MFT Wednesday Stamp Club Sketch 13

I can't seem to create my weekly WSC card without an adorable Pure Innocence girl or boy lately, so I thought it would be appropriate to remain consistent in my weekly efforts, ha! All kidding aside, I absolutely love coloring and paper piecing these sweeties, so much that I combined two sets for this week's card: A Cart Full of Friends & A Boy and His Dog. I have a niece who adores our mini Dachshund, Idgie, and I can just picture her toting old Idge around in a wagon, just like today's scene...makes me smile just thinking about it.

Not only did I paper piece her sweet dress, I paper pieced the dog and then colored her with a few Copics. The grass is none other than the Die-namics Grass die, wrapped up with a couple rounds of twine. I couldn't help myself but to pop buttons on for the wagon wheels as it adds just a little dimension to the card without adding too much, if you know what I mean.

Remember to stop over at Kim's to see the entire list of participants for this week's sketch!

~Amy

TCP Tuesday 152 & Blog Hop!

Welcome to TCP Tuesday 152 (Technique Challenge) along with our new release blog hop! You may have hopped here from Jen's blog, and when you're finished, hop along to Leigh's blog. I'm sure each of these girls is sporting some serious eye candy, so don't miss out! Speaking of 'missing'...how about the "I Miss You" sentiment on my pinwheel pouch?! It's from one of the latest and greatest must-have sets from The Cat's Pajamas, Simply Said. Simply said, you really need this set...and the CutUps Pinwheels die...and The Tweetest Things...and the coordinating CutUps die called Home Sweet Home...oh, I could go on and on!

Today's TCP Tuesday Technique Challenge is to make a shaped card, so I've made a sort of 3-D card, if you will. This one wouldn't fare so well in traditional snail mail delivery mode, but what better way to tell someone you miss them than by hand delivering?! Anyway...the card is made using the CutUps Pennant, Pinwheels, Buttons & Big Scallop dies, along with two stamps from Simply Said. The pinwheels are attached to sucker sticks (I found mine at Walmart in the cake decorating/wedding section) after a brad was inserted through the pinwheel to secure all layers. The pouch was created by sewing the right and left sides of the pennant front to the scalloped felt pennant back, leaving an opening at the top, and a braid of TCP's Ivory Linen Thread is threaded through die cut buttons for a handle...clear as mud? I just may have directions for the entire project in the near future...

Enough rambling, you've got places to go, great things to see. Don't forget to hop on over to Leigh's blog now, and thanks for stopping here today!  Oh, oh...one last thing: Alma has great video tutorials on the TCP website detailing the know-how on making your very own pinwheels and rosettes!
~Amy

Sneaky Peek Day 7: Simply Said & Tweetest Things

This has been fun week of Sneaky Peeking, so you can imagine the fun I've had stamping with all of these new sets from The Cat's Pajamas! Judging by the rest of the samples laid before our eyes from the rest of the Cat Pack...I'm pretty sure they've had a ball as well! Today's Sneaky Peek includes two sets, Simply Said and Tweetest Things. I'll start out with Simply Said...

This card was made for a dear friend of our family who turned 80 this month. He's an avid license plate collector, so I did a little research on Google for inspiration and came up with this using Simply Said and two alphabet sets from The Cat's Pajamas: Coolvetica & Babydoll. I've also incorporated my  CutUps Big Scallop die, which I can't seem to live without lately! I'm going to tell you right now: you need Simply Said. It's going to be your go-to sentiment set, full of great fonts and just the right size!

This card also uses Simply Said along with some great papers from My Mind's Eye, again my CutUps Big Scallop die and Button Trio die. See...you need this set!

Finally is a card using Tweetest Things...another awesome set that coordinates with our CutUps Home Tweet Home die (a match made in TCP heaven)! My head is still swimming with ideas for this stamp set/die combo, and you'll see why when you take a peek at the full set and die graphics below.

Thanks for hanging with me through the long post today! Check out Alma's blog for more Sneaky Peek links, and be sure to stop by our member company forum over at Splitcoast Stampers tonight for the Splitcoast Release Party starting from 8-10pm EST, 5-7pm PST...you just never know when you could snag one of these swanky new sets!
~Amy

Sneaky Peek Day 6: Well Hello

Wow, it's been a great week in TCP Land with all of the Sneaky Peeks, and today is no exception! Day 6 of The Cat's Pajamas Sneaky Peek week is Field of Pinwheels, again featuring our sweet bunny sitting in a field of dreamy pinwheels. Seems pinwheels are popping up everywhere these days, so I was over the moon when I saw this set (not to mention a CutUps pinwheel die)! I've also used our new CutUps Easy Rosette die to create a bunting on either side of the main image panel, along with TCP's Ivory Linen Thread and more dreamy paper from My Mind's Eye.

Check in at Alma's blog for more eye candy as well as a list of the other gals playing along with today's Sneaky Peek!
~Amy

TCP Sneaky Peek {SFYTT}

Is this the sweetest little boy or what?! He's from the soon to be released set called Wet Puddle. I muddied up his boots a bit, embossed the mud puddle bubbles under his feet and then sponged a darker ink over the top to pop them out. I've also snuck in one of my favorite CutUps dies--Stamp Trio (a must have, girls) along with the CutUps Button Trio die.

Check out Jen's blog for the original sketch and also Alma's blog for a full list of Sneaky Peeks today! Have a great weekend.

Amy

Sneaky Peek Week, Day 4!

Here we are with Day 4 of Sneaky Peek Week at The Cat's Pajamas, featuring another adorable bunny from artist Zlatina Gocheva. I don't know that I could ever tire of her bunnies, and now a girl bunny?! Couldn't get any sweeter, and you know what they say about rabbits...and now that we have both genders in the TCP House, I'm guessing there will be many more to come, ha! Other fun TCP elements include the CutUps Stamp Trio die and yummy new Divine Twine in Purple Plum.

Tomorrow I'll be combining another Sneaky Peek with Jen's March SFYTT, so stop by in the morning!
Amy

Here's a peek at this adorable set called "A Girl and Her Cake"...

Sneaky Peek Week Day 3: You Rock My World!

It's Day 3 of Sneaky Peek Week from The Cat's Pajamas, and I'm showing off a hilariously fun set called Idols! Carole, Leigh and Jen also have Sneaky Peeks, so be sure to stop by their blogs for true stamping genius with this set! This set was a bit intimidating to me, so I kept my card fairly simple, using the sentiments (song lyrics) to create a fun background, individualizing each image on its own layer and winding it all up with TCP Divine Twine in Purple Plum (yum-yum). One other fun embellishment I added is the sparkly strips by applying fine glitter to red line tape, above and below my main image panel...cause they ARE rock-stars after all!

Stop by Alma's blog for an entire list of today's Sneaky Peek events and sketch me in tomorrow for yet another Sneaky Peek! I'll leave you with a peek at the entire Idols set...

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