Happy 4th of July & Retro Rubber Challenge Take 2

OK, I'm trying the Retro Rubber challenge again and following the rules. I'm using an old SU set called July Fourth.

Here's what I did:

• Stamped the fireworks up the left side
• Cut the white overlay panel to show off the fireworks
• Stamped the sentiment & stars
• Added some clear glaze over the stars which you can't see in the photo but looks nice IRL
• Added silver metallic ink inside the sentiment

Here's the challenge:

Thanks for stopping by. Looking forward to a great July!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: July Fourth (SU)
Paper: White (PTI)
Ink: Enchanted Evening, Pure Poppy (PTI), Soft Granite (Hero Arts)
Other: Silver metallic Sharpie, Glaze pen (Sakura), dimensionals


Edited 7/6: I'm a Fab Five!

Nautical

Today I'm making a card using the new PTI set called Nautical. It arrived while I was out of town and I've been itching to play with it. I'm just sneaking into The Challenge #40 and also CASology #152 and colourQ #296.  Wow!

The colors of the waves are Soft Sky and Marina Mist. The boat is Night of Navy and Daffodil Delight. I popped it up on dimensionals. Well I'm about to be late for church so better get this posted.

Relax and enjoy your Sunday. Stay cool. We in the Pacific NW are really suffering a heat wave!!

The Challenges

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Ahoy (PTI)

Paper: White (PTI)

Ink: Soft Sky, Marina Mist,  Night of Navy and Daffodil Delight (SU)

Other: Ahoy die (PTI)

Edited 6/30: Yay!  My card got an honorable mention at CAS-ology.

           7/3:  Oh my! I was also a top pick at The Challenge. Happy Dance!!

          7/8: Wahoo!!! Also picked a s a ColourQ winner! And again I say WAHOO!

The Card Concept #37 - The Butterfly Effect

Hi Everyone! The challenge at The Card Concept is to use this beautiful photo of butterflies as your inspiration.

I started looking through some of my older stamp sets and realized that I have a lot of wonderful sets that weren't getting any love.  So I went with this retired SU set called Shapes & Shadows. Do you remember it?  I've always thought those little butterflies were so cute!

I stamped up the right side of the card in a rainbow of colors and added the sentiment. That's what makes a Clean & Simple card. Right?

I've loved seeing everyone's creations so far and can't wait to see more in the coming week.  Thanks for stopping by!!


SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Shapes & Shadows (SU retired), Think Big Favorites #22 (PTI)
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Hawaiian Shores (PTI)
Ink: (Starting from the top) Winter Wisteria, Spring Moss, Simply Chartreuse, Aqua Mist, Hawaiian Shores, Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Sweet Blush, Pure Poppy, Tropical Teal (PTI); Versafine Onyx Black
Other: dimensionals


Edited 6/24:   Yippee!!! My card was chosen as one of the winners for this challenge!

Card Concept 36 Challenge

I'm still playing with new stuff from Papertrey. I used the Enclosed Star stamps and dies for the Card Concept challenge this week. Since I am at my daughter's visiting this week I am limited to the stamping supplies that I brought with me. We all take our stamps on vacation - right?

I was inspired by the green color and stripes with a pale yellow accent.  I love the clean stamping style and think this card would fall into the Clean & Layered category.

I die cut the star and then stamped then stamped it in New Leaf. Next I die cut the Super Star out of white and pounced Lemon Tart ink on it. The sentiment is popped up on dimensionals. The little stars have Gelly Roll Stardust ink on them to give them some shimmer.

Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Enclosed Star (pti)
Paper: White (pti)
Ink: New Leaf, Lemon Tart, Smokey Shadow (pti)
Other: Enclosed Star die, dimensionals, Stardust Gelly Roll pen


Edited 6/10:  My card was chosen as one of the winners! Yay!!

CMCC#70

Today I made a card for the the Colour Me Challenge which is to use monochromatic colors of Crisp Cantaloupe.

I stamped an array of butterflies in Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral and Sweet Blush.  I added a layer of vellum over the top and embossed the sentiment in silver. 

I had a really difficult time getting the vellum attached because it was warped. I need to work on that.  I thought I might need special vellum tape but my XL Runner Tape worked well and doesn't show through.

Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Beautiful Butterflies, Greaceful Greetings (pti)

Paper: Crisp Cantaloupe, Whisper White (SU), vellum

Ink: Crisp Cantaloupe, Calypso Coral (SU), Sweet Blush  (pti)

Other: Versamark, Silver embossing powder

Edited 5/13:  My card was chosen as a Colour Connoisseur Honorable Mention. Wahoo!

Scribbling a Thank You

I went looking for inspiration for a thank you card that I needed to make and found this week's Freshly Made Sketches and ColourQ challenges.

For the flower I inked up the back side of the Circle Scribble stamp in Pool Party and then spritzed it with water before stamping on Neenah Solar White. Then I stamped the scribble in Chocolate Chip and cut it out freehand.  It is popped up on dimensionals. The turquoise plaid is wash tape. I stamped So Stripey in Chocolate Chip and freehand cut the flag.  I originally stamped the sentiment directly on the card in Versamark and embossed with gold embossing powder but my powder was old and chunky, glittery and I really didn't like the look. So I restamped the sentiment in gold ink and turned it into a flag.

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great day!!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Circle Scribbles, Keep It Simple: Thank You (PTI), So 80's (WP9), So Stripey (Reverse Confetti)
Paper: Pool Party (SU), Neenah Solar White
Ink: Pool Party, Chocolate Chip (SU), Gold
Other: Avery Elle sequins, Baker's twine, button & dimensionals (SU), Glue Dots, Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher


Edited 5/21: Yippee!! My card was chosen as one of the Freshly Made Sketches Princesses!

Mother's Day

Here is the card that I gave to my mom for Mother's Day.  Sorry it's kinda dark. Every time I lightened it up in my software the background turned a really bright, yucky color.  Anyway I wanted to try the embossing folder stamping technique for the background. I went to get my watercolor paper and couldn't find it.  I moved a couple months ago and apparently it hasn't shown up. So I used Neena Solar White instead and it just doesn't work as well. It took me 3 or 4 tries to get this background.  It doesn't look too bad IRL but I went out and got some watercolor paper yesterday so will have to try again :-)


I'm adding this card to the Keep It Simple - Watercolor challenge.

I had a great day with my mom yesterday. I hope that you did too! Thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Short & Sweet (SU)

Paper: Neena Solar White

Ink: Peacock Feathers Distress Ink (Ranger), Pear Pizzaz (SU)

Tools: Cuttlebug embossing folder, Timeless Tags die (WP9)

Other: American Crafts twine, dimensionals (SU)

Edited 6/15: My card was chosen as one of the stars for this challenge. Yippee!!

CTS67 and DD93

Good Morning and Happy Tuesday everyone!  Here is a card for my Operation Write Home stash.

The sketch is this week's CAS(E) this Sketch #67 challenge.  

 

The colors are from this week's Dynamic Duos #93 challenge

I used my Gelly Roll Stardust glitter pen on the Sahara dots to give a bit of sparkle. It's hard to see in  the picture.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Sentiment Signs, Over Under Easy (PTI), Background Check (TAWS)
Paper: Blushing Bride. Whisper White, Blushing Bride Pattern Pack DSP (SU), Chevron Paper Pad (MME)
Ink: Blushing Bride, Sahara Sand markers (SU), Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Peach twine (American Crafts), Gray hemp cord (Bead Landing-Michaels), Gelly Roll "Stardust" glitter pen, Tag Sale #5 die (PTI), dimensionals (SU)

Edited 3/14:   YIPPEE!! I'm a Dynamic Duos Runner Up this week with this card!

Online Stenciled Class Day #3 and 2 Challenges

One of the challenges on day 3 of the Stenciled Online Card Class was to add color to embossing paste.  I'm using light weight spackling paste and I added 1 drop of Regal Rose (SU) reinker to a blob of paste. It gave me a nice pale pink color. I spread that over the SSS Peppermint Stripes stencil.  I cut my tag from some vellum that I had and ran it through my Big Shot using the Dots Cuttlebug folder.  For my main image I stamped it once in Smokey Shadow ink and cut it out with a circle Nestability. I stamped it a second time in Regal Rose ink and cut out the heart by hand. I die cut a double ended flag in Regal Rose and embossed the sentiment in white. I put it all together with dimensionals between each layer. 

This card is also for challenge #25 at CAS on Sunday to make a Valentine/Love card and the new Card Concept Challenge #2 to add texture on your card. I've used embossing paste in my Clean & Layered style card.

 

I'm having fun using my stencils in new ways. Thanks for stopping by today!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: Tag-its #11 (PTI)

Paper: Stampers Select White (PTI), Regal Rose (SU)

Ink: Smokey Shadow (PTI), Regal Rose (SU)

Tools: Circle Nestabilities, Dots embossing folder (Cuttlebug), Grand Ampersand flag die and Tag Sale #5 die (PTI), Peppermint Stripes Stencil (SSS)

Other: Bakers twine, dimensionals, Versamark ink, white embossing powder (SU), sequins (Avery Elle), light weight spackling paste (Ace Hardware), Glue Dots, dimensionals (SU)

Edited 2/5:  My card was chosen by Deanna as one of the winners in the Card Concept Challenge #2. Yippee!!!

What's Perking?: Card Concept Challenge #2 and BIC #46

Challenge #2 at The Card Concept is to use texture.  I'm a CAS kinda girl and I guess this card falls into the Clean & Layered category.  I also got to use my new Breakfast Club set for the Be Inspired Challenge.

Here you can see some of the detail. I die cut one of the speech bubbles and layered some DSP behind it. I embossed the sentiments with white embossing powder.  The coffee cup was stamped on the card, stamped again on another piece of white card stock and then cut out & popped up on dimensionals. A few sequins finished it off. I hope that's enough texture. I think that I need to go do a card with embossing paste. I haven't used it in a while and it sounds like fun on a gray Pacific NW day :-)


The Challenges:

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!


SUPPLIES:
Stamps: Breakfast Club (TAWS)
Paper: White (PTI & Neenah Solar White), Tempting Turquoise, Real Red, Summer Smooches DSP (SU)
Ink: Onyx Black (Versafine), Daffodil Delight & Tangerine Tango markers (SU)
Other: Versamark pad, white embossing powder (SU), Say What dies (MFT), sequins (Avery Elle), dimensionals (Recollections)


Edited: 1/31

Wahoo!  My card was chosen as one of the Be Inspired Challenge Favorites!

DD #79

Hi! It's a perfectly gray, gloomy Pacific NW day today and a good day to make cards.

I just got this cute little tree border die and had some fun making cards yesterday afternoon. I really like how this card turned out using black and silver for this week's Dynamic Duos challenge.

This would have been much easier if I'd also had the pine background die that goes with the border die but SSS was out of stock. Ah well!  I first stamped the sentiment and then embossed the snow. Next I attached the black tree border using glue. I die cut the trees again out of silver paper. Before piecing in the silver pieces I pressed the embossed flakes within the tree outline down flat. My QuickStik tool was a lifesaver for picking up those tiny little pieces and putting them in place.

Well I'm only about half done with my Christmas cards. Lots more to make and I still have packing to do for our move next month. Back to it. Have a great day!

SUPPLIES:
Stamps: 'Tis The Season Sentiments (PTI)
Paper: Basic Black (SU), White (PTI), silver
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
Other: Pine Border Outline die (Memory Box), Dots #5 EF (Sizzix), Baker's twine


Edited:  WAHOO! My card was chosen as a Dynamic Duo Runner Up!

Sunday Stamps Color Challenge

I have been really inspired by Lime Doodle lately but especially by her cards using embossing paste.  I tried to purchase it online but it has been out of stock for a while. I guess everyone else is inspired too. So I searched for an alternative and came up with spackling paste. Yup. The hardware store saved the day. Half the price and twice the quantity. I don't know how it compares to "embossing paste" but it worked great for me. Here's my card in honor of Lime Doodle and this week's color challenge at Sunday Stamps.

My only stencil is an old checks pattern that I used to use for, amazingly enough, stenciling with paint. I've ordered more stencils and can't wait to get them. So I attached the stencil to my paper with post-its and used an old business card to spread the paste over it. Being haphazard and free flowing is not one of my strong points but I tried to let it be a bit messy and not fill in every square. After the paste dried I attached the "thanks" die cuts with some Glossy Accents but a fine line glue stick would probably have been better.  Does anyone know how to attach them so they are popped up and the dimensionals don't show?

Lastly I added the twine and button.

I'm looking forward to making more cards using this paste!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!

SUPPLIES:

Stamps: I guess I didn't use any

Paper: Chocolate Chip, Island Indigo, More Mustard (SU), cheap white

Accessories: Linen Thread,  Earth Elements button (SU), glue dots, spackling paste, dimensionals, Glossy Accents

Tools: Simon Says Stamp Thanks die, Checks stencil

Edited 11/4:  My card was picked as a Sunday Stamps Top Pick. Wahoo!!