My Time Sketch 35 and Flower Soft

I've spent most of the long weekend in my craft loft. I did sneak away to pick up some nestabilities dies at Hobby Lobby with a coupon for a little while, but mostly I've been fortunate to get some crafting done. I've got a Stampin Up workshop on Tuesday that I've been preparing for. It will be my first and last one since I cannot comply with Stampin Up's new policy. No hard feelings any more. I've just let it go and realized it's not for me, so that must mean there are lots of new things waiting for me.
Speaking of new things... I picked up some Flower Soft at Scrapbook Gadgets the other day and have finally given it a try! To be honest, I'm not sure if I love it or not. Up close, I'm not crazy about the look, but when I hold it away from me, I think it's gorgeous. But I'm determined to keep trying it on different images. I bought it, I may as well use it (no hoarding...that's my motto!).
Something else I haven't done in a while is one of the My Time To Create Challenges. This week's is a sketch challenge. I stamped out my mailbox images and then colored it with copics. After that, I added some glue and poured on the Flower Soft. The Flower Soft is easy to work with, that's for sure. The cute little butterfly brads are for Lauren. I know she's partial to butterflies! Hope she gets a chance to drop by and see them.
I've got some more projects to work on this weekend and some more to post, too. So check back soon to see what I've been up to.
Project Recipe
Paper: PTI Sweet Blush CS, PTI Spring Moss CS, PTI Bitty Dots PP, SU Melon Mambo CS, SU Whisper White
Stamps: Make an Impression Mailbox, PTI Vintage Picnic Sentiments
Accessories: copic markers, Sweet Pea Flower Soft, Mod Blackbird brads

Duo Challenge

I really love combining challenges. I took Lauren's Inspiration challenge and combined it with the Copic Creations challenge. Both challenges steered me to purple! Those of you that have followed my blog at all know I make something called "a cake in a can" for all my colleagues on their birthdays. Well, May is chock full of birthdays, so you'll be seeing a lot of these and I won't have a lot of time left for other types of creations. If you're sick of seeing these, check back in June. I should be through with school by then and ready to move on to other projects.

The paper I used on this can is part of the Scenic Route Sonoma paper. The flowers and colors reminded me of Lauren's Inspiration piece. I also used punches to create the layered paper flower. The image is a digital stamp and it was a free set from My Grafico. The Copic Creations Challenge was to use purple flowers or lilacs.

Okay, now for some BIG news, at least big for me. For Mother's Day, my wonderful hubby and my three sons bought me a small air compressor to use with my Copics for airbrushing!!! I've got the adaptor kit coming from Ellen Hutson's and in a few days I will either be on cloud nine or in frustration hell! Stay tuned to see how this all turns out!

Project Recipe

Paper: Scenic Route Sonoma PP, SU Elegant Eggplant CS, PTI Vintage Cream and Ripe Avocado CS (for paper flower)

Stamps: My Grafico Vases and Flowers Digital Stamp

Ribbon: PTI Ripe Avocado twill

Accessories: copics, Gold Atyou Spica marker, SU 5-Petal Flower Punch, SU Slot punch, MS hydrangea punch, liquid pearls, Spellbinders Oval Nestabilities

MyTimess 32--Sketch Challenge

I'm on a cupcake kick, so bear with me! Lauren Meader has a sketch challenge this week and she has issued a bonus challenge of making it a birthday card in honor of her birthday this weekend. Check out the details here.

My son's girlfriend has a birthday Tuesday, so I thought I'd whip her up a cupcake to take to her (okay, so she can't eat this one, but she'll want to, right!). In my last post I used a digital cupcake from Lindsay's Stamp Stuff. That one had a cherry on top, this one has sprinkles. Lindsay has two others, so you know what you'll be seeing more of! I have to tout the merits of digital stamps AGAIN because they are just so versatile. With this one, I wanted it a little taller, so I stretched it, not just made it bigger, in Microsoft Word. But to fit the sketch, it needed to be a little longer not any wider. And this was sooooo easy to accomplish with a digital image. Try doing that with rubber and you'll end up really frustrated.

Kate (birthday girl) loves pink, so of course, I pulled out all the pinks I could stomache, but I got this new page kit today and just had to use the fun paper and the little chipboard heart (no more hoarding). I don't know if you can see the embossing in the background mat, but I used my cuttlebug and a Fiskars texture plate to accomplish that.

I hope Lauren and Kate both have wonderful birthdays this week! Sticky icing kisses to you both!!!

Project Recipe

Paper: SU Pretty in Pink CS, Barely Bannana CS, Certainly Celery CS, Chatterbox Happy Day Page Kit PP

Stamps: Lindsay's Stamp Stuff Digital image Cupcake with Sprinkles, Sentiment SU Big Bold Birthday

Accessories: copic markers, EK Success Swiss Cheese border punch, Fiskars Party Texture Plate, Making Memories In Bloom Blossoms & Buttons felt and paper flowers, Chatterbox Happy Day Page Kit chipboard heart and jewel brad