Love you

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 used a stitched heart die cut (Pink & Main) and stamped it in unicorn white ink from Hero Arts with a Tim Holtz plaid background stamp. I heat embossed it with detail white embossing powder to get it to stand out even more. Sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. Cut out a few small silver hearts to use as embellishments.  Top small ones are red heart sequins. 

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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May it never be...

Hello - playing in the Freshly Made Sketch #474 this evening. 

I changed up where the sentiment went because the image was on the small side. Colored with Copic's. I added some score marks on the kraft cardstock to go with the roll....hopefully you can see them in the photo. Just a little tough in cheek humor this evening. 

Stamps by Stampendous from the Survived 2020 set.

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Take life one sip at a time

Hi there - day five of my entries into the Fall/Winter coffee lovers blog hop. 

Festive holiday Cocoa Cup is a singleton that I picked up at my local Ben Franklin's last year. I believe it's from Stampendous. Sentiment is from MFT stamps and heat embossed in gold.

I used some stickles on the holly berries, which took me a while to get out of the bottle since I don't use them much. Mug is simply colored with Copic's. 

Entering this into The Paper Player's color challenge too. 

Welcome Home

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.

Flower stamp is from Stampendous. I stamped it in versamark, embossed with white detail embossing powder, then highlighted the flowers with ink and a blending brush. 

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

Betty J Jeanne Jachna  Jen Mitchell  Karren Johnson  Linda Callahan Lyndal Higgins   Michelle Leone  Michelle Lupton  Tristan Dawes  Wanda Cullen

 

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Bold blue butterfly

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 blue butterfly and went big. Alcohol inks used to color. 

Please check out the Design Team’s creations for this challenge.

Barb Ghigliotty

Betty J
Jeanne Jachna
Jen Mitchell
Karren Johnson
Linda Callahan
Lyndal Higgins 
Michelle Leone

Michelle Lupton
Tristan Dawes
Wanda Cullen

You're such an inspiration

Hello all - playing in the Freshly Made Sketch challenge today.

Kept this one very clean and simple. Distress Oxide inks used on the butterflies and the blue panel. Butterfly dies are from Memory Box. The little dragonfly stamp is an oldie, but goodie from Stampendous. Sentiment is from Reverse Confetti.

I used life changing brushes and tumbled glass oxide ink to create the backdrop. I also added some fun foam behind it so that it is set off from the card base.  Sparkle shimmer spritz is added to the entire card for added interest, but didn't photograph well.

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You are amazing

Hello. Playing in the Double D challenge of "don't bug me" today.

Large butterfly is from Stampendous. Colored with Copic's. Sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh.

Butterfly is fussy cut out and adhered onto the butterfly that is stamped on the white card panel for some dimension and flight. The black card base is top folded for a change.

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Just for you

Hello - this is a card that took way too longer than it should have! Specifically worked this one for the CAS Colours and Sketches Double challenge. Used the sketch and the colors below.

Stamps are from Stampendous. The peony had to be done twice, because when I was outlining it with a black marker to cover the white edges,  I marked it up.  Colored with Copic makers.

I had trouble with the lattice embossed blue panel not wanting to adhere to the card base. Then I popped up the stitched square with fun foam and it didn't want to stay square. It's one of the cards, that you cuss at along the way and finally say "whew" when done!

OK, now to clean up! 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!

Watercolor flowers

Hello! I'm back with a card covering two more challenges. First off it's the "frame" challenge over at The Paper Players and Just Us Girls has a color challenge out. I just bought this flower stamp at Ben Franklin's and thought it would work great for both these challenges.

The stamp is from Stampendous and I stamped it Archival Jet Black ink onto distress watercolor paper from Ranger.

I used three of the colors from the JUGS challenge, pink, yellow and lime green. Gelatos were used and smeared around with a bit of water to get the effect. Added some white liquid pearls to the center of the flowers.

Sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. To frame this up, I used two of the stitched rectangle dies from Lil' Inker Designs on watercolor paper then added some tiny square pieces of foam tape onto the back.

OK, that's it for today. Off to finish up my Sunday chores.

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Blood, sweat and tears

Hi everyone! I have been charged with creating a 35th work anniversary card for one of our Area Vice Presidents. He's a super guy that I thoroughly enjoyed working for in the past and was honored to do this. Well, I ran into some serious Mojo issue when coming up for an idea for the card. Ugh! I ended up with this!

If you paid attention to the title of the blog post, then I hope you get the theme of the card. During his 35 year career, which is still going strong, he has obviously had a lot of moments when he has shed blood, sweat and tears. Specifically in the restaurant business that we are in.

I created the blood drop using barn door distress stain and an eye dropper. The blue is faded jeans distress ink sponged on with the blending tool. To create the tears and sweat drops, I just sprayed some water onto my hand and flicked it on.

The Happy Anniversary sentiment is from Technique Tuesday. I had to search and destroy through my stash of stamps for the "th" and found it in a calendar set from Stampendous.

The big number dies are from My Favorite Things. They are cut out using the MIM camouflage die cuts technique from PTI. I think I added 5 layers of numbers to make this stand out.

So, what do you think? I'm adding this to this weeks SSS "it's a guy thing" challenge. Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas goodie bag

Hi everyone! I liked the challenge over at The Friday Mashup and decided to play along!

I created the tag using an old Life Style Crafts (Quickutz) tag die. The fir branch is from Great Impressions, which is stamped in green and then I added the sentiment from Stampendous. I've had that fir branch stamp forever and you should see how stained the wood is.

I layered the tag with pine green and scarlet jewel cardstock from PTI.

The treat box is made using the envelope punch board from We R Memory Keepers. I used a piece of 12 x 12 paper in kraft and then added the bow to tie it off.

Also entering this into the Tag You're It challenge #8.

Have a great week!

LIM - one layer card

Hi all - here is my take on week 167 less is more one layer card. It's all about shadow stamping this time around.

I've actually have two cards to show but this first one is sorta of my favorite.

Stamp is from Stampendous and it's stamped in Versamark and the heat embossed using clear embossing powder. I then daubered on some white pigment ink and then yellow chalk ink.

I'm not sure what to call the paper that I chose to stamp this on - variegated? I picked it up a while back ago at my LSS and it seemed to fit with this stamp and what I had in mind for the challenge. Sentiment is from Verve.

This one is done using the SU best blossoms leaf stamp. I used MFT ink in gumdrop green to shadow stamp the leaves and then on the sentiment as well. Sentiment is from PTI.

I used some chalk ink in yellow to highlight the leaves and don't know if I like it or not now.

Oh well, there you have it - two very different one layer shadow stamped cards.

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