Happy Beer-day

 Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Here's a fun and punny guy card:

 ...and the inside:

I used embossing paste and the Dots and Dashes stencil

for my background. After cleaning the stencil off, I sprinkled

copper embossing powder onto the paste, and tapped off the excess. 

While the paste dried, I stamped, colored and fussy cut the beer mug.

I used alpha stamps to stamp my punny sentiment and heat embossed.

Once the embossing paste was dry, I heat embossed the copper

embossing powder that I covered it with.

I blended some brown ink around the panel's edges before adhering

all the components together.

I have a lot of nephews in their 20's so this will be sent to one of them. LOL!

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up Stencil Challenge - heat embossing

Seize the Birthday #207 (no topping) 

Addicted to Stamps and More #398 - birthdays

Happy Little Stampers stencil challenge - ATG 

Supplies:

Stamps: Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous - Beer; Studio G - alpha stamps; Taylored Expressions - Another Year Older

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa

CS: Spectrum Noir; Thunderbolt; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; STAMPlorations - Dots and Dashes stencil; pallet knife;

Stampendous - Detail Copper EP; heat gun; PFS - blending brush

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

A Summer-y Birthday

Hello and happy Friday crafty friends!

I hope everyone is well and keeping safe during

this unsettling, crazy time.

In case you're in need of one, here's a big cyber

bear hug from me to you! 

I've been missing my mojo the last few months. Sometimes on rare

occasions, like now, it will emerge for a day or two. Since it seems like it takes

me at least two days to make a card lately, I jumped at the gift of mojo

to make this card:

Here's the inside:

To the main panel, I first splattered some watered down Gesso and black paint,

and once dry, stamped the sentiment. I used a pineapple embossing folder to emboss

 a panel of vellum, then carefully tore it for my background strip. I folded

it over the edges and adhered on the back side of the yellow panel. Wound

some hemp cord around it and adhered with foam squares onto the card base.

I stamped the hibiscus four times in versamark and heat embossed in gold.

On the back side I colored them in using CT2 & CR3 Spectrum Noir markers,

then added shading details with the Poppy Red Prismacolor pencil.

I cut a diamond shape then scored it for a bit more interest before

adhering the flowers with glue dots. The diamond panel is also

adhered with foam squares.

Another sentiment was stamped on the inside and the last flower added.

I LOVE how this came out! I really need to color on vellum more.

What a fun look it gives.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Freshly Made Sketches #438

Seize the Birthday #192 - All about Summer

CAS Mix Up June challenge - embossed vellum

Paper Smooches challenge - Flowers

AAA Birthday challenge #14 - vellum

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Get Outta Town, Hullabaloo, Happy Birthday

Inks: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versamark

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencil; Recollections - vellum; GC; Park Lane - pineapple EF; Stampendous - Champagne EP; heat gun; MISTI; Martha Stewart - scoring board; Hirschberg Schultz - hemp cord; DecoArt Media Gesso; DecoArt Americana - Black acrylic paint; water mister; paintbrush

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Glue Dots; Score Tape; Recollections - tacky tape

Birthday Fishes

Hello and good Sunday to you, crafty friends!

I have a card to share that I made, which I'm

pleased to have been able to link up to a few challenges with:

 The main panel is mixed media paper that I used the paper towel transfer technique on.

 I'm pretty sure this towel has Dylusions spray inks and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists

sprayed on it. Here's a close up picture that shows how the design in the paper towel

transferred to the panel:

I tried to get a close up of how the 'water' shimmers from the glimmer mist:

Pretty cool!

I die cut and colored my fish, then once the panel was completely dry, stamped

the sentiment wonky. The fish were adhered with foam squares.

This was a fun technique, and I'll be making more panels using it. 

(I just have to remember to wear latex gloves otherwise my fingertips

will pick up the inks from the towel. Ask me how I know.)

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a great rest of the day!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up August challenge - Paper towel + stamping + die cutting + alcohol markers

Happy Little Stampers Water Colour challenge - Ocean

Case this Sketch #333

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - use only one third

TGIF challenge #223

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Briny Blue, Birthday Buddies

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Strathmore mixed media; TE; Darice; Crafter's Companion

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; Paper Smooches - Briny Blue dies; MISTI; inked up paper towel; water mister

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #397 - Stencil Me This

Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Donna is hosting this fortnight's challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH, 

and she's picked stencils as your muse! 

For my card, I've used a stencil that I bought at least a year ago and,

of course, this is the first time using it. (cough *hoarder* cough)

 

here's the inside:

I blended three colors of green ink into the tread stencil for an ombre' look.

Then stamped the motorcycle and sentiment, matted it, and popped it

on with foam squares. Another simple sentiment finishes the inside,

and now I have another guy card ready to be sent! Yay!

I hope that you find some time to play along with our stencil

challenge at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love to see

what you create in our gallery. Thanks for 

dropping by, and I hope that you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at CAS Mix Up June challenge - Ombre' Ombre' + stamping + sponging + stenciling

Supplies:

Stamps: Carta Bella - Work Hard Play Hard; Taylored Expressions - Party Grumplings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Pear Tart, Bamboo Leaves, Northern Pine

CS: Neenah; TE

Accessories: Andy Skinner - Tread Carefully stencil; sponge dauber; MISTI

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

Playing with embossing powders

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

I had a little play time in the ol' craft cave yesterday, and

wanted to share what I made. I tried a new to me technique

called layered heat embossing. This technique works great with

any of those layering stamps, of which I have maybe two: a peacock 

and a Christmas tree. I used the peacock for my experiment:

here's the finished inside:

I don't think I've used my anti-static bag so much on one project ever! LOL!

And miracle of miracles, it worked for me!

Just look at all those layers of embossing powder:

I was happy to find that I had a couple of blue embossing powders to use.

The one I used for the solid body had glitter in it, as did the gold I used on

the tail feathers, so there's a bit of sparkle all over this bird!

This was a fun technique, and I hope to experiment with it again soon.

That's it for now. I'm going to go play in the dirt and plant the

flowers I bought on Sunday. Had to wait for decent weather first.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up Challenge - Layered Stamping + Heat embossing + fussy cutting (the banner)

Seize the Birthday #163 - ATG

Craft Stamper - April Take It Make It challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - Color Layering Peacock; MFT - Birdie Brown Greetings Galore

Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Nautical Blue

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

DP: scrap (I think it's HOTP)

Accessories: MISTI; Stampendous EP - Blue Tinsel, Alexandrite, Jade Pearl, Jeweled Gold, Detail White; Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; static bag

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

Faux Stained Glass Flower card

Hello there friends!

I tried a new to me technique called

Faux Stained Glass, and it was

very fun to do!

Here's what I created:

and the inside:

For my card, I used the Spring Flower Layering die. I cut the solid die from a

background I had previously made using powder dyes and spritzing with water.

I cut the outline die 4 times, stacking and gluing 3 of them together then to the 

solid die cut. I filled all of those teeny tiny bits with Deco Art Media Liquid Glass,

and left it to dry overnight. The last outline die was heat embossed in gold embossing

powder before adhering to the rest of the stack. 

I stamped a grungy image stamp multiple times on my card base 

for more interest behind the flower. After stamping the sentiment,

I glued the flower to my card base.

Here's a couple close ups:

That water colored background with the Liquid Glass really does

look like stained glass!

That's all for now. You made it to the end! Thanks for

visiting and I hope you have a great evening!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Mix Up Challenge - Faux Stained Glass + stamping + die cutting + heat embossing

The Flower Challenge #30 - ATG

Time Out Challenge #131 - Inspired by Words

Craft Stamper March Take It Make It challenge

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Elements, Sketched: Simple Gift; Recollections - Wishing you

Ink: Memento - New Sprout, Tuxedo Black; VersaMark

CS: Neenah; Strathmore mixed media paper

Accessories: GC; CUTplorations - Spring Flower layering dies; Stampendous - champagne EP; heat gun; Magenta Nuance powder dyes - turquoise, purple, jade; water mister; DecoArt Media - Liquid Glass; MISTI

Adhesives: Ken Oliver - Stick It adhesive sheets; Ranger - multi medium matte