I haven't done a Jen SFYTT in a few weeks...but now I have 2!! Last weeks never got posted because of our power outage (and yes, everyone is fine, thanks for the prayers and well wishes...and no more tonadoes last night...yeah!!)
First up is this weeks sketch from Jen. See it here------> i{heart}2stamp. I used the Verve Visual set Thankful Blossoms. I stuggled with this sketch because of the 2 strips, the one overthe main panel was ok, but when I tried to match it up to the separated one I kept getting bamboozled.
I finally settled on doing a vine for both strips, stamping extra leaves and cutting them out so they could extend from the strip. These were colored in with a copic marker to give a darker tone for the leaves. The flowers were also colored with my copics. The Chocolate Chip panel was embossed with the Cuttlebug Paisley folder. I also added some Celery (soft subtles) buttons from SU! and copper jumbo brads from American Crafts.
The inside of the card has the Happy Mothers Day sentiment from the Papertrey set Women of Life, this card was for mom yesterday!
The next card is using Jen's sketch from last week. I had created a scrapbook layout using this set and colors with my friend Heather a couple of weeks ago and thought it would transalate great to a card! The main set is the new Friendly Flowers from the SU! Occasions mini catalog.
All supplies for this card are from Stampin' Up! The colors are Soft Sky, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, and Old Olive. I also used the One of a kind set for the other medallions used on the main panel, and Boho Backgrounds for the line of circles on the sentiment panel. The strips are Old Olive DSP, and the hardware is Copper Hodgepodge...soon to be retired! I did use a teal brad for the centers, these are from my stash...source unknown.
Oh yes, and the background was stamped in Sky with the Polka dot bg stamp. I think that was it besides circle punches...this seemed like such an easy card, but I guess I did use quite a few sets and supplies!
Thanks for visiting today! Its just another manic Monday, right?? -Cyndi
These are AWESOME!
Posted by: Jen del Muro | May 12, 2008 at 11:53 AM
These are both so pretty Cyndi - I just love the color combos on that first one and the cuttlebug embossing looks FABULOUS!
*STAMPIN HUGS* Alex
Posted by: Alexandra Hobson | May 12, 2008 at 06:06 PM
I really like the friend card. We should do that at stamp club. See you Friday.
Posted by: traci | May 13, 2008 at 09:01 AM
Oh! I'm behind the times but I'm glad you made it through those storms ok. Love your cards, especially the first one - those vines are great!
Posted by: Libby | May 14, 2008 at 10:26 PM
Great cards, Cyndi! The Friendly Flowers card especially caught my eye, as I've been having the hardest time working with that stamp set! ughhh! Love what you've done with it!
Posted by: Nancy Riley | May 16, 2008 at 12:38 AM