Cards for Kids

I have a couple cards today made with kids in mind. I used an Inky Antics stamp set along with some snippets of pacific point and pool party card stock. I colored the image with Copics, adding a die-cut border of waves done with a SNSS die, adding some white gel pen accents. The little stars are brads and the sentiment was done with a SNSS ticket die. The background was done with a SU! decorative dots ef. When I die-cut the waves, there was a negative portion left, so I made a 2nd card with that one..

I'll share this with the Just For Fun JFF July 2019 challenge - "at the shoreline"

Thanks for stopping by and I hope your weekend is a good one.

Carol

Stenciled Birthday

 Over a year ago I picked up a stencil on sale by TCW called Queen Anne's Lace fragment, and never used it until now. I wasn't quite sure how to use it, but I experimented and made a birthday card. I sponged the colors of citron, lemonade and marmalade Distress inks around the stencil, adding some WOS to the tips of the flowers, and then adding some gold beads and eventually some gold glitter glue. I wish now that I'd just added the gold beads, but live and learn. The sentiment is by SNSS and I added one more tiny gold bead to the black panel.

This isn't one of my favorite cards, but I'll enter it into the following challenges:

Shopping our Stash #397 - Stencil me This

Just for Fun Rubber Stamps June 2019 Challenge - Use a Stencil

Thanks for stopping by and make it a great week ahead.

Carol

For You

I guess I'm in the mood for some fresh flowers, because Mother's Day is this Sunday and all the cards I've been making lately have flowers on them. I used a flower die from the Simon Says Stamp Bella Bloom set to create the flowers, along with a Cherry Lynn flourish die to make the stem, and a Gina Marie Designs stitched oval die for the main panel. I colored the flower petals with a soft Copic to match the designer paper. (It was a snippet, so I'm not sure who the manufacturer is) The centers were done with a retired SU! mini punch from the matching dsp and shaped and popped up on foam bits. I dotted the centers with tiny drops of black Nuvo. The flourish was cut from Lemon Lime Twist card stock, and toned down just a bit with 2 Copic markers. I added a little butterfly accent done with a Gina Marie Designs butterfly die, adding 2 orange gemstones and lots of clear Wink of Stella sparkle on the wings. The sentiment was done with an old Northwoods wooden stamp I've had for ages. I'm not sure if I'll need this card for Mother's day or a Birthday just yet, but I'll finish the inside with the appropriate message when I use it.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

The Just For Fun JFF May 2019 challenge -

celebrate women in our lives with at least 3 layers

Dies R Us challenge #120 - Flowers

Shopping our Stash #395 - May Flowers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - For a Special Lady

Repeat Impressions Tic-Tac-Toe challenge M819

I used the vertical column on the right - gems, faux stitching, and die-cuts

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Carol

Holly

I've used a digital image by IKEsART called "Holly" to make my Christmas card. I colored the image with Copics, adding some red liquid pearls and glossy accents to the holly in her hair. The sentiment was done with an unmarked wooden stamp I've had for years. I split a SU! gold foil doily and placed it on opposite corners for a touch of elegance. The stitched oval was done with a GinaMarieDesigns die, while the hunter green scalloped oval was done with a SB petite oval die. For the final touch I added some clear Nuvo Drops around the framed image.

I'd like to enter this into the April Rudolph Days challenge where it's always a Christmas theme.

Also adding to the JFF April 2019 challenge - add lace (doilies qualify)

Thanks for the visit, I hope your day is going well.

Carol

Masculine Christmas Cards

I used up just about all the Christmas designer paper I've had in my stash this year, so I recently treated myself to a few new sheets that I found at my local scrapbook store. This Sasparilla/Gold Rush plaid by October Afternoon caught my eye right away and I thought it would make some great masculine  cards. I  had quite a few snippets of sparkly gold and black card stock on my table, so I used a Frantic Stamper Deer Bust die to cut a piece of black and sparkly gold  and placed the black negative into the gold panel and vice/versa. I cut both the image and mat with stitched ovals and added a piece of that gorgeous plaid paper for the background, placing it all on a Soft Stone card base. The sentiment was done with a very old retired SU! stamp, heat-embossed with white ep on a basic gray panel, then die cut with a stitched circle die and a matted with a black punched circle. I wanted the sentiment to be small to let the deer bust take center stage.

I decided to make that 2nd card right away since I already had the deer bust cut and inlaid into the black panel. I wanted a slightly different look, so instead of stitched ovals, I used stitched rectangle dies to cut the image panel, plaid panel, and Hello Honey card base. The sentiment was done with a very old wooden stamp (no name) that I've had since I began stamping years ago. I heat-embossed it with white ep on basic grey card stock, and fishtailed the ends with a hexagon punch. The sparkly gold paper sheds pieces of glitter every now and then, so just ignore those random sparkly dots on both cards! They're like magnets to the card stock :)

I'm going to enter these challenges:

Simon Says Stamp It's Christmas Card Day

Snippets Playground #341 - must use snippets

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper December 2018 Challenge - use patterned paper

Just For Fun December 2018 Challenge - card for any holiday

Tuesday Throwdown #420 - anything goes

The Male Room Challenge #100 - celebrate

Inkspirational Challenge #175 - designer's choice anything Christmas

Happy Little Stampers December 2018 anything goes with dies

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a great week ahead!

Carol

Washi and Mirror Card

I have so much mirror card and washi tape in my stash it's just ridiculous, so I set out to use as much of it as possible. I made this quick and simple CAS card using PTI white and SU! Gorgeous Grape card stock. I used a Lawn Fawn stitched snowflake die to cut the purple mirror and SU! sparkly silver, then swapped the purple negatives of the snowflake tips with the silver sparkle card. I added a silver sticker to the center. The grape panel was die-cut with a MFT horizontal stitched border die and covered with a piece of (retired) SU! washi tape. For the Sunny Studio die-cut sentiment, I covered a strip of PTI white with 2 strips of the washi tape side-by-side, then die-cut it and adhered it to the front.

In this photo you can see the design on the washi tape.

and here's a close-up so you can see the sparkly detail even better.

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday challenge #559 - anything goes

Jingle Belles challenge - relaxing after 8th December of finished Christmas cards

CHNC 415 - Christmas - a/g; optional use gems or pearls

That's going to do it for me today, but thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Unrelated to cards, about an hour ago, some brownish-tan snowflakes began falling! I've never seen snow that color before, but it continued falling for about 15 minutes. Has anyone else ever experienced this before? Just curious...

Carol

Halloween Matchbook Treats

I have lots of Halloween dsp left over from last year, so I decided to make a few matchbox treats for this year. Here is one of them with a Memory Box die-cut spider and I dotted his eyes with a white gel pen to make him creepier. When you open this up, here's what's inside...

The photo on the left shows the inside with the double-sided paper found at Tuesday Morning years ago. The Trick or Treat sentiment is by Lawn Fawn, and I added a little IO die-cut ghost that was embossed with Lawn Fawn glow-in-the-dark ep. The photo on the right is the inside of another matchbook that was made with SU! dsp, a Unity white-embossed sentiment punched with an EK ticket punch, and what these treats are filled with - a WAWA coffee thin! I wish I'd never discovered these wafer-thin coffee/chocolate bites of deliciousness because they are a bite of heaven!! If I enjoy them this much, I'm sure other coffee/chocolate lovers will too, so those are my treats for this Halloween. I'm grateful they are sold individually and NOT sold in bags, or I'd be in a sugar coma by now!

Here is the assortment I've made using all stamps, dies, stickers and elements from my Halloween stash. These are SO much fun to make and a great way to use up those little bits of dsp and cardstock too! 

If you need any specifics for products used, just email me with your questions. My email address is on the sidebar. I used the Splitcoaststampers tutorial for making these.

I will enter this project into the following challenges:

Just for Fun Rubber Stamps October 2018 Challenge - Halloween

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge October 2018 - use patterned paper

Memory Box Challenge #42 - Halloween or Candy themed

 LTCCB #27 - October Anything Goes

LTSCB #114 - Fall Back *make any fall creation*

Dies R US #106 - A/G using dies by companies carried at the Dies R Us store

Thanks for spending a few moments of your Monday with me, and I wish you a wonderful week ahead! Happy Crafting :)

Carol

Thank You in Lavender and Green

This card started with the background piece. I sponged it with wilted violet distress ink and added droplets of water which gave it some white spots. After it dried, I stamped it with white craft ink using a SU! stitched background stamp. I wanted to add more, so I stenciled with some citron distress ink and a TH burlap stencil on 2 corners, and then sponged a little antique linen ink lightly over the stenciled corners. As a final touch, I embossed the panel with a WRMK next level gemstones ef. 

Next I stamped the SU! blended bloom flower twice, fussy cutting the center portion and popping it up with dimensionals over the lower portion of the flower. I colored the flower with Copics and gel pens. The leaves were done with a Hero Arts stamp on some granny apple green striped dsp from SU, fussy cut, and popped up on dimensionals after being curled around a glue stick. The white stems were done with a SU! bouquet Bunch framelits die and 2 dies from a set of dies by Precious Maricke called Leaves. The ladybugs were done with a Memory Box set of dies enhanced with a white gel pen, and the sentiment is by Lawn Fawn, embossed with white ep on black. For the final touch, I added some Nuvo clear sparkle drops to the leaves and placed this on a granny apple green cardstock base by SU!

This will be going into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - make your own background

Double D challenge Don't Bug Me - use bugs

Happy Little Stampers August 2018 Watercolor challenge - a/g - option to use flowers

JFF August 2018 challenge - stripes

Tuesday Throwdown #403 challenge - stenciling

Thanks so much for the visit, it's always great to welcome you! Do have yourself a fantastic Friday and an even better weekend as well!

Carol