WOO HOO I feel better!!! I even feel like stamping! Needless to say, the rest of the family is dropping like flies. I actually was able to finish yesterday’s Sketch Challenge that I started and do today’s Ways to Use it Challenge. Instead of making two separate posts, I’m gonna run it all together and hope that is okay! Still have a lot to do around here, like laundry, dishes, blah blah blah . . .

Yesterdays challenge on Splitcoast was the Sketch Challenge. Hate to miss this one, well cause, it is my favorite of all them. Roxie gave us an excellent sketch from leslierich, and I have to say, I LOVE this sketch. It’s probably one of the most fun sketches I have ever done and am so glad I got to finish. Once again, I used one of my new stamps that I received from American Art Stamp called Toast the Bride, and what a fun image. It has so many possibilities for twisted and demented that I’m just reeling! Just a quick card, stamped the image in Black Stazon and then colored with markers and drew a few squiggles. The hardest part was settling on the papers, and finally chose Phoebe by BasicGrey (just have to love all of these papers)!

Stamps: Toast the Bride by American Art Stamp

Paper: Whisper White, Pretty in Pink, Phoebe by BasicGrey

Ink: Black Stazon, Pretty in Pink, Green Galore, Barely Banana, Bashful Blue, Blush Blossom

Accessories: Ribbon, Brads, Dimensionals, Markers

Now for today’s challenge, which is the Ways to Use it Challenge. Today we are to use markers in different ways. Even though I did use markers yesterday and could have pulled off a double challenge, I feel so good, that I just had to make a second card. For this one, I used another new set that I picked up at eclectic paperie. It’s made by Stampendous and is called Open Bloom. I colored the stamp with the Close to Cocoa Marker, misted with water and then stamped on watercolor paper. Using a blender pen and a Brocade Blue marker, I colored in the image. The center of the flower is two separate stamps, the first I colored with the Close to Cocoa Marker and stamped, and the then the smaller middle image I colored with Close to Cocoa and then highlighted with Bravo Burgundy. Using my color spritzer, I spritzed the same colors over the image, decided it needed something else and distressed the edges. Of course, not satisfied with that, taking a wedge sponge and the Close to Cocoa Marker, I rubbed some marker on the sponge and lightly went over the outside of the image. Of course, I had already picked the DP I was going to use, Scarlett’s Letter by BasicGrey, and based the color of the flower from the paper. Both panels of the DP are sewn to a layer of Close to Cocoa and to give the flower image a little more umpf, I sewed around that too. The sentiment is stamped directly on the bottom panel using Close to Cocoa.

Stamps: Open Bloom by Stampendous

Paper: Very Vanilla, Watercolor, Close to Cocoa, Scarlett’s Letter by BasicGrey

Ink: Close to Cocoa, Brocade Blue, Bordering Blue, Bravo Burgundy

Accessories: Markers, Blender Pen, Water Mister, Color Spritzer, Wedge Sponge, Sewing Machine, Brads, Ribbon, Mounting Tape