Oddball Turtle

 I love this quirky and fun image that just makes me smile. It's called the Oddball Turtle from Stamping Bella and I used this to make a fun birthday card for another slowpoke like myself. I stenciled the background with a GMD bricked stencil on some tan cardstock with a darker brown ink. I stamped the turtle and colored it with Copics, adding a die-cut stitched frame in matching green designer paper. I split the sentiment and backed each piece with matching cardstock and called this one done. At my age, this is how I feel most days LOL

I'll share this with the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stencil it

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #446 - Make your Mark

(use pencils, markers, inks, paints, anything that makes a mark)

Critter Crazy Challenge #85 - A/G featuring a critter

the April Stencil fun Challenge - A/G using a stencil

with an optional theme of Spring/Flowers

We Love Stamping April - Spring theme or alternative of A/G

Thanks for stopping by and  keep moving forward regardless of your speed 😄

Carol

Spring Floral Birthday Card

 I've always been fond of this Mark's Finest Papers (now closed) floral stamp so I made this simple birthday card in shades of blue and green with touches of yellow for the flower centers. I colored the image with Copics, adding a pre-printed sentiment from SSS and 3 matching gemstones. It was quick and easy but I love how it turned out.

I'm sharing this with the following challenges:

Allsorts Week #776 - It Has to be Spring

the Four Seasons April 2024 Challenge - A/G Spring

the Sisterhood of Crafters April 10 - Showers or Flowers

the Triple B April 2024 Challenge - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

We Love Stamping April 2024 - Spring or A/G

Seize the Birthday#281 - Any Color and Green

Thanks as always for stopping by and I wish you the best possible weekend with spring finally being in the air!

Carol

Happy Valentine's Day

Here are a couple Valentine cards I made and sent this year sitting side by side. They're slightly different with coloring and placement of that little pink heart on the sentiments.

The backgrounds were done with a Kat Scrappiness stitched heart cover plate die and the big white heart was cut with a Simon Says Stamp die. The Gerda Steiner mouse image was stamped, colored with Copics and a red glaze pen, then fussy cut and added to the large heart. The sentiment is also made by Gerda Steiner. Those little pink heart stickers are from Taylored Expressions. I put one on the right side....

and one on the left. This little mouse has a little more grey color than the one above but I think he's a cutie in any color.

I will enter this card in the following challenges:

The Sisterhood of Crafters February 14, 2024 - LOVE

The Critter Crazy Challenge #83 - A/G featuring a Critter

We Love Stamping February Challenge 2024 - Romance or A/G

the Color Hues Challenge #80 - Red & Pink

the Little Red Wagon Challenge #743 - Show Us Some Love

the Double D Challenge - Heartfelt

That's going to do it for me today but thanks for stopping by and I wish you all a very happy Valentine's Day filled with lots of love!

Carol

 

Another Masculine Birthday Card

I found it difficult to photograph this card  for some reason, but it looks much better in real life. The Stampendous image was inked with Versamark and stamped on a sturdy kraft remnant; then embossed with gold ep, adding a little bit of coloring with markers and Copics. I used a piece of Pacific Point cardstock for the base and added a strip of matching polka dot paper for the SSS pre-printed sentiment. I found some glitter gold die-cut bits leftover from a previous cutting and added them just for a little sparkle and fun.

 Here's another photo angle but unfortunately neither one clearly shows the card the way I hoped it would appear. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Craft Rocket Challenges #106 - animals

Critter Crazy Challenge #77 - A/G featuring a critter

We Love Stamping August Challenge - Masculine

Triple AAA Birthday Challenge #52 - A/G Birthday

The Male Room Challenge #177 - Dots and/or Stripes

That's it for me today but here's wishing you a great day and thanks so much for stopping by!

Carol

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

The Antique Store

 I found this old stamp from Rubber Cottage (2005) hiding in the cobwebs and thought I'd have a play with it again. I colored it with Copics, colored pencils, and markers. I stenciled a little bit of blue skies with some Tumbled Glass ink and placed it on a chocolate cardstock background. I was stumped for adding a sentiment so I left it blank for the time being until I get ready to mail it. I used to have one of those old milk cans like the one sitting by the door and I loved it, but someone helped themselves to it unfortunately. Now they seem to be difficult to find in this day and age.

I'll share this with the FarmQuest General Store Challenge #4 which is A/G farm/country related.

Also adding to the We Love Stamping May Challenge - A/G stamped with the option of "in the garden."

adding also to the Retro Rubber Challenge #202 - A/G must use stamps older than 1 year.

Thanks for stopping by and I wish you a wonderful day! Happy stamping!

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