Winter wishes

Hello. Continuing with the winter coffee theme.

I paired this with the sketch challenge over at TGIF Challenges and The Code word of Sparkle at Addicted to CAS.

Stamps are from Verve. I colored the cup with Copic's, then cut it out using my Brother Scan N Cut. Added some puffy paint and heat embossed it so that it looks like whipped topping. The little snowflake in the middle of the cup is from PTI.

Cut a snow flake out of glitter paper for the sparkle and then also added some bling into the middle of each of the stamped snowflakes using the stardust gel pen.

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But first,

Coffee.

Hi everyone. Here is my card for Addicted to CAS, which I paired the the sketch from Paper Play.

I used a lot of different stamps on this one.

Mugs are from Paper Smooches, sentiment is from Lil' Inkers, white heart and flowers are from Verve and the black flower is from Studio G.

Designer paper is from K & Company. It's from a very old 12 x 12 paper pack that I still had stuffed in my stash.

The coffee cups in the middle are colored with Copics.

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Hugs and smiles

Hi everyone. I've made another card for the raining cats and dogs challenge over at The Paper Players using a stamp I picked up in Barnes and Nobel over the weekend. The publication came from the UK and it also included an embossing folder. It looks to be from Tiddly Inks and was sooo cute I couldn't resist spending $$$ on the magazine. 

Colored with Copic's. Pink gingham paper came from DCWV out one of those insta photo fun 4x4 mini cardstock sets. I bought a yellow one and a pink and they've come in handy for using on cards.

Sentiment is from Verve.

Black dots are home made melted down pony beads. I got them to stick on the card by using some matte medium from Ranger.

That's it for today.

Planner

Hi everyone! I spent some time today stamping and decorating the first week of my new planner for 2016. I bought the 5 x 7 size from Papertrey, Ink called Moments Inked. I had a bigger version last year and was initially freaked out about the size difference. My handwriting is not very pretty and it tends to be big. But after playing around a bit, here is what I ended up with.

I had already purchased a few dies last year from PTI - specifically the middle To Do List, which I think people are calling a dashboard.

So, while I was waiting for my planner to finally get here I went a head and cut out and stamped on a few of these. Notice that there is a goals tab in the second picture.

I used a variety of stamps on this. I have sets from Hero Arts (Kelly P), Waffle Flower, SSS and PTI that coordinate with planners.

It was also fun using some new washi tape. I sure wish I could stamp on it though. Also Copic markers work really well on the sticker paper from Avery.

I also went through all my stamps looking for anything that caught my fancy to stamp on to this. I used an old TAC stamp, Verve, Avery Elle, PTI, Technique Tuesday, etc.

The quotes are random ones that I got of off Pinterest and then shrank them down to print onto a full version sticker sheet. Some I colored, some I left alone.
I now have a file folder full of all kinds of "stuff" to decorate the next week, which should go a bit quicker. This was kind of fun to put this together, now the hard part is to follow the plan, right?

snowflake wonder

Hello. Here is my take on this weeks Fusion Card Challenge. 

These colors seem to be the "in" colors this season. I personally really like them. Anyway, the snowflake is a really old die from Sizzix that I had to figure out how to run through my new Platinum. The normal sandwich just wasn't working.

I used a pierced die to create the envelope like flap based on the sketch. It's popped up using foam tape.

Sentiment is from Verve stamps and studio G ink used to stamp it. It's a little soft but matches well. I'm thinking that maybe it should of been stamped in a color that stands out a bit more. What do you think?

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The most wonderful time

Hello! I'm sitting at home waiting for the clinic to call me back. I have a very swollen face from a tooth that is acting up. Hurts like the dickens and the dentist won't see me until the swelling goes down. Pft! Health care is so frustrating right now!

Anyway, enough of my rant, here is my take on the CAS Christmas card challenge over at The Paper Players.

Stamps are from Verve. I stamped the mittens in versafine ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder so that I could color them. I used B93 and B95 Copic markers.

The heart was stamped in white, but it was really faint. Decided to add a bit of fine white embossing powder to make it stand out and give it a bit of shine.

Sentiment is from the set. All paper is from Papertrey, ink.

I think this is as clean and as simple as you could get, huh? Thanks for stopping by.

Good things....

Hi everyone! I had an opportunity to play around with a few challenges last night. Verve has a eat me, drink me inspiration challenge that was the basis for the start of my card.

All stamps and dies are from Verve.

Cupcakes are colored with Copic's and the middle one is popped up using a foam square.

To get the ombre effect on the cardstock I got out my air compressor and airbrushed with a Ciao marker. Which means that I had to manipulate it a bit with some foam squares to get it to fit into the air gun.

Stitched dies are from My Favorite Things and the stitched banner die (black cardstock) is from Simon Says Stamp.

This card is for the following challenges:
Verve Eat me, Drink me June challenge
Simon Says Stamp - make it masculine
The Friday Mashup - ombre

Pink cupcake

Hi everyone! Here is my take on this week's Freshly Made Sketch which I also paired with The Card Concept #31 challenge.

Cupcake stamp and die is from Verve. I colored it with Copic's and then added some cotton candy stickles to jazz it up a bit. It's also popped up using foam tape. I hardly ever use my stickles, and it finally dawned on my why. I don't have any patience to let them dry.

The circle and banner die is from My Favorite Things, which is now discontinued, I believe. Sentiment is from Tim Holtz.

The pink designer paper is from Lasting Memories. I added the perforated holes down both sides of the white cardstock to give this a bit more dimension. However, decided to keep this one clean and simple and stopped there!

That's it for today! Thanks for stopping by.

Mojo 379 - Birthday blessings

Hi everyone! I decided to give this weeks Mojo Monday a try and here are the results.

All stamps are from Verve. I colored the cupcake with Copic's and now I want a chocolate cupcake with chocolate frosting! I'm arguing that the yellow around the bottom of the cupcake is the paper.

Designer paper is from Authentique. I used a few more of the pony beads that I melted down. The white/ivory ones kind of have a yellow tinge to it, so they worked well on the yellow designer paper. The black ones are a little bit smaller and work well in the top right hand corner. I found when melting the beads that you can adjust the size by the amount of time spent in the oven. The only this I hate, is trying to get them glued on. I prefer the self adhesive ones, still.

Bow is tied with the Bow Easy. I manipulated the bow ends so that they would lay flat on top of the strip using clear glue squares.

OK, off to clean up now. Thanks for stopping by!

Retro masculine birthday

Hi everyone! Sorry for not posting for a bit, it's been pretty hectic with the day job this past week! Here is my take on this weeks Freshly Made Sketch.

The car stamp is from the former Angel Company. I stamped it in versafine and heat embossed with clear embossing powder, then colored with Copic's. I added some glossy accents to the windshield to simulate glass.

A silver sharpie and the silver wink of stella pen used to add touches of chrome to the car. To get the silver paper layer in the back, I just scribbled on a piece of white cardstock with the silver shar
pie. In real life it shines!

I had to do a search and destroy mission through all of my stamps to find a retro happy birthday stamp and finally came up with one from Verve.

The color combo is inspired by the restaurant scene in the Marvel's Agent Carter show that just debuted. It had a really cool retro vibe to it with the turquoise, silver and black decor. Great show too! ETA: entering this into the showCASe your style color challenge. I just don't have the fourth color, but it's close.

OK, back to the creative process! I've got two thank you cards and an anniversary card to make!

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