More Apples

I bought this stamp set for the apples. Yes I know it is not cost effective to buy a set for one stamp only. Turns out I have already made several cards with the set and it has year round possibilities. Yea!

The set is Clearly Besotted's Giving Thanks.  This is my second card with the apples.

 

The main panel is mostly one layer, with the sentiment strip added.  The apples are covered with some pico embellisher in clear so there is a nice tactile feel to the card. The "leaves" are stenciled with multiple colors of distress inks. The clouds were created using distress ink over a hand cut mask.

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A different Vehicle

This week the prompt at CASology is vehicle.  I wanted to do something different so I looked up the definition of vehicle and found this:

ve·hi·cle 

/ˈvēək(ə)l/

noun

1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart

 

 I have a new stamp set and I have been playing with it all weekend.  The main portion of the set is a wheelbarrow.  I am calling it my vehicle for a pile of gifts this week and am entering it to CASology.

Stamp Set : Clearly Besotted - Giving Thanks 

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Freshly Made Sketches 211

I always want to play the Freshly Made Sketches challenge and it often gets away from me.  This week I am sliding in, but I do have a card made.  Here is Karren's sketch:

 

Her narrative indicates that the flower shape and the leaves are guidelines only.  I think my wheelbarrow and apples satisfy that guideline. This image is from Clearly Besotted  and is called Giving Thanks.  Images were stamped with versafine and colored with Zig clean color pens.  I created masks for the image and the circle negative.  The background of the circle is sponged distress ink in Broken China.   My sentiment is produced on my laptop as I had nothing that fit! The card  looked a bit plain(yes I have white-space issues), so I literally tossed a few sequins around the circle, loved the places they ended up and glued them down.

I am sending this to a friend I have lost a bit of touch with this summer, and so will be entering it to Jennifer McGuire's Share Handmade Kindness challenge for family and friends this week.

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Muse Challenge 140

You might think this card is for Muse Christmas Visions, but no, its for the original Muse Challenge #140.  Once I saw Ardyth's adorable card:

 

I knew I wanted to do something mostly in black and white, but also something graphic and fairly clean. I couldn't help myself from adding a matting layer, but I am very happy with the results.

I've used Penny Black's Seasons Wishes and I replaced the stamped star with an epoxy one, which was colored with copic's and some wink of stella. The image was clear embossed over onyx black versafine ink.

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A little crafty time

I found a regular group of crafty women to meet up with earlier during the summer.  We meet most weeks and work on projects.  This last week I made these cards:

My misty came in very handy for this project.  I used WPlus9's Pretty Peonys and the sentiment comes from PTI- Big Hugs.  The die cut frame is from MFT. The front panel and the flowered panel are both attached on fun foam, the frame is flat mounted to the card base.  I used watercolor paper and mounted it all on a Wplus9 oatmeal card base. Small SU pearls were colored with coordinating copic markers.  Inks were Distress for the water coloring, and Versafine for the black and gray sentiments.

The last one is my favorite, which one do you prefer?  Thanks for stopping by.

I needed a deadline

I have been a bit mojo-less the last few weeks. I had my Halloween cards made early and didn't post them until after they'd been mailed and received.  So for two weeks I haven't done much.  I have had a few crafty get togethers, but I am not getting cards done.  I've got stuff started...but nothing finished.

Today while checking in on Facebook, I found I had forgotten a birthday (so not like me) and the man I worked for before retiring recently had surgery and I thought a card might cheer him up.  I am a night owl and consequently my days rarely get going until after noontime.  After I had made lunch for hubs and I, I had about 3 hours to get the cards made and into the mail.

For the first card, I used the Mojo Monday Sketch #422 and it fit perfectly with the theme from Cardz for Guyz Challenge # 95 Hope you feel better soon .

 

The tall wheat stamp is from Hero arts, the feel better is from Close to my Heart.  The pale woodgrain papers are a gift from blogging friend Michele (thank you!!). The sentiment is heat embossed on vellum and layed on top of a same sized circle of the wood grain. They as well as the grasses panel are popped up with dimensionals.




Next up the Belated Birthday Card:

I love this set by mama elephant, its called unforgettable.  The sentiment reads "you are absolutely unforgettable, it's your birthday that's hard to remember". Well thanks to my faulty memory, I was able to use it for the perfect card.  The image was colored with copics.  The little party had was masked and the balloon is popped up and glittered with some wos. Some enamel dots and a little enamel heart and this one was done.

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Trick or Treat

This is a fabulous stamp set by Avery Elle--Pick-n-mix...Halloween, Easter, Valentines it will cover many holidays. Colored with the clean color pens.


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Wishing You

Just a touch of color to this cute SU stamp.  I like them both, but maybe my order-loving self might just like the framed one better. What do you think?

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Pumpkins

I love this little stamp, it works well for fall cards. This time its for Halloween. I don't like scary Halloween...it literally creeps me out! So I love sweet fall images. Coloring done with Copics.

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Spooky

This was by far the fastest card to make.  In stead of cutting the ghost out of white...I used the negative cut from black and placed it on white card.

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