Oodles of Doodles challenge

Hello. Playing in the Monday Simon Says Stamp Oodles of Doodles challenge. I used a back ground that I had previously created in a spurt of playing with alcohol and alloy inks.

I used a bunch of different stamps from a few companies and then added some doodles using a black Zig millennium pen. 

The Believe stamp is Gina K, the dragonfly is Poppy stamps, the clock is Tim Holtz and the border stamp is from Hot off the Press. I heat embossed the clock and the border, then used some steel wool to un-shine them both. 

On the dragonfly, I doodled in some stripes using a gold glitter pen in it's wings. This was a super fun challenge.  Have a great day! 

Happy New Year

Hello everyone! I hope that all your Christmas wishes for crafy things came through! Here is my take a few challenges today.

Picture is not one of my best as it's early morning and kind of dreary out and PSE couldn't lighten it up any more than this. Kept this clean and simple and in real life it is very sparkly.

Happy is a die that is cut out of black cardstock that is backed with Stick it! adhesive.

The gold glitter band is done using two sided sticky back tape and glitter.

New year sentiment is from WPlus9 and the silver stickers are those peel off stickers that were all the rage a couple of years ago. I have tons of them in my stash.


Well, that is all for today. This will be entered into the following challenges:
Simon Says Stamp - Make it sparkle
The Friday Mashup - ring in the new year
Sunday Stamps - sketch

I hope each and everyone one of you have a very Merry Christmas. Thanks for stopping in and know that I truly appreciate all of you who take the time to comment, it means a lot!

Card Sketch #23

Here is my latest sketch card. I've tried to mix up the sizes of my sketches to keep things interesting. This one as you can see, is square.

The card base is dark grey from Bazzill Basic's and the designer paper is from DCWV from their travel stack. I used some peel off's of leaves for the corners, stamped the left corner leaf (CTMH) with versamark and embossed with gold. The leaves in the bottom panel are stamped with Palette burnt umber and are from SU. The sentiment and the swirl are from The Angel Company, also stamped in Palette burnt umber. I thought the DP matched well with a lighter shade of grey from Bazzill, also. Since fall is upon us, I thought the pink tones in the DP reminded me of the shades of leaves as they start to turn color.



Well, I made it to Archivers and spent way too much money. I just love that store, so much to look at and choose from. I hope that one day they make it up to the Northwest. I also drove by a Hobby Lobby (we don't have these, either) and had to brake real hard to turn in. LOL...wow, is that a great store, too. I resisted spending money there, even though all of the paper was 50% off. I just didn't think that it would be able to fit in my suitcase for the trip home. You know those weight restrictions, and if I had bought all the paper that I wanted to, I would've tipped the scales. LOL...

Well, let me know what you think about this latest card sketch. I appreciate any and all comments!