06-25-06

 Hi Again...

It feels good to be back in the craft room and feeling good about my cards.

Another early July Birthday.

The paper is from Newton's Nook and the stamp is from Inky Antics - Time to Celebrate.
 

I'm sending this to Seize the Birthday - no toppings and  Die Cut Diva's anything goes.

        

Thanks so much for stopping by. 

05-16-23

 Hello-

I have a late night card for you that was inspired by We Love Stamping (something from the garden), The Flower Challenge (Pretty Pastels), and Stencil Fun Challenge (option of flowers).

I used the stamp and stencil from Pink Fresh's Miss your Smile suite to make this card.  

I stamped the outlines first, then added color with the stencil layers.  Fairly easy, this set is meant for a slimline format, but I do love images cut down to A2 size...causes one to wonder what else could be there. 

The Happy Birthday is from Stampin Up white embossed on black. I cut the two words apart as I liked the stack better. A trio of pink pearls and the card was finished. 

A touch of ink to the envelope with the darker parts of the stencil areas finished up the project.

Thanks so very much for visiting.

 

   

01-10-23

 Hello-

Peggy sent me some more die cuts, actually they were in the same envie as the fence silhouettes.  All were cut in white and color was added via copics and patterned papers from Stampin Up and a bit of silver glitter scraps.  The sentiments are from The Greetery along with the die for cutting fun shapes.

My card is visiting Cupcake inspirations, where the theme is winter fun.

I made a couple more as well.

Thanks so much for visiting.

11-6-21

 Hello and Happy Weekend!

 The last 4 of my fall cards are below and now I can move on to the Christmas cards.

In order of challenge expiration date I have 4 cards for 4 challenges:

Tic Tac Toe is a weekly challenge and my entry is this card using the center column of prompts.

Next Up is Addicted to CAS-

 

 

Next up is Four Seasons Challenge:

 

 

And If You Give a Crafter a Cookie:

Now to clean up my mess and get the cards ready for mailing on Monday.  Thanks so much for visiting.

Happy

 Hello-

Today I pulled out a new stamp set, new dies and a new stencil.  They are all from MFT. The stamps are High Flying Adventure along with matching dies, and the slimline cloud stencil. 

I stamped 3 of the airplanes and 1 critter along with sentiments from CTMH, and a banner die from Newtons Nook to provide the greeting banner flying behind the airplanes. Two are going to the Dads and one is for my Godson's birthday. He wants to get his pilots license so I thought this would be fun. I liked the design so much after the first, that the other two followed.

The cards are visiting 3 Challenges - Seize the Birthday,  Watercooler Wednesday and The Male Room.

First for Seize the Birthday: with toppings, there are wheels on the airplane.

Next up Watercooler Wednesday - All things Masculine 

 

And for The Male Room - Dads and Granddads.

Thanks for visiting.

 

In the pink

 Hello-

My dreaded vampire hours have returned. My days are flipped night for day.  The only productive thing I get done is catching up on reading.  I can't do laundry as our washer and dryer are near the bedroom and hubs is a light sleeper.  Ditto with my crafty space and its inherent noises (Paper cutter, heat gun...)

I have a  card today to post to a few challenges. CAS Mix Up Challenge, NBUS, and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. 

At CAS Mix up we need to use a stencil with heat embossing.  My NBUS item is the stencil Peeking Chrysanthemums from Artplorations. Simon is asking for favorite technique- for me its still the magic of heat embossing which sucked me into this hobby.

I cut a slimline card base and inked up the stencil with Hero Arts Neon pink ink heavily at the center then very lightly towards the longer petals.  On the main bloom at the bottom I added versamark  then lifted the stencil to heat and add sticky embossing powder through the stencil and some very fine glitter after activating the sticky powder with heat. One more light heating and it was nicely glittered.  Lastly I added ink to the remaining images on the stencil but left them plain.  (The embossing changed the ink color just a bit, but I like that it keeps the focus on the bottom bloom.)

After adding the sentiment, I chopped off about an inch from the top of the card. The new dimensions are 7.5 inches by 3.5 inches. 

Below is a close up of the heat embossing.

Thanks so much for visiting.

Happy Halloween

 Hello-

Those Halloween cards are calling.  This afternoon I had a video crafting session with Peggy and it always helps my mojo.

This card is inspired by Tic Tac Toe (bottom row) and Watercooler Wednesday Challenge (Halloween).  The stamp set is from Avery Elle and the designer paper is from Stampin Up.  Coloring was done with Copic's W1,3,5,7 YR24, 21, 07, E99, G99. Dots are also from Stampin Up.

 

Thanks so much for visiting.

Pink and Girly

Hello -

Every now and again, I make a very girly card. Its usually pink and has some sort of embellishment to it. Definitely some layers.

This card is visiting the galleries of The Flower Challenge, Just Us Girls, Stamping Sensations(Feminine)  Day of the Month Club ( send a card to a friend; the card has been mailed!)

The gradient strips die is from Altenew, the flowers cut from some patterned paper, the leaves die is from Simon Says stamp and the jewels are from Studio Katia. I thought I had ordered clear, but it was a mix of white and clear.  Happy accident, I love the white gems on this card.

    

Thanks so much for visiting.

Happy Birthday

Hello -

I finally feel like I am getting back into the swing of things despite my crazy vampire hours.

Tonight's card is for two challenges - CAS Stencil celebrating their first birthday and Seize the Birthday who wants a stencil used on our cards.

I used a new to me stencil from Pretty Pink Posh...I got it in the fall be neglected to ink it up until now.  Its a lovely leafy pattern and should work year round.  I used distress inks in mowed lawn, iced spruce, and mermaid lagoon. I applied color with a makeup brush.

   

Thanks for visiting.

Hello Fall

Hey There -

One of the upsides of our trip for hub's conference was sleep.  We both got to better schedules.  I have slept through several nights in a row, and was up at 7:30 this morning ready to go.  Monday is laundry day here and its a lovely day. About 70 outside so the windows are open, and I am crafting between runs to the washer and dryer.

On to my card...it was inspired by two challenges Case this Sketch and Just add Ink.

I love these CTMH pumpkins. I stamped them with barely beige ink from Simon Says Stamp so I could do a no line coloring look.  The sentiment embossed in white also comes from the CTMH set Autumn Blessings.  After coloring and cutting them out, the outer two were adhered flat, the next two on one layer of foam tape and the center on two layers of foam tape.  I added a few peachy toned gems and some shadow under the pumpkins.

 

Do you have a set laundry day?  Do you craft while waiting on the loads?
Thanks for visiting.

More Foiling

Hello-

I tried foiling the other day...I had a learning curve, but eventually got it.  So I wanted to try it again.

I had some of my alcohol inked yupo left over and I cut some leaves using Lawn Fawn's stitched leaves.  Then I using a glue pen with a roller ball I added glue to the veins. After it dried (it becomes tacky when dry) I added foil over the top of the veins.  The sentiment comes from Winnie and Walter and was gold heat embossed.  I used a stitched  coverplate to add some interest and texture to the card front, mounted the leaves and the sentiment strip and that finished the card.

This card is going to CAS Mix UP and If You Give a Crafter a Cookie.

      

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Sending Big Hugs

Hello -

After my tussle with the foiling, I had pancakes and turkey bacon for breakfast.  Then I came back to my crafty space and pulled out a new stamp. I'm not sure what draws me to this but I am so crushing on it.

It's Simon Says Stamps Flora Background.  ITs odd, the lines are thick, it reminds me of hot air balloons definitely not flowers...but every time I look at it I love it.

Today I used one of my favorite techniques  - Heat Embossing and coloring with watercolor brush pens. Its easy and the colors are so vibrant.

I am entering this to the following challenges:

Shopping our Stash - Embossing
Flickr Simon Says Stamp #133 Emboss like a Boss
Simon Says Stamp IG Challenge - Favorite Technique
Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes


Thanks so very much for stopping by.

Miss You

Greetings...

My week away seems to have jump started my mojo again.  YAY!   This card is for three challenges, one of which is new to me.

I am entering Just add Ink (Sketch),  CAS Watercolor (blue), and Challenge Up Your Life (tic tac toe).  I love it when one card can be made to fit several challenges.  I'm sending this one to my crafty friend - Peggy who recently moved from Maryland to Maine.  I do miss our get-togethers.

I started with the sketch, then chose the first column on the tic tac toe board which also satisfied the third challenge for something blue.

Adding score marks horizontally across the card base provided the start for the card; next - white heat embossing the Ellen Hutson mondo gebera daisy, coloring it with a water color marker and water brush, die cutting it (san stem with the help of some fussy cutting), mounting it on the prepared card base and lastly adding the sentiment from CTMH using my mini misti.