It's Your Day!

 Hello and welcome crafty peeps!

I hope those of you who celebrated the 4th of July had

a fun filled day!

I have a card to share in which I tried out possibly not

 quite new techniques, but they were to me. 😁

The first experiment was that gorgeous image. Towards the end of last year, 

I scored a free used laser printer that a friend of my MIL's was trying to get rid of.

Right time, right place! Then it sat on my dining room table for a few months

before I rearranged my craft room a bit and also finally found a small table

that I liked that would fit the space. That was in January. Last weekend, I 

finally got around to hooking it up and testing it out. (and now you know

why it takes me hours if not days to make a card. LOL!)

I printed out this mermaid as my test, and colored her

with Spectrum Noir markers and Prismacolor pencils.

O.M.G! Laser printer = GAME CHANGER!!!

No more blasting the image with my heat gun then giving

it a light coating with hairspray. (my old printer is an inkjet)

And no smearing at all!!!! I have so many digi images that I've 

either bought, won, or were freebies, and I've not used most of them

because of the smearing I always got with the inkjet printer. No more!

The second experiment was grabbing my neglected gel plate, laying

a white card stock panel on it, and brayering a couple Distress Inks over the panel.

 I covered it with wave stencil then brayered

another Distress Ink over it, giving it those muted stripes, 

then spritzed water on the panel.

 

Once that dried, it was time for my third experiment.

I smeared Wild Lilac Glitz glitter gel through the fish stencil,

cleaned off the pallet knife, then went back over everything

with Turquoise Sea Glitz glitter gel. I love how all the fish

have both colors of glitter gel with some more purple and some

more turquoise!

The mermaid received a good coating of both WOS, and Nuvo Glitter

Drops in white blizzard, and once dry she was fussy cut 

and adhered on the card with foam squares. 

A couple small sentiment stamps finish the inside.

It took me a few days to put this together, because I'd work on it some,

then come back to it the next day. Do a bit more, and come back the

next day, etc. But I love how it turned out!

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

have a wonderful day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Time Out Challenges #191 - my card is based off of The Little Mermaid.

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - ATG

 

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Aurora Wings - Lady of the Sea digi stamp; Hero Arts - Wish Big

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk; Range DI - Broken China, Salty Ocean, Mermaid Lagoon; Versamark

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Bazzill

Accessories: Gelli Arts gel plate; brayer; water mister; Simon Says Stamp - Waves stencil; Picket Fence Studios - Current of Fish stencil; pallet knife; Gina K. - Wild Lilac & Turquoise Sea Glitz glitter gel; Spectrum Noir markers; Prismacolor pencils; Nuvo -white blizzard Glitter Drops; WOS pen; WOW! - clear EP; heat gun; computer & printer; MISTI

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

STAMPlorations is celebrating 8 years!

 

 

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Hello and welcome crafty friends!

Today is day two of the revelry that is

STAMPlorations 8th Birthday Celebration! 

Today, we are showcasing Birthday Bundle #2

and here are the two cards I've created:

 

 

I started by die cutting the main panel from the crazy double running stitch rectangle nesting dies

and using a few DO inks, sponged them over the Design Blox Template #6.

Before removing the template, I splattered white, black and gold paint over the panel.

After cleaning the template and setting the panel aside to dry, I white heat embossed 

the Blossom Sprays #5 stamp onto vellum and fussy cut.

I used vellum tape to attach it to my card, then gold heat embossed the sentiment

from Balloons and Banners onto a strip of black card stock and adhered towards

the bottom of my card. 

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For my second card, I die cut the new Art Border #2 die twice on the main

panel and corner rounded the top right corner. I stamped one of the sentiments from

the See the Good stamp set then adhered to the card base. Then using some

fun card stock colors, I die cut some of the flowers and leaves from the

Trendy Spring Blooms dies, arranged and glued them to the card.

I finished by adding a rhinestone in the center of the stacked flower.

What's a celebration without prizes? There are a few ways you

can celebrate with us, so be sure to read all the details on the

STAMPlorations blog to join in on the party!

Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!

Supplies:

Card 1:

Stamps: Blossom Sprays #5, Balloon and Banners

Ink: Versamark; Ranger DO - Fired Brick, Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade

CS: Neenah; Bazill

DP: Recollections - vellum

Accessories: ARTplorations - Design Blox Template #6; CUTplorations - Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting die; DecoArt Americana acrylic paints - white, black, Glorious Gold Metallic; PFS- blending brushes; MISTI; Stampendous - detail white and gold EP; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Scotch Vellum tape

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #188 - W is for Watercolor

 

Hello and welcome, snarky peeps!

It's time for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS! 

This fortnight we want to see your watercolored creations!

Here's what I came up with:

and the inside:

The back panel is made by inking up the spider web embossing folder 

(Taylored Expressions) with a few distress ink colors, spritzing with water 

and running it through my Grand Calibur. I took Black Soot DI and 

sponged around the edges before adding to my card base. The witch's hat was 

heat embossed in black and colored using more distress inks and a water brush.

 I used an ancient pumpkin border punch for the sentiment strip, which the 

sentiment is heat embossed with jeweled gold EP. It has a nice subtle sparkle IRF.

I hope that you find some time to play along in our Watercolor challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! We'd love to see what you make. Need more

ideas? Simply check out what my Sistahs, and our reigning Queen of Snark,

Deanne, have created for your viewing pleasure!

Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Two Old Bats June Halloween Challenge

Let's Squash It! #9 (webs are from nature!)

 

 

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Unity Stamps - You Witch!; Stampers Anonymous/TH - Mr. Bones

Ink: Ranger DI - Hickory Smoke, Carved Pumpkin, Scattered Straw, Black Soot, Dusty Concord,

Rustic Wilderness, Crackling Campfire; Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versamark

CS: Strathmore water color & mixed media papers; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: GC; TE - Tangled Webs EF; MISTI; water brush; Stampendous Jeweled Gold & 

Inkadinkado Black EP; heat gun; Fiskars - jack-o-lantern border punch

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

Get your hula on!

 Hello and happy hump day!

I'm popping in quickly to share a card I made for

my sister for her birthday. She loves the beach

so I created a cute ocean scene:

Here's the inside:

Yep, I am the younger sister, and I love to remind her of it every chance I get. LOL!

I used a few NBUS stamp sets to make my scene, all from Stampendous,

(supply list is below) and colored with Spectrum Noir markers. To keep the

beach vibe going, I stenciled a tone on tone wavy stencil onto the card base.

Oh, and that hula gnome? She's on an Action Wobble!

That's all for now. We are getting some gorgeous weather here right now,

and I want to go out and enjoy it. Especially since the cicadas are pretty

much gone. LOL! Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Addicted to Stamps and More #408 - Birthdays

NBUS #27 

Supplies:

Stamps: Stampendous - Gnome Beach, Gnome Sayings, Sunrise Sunset; Taylored Expressions - Another Year Older

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Peacock Feathers; Gina K - Kraft

CS: Spectrum Noir; TE; Nicole

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; MISTI; GC; Sunny Studio - Stitched Semi Circle die; Avery Elle  - double pierced rectangle die; Art Impressions - Action Wobbles; Simon Says Stamp - waves stencil; PFS - blending brush; Ranger - Crystal stickles

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner

SHOPPING OUR STASH #448 - Tropical Delights

 

Good morning and welcome crafty peeps!

We have a fun challenge starting at

SHOPPING OUR STASH: Tropical Delights!

Palm trees, hula dancers, tiki bars, toucans, fruity drinks with little

blue umbrellas, hibiscus, anything like that is all good!

Here's the card I made:

Here's the inside:

I've had this flamingo die for at least a year. (scored it at Tuesday Morning!)

Can you believe this is the first time using it?! (well, if you know me, then

you know I hoard supplies and rarely use them right away. LOL!)

I looked up pictures of flamingos to color the beak for a more

realistic look, and blended Abandoned Coral DI to add shading to it's

back, wing, and legs. I uncovered some tropical looking papers to

use and added a simple sentiment to finish.

This flamingo may be my favorite new(ish) die. LOL!

I hope that you find some time to play along in our Tropical Delights

challenge at Shopping Our Stash. For more ideas, do check out

the tropical delights created by my teammies!

Thanks for visiting, have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at Happy Little Stampers ATG w/Dies

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Wavy Sayings; MFT - Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DI - Abandoned Coral

DP: Echo Park - Summer Fun (2017)

CS: Thunderbolt; Bazzill

Accessories: GC: Spellbinders - flamingo die; Taylored Expressions - Frayed Edge dies; Lawn Fawn - Wavy Banner die; Smooch - Sundance ink; Sakura - white Gelly Roll pen; Faber Castell - black Artist PITT pen; MISTI; PFS - blending brush

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

Squashing it using water color

 Happy Father's Day to all Dad's, both still with us

and in Heaven!

It's a lazy day here at Chez Dring. The hubs is

catching up on his Z's, so I decided to make a card

whilst he snoozes. LOL!

 

 and the inside:

I'm playing along with the current Let's Squash It challenge #9.

The prompt is to use both a nature themed embossing folder

along with water coloring of some kind. I dug in my box-o-embossing-folders

and rediscovered this Leafy Branch EF by Cuttlebug. I started by

rubbing Peacock Feathers DI directly onto the EF, giving it a good

spritzing of water, then ran the water color panel through my

Grand Calibur. I let that dry then smooshed some Fossilized Amber DI

onto my craft mat, and using a water brush, gave the embossed image

some shading. I wanted the panel to be the star of the show, so I heat embossed

a simple sentiment in gold onto a strip of black card stock, adhered, and added

a smattering of rhinestones to finish it off. 

This was a lot of fun to do, and I want to experiment with other embossing

folders now. LOL! Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips Background, In & Out Birthday

Ink: Ranger DI - Peacock Feathers, Fossilized Amber; Versamark; Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Strathmore water color paper; TE

Accessories: GC; Cuttlebug - Leafy Branch EF (37-1168), water brush, MISTI; Stampendous - detail gold EP; heat gun; Recollections - rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - tacky tape

Demo Day to Go at Photo Scraps!

 

Hey there crafty peeps!

(Especially those in the MD, DC, VA, and PA area!)

Demo Day to Go happens this Saturday at Photo Scraps, and I

will have these two card kits available for purchase:

 

It's that time of year, and we can always use a graduation card or two!

 

 I hope that you can stop by the store or email them to purchase the fabulous

cards available for this month's Demo Day to Go! 

Help support a wonderful small business!

Hugs!

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Cap and Gown

Ink: Versamark

CS: Bazzill- black, Arroyo, Moody Blue

DP: Nicole - gold mirror; American Crafts - gold glitter

Accessories: Taylored Expressions - Congrats die; Cuttlebug - Swiss Dots and Stars embossing folders

STAMPlorations June Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge Reminder

 

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 I will receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.)

 

Hello crafty peeps! I'm popping in with my mid month reminder

about the June STAMPlorations Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge.

I went with just the theme again for my card, and I also

totally cased this card by Shery!

 

I started by cutting a panel from the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting dies.

Using one of the flower images from the Brave One stamp set, I

stamped it around the left side and bottom of the panel using Versamark

ink, then clear heat embossed. Using Tumble Glass and Shaded Lilac Distress ink, I

blended over the flowers and faded out the color nearer the center of the panel.

The With Sympathy was die cut three times, stacked and glued together before 

adding it to the panel. Finally, I stamped a few of the butterfly images from the same set.

 

You still have plenty of time to enter your project at STAMPlorations

Theme & Photo Prompt Challenge! We'd love to see what you

create with it. For more ideas, do please check out what my

teammates have created to inspire you.

Also, if you feel the need to shop the STAMPlorations store, feel free

to use my discount code for an extra 20% off!

Oh! And don't forget about the Birthday Sale this month!

 Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Brave One

Ink: Versamark; Ranger DI - Tumbled Glass, Shaded Lilac; Memento - Gray Flannel

CS: Neenah; TE

Accessories: MISTI; Picket Fence Studio blending brushes; GC; CUTplorations With Sympathy phrase die; Crazy double running stitch rectangle nesting die; WOW! - clear embossing powder; heat gun

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Ranger - MMM

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #187 - T is for Texture

 

 

 Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

It's time once again for the new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This fortnight is brought to you by the letter T:

as in TEXTURE!

 I dug out the only 3D embossing folder I own to make

this very pretty, non snarky card:

 

 

 (Yes, Jennifer McGuire had a major influence on this! Thank you!)

I used some teal mirror paper with the EF for the background. The

solid die cut of the butterfly received a thin coating of crackle paste, the 

intricate die cut was cut from black card stock then coated with White

Blizzard Nuvo Glitter Drops, which picked up the teal card

brilliantly IRL! I used a Tim Holtz Small Talk sticker for the sentiment.

I did manage to stamp a sentiment on the inside and added a

snippet of the teal paper to finish it off.

See? Snark isn't mandatory at the Sisterhood,

(but you know we LOVE it!)

I hope that you find some time to play along in our Texture challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! For more inspiration, do check out what

my Sistahs and our reigning Queen, Tristan, have created to wow you!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Mixed Media

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Sunny Studio - Inside Greetings Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Bazzill - teal foil paper; Best Creations - brushed silver

CS: Neenah; Nicole

Accessories: Gemini; Crafter's Companion - Ornate Lace EF; Memory Box - Vivienne & Darla butterfly dies; DecoArt Media - Crackle Paste; pallet knife; Tim Holtz - Small Talk Occasions sticker; Nuvo - white blizzard Glitter Drops

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