US211 Blessings from Heaven

Here's a new sketch for you to try. This is #211 from Unscripted Sketches; don't forget to visit the site  where you can see additional ideas posted by Design Team Members and well as readers who play along with us. Will that be you this week?

Buttons take center stage on this fun, quick card. (It would be even faster if you leave out the thread on each button.) All of the buttons used are from our Designer Buttons Brights Collection. The sweet little flower shaped buttons make the perfect accent for the sketch and also to coordinate with the "your special" part of the sentiment (Blessings From Heaven). Of course, what was really going through my head was the Sesame Street song that says "one of these things is not like the other…". I may have just dated myself… :)

Note: The stamped label under the buttons is our Basic Label stamp, available solo through July. It coordinates with one of the dies in our Apothecary Accents Framelits set. I hand cut the stamped image and layered it over the die cut. Since the stamp was designed to fit the framelit, I had to cut right on the border of the stamped image for the die cut to show.

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RS63 Stampin' Up! Vintage Verses

Retro Sketches released another another fantastic sketch last weekend. I usually try to stick with currently available items for anything I post on my blog, but I will tell you that I went wild and pulled paper and scraps from the bin for this one. These were only hidden because I love them so… time to use them up, wouldn't you say?

I'm not sure how well you can see them, but the sketch called for a smattering of embellishments here and there. (They are shown as dots.) I used my go-to embellishment Rhinestone Basic Jewels. Earlier this week, I posted two other projects where I altered the color with alcohol-based markers. Here I left them as-is and let them shine. I love it when something is easy to use but adds a special touch!

Retired goods: Vintage Verses stamp set, Festival of Prints DSP stack, tag from Matchbox XL Die
Currently Available: Basic Black, Cherry Cobbler and Very Vanilla card stock, Rhinestones Basic Jewels, Antique Brads and Victoria Crochet Trim

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Stampin' Up! That's Funny and other retired goodies

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Best of Birthdays 

One of our current single stamp offerings (available through July) is the one shown here, left. It was originally part of a stamp set called That's Funny. Most of my family members have a great sense of humor, so it's a set I've been able to put to a lot of use over the years.

 I have enough birthday cards for this month, so I pulled out another image from that set that also pertains to many of the people in my family. We are good people, but can sometimes be a bit forgetful. The sentiment reads, "Everyone has a photographic memory… some just don't have film."

sketch: Mojo293
Festival of Prints Designer Series Paper

If you subscribe to my blog posts or visited yesterday, I shared that you can easily color our Rhinestone Basic Jewels with any alcohol based markers. Yesterday, I colored them green; for today's card I altered them with a black Sharpie marker. Cool, huh? It seems my "film" is in place for craft-related information :)

Note: the original sketch at Mojo Monday called for little flag banners (under where I have the jewels). I've done a little too much of that shape lately, so I switched out the flags for the end pieces of our Modern Label punch. Since you only see the end, punch one out, then cut in half for 2 shapes per punch.

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FTL240 Sassy Salutations

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My card makes use of scraps from our Print Poetry Designer Series Paper stack (Spring 2013) and a simple greeting from Sassy Salutations.

Card base is Very Vanilla card stock

The jewels are our Basic Rhinestones colored with alcohol markers. I go through a lot of these puppies because they are so easy to customize!


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Unscripted Sketches 183 meets Perfectly Preserved

REPOST. Our Perfectly Preserved stamp has remained a "carry-over" item from our Holiday and has remained available for purchase along with the coordinating Framelits set (Cannery). Alas, this set is not carrying over to our 2013-2014 Catalog, so it is only available through the end of the month. The jar image alone is so useful, I will be sad to see this set go. So here is a project shared previously, just as a little reminder of one of many sets slated to retire next week.

It's Saturday and time to share a sketch with you. I hope you have some fun time on your hands and will give it a shot. If you do, please share it with us at Unscripted Sketches; we'd love to see your work!

Our Perfectly Preserved stamp set has 14 images in it. I'm pretty sure the purple ones above are supposed to be pears, but don't they look cute as eggplants? Maybe I'll try them in a peachy yellow  color next and see if they can also resemble butternut squash. Yum!

Product Supply details: 

Stamps: Perfectly Preserved, Blessings from Heaven
Colors: Early Espresso, Summer Starfruit, Elegant Eggplant, Very Vanilla
Tools: Big Shot, Cannery Set Framelits, Small oval punch, Sanding Block, Houndstooth embossing folder
Embellishments: Linen Thread
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