ornaments...

 Hello!  Stopping in with a quick post of a card that I made for Color Throwdown and Freshly Made Sketches.   I wasn't even sure that this card was going to get made as I was really having troubles with the CTD combo.  I tried watercoloring, but couldn't come up with a nice color that would pass for cream so I looked through my cardstock and found some cardstock that I think is from Stampin Up!  Or it could be PTI's Rustic Cream... I really don't know!  I used the Simon Says Stamp Ornate Ornaments stamp and die set, as well as a sentiment from an older SSS stamp set called Gifts of Love.  Since the theme at the SSS Wednesday challenge and the SSS flickr challenge is Christmas I will also be posting the card there.  Super simple... I stamped the three ornaments in Versamark watermark ink on colored cardstock and heat embossed with WOW embossing powder in gold.  The ornaments were die cut with the matching die and adhered to a white die cut cardstock panel with liquid adhesive.  I added little gold twine bows to each ornament and heat embossed the sentiment in gold, as well.  While I wasn't certain about the color combo at first I do really like how the card turned out!  

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget about the big holiday sale going on at Spellbinders.  You can click on the link over on my side bar.   Have a wonderful day!

Flowers!

Hey there!  I'm popping in to share a couple of featuring flowers.  First up is a card that I made this afternoon using the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stronger Together stamp set from the SSS March card kit.  When I sat down to start this card I saw a piece of Simon Says Stamp fog cardstock and decided to use that to do some coloring with my Polychromos pencils.  I stamped the image from the set using VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne ink and then picked out a nice purply-blue to color the flowers and two shades of green for the leaves. I laid down a layer of white before adding the colors and then blended out the purply-blue with additional white to tone down the color.  I did the same thing with the leaves.  Once I was done with the coloring I positioned sentiment and stamped it with the Nocturne ink, as well.  The layout for my card is based on the CTS layout and so I added some scoring to frame out the stronger together portion of the sentiment.   The piece was then die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle and adhered to a white cardstock base with foam tape.  Finished with various different jewels in blue, silver and white.  Also going to add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge because what is more feminine then flowers?

This next card was made using one of the floral prints from Suzy Plantamura that were included in the SSS March kit.  This one I colored with Faber-Castell watercolor pencils.  I had tried watercoloring with pencils several years ago and was never really happy with how things turned out.  Thankfully I have learned alot since then and I gave my watercolor pencils another try.   To color the daisies I used a combination of a bright yellow and a yellow that bordered on orange.  I colored on the two colors at the base of the petal and then blended out with water making sure to leave the center of each petal with a highlight area.  I colored the center of the flowers with two shades of brown and the stems with one shade of green.  Once I was done I die cut the piece with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die and then I used the little hello die from the kit to die cut it out of the panel.  I placed some washi tape on the back and then filled in the opening with two additional hellos that I cut from scrap cardstock.  I finished off with the original die cut.  I then stamped one of the small label sentiments on white cardstock with VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne, trimmed it out and them popped it up with foam tape.  This one will also be going to the SSS flickr challenge to use dies.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

happy birthday...

Hey there!  Hope your year is off to a great start!  So far so good for me!  Got some new goodies in the mail the other day and I made a card with one of them... the Flower Swag die set from Simon Says Stamp.  I used the color combo from Color Throwdown for my card so I will be posting it there, as well as over at the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge to create something new (either using a new product or a card for something new... like the year, etc.)   I die cut some white cardstock with a large rectangle die from A Jillian Vance Design and then used the border part of the Flower Swag set to die cut the bottom.  I then die cut brown cardstock with the same rectangle die and adhered it to the white rectangle so that I would have the perfect amount of brown cardstock showing at the bottom.  I then die cut the flower swag part of the die set from dark red cardstock three times and adhered them together.  The swag was then adhered to the white cardstock piece along the border.  I stamped a sentiment from another Simon Says Stamp set in watermark ink and then heat embossed it in white.  The entire piece was then adhered to a white cardstock base.  I finished with sequins from the Simon Says Stamp Love You sequin mix.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

happy birthday x 2...

Hello!  Popping in today with a couple of clean and simple cards that I made for a few challenges.  First up is a card for the current Freshly Made Sketches, as well as the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge and the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.   I made this card using several of the images from the Simon Says Stamp Delicate Flowers stamp set that came in the SSS May card kit.  I stamped the images on Strathmore smooth bristol cardstock with VersaFine Onyx Black in and then colored them with my ZIG markers.  Once they were dry I trimmed them out with my detail scissors.  I cut a piece of white cardstock with an A Jillian Vance Design stitched dot rectangle die and then cut the rectangle with an A Jillian Vance Design edger die.  I adhered the die cut panel to a white cardstock base and then arranged the flowers and leaves so I could determine where the sentiment would go.  The sentiment was stamped with VersaFine CLAIR in Nocturne and then I adhered the flowers and leaves.  Finished with some Pretty Pink Posh clear jewels.

The second card is for this week's Color Throwdown, as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge.  I recently purchased the MFT Blended Happy Birthday stamp and die set and used it to create this super simple shaker card.  I cut some white cardstock with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  I arranged the dies on the panel, taped them in place and then ran it through my die cutting.  I then used the die cut openings to get the correct placement for the stamps.  I used pink and brown inks to stamp the sentiment.  Once that was done I adhered actetate behind the die cut opening, adhered foam tape around the sentiment to create the area for my sequins and then added black and a few white sequins.   I removed all the liners from the foam tape and then adhered the die cut panel on top.   Super, super simple.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Card #1:  Cardstock:  PTI white, smooth bristol; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Inks:  VersaFine, VersaFine CLAIR; Watercolor medium:  ZIG clean color markers; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design; Jewels:  Pretty Pink Posh

Card #2:  Cardstock:  PTI white; Stamps:  My Favorite Things; Dies:  My Favorite Things, A Jillian Vance Design; Sequins:  Ellen Hutsom, My Mind's Eye

hello there...

Hello everyone!  April is here and spring is in full swing!  I recently receiving the April Simon Says Stamp card kit called Hello, Darling and it is so cute! One of the things in the kit that really got me was the fun die that is a set of garden boots brimming with tulips!  For my card I used the die and colored them with my ZIG clean color markers.  I used the color combo from Color Throwdown and when you see the tulips in real life they do look purple, but darn it they look blue in my photo!  The layout is from Freshly Made Sketches.   I kept things pretty simple and just die cut some Tim Holtz distress woodgrain cardstock with a rectangle die and then adhered that to a light gray cardstock base.  The boots were popped up on the panel with foam dimensionals.   The sentiment is from the stamp set that is part of the April kit and to make it fit the sketch I did some simple masking with the sentiment.    This is also heading to the Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge of anything goes.  Can't wait to die cut the boots from patterned paper and do some paper piecing!

Thanks for stopping by and having a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Smoky Slate, Canson cold press watercolor, Ranger woodgrain; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and AJVD; Watercolor medium: ZIG Clean Color markers; Ink:  VersaFine CLAIR Nocturne

peace, love & joy

Hello there!  Popping in with a card that I will be sharing over at the Paper Players challenge, the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge and the Visions of Sugarplums challenge.   Last year I purchased the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings stamp set.  At the time it came out there weren't matching dies, but about a month later they released the matching dies.   Sadly I wasn't able to get them at the time, but finally this year I did... yay!  I used that stamp set and the dies along with the SSS Frozen Fractals set to make my card.  I stamped all the snowflakes on white cardstock with VersaMark watermark ink, applied clear embossing powder and heat set.   I then inked up the piece with distress oxide ink in blueprint sketch bluffing off the excess.  The piece was then splattered with white acrylic paint mixed with water and when dry die cut with a rectangle die. The words were stamped on vellum with VersaMark, embossed in white and then die cut with the matching dies.  I adhered the words and ampersand by rolling up medium sized glue dots and placing them behind the words where there is embossing.  The little sentiments were stamped using VersaFine CLAIR in Nocturne on a strip of paper, trimmed down and adhered.  The finished piece was adhered to a white cardstock base.   This has also been entered in the SSS flickr challenge #111.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  MFT white, PTI vellum; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  VersaFine CLAIR, VersaMark watermark; Ranger distress oxide; white acrylic paint

have a beautiful day...

Hello there!  I'm popping in with a card for a few challenges:  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge (stencil it), Freshly Made Sketches and Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge (stencil it).  Back in March I purchased the April Simon Says Stamp card kit and one of the items in the kit was a beautiful butterflies stencil.  I had used lots of items from the kit, but not the stencil and so when I saw the two SSS challenges I knew just what stencil I would use for those two challenges.   I pulled out a piece of woodgrain cardstock and stenciled some of the butterflies on to it using BoBunny glitter paste in Buttercup.   There are also little dots in the stencil and so I used BoBunny glitter paste in pumpkin to stencil some dots randomly around the butterflies once the yellow glitter paste had dried.  I then had to figure out how I was going to use the panel and decided to use it for the FMS challenge.  Because I didn't want to completely cover up the panel that I had just stenciled with the beautiful glittery butterflies and dots I decided to use vellum.  I cut down a piece of vellum into a square and then stamped the sentiment from the SSS Beautiful Day stamp set and the leaf image on the vellum with VersaMark watermark ink and then embossed in white.  I then colored the back of the leaves with two green makers and adhered the panel using rolled up glue dots placed behind the stamping.  I finished off the card by adding some sequins in yellow (although some look green) in two sizes and tiny silver ones.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI Lemon Tart, Ranger Woodgrain, PTI vellum; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Stencil:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark;  Glitter paste:  BoBunny; Sequins:  Simon Says Stamp

two more cards...

Hey there!!  As my post title says I have two more cards to share today.  The first one is for the current Where Creativity Meets C9 and Stamp Ink Paper challenges.  The WCMC9 challenge is to use a sketch and even though it is a pretty simple one I had a hard time coming up with something.  Finally I settled on using to images from the C9 Give Thanks set.  Depending on how you use them they can either be used to create a leaf or an arrow.  I went with leaf.  I stamped the veins in Catherine Pooler Black Jack ink. Despite it's name it is actually a lovely shade of gray.  Then I over stamped the solid image using SU! Lemon Lime Twist and Taken with Teal.  The panel was then die cut down.  I stamped one of the smaller mandalas from the C9 Many Mandalas stamp set using Taken with Teal and then die cut it with the matching die.  The happy birthday sentiment is from the same set and it was stamped in the Lemon Lime Twist and then die cut with an AJVD Polka Dot circle die.  I popped up both on top of the leaves.  The panel was then adhered to a light gray cardstock base.  Clean and simple... my favorite style!

The second card is for the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge, as well as the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of floral frenzy.  I will also be posting this in the Simon Says Stamp flickr gallery as the challenge there is to make a spring/Easter card and this card is for Easter.  The large floral image from the SSS Floral Bliss stamp set was stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black on Canson water color paper and then colored with ZIG markers and clean water.  Once I had the coloring done I die cut the large cross from the SSS Crosses die set from the center of the image.  I covered the back of the opening with tape and then inset three more crosses before adhered the colored one on top.  The panel was trimmed down and adhered to a light green cardstock base.  The sentiment was created by using two sentiments from the SSS Rejoice! Stamp set.  I arranged them on vellum, stamped in watermark ink and heat embossed in white.  The sentiment was then die cut with an MFT Fishtail Flag stax die.  I adhered the sentiment using rolled up glue dots that were placed behind the words so they don't show.  Love how this one turned out!!

Hope you have a wonderful day! 

Supplies:  Card 1:  Cardstock:  PTI Fresh Snow linen, SU! Smoky Slate; Stamps and dies:  Concord & 9th; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Catherine Pooler

Card 2:  Cardstock:  SU! Gable Green, Canson watercolor; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and MFT; Ink:  VersaFine and VersaMark; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts white; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Real Brush Clean Color markers

two cards to share...

Hey there crafty peeps!  I have two cards to share today.  I made them for the current Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge, but thought I would go ahead and share them here in the old blog.  Both cards were made with some fantastic Simon Says Stamp products.  The first one uses the Wise Men Still Seek Him die.  When I saw that die I had to have it and I knew exactly what I wanted to make with it as soon as it arrived in my mailbox.  I started by inking up a white cardstock panel with Distress Oxide inks in Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, Vintage Photo, Salty Ocean, Broken China and Black Soot. Once that was done I splattered on white acrylic paint that I mixed with some water.  Once the panel was dry I die cut it with an AJVD Stitched Dot Rectangle die and then stamped the Nativity scene (from an older Hero Arts set) in VersaFine Onyx Black.  Then I die cut the sentiment four times from scrap cardstock and then once from my panel.  This was a little scary because I didn't want to have to start all over again.  Thankfully I got it right the first time.  I covered the back of the panel where the die cutting was with washi tape and then inserted all of the words and little bits.  This took a bit of time, but was totally worth it!   I love how this card turned out!!  Going to add this to the current Fab Friday challenge of free for all

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The second card was made using the Simon Says Stamp Fractile Leave and Stained Glass Greetings stamp sets.  I fell in love with Fractile Leaves stamp set when I debuted in September and finally made it mine during Simon Says Stamps Black Friday sale.   I suppose this is more of a spring, summer, fall type of stamp set, but I wanted to use it to create a wintry design.  I stamped the leaves in watermark ink and then embossed with white embossing powder.  I have two of the Simon Says Stamp Daniel Smith watercolor dot palettes (Holiday and Shari Carroll) and I used a blue from each palette to color the leaves.  I then added the gray/blue color around the leaves.  The word peace was embossed in white on vellum and trimmed down to fit the panel.  I finished with the little word strip sentiment that was embossed in white on dark gray cardstock and some Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins.  Going to add this tone to the current Fusion challenge as this works for the color inspiration portion of the challenge.

Have a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Card 1:  Cardstock:  White, kraft; Stamps:  Hero Arts; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp and A Jillian Vance Design; Inks:  Distress Oxide and VersaFine

Card 2:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, Ranger watercolor, dark gray; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Embossing Powder:  Hero Arts white; Watercolor medium:  Daniel Smith watercolors; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear

a card and two tags...

Hello!!  As my blog title says I have a card and two tags to share today.  First up is the card for the current MFT sketch challenge.  Making tags has been taking up all my time lately so I really wanted to get a card or two in this weekend.  When I saw the new MFT sketch an idea was hatched to use the snowflake stamps and dies from the MFT Snowflake Splendor kit.  I used the largest die in the set that is intended to die cut a stamped snowflake and created a window with it in a panel of white cardstock I die cut with an AJVD backdrop rectangle die.  I then adhered the panel to a white cardstock base with removal adhesive and stamped the snowflake using my mini MISTI to get good alignment.  I then die cut all the pieces for a matching snowflake using cardstock in a colors similar to the ink colors.  All the pieces were adhered together and then attached to the panel above the stamped snowflake.  The sentiment from Snow Globe Sentiments was stamped on vellum, heat embossed in white, trimmed down and adhered with rolled up glue dots.  As I was adhering the sentiment strip I did think that I could have turned the window into a shaker element.   Oh well... maybe next time.   I will also add this to the current SIP challenge of let it snow.

The tags are for Ellen Hutson's 12 Tags of Christmas with a Feminine Twist.  First up is a tag for day 4... watercoloring.  I used the beautiful Simon Says Stamp Stained Glass Greetings.  I die cut the tag from watercolor paper and then stamped the Love sentiment in watermark ink and embossed it in white.  I used Daniel Smith watercolors from the Shari Carroll and Debby Hughes (one color from each) palettes to color the letters and around the letters for a really soft look.  The other sentiments were stamped in black on white cardstock and trimmed out.  I loved the way Sandy added vellum to her project, but knew because my coloring was so soft adding an overlay like Sandy did would completely obscure everything.  So I brought in some vellum by die cutting little snowflakes from vellum and silver cardstock and adding them to the tag.  Each snowflake had a little silver PPP sequin added to the center as well.  Since I used some Simon Says Stamp products I will be adding this tag to the current SSS flickr challenge of anything goes.

The second tag is for day 6 to use purple, green and gray.  I was totally inspired by Kittie's gorgeous tag and tried my hand at making some little purple poinsettias.  I have some older Spellbinders poinsettia dies that I knew would work well for making my tiny poinsettias.  I pulled them out and die cut them from the purple cardstock and then tried to shape them as best I could.  The leaves were die cut using a slightly larger poinsettia die from the set.  I adhered them together and then added some Nuvo Jewel Drops in Lemoncello to the centers and let everything dry.  The tag is from Reverse Confetti, as is the gray piece layered on top to look like lattice.  The sentiment is from the Essentials by Ellen Merry & Bright stamp set and was stamped in gray ink.  I adhered the flowers and then added the purple ribbon tied with white and gray baker's twine.   My poinsettia's aren't as well done as Kittie's, but I think they turned out rather nice! This one will be going into the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of gift it.

Six tags down... six to go!!  Have a wonderful day!!

Supplies:  Card:  Cardstock:  MFT white, SU! aqua, turquoise, MFT light blue, PTI vellum; Stamps:  MFT; Dies:  MFT, ODBD and AJVD

Tag 1:  Cardstock:  Ranger watercolor, PTI white; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  ODBD (tag), Stampin Up!; Watercolors:  Daniel Smith; Embossing powder:  Hero Arts; Ink:  VersaMark and VersaFine

Tag 2:  Cardstock:  PTI white, dark green, SU! purple and gray; Stamps:  Essentials by Ellen; Dies:  Spellbinders and Reverse Confetti; Ribbon:  PTI; Baker's Twine:  The Twinery; Nuvo Jewel Drops; Ink:  VersaFine

Merry Little Christmas...

Hey there!!  Stopping in with another Christmas card.  I made this with supplies from the awesome Simon Says Stamp Mint Wishes card kit.  I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches for my card and will also be adding it to the current Dies R Us challenge to make a card based on a song.  As you can see my card is based on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.  I stamped the house on white cardstock with Distress Oxide ink in Cracked Pistachio (came in the kit) and then overstamped the sentiment in VersaFine Smoky Gray.  The image was then die cut with a MFT oval die.  The little sprig of holly and the stars are puffy stickers from the card kit as well.  I adhered everything to some of the patterned paper from the kit that was die cut with an AJVD stitched dot rectangle die.  Also adding this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes and the SSS flickr challenge to make a Christmas/holiday project.

Hope you have a wonderful day!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  white; Patterned paper:  Mint Wishes cardkit; Stamps:  SSS Yuletide Holiday; Dies:  MFT and AJVD; Inks: Distress Oxide ink and VersaFine; Puffy Stickers

Easter blessings...

Hello!!  Feels like ages since I posted anything, but it has only been since Wednesday!  Finally got some time today and made a few cards.  The last one I made is for the current Color Throwdown challenge and I also entered it in the current Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge.  I think I will add this to the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of anything goes.   I got to make a quick trip to a local craft store recently.  They had the new Distress Oxide inks and so I used my coupon to pick up two colors to try out.  I used the Broken China since it works with the Color Throwdown combo.  I inked up some Bristol cardstock with it and then flicked on water.  I blotted some off and let some dry to create my background.  The flowers (from the SSS set Sketch Ranunculus) were stamped on watercolor paper with watermark ink and then heat embossed in white.  Then everything was watercolored with ZIGs and die cut with the matching dies.  Once I got everything arranged and adhered I stopped to figure out the sentiment.  I decided to make my card an Easter card so I got out the SSS Easter die, cut it from vellum three times and adhered them together.  The sentiment is from the SSS Rejoice! stamp set that matches the Easter die.  I stamped that in black ink and then adhered the die cut word.  A few Pretty Pink Posh sparkling clear sequins finished things off.  

Wishing you a wonderful day...

Supplies:  Cardstock: white, Bristol, watercolor; Stamps and dies:  Simon Says Stamp; Inks:  Distress Oxide ink, VersaFine Onyx Black, VersaMark watermark ink; Watercolor medium:  ZIG Clean Color markers; Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling clear sequins

SSS flickr challenge feature!!

Hello!!  Popping in with a quick post to let you know that I'm being featured over at the Simon Says Stamp flickr group along with my sweet in real life friend, Greta!  Simon Says Stamp has been hosting a bi-weekly challenge over in their flickr group for several years now.  If you love Simon Says Stamp products and creating with them and you have not played along with the flickr challenge you really need to check it out.  With input from SSS flickr members they decided to start featuring crafters who frequently participate in the challenges and for the first feature they picked me and Greta!!  The challenge for this two week period is use your favorite technique.  Right now my favorite technique is watercoloring and so that is what I used on my card.  Since Valentine's day will soon be here I decided to create a little valentine.  I started by stamping the large floral heart image from the SSS set Roses for You on watercolor paper using VersaMark watermark ink, applying white embossing powder and then heat setting.  Once that was done I did some simple watercoloring using four different ZIG markers (green, red, wine red and pink) and clean water. By simple I mean that I just scribbled on some color and then blended it out with a bit of clean water.  Easy peasy lemon squeezy!  After the panel was dry I trimmed it down to fit a card front.  The sentiment was white embossed on black cardstock.  The heart is a die from the matching die set and was die cut from silver glitter cardstock.  The sentiment strip was adhered to the heart and then the entire piece adhered to the panel.  Some black cardstock was angled on a red cardstock base and then the watercolor panel was attached.  I hope you head over to the SSS flickr group to check out the challenge and to play along!  You could win one of two $25 gift certificates to SSS and you could also be the next SSS flickr member to be featured!!

Hope you have a wonderful day...
Supplies:  Cardstock:  red, black cardstock, silver glitter paper, watercolor paper; Stamps and dies:  Simon Says Stamp; Ink:  VersaMark watermark ink; Filigree white embossing powder; ZIG clean color markers

hello...fall...

Hello!! Yes... fall is officially here and with our weather being so lovely making fall inspired cards is not hard to do!!  As some of you might know my sweet friend Lisa and I have been doing a little personal challenge involving CASology.  I didn't participate last week because I just couldn't come up with a good idea for their cue word, but this week was totally different.  When I saw the cue word I immediately hit upon an idea and thankfully it worked!!  I don't know about you, but I have had a ton of "great" ideas that do not turn out great, lol!!  I will be posting this to ColourQ as I used that color palette (it is very fall inspired) and since I used Simon Says Stamp products for my card I will be adding it to this to the SSS flickr challenge.  As my starting point I die cut a frame from Ruby Red cardstock using two Spellbinders plain square dies.  I then stamped the leaves from the SSS set Apple of My Pie using the Hello Honey and Pumpkin Pie inks.  The outline leaf was stamped using Hero Arts Latte ink.  The glasses from the SSS set I See You were also stamped in the Latte ink and then die cut with the matching die.  The sentiment (also from I See You) was stamped in the lens.  I die cut the panel with the leaves stamped on it and then added the frame and the glasses.  I finished up by adding the sentiment "fall" (from a Hero Arts set) using Ruby Red ink.  So... I have some "frames" (glasses) within a frame! 

 Hope you have a wonderful... please let me know what you think and make sure that you head over to Lisa's blog for a look at her project... I know it is super clever!

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SSS fog, white; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp and Hero Arts; Dies:  Simon Says Stamp, A Jillian Vance Design, Spellbinders; Inks:  SU! Ruby Red, Hello Honey, Pumpkin Pie, Hero Arts Latte, VersaFine Onyx Black

happy birthday wishes...

Hello!!  After being mojo-less for the last week or so I seem to have gotten a little bit of it back after I made the card I posted the other day (you can scroll down or click here to see it).  I had wanted to make a card for the current Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of  "its hip to be square" and so I combined it with the current CAS on Sunday challenge of balloons to create my card.  I recently purchased a My Mind's Eye Hooray bundle from Peachy Cheap that included a package of fun die cuts including several balloons and so I used one for my card.  The scalloped and plain squares were die cut from some of the paper from the Hooray 6x6 pad using Spellbinders dies.  The sentiment is from the Simon Says Stamp set Celebrate.  I laid the striped square on my mini MISTI, placed the sentiments how I wanted then, close the lid to my MISTI and then inked up everything for perfect placement stamping!  Love that!!  Since this card uses die cutting and SSS products I also included it in the current SSS flickr challenge to "cut it out".  I love that this card took next to no time to make thanks to the die cuts!   Going to add this to the current City Crafter challenge of birthdays.

Hope you have a wonderful day...


Supplies:  Cardstock:  PTI vintage cream; PP:  My Mind's Eye; Die cut:  My Mind's Eye; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  Spellbinders; Ink:  VersaFine Onyx Black

Christmas wishes...

{for my Precious Remembrance Shop post, please click here}

Hey friends!! Wow... Christmas is just a few days away!! My little guy is soo excited! Every day he tells me "Christmas is almost here"!  Love the joy and excitement that little kids have when it comes to Christmas time.  Have a card to share for a few challenges.. Freshly Made Sketches, ColourQ, Sparkle and Shine and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge of die cutting.  The current Simon Says Stamp flickr challenge is also die cutting so I have posted my card in their flickr gallery, as well.  I have had the SSS stamp set Christmas Graphics for ages and have wanted to make a card with it, but just couldn't seem to come up with anything.  But when I saw the new FMS layout I knew it would work perfectly with Christmas Graphics.  All the panels were die cut using my A Jillian Vance Design Polka Dot Rectangle backdrop dies.  The smaller one was stamped with the larger Christmas tree image using Kiwi Kiss ink and then the "stick" tree was stamped inside that using Crumb Cake ink.  A little star from the set was also stamped in Kiwi Kiss and trimmed out.  The Christmas (from the SSS die set Christmas Blessings) was die cut 4 times from red cardstock and then all the pieces glued together.  I adhered the word to my panel and then added the word "wishes".  The star was added to the top of the tree along with some clear and black Pretty Pink Posh 4mm sequins.  That panel was matted with a black panel, adhered to the kraft panel and then everything adhered to a red card base.   Love the FMS layout so I will definitely be using it for another card in the near future!

Thanks for stopping by today...

 

Supplies:  Cardstock:  SU! Real Red, PTI kraft; white; Stamps:  Simon Says Stamp; Dies:  A Jillian Vance Design and Simon Says Stamp; Sequins:  Pretty Pink Posh; Inks:  Stampin Up! and Memento