Start each day

Hi again. Take 2 on the Freshly Made Sketch #657 and the word prompt #748 over at JUG's.

I used the leaf 3D embossing folder from Tim Holtz and then added some paper piercing. I had an extra leaf left over from the first card I made and used it here.  Add the sentiment from TH Stampers Anonymous and a few gold pearls.  The brown gingham ribbon was found in my ribbon stash. I love how it works here.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Christmas gift tag

Hello. Ellen Hutson is having a 12 tags of Christmas challenge over on their blog and I decided to play along with the 12/6 tag challenge. They are all based off Christmas carol and today's is: Let it Snow.

I used uncharted mariner distress ink to create the background.  The snowflakes and sentiment are from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous stamptember 2022 release. I also used the snowflake stencil and sterling foundry wax on this. 

Snowflakes are heat embossed with white detail embossing powder.  I also used the uncharted mariner embossing glaze on the sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by!

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

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

Masculine birthday card

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge over at Less Is More.

 

Stampers Anonymous and Papertrey Ink stamps used on the card above. Outline die is from a Jillian Vance Design. Here is the cue card.

 

Please visit the Simply Less is More BLOG to see what wonderful creations the design team has come up with.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Hello. Playing in the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge today.

Stamps are from Tim Holtz. I used Tombow markers to color directly on the stamp, then spritxed with water to stamp onto the watercolor panel. The sentiment is heat embossed using gold embossing powder.

Kept this very clean and simple so that I could mass produce if I needed more. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you've finished all your holiday makes and got them in the mail. =)

Believe in the magic of Christmas

Hello. Sharing a clean and simple holiday card today.

Elf is from My Favorite things and colored with Copic's. Sentiment is from Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous.  Red poppy carstock used for the card base. 

Have a great day!

Never lose your sense of wonder

Hello! Playing in the Paper Players clean and simple challenge of fall fun today.

Stamps are from Tim Holtz Stampers anonymous. I heat embossed them in order to color with copic's. Tied some twine around the white panel before adding it to a black card base. 

Kept it clean and simple and added it to my masculine card stash.  Thanks for stopping by.

Instagram cards

Hi everyone. Hope this finds you all staying safe and healthy! I'm sharing a few instagram cards that I didn't share here first.

Channeling my inner Tim Holtz on this one. It went out to a husband and wife team that has really been knocking it out of the park lately. They are quietly kicking ass in their business and telling all around them that things will be OK.  I appreciate everything that they do!

This one is colored with markers and huffed on. I love the handwriting font on this stamp, unfortunately, I have no idea who makes it - I will need to dig through my ever growing stamp supply to figure it out.

Anyway, thanks for stopping in!

Wishing you the best

Hi everyone! Here is my take on this weeks Fusion challenge (see picture below).

I used the sketch and the picture for inspiration. I really liked the flower in the pitcher and tried to get as close to the colors in that.

The flower stamp is from the former Angel Company. I stamped it in versamark and then heat embossed it using white detail embossing powder. To color it I used the red tint from Pan Pastels. 

Sentiment stamp is from Papertrey, Ink as is the vintage cream cardstock.

The bottom half is done also using pan pastels for color and the background stamp is from Stampers Anonymous. Looking at this now I wish I would've put in a bit of turquoise to tone down the green a bit. Oh well, it is what it is.

Since I wasn't inspired to use cupcakes in the card, I however do like the texture of the cupcake papers and decided to dust off my crimper. 

OK, that is it for now. Gotta go vacuum up all the dog hair.

Thanks for stopping by!

Snowflake Tag

Hi all - I played around a bit yesterday with TH day 4 tag inspiration and came up with this.



Distress stains in faded jeans and picket fence used to color the tag.



Snowflake stamps are from Stampers Anonymous (TH) and the sentiment is from Papertrey, Ink. Both of them are stamped in A*Muse Studio Navy ink. The swirl stamp is from Inkadinkado and stamped in fresh snow ink. The ice crystals on the snow flakes are Epsom salts. I just used spray adhesive and rolled/laid them in the stuff. Big snowflake die is from Provo Craft.

A memo pin is used on the smaller snowflake. I just hot glued it to the back and then tucked it into the burlap/ribbon tie. Ribbon is enchanted evening grosgrain from PTI. I had a lot of fun making this one!

Have a great day!

Inspired tag

Hello everyone! If you're not following Tim Hotlz and his 12 days of Christmas tags, I would recommend that you do. Great inspiration!

Here's my first tag.

I started off with a regular tag and added the music designer paper to it from Creative Imaginations. Then I got to distressing it with antique linen and vintage photo distress inks.

Poinsettia is die cut from dark red cardstock from HOTP using the spellbinders die. Black soot used to distress the outside edges which is hard to see in the photo. Yellow self adhesive pearls from Kaisercraft used for the center.

I stamped the ticket (stampers anonymous TH) onto a thin piece of chipboard with archival jet black ink and the cut it out. I used picket fence and antique line distress stains and then added some vintage photo and black soot to the outside edges. Both the ticket and the poinsettia are popped up with foam tape.

A length of burlap was cut, frayed and inserted through the tag and then the plaid ribbon was tied on top and into a bow.

Would really appreciate some feedback on this one! Have a great day!

Queen Anne's lace

Hi everyone! I'm off on a camping trip and have scheduled this to post in my absence. Here's a card I did for a challenge to scrunch, fold, wrinkle etc. your ribbon.

The ribbon is actually seam binding that I colored with E50 Egg shell and then scrunched it up after it dried a bit.

Stamp is from Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous line and stamped in Vintage Cream ink from Palette. Cut with the oval nesties and then layered with an ivory scalloped oval. The kraft cardstock on the left is embossed with the linen embossing plate from PTI. Designer paper is from Daisy D's that I've had in my stash for a while. I have got to start using more designer paper - it's coming out of my @**, er I mean ears! Sorry for the profanity! But it's true - I have got so much of it and I really don't use it! What is wrong with me? Am I a hoarder?

Ok, enough of my rant! Thanks for stopping in and I'll be posting camping pictures later!