CDS Sneak Peek - Fabulously French

Have you enjoyed the last few days of April's Sneak Peeks for Clear Dollar Stamps? Now who doesn't love a sassy shoe? This image is from Shawne Arnold's new set, Fabulously French. I had so much fun with this set - brought out my girly side (and I love my shoes) so this was super easy. I was inspired by my DP (surprise surprise right?) and a recent sketch challenge on SCS. Hehehe... I wanted to really showcase the shoe and who doesn't love a pretty polka-dotted shoe right? I do!!!!!

Hope you enjoyed all the sneaks that will be available tomorrow.

SSD018 No one knows my truffles

If you are looking for my Clear Dollar Stamp Sneak Peeks for today, please scroll down to posts below.

Hey everyone... wow... I've been a blog posting machine the last few days with sneak peeks and now with my fave day of the week, Skipping Stones Sketch Tuesday. It's the end of the month so this is our last sketch by the amazing Jami Bova and the last week that we have the fantastic Jackie Pedro and Sankari Wegman. These ladies have been so much fun to work with this last month (come back soon k?) You are all full of so much inspiration!

I've used the set called Chocolate Vol. 2 which hasn't been released yet. Can I just say I love my chocolate??? I'm so glad that Skipping Stones has so many sets with chocolate (Heather knows what we girls love... chocolate!!!). I love how this card turned out - I'm a sucker for any card with pink!!! I love that the card turned out very girlie. Now... if you've checked out the sketch for this week- you know I changed the sketch up a little (I used circles rather than squares - the squares just weren't working for me so I had to do what I had to do). I colored the chocolates with my Tombow Markers and then used Glossy Accents on part of the chocolates to make it more realistic looking. Hope you like it!

EDITED TO ADD: I just realized that I haven't drawn for my blog candy yet. So..

WendyP - please email me your address and I'll get the set sent off to you.

See you next Tuesday for another sketch and we'll be introducing our new Sketch Artist as well as two Guest Designers. You'll want to check it out!

CDS Sneak Peek - Fun at the Farm

I had so much fun with Wendy Hall's new set "Fun at the Farm" for Clear Dollar Stamps available April 1st. There are so many great images so I found it hard to choose which stamp to use but I had an idea with the chicken/rooster... We all know how much noise that they make in the morning to wake everyone up right??? I had this vision in my head that I wanted my rooster to sit on the fence. I've been experimenting with creating backgrounds for more interest in my cards. Still trying to perfect it but I really like how this card turned out. The sentiment "I just want to" is separate from "chick in on you"which is great because there are some other cute images in the set that have sentiments that you can combine with the first sentiment - definitely making this a versatile set.

See you tomorrow for day 4 of sneak peeks!!

CDS Sneak Peek - Fabulous Fruitstand

Shawne Arnold has created this cute new set called Fabulous Fruitstand available April 1st at Clear Dollar Stamps. This set makes me think of summer when I was a child visiting my grandparents in the Interior in BC. There were so many markets on the side of the road on our long road trip to Beaverdell (pop'n next to nothing) and I have so many fond memories of all the fruit we'd buy - my favorites being cherries and apricots (we ate so many that as an adult I rarely touch those two particular fruits).

I've colored this image using my Distress Inks (I've been wanting to experiment watercoloring using different mediums just to vary things up. I'm really enjoying the inks but I think I'll be sticking to my Tombows.

Check out what the girls have for you today. Great eye candy I tell ya!!

CDS Sneak Peek - Bless my Bloomers

Kim Teasdale has done it again!!! She's created another fantastic set for Clear Dollar Stamps' April 1st release with "Bless My Bloomers". How cheeky is the name of the set? If it gives you any indication it's a cute gardening set with a side of sassy! Kim and I have been BFF's for years and my mom is an avid gardener (from now until October if you want to talk to my mom you'll find her outside in her garden (they have the nicest one on their street). I'm honored that my mom was part of the inspiration for this set. For my first card above, I was truly inspired by the My Mind's Eye DP. As soon as I saw the DP, I knew exactly what I'd be using for this card. I love how well the color combo came together and how cheery the card is. Truly makes it feels like Spring. The layout for this card was inspired by this Spring card by Donna Wardle (She has the most amazing layouts with her cards).
What mom doesn't like flowers??? Okay.... I know they love real flowers but when I showed this to my mom she loved it (I couldn't give it to her right away though because I hadn't taken a picture yet). I wanted to do something 3D and I love how this turned out. I've made these flowers on some cards in the past and I knew they'd be fun for this project. For the stems I've used some wooden skewers that I have wrapped in floral tape. The felt butterfly I found at a local dollar store if you can believe it.

Check out what the girls have done today (see sidebar).

CDS Sneak Peek - Butterfly Bunny

Butterfly Bunny is one of the first illustrations by one of our DT members Trudy for Clear Dollar Stamps April 1st release. Trudy's illustrations are so life like and provide so much detail. I have to say I really enjoyed coloring this bunny and rather than using my Tombow Markers I ventured into using Distress Inks to watercolor. I'll definitely be using the Distress Inks much more after this. I wanted to keep this card soft and subtle looking and hope I pulled it off.

Check out the samples that the Girls have come up with today (see my sidebar). There are a few sets being shown and they are so much fun.