Let's Shell-abrate!

 Hello and welcome!

I'm still plugging away trying to

use my new (or new to me)

stash of crafty goodies.

(Buying craft supplies and using them are two different things.)

This card combines items from

a bunch of different companies:

The stencil, sand dollar/seahorse dies, and sentiment are all new

items. I masked around the different shells to blend

different inks for different shells. Time consuming, but

I love how it looks! For the seahorse and sand dollars,

I blended the same inks onto the same cardstock, (a beige

color, because it looks like sand! LOL!) I die cut,

then left the die cut pieces in the die to blend in the darker

colors. This reminds me of looking for shells at

my favorite happy place, Topsail Island, NC.

We just came back from a little mini vacation there,

and I'm ready to go back!

Paper Players #749 has a By the Water challenge going on, so

I'm linking up there. My card is based off the current 

sketch at Atlantic Hearts Challenge #641.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Magic Messages; Avery Elle - Inside Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, Teal Zeal, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Cantaloupe, Lu Lu Lavender, Grape Jelly; Altenew - Blush, Pink Pearl, Puffy Heart

CS: Taylored Expressions - Thunderbolt

Accessories: Pretty Pink Posh - Layered Seashells stencils; Spellbinders - Seahorse and Sand Dollar dies; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle dies; Paper Roses - stitched square dies; MISTI; Prismacolor pencil

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

Paper Players #748, Seize the Birthday #310, Just Us Girls #785

 Hello and welcome!

I just realized I haven't posted here in almost a month.

July was a busy month for us, what with everyday life, 

the constant battle of weeding this lovely 

bermuda grass out of the flower beds and veggie garden, (and with

the intense heat wave it's been slow going), and

one of my sisters flew out to visit us for 10 days.

We even took a mini trip to the beach!

First time in two years. It was heavenly!

So now I am back in my craft room, trying to

get the mojo going again. I combined a

few challenges to make this card:

I love aqua/teal/turquoise colors so that's what I

used on my card.

Seize the Birthday #310 challenges us to use our favorite

color, and I paired that with the sketch at 

The Paper Players #748. Since I used a stencil on

the card base, I'm also linking this up

at Just Us Girls #785.

That's all I got for now. Thank you so much for visiting!

I hope you have a great rest of your day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Avery Elle - Inside Birthday Greetings

Ink: Taylored Expressions - Blue Raspberry

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah

Accessories: Taylored Expressions - Flickering stencil; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle die; Pink & Main - zig zag circle die; Cuttlebug - Divine Swirls EF; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner; Bearly Art glue

A little birdie told me...

 ...that it's your birthday!

Hello and welcome, crafty friends.

Here's another card I'd like to share with you:

I love the versatility of this bird die. I used a few shades

of teal ink to blend all the bits then assembled them.

Admittedly, this is a recent purchase, but I've paired it

with items in my stash, ranging from a few years ago

 (the sentiments and stitched circle die)

 to 2012 (the paper and lacey circle die).

Anther sentiment on the inside finishes this card:

There are a few challenges I'd like to enter this at:

The Paper Players #713

Seize the Birthday #294

Shopping Our Stash #533 - Birds of a Feather

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Inside Birthday Sentiments

Ink: Altenew - Mountain Mist, Volcano Lake, Lagoon; Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: American Crafts - Color Crush

CS: Neenah; scrap

Accessories: Poppy Stamps - Nordic Plumed Bird die; Sunny Studio - Stitched Circle die; Spellbinders - Lacey Circle die; MISTI

Adhesives: Bearly Art glue; SA - tape runner, foam squares

Hummingbird birthday

 Hello and welcome!

I have a card to share that I was

working on over the weekend:

I used a brand new (to me) hummingbird layering die that

I'm so loving right now!

Shades of green and a pop of red. The ruby throated

hummingbird is the kind that I have zipping around my

hummingbird feeders. They are so much fun to watch!

Here's the finished inside:

Well, that's it for now. 

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Color Hues #91

The Paper Players #699

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Birthday Wishes; Altenew - Amazing You

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Neenah; Taylored Expressions; Cardstock Warehouse; scraps

Accessories: Honey Bee - Lovely Layers Hummingbird dies; MFT - scalloped rectangle from Blueprints 27; MISTI

Adhesives: SA - tape runner, 3D foam squares - Bearly Art glue

 

You Rock

 Hello and welcome friends!

As I mentioned on this post, I needed to create

another card using the other drum set I die cut.

Ta-Da! Here it is:

For some reason, I felt compelled to use orange on this card.

Gotta say, I'm digging it! LOL!

Since I still had the stamp out, I used the same one on the inside:

I'm happy to have yet another dude card ready. 😊

Thank you for stopping by. Enjoy your day!

I'd like to enter this at The Paper Players #691

Supplies:

Stamps: Paper Smooches - Knick Knacks; Picket Fence Studios - My man my friend

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Reminisce - Got Ink?/ Bazzill - gold & silver mirror

CS: Cardstock Warehouse; Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Pink & Main - Zig Zag circle die; Sunny Studio - stitched circle die; My Favorite Things - Keep On Rockin' dies; Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots EF; MISTI

Adhesives: SA - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Ranger - MMM

Easy peasy birthday card

 Hello crafty friends and welcome!

I'm sharing a quick card I made

for the current Paper Players challenge:

It's a clean and simple challenge with a flower theme.

I used an ATC for my main panel, added a thin black matte,

stamped a sentiment and that was it!

Another simple sentiment finishes the inside:

I've used products from STAMPlorations.

If you follow the blog, you'll know that the owner, Shery Russ,

has been battling a cancer diagnosis for the past year. To focus

on her health, she made the incredibly hard decision to close the

store except for a handful of bundles and the digi stamps.

She just recently received the BEST news from her

doctors! Here's a link to her blog post so you can

read it in her own words. 😍 I'm beyond excited for her!

That's all I've got for now. Thank you for visiting, and I

hope that you have a great day!

I'm entering this at The Paper Players #632

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Birthday Bash, Sketched simple gift (retired)

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: STAMPlorations - mixed media spring ATC ephemera; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SHOPPING OUR STASH #432 - Hot Beverages for Cold Nights

 

Hello crafty peeps and welcome!

It's time for another challenge at 

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

This fortnight, as the title suggests, we are looking for projects 

that feature a hot beverage.

Here's what I came up with:

 

 

 

These coffee mugs were fun, and very therapeutic to color. No

shading, just coloring to color. (My inner child had fun!)

I used a stencil to emboss the aqua panel. I think that's the first time

I tried that out, and I like it. I'll be using that technique more. 

We hope that you'll play along in our Hot Beverages challenge

at Shopping Our Stash. For more inspiration, do yourself a favor

and check out what my teammies created. So much crafty goodness!

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

 

I'd like to enter this at Paper Players #514

 

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Happy Zen Coffee Cups;  

Literary Caffeine-ations 

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Spectrum Noir; Taylored Expressions; Bazzill

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; GC; Pinkfresh - Slim diagonal stitched rectangle die; 

SB - Std Lg & Sm Circle Nesties; WOS pen; ARTplorations - Mosaic Slimline stencil; 

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

Having some fun with layering stamps

Hello and happy hump day!

I was playing around with a new to me stamp set

using different color combinations for the layered

plumeria flower. 

This is what came about:

and the inside:

I don't have a gazillion different ink colors so I was just using what I

had on hand. Of all the different images on this card, I really

like how the monstera palm leaf came out the best. LOL!

Are any of these lined up perfectly? Nope, but they are close

enough in my book, so they were fussy cut and arranged.

My design is based off the Paper Players #501 sketch.

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

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Radiant Plumeria, Summer Sweets; MFT - Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Lulu Lavender/Lilac Posies/Dandelion/Tangelo, Angel Pink/Rose Bud/Lemon Chiffon (Simon Says Stamp)/Cantaloupe/Lady Bug, Pear Tart, Cottage Ivy, Northern Pine, Bamboo Leaves, Bahama Blue; VersaMark

DP: Pebbles - Garden Party

CS: Neenah; TE; Thunderbolt

Accessories: GC; Cuttlebug - Oxford EF; MME - enamel dots; MISTI; Stampendous - white EP;

heat gun; WOS pen

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #413 - My Heart Is On Fire

Good Morning and welcome crafty friends!

This fortnight at SHOPPING OUR STASH,  

as our theme suggests, we are

celebrating all things hearts. 

For my card, I took it a bit literally and created

a grungy, heart afire card:

Sometime last year, I made a bunch of panels using different Nuance powder

dyes. I die cut my heart from one of them. For the flames, I sponged a couple

colors of Distress Inks onto some white card stock, spritzed some Granite 

Glimmer Mist over it then die cut. The white panel was splattered with

black spray ink, then I stamped around the edges with my favorite

grunge stamp. A heat embossed sentiment on the banner

die completes my card.

 

I hope that you get a chance to play along at Shopping Our Stash!

We'd love to see how you interpret our challenge. Need more inspiration?

Simply check out the amazing projects that my teammies made!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Paper Players #476

Time Out Challenge #154

TGIF Challenge #249

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ATG

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Wavy Sayings; STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Grunge

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Fossilized Amber, Ripe Persimmon; Versamark

CS: Strathmore mixed media paper; Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Gemini; Lawn Fawn - banner die; SB - Scalloped heart die; MFT - flames from Rock N Roll die set; Stampendous - white EP; heat gun; Magenta Nuance Scarlet powder dye; water mister;

Picket Fence Studio blending brushes; Tattered Angels Granite Glimmer Mist; DecoArt Media Carbon Black spray ink; MISTI

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

Shimmery snowflakes

Hello crafty friends! I had some play time up in the craft room,

and decided to use a die that I bought last month but hadn't used yet.

...well, the main panel is all shimmery, that is:

and the inside:

I made a bunch of water color-y backgrounds last year, and one of my goals this

year is to actually use them. This one is Dylusions spray inks, then pearl Glimmer Mist

over that, on mixed media paper. I edged the main panel with some black card stock strips
to make it pop more. A simple sentiment and some star shaped rhinestones in the
center of all the snowflakes finishes this card. 

This card was fitting as we had our first decent snow fall yesterday. Ok, maybe it
was only about 2", but it was enough to delay school openings.
Being originally from and growing up in Illinois, I still find this completely hilarious.
(Perhaps more like ridiculous.) As a kid, if the schools closed for a snow day, it would
have had to snow at least a foot before closing was even considered. LOL!

That's all for now. Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Just Us Girls #517

CAS Watercolour Card Challenge- cool colours

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Something New (new snowflake die)

The Paper Players #472  (new snowflake die)

Supplies:

Stamps: Hero Arts - color layering Christmas tree

Ink: Memento - nautical blue

CS: Strathmore mixed media paper; Neenah; scraps

Accessories: Gemini; Memory Box - Tisdale Snowflake Collage die; Dylusions ink sprays; Tattered Angels Pearl Glimmer Mist; MISTI: Recollections star rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner