments and you're invited to follow me and sign up for email alerts when I post something to this blog.  

Cheri

StampTV Alumni CSS DT Sketch Blog Hop

WELCOME to another StampTV Center Stage Spotlight Design Team blog hop.  Today we're featuring a fabulous sketch designed by our own talented Melissa Cash.  

If you've arrived here from the yummy cupcake blog of the sweet and extremely talented Carolina then you're in the right place.  If not, you're invited to start HERE at the beginning and see each and every hop in order - you really don't want to miss any of these great hop spots and inspirational projects.

When you hop, make sure to leave a comment on each post  because on Tuesday morning (March 29th), we will randomly choose one of the comments from all the blogs to win a FREE Gina K stamp set of their choice valued up to $24.95!  It could be YOU - so leave us some love and good luck!

Also, please join in with us - create your own card using this sketch and post it HERE on the forum so we can enjoy your art too.  We love it when the StampTV membership plays along with us.  

Here is Melissa's sketch

Here is my card.

Card Stock - GKD Pure Luxury Ivory, Creme de Menthe and Green Apple.
Stamp Set - "Hope Grows" by Theresa Momber
Inks - For the background on the tile Brilliance "Pearlescent Ivy" and "Pearlescent Lime". For the butterfly Tim Holtz Distress Inks "Peeled Paint", "Dried Marigold", "Victorian Velvet" and a touch of "Mustard Seed".
Techniques - Emboss Resist and Delft Tile
Other - MS punch, wrinkled seam binding, embellishment from stash and Liquid Pearls "White Opal" by Ranger.

The background is a new technique I wanted to try called "Delft Tile" and you can find the tutorial for it over at SCS.  As you can see, not only did I switch the sketch, I took even more artistic license and switched the blue color that you would expect to see in a Delft Tile to green. (my apologies to my Dutch friends)  

Thank you for stopping by - don't forget to leave a comment and you might win one of Gina's fabulous stamp sets.  Now, please hop on over to Deb's blog, she's always got something fabulous to show us. 

Have a great weekend,
Cheri