EXCITING NEWS

NEIGHBOR, FRIEND, STAMP DESIGNER

AND
A REALLY BIG DEAL

NINA BRACKETT
OF
"CRAFTING IN CROATIA"

INVITED ME to DESIGN with her Brand New Stamp Set "VINTAGE BACKGROUNDS" which was Released by GINA K Designs last week. Now before you go running off to NINA's BLOG where I AM BEING FEATURED, wanna see what I created:

Is that Hounds Tooth not PERFECT paired with this old man from "You Know Your Old When" which is an older Gina K stamp set. Now LOOK CLOSER so you can see that I used another one of the New Stamps to stamp his Party Hat and his Tie! Isn't he Funny:
I just got plain carried away and decided to keep stamping so here are a couple shots off the inside and one of the other "VINTAGE BACKGROUND" stamps:

Help I'm Stamping and I can't STOP so I carried my theme on over to the envelope:

CHALLENGES:
DON'T FORGET about Nina's Challenge ends at Midnight tonight 4/29
Mo's Challenge #29: Masculine Card (so excited to get to participate this week)
2 Sketches 4 You: Sketch (I wasn't sure if the signature was part of the sketch so I added the label in place of Kazan's Signature)
Cute Card Thursday: Make your Own (Perfect!! I Made my own Patterned paper using the hounds tooth stamp!!)
Crafty Creations: Make your Own Backgrounds (SCORE Again)
Flourishes Timeless Tuesday: Vintage (nothing more vintage than an Old Man)
The Crazy Challenge: Buttons, Brads & Eyelets: (I used 2 buttons)

............Supplies I used.............
Stamps: Gina K (Vintage Backgrounds, You know Your Old When)
Paper: Gina K (Autumn Assortment: fresh asparagus, chocolate brown), Stampin Up (naturals), Bazzil Basics (textured brown)
Ink: Tsukineko (momento black tuxedo), Copic Markers
Tools: Spellbinders (Nestabilities die cut label 7), Stampin Up (sizzix label die), Singer sewing machine
Misc: Paper Trey Ink (buttons, hemp)

Father's Day meets Verve

This is one the new Verve stamp sets, "Up, Up & Away", that I won during the Stampin Out Alzheimer's week but couldn't wait to see if I had won, so I purchased it!!!!!! Did that make sense? I can't seem to put it down so in honor of all of the Fathers out there, I will share a couple of the cards that I have created.
This first card was created for my husband.

Some of the tools I used to create this masterpiece



After stamping the clouds onto a 1/2 scalloped circle, I dipped my small paint brush into the ink on the top of a stamp pad lid, then blended the lines of the clouds with white acrylic paint. I also sponged a bit of the blue ink over the image then inked the edges of my clouds. One of the images is adhered behind the rectangle piece of card stock where the image is stamped, the other is mounted behind the image and the top is mounted on foam squares.

The tree was stamped twice. (this tree is one of the plain Jane stamps, not the tree that comes in the stamp set) Once on Very Vanilla card stock, which I colored using my copics, the second time onto Always Artichoke. I cut out just the top of the green one, inked the edges and mounted it on top of the vanilla one using foam squares. The balloon itself was stamped onto DP and cut out. I used an craft knife for the center.

The ribbon is from my stash and the button is from an old pair of pants. The jeweled flower with the tiger's eye bead were from an EARRING ;o) I cut the back off and tied it around the center using the ribbon.
Part of the sentiment (the sentiment is also a plain Jane, meaning that it is sold seperately) is visible from the outside, front of the card the top portion that read, "Happy" is stamped just under the front of the card. Not sure what you call this fold, technically it was a mistake or a miscalculation when I scored my fold. Regardless, I think it is super fun......

...................Supplies I used......................
Stamps: Verve (up up & away, plain jane tree & father's day sentiment)
Ink: Momento (tuxedo black) Stampin Up(river rock, baja blue, always artichoke, chocolate chip) white
Paper: Stampin Up (rust, very vanilla, natural, always artichoke, DP travel paper), Bo Bunny (polka dots), DCWV(script from a DP stack)
Tools: Stampin Up (scallop circle punch, ticket corner punch)