Aunt Sally and Color Cue

Happy Friday!

I am headed north to spend the weekend with my nephews. Pretty excited about being Aunt Sally for a few days. the highlight, or potential disaster, just depends on how you look at it and what happens, is the 4 year-old T-ball team trip to a Braves game. Not sure if I am excited or terrified. Either way, I am sure I will have  a a great visit. On to the latest card...

This is a triple whammy. First, I wanted to participate in the current Wplus9 Design Studio Color Cue challenge. Then I used the Card Patterns Sketch #61 and followed the Creative Belli challenge to use something from my stash to create a birthday themed card.  Well, I had to tweak the colors a little to use what I had in my stash, but I held to the color families. To meet the Creative Belli challenge, I used the brilliance ink that has sat in my drawer forEVER, pulled out the pearls and not gems, and dug through my wrapping paper drawer for the tissue paper.

But, wait. That is not all folks. I even finished the inside of the card. Banners are all the rage so I added one to the inside. I woke up thinking about what to say in the sentiment and "Put on your party dress. We're Celebrating!" won the battle in my semi-slumber state. Off to do some work before I hit the road to Atlanta. Wish me luck!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest creation. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question. 

Happy Day!

Links:
Wplus9
Card Patterns Sketch
Creative Belli

Details: 
Stamps: Warble (American Craft+Dear Lizzie), Everything Happy (Stampendous)
Ink: Brilliance - Pearlescent Lavender (Tsukineko), Tuxedo Black (Momento), Chai Blend (PTI)
Paper: Lemon Tart, Stamper's Select (PTI), Floral Collection (ANW Crestwood), white tissue paper
Copics: YG (0000), Y(13)
Other: Pearl Accent (Micheal's), Diamond Glaze, Scallop Punch, Heidi Grace paper distressing tool

Inside the Owl and LWID

Happy Wednesday!

I had a few questions about the inside of the last card. Yes, I did have the inside stamped and completed. Pretty proud of finishing the "whole" card. I even trimmed the owl out so I could cover the evidence of Copic coloring. Speaking of Copics, Dawn at WPlus9 Design Studio, just like me, is still trying to master the Copic. Check out her new stamp set and the adorable pram she colored for her first round of sneak peeks for this months stamp release.  Super cute baby images. Did you see that amazing flower, too? Can't wait to see the rest...

Now, LOOK WHAT I DID... I won this great set of stamps from My Cute Stamps. Holly had a contest for Earth Day and my comment was selected. Yippie for me! I took the picture next to my Making Maroon Green sticker. What that means is I am a on a committee here at work that is trying to make the school more "Green" Every little effort counts! I look forward to cracking the seal on these stamps and making some wonderful cards. So, I shared my LOOK WHAT I DID, now it is your turn. 

Here's how you do it:

• Upload your LWID to your blog, click on your blog post title, copy the URL, and add it to Inlinkz below or upload your project to this flickr gallery, copy the URL for the flickr page and put that in the Inlinkz. 
• Pick your image and complete the process.
• Upload your projects by11:59 p.m  EST, Wednesday May 5. 

Thanks for stopping by Asleep on the Couch Design. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question. Happy Day!

Links:
My Cute Stamps 
WPlus9 Design Studio

Way to go Graduate!

Happy Friday!

I am glad to see the end of this week. This time of year, I always have a few student graduating so I make a couple grad cards. 

Dawn over at WPlus9 Design Studio had this great response to the Everything but the Kitchen Sink challenge and I was inspired by her response to the sketch. 

In my head the knot in the tree was the perfect response to this sketch. On top of that, Paige over at Cards Magazine asked that we use wood grain on our cards this week while

Cath at Moxie Fab gave us another sketch. Finally, the diamond glaze on his eyes (hard to see, I'll post a better picture later) makes this Papertrey Peeps worthy. Off to a student retreat...

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest creation. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question. Happy Day!

Links:
Moxie Fab
Cards Magazine Blog
Everything but the Kitchen Sink
Papertrey Peeps

Details: 
Stamps:  UR A Hoot (Cornish Heritage Farms), Grow - a- Garden (Basic Grey), Warble (American Craft), Mr. Campy (Cosmo Cricket),
Ink: Dark Chocolate (PTI), Tuxedo (Momento)
Paper: Kraft (PTI), Bank Roll (Bazzill)
Copics: R (29), W (2), E (33.37, 39), Y (19,15), YG (0000)
Other: Diamond Glaze

Thinking of You

The daughter of a person I work with passed away last week, and I decided to make a card. I have not really dabbled in sympathy or paying respects cards so this was a new experience for me. Very telling, I might add, because I learned a lot about myself in the process. For instance, I used my Copics to add new green buds to the branch. I really felt it important to demonstrate that the cycle of life continues even when we loose a loved one. In this case, the person was young and I felt the butterfly was a great representation of the beauty of life even when the life is short. Finally, the empty nest spoke to me because I am sending this to the mother who lost her child. I know, pretty heavy stuff, but sometimes it goes way beyond use of white space and finding just the right embellie.

I "loosely" based this card on this weeks 2Sketches4You challenge. I rotated the sketch, used the bulk of the branch as the large element across the whole card and the lower branch to represent the half scallop. Our Creative Corner challenged everyone to use butterflies and Papertrey Peeps challenge #6 is to add some bling. While it is subtle, the butterfly is covered with glitter. All told, this is a triple whammy!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest creation. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

Links:
2Sketches4You
Our Creative Corner
Papertrey Peeps


Details:

Stamps: Grow-a-Garden (Basic Grey), Glitter Starter Stamp Kit (Martha Stewart), Autumn Abundance (PTI)

Ink: Dark Chocolate Perfect Match, Chai Blend, Chamomile (PTI)

Paper: White card blank (Michaels)

Copics: R (24), Y (15,13,19), G (28,24)

Other: Crystal Fine Glitter (Martha Stewart), Xyron Sticker Maker

Loook What KatyDidCrafts Did

Yes, I am ALIVE! This having a day job is really cramping my crafting style. Oh well, it does pay the bills and keep me in crafting supplies. So, I had two readers link up for LOOK WHAT I DID. 

Thanks to KatyDidCraft and Sandyh50!

Sandy won one of the Birthday Blog Candy packages. (BTW, I finally mailed those so be looking for your packages ladies. They should arrive towards the end of this week.) This means Sandy has gotten some page time here on Asleep on the Couch, so this week's 

LWID Featured Designer is

KatyDidCrafts

I have to admit, the designer is a good friend and I am a little partial to her work. She is super cool and her felted stuffed animals are just adorable. She has several other pictures of her creations as well as many of her other interest featured on here blog. Head on over and check it out...

Thanks for stopping by Asleep on the Couch. My hope is to get some cards posted this week and to start another LOOK WHAT I DID. Dig through your stash of creations and accomplishments and find what you can share with the rest of us. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

Falling to Pieces plus Shimmer & Shine

A while back, I posted several version of a Halloween card. Well, this is the one I ended up actually putting together. I am very pleased with the final product except that you can't really see the ribbon treatment. I folded and glued the ribbon back and forth on the end with the pumpkin and witch's hat. Super cute in person, but the black on black makes it hard to capture on camera. Because the background is two different patterned papers pieced together, I am submitting for the current Moxie Fab World Challenge, Picking up the Pieces.

The frame is cute with Spellbinders Label 1 and I made it sparkle and shine with Stickles. The witch's hat shines because I added some Diamond Glaze on the band and buckle. Interestingly enough,  Paper Crafts Magazine's current challenge is for things that, "Shimmer & Shine"and I think this qualifies. So, DOUBLE whammy!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest creation. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

Links:

Moxie Fab World

Paper Crafts

Raindrops and gun shots

It's almost Friday!

I am so glad to get a card made and posted this week. Working on a college campus, this time of year is always jam packed with job responsibilities. I was able to break away for a little while last night and get my fingers dirty with ink and glue. For the triple quadruple whammy, I used clouds/raindrops for the Cards Blog challenge, added some string to the sentiment for the Everything but the Kitchen Sink challenge, Our Creative Corner wanted us to use buttons and stepped up my game by using the color combo from the Embellish Magazine submission challenge. Bam!

The center of the sun is crinkled up tissue paper colored with Copics and the raindrops are Cloud 9 Design Rain Dots colored with Copics and then sealed with Diamond Glaze. I kept getting blue marker ink on my fingers because it would not dry on the Rain Dots so I covered them with the glaze. Ingenuity is a wonderful thing because I like the drops much better after adding the glaze. I love those extra touches!

Now, I did mention gun shots, well, actually I mean, Did you know that the sound of a Cuttle Bug exploding sounds a lot like a gun shot?! Needless to say, my Cuttle Bug is dead. I was trying to do to much and the machine said, "I do not think so." My dog almost bolted out the window, and I ducked under my craft table for fear a stray bullet might get me. Alas, it was just the sound of my machine busting into several pieces. 

What type of cutting and embossing system do you use 

and why do you like it, or not? 

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my latest creation. I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

Links:

Everything but the Kitchen Sink

Cards Blog Challenge

Embellish Magazine
Our Creative Corner

Details:

Stamps: Scattered Showers, Boarders &Corners Monogram (PTI), Series 21 (Studio G), Fun, (American Crafts)

Ink: Rasberry Fizz, Noir, Summer Sunrise, Chamomile (PTI)

Paper: Stampers Select (PTI), Blue Claypso (Bazzill), white tissue paper

Copics: C1, Y(19,15,13), BG49

Other: Floss (DMC3809), Diamond Glaze, Corner Punch, Rain Dots (Cloud 9 Design)

Blog Candy Winners

Congratulation Blog Candy Winners!

1. flutefish said... Would love to add some stamps and other goodies to my collection
2. Maria Turd
3. sandyh50 said... I just found your blog and became a follower! Thanks for the chance to win!

Please send me an email with your mailing addresses  so I can get these boxes out of my studio and into your craft space. Hope you have fun with your new goodies. Do not forget to submit your LOOK WHAT I DID. Also, I'll give away the PTI stamp set when I have 50 followers so spread the word.

Happy Day!

LOOK WHAT I DID Kick-Off

Is it Wednesday already?! Last week I mentioned that I wanted to get a chance to see what your are doing in your crafty world.  This is how I posed it, "I really do want to know what makes you proud and gives you the hankering to share with others." As you have seen this week, I posted 2 LOOK WHAT I DIDs before the actually kick-off day.  

For today, I will take you back to where it all began. My card making started when I was in living in Arizona and decided to make my holiday cards. Little did I know, I was living in the mecca for scrapping and paper crafts. I would love to have all the resources of the Phoenix valley within driving distance, now. Back then, I thought all places had a scrapbook store on every corner.  You can see I discovered heat embossing, vellum and chalk early on in the process.

I chose to post this, because I brought another box of my studio stuff back from my parent's house this weekend and it contained my notebook full of old cards, several punches, my chalks and HEAT EMBOSSING tool. I have missed heat embossing. Even with the mess it can make, I am excited to play with the powders and my newer stamps. You should see my older cards, it is amazing how my style has changed and how the industry has grown in 10 years. I am excited to see what the future holds. Enough about me and memory lane...

Please join in and share your LOOK WHAT I DID. Feel free to share something new or old.

Stand up and say, " LOOK WHAT I DID!" 

By the way, that box I brought back also contained some great stuff for a new blog candy. Just dangling the carrot. Winners of the Birthday Blog candy will be announced this afternoon around 2 p.m. EST.
 

 I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

Here's how you do it:

• Upload your LWID to your blog, click on your blog post title, copy the URL, and add it to Inlinkz below or upload your project to this flickr gallery, copy the URL for the flickr page and put that in the Inlinkz. 
• Pick you image and complete the process.
• Upload your projects by11:59 p.m  EST, Friday April 9.

Little MESS and my good deed for the day

No card today, and no drawing for Blog Candy winners. I know, what is the hold up? Well, blame it on this little one... Don't be fooled by the adorable face and crooked nose, HE is a MESS.  See, what had happened was... I, minding my own business, went to put my suitcase in my car on Friday morning to go home for a visit. Then just as I was headed back up my front stairs, I heard it, "Is this your dog?" 
D'oh, I did not go fast enough up the stairs and back into the house. Enter cute puppy with no owner to be found, me headed out of town and the morning commuters zooming by at 90 miles an hour on our street just inches from his cute little tail (OK, a slight exaggeration, but I needed to create suspense). He joined me as I finished my morning routine and then we headed to work. 

Divine intervention, I saw the Eureka Farms RV ahead of me in traffic. My dog stays at Eureka Farms when I travel. I essentially stalked the RV until it stopped and then begged the owner to take the little booger until I returned on Monday. 

Well, last night was entertaining to say the least. I had to juggle feeding the dogs, this little one will eat anything you put in front of him. My dog was feeling all, "Why is he here?" and "How could you let him eat my food?" I did manage to make signs and get them posted on the street at about 10 p.m. We survived the evening, only to endure crate time. Oh my, can he whine and cry! Needless to say, I did not get much sleep last night. While he was all bright and chipper this morning, but I was dragging. On my way to work, I got a call from his mom. She just knew he was gone forever. Nope, he is at my house, I am sure still whimpering in his crate. Boy, do I appreciate my almost 4 year-old dog more today than yesterday. 

So, I will work on a card and the drawing this afternoon. When the little MESS goes back to his house and my dog, Linus, returns to snoozing on his bed while I create.

Happy Day!

Preemptive Look What I Did

Saturday Greetings!

I know that I was going to wait until Wednesday to post my LOOK WHAT I DID, but I am just too excited. So this is my second early LOOK WHAT I DID, check out the Cards Blog. Guess who has a card featured from the last challenge? I did several happy dances yesterday and tried to explain to anyone who might get "it" that I was on the blog. Not everyone was as excited as me, mainly because they are not familiar with the whole card making world, but I assured them they should be impressed and amazed by my talent (wink, wink). OK, this should be my last preemptive LOOK WHAT I DID.

I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!

LOOK WHAT I DID...

Hey everybody!

LOOK WHAT I DID. This is the new post I plan to host. I love telling you what I made, but I want a way for my subscribers, really anyone to share what they do with others, so LOOK WHAT I DID was born. I have thought about names for at least two weeks, and I will try this one on for size, for now. 

Basically, on Wednesday, I will post a new project and tell you what I did. Usually I post cards, but this could be anything I make, accomplish, achieve, discover, and experience... I'll add an Inlinkz and hope that you will post your LOOK WHAT I DID. Then others can visit your blogs and check out what you are proud to share with everyone. 

For example, my new blog banner is a LOOK WHAT I DID.  I used my digital scrap images and Microsoft Word to make my new banner. It is that simple. Complex only if you decide to own up to how many hours it actually took to figure out how to place all those images, add a background, get the sizing correct, learn to save it as a PNG image and change the banner in blogger. Of course, that is just an example. I whipped this banner together in no time with ease, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Please consider joining me next Wednesday for LOOK WHAT I DID. I am posting now, so you can capitalize on that moment between now and Wednesday that you get that warm proud feeling and think, "Dang, I did a good job on that." or "Well, I'll be. I need to tell someone about that..." Not sure if you put thoughts in quotes, but they needed something to set them apart from the rest of my rambling. 

I will cruise through all of your submissions and pick a few to highlight in a post later in the week. I am working on a blinkie for you to put on your blog when I highlight your LOOK WHAT I DID. Be patient, I did just figure out how to save a picture as PNG for my banner. 

Now, I know many of you might have Esty shops and I love that you are hopefully making money with your crafts. Share what is new and exciting, maybe a new product design, a new pattern, a technique that you mastered or that you actually sold something on Etsy for the first time. Please don't use this a just a way to plug your shop. Your craft will speak for itself when you share your LOOK WHAT I DID.

No. This is not an April fool's joke. I really do want to know what makes you proud and gives you the hankering to share with others. I am off to visit with family, so I may not post again until Monday. If you are looking for him, I hope the Easter Bunny finds you. If not, enjoy the beauty of a warm spring day!

I'd love to hear from you so leave a comment or ask a question.

Happy Day!