Sunflower Studio

VEGGIE THANKS

Veggie stamps are the best! I love them...I know, I'm weird.  SU! had a veggie set way back and it was just silly and fun.  This set, LETTUCE BE FRIENDS, from The Cat's Pajamas is so pretty. Love the dark outlines. They're perfect for watercoloring. (My card was inspired by one of the samples on the TCP site by Christine Okken. It's a beautiful card!) I'm probably the only person out here still using vellum and brads but I have tonnage of my old supplies.  Everything comes back around again, right?! Sentiment die by MFT.

 

AMAZING!

I made a pick-me-up card for an amazingly strong friend. I'm realizing that it's a lot harder to get a card together after not stamping regularly for such a long time.  I get caught up in trying to duplicate the trends that other stampers are so good at.  But, like anything, it takes time and practice to get back in the swing of things.

I used a cactus die set from Echo Park.  The background was created using Distress Oxide inks and the cloud stencil from The Cat's Pajamas and the sun rays are made with an MFT stencil.  The speech bubble and die are also MFT and the sentiment is from Paper Smooches.

Hope you all had a nice relaxing weekend and are ready to start a new week again tomorrow.

HANG IN THERE

Just a quick card that I needed today...

Supplies:  stamps from Tree Swing set from My Favorite Things, patterned paper in the Autumn Press pad by Studio Calico, ribbon from SU!

BEING...{02}

I'm heading out of town this weekend so I decided to post my BEING... card on Thursday instead of Friday.  I'd like to make it a regular Friday thing from here on out so we'll see how that goes.  I got a couple of really nice comments on last week's card and the concept.  One of my favorites was from Therese Savage.  Here's what she said...

"This is really cool. Its kinda like playing telephone but in a good way :) Different spins and creativeness. And Leigh you are someone who inspires me as well."

I love the her "telephone game" analogy!  You know...it's where you whisper something in someone's ear and they whisper to the next person and so on and you see if what you said at the beginning comes out the same at the end of your line of participants.  I admit that I loved that game as a kid...guaranteed to end up in lots of giggles!

So, as you go along, the original idea - in this instance the inspiration card - will probably morph into something else.  It would be so cool to see what could really be done and compare the end project if more than just me were participating.  You wanna play along?  Any ideas on how we could make it work?  If you have some thoughts on it, just leave me a comment and we'll see what we can come up with.

ANYWAY...this week, I decided on...

JODI COLLINS

I love Jodi's creations each week.  She always WOWs me with her clean, graphic style.  AND, she's a girl that doesn't mind spouting off about her love for EDWARD from TWILIGHT.  (Aaah, I love him too!)  I chose to use Jodi's TICKET TO MY HEART CARD.  Now, I decided that I don't have to try and use EXACTLY the same stamps or supplies so my card has already changed the look of the original.  I did use a couple of the same things - a MFT PI image, Astronaut Girl, the mini Film Strip Die-Namics die, and the layout that was the MFTWSC34 sketch challenge.  I also used a few PTI dies and a stamp set to stamp the ticket.  You can click on some of the thumbnails below to be taken to more info on my supplies.  (I'm guessing that PTI will not allow you to copy their images to the InLinkz Link Manager because I couldn't get any of them to work...oh well.)

Pure Innocence: Astronaut Girl	Die-namics MINI Film Strip	October Afternoon Rocket Age	October Afternoon Boarding Pass
Airmail Divine Twine

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SUNFLOWER GIRL

It's been a little bit since I've had a chance to make something with one of my PURE INNOCENCE gals from MY FAVORITE THINGS.  Fortunately for me, KIM at MFT, sent me one of their newest images, SUNFLOWER GIRL.  Oh, how I love her!  This is the Sunflower Studio, after all!!  Well, it could have been the fact that when I saw Kim in January I screamed "You have to make a Pure Innocence gal with a sunflower!"  I think I mighta scared her...ha!

I teamed her up with a gaggle of beautiful new papers in the Blissful Collection by Authentique.  I am in love with this paper.  I used this week's WEDNESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE #33 for my layout.  THE CAT'S PAJAMAS SUNFLOWER ROSETTE CUTUPS die worked perfectly for the circle part of the sketch.  The branch with leaves is a Sizzix die, the rhinestones from Colorbok, and satin ribbon from PTI complete the look.

EAT DRINK AND BE MERRY PELICAN

Here's a quick coupla 4th of July cards that I mailed out to family.  I found this pelican stamp and sentiment from Inkadinkado in the $1 section at JoAnn's. (They're in the same pack too.  Funny that that sentiment was with the pelican though, huh?!) We see lots of pelicans both in FL at the in-laws and at the beach we go to in summer so I just had to have it. But what's the pelican have to do with the 4th?  I think it just goes back to the fact that we go to the beach for this week each year and, you know, pelicans...beach...fireworks...etc.  Sounds good to me...let's go with that!

I used various patterned paper from October Afternoon and Cosmo Cricket on these.  I also used a few different dies:  the large label and the circle from Spellbinders, the stars from PTI (These are solid dies but I used a tiny piece of tape to put the small one in the center of the larger one and cut them at the same time.  Voila!  An open star plus another star for decorating!), and the word bubble from MFT.  I added baker's twine and a little rhinestone to finish it off - wanting to keep these fairly low profile so that I could pop 'em in the mail without the major search for envies to fit.  Worked! 

Hope you and yours are celebrating a fabulous

Independence Day today!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAWN!

My friend, Dawn, has a big birthday comin' up next week but since it's a holiday week, and most people are out of town, we had a little pre-birthday gathering for her last night.  This is the card that I made up for her using the BIRTHDAY PRINCESS set from MY FAVORITE THINGS.   I also followed along with this week's Wednesday Sketch Challenge for MFT (MFTWSC26).  I used patterned paper from the MME - Fine & Dandy Tickled Pink paper pad along with the MFT Rolled Rose die, TCP Mango Seam Binding ribbon, and some Dew Drops.  It's all colored up with Copics, of course.

Hope you have an awesome birthday, Dawn!

YOU'RE #1 {mftwsc13}

Tomorrow is my Godchild's birthday and in my usual always-late-birthday-gift-giver form I just sat down to make her card today.  I am notoriously horrible at birthdays.  I can remember my immediate family - at least the dates - but that's about it.  I think it runs in my side of the family because we all do it.  We like to say it makes the celebration last longer when you get your gift weeks after your birthday.  Anybody out there with me?  No?  Oh well, I try...

I've had some new stamps from MY FAVORITE THINGS sitting on my table for a while so I chose this cutie-patootie ALL STAR A LA MODE set to work with.  This gal is perfect for Erin because she's a terrific teenager and this girl is not only cute but cool too! I based my card on this week's MFT WEDNESDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE #13.

As for supplies, I can't get enough of the new EASY ROSETTE and GRASS CUTUPS die from THE CAT'S PAJAMAS and incorporated them here.  I used my favorite cloud paper from October Afternoon.  The pink polka-dot is OA too.  The green is Cosmo Cricket and the text background paper is from SU! I tried to make my bottom layers a little "scrappy" and added a piece of Heidi Swapp decorative tape that's been hiding in my drawer.  A button, some brads and delish twine from The Twinery finish it off. Oh, and I finished the inside as well.  The MFT gals are the queens of this stuff so I just took their lead and followed along.  I don't usually finish my card insides but I do think it looks really nice...who knows, could become a habit. The inside sentiment is from A Muse.

Happy Birthday, Erin...your gift is coming!!

IT'S A WORM PARTY!

I needed a birthday card this week and guess what?  The worms fit the bill!  Now, the question is, "Will the birthday girl like the wormy card?!"  What's not to like about smiley worms with birthday hats, right? 

These funny guys are from the BIRTHDAY BUDDIES set from PAPER SMOOCHES.  I love a good pun or play on words...hee hee.  I used various papers from October Afternoon except for the green polka-dot which is from the Lush line by MME.  The grass and clouds were cut using DIE-NAMICS dies from MFT.  I made the little bow using the BOW EASY tool which I'm sure gets easier with practice.  It does make a nice little bow though.

GO PACK!

So, "somebody" I know is a HUGE Packers fan.  Hmmm...who could that "somebody" be?  Anyway, I had to mail a package with a little somethin' to the Packers fan so I just had to include a card.  And even though we're Redskins fans here in our house (let's not go any further on that topic!) I couldn't resist making a card for my dear friend since she's so excited about it all.

The little football boy is from one of my favorite little PURE INNOCENCE sets, MVP from MY FAVORITE THINGS.  Awesome since you can make any team, right?  I added a little #12 because that's the number of Aaron Rodgers, their quarterback.  Someone mentioned Twinkling H2Os this past weekend and that prompted me to dig those sparkly paints out and paint his uniform.  I colored his face and arms and the footballs with Copic Markers. 

The banner was made using the smaller pennant shape from the PENNANT CUTUPS die set and the COOLVETICA ALPHABET, plus some CANDY APPLE DIVINE TWINE, all from THE CAT'S PAJAMAS.  I used a piece of ruled pencil tablet paper that came from my parents basement.  I would have to consider it VINTAGE since it's probably from my childhood!  I also used a bit of old bookpage for the grass cut with the MFT FRESH CUT GRASS DIE-NAMICS die.

Hope I'm not jinxing them now...GO PACK GO!