Playing Along With Sunday Stamps

I have looked at the sketch from Sunday Stamps  and finally found a chance to play along with the sketch. 

When I was creating my cards for Oldie Moldie Monday, I just kept going and used their sketch with the papers on my design table.

The paper is from a 6 x 6 pad from Prima with a date of 2012 on it.  The sentiment is from Art Gone Wild.

I am glad I got to play along with the sketch.  I would like to try it again with less busy papers.  I will have to see if time permits this week.  I need to work on the lawn and get those leaves raked.  UGH.

Have a wonderful day.

Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday - time to show some love for your old supplies. 

It feels good to have my life back on what I consider my normal retirement craziness.  A wedding in the family takes precedence over everything.

I got a chance to play with a challenge for my oldie moldie monday creations. 

I always  check out the challenge at The Paper Players on Sunday.  This week they had a sketch challenge so I decided to play along.

The paper is from a 6 x 6 pad from Prima with a date of 2012 on it.  Luckily paper does not spoil.  I love the leaf design in the one sheet of patterned paper.

The sentiment is from Art Gone Wild.

This is another card I made from the same paper pad using another sentiment in the same stamp set.
I did use a doily as the backdrop for my sentiment.

Remember to show some love for your old supplies - they still make wonderful projects.

Christmas Card - Sketch Challenge

After a hectic last few months of the final countdown to my daughter's wedding, my life returns to my normal.  The wedding was beautiful.  I must confess I still have not made their wedding card.

Now that I am back home I wanted to start making some cards.  The best way to do this is to try some challenges.  I liked the sketch challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch. 

The stripes on this sketch reminded me of all the washi tape I have acquired.  I need to use some of this tape so I dug through and found three tapes I liked together.  I had an idea in my head to use silver on the card.  The sentiment and snowflake are heat embossed in silver.  The snowflake is from a stamp set from Bo Bunny which I purchased at Tuesday Morning.  The sentiment is from Avery Elle.

Dark day in Wisconsin for taking pictures.  I really like this card and think it would be great to mass produce if you wanted to. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday - time to show some love for you old supplies.

 I needed a quick card for a friend.  I was dropping off some soup for her and thought I would just throw in a card to cheer her.

The image was floating around my design table already colored so I grabbed some well aged papers and made a quick card.

I hope it cheered her up along with that bowl of soup. 

Remember to show some love for your old supplies.

Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday - time to show some love for your old supplies.  (and yes I did not get anything posted last Monday - life is crazy right now)

I was cutting some of this paper pad up to send to some friends so they could make birthday cards and I am always in need of hello cards so I quickly made a hello card out of these bright cheerful colors.

The hello die cut is from Hero Arts and I believe the thinking of you is from Gina K.

Remember to show some love for your old supplies.

Happy Little Stampers October ATC Challenge

It is time for a new ATC challenge at Happy Little Stampers. 

An ATC is a tiny piece of art that measures 2.5 x 3.5 inches.

The theme for the challenge for October is Holiday.

My ATC started with a piece of paper that was colored with distress oxide inks.  The mat was also colored with distress oxide inks. 

The bottle was stamped with grey ink and the wine in the bottle was stamped with distress oxide inks.  This is a stamp from Rubbernecker Stamps that has the two layers.

The sentiment was stamped with VersaFine Black Onyx Ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I thought this was such a fun sentiment for a holiday themed ATC.

Please join us at Happy Little Stampers for our October ATC challenge.  Did I tell you there is a prize for one lucky participant. 

Happy Little Stampers October Anything Goes With Die Challenge

It is time for a new challenge at Happy Little Stampers using your dies.  It is the best challenge because "anything goes" so get busy and join our challenge.

My cards this month (yes I said cards) is because I used one die cut and used it for two cards.  I used both the negative and the positive for my cards.

I will show you my cards and explain what I did.

I took a piece of glossy card stock and colored it with distress oxide inks.  I then used the glaze over the top and brought all the colors to the surface.

I covered the back of my card stock with a full sheet of adhesive.  This is a blessing when you are working with these small pieces.  I used my cover plate die and cut the card stock.  I also cut it out of white card stock.

On the second card I adhered the background with all parts removed from the white card stock which was die cut.  I adhered it to a piece of the same size white card stock.  I had also added lots of adhesive with my tape runner to the white base.  I then very carefully removed each little piece of the blue die cut and inserted it into the white background.  The adhesive on the back of each piece plus the adhesive I had added to the white base made sure each little piece was stuck firmly.

I took the blue background and adhered it (remember it has adhesive on it already) to a piece of dark blue card stock.  This really make the die pop.

This is how I got two cards from one beautifully colored die cut.

To complete this card I die cut three layers of the "Thanks" and adhered them together before adding to the card front.  I stamped a sentiment in navy to pop up below the die cut sentiment.

I really struggled with finishing this beautiful background.  I finally settled on this very simple bold flower cut from dark blue.  I cut this with my Silhouette.  I die cut the hello from dark blue and white card stock.  A couple beautiful embellishments completed the card.

Please come join us at the October Anything Goes With Dies challenge.

Did I tell you there were prizes?

Happy Little Stampers October Mixed Media Challenge

It is time for a new mixed media challenge at Happy Little Stampers. 

The challenge this month is MEN.

I chose to do a birthday card for my brother.  His birthday is not until January so the challenge will be to not lose it (misplace) it somewhere where I can not find it when it is time to put it in the mail.

I first started with a piece of Bristol smooth card stock and colored the background with all different shades of blue.  I then splattered water all over it also to add another depth to the background.  I stenciled on some sea grass/weed on each side with some metallic paint. 

I cut with my Silhouette the bottom of the ocean, the second layer of sea weed/grass and the small fish.  They were all colored with distress oxide inks.  Some gold was brushed on the little fish.

I stamped the three larger fish and colored them with distress oxide inks (I am a broken record) and fussy cut them out.  I adhered the bottom of the ocean and the sea grass and intertwined several of the larger fish in the sea grass.  I then got out a couple peg stamps from Stamps by Judith and stamped the black splatter and the large circles.  The large circles are filled with a Tonic glitter gel.

The sentiment was created on the computer and matted with the same navy blue I used to match the underwater scene.  The sentiment, the large fish at the top of the card  and the three of the small fish were adhered with foam tape.  Some details were added to the fish with Sharpie markers and gel pens.

After all of this I splattered silver paint over the entire thing.

Here is a close up of the top part of the card.

Here is a close up of the bottom part of the card.

Please join us at Happy Little Stampers for our October Mixed Media challenge.

Did I tell you there were prizes?

Happy Little Stampers October Christmas Challenge

It is October and it is time for a new Christmas Challenge at Happy Little Stampers.  Christmas is fast approaching and I would imagine you don't have all your cards made - so here is a challenge to help you with getting another card made.

The challenge this month is as usual "anything goes" but the optional twist is "ribbon".

 Last year I had bought these cute napkins to make cards out of.  Each napkin has two of these sweet images of this snowman couple on them.  I think the hardest part of making a card with napkins is getting all the layers separated.  Once you have the layers separated, you adhere the image you want to use to card stock.  I use mod podge for this step in the process.  I have found that it works the best for me.  I then die cut the image I want to use with a rectangle die.

The image was matted with some navy blue card stock.

The hardest part of making this card was finding ribbon to use - would you believe with all the ribbon I possess I had to search and dig to find enough to finish 5 cards.  I had enough of this ribbon for two cards and found pieces of two other blue ribbons to finish the other two.  I have sorted my ribbons and giving the majority to a friend who does lots of charity work.  I kept a few spools of basic colors and many times I die seam tape to match my card.

I did add glitter clear stickles to the trees and under the snowmen and each of the little snow people.
Hopefully you can see the glitter in this picture.

Please come join us at Happy Little Stampers for our October Christmas Challenge.

Did I tell you there were prizes?

Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday and it is time to show some love for some old supplies. 

This group of patterned paper has been floating around my design table for awhile and I saw the houses on it and I wanted to send a "kinda new home" card to a card making friend .

All elements of the card are from the patterned paper.

I still had enough of the row of houses to make another card.  I like the branch with the fall colored leaves.  This will make a nice fall card.

Thanks for stopping by and remember to show some love to your old supplies.