Christmas wreath

 Hello there, I'm back with another card:

 

 

Here's the inside:

 

 

It's hard to tell from my excellent photography skills, but the green paper I

 

used to cut the wreath from is pre-glittered, for some extra sparkle.

 

A simple sentiment finishes the inside.

 

Guess I should get off my butt and get some things done. LOL!

 

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

 

 

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #395

The Flower Challenge #49 -circle(s) 

Merry Little Christmas Challenge #27 - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Petite Poinsettias

Ink: Memento - tuxedo black, lady bug, rhubarb stalk, bamboo leaves, cottage ivy; SSS - lipstick red

DP: HOTP; Darice - green glitter

CS: Thunderbolt; Darice

Accessories: MISTI; GC; Memory Box - Bubble Circles die; Darice - snowflake EF; 

Ranger - gold Stickles

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

Limit yourself to only one drink...???

Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Popping in with a fun birthday card I made over the weekend:

Here's the inside:

(this card did not want to lay flat for picture taking, so, there

are my fingers holding it down. LOL!)

The main panel and strip behind it have these super thin mattes of black card stock,

but I love how that makes them pop.

And here is the first birthday card of the new year made. Yay!

My husband and I spent Saturday rearranging furniture in the three bedrooms,

the smallest room is my craft room. It no longer has a non-functioning

treadmill in it, and was replaced with the Ikea shelving unit meant for that space, which

was in the guest bedroom. The treadmill we put in our room, and the extra

dresser in there is now in the guest bedroom, where my shelf was. 

All that make sense? Of course, we had to move other items of furniture

first to get those pieces moved around. And you know everything had to

be emptied/cleared off first. LOTS of stuff! So glad that's done. 

Did some purging too. I now have more craft stuff to donate, 

threw out things I have no idea why I was holding onto, and recycled

a mess of other things. It. Felt. GOOD!

All three rooms received a very good polishing and vacuuming. I'm

sore in places that I didn't know could be sore but

my goal to organize more is off to a great start!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Seize the Birthday #180 - Layer It

Case This Sketch #354

Supplies:

Stamps: Twistoon - Glass of Wine digi; Avery Elle - Happy Hour

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Pink Paislee - Birthday Bash

CS: SN; Neenah; scraps

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; computer & printer; MISTI; Sakura white Gelly Roll pen

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

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

Aloha!

Hello and happy Fri-Yay!

I hope you all enjoyed your Independence Day to those who were

celebrating yesterday. We had storms roll through, but they held off

just long enough for our community to enjoy the fireworks display.

While it rained earlier, I decided to have some fun in the craft room,

and created a card:

This came together rather quickly for me. A rarity! LOL!

I used snippets from a paper collection, triple cut and stacked the aloha

sentiment, and even found a hibiscus image that I colored up last year!

The letters received a generous dose of my Wink of Stella pen.

 (Ooohh! Shimmery!)

That's it for now. I'm off to enjoy the day.

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Case this Sketch! #329

Double D challenge - Tropical

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Get Outta Town

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Basic Grey - South Pacific

CS: Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: GC; STAMPlorations - Aloha die; Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; WOS pen; Ranger - Diamond Stickles

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Ranger - multi medium matte

Thanks

Hello crafty friends!

I was in the ol' craft room and was making panels

using the smooshing technique. Here's a 

card I made with one of them:

 and the inside:

 That Wink of Stella pen on the stacked thanks die looks soooo shimmery

 on black card stock. I'm also digging this color combo. I need

to use it more often. (grin!)

Well, that's it for now.

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Case this Sketch #246

Just Us Girls #418

Just Add Ink #384 (oops. Already ended. Time zones really mix me up! LOL!)

 

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Bloom Factory, Fond Expressions

Ink: Memento - Paris Dusk, Teal Zeal, Nautical Blue, Tuxedo Black

CS: Strathmore water color paper; TE; scraps

Accessories: GC: Lawn Fawn - scalloped Rectangle dies; STAMPlorations - thanks word die; 

Faber Castell - sm black Artist PITT pen; MISTI; Wink of Stella pen; Nicole - rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger- Multi Medium Matte; Glue Dots

Butterfly wishes

Hello and welcome friends!

Just popping in with a quick card that I made for a few challenges:

 and the inside:

 Trying to capture the shimmer on the butterfly:

I'm hoping that the purples I chose were close to the damson color and of course my vertical

element was the pearls with the butterfly! The butterfly and sentiments were stamped using

Elderberry ink by Memento. (sometimes purple on purple shows up as more black. Just sayin)

Well, that's it for now. Come back tomorrow for my Shopping Our Stash post!

You won't want to miss it! Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Case This Sketch #243

Butterfly Challenge #87 - Vertical & Damson

Seize the Birthday - ATG

STAMPlorations - Neverending ATG

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Trendy Butterflies 1 & 2, A snarky Birthday to you

Ink: Memento - Elderberry

DP: American Crafts - glitter paper

CS: Recollections; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Prima pearl swirl; MISTI; Wink of Stella pen

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #323 - Give Thanks

Hello and happy Tuesday to you!

This week at SHOPPING OUR STASH,

we are looking for your thankful creations, either as a thank you

to someone, or for the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday!

I got an idea in my head and so this is what

came of it:

 and a bit of snark on the inside:

And since I have two brothers and two sisters...

I couldn't get the sentiment out of my head so I ran with it. I found a nice

big acorn image to paper piece. For something completely different,

I used my P-Touch label maker to print out my sentiments.

So now it's your turn to create something thankful/Thanksgiving related. Be 

sure to link up at Shopping Our Stash so that we can admire it!

Need more inspiration? Well then, you need to visit the blogs of my

talented teammies, and while there, leave them some love!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Cas(e) This Sketch #241

TGIF Challenge #127 - die cut (leaves)/designer paper/paper piecing

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Falling For You, Fanciful Fall, Natural Beauties; Hero Arts - Celebrate Everyday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: American Crafts - Night Fall

CS: Recollections; scraps

Accessories: Brother - P-Touch label machine; MISTI; UFO's - die cut leaves from Paper Smooches that have been sitting on my desk for over a month.

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares; Elmer's extra strength glue stick; Glue Dots

SHOPPING OUR STASH #321 - Apple of My Eye

Hello crafty friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we'd like to see apples of some sort on your projects.

That could be apple images, paper, pies, etc. Some of my

teammies got creative and used pineapples on their projects!

Very clever! Here's my card:

 And the inside:

I remembered that I had this apple stamp from

The Alleyway Stamps. It's the first time this image was inked!

(sadly I have many images like that - non inked yet)

I even found some paper with apples on it. Score!

Now it's your turn! Simply create something with some type of apple(s) on it

and be sure to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it!

For more ideas, please check out what my teammies created.

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #239

Seize the Birthday - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: The Alleyway Stamps - It's Fall About You; Taylored Expressions - Taylor; Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: DCWV - Simply Autumn Stack

CS: TE; Recollections

Accessories: MISTI; Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; Recollections - vellum

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