Enjoy your day - SSC341

Hello and welcome to another challenge over at Sunday Stamps.  Here is what I made using the inspiration color prompt photo.

 

I got out my alcohol inks and dropped a bunch of colors that matched the photo below onto a piece of hardboard. Then used alcohol lift ink to create the side panel using a sun stamp from Inkadinkado. I got a little creative using the sun as sea anemones.  The sentiment stamp is from Poppy Stamps.

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Go+See+Explore

Hello and Welcome to another Fusion Card Challenge, where you can use the sketch or the photo or both. Here is what I did with it.

 

I was inspired by the photo and colors. Light house is from Inkadinkado and the sentiment is from Tim Holtz. Used Arteza watercolor markers to create the skyline on water color paper. 

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge, once again, they have knocked it out of the park.

Betty J . Clarie Grantham . Jeanne Jachna . Jen Mitchell  . Karren Johnson . Linda Callahan . Lyndal Higgins  . Michelle Leone . Michelle Lupton . Tristan Dawes . Wanda Cullen .  Natalie Walsh

 

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Steampunk birthday tag

Hello. Playing in the Monday Simon Says Stamp challenge of steampunk today.

I created the background a while ago and it's been sitting in my stash waiting for me to do something with it. It's made up of antique linen and speckled egg oxide inks. I also added a bit of embossing using one of the Tim Holtz stencils. The fancy baroque one, and also heat embossed it using the speckled egg glaze. 

The steampunk corset is from Inkadinkado. Birthday sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. Found some cool gears in my stash and adhered it with a brad. Since I had my hardware out, I found a eyelet that matched and used that at the top. Colored the seam binding with antique linen spray stain and tied a bow. Added the dragonfly brad (had to color it black) and then stamped a mini dragonfly on to balance things out. 

As you can see on the bottom photo, the sentiment is also heat embossed over the speckled egg glaze. It came out a bit splotchy, so lesson learned. 

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Party till the cows come home

Hello. Using the sketch over at The Paper Players as a jumping off point in the TGIC Challenge of masking.

Stamps are from Your Next Stamp. I used Inkadinkado masking paper to mask the cow. Colored with Copic's. Inside message says "party till the cows come home." yes, I just had to add the googlie eyes for a fun factor. Thank goodness I had enough!

I turned the sketch on its side to accommodate the number of my cows. Designer wood paper is from Moda Scrap that I just got from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

That's it for today. See ya, gotta get back to my household chores.


 

Watercolored Pumpkins

Hi all. I got a chance (between loads of laundry) to make this card for two challenges today.  The Paper Players theme is Halloween and Addicted to CAS is watercolor. Here is what I did with them.

The pumpkin stamp is a very old one from Inkadinkado. I stamped it on watercolor paper, heat embossed it then painted then with my Zig real brush markers.

Sentiment is from the former There She Goes stamp company.

Designer paper is from American Crafts.


Back to work I must get - thanks for stopping in.

coffee

Hi everyone. It's one layer time over at Less is More and they are looking for splatters this time around. I immediately thought of coffee this morning as I usually end up spilling mine. Here is what I did with it.

Coffee sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps.

The big splatter is from Inkadinkado and the small one plus the coffee cup ring is from Paper Smooches.

A couple of things I learned from making this card.
       1. I don't have a lot of brown inks.
       2. I don't have a light brown ink at all.
I guess I need to go on a shopping mission to update my inks.

Gotta go, I need a refill on my coffee. Thanks for stopping by.

Happy 50th

Hello. This weeks theme over at Less is More is numbers. Here is what I did with it.

I die cut the happy and the 5 and 0 out of gold mirror card stock. I did use some of that stick it! adhesive on the back so that it would be a lot easier to adhere to the card front. That stuff is worth the price!

I stamped the th and anniversary in versamark then heat embossed it with gold embossing powder. Before I stuck the happy and 50 on, I ran this through the spellbinders embossing folder. It's from their Celebra'tions line. The pearl cardstock is from Papertrey, Ink.

Decided to decorate part of the inside and unearthed a very old swirl stamp so that I could add a bit of gold bling to the inside.

Now to finish up my chores and start to put my stamping area in order. It looks like a tornado came through. Thanks for stopping by!

Serenity

Hi everyone! Here is my take on The Less is More color challenge of using earth tones.

The main panel is done using distress inks, water and a acrylic block on water color paper.

I randomly stamped distress ink pads onto the acrylic block, spritzed with water and dragged the paper through. Then I used a linen background stamp with distress ink in pumice stone while the paper was still wet. This produced a mottled effect that I thought was pretty cool. I used my heat gun to dry it before stamping the leaf stems.

Leaf stamp is from PTI called turning a new leaf. I colored directly onto the stamp with distress markers and then spritzed them with water to continue with the watercolor effect.

The french script stamp is from Inkadinkado and is stamped twice (overlapping a little) in white and then heat embossed in fine detail white.

To finish this off, I layered it onto dark green cardstock and added a yellow organza ribbon, the attached it to an ivory card base. The title of this post came about while looking at the finished card, it just seamed calm and peaceful to me. What do you think?

Happy Birthday to you - CTS #40

Hi everyone! I really think this weeks sketch by CAS(e) this sketch has a lot of possibilities and decided to give it a whirl.

I reached deep into my bottom drawer and pulled out my green perfect pearls to create this green bush. The stamp is from Inkadinkado and is inked up in versamark and then dusted with the perfect pearls - which you cannot see in the picture! Sentiment is also from the same company, just a different set.  Green gingham ribbon tied around the panel and the little bow was created using the bow easy!

Well, back to stamping - thanks for stopping in!

Halloween

Hey there! I hope this finds everyone doing well! Here's a quick Halloween card for you today.

Designer paper is from the Nightfall collection from Memory Box. I stamped the spider web and spider onto the dp that already had the word Halloween on it. I decided to heat emboss the spider with clear embossing powder so that it would stand out a bit more. Stamps are from Inkadinkado.

The web on the black card base is also heat embossed using Versamark ink and clear embossing powder.

To get the pointy cut on the banners just right I used a square craft punch at an angle. The sketch for this card came from Viva La Verve over at SCS.

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Cased

Hi everyone! I cased this card off of a picture on Pinterest. Changed up the stamps and added a sentiment panel, but used the same color combo. You can find the original card from Kitty here.

Background stamp is from The Angel Company and is stamped in Peeled paint distress ink. The leaf stamp is from K&Company called lotus floral stamps and stamped in Forest Moss distress ink. the flower stamp is from Inkadinkado and I used worn lipstick distress marker and misted with watercolor to get the effects.

Sentiment stamp is from Papertrey, Ink. Small self adhesive gold pearls from Reflections were added to both ends of the panel.

Pink Cardstock is from Hot Off The Press and the green is from Gina K Designs. I used antique linen to sponge around the perimeter of the white panel.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great weekend!

Trio of hearts

Hey everyone! Here's a Valentine's day card I created using the Mojo Monday #174 sketch.

The designer paper is from Making Memories. The light pink dp panel in the back was ran through the Textile embossing folder.

The big heart is chipboard covered in designer paper from over a year ago that I've had lying in wait for me to do something with. It's kind of a big button, which is why I tied a piece of black cording through the holes.

The two smaller hearts are grunge board (TH collection of plain elements) colored with lipstick red Copic marker. I then stamped the swirl (TAC) and the French script (Inkadinkado) in fresh snow Palette ink over the top of them.

The sentiment comes from Papetrey Ink Sweet love set. Black grosgrain ribbon is tied into a bow with the bow easy.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you had time to be creative today!

With deepest sympathy

Continuing on in my pink and brown mood. Here's a card that I completed for the SCS Wednesday sketch challenge.

Branch stamp is from Inkadinkado and colored with Marvy markers and the huff method. Sentiment is from PTI's Asian Fusion .

The designer paper on this: Background is pure luxury from DCWV and the front panel is Memory Box Gossamer. Brown card stock is from American Crafts.

Added some pink self adhesive pearls from Kaiser Craft to finish off the card. I really like how soft and pretty this one turned out.

Have a great stress free day!

Card Sketch Tuesday #160

Hello and Happy Holidays! Here is this weeks sketch!

Measurements:
Card base 4.25 x 5.5, Designer paper 4 x 5.25, Image panel 3 x 3.75 (with a 1/16 mat), Back panel 2 x 4 (border punch used) sentiment done with window word punch.

Designer paper is from Daisy D's and the colors in it really work well with the image that I stamped. I used markers to color the image and did the huff method to reactivate the ink. The sentiment stamp is one that I designed myself and had Vicki over at Victorine Originals make up for me. I stamped it in Memento Tuxedo Black and then punched it out with the window word punch.

The Martha Stewart doily border punch was used on the white cardstock and I added two different shades and width of blue grosgrain ribbon to cover up the raw edges. It turned out to be a very femine card that I will use for someone's Birthday.

This will be my last sketch design for this year! I have a few more Christmas cards/projects to show you this week prior to the big day! I hope that everyone is not too bogged down with last minute preperations and gift buying! Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to let me know what you think!

Supplies:
Wildflower Stamp - Inkadinkado
White cardstock
Daisy D's designer paper
Blue grosgrain ribbon
Marvy LePlume II Markers
MS doily border punch

Final Halloween card

Ok - Here's my final Halloween card. After looking at the two I have yet to post, one of them really isn't geared toward the holiday. So, here's the only one left. hehe!


This was my first attempt on the tri-fold card. But with all the really cute Halloween designer paper out there - I couldn't resist!

Supplies:

Stamps used - Reflections, Inkadinkado and TAC.

Lime green card stock from DCWV, black card stock from PTI.

Designer paper - KandCompany.

Drippy goo punch. Nesabilities circle and scalloped circles. Copic Markers.

Palette Noir ink.

Hope your having a great weekend!

Halloween card #5

Here's another Halloween card - are you sick of them yet??? Only two more to go after this one! LOL!!!



This is a 5 x 5 square gate fold card. It's tied together in the middle with the orange grosgrain ribbon.

I used a retired SOTM from The Angel Company on the two white squares. The witches hat is colored with prismacolor pencils and blended with OMS. Distressed both the sentiment square and the hat with palette noir ink.

The spider and web are from Inkadinkado and stamped directly onto the designer paper, which is from Debbie Mumm. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!