Acetate -- Who knew?

Ok- a little later than planned, but a project nonetheless. I saw this project on flower-soft tv. I love listening to the accents :-) It looked really cute, so I decided to try for myself. I made this card a 5*7 though I will show you tomorrow how it will work as a regular A2 size as well. I will ask that you ignore my very bad effort at adding a little color on the inside.... oiy!


I used Nesties to cut out the circles. The acetate piece is actually one size larger than the opening in the base. Then I used those same nesties, nested, to create the white border. I adhered with flower soft glue, but any glue that will dry transparent would work. The center image is one from Just Rite stamps. It is adhered with mini glue dots and colored with copic markers.



Just Rite stamps are just perfect for this card because they are the perfect size and the sentiments fit so nicely! The sentiment is also adhered with glue dots and since it's the same size it covers all the adhesive! The paper is Basic Grey. Thanks for stopping by!

It's Winter again!

It's time for another OCC Sketch! I just got the new Cosmo Cricket winter paper pad that I won on the Copic Challenge Chat thread. It is so awesome! Just had to use some for this card. I added the Bo Bunny DP for a little extra bling. I thought the green added a little pop to keep the card from being too purple. Though I have some friends that would disagree with the notion that there is too much purple... ever. I'm also running out of chocolate pearls, which could be a complete disaster! I guess I'll bbe placing a Limelight order soon. The image is colored with... you guessed it, copics. Thanks for putting up with all my winter/Christmas cards.

Recipe:
Stamps: Just Rite
Paper: Lavendar Moon, Plum (PTI), Green Apple, Ivory (Gina K), DP (Cosmo Cricket and Bo Bunny)
Ink: Tuxedo Black (Memento)
Accessories: Light Orchid grosgrain ribbon, Olive organdy Ribbon, chocolate pearls, copics, CB Snowflake EF, Big Scalloped Circle Nestabilities, Corner rounder punch

Shhhhhhhhh! new stamps!

I promised myself and some other people, that I wouldn't buy any new Christmas stamps this year. I probably have enough Christmas stamps to last, I don't know, FOREVER?? I've been wanting to try out the JustRite stampers for a while. I would forget, then remember.. you know how that goes. However a few weeks ago, I was reading Denise's blog, The Paper Landscaper, and saw that she was previewing the MOST ADORABLE stamps from Just Rite. I had to go visit the site... and before I knew it, new stamps had jumped into my cart.

Well, this was the first card I made for the OCC sketch challenge. This is a fairly simple easy to recreate Christmas card. The most time consuming part was coloring the garland border on the sentiment piece. That really didn't take that long :-)

Recipe:

Stamps: Christmas Nested Frames, Christmas Nested Sentimenst, Whimsical Christmas 2" (JustRite)

Paper: Cranberry Tart, White (GinaK); DP (October Afternoon)

Ink: Tuxedo Black and Rhubarb Stalk (Memento)

Accessories: Copics, Circle Punches, Ribbon (Limelight), Chocolate Pearls and dimensionals

Happy Stamping!!