Twofer - things with wheels

Hello! Playing in the Twofer challenge of things with wheels today.

The scooter is an old stamp set from The Angel Company that is no longer around. Colored with Copic's. I created a very subtle cloud back ground in the long tall sally card using my Picasso metal stencil and memento sky ink.  The road is a strip of black cardstock that I drew lines on with a white gel pen.

I kept both of these cards pretty clean and simple to send on to "guys" when the need arrises.

Thanks for dropping by.
 

Sketch challenge time!

It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week we were challenged to use the following sketch. 

I stamped three of the airplanes and colored them with Copic's, then used my Brother Scan N Cut to cut them out. Clouds are stamped with white pigment ink and then heat embossed. I sponged some light blue ink behind the clouds to create the sky. 

Stamps can be found HERE over at Repeat Impressions.

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in any of our challenges, the more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri

Donna

Ester

Heather

Joy

Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

 

Have a wonderful day!

DCC - Single layer card

Hello. It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week it's a designer choice challenge and Donna wants us to do a single layer card.

I used distress ink for the sand, Memento sky blue for the sky and I do have some very subtle clouds in the background. I did hand draw in the birds.  Palm tree and Adirondack chair colored with Prismacolor pencils.  Lots of masking on this one.

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in any of our challenges, the more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri

Donna
Ester
Heather
Joy
Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

Thanks for stopping in.

Pick of the week - one layer card

Hello. It's my turn to do a "pick of the week" over at The Houses That Stamps Built, and I have chosen to do a one layer card.

I stamped the hot air balloons and the masked them to create the sky background. I used sky memento ink and a stencil. The balloons are colored with Copic markers.

I used stamps 9116-N, Balloons and 2808-D, follow your dreams sentiment for this and can find them over at Repeat Impressions. They will be on sale for only a short time, so grab them while you can.

I enjoy the challenge of creating a card with no layers and hope you find the inspiration to, as well.

Thanks for stopping in.

You're in my thoughts

Hello. Playing with the Freshly Made Sketch today and adding some die cuts for the SSS Wednesday challenge.

Sentiment is from Wplus9 and the flower stamps and dies are from Avery Elle.

Sky blue memento ink is sponged on to the white card base and then the flower and leaves are popped up using foam tape. Gingham and the polka dot designer paper is from A*Muse Studio. Added the three small dew drops to finish off the card with a bit of interest.
 Thanks for stopping in.

Soaring by to say Hi

It’s time for another challenge over at The House That Stamps Built. This week we were challenged to the following sketch.

Clouds are created using Memento sky ink and a stencil. Airplane is colored with Copic's. I used blue cardstock for the stripes and kept this as clean and simple as I could to use for a masculine card.

9112-I, Airplane and 9104-G, Soaring by to say Hi

So, what are you waiting for?!

Why not play along with us and start stamping up a card now. We can’t wait to see your creations!
Don’t forget… Take part in any of our challenges, the more you play along, the more chances you have to win! Each submission enters you in the drawing for our gift certificate. And you don’t always have to use our stamps in your creations, but we will reward you if you do. Each submission using a Repeat Impressions stamp will earn you an additional entry in the drawing!

Also, check out our Rock Star blogs to see what they did with the challenge.

Cheri

Donna

Ester

Heather

Joy

Shirley

http://www.thehousethatstampsbuilt.com/

http://www.repeatimpressions.com/

Thanks for stopping in and have a wonderful day! 

Note to say hello

Hi everyone. Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

I used some stick it! double sided tape to cut out the solid butterfly, then added the black detail layer. Dies are from Memory Box. Glitter came next in yellow and orange. I've had these little jars of glitter in my drawer for so long that I have no idea who even makes them. Obviously, I don't use glitter often enough.

I cut out a circle and taped it on top of the butterfly so that I could sponge some summer sky blue ink from Memento around it.

Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink.

Adding this into the anything goes challenge over at Simon Says Stamp too.

Sail away with me

Hi everyone! I'm not going to have time this week to participate in any challenges until maybe Sunday. So, here's a card I made a while ago and never got around to posting.

Stamps are from Gina K Designs. The sail boat is colored with Copic's.

To create the sea I sponged on several different colors of blue and turquoise inks using a finger dauber. I tore a piece of printer paper so that I could make some "waves" while sponging on the ink. I finally added some foam on the water using Copic Opaque white and a white sharpie paint pen.

Sky is also sponged using Memento sky ink and a finger dauber. A light touch with the inking around the Picasso stencil cloud was used to make the clouds very subtle in the back ground.

We are off in the RV for a weekend of camping. Thanks for stopping by!

Papertrey March Blog Hop Challenge - Red Baron

Hi everyone! Here's my take on this month's Papertrey, Ink blog hop.

It's high gloss or in my case heat embossing to get that shine!

I got out the Fly Away stamp set and inked up the plane with wild cherry colorbox ink from My Favorite Things. Added some clear embossing powder and heat set it.

I stamped the sentiment and banner then colored in the outline using a red memento marker.

So, in order to get the shine on the clouds I first die cut a few out using the cloud dies from PTI. Using a Versamark ink pad I covered the entire die cut with ink and then using UTEE heat embossed them - three times!  I popped them up on the card base with foam tape to give them some dimension.

To create the sky, I used my Picasso stencil, summer sky ink from Memento and a sponge dauber. I used one of the long rectangle nesties to cut and emboss and Bazzill smoothies cardstock in navy and pure poppy cardstock used to layer the scene.

This was such a fun card to create - thanks for stopping by!

Winter sunset

Hi everyone! Wow, what a week this has been! I can't wait for the weekend so I can get into the studio and create. The rainy weather should help there! I just got a few new stamps from Just For Fun and had fun playing with this one.

I stamped the image in Versafine ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. Next, I dug out my sponge daubers and created the sunset with pink and yellow chalk inks from Studio G and summer sky from Memento.

As you can see the stamped image is pretty big, so I cut it into thirds and then layered it with black before attaching it to a white card base.

I think I need to add a few small birds in the branches to give it a bit more interest. Thanks for stopping by and have a creative weekend!

ETA: entered into CAS Challenge blog.