Southern Scraps

I created some gift card holders .  For design inspiration, I turned to some of  my favorite sketch sites. The first card is created with this week's sketch from The Sweet Stop . I turned the sketch sideways. Image is from Heather Ellis- Pure Innocence and is colored with copic markers. Papers are from Cosmo Cricket. Next is a card/gift card holder   using the sketch from CPS . I put the sentiment tag on the opposite side. I thought it worked better on this card there. This image is one of the Darling Sisters by The Greeting Farm . Image is colored with Copics. Papers are by K&Co. Here's a little tip for making those corners. Punch a scalloped circle with a 1 1/4 inch scalloped circle punch. Cut in half and then in half again to make four corners. Thanks for stopping by. I may be linking these to the parties on the side.

Just a quick post to share the card I made for TGF FFF Vintage challenge , CPS , and Little Paper Shop's distressing challenge . This image is Laurie dreamy from The Greeting Farm. I've colored her with Prismacolor pencils and distressed the edges of some of my panels. Thanks for looking. Don't forget about my blog candy HERE . The counter is only 20 hits away from me picking a winner!

I just squeezed in this card for the CPS sketch this week. Sympathy cards aren't my favorite to have to make, but I needed one so I used the CPS sketch 116 . Here is the card: Paper : BasicGrey Wisteria Stamps : Heidi Grace designs; Verve sentiment Accents : flower punch; brads; ribbon Tools : Paper piercer

I've been having fantasies of making cards, but I've had no time to stamp! LOL The Caardvarks theme for the latest challenge was "fantasy". I finally got my High Hopes stamps- (it took over a month, and they had to ship twice because I did not receive the first package, but they were nice enough to send me double the stamps I ordered for the wait. I love my new stamps and I will order from them again. I used one of them for this theme and had so much fun coloring the dragon. ) Oops, I digressed. I finally got around to making a card. I made this one to also fit the High Hopes challenge this week and used the sketch from CPS . The High Hopes challenge was piercing, which I love to do! Here' s the card: Stamps : High Hopes Paper : Spring Collection by Junkitz (2005) Ink : Versamark Onyx; Marvy Markers Tools : Paper piercer; CM square punch Here's a close up of that piercing!

I'm jumping ahead to Mother's Day. Actually I just started with some BasicGrey sugared papers and the sketch at CPS this week and thought that these colors were expressive of a mother's tender care. I had this sticker that fit the card design, so I put it together as a Mother's Day Card. Here it is: Paper: BasicGrey Tools: Nestabilities labels two die; Fiskars treading water punch Accents: Ribbon; sticker (sticko); pearls (Michael's) Don't forget to check out my ebay auctions! Thanks.

I used the sketch from CPS this week for a sympathy card I needed to make. And even before I checked in on the Timeless Tuesday challenge at Flourishes, I knew I wanted to use this flower stamp. As it turned out, the Timeless Tuesday challenge is to use flowers. I like this card because it's simple and peaceful to look at. The sketch is really clean. I added a little more texture by stitching and tearing and rolling the edges. Enough from me, have a peek for yourself.

This card is one of those little surprises. You know, when you start out with a sketch or idea but you have no idea what the end result will be, because you just don't have the card pictured in your head. And then when you're finished, you're very surprised and pleased. I'm pleased with this. I started with the Dutch Dare Card Challenge to use no pink or red on a love themed card, so I chose black and blue. Well, really, black and white, and the blue somehow just worked its way in there. I used the sketch from CPS . It also fits the challenge for Stamp Something to make a valentine something and Caardvarks heart challenge, so I may just link it up there as well. I heat embossed those silver hearts. I used a heart background stamp that I've had for .. ahem, a few years and had not used yet. Oh.. one more neat detail. The scallops on the heart were made by punching hole punch size circles out of cardstock and gluing them to the edge of the heart. Paper : Cardstock St...