Just got some PTI polka dot stamps that I have been wanting for a LONG time. Decided to use them to make a card for the Simon Says Stamp and Show challenge which ends tonight at midnight. Seems I'm always bringing up the rear for most challenges!! Just been extra busy this past week and the upcoming one promises to be even more so. Here is the card I made:
Sorry for the poor quality of this photo - the light was quickly fading.
With walnut stain distress ink, I stamped large polka dots on a torn book page and layered it to kraft cardstock along with a strip of old sheet music. Then I stamped a Tim Holtz image in pumice stone along the right side of the card and overstamped the sentiment with walnut stain. A Tim Holtz butterfly and some medium and small polka dots were heat embossed in gold. The tiny rickrack was stained with the walnut stain ink. I then layered the panel to dark brown cardstock and a kraft card.
Truth be told, this is my very favorite kind of card to create. Just don't have the time to play as much as I would like, I guess.
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Here is my card for this week's CAS-UAL FRIDAYS challenge:
The patterned paper is from the Simon Says April card kit. The ink I used for the image and sentiment is in the new Distress Ink pack and called peacock feathers. Love this pretty color. A bit of Stickles to ground the bird and for the eye finished this card off.
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There is a sketch challenge at Cas-ual Fridays this week:
This is definitely clean and simple!!
The images were stamped with festive berries distress ink. Starburst is from Hero Arts and the sentiment is from PTI.
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Simon Says Stamp has two challenge blogs - one challenge is more mainstream and one is vintage. This week on SIMON SAYS STAMP AND SHOW the challenge is "anything goes". As you probably know, when either challenge blog has this theme, there are SCADS of entries.
But, it is always worth a try and I wanted to use some new BoBunny decaf vintage double dot paper that my friend, Lin, picked up for me while she was in Florida. Here is my card:
The sentiment was stamped with walnut stain distress ink on a reverse section of this paper and then diecut. The doily die cut that is peeking out from behind the labels shape was given to me by another friend, Carol. The hydrangea was stamped on the dotted side of the paper and a white Prismacolor pencil was used to add some white touches here and there. A Martha Stewart punched border and some Hero Arts lace were adhered and then I sparkled it all up with some Platinum Stickles (my favorite). The champagne colored gems are from BoBunny, too.
Thanks, Lin and Carol, for enabling and inspiring me to make this card!
Hero Arts K5376 Hydrangea Hero Arts CL380 Truly Appreciated
So happy that I was able to get another card made using a second sketch from the Hero Arts April contest.
Here is my card:
This time I chose the Eiffel Tower background to make the panels, using four different shades of Distress Inks, shading from top to bottom as shown in the sketch. I also used a scalloped circle and a sentiment from two different Hero Arts cling sets.
I've fallen in love with this gold embossing powder, so you will no doubt be seeing more cards using it here!
Today is going to be a beautiful spring day in Ohio and I hope to do a little work in my flower beds later. Hope your day is fabulous!
The challenge for Simon Says Stamp and Show for this week is handmade backgrounds.
Just getting this in under the wire since the challenge ends at midnight tonight. My background was made with distress inks, flicked with water and stamped with swirls. After stamping the images with archival ink, the white dots were added for more accent.
Love making backgrounds!
This week's challenge for Simon Says Stamp and Show is anything goes. Since the overall theme for this challenge blog is to use Tim Holtz/Wendy Vecchi type designs, all the stamps I used on this tag are from Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz.
The tag was distressed with tea dye, aged mahogany and walnut stain Distress inks. The background images were stamped using iced spruce, walnut stain and aged mahogany. I stamped the flowers and butterflies with barn door distress ink on another tag and edged with walnut stain. Then I cut them out and popped them up on the tag, adding some barn door Distress Stickles. A strip of raw silk was tied through the hole of the tag.
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Anita Rex on the Hero Arts Flickr group organized a Valentine card exchange. My card was sent to Cornelia and she has let me know that she received it. So, here is the card:
I love this new Hero Arts newsprint bird!!! I heat embossed it in red Brilliance ink and then added some tea dye distress ink over it to age it a bit. The sentiment and small heart are from the new XO clear set and were heat embossed, too. The papers are from the Basic Grey 6 x 6 Kissing Booth pad. I used a scallop border die from My Favorite Things and the lace is from Hero Arts. Also added a rhinestone eye and some Stickles diamond glitter.
Hope your day is fabulous!
Here is the trigger for this week's challenge at Moxie Fab World:
I love the soft colors of this photo, so I die cut some Tim Holtz alterations tattered florals from cardstocks in those colors to make my card:
After die cutting the flowers, I stamped over them with Hero Arts old French writing and then distressed the edges with spun sugar and tea dye distress inks. Layered the different colors together with brads in the middle. The sentiment is a new clear set from Hero Arts.
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This week's challenge for Simon Says is to make a Halloween or Goth card.
I don't send Halloween cards often, but I recently ordered the So Scary cling set from Hero Arts when it was the stamp of the week. For this card, I cut a piece of white cardstock and made a mask for the moon with a punched circle. Then I colored the whole piece with distress inks (wild honey, spiced marmalade, rusty hinge and walnut stain). I used the Tim Holtz distressing tool to rough up the edges and went back over them with walnut stain. Flicked some water (maybe too much!) over the whole piece. All images were stamped with Versafine black ink and then I added glitter to the tree and the bats. I used a Magenta stamp to "ground" the tree. Black pearls are from Hero Arts, also.
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I have been missing in action again! Since I am flying to Denver on the 19th of this month, I have been very busy getting all my yard work done and preparing my home for the winter months ahead! There are many other things on my checklist to get done that do not involve cardmaking!
However, I wanted to try to enter a few challenges this week, since I don't know how many I will do while in Denver. I will try to post as I can, but it may be very sporadic, to say the least!
The challenge at Less is More this week is a one layer card using a heart image.
I generally do not do one layer cards. For this one, I cut my own heart stencil from copy paper and inked it with barn door distress ink using the ink applicator tool with foam pad. The sentiment is a very old one from Annette Allan Watkins. The tiny heart is from Magenta and was inked with fired brick distress ink. I felt the whole design needed to be grounded in some way, so I added two scored lines at the bottom.
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Here is another card I sent out to a friend who had surgery awhile back:
All stamps are from Hero Arts. I white embossed the flowers and colored the whole background with distress inks. The border punch is from Martha Stewart and the seam binding is vintage - picked up several partial packs in various colors at a sale!
Have a wonderful day!
I made this card for a friend this week - just to let her know I was thinking of her.
All of the stamps are by Hero Arts. The patterned paper is from A Muse. Spellbinders Nestabilities die.
This will be entered in the Simon Says challenge for this week.
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There's still time to enter the square sketch challenge in the Moxie Fab World. Deadline is September 19th. Here is my take on the sketch:
The Hero Arts ruffled flower was white embossed and then color was added with distress inks in wild honey, spiced marmalade and fired brick using the Ranger inking tool. Hero Arts French Post was overstamped with fired brick distress ink with some water spots added. This 4" square was layered to a 4.25" square that was created with fired brick ink and both were layered to a 4.5" gold base card. Walnut stain ink was used to darken all edges of the squares. The Hero Arts sentiment was adhered with dimensional foam dots. I added some Hero Arts pearls and cut a notch in the end.
Recently I won a giveaway on Paper Crafts Connection and the Card Ideas Magazine was one of my prizes. It is full of wonderful cards made from sketches and will be a big help to me when designing cards in the future. Thanks, Paper Crafts Connection!!
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The weeks are going by way too quickly for me - I almost forgot to get a card made for the Lily Pad's monthly card chain challenge.
I went with the friendship theme again - just using some pretty fall colors of distress inks to do a resist background over the Hero Arts positive and negative flowers. These remind me of all the beautiful chrysanthemums you see during the autumn months.
The distress ink colors I used were bundled sage, fired brick and rusty hinge, with walnut stain to darken the edges a bit. The sentiment is also Hero Arts and I added some pretty orange gems for some bling.
Hope your day is a blessed one!
For the whole month of September, simon says is celebrating rubber stamping with their second annual "Stamptember" celebration. And, they are kicking off the whole thing with a fabulous blog hop. One amazing basket of goodies is up for grabs, along with three $25 vouchers to their store. Hurry on over, this blog hop ends on the 5th!
And, the theme for this week's challenge is "anything goes"! Well, I know a lot of gals who make some fantastic boxes, wall hangings, tins, etc. But, a card is my preference.
Since the colors are very autumn-like, I am also posting this on the Hero Arts Flikr group for the current challenge of autumn.
The image was colored with Prismacolor pencils and the background was done with Ranger distress inks. Ribbon and black gems added. The Hero Arts magical background was white embossed and then colored with distress inks also.
Have a great day!
This should be a card for spring; but just acquired another LaBlanche stamp and had to try it out.
The image was colored with distress inks, as well as the background. For some reason, the tulips look pink-ish here, but I used fired brick distress ink, so they really look more red in real life! I added a flourish (Stampington & Co.) here and there and the word stamp is from Impression Obsession.
Haven't had time to participate in any challenges this week; time gets away from me! I do love seeing what all of you talented gals out there create for the various challenge blogs, so keep up the inspiration!!
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Here is another card that I made with this beautiful bird collage from LaBlanche:
Again, I just colored it all with Ranger Distress inks and layered it to a white embossed magical background (Hero Arts) and adhered it to the front of a card. The stamps are so detailed that I don't feel the need to do much, or any, embellishing. BTW, the specks on the eggs are my own addition :)
A much different look could be achieved just using colored pencils or Copics or any number of coloring methods.
Have a great week!
Yes, I have fallen in love - with LaBlanche silicone stamps!!!!!!!! After seeing Jill Foster's videos this past week, I just knew I wanted some of these beautiful stamps. Lo and behold, my LSS is carrying them and I was able to purchase three of them today. Now, believe me, I wanted every stamp she had in stock. But, I am not independently wealthy. So, until "my ship comes in", I will have to buy them little by little.
Here is a card I made when I came home:
A lot of different distress inks went into the coloring of this image on plain white cardstock. I added just a hint of sparkle on her buttons and flower on her hat and then went around the edge, too, with Stickles platinum glitter glue. The seam binding was white and I colored it with broken china distress inks. The piece was then layered to a Bazill tan card base.
Can't wait to play with this one some more and the other two, also!
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Hello! It's hard to believe it's been almost a month since I have posted anything on my blog! Let's just say that my life has been super busy and I haven't done any cardmaking for way too long.
The challenge on Simon Says Stamp this week is Christmas in August. Here is my card:
I created the background by stamping a Studio 490 stamp (Wendy Vecchi) in pine needles distress ink on a white square of cardstock. Used tumbled glass and broken china distress inks to color the cardstock. Overstamped a snowflake (Hero Arts) with broken china and then added Stickles glitter on the vine berries. The Joy stamp from Paper Bag Studios was stamped on white cardstock with broken china ink. Cut it out and added glitter to the letters and let dry.
I attached a strip of white lace from Hero Arts to the background; then added the sentiment with pop dots and a snowflake brad at the corner. The whole thing was layered to a 5 x 5 inch white base card.
Hopefully, I will have more time to get back to stamping now. Summer will be gone before we know it! I hope everyone is having a great August!
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