Oldie Moldie Monday

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

These are cards fronts I had made from a watercolor class I took.  You cut a mask from vinyl with a die, put it on your watercolor paper, and then color around it.  I finally got them made into cards. 

I have been trying to organize some of the things I have created and not completed.  By doing this, I find I can look in that container and do some creating.  I needed Thank You note.

I was glad to use these images up.

Remember to show some love to your old supplies, your old creations - they still make wonderful cards.

Sweet Baby Girl Card

My daughter and her husband just became Aunt and Uncle when Craig's sister added a baby girl to her family.

I had a lovely day buying baby girl clothes and needed to have a card to add to the box.

I recently got the stamp set from My Favorite Things - Zippy Zebras.  I had stamped an entire sheet of zebras, colored them (they are so easy to color - yay) and then let my Scan N Cut cut them all out.  I have a lovely bag of zebras ready to create with.  I decided they would make a wonderful addition to a baby girl card (I really don't have baby stamps and if I did - where the heck would they be).

My Favorite Things has a sketch challenge each week.  I don't think I have played along so decided to use the current challenge and create my card.

 I did not have any MFT paper to use on my card so I found a double sided dotted paper.  This way the colors matched perfectly for my card.  I die cut the circles and added a white rim around each cut out circle.  The zebras peek out of the circles.  The sentiment adds the final design element for the sketch.  The sentiment was generated on the computer.

Now I need to get a box from the post office and pack up all those cute clothes along with this fun card.

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Winter Wishes

I just keep playing with my new Gnome die from Simon Says Stamp.  I am trying to get a few more cards sent to people who sent me Christmas cards.  I really do like this Gnome die - he is so cute and so east to put together.

I am entering the card into several challenges.

The first challenge is a sketch at Try Stampin' On Tuesday.

The next challenge is Tuesday Throwdown where the challenge is Something New.  It is my new die. 

The next challenge is Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge.  The challenge here is something new.

Here is my card.  I used some very well aged pink and green winter papers.  It is a soft color challenge for a winter card.  I used grey to mat the distress oxide background and the sentiment is stamped in grey also.  I added a couple small snowflakes to the card to complete the details.

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Paper Smooches Monthly Challenge

I am glad to see that Paper Smooches is bringing back their Monthly Challenges.  I use to play along many years ago.

The monthly challenge is Anything Cold. 

All my Paper Smooches stamps are in a container and it was like visiting old friends when I opened up the container to choose a snowman.  I love  the snowman from early sets.  They have been well loved in the past.  I found some other stamps in there I want to use in the future.

I tinted a piece of white card stock with a light pink oxide ink to give it a little color (I have a problem with plain white backgrounds.).  I matted this with a teal colored mat.  The little strip of paper was my color inspiration for the card.  The snowman was stamped and colored with Copic markers.  I die cut a snowflake from some sparkly paper.  I stamped the sentiment and colored the strip of paper with Copics.  I have my first Christmas card made for 2020.

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Watercolor Fun

When I was hanging out in Florida puppy sitting, I took lots of stamped images with me to watercolor so I had something creative to do.  I had lots of fun.  I have a huge stack of images already colored and also images that I drew and watercolored myself.

This little bird is an image that I colored nine of.  I have made all nine images into cards.  I feel good about it. 

I am entering the card into two challenges.  The first challenge is is CAS Watercolor where the challenge is to use cool colors.  My bird and background are cool colors. 

The second challenge is from Happy Little Stampers where the monthly CAS Challenge is Wings.  My bird does have wings.

The bird is stamped and water colored.  The background was done on a die cut rectangle of water color paper.  I blended two shades of oxide inks together to match the bird.  The sentiment was die cut from the same grey card stock used to mat the image and rectangle.

I really do like how this card turned out.

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A New Man In My Life

I have so many friends who would get excited if I said that statement thinking it was a real life flesh and blood man but alas it is not - it is one of the Gnome dies from Simon Says Stamp.  I just want to keep playing with him.  He is so much fun and if I get bored - back in his pouch he will go - there will be no sad ugly endings to our relationship.

I was inspired by several challenges this last week for the card plus I needed to send some cards to friends who did not get Christmas cards.  I still need to make more but at least I have made 5 and they will go in the mail this week.

The first is the Sketch Challenge at CAS(E) This Sketch.  I am pretty close to the sketch. 

The second challenge is from The Paper Players.  Their challenge is Something New.  Well I do have a new man in my life - he is the large gnome die from Simon Says Stamp.  The snowflake die is also new - it is from Simon Says Stamp also.  Now that I think of it - the sentiment is from a new small set I purchased recently. 

The last challenge is from the Wednesday Challenge Blog at Simon Says Stamp where the challenge is to use Something New.  I think I covered that with the sentiment and their two dies.

He is so cute.  I love how adding just some colors to his nose and beard just bring him to life.

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Oldie Moldie Monday

It is Monday - time to show some love for your old supplies.  This is a grouping of cards I made from a collection from We R Memory Keepers.

Remember your old supplies still make great cards.