An outdoorsy themed birthday card

 Hello and happy Friday!

Here's a fun guy card I came up with:

The woodgrain embossing folder I used is a great

backdrop for the tree and deer silhouettes, I think, IMHO.

Some snippets of paper and a sentiment

is all that was needed to finish my card.

Sorry for the weird lighting in my photos.

I just bought a light box and am still

trying to figure it out. LOL!

My card uses the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches #697,

and since it's a birthday card, I'm also entering this at

Addicted to Stamps and More #498.

That's all for now. I hope that you have a great weekend.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Hooked On You & dies

Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa

DP: KaiserCraft - Mountain Air

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill

Accessories: Impression Obsession - 3 Pine Trees die; Taylored Expressions - deer die from Birch Tree Accessories set; Sunny Studio - woodgrain EF; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares; Bearly Art glue

And here's another guy card

 

 Hi there, I'm back with another beer themed guy card.

My guy card stash is pretty much non-existent, so I cranked

out a couple cards to help with that. Here's the other one:

 and the inside:

 

LOL! I love that sentiment, and this is yet another card for one of my beer drinking

 20-something nephews. I was able to use up some snippets from a 

paper collection to make up this card. Yay!

That's it for today. Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at Addicted to Stamps and More #398

 Supplies:

Stamps: Unity Stamps - Keep Calm have a Beer; Stampendous - Balloons and more; Crackerbox Suzy Stamps - Naked and screaming

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: American Crafts; Darice

Accessories: MISTI; Inkadinkado - black EP; Heat gun

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

Man of the Moment

 Hello and welcome crafty friends! I've been up in the ol' craft room

creating some cards, and here is one of them:

 

 

...and the inside:

 

 

I used some metallic gold paper to emboss the back panel, using the

 

Brick Wall EF by Darice. I found this funny sentiment 

 

to cut out from the sheet and the fish DP from 

 

the same collection. Ooh! Shiny!

A snarky stamped sentiment on the inside and this card was done!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Let's Squash It #1 - geometric & metallic

Seize the Birthday #202 - texture 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Another Year Older

Ink: Memento - Nautical Blue

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: TE; Bazzill - metallic gold

Accessories: GC; Darice - Brick Wall EF; MISTI

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

STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge reminder

Good morning and welcome!

I'm just popping in with a reminder about the October

Theme & Photo Prompt challenge 

over at STAMPlorations!

Here's the card I made: 

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And the inside:

The main panel was cut using the Crazy Double Running Stitch rectangle dies.

The flowers are from the Bloomfully Sparkle stamp set. I heat embossed

it in gold, then used powder inks to water color the image. Once dry, I fussy

cut it and gave it a good coating of Pearl Glimmer Mist for some

major shimmer. I stamped the sentiment from the

Sketched: Simple Gift set, notched an end and also adhered on foam squares.

The inside sentiment comes from the Birthday Bash stamp set. 

 

I hope that you find some time this month to play along

at STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt challenge.

We'd love to see your creations in the gallery!

 

For the Theme & Photo Prompt challenge prizes, one entry will win a $20 gift code

to be picked by one member of the design team. Also, 3 randomly selected entries

will each receive a $7 gift code.

 

If you happen to place an order in the STAMPlorations shop,

feel free to use my personal discount code, STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off. 

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Bloomfully: Sparkle; Sketched: Simple Gift; Birthday Bash

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Gray Flannel

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: Strathmore mixed media paper; Core'dinations

Accessories: Magenta Nuance powder dyes - grass green, jade, golden yellow, orange, scarlet; MISTI; Stampendous - champagne EP; heat gun; GC; CUTplorations - crazy double running stitch rectangle dies; Nicole - rhinestones; water and paint brush; Tattered Angels - pearl Glimmer Mist

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

 

 

And now for another Christmas card...

Hi there and welcome!

It seems it's been ages since I've posted something that wasn't scheduled in advance.

Not today my friends. Not today.

I'm playing along at Christmas Kickstart #21: Woodland Creatures,

and here's my take on it:

and the inside:

 

The image was stamped twice, on the main panel, then on a bit of scrap. The grass

was colored on main panel, the deer on the scrap. Then I fussy cut the deer, and adhered

it over top with foam squares for a bit of a 3D effect.

I love how this turned out. I might be crossed eyed from the fussy

cutting, but it was worth it. LOL!

We are finally getting some much needed rain here in my neck of the woods.

 We've been in a drought since August, and everyone's

lawns are all brown. Hope this bit of overdue rain will help

bring it back for at least a little while. (Although the brown grass lends to

the cemetery I have in my front yard. LOL! Halloween!!) 

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

have a great day!

Playing along at Christmas Kickstart #21 - Woodland Creatures

Supplies:

Stamps: Unity Stamp Co. - All is Calm All is Bright; Hero Arts - Merry Christmas Message, color layering Christmas tree

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Walnut Stain

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; GC; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle die; WOS pen; MISTI; Ranger blending tool

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

Happy Beer-thday

Hi there and happy Friday crafty peeps!

It's been a few days since I've posted anything, so I'm fixing that right now. ☺

Today I'm sharing a card I made using this

week's sketch at Tuesday Morning Sketches, #494:

Here's the sketch:

...Here's my take on it:

 and the inside:

 

The infamous "guy" card.

Well, you can't go wrong with a beer themed card for a guy. I did replace

the ribbon element with a couple of beer bottle cut outs, but otherwise

kept pretty close to the sketch. 

 Well, as it's mid 60's here right now, I think I'm going to go take

Colby for a long walk before it starts raining.

I hope you all have a fabulous day and weekend!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

Stamps: Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous - Beer; Avery Elle - Happy Hour

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Kaisercraft - Mountain Air

CS: Crafter's Companion; Thunderbolt; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; mystery metal dots; Kaisercraft - bottles from coordinating ephemera package

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