ILS by Tsunami Rose - Blog Hop - Day Two!!

Thanks for joining us for our I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose DT Blog Hop! If you don't know yet, as part of the ILS DT we create a card each day following Tsunami Rose's sketches that she posts on her blog each and every day.

Please check out her blog where you can follow along with all of us. You can also joing the ILS by Tsunami Rose FB group where you can share your creations with other crafty people!

Tsunami Rose is giving away a Father's Day Vintage Printable from her Zibbet shop to 2 lucky random commenters for either day of the blog hop! So make sure to comment on everyones blog for the chance to win! And check out the Tsunami Rose Vintage Zibbet Shop  for more of her exclusive printables.

Today's daily sketch challenge is #14:

My rendition:

I used one of Daisy's printables, mounted it up with some Tim Holtz cardstock and some freebie papers from a craft magazine. I then finished it off with some lace and embellished with some homemade roses and a simple Thank You sentiment. I hope you like it and are enjoying Day 2 of the blog hop x

Please check the rest of the ILS by Tsunami Rose Design Team members. Comment with your email and enter to win a chance for some exclusive Tsunami Rose Designs Printables!

If possible, we ask that you leave your email in the comment so that way you can be emailed the print ready file.

May Design Team

1. Daisy Collins- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com/
2. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
3. Hannah Perry - http://theperrylane.blogspot.com
4. Abbie Kay - http://powered-by-fairydust.blogspot.com
5. Tricia - http://mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/
6. Sam Burdett - http://sammylouscraftingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/
7. Debbi Taylor - http://taylor-madecards.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Eileen Sepulveda- Sanjose -www.littlecraftershow.blogspot.com
9. Veronica Meras-http://createdbymeras.blogspot.com/

See you soon, love Sammylou xXx

ILS by Tsunami Rose - Blog Hop!!!

Thanks for joining us for our I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose DT Blog Hop! If you don't know yet, as part of the ILS DT we create a card each day following Tsunami Rose's sketches that she posts on her blog each and every day.

Please check out her blog where you can follow along with all of us. You can also joing the ILS by Tsunami Rose FB group where you can share your creations with other crafty people!

Tsunami Rose is giving away a Father's Day Vintage Printable from her Zibbet shop to 2 lucky random commenters for either day of the blog hop! So make sure to comment on everyones blog for the chance to win! And check out the Tsunami Rose Vintage Zibbet Shop  for more of her exclusive printables.

Today's daily sketch challenge is #2

My rendition:

Please check the rest of the ILS by Tsunami Rose Design Team members. Comment with your email and enter to win a chance for some exclusive Tsunami Rose Designs Printables!

If possible, we ask that you leave your email in the comment so that way you can be emailed the print ready file.

May Design Team

1. Daisy Collins- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com/
2. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
3. Hannah Perry - http://theperrylane.blogspot.com
4. Abbie Kay - http://powered-by-fairydust.blogspot.com
5. Tricia - http://mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/
6. Sam Burdett - http://sammylouscraftingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/
7. Debbi Taylor - http://taylor-madecards.blogspot.co.uk/
8. Eileen Sepulveda- Sanjose -www.littlecraftershow.blogspot.com
9. Veronica Meras-http://createdbymeras.blogspot.com/
10. Ann Marie Lessner www.creativeramblings345.blogspot.com

Please check back for tomorrow's daily sketch challenge!

I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose - Day 14

Well, we're nearly halfway through the month and I can't believe how fast May is going. I've absolutely loved every minute of being on Daisy's design team, and I hope you have enjoyed seeing what can be achieved with her gorgeous sketches.

So, I'm sure you all know by now that Daisy is making one original sketch and card for each day this year. If you would like to have a go yourself, please visit http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ and why not join the Facebook group too?

Day 14 and I'm all about Father's Day at the moment, so here's my card:

 And here'sthe sketch:

The papers are from the Big Fella collection by Pink Petticoat and I made the origami shirt myself! I am really pleased with this card and think it's more funky than the usual style you see for Father's Day.

I will see you all later for Day 15, and it's the blog hop! How exciting! I can't wait :)
If you'd like to see what the rest of the design team have been creating, then please check out their blogs below:

1. Daisy- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com
2. Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/
3. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
4. Christina Berlanga-Mesa -- http://serendipitycreationsbychristina.blogspot.com/
5. Hannah Perry - http://theperrylane.blogspot.com
6. Abbie Kay - http://powered-by-fairydust.blogspot.com
7. Tricia - http://mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/
8. Sam Burdett - http://sammylouscraftingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Debbi Taylor - http://taylor-madecards.blogspot.co.uk/
10. SuzeJo Murphy - http://CrimsonMoonCrafts.blogspot.com/
11. Eileen Sepulveda- Sanjose -www.thelittlecraftershow.com
12. Veronica Meras-http://createdbymeras.blogspot.com/
13. Ann Marie Lessner www.creativeramblings345.blogspot.com

See you soon, love Sammylou xXx And as always, I love to hear your comments xXx

I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose - Day 10 (Baby Steps)

A late post for me, mainly due to the fact that I wandered off to purchase some lace after work. Spurred on by some fabulous support from the rest of the Design Team and seeing the wonderful creations from Daisy, I decided to overcome my fear of all things lacy and attempt to put some on my card for Day 10. This post is subtitled because it's all about baby steps!

I love the vintage look, but in some illogical way, it absolutely terrfies me. So, it may only be on the tags, but the important thing is, it is there. To check out Daisy's designs, please visit http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com

You know the drill by now, so here's the sketch:

And here's my card:

It was made using some Tim Holtz distress card and some rather fabulous free papers from a cardmaking magazine. I printed a friendship quote by Tennyson then distressed the sentiment with old gold ink. Of course, it's me and I do find it quite hard to make a card that doesn't include some input from an embossing folder, so there's a little bit of that in there too!

Why not check out the rest of the Design Team's creations and see how truly talented they all are:

1. Daisy- http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.com
2. Kari - http://purplefuntastickcreations.blogspot.com/
3. Kimberly ~ http://scrappingrookie.blogspot.com
4. Christina Berlanga-Mesa -- http://serendipitycreationsbychristina.blogspot.com/
5. Hannah Perry - http://theperrylane.blogspot.com
6. Abbie Kay - http://powered-by-fairydust.blogspot.com
7. Tricia - http://mycrazybubble.blogspot.com/
8. Sam Burdett - http://sammylouscraftingadventures.blogspot.co.uk/
9. Debbi Taylor - http://taylor-madecards.blogspot.co.uk/
10. SuzeJo Murphy - http://CrimsonMoonCrafts.blogspot.com/
11. Eileen Sepulveda- Sanjose -www.thelittlecraftershow.com
12. Veronica Meras-http://createdbymeras.blogspot.com/
13. Ann Marie Lessner www.creativeramblings345.blogspot.com

Am off to bed now, so see you all tomorrow with Day 11.

Sleep tight, love Sammylou xxx

I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose - Day 8 and 9

Morning All, just a quick post to share days 8 and 9 of the I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose. I'm sure you're all aware how it goes by now, but the wonderful Daisy at Tsunami Rose http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ is making one original card from one orignal sketch for each day of the year!
So Day 8 - here's the sketch:

And my card:

I used some gorgeous papers from the Smirk Men's range and added my own sentiment to make this quirky little card.

Day 9 - here's the sketch and my card:

Please excuse the awful photos. For Day 9 I used some free papers from a magazine and a lovely digi image from Pink Petticoat.

I will see you all later with Day 10 - enjoy your day, whatever you are doing, love Sammylou xXx

Concertina Card

In between the Tsunam Rose designs, I have been carrying on with orders and wanted to share this one with you as I am rather chuffed with it. I had been asked to create a special keepsake card for a Golden Wedding anniversary and had already made my first concertina card for my younger sister's 30th with pictures of us and some quotes about sisters and family.

Using papers from Pink Petticoat, an embossing folder, my trusty Boxer and some Marianne dies, I created a card with 12 faces, then added some photographs of the couple and some quotes about marriage. And here is the result:

Unfortunately, the pictures aren't great (it was late and I didn't have time to re-take before the card was collected) but I am very pleased with it, and so were the happy couple!

I'll be back later with some sketch cards, but enjoy your morning and see you soon, Sammylou xXx

I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose - Day 7

Ok, so strictly I'm slightly outside the 7th day, but somewhere across the world I'm sure it's still the 7th!

Just a quick re-cap to say I am part of the May Design Team for I Love Sketches by Tsunami Rose, a fabulous site that aims to produce one original sketch and card for a whole year. Want to learn more about it, then pop across to http://tsunamirosedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ to have a look at Daisy's site.

If you'd like to get involved in the fun, then come join the facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/groups/106370486155916/ and share your creations with us x

The sketch today was this:

And my creation this:

Using Wonderland Beastie Papers and the gorgeous Flirty Edward digi from The Greetings Farm (Question: Is it wrong to be just a little in love with a digi?!). Add on a little bling and an infamous quote from the film and that's it!

See you later for Day 8. Have a great day wherever you are, love Sammylou xXx