Alfie

Here's a valentine I made with a favorite stamp from my collection. This is Alfie, a stamp from Unity that I've treasured for years! I stamped the image with light grey ink, then colored him with Copics, adding a few darkened highlights with a marker pen. I used a MFT stitched circle die along with a Spellbinders scalloped circle die in darker blue to place Alfie on. I used some T.E. cloud stencils to create the sky along with Tumbled Glass distress ink; then added the Inky Antics (1999) sentiment. I finished the card with a few tiny glittered heart stickers I've had for ages!

This might be my favorite Valentine I've made this year so far.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

Critter Crazy Challenge Blog #59 = A/G featuring a critter

A Place to Start challenge #202202 February 2022 - A/G

(Optional - My Fauna Valentine (include a critter)

the Happy Little Stampers February Stencil Challenge - A/G

Dies R Us Challenge #186 - Valentines/Love 

(Must use dies sold in their store) - Spellbinders

The Paper Players PP577 theme challenge -

Love & Friendship

That's going to be it for me for today, but I hope your week is off to a good start, and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

Happy Mother's Day

Wishing all the moms out there a very happy day as we celebrate the moms in our lives on this day set aside to honor them.

I have a card made with a very old Inkadinkado stamp set. I die-cut a piece of Berry Burst cardstock with a MFT stitched horizontal die and stamped the mother's day sentiment with Versamark ink, then heat-embossed it with white ep. Behind it is a doily a friend sent me a long time ago that I inked with some spun sugar ink, then placed some Darice die-cut daisies on top. I die cut the flowers from green, Berry Burst, and bits of yellow , placing the flowers on top and adding some yellow for the centers. I added 3 black sequins and called this one done.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

The Flower Challenge #56 - use your favorite flower

A Place to Start May 2021 Challenge - anything goes

Happy Little Stampers May Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your day is a special one!

Carol

Christmas in July

It's been so hot I decided to start working on Christmas cards to cool myself off!

I dug through my stash and found this snippet of designer paper that had some pretty ornaments on it, so I built my card around it. I gave it 2 scalloped borders of red and green done with a (r) SU! Scalloped border punch. The background was done with a (r) SU! Snowburst ef, and the silver foil doily is also by SU!. The little tag was done with a stamp from the SU! Merry Everything set, heat-embossed with silver ep on white and cut with a matching (r) SU! punch; then popped up on foam dots. I added a twine bow, and 3 little gemstones and placed it all on a real red card base. The ornament on the top right is a dark green color, which is why I added green embellishments. I had to turn the card sideways to avoid the glare from the silver foil, so the colors aren't showing up as true to life. The tiny polka dots in the snippet background are also green, so it all works together with good lighting.

I used the sketch from Hand Stamped Sentiments Sketch Challenge #320

so I'll be linking my card there.

I'm also entering it here...

A Place to Start July 2019 Challenge - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Wednesday!

Carol

Happy July 4th!

Wishing all my American friends a happy and festive July 4th celebration today of our independence! I hope everyone enjoys this day we celebrate America!

I made just one card this year for July 4th and here it is. I used a combination of dies, designer papers in patriotic colors, and embellishments and just went a little crazy with it all. I'll list supplies at the bottom of this post.

Here's the inside.

I'll enter this into the following challenges:

The Stinkin Inkers Challenge blog - stars and stripes

Repeat Impressions DCCJ319 challenge - red, white, and blue

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - stars and/or stripes

A Place to Start July 2019 challenge - anything goes

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #348 - Holiday

Thanks for stopping by, and here's wishing everyone a special day today, whether you celebrate July 4th or not!

Carol

Supplies for card front:

SU! blue dsp, Recollections red & white dsp, Celebrate die Lil Inker, SB Labels 25 die, tiny star embossing folder by Darice, "July" letters done with Quickutz, twine from the twinery, random punched and die-cut star negatives, number 4 die from I.O., "th" done with stick stamps

Supplies for card inside:

red and blue dsp from SU!, Best die from SSS, word "Day" from SSS oh happy day die set, tickets by SNSS dies, stitched oval by MFT, "summer" letters done with my Quickutz, random punched/die cut stars, word "of" done with stick stamps