Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies June Challenge

It is time for another challenge at Happy Little Stampers using your dies.  It is a wonderful challenge because Anything Goes.

I recently bought this die/embossing folder set at Hobby Lobby.  I am so proud of myself that I came home and made a card right away.

The embossing folder embosses the stripes and the floral but while embossing it also cuts out the center of the floral wreath leaving you a beautiful opening for your sentiment.

The Hello is a die that came with the embossing folder.

I added a light green mat behind the white embossed panel.  The butterflies and hello were cut out of a blue/green patterned paper.

After the card was assembled, I splattered it with an oxide ink.

This was a very easy card to bring together.  I am going to have to make some more.

Die out your dies and come join us at Happy Little Stampers June Die Challenge. 

Did I tell you there were prizes?

Happy Little Stampers June Mixed Media Challenge

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

I personally love layers - many layers on my card - so this was a fun card to make.  I started with different layers of kraft paper.  The card base is kraft paper.  A dark brown card stock was used to to mat each layer to provide some contrast.

The first layer was painted with a blue metallic paint.  The same blue paint was brushed over the blue areas of the birds.  The next layer was kraft paper smooshed into distress oxide inks.  This is the first time I have used oxide inks on kraft paper.  I do like the look.  (I do apologize for not taking pictures of each layer.)  I used some embossing paste through a stencil for one more layer for my card.  Embossing paste absorbs the colors of the oxide inks. 

God metallic paint was added to the enter of the flowers to add some sparkle.  The bird image was foam mounted onto the oxide ink panel. Cream colored thread was added behind the image for another layer. 

Here is a close up of one corner of the card.

Please join us at Happy Little Stampers and play along with our Mixed Media challenge

Did I tell you there are prizes?.

Hello Monkey

Many years ago I had a friend fight cancer and I started sending her a card every week.  For some reason I did lots of monkey cards because I wanted to make her smile.  Years later I had a student worker who also loved monkeys and her favorite color is orange.  I learned to love using orange in my card making from her.  She needs a little cheering up so hopefully this monkey brings a smile to her face.  (I am glad to use some of my collection of monkeys up - this applique patch is very well aged.)

The challenge at The Paper Players is Animal Antics (feature any animal).  My monkey is an animal.

I was cleaning up and trying to put all my backgrounds that I have made in one place and found this piece of bright orange/yellow/pink and the green piece.  I have no idea what medium was used to make these panels.

I did use distress oxide inks to color the base background.

The sentiment was die cut from a scrap of brown.  Luckily there was enough brown to mat the monkey piece and the orange piece.  I used a piece of scrap green card stock to mat the background.

Thanks for stopping by.  Remember to make a card and send it and make someone smile.

Happy Little Stampers June Christmas Challenge

It is time for a new Christmas challenge At Happy Little Stampers. 

I made many of this card for my friend to send to her shut ins this December.  The images are leftovers from a card she made made last year.  She asked if I could design a card to use these beautiful images.  I made a total of 22 of this card.

The images are matted with silver glitter paper.  They were adhered to a dry embossed layer of white card stock which had been matted with a blue card stock.

The joy was cut with my Silhouette. 

It is a very pretty card.  I know the shut ins will be happy to receive this card.

Please join us at Happy Little Stampers for the June Christmas Challenge. 

Did I tell you there are prizes. 

Oldie Moldie Monday

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

As I was looking for the perfect shade of card stock, I ran across a piece of this Winnie The Pooh paper.  I now have 4 cards which will bring smiles to someone's face.

Remember to show some love for your old supplies. 

Happy Birthday Celebrations

I am working on some cards for a military box a friend is doing for  a troop from Minnesota.  She helped me when I did a box for a Wisconsin troop in March. 

I made a couple birthday cards with this same design.

The stamp for the flower is from Gina K Designs.  I watercolored it with distress oxide inks.  I first laid water into each flower and then came in with distress oxide ink.  I did this on all the petals, dried it and came back in with another layer of color just concentrating the color in the center of each flower.  I had made a background with just a little color on it by using the same color of oxide ink with lots of water added to it to give a hint of color in the background.  I then heat embossed the flower and sentiment on the front.

AAA Cards is celebrating four years of being a challenge blog.  Happy birthday to them.  I am entering my card in their challenge.

The monthly watercolor challenge for June at Happy Little Stampers is Anything Goes with the optional twist of smile.  I know I would smile when I opened the envelope and saw this birthday greeting inside.

The challenge at CAS on Sunday is embossing.  I first stamped my image and sentiment with Black Onyx VersaFine Ink and then used clear embossing powder over the top.  I never could get the hang of using black embossing powder so this is how I do my black embossing.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Playing With More Paper

I had some paper left over from the cards I posted on Wednesday and I wanted to use it up.

I liked the new sketch at Try Stamping on Tuesday. 

Of course, I did stray from the sketch a little.  Please forgive me.

I have enough paper to make one more using this same group of well aged paper.  The stamp is very well aged also.  I believe it is only the 2nd time I have used it.

This will go in a box being sent over to a troop from Minnesota.  A card making friend is coordinating this drive.  She helped me earlier in the spring when I sent cards over to a Wisconsin troop.

Thanks for stopping by.