Somewhere Over the Rainbow......

Hello friends, family and followers, it's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and it's Somewhere Over The Rainbow so here is what you need to do to enter your project in the challenge. Add rainbows to your project or use a rainbow colour palette. I do have a rainbow die but time constraints I went with a Rainbow colour palette. 

Last weekend there was a Card Maker Success Summit free to sign up you could also buy a VIP pass which gave access to all the videos etc, and since I have done a weekend online crop before I knew I never would keep up but the free part was good each day you had 24 hours to view the videos that aired that morning, One was on blending the oxide inks so I decided (from memory) on trying my hand at it. The inks I used was Lumberjack Plaid, Spiced Marmelade, Squeezed  Lemonade, Rustic Wilderness, Blueprint Sketch, Uncharted Mariner and Villainous Potion.  I used a Happy Birthday cover plate to cut the blended background, backed it with turquoise (the only colour I was happy with) Added it to a top fold base and a poppy die cut. 

The poppy stems were flat attached and the flower heads were popped up.

I finished the inside with a 2009 Penny Black wood mount sentiment, and a few scraps of cardstock.

Along with the "old" Penny Black Sentiment, the Birthday cover plate I have had for at least 2 years and it has never been used, the poppy die is not quite that old but also had never been used. Felt really good to give them the love they deserve. 

I am adding this to:

Seize The Birthday ~~ Anything Goes

Just Us Girls ~~ Word Week ~~ Rainbow

Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out the inspiration on the MAIN BLOG.

It's Ornamental, My Dear Watson....

It's a new challenge at the Jingle Belles and since my hair appointment was rescheduled I had s bit of free time to make a card for the challenge and get it done before the linky closed, well surprise I'm early, wow, it doesn't end until next Wednesday. 

I was inspired by a teamie's sunset scene you will find it HERE although I think I was a little more heavy handed when blending. I uses Gently Falling embossing folder for the background on navy stardream cardstock the ornament is silver and I layered it with two heavy cardstock layers, The Merry also cut out of Silver posterboard and 3 additional layers were cut to elevate it .

Since I kput Merry on the front with no room for Christmas I added "and bright" ancient rub on from Stampin'up and a sentiment from Stampendous.

I'm adding this to:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Ornamental My Dear Watson

Just Us Girls ~~ #609 Word Week Merry

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies

Thanks for stopping by today and there is still time to make more ornament cards. 

It's a Triple "F" Day!!

 Hello and welsome to my blog today, it's time for a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers. 

As I said it's a Triple "F" day......Feline, Fluffles and Fall, and no snark.

As most of my friends/followers know Fall colours are never my go to colours but because I had and idea of the Triple F and wanted to use the fall flufles it had to be Fall colours, I decided to stay home from the cottage for the weekend hoping to play catch up with laundry, dishes and everything I've avoided, I know I want to make cucumber relish at the cottage next week so along with everything else I need to bring the sealers up and put them through the dishwasher.   Back to the card....Fluffles and one layer is elevated with a couple of heavy cardstock pieces, I had a bit of an error and had to correct it with another layer, I even got my crop-o-dial corner rounder out to do the corners, dang thing is heavy.

The striped paper was in a loose pack and once you rip off the cardboard topper

 you have no name. but the rust line matched perfect to my cardstock. 

Close up of Fluffles and the leaves.

I finished the inside with off cuts from the front panels and of course all my good selection of Birthday sentiments are at the cottage. The card is 5 1/2 inch square.

I am entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~ #220 Stripes

Show us your Pussycats ~~ # 69 Furrything Goes

Just us Girls ~~ #596 Word Challenge ~~ Harvest.

Thanks for spending some time here today and don't forget to check out Main Blog for the projects that the rest of the design team have made.

It's Christmas in July at Shopping Our Stash!!

 Hello crafty peeps, hope your July 1st and July 4th holidays have bee great, lots of sunshine and friends.

At Shopping Our Stash we are celebrating Christmas in July so dust off thos Holday stamps and dies to join us for the challenge. Don't forget to use up your stash while you are doing it. 

My snowman is from Hero Arts and it's one of the first snowmen steamps I bought when I first started stamping, Let it Snow is from Elizabeeth Craft Designs which I cut twice, once in blue and once is very heavy weight white. The patterned paper is old, not sire when I bought it but it was a leftover piece that was left at the cottage from crafting last year. 

Finished the inside with a a couple of stickers I found that were also left over from last summer at the cottage, along with a simple sentiment. 

I'm adding this to:

JIngle Belles Challenge ~~ Stars and Strips for Christmas

Just us Girls ~~ Word Week ~~ Script

Thanks for stopping by today and check out the projects that the rest of the design team have made, just click HERE.

X is for fauX at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers

 Good Saturday morning!! It's time for a new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers X  is for fauX. Interpret as you will,  So many Faux techniques out there or you could go literal as some of the team have. Take a look at Edna in her Faux fox stole. 

I decided to go with a Faux Technique my go to one is Faux Silk but I wanted to try something different this time so I did Faux Mother of Pearl, I found a video  HERE but used Blueprint Sketch distress oxide ink I made the faux mother of pearl with Frost White all purpose ink I bought years ago from Stampin'up.

This is my attempt at Faux Mother of Pearl. and now the finished card.

Once my background was dry I was having trouble decided what I could do as not to "hide" the mother of pearl background and I saw CAS(E) this Sketch prompt and I knew what I wanted to do. I entered their last challenge I don't normally do CAS but I'm very happy with this and nothing is taking away from the technique. 

Finished the inside with an Impression Obsession stamp.  Perfect for almost any occasion .

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ October 

CAS(E) this Sketch ~~ #396 because of the size of my Large Sentiment I turned the sketch.

Just Us Girls ~~ #560 Wild Card Week Word Die-cuts

Thanks for stopping by today and although I didn't have any snark on my card today check out the rest of the Sister's projects on the MAIN BLOG you will find snark there.

Thanks

Challenge #534 at Just Us Girls is Word Week, I really like word week challenge it's almost as good at an anything goes. This challenge is Hero and I found a Dr. digi from Dearie Dolls Digi Stamps, although there are no new digis being made you can still download them free.  Here is my Hero.

Rummaging through the scraps box I found a perfect piece of paper just the right size for the Elizabeth Craft Designs die that looks like a postage stamp. I just cut the image with a different postage stamp rectange and the reason for this is I think all first responders should be honoured with a stamp depicting their occupation whether is be Dr. Nurse, PSW, Cleaner, Ambulance, Police, Fire, Technician Truck Driver, Checkout staff, I hope I haven't forgotten anyone, they all need Kudos.

I added a large Thanks die cut, I layered it 4 times to make it pop. 

I am entering this in:

Just us Girls ~~ Word Week ~~ Hero 

Thanks for stopping by today and please stay in stay safe stay healthy. 

Thank a first responder for their service.

Your Birthday it is............

My great grandson's birthday was on Saturday and he is a star wars fan, believe it or not I have never seen a Star Wars movie. I started out to create a Darth Vader card but it just wasn't working out so I changed to Yoda and of course I was pressed for time since plan A didn't work. Because Yoda is greenish I accenteed with green.

The image was computer generated and Yoda is on a wobble. The background is a die cut with green meta;lic poster board (no longer available at Dollar Tree) my supply of  gold is dwindling but the other 4 colours are being hoarded. 

After I coloured Yoda I fussy cut him out. and popped him up on a wobble.

Computer generated saying I found on pinterest andI personalized it for my great grandson.

I am entering this in:

Seize the Birthday ~~  #185 A Touch of Green

Just Us Girls ~~ Trend Week  Black Background 

Thanks for visiting today and have a great week.  Stay in and Craft. 

Stepping out of my Comfort Zone.........

It's colour week at Just us Girls and I decided I needed to take myself out of my comfort zone of pinks, purples and blues and make a card with Black, Cream and Gold.  Black and cream are okay colours but gold hmmm not sure about that but my card came together quite nicely with some Bo-Bunny patterned paper.

Gotta love an old fashioned car for a masculine vibe.  The die cut car is popped up and I added some gold/cream bakers twine as the only embellishment.

Inside was finished with a Studio G. $2.00 stamp from Michaels.

I'm adding this to:

Just Us Girls #523 ~~ Colour Week

Thanks for stopping by today and it's always good to move out of your comfort zone once in a while.

Happy Birthday big and bold!!!

This is the second Birthday card I'm posting, I made 4 last weekend unfortunately I left the camera at the cottage and had to photograph my cards with the phone camera and I'm not very good at it. The other two cards I made were with the double layer dies but this one is with a gorgeous sentiment diecut.

The sentiment was cut out of foam core so it's elevated a bit then attached to several different layers. 

I am entering this in:

Just Us Girls ~~ #496 Trend Week 

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Goes Birthday. 

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies.

So happy to be able to sneak in a few challenges.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a fantastic weekend!!!

Happy Birthday Big and Bold!!!

I needed a quick Birthday card today so I dug through my "parts" box and found this beautiful Happy Birthday die cut (bonus), I also had the flowers already die cut, so it made this card a very quick one.  I keep my cut cardstock in colour labelled file folders in a box and I'm trying to remember to go there first before getting out a "new" piece, so this card was made from scraps and die cuts.

What a really simply made card, The fancy border die was sitting on my desk so it was meant to be used. I think it gives interest to the otherwise plain front. The daisies are popped up.

Finished inside with a favourite sentiment, added the die cut edge and a butterfly which was left over from an earlier project. 

I'm entering this in:

Just Us Girls ~~ Trend Week #487 ~~ Bold Letters

Seize the Birthday ~~ #165 Anything Goes

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies for May

Thanks for stopping by today and have a crafty week.

Dashing Through The Snow...................

Here I am again sneaking in close to the end of the Jingle Belles Rock Challenge to use Music on your project. I had two cards planned but one of them just didn't make the "cut".  Here is the one that did make it.

My card was created around a piece of oxide ink background I found in my stash, so while looking for "something" I found this already die cut horse and sleigh....I'm on  a roll, as you know I love turquoise whether it be green or blue toned, this time I dug around to find some Bermuda Bay cardstock as I knew it was the perfect colour to accent the sky.  The music background is a stamp from Stampin'up that I haven't used in a while and I inked it up with Peacock Feathers distress oxide ink. 

Close up of the focal point.

Finished the inside with a strip of washi tape and a tree out of the die-cut extras bin.

I would like to enter this in:

Jingle Belles Rock ~~ Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Christmas Kickstart Challenge ~~ #6 Moves on Hooves

Just Us Girls challenge ~~ Trend Week #478 Use a Background Stamp.

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies March.

Thanks for visiting today and I hope you are working on your Holiday card stash as you see I'm making progress, It helps when there are such awesome challenges to play along with.