I used a mirror image of Jennie Harper’s January Release Sketch (because that worked better with the ABC blocks image) as the starting point for my card. The card base was embossed with the Stripes embossing folder.

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If you are wondering how the mini jingle bell was fastened to Dasher’s neck, here’s what I did: I pierced two little holes on either side of his neck, threaded a piece of bakers twine through the little hole on the mini jingle bell and used a needle threader to pull both ends to the back of the card stock where they were taped down.

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I used six different Memento Dew Drop inkpads and just swiped them across the white card stock. Then I stamped the image and ran the card stock through my Big Shot with the largest Classic Diamonds die. The sails were colored with a clear glitter pen. If you click to enlarge, you may be able to see that the Smoky Slate background was lightly “impressed” with the Sea Scape template.

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My older sister has inherited the photographing gene from our dad and I thought this TAC image would make for a great birthday card for her. When I saw Jen del Muro’s April Sketch For You To Try I knew I was going to use the filmstrip frames die-cuts in my layout. Then I found some old-fashioned (lick ‘em) black photo corners in my stash, and they were perfect for framing the focal point.

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Suzanne J Dean is celebrating the first birthday of her Color Me Creative Classroom this month, and this is a card I created for her birthday celebration sketch challenge. After taking a Copics class in Suzanne’s lovely home last year, I immediately signed up for several of her on-line classes. She also has lots of free video tutorials on her YouTube channel. Check it out!

I thought it would only be appropriate to create a birthday card for this challenge. I stamped the birthday cake and balloons with black Memento ink on white card stock and colored the images with the Copic markers listed below.

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My cousin Anneleen gave birth to a little girl last month and they named her Louise. I like to personalize the baby cards I send to family and friends, and this time I used black die-cut letters to spell louise. They were very easily adhered to the Sweet Mango strip by using a Quickie Glue Pen.

I combined StampTV’s Color Spotlight 11 challenge with Jen del Muro’s February 2011 Sketch For You To Try.

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These colors might be considered a little too bright for a baby card, but that’s what was on my to-do list today and I thought, “Why not?” And then I realized that the image I wanted to use was probably too Christmassy, but I couldn’t help myself. It’s so cute! Don’t you agree?

After a quick refresher visit to the Out of the Box with Nestabilities tutorial on SCS, I stamped the irisstamp with black ink on white card stock. After cutting it out with the aforementioned technique, I colored it with Copic markers and did some faux stitching along the edge. Card layout is this week’s sketch challenge on SCS (SC318).

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I stamped the fish princess with black Memento ink and colored her with turquoise Copic markers. The white circle in the background was sponged with Tempting Turquoise ink, while the card stock was still inside the circle die. The patterned paper was one of the designs in the Quite a Catch card kit (which is no longer available).

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I wanted to make a “Stampin’ Up! only” birthday card for a demonstrator friend of mine and found a great card to CASE in Featured Stamper jazzytobi‘s SCS gallery. The cocktail glass images reminded me of the Cheers to You set, so that’s what I used on my card.

I stamped the glass and sentiment with Basic Gray ink on an oval die cut and colored the image with watercolor crayons. Beate’s paper piercing trick came in handy again for adding the piercing to the oval mat. After adhering all of the layers to the card, I filled in the glass with Crystal Effects for that glassy look.

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I finished my last card for the Verve Release Week challenges with sketch number 5. As soon as I saw the layout, I knew I wanted to use the notebook paper image from the Blue Skies set — it was the perfect size. I added a couple of suns from the Let It Shine stamp set and embossed the background with Tim Holtz’s Rays embossing folder. Because I used white core textured card stock, I was able to highlight the dry embossed rays with a sanding block.

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