Sunny Smile

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When I opened my mail today, I had a surprise from Peggy.  Some cute Newton's Nook stamp offs and a stamp and die set.  I have to say, at first the kittens from NND, struck me as having perplexed expressions. So they did not make it into my basket.  Now that Peggy sent me some and I have colored one I have to say  I AM IN LOVE with these kittens. 

This card is going to Inky Paws color challenge Pink, Red, Yellow and White...I added a bit of a neutral with the sand dots.  This beachy card will also be visiting Challenge up your life - Beach Time.

This lil kitten has grabbed my heart...I just hope that crab doesn't give her a pinch!

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Just Because

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I am making an effort to get to my crafty space more instead of napping.  I hope that will reboot my internal clock.

This card is for Just Us Girls, Addicted to CAS, and Casology.  I am playing with Dragonfly Friends from Pretty Pink Posh. She has such cute illustrations. I used the colors from Just us Girls, and I'd call em bugs and they definitely belong outside.  The wings of each have some wink of stella so if they catch the light they'll glisten a bit.

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Thinking of you

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Hubs and I had a lovely day out in the sunshine, it was 83 degrees and not at all humid. We found a little park near the potomac and hung out for a few hours. I find water calming.  Then we did something we haven't done since before the pandemic...we ate at a restaurant.  They had outdoor seating and we were the  only customers...likely due to the time 4 pm before the dinner rush. It was lovely to be waited on and not have to deal with takeout containers. Had they been busy, we would not have stopped. We are still one vaccine short of being fully immunized.

On to my card for today.  The challenge at Color Hues is yellow and gray.  This is one of my most favorite color combinations.  I am also entering at Tic Tac Toe using the center row of Embossing, Florals and Encouraging Sentiment.

I used my new Reverse Confetti coverplate - I can't remember the name and its not on their packaging, but it is a newer one.  I cut it in gray and yellow.  I mounted the gray on to a gray card base; added the yellow petals to the gray panel after adding some Copic coloring to the inner portions of each petal.  

I finished the flowers with yellow gems though they are showing up a peculiar color in the photo.  The white embossed sentiment is from The Greetery.     

 

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Hippo Bird Day

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With spring like temps this week, my mojo must be thawing out some.  I had fun making these cards for the nephews even though they are not needed until May.

I was inspired by Time Out Challenge, Just Us Girls, and Addicted to CAS, Its a 7th birthday celebration and Birthday or celebration challenge at Time Out, and animals are the theme at Just us Girls and Addicted to Cas.

I had to make two cards, they were such fun to color.

I do love a good punny card, so the sentiment just cracked me up. I used copics to color the animals and since its for males, I kept the colors to two with the neutral for the hippos. I love MFT's dies for grounding shadows. I never know what to do with grounding the images, problem solved.

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Snowflake Joy

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Its a beautiful sunny day outside, not too cold in the mid 40's (F) and we might get some snow early next week.  So snowflakes were on my mind.

I've seen a lot of lovely cards with diecut snowflakes and a colored backer behind them in blogland. This is my version with some touches of black to add some depth.  This card is going to Challenge Up Your Life, Addicted to CAS and Addicted to Stamps and More. I made 3 so I am ahead of schedule this year! Lol.

The die is from Stampin Up, and the gold paper is from Michaels.  Thanks so much for visiting.

P.S. Gold foil is not fun to photograph when you are wearing black! 

 

 
   

Just for You

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I've been lucky to be pulled out of my slumps by engaging in video crafting with friends. I have a larger rauccous group of the local gals usually 8 or so of us, and there is the one on one crafting with my friend Peggy.

Today, I was thrilled to add another crafty friend to the rotation, Michele of  I Card Everyone. We got together via messenger chat rooms and spent a couple of hours chatting, catching up and working on cards.  I enjoyed it and look forward to the next time.

I spent my time working on one card for three challenges: Double D-Stitches, CAS(e) this sketch, and Just Us Girls -Rainbow.

I started with a rainbow of 6x6 colored papers, and then die cut lots of blooms and leaves from the MFT set Stitch Blooms.

They were layerd up on a panel of navy card stock then cut off on the diagonals as per the sketch--then adhered to the navy card base.  I tried a couple of different card base colors, but quickly decided navy looked best.

I added a bit of bling to the blossoms and some sparklie stuff along the edges.  A quick sentiment by Sugar Pea Designs white heat embossed on another piece of navy card and placed at the top of the panel vs the bottom...I just couldn't cover up that yellow bloom.

   

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Happy Leap Day

Greetings!

While I was browsing around blog land, I saw a card that I thought was so brilliant for a leap day card, that I cased the idea if not the actual card.  The card that inspired me is linked  here. Thanks for the inspiration!

I had purchased the Gerda Steiner Frogs a while ago because they are so cute.  One image in particular was perfect for leap day.

The image was colored with copics onto the card base. The base was prepared with a computed printed sentiment (yay my printer actually printed on 110lb cardstock) and some inking to provide some grounding.  After coloring the frog, I added some tall marsh grasses from a Stampin p set called Wetlands.

  

I'll be entering this card at Watercooler Wednesday - Occaisions, and Addicted to Stamps and More - Holiday.



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The Old Goats

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I needed a masculine birthday card for the son of a good friend.  He has a good sense of humor and I think he'll enjoy the card.

The image is from AI, a blogging friend (Leslie) sent me a few of the images in the set along with some sentiments.  I colored them with copics and added some strokes of grass under their hooves. I love the expressions on the goats faces!

I am submitting this to:

Watercooler Wednesday    Fusion


  

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Lovely Day

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We had an early dinner tonight, so afterwards I was able to get back to my craft space.  One more card today.  It was inspired by Cupcake Inspirations,  The Card Concept, and CAS Colours and Sketches.

I use a Penny Black Stamp with platinum embossing and I carefully copic colored it  despite the embossing. (Popular wisdom suggests not to color heat embossing with copics, as the solvents in the marker may dissolve the embossing material resulting in a damaged marker tip.)

              

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Little Things

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Its after midnight and I am still playing with my stamps and copics.  These sweet little mice from Newton's Nook are so adorable. I got the spring version earlier in the year and these little autumn fellows are just as fun.

I started with an ivory card base, masked off s center portion and added antique linen, it was a goot match for the ivory card base.  I stamped and colored the image using copics.  I  wanted to have an ivory pumpkin, but it needed to be a bit darker than the inked area, a copic in Dull Ivory worked perfectly.

I am submitting this to:


Case this sketch ( I turned it to portrait), and Inky Paws Challenge (Colors Ivory, sage green, orange and brown).

 

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Happy Birthday

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I have a birthday card for my Dad. It of course has a cat on it, along with some fall leaves.  One of his cats used to love to play in the leaves when he'd rake them up.  So I thought this would be fun.

I started with a faint bit of scattered straw distress ink laid down with a brush through a pretty pink posh leaves stencil.  Then I stamped Newton in a pile of leaves.  I colored them  simply, as the images are so small, with copic markers and then restamped the image ontop with the help of a misty to sharpen the image.  I used a brownish black ink - Soot by Lawn Fawn.  The sentiment comes from MFT.

This card is going to play at All Sorts Challenge- Trees and Leaves  and CAS on Friday Animals.


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Hello No Stamps

Hi there!

This card is definitely a departure from my usual. There is no stamping on it, die cuts only.

The design was inspired by the sketch at Fusion, the colors come from Color Throwdown and Cupcake Inspirations as they were colored with glitter markers, and no stamping comes from Just Add Ink.

 

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Hello

Hey There -

I have another card for a few challenges today.

This is one of my go to's when mojo goes on vacation.  White heat embossed flower and some watercoloring using markers, in this case Arteza markers.  It calms me. The stamp is from Ellen Hutson, Mondo Wildflowers. Hard to see but the sentiment die is layered over a vellum outline piece.

This is going to:

Watercolor Wednesday

 

Color Throwdown

 

Case This Sketch (ya I took liberties)

 

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Happy Fathers Day

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This year the Dad's get Hawaiian like shirt cards for Father's day.  A friend cut the patterns out and I simply put them together and added an inside sentiment.

Of course my Dad's cats wanted to present him with a card too, so they asked me to put one together.

I am entering the cat card in three challenges :

Day of the Month Club Challenge -Hug your Cat , Watercooler Wednesday,   and   Addicted to CAS - Father.

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A little Note

Hello -  I give myself an hour to fall asleep. Tonight it didn't work, so I got up and made a card instead.  That calms me, so maybe I'll be able to go to sleep after I finish posting.

I recently added the darling playful Garden Mice to my stash. The set is by Newton's Nook and it is adorable.

Three challenges provided the inspiration for the card: Inky Paws Challenge- use colored pencils, Timeout Challenge - Playful, and Addicted to Stamps and More- CAS.

 

Holiday Blessings

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I used the Penny Black Die Manger.  I wanted that manger to be the focal point so the cards I ended up making several copies of are very simple.  I tried dressing it up a bit, but I like it best on the white.

I am submitting this to the Penny Black Saturday Challange - Its Anything Goes or Christmas/Wintertime. Since the die is new to me  I am also submitting to Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday, and at least for us in the northern hemisphere, Christmas is in the wintertime so I am also adding this to Die cut Diva's. I am also submitting to Time Out Challenges.

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