29 again?

Hi there crafty friends, and happy Mardi Gras to you!

Someday I hope to experience that in New Orleans.

Yep, it's a bucket list item! LOL!

Speaking of fun and festive, I've got a birthday card to share:

Here's the inside:

I love that sentiment paired with this sassy lady! LOL!

She's colored with Prismacolor pencils, fussy cut and popped up on

foam squares over the inky background. That panel was made

by spritzing a couple colors of Dylusions ink sprays. I then covered it with

a stencil and wiped away some of the ink with a baby wipe to get

that ghost image. It's a fun technique!

That's all for now. Time to walk the fur baby.

Have a great day and thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

CAS Stencil March challenge - Ghosting

Seize the Birthday #160 - Make Us Laugh

HLS Watercolour March challenge - Mists

Craft Stamper March TIMI

Just Us Girls #477 - Birthday

Supplies:

Stamps: Art Impressions - Golden Oldies Jean; Paper Smooches - Birthday Sampler

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Dylusions spray inks - Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime

CS: Crafter's Companion; Strathmore mixed media paper; Neenah; Darice

Accessories: GC; Lawn Fawn - scalloped rectangle die; Prismacolor pencils; Dylusions - bowl of cherries stencil; baby wipe; MISTI

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

STAMPlorations March Theme & Sketch Challenge!

Hello crafty peeps and welcome back!

It's a new month, so it's time for a new

Theme & Sketch Challenge at STAMPlorations!

Here are this month's theme & sketch:

As always, you can work with just the theme, just the sketch, or use both!

I've used both for my card:

I've used two of the coffee cups from the Happy Zen Coffee Cups set, colored with

Prismacolor pencils and fussy cut. On the main panel I lightly sponged

some pink ink over the Emanations ARTplorations stencil then stamped

one of the sentiments from the Literary Caffeine-ations set. The panel

was adhered onto my red card base with foam squares, as were the coffee cups.

This is such a fun sketch and great theme, so I hope that you find some

time this month to play along and link up at the

STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch challenge!

And what a coincidence, Shery is having a sale right now for 

coffee themed items in the store!

 

But don't worry if caffeine related items aren't your thing, 

if you still wish to shop, you can use my discount code:

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

 for an extra 20% off! Happy shopping, and I look forward to

seeing what you create for the challenge!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Happy Zen Coffee Cups, Literary Caffeine-ations

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Lady Bug, Angel Pink

CS: Crafter's Companion; TE; Neenah

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; ARTplorations - Emanations stencil; MISTI; blending tool

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

SHOPPING OUR STASH #390 - Fabulous February

 Good morning and Happy Tuesday crafty peeps!

We have a fun challenge starting today at

SHOPPING OUR STASH!

Mimi is your hostess this fortnight, and she's challenged us to create something

inspired by February's stone (amethyst), or February's flowers (iris and violet)!

 A few days ago, I posted about this card using this tutorial to create a background.

Well, I just happened to make a couple more panels using another

stencil and different colors of powder dyes. Since one of the dyes happened

to be violet, I figured I could use these for my cards.

Here's my first card:

 

and the inside:

I broke out some ancient ribbon that matched pretty well with my card base color.

The butterfly receive a heavy coating of my Wink of Stella pen.

I tried to get a picture of all the sparkly goodness:

 

 

 Since I had two panels, I made another card:

and the inside:

I experimented with spritzing the back sides of the vellum wings with some 

turquoise shimmer spray, and I really like the effect! As with the butterfly, this cute faerie

 was equally coated with my WOS pen.

I hope you get some time to join in our Fabulous February challenge

at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love to see how you interpret it on your projects.

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

I'd like to enter these at Just Us Girls #476

Seize the Birthday #159 - ATG

Supplies

For both cards:

Ink: Versamark; Memento - Elderberry

CS: Strathmore Mixed Media paper; Recollections; TE; Darice

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Fairy Tale Forest stencil; Magenta Nuance powder dyes - Violet, Purple, Jade, Grass Green, Turquoise; water mister; GC; MISTI; Recollections - vellum; WOS  pen; Stampendous - detail white EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Glue Dots

Butterfly card:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - A snarky birthday to you; Technique Tuesday - Umpteenth birthday

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Flutter Zen 1 layering dies; Recollections - ribbon

Adhesives: Recollections - tacky tape

Faerie card:

Stamps: Stampendous - Birthday Wish

Accessories: Poppystamps - Princess Faerie die; Deco Art Media - turquoise shimmer mister

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #129 - D is for Diet

Hello snarky peeps!

The SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS is back with

their newest challenge: D is for Diet!

This was kind of hard for me at first, since I don't really own any

diet themed stamps. But there is this thing call a meme, so I Googled 

memes about diets and came up with these two cards: 

 

I love to pair snarky sentiments with these retro gals from

Riley & Co. I simply printed the sentiments out

with the help of my computer and printer. 

I thought they needed a bit more something, so I used a couple

grungy border stamps around the edges, and done!

 

Now it's your turn to dazzle the Sisters with your projects about diets! We'd 

love to see your take on it. Just link up at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so

we can admire it! Need more ideas? Simply check out what my Sisters, and our

newest Queen & GD Tenia, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Have fun and thanks for popping by!

Supplies:

Stamps: Riley & Co. - Wondering Midge, Coffee Lady; STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Elements

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Grape Jelly, Lilac Posies

CS: TE; Darice

Accessories: GC; Lawn Fawn - scalloped rectangle die; MISTI; computer & printer

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

A bevy of birthday cards

Hello and welcome crafty peeps!

I was playing in the craft room again, to try a new-to-me technique:

using powder inks with stencils. Using this tutorial as a guide,

I made two panels:

From these, I created 4 cards:

I used a couple word dies cut from black and gold glitter paper. A couple I left

super CAS, and the other two I felt compelled to add gold sequins to. LOL!

There you have it. Four more cards to add to my severely depleted birthday card stash!

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

I'd like to enter these challenges:

CAS Stencil February challenge - powdered inks

Freshly Made Sketches #376

Simon Says Stamp Wed. Challenge - No Stamps Allowed

Supplies:

CS: Strathmore Mixed Media paper; TE; Neenah

DP: DCWV - gold and black glitter paper

Accessories: Magenta- Nuance Powder Dyes: scarlet, orange, golden yellow, grass green, jade; GC; STAMPlorations - Make a Wish and Birthday Wishes word dies; ARTplorations - Botanical Lush stencil; water mister; Darice - sequins

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger- Glossy Accents; Deco Art Media - matte medium

Furbaby love

Hello and happy Thursday to you!

It's great to be back home again. I've been out of town the last couple of weeks,

(one scheduled, one to help out a family member during a medical emergency)

No worries, all is well, and said family member is doing fabulous.

The scheduled week was for pure fun, as I flew back to Illinois to spend time

with my family. It was a whirlwind couple of weeks, but getting to see my

Mom, sisters and brother was so much fun!

To keep me occupied when I had some down time, I did some coloring

with my Prismacolor pencils and stamped images that I brought with me.

The below card uses a couple of the images:

here's the inside:

I sponged some teal ink through a stencil before stamping my sentiment and gluing

the fussy cut images onto the card. Another sentiment finishes the inside.

And my furbaby? That would be this absolutely adorable

Golden Retriever/Chow mix, Colby:

Yesterday we celebrated the 9 year anniversary of him adopting us as his forever family.

We are truly blessed to have him in our lives!

Speaking of my furbaby, he's letting me know it's time for a walk now. LOL!

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

I'd like to enter this at:

Casology #332 - Furbaby

Seize the Birthday #159 - ATG

Craft Stamper - TIMI -

ETA: Must have just missed the cut off for Craft Stamper. I haz a sad.

Supplies:

Stamps: Katzelkraft - Les Chiens, Les Drole d'Accessoires; For the Love of Stamps - Purrfect Sentiments; Taylored Expressions - In & Out Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Teal Zeal

CS: Crafter's Companion; TE; Darice

Accessories: Prismacolor pencils; GC: Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle die; MISTI; STAMPlorations - Grid Locked stencil; blending tool

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Elmer's extra strength glue stick

SHOPPING OUR STASH #389 - Make Your Mark

Hello and welcome back crafty friends!

I'm hosting the new challenge at

SHOPPING OUR STASH,

and as the title suggests, we'd like you to color anything you want

using markers on your project!

Here's my card:

and the inside:

I think this is one of the first stamps I bought when I began scrapbooking

over 10 years ago. Glad I rediscovered it and colored it up with

my Spectrum Noir markers. This is pretty CAS for me. I just couldn't

leave the card base blank, so I sponged some gray ink through a stencil

to break up all that white space. ☺

Just a reminder, our challenges are running every two weeks now. Plenty

of time to color something using markers for a project and link

up at Shopping Our Stash!  I look forward to seeing what you create!

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Craft Smart/Michael's - chick w/bunny ears; Paper Smooches - Critter Card Puns, Spring Fling

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Gray Flannel, Rich Cocoa

CS: Crafter's Companion; Taylored Expressions; scrap

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; GC; MFT - zig zag square die; STAMPlorations - Flourishes stencil; MISTI; WOS pen; sponge dauber

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #128 - K is for Kitties

Hello snarky peeps!

It's time for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!!

The next two weeks are brought to you by the letter K.

As in K for Kitties!

Here's my offering:

I saw a t-shirt that said this and I knew I had to make it into a card!

Love the fact that this kitty looks anything but humored by 

the humerus bone. LOL!

So now it's your turn to break out your kitty stash and make a project

that proudly displays them. Be sure to link up at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we can admire it!

For more ideas, do check out what my Sisters, and our reigning

Queen, Lisa, have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Katzelkraft - Les Chats Russe

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; computer & printer; free clip art of humerus bone; GC; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle die

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Elmer's extra strength glue stick

STAMPlorations February Theme & Sketch Challenge!

Hello and happy Friday to you!

It's time for the February

Theme & Sketch Challenge at STAMPlorations!

Below is the sketch, and your theme this month is Stamps & Hearts,

just in time for Valentine's Day!

 I've used just the theme this time around for my card:

I started by cutting my panel from the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting die.

I then placed the Zen Hearts stencil over it and sponged some pink and purple

inks through it. The panel was dry embossed using a folder frame to leave the center of the 

panel flat. Using the Say It Big-Do What You Love stamp, I stamped in black ink then

over it with versamark, and embossed it with clear embossing powder. I found some

much neglected metal heart stickers in my stash that matched perfectly with my 

color scheme. Woo Hoo! Bonus!

I hope you get a chance this month to make a project and link up at 

STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch challenge! We'd love to see what you create.

Just in case you haven't heard, there's a sale going on at the

STAMPlorations store:

Even if you're not a premium stamp club subscriber, you can use 

my special discount code:

STAMPGIRLCHRIS

for an extra 20% off your order!

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

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations- Say It Big-Do What You Love

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Grape Jelly, Lilac Posies; Versamark

CS: Taylored Expressions; Darice

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle nesting die; Zen Hearts stencil; GC; Darice - multi sized dots EF & oval folder frame; Colorbok - heart stickers; MISTI; Wow! - clear EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner