Travelling via balloons!

 Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Can you believe that it's the last week of July?

This year is just whooshing by!

Yesterday, I had some play time in the craft cave, and

created this fun card:

I loved the stenciled cloud element on Jacquie's card, 

(such a brilliant idea! Thank you for the inspiration!), so I had

to try it for myself. 😊 I broke out my homemade cloud stencil

again, and stenciled onto the card front. For some added interest,

I die cut and glued the square frame die to the card base.

I stamped the sentiment then after coloring and die cutting the fox

 and balloons, glued them onto my card.

Another sentiment finishes the inside.

 

What a fun sketch to create this cute little scene. 😁

That's it for now. I hope that you enjoy the rest of your day.

Thanks for visiting!

 

I'd like to enter this at:

Freshly Made Sketches #495 

Seize the Birthday #219

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Really High Five

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Broken China

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; Lawn Fawn - Really High Five dies; Penny Black - Square Frames die; handmade cloud stencil; Picket Fence Studios - blending brush; MISTI; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; 3D & thin 3D foam squares; Ranger - MMM

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #190 - C is for Colorful

 

Hey snarky peeps!

We have a COLORFUL challenge starting at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS! 

I created a rainbow cloud background then added

my colorful unicorn with that 'sweet' sentiment. LOL!

I outlined the clouds with white blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops along with

the unicorn horn, then gave it's mane and tail a winking of Stella.

I hope that you'll find some time to play along in our Colorful challenge

at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

Need more inspiration? Simply check out what my Sisters created, along

with our reigning Queen, Stephanie!

 

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Mythical Grumplings

Ink: Ranger DI - worn lipstick, spiced marmalade, fossilized amber, squeezed lemonade, cracked pistachio, tumbled glass, mermaid lagoon, wilted violet, shaded lilac; Memento - tuxedo black

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; homemade cloud stencil; PFS - blending brushes; GC; TE - mythical grumpling dies; WOS; MISTI; Nuvo Glitter Drops - white blizzard

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares

I'm guest designing at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

 

Hello and welcome crafty friends!

I was thrilled to be chosen as the July sketch winner at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown,

and was invited to be the guest designer for this week's Stash Challenge,

which is to use vellum on a window card.

Here's what I came up with:

and the inside:

I started by die cutting the layered snowflake frame from white card stock 

and vellum. Using a bit of inky looking DP, I white embossed 

Santa in flight, then die cut the winter landscape from white glitter

paper. Once everything was glued together, I white embossed

the sentiment onto matching blue card stock and adhered.

Thanks again for the honor of guest designing at 52 Christmas Card Throwdown!

I can't wait to see how you interpret this challenge!

 

Thanks for visiting, and I hope that you have a great day!

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Here Comes Santa; Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Christmas, Handlettered Holiday 2

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Paris Dusk

DP: Craft Consortium - Ink Drops Vivid; DCWV - white glitter; Recollections - vellum

CS: Bazzill; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: GC; Sunny Studio - Layered Snowflake Frame dies; CUTplorations - Stitched Winter Landscape die; Taylored Expressions - simple strips dies; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Scotch - foam tape; Scor-Tape

SHOPPING OUR STASH #450 - Quit Buggin' Me

 

Hello crafty peeps!

It's time for the new challenge at SHOPPING OUR STASH,

which is Quit Bugging Me! Inspired by the recent cicada swarm

out here in Maryland, we are looking for any type of bug

on your projects!

Here's what I came up with:

and the inside:

Of course, my first thought was a Halloween card with 

creepy crawlies all over it!

I hope that you find some time to join our bug challenge at Shopping Our Stash!

For more ideas, do check out what my teammates created!

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at Two Old Bats July Halloween Challenge

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Simon Says Stamp - Trick or Treat (2014)

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Vintage Photo, Hickory Smoke

DP: Martha Stewart - Vampire (2010)

CS: Cardstock Warehouse; Nicole

Accessories: Mojo Monday #449 sketch; Martha Stewart - stickers; Stickopotamus - stickers; Tim Holtz - blender; GC; SB - Std sm circle Nestie; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #189 - X is for Xposed

 

(Edna, this is WAY too much I want to know about you!) LOL!

WTG, Sister Lee on yet another amazing graphic!

 

Yes, snarky peeps, it's time for the next challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS! 

The Sisterhood is getting Xposed this fortnight. We can't wait

to see how you interpret this one! LOL!

Here's my offering:

I knew Viva Las Vegas Stamps wouldn't disappoint me when I searched

their store for a flasher stamp. LOL! He's colored with Spectrum Noir 

markers. The background is die cut from a

gel print I made a couple years ago, then I added to it with the

stitched texture plate. My sentiment is courtesy of a meme

I found on the Google.

 

I hope you'll join the Sisters and our reigning Queen, Granne, for

our Xposed challenge! We'd love to see your take on it!

 

Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - Flasher Back

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Spectrum Noir; Cardstock Warehouse; copy paper

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; Taylored Expressions - Frayed Edge rectangle die; Honey Bee - Deckled Edge circle die; SB - Std Lg circle Nestie; CUTplorations - wonky stitched grid texture plate; previously made gel print using DecoArt Americana Acrylic paints; computer & printer; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares; Scotch glue stick

SHOPPING OUR STASH #449 - Christmas in July

 

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

It's time again for the new challenge at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH to start, and this

fortnight it's Christmas in July!

(Of course, if you don't happen to celebrate that particular

holiday, we also welcome any

other holiday that's celebrated in December!)

 

Here's what I came up with: 

and the inside:

This is about as CAS as I am able to get. (I love my layers! LOL!)

I do have a lot of white space on this card, but I just couldn't bear

to leave it plain so I embossed it with a snowflake EF.

I hope that you will join the SOS Crew and link up your 

projects at Shopping Our Stash. We'd love to see them!

For more inspiration, do check out what my teammies have

created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting, and have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

52 Christmas Card Throwdown

CAS Christmas July challenge - poinsettias 

Addicted to CAS #201

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Classy Christmas; Picket Fence Studios - Inside Quotes: Christmas

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk; Versamark

DP: Elizabeth Craft Designs - Worn Wood

CS: Spectrum Noir; Taylored Expressions; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; Sunny Studio - coordinating dies; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle die; Darice - snowflake background EF; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; WOS; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares

It's Your Day!

 Hello and welcome crafty peeps!

I hope those of you who celebrated the 4th of July had

a fun filled day!

I have a card to share in which I tried out possibly not

 quite new techniques, but they were to me. 😁

The first experiment was that gorgeous image. Towards the end of last year, 

I scored a free used laser printer that a friend of my MIL's was trying to get rid of.

Right time, right place! Then it sat on my dining room table for a few months

before I rearranged my craft room a bit and also finally found a small table

that I liked that would fit the space. That was in January. Last weekend, I 

finally got around to hooking it up and testing it out. (and now you know

why it takes me hours if not days to make a card. LOL!)

I printed out this mermaid as my test, and colored her

with Spectrum Noir markers and Prismacolor pencils.

O.M.G! Laser printer = GAME CHANGER!!!

No more blasting the image with my heat gun then giving

it a light coating with hairspray. (my old printer is an inkjet)

And no smearing at all!!!! I have so many digi images that I've 

either bought, won, or were freebies, and I've not used most of them

because of the smearing I always got with the inkjet printer. No more!

The second experiment was grabbing my neglected gel plate, laying

a white card stock panel on it, and brayering a couple Distress Inks over the panel.

 I covered it with wave stencil then brayered

another Distress Ink over it, giving it those muted stripes, 

then spritzed water on the panel.

 

Once that dried, it was time for my third experiment.

I smeared Wild Lilac Glitz glitter gel through the fish stencil,

cleaned off the pallet knife, then went back over everything

with Turquoise Sea Glitz glitter gel. I love how all the fish

have both colors of glitter gel with some more purple and some

more turquoise!

The mermaid received a good coating of both WOS, and Nuvo Glitter

Drops in white blizzard, and once dry she was fussy cut 

and adhered on the card with foam squares. 

A couple small sentiment stamps finish the inside.

It took me a few days to put this together, because I'd work on it some,

then come back to it the next day. Do a bit more, and come back the

next day, etc. But I love how it turned out!

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you

have a wonderful day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Time Out Challenges #191 - my card is based off of The Little Mermaid.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ATG

 

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Aurora Wings - Lady of the Sea digi stamp; Hero Arts - Wish Big

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk; Range DI - Broken China, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon; Versamark

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Gelli Arts gel plate; brayer; water mister; Simon Says Stamp - Waves stencil; Picket Fence Studios - Current of Fish stencil; pallet knife; Gina K. - Wild Lilac & Turquoise Sea Glitz glitter gel; Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencils; Nuvo -white blizzard Glitter Drops; WOS pen; WOW! - clear EP; heat gun; computer & printer; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, thin 3D foam squares