Clean and Simple Sketch 121

What a marathon to get this picture on here! It is here - not as I would have liked to have seen it though! Seems as if there is something behind the lens of my camera too - probably mould after all the rain we have been having LOL.

I used the sketch from the Clean and Simple #121 challenge and seem to be on a red, black and vanilla roll lately! I do not take any credit for the cute little bird and I have no idea where the original idea came from but a few of us were making up cards using him at Kim's camp - fun!
The beak and feet are stamped with a stamp from SU Cheep Talk. Jane, you possibly know whose idea he belongs to!! Oh so cute!

Now that Christmas is over, I hope to take part in more challenges - a lot of the hard work is already done in these - either the sketch or the colour combo. My computer is driving me crazy right now - it crashed and I lost heaps and now cannot re install my favourite programs as the CD drive is not working. My little technician has gone to India so I wait patiently for his return!

Stamps: Stampin' Up! Music Wheel, Cheep Talk, Teeny Tiny Sentiments
Card: SU Black, Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler
Other: SU Square Lattice embossing folder, Polka Dots embossing folder, XL bird punch, circle, window, large oval and large scallop punches, Lots of Tags sizzlets die, scallop trim border punch

It might seem like I did a lot of work on this card but just by using so many punches, it all comes together so fast so really it was simple!

Christmas bird

I received a few new stamps yesterday and wanted to try out the wording on one of them. Here is the card that gave me the idea for this sketch. I love this paper from Kaisercraft Dear Santa but was stumped on how to use it. I will make another card now and use SU Elegant Eggplant in place of the SU Cherry Cobbler as Robyn's looks really pretty.

Card: Stampin' Up Crumb Cake, Cherry Cobbler, Always Artichoke, Vanilla card from stash
Ink: Cherry Cobbler
Stamps: SU Punch Potpourri, Wordsworth wording
Other: Kaisercraft Dear Santa paper, SU XL bird punch, SU Petals-a-Plenty Embossing folder, Nestabilities scalloped circle, Kaisercraft rhinestones

Shadow Box card

My desktop computer is very ill and in my little Indian technician's words this morning - it is still on the operating table and he cannot get the temperature down! So I asked him to give it a transplant - that is - a new motherboard!! I know dust and heat are the killers of computers and believe me, it has seen its share of that before we shifted!

So I am on the laptop and am lost without my usual photo editing program etc. We have seen very little sun here for the last who knows how long and this photo is not the best so I apologise.

I bought some coloured vellum and couldn't wait to make some vellum flowers as I saw on Selma's blog here! She does some wonderful work and readily shares her knowledge. Thank you Selma too for the idea of this shadow box card. She also has some of these on her blog. The butterfly has been dusted with SU Dazzling Diamonds over 2 way glue. The leaves are punched out of vellum using a Carl punch.

Card: Stampin' Up Whisper White and Pretty In Pink

Ink: Versamark

Stamp: Stampin' Up

Other: Martha Stewart Punches, Stampin' Up Border punch Pinking Hearts, Cuttlebug Embossing Folder, Oval Nestabilities dies, Kaisercraft pearls, white satin ribbon from stash