Garden Gnome

I had the Inkadinkado Garden Gnome stamp set on my table and stamped another image from it for the first time. I colored it with Copics, adding Wink of Stella glitter for a little subtle sparkle. I added some yellow glaze pen accents to the little bee on his hat and used a gold paint pen for his belt buckle. The Pink Fresh sunburst stencil set got it's first outing too with this background and I added a Lawn Fawn sentiment to finish it. I used Lil Inker stitched rectangle dies for the image and card base panels, backing the image with a piece of black cardstock.

I'll enter this card into these challenges:

the July Stencil Fun Challenge - A/G using a stencil *opt. birthday theme

NBUS challenge #52 - never before used schtuff (stencil set, stamp)

We Love Stamping July Challenge - Fabulous Florals with *opt. A/G

Stamping Sensations July Challenge - Summer Flowers with *opt. A/G

the Happy Little Stampers July Stencil Challenge - A/G

Thanks for stopping by today and may this day be a good one for you!

Carol

A Country Christmas

 While rummaging through my stash, I found a few unloved stamps I've had forever and decided it was time to give them some ink. This is a Rubber Cottage stamp (2004) that I colored with Copics and colored pencils. I colored the quilt design with red and green to turn this into a Christmas card. I added a pre-printed sentiment from SSS and used Lil Inker stitched rectangles to die-cut both the image and chocolate brown card base.

I'll share this with the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations April Challenge - Anything stamped with a CAS option

Farm Quest General Store #3 challenge - A/G Farm Country

MTTCC Challenge Theme #58 - Christmas Quote

Krafty Chicks Challenge #659 - Christmas

 Allsorts Challenge Week 724 - A/G *optional create your own background

Thanks always for stopping by and thanks also for these challenges that keep us adding to our card stash as well! Have a great day!

Carol

Another Bird-Day Card

 I'm not a big fan of the color pink, but this image just needed to be pink, so here goes. I believe the image is from Lindy's Stamp gang and I stamped it at a friend's house many years ago, and recently dug it out of the cobwebs and decided to finally turn it into a card. I colored it with Copics and layered it with black and pastel pink snippets of cardstock. The background paper and polka dot strip were also snippets of designer paper. The sentiment is also from LSG and I die cut that panel with a SNSS ticket die, rubbing a black marker around the edge to make it more visible. That tiny little cake is a brand new item I'm using for the first time. I recently won a cute Sizzix thinlits die set and the birthday cake was part of it. I cut it from the same panel of pastel pink and some white, coloring the frosting and strawberries on top with Copic markers. Hopefully this brings a smile to the person who receives it on their birthday. I have a friend who dreads (perhaps even HATES) pink flamingoes, so I might send it to her as a snarky card just for laughs :)

Entering into these challenges:

The Snippets Playground Challenge #447 - must use snippets

NBUS Challenge #47 - something never before used

Colorful Options February 2023 - Pink

Stamping Sensations February Challenge - Anything Stamped

with an option to use this sketch

We Love Stamping February Challenge - Anything stamped

with an option to use a stencil

Happy Monday everyone! Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Carol