Fresh Sketches - Botday

Today Jake has a birthday party to go to and I decided to pull out one of my favorites for young boys - Best Bots Forever. I used the clean and simple sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for the card. I paired the new DSP Howlstooth and Scaringbone with More Mustard and Basic Black to keep the colors appropriate for a young boy.

It is so nice to stamp again after a busy spring and summer. I should be posting more cards over the next few months and look forward to it.

Stamp - Best Bots Forever
Paper - Howlstooth and Scaringbone DSP, More Mustard, Basic Grey, Basic Black and Whisper White Cardstock
Ink - Basic Gray, Basic Black, More Mustard
Accessories - Square Lattice embossing folder, decorative brads

Big Birthday Weekend - Sweet Stop and Color Throwdown Challenge

This weekend is a crazy one with volleyball, lacrosse and 4 birthday parties. This is one of the birthday cards I created for a pre-teen boy. I used inspiration from both the Sweet Stop layout blog ( additional challenge to make it masculine) and the color inspiration from Color Throwdown ( grey, black and lime green). Now ----on to the next event and card.

Stamp - Best Bots Forever, A Cute Christmas ( package)
Ink - basic black, going grey , old olive, marina mist, shimmer paint
Paper - basic black, kiwi kiss, whisper white, basic grey card stock
Accessories - Cogs extra large punch, Square Lattice embossing folder.

Mojo Three Ways

My son has much to be thankful for and needed some thank you cards for birthday gifts he received. I took this week's Mojo Monday sketch and created 3 different versions. None are feminine so I am sure he will feel comfortable using them. I have been wanting to work with this sketch all week and finally got a few moments to create cards this afternoon. Can't wait for the new sketch tomorrow.

Robot Card
Stamp - Best Bots Forever
Ink - basic black, basic gray, old olive
Paper - Marjolaine BG, whisper white, basic gray card stock
Accessories - corner rounder punch, scallop and circle die, silver brads

Star Card
Stamp - Engraved Greetings
Ink - chocolate chip
Paper - Max and Whiskers BG, tempting turquoise, tangerine tango, early espresso and very vanilla card stock
Accessoires - linen thread, Big Shot stars die, linen thread, dimensionals

Monochromatic Card
Stamp - Engraved Greetings
Ink - basic black
Paper - Newsprint DSP, basic black and very vanilla card stock
Accessories - circle dies, black brads, black button

Mojo Monday - Two Ways

Mojo Monday's sketch this week was quite fun and definitely timely. I needed a birthday card for a friend and wanted to make something ultra feminine and special. I started with the Birthday Wishes card above and thought the paper, feeling and design was perfect for her. As I was working on it, I kept thinking about the new Sweet Button embosslit and how cute the buttons would look across this same design. I then had to create the Happy Botday card at the top of this post. I just love those little buttons and I also think the Best Bots set is so fun to stamp with. I used a bit of Crystal effects to give the little buttons some shine and look just like real buttons. With the Button embosslit you can create endless buttons to match any paper.

Birthday Wishes Card

Stamps - Bring on the cake
Ink - chocolate chip, baja breeze
Paper - Happy Together Poetry, baja breeze, very vanilla card stock
Accessories - paper daisies, basic pearls jewels, extra large decorative label punch, glue dots, dimensionals.

Happy Botday Card

Stamps - Best Bots Forever
Ink - poppy parade, so saffron, basic black, tempting turquoise
Paper - Build-a-Bear Positively Prints II DSP, poppy parade, so saffron, whisper white card stock
Accessories - Sweet Button embosslit, circle dies, white thread, glue dots, Crystal effects

Another Valentine - Best Bots Forever

Here is another Valentine that turned out a bot different than I intended ( that is not a spelling error). After creating the more sophisticated card from my previous post, I wanted to make something bright and fun. I just love this stamp set Best Bots Forever with the cute interchangeable robot parts.  I had imagined this card with softer colors, more modern and with only circles, but once I started working with my Color Coach, I decided to go with bolder colors. After I had stenciled the circles on , I wanted more dimension and to somehow incorporate the cogs into the card. This one I am happy with even though, again, it morphed into something a bit different than I imagined.

Stamps - Best Bots

Ink - basic black, tempting turquoise, pear pizzaz, peach parfait, real red, basic grey

Paper - whisper white, basic black, tempting turquoise, pear pizzaz, real red peach parfait card stock

Accessories - Cogs punch, heart to heart punch, real red glitter, 1 3/8" punch, 1 " punch, 3/4" punch, circle dies. blender pens, sponges, dimensionals