Calling All Hereos Birthday - FMS200 - FM222

It has been a very long time since I have been in the craft room and created anything. Life has completely taken over and I am finding it hard to get into the craft room.

I needed to get some crafting therapy so today I decided to see what challenges were out there and what I could come up with. 

I found two challenges and instantly I had an idea for a card. 

Thank you Freshly Made Sketches and The Friday Mashup for your inspiration!

This sketch was simple but it was perfect!

The challenge at Friday Mashup was to create a Birthday card using any technique, I chose to do a reflection technique using vellum as well as a water-colour background.

Here's what I came up with:

Stampset: Calling All Heroes and a Paper Pumpkin Stamp

Paper: Basic Black, Shimmery White, Whisper White, Lost Lagoon, Vellum

Ink: Versa Mark, Archival Black, Lost Lagoon
Markers: Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight 

Accessories: White Embossing Powder

Thank You - Freshly Made Sketches

Today's card was inspired from Amy over at Freshly Made Sketches with her fantastic sketch. I love the colours of my card, this is one of my favourite Designer Series Paper in the Stampin' Up! Catalogue.

I love the new embossing folder Stampin' Up is coming out with in their new Occasions Catalogue. What do you think of it?

Stampset: Lots of Thanks

Paper: Costal Cabana, Crushed Curry  Smokey Slate, Whisper White, Silver Glimmer, Eastern Elegance Designer Series Paper

Ink: Coastal Cabana, Crushed Curry

Punches: Hexagon

Bigshot: Arrows Textured Impressions Embossing Folder, Bitty Banner Framelits, Banners Framelits

Tools: 

Accessories: Candy Dots Brad Bases, Crushed Curry Candy Dots, Silver 1/8" Ribbon

FMS104 Halloween Washi Again!!!...

I apologizing for not posting on Friday! I started going back to University on Tuesday and the homework has already been piled on. I am trying to keep my head above water but that meant I had to stop blogging for a couple days. I will do my best to keep you motivated daily with a new creation.

Onto my latest creation. I am not sure why but I keep going back to making my own DSP with washi tape. It might be because I do not have any Haloween DSP but I am not sure.

As always, I love the sketch at Freshly Made Sketches and found this card to come fairly easily (easy for me is a couple hours in the craft room while watching netflix....)

Continue to scroll through my post for photos on how to give you the black highlight around the stamped image.

Stampset: Tags 4 You

Paper: Basic Grey, Very Vanilla, Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Basic Grey, Basic Black

Punches: Label Bracket

Bigshot: Chevron Embossing Folder

Accessories: Witches Brew Designer Washi Tape, 1/8" Mini Brads

Cut both pieces in half  and also cut along the dotted lines as pictured above.

I forgot to mention to also cut the small corners as shown by the white lines.

Adhere two pieces to the back of your stamped and punched image spacing out the pieces. Do the same for the other two pieces.

The back of your stamped and punched image should look like this.

Dahlia Thinking of You

When I seen Freshly Made Sketches this week I was stumped for a while. While sleeping last night a Polaroid flashed in my head, and I thought it would work great for their sketch. Looking at their sketch now I see I went fairly out of the box but I still think it fits the sketch enough to submit my card for their challenge. 

I also combined their sketch with Friday's Mashup's challenge of making a Sympathy or Thinking of you Card.

I am been very drawn to the Dahlia Stamp. I hope you like it because I think you will be seeing it a lot more in the next year (or longer, if Stampin' Up doesn't retire it).

To make the Polaroid I cut my Basic Black to 3-1/4" X 3-5/8". I used a square framelit to cut out the centre. My Whisper White cardstock is cut to 3-1/4" X 3-1/4" and glued behind the Polaroid. 

The sentiment was powder embossed using Versamark ink and Whisper White Embossing Powder melted with Stampin' Up's Heat Tool.

Stampset: Regarding Dahlia, Embellished Events

Paper: Basic Black, Whisper White, Island Indigo, Daffodil Delight, Gingham Garden DSP
Ink: Island Indigo, Versa Mark

Bigshot: Square Framelits, Top Note Die (inside card)

Tools: Heat Tool, White Embossing Powder, Stampin' Trimmer

Accessories: Brights Candy Dots, Candy Dot Brads

 

Third week using Freshly Made Sketches FMS102

So far so good. I am keeping up with my goal!!! This is the third week I have completed a card for Freshly Made Sketches (although last week I late posting my card). Cindy's sketch is fantastic and super easy to use. It seems the more I use sketches the easier cards are coming to me. I am super proud to call a card my own. I am slowly getting away from copying others cards to creating my own and that feels fantastic!!! I must be in love with Chalk Talk framelits because I keep going back to that them no matter what the card. 

I knew I really wanted to use my newest stampset Regarding Dahlias. I love this flower and I am sure you will see a lot more of this stampset over the next year. 

I couldn't decided which embossing folder I liked more so I made two exact cards but changed the sentiment and embossing folder. I am hoping you can tell me which card you like more.

Here is Freshly Made Sketches card sketch for this week and my cards.

Stampset: Regarding Dahlias
Paper: Very Vanilla, Island Indigo, Early Espresso, Soho Subway DSP
Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Early Espresso
Big Shot: Chalk Talk Framelit, Chevron Embossing Folder, Honeycomb Embossing Folder
Accessories: Summer Starfruit 3/8" Stitched Satin Ribbon

Happy Stamping!!!!!!!!!

Ornament Keepsakes FMS101

This week from Freshly Made Sketches they had a fabulous sketch from Linda C. I was surprised at how easy this card came to me. Usually I struggle for a while but everything I imagined came to life and I think it turned out great! Thank you Linda for the wonderful inspiration, I will absolutely be using this sketch again!!

Stamp: Ornament Keepsakes, Embellished Events
Paper: Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Gumball Green, Baked Brown Sugar, Season of Style DSP Stack (132181)

Ink: Cherry Cobbler

Big Shot: Holiday Ornaments Framelits (127816), Bitty Banners (129267), Northern Flurry Embossing Folder
Accessory: Large Rhinestones Basic Jewels (129324), Early Espresso Bakers Twine (123124)

Tools: Paper-Piercing Tool (126189), Stampin' Pierce Mat (126199), Festive Paper Piercing Pack (127857)
Adhesive: Sticky Strip (104294), Stampin' Dimensionals (104430), SNAIL Adhesive (104332)

Tag It Birthday Card FMS100

It is time for another sketch from Freshly Made Sketches. They are celebrating their 100th sketch and to honor that this week they are doing their first sketch over again. I love this sketch but it took me a while to make the card work. Surprisingly enough I knew which stamp set I wanted to work with right away but I had to play with the paper for a while to get the card the way I wanted it. 

I am super pleased with how this card turned out and I can't wait to participate in their next sketch. I am setting a goal for my self, here in front of you all. My goal is to participate in at least every other week of Freshly Made Sketches but ideally I would like to participate weekly. Lets see how this goes...

Before I get to my card I would like to tell you about the stamp set I used. Tag It is Stampin' Up!'s Ronald McDonald House Charity stamp set this year. This means you can ake a difference in someone's life if you purchase this set. For every Tag It stamp set Stampin' Up sells they donate $3.00 to the Ronald McDonald House Charity. Isn't that fantastic!!! If you would like to help make a difference you can purchase the set in my online store just click the shopping cart on the right side of my blog. 

Now onto my card...

Paper: Whisper White, Strawberry Slush, Baked Brown Sugar, 2013-2015 In Color DSP Stack (Costal Cabana)

Markers: Baked Brown Sugar, Strawberry Slush, Costal Cabana, Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight, Basic Black, Gumball Green

Big Shot: Magnetic Platform, Chalk Talk Framelits, Stampin' Trimmer

Accessory: Basic Rhinestones, Crushed Curry 3/4" Chevron Ribbon, Whisper White Bakers Twine, Simply Pressed Clay, Simply Pressed Button Clay Mold

Stamp: Tag It (Ronald McDonald House Charity Stampset)

It's about time

Hi! My name is Avery Murphy and I thought it was about time I started my own blog. I am an Independent Stampin' Up! Demonstrator and I am looking forward to sharing my creations with you!

This is my first blog so please bare with me as I learn the ropes of this new world.

I wanted to start off with a card I just made for a very good friend of mine. I got my inspiration from Freshly Made Sketches Sketch FMS96. I love this blog because they give you a weekly sketch to help you get your creative juices flowing.

Enjoy!!!

Cardstock/DSP: Strawberry Slush, Costal Cabana, Whisper White,

2013-2015 In-color Designer Series Paper Stack

Tools: Paper-Piercing Tool, Stampin' Pierce Mat, Essentials Paper Piercing Pack,

Decorative Label Punch, Extra-Large Oval Punch

Big Shot: Magnetic Platform, Adorning Accents Edgelits,

Beautifully Baroque Emobssing folder

Whisper White Bakers Twine