The Male Room (#123) Challenge - Guest Designer

Good morning. As you can probably tell from the badge above I am guest designing today for The Male Room Challenge #123 with a theme of Pirates.

I stamped the image from The Cat's Pajamas Bunnies at Sea onto a Neenah cardstock circle and colored with Copic markers. I matted the image with a porthole cut with the main die from The Cat's Pajamas Porthole Duo set. The sentiment was parsed together using The Cat's Pajamas Aye, Eye, I set. I used my go to border for this top folding card. 

Products: The Cat's Pajamas stamps and die, Doodlebug dp, SU and PTI cs, Wplus9 and Altenew ink, Copic Markers
Copics: Bunny-E40, E41, E42, E44, W00, E81; Eye Glass-N1, N3, N5; Hat/Large Flags-W00, E81, C00, C1, C3, C5, C7; Small Flag-W00, E81, R20, R22, R24; Ship-E30, E31, E33, N1, N3, N5, N7; Sky-BG0000

Get your "aargh" on and make a card for this fun challenge at The Male Room! Thanks for stopping by!

New Pine Cone Trail Collection by Stacey Yacula {Purple Onion Designs}

I have another card today using the brand new Pine Cone Trail collection by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs. The complete collection consists of 19 stamps and will be $85.00 until Friday, November 8, 2019. This represents a savings of 30%. As always, you may order individually as well but if you want it all, then now is a great time to order. FYI, the Warming Winter Sentiment set and Rosemary (turkey) must be ordered separately as they are not part of the bundle. 

Douglas (raccoon) was stamped onto Copics X-Press It cardstock, colored with Copic markers, then fussy cut out. To prepare the background I cut a stitched rectangle from Touchmaster cardstock and used a snowflake patterned stencil with tumbled glass distress ink. The sentiment from the Essential Holiday Greetings was stamped using archival vermillion ink. I then used a snowflake border  die to cut from vellum and attached to the background with a series of mini brads. The image was adhered using foam dots then the panel was attached to a patterned paper background.

Products: Purple Onion Designs, Avery Elle dp, PTI cs, The Greetery stencil, Recollections and WRMK mini brads, The Cat's Pajamas die, Ranger and Altenew ink, Copic Markers

Copics: W00, E81, N1, N3, N5, N7, R00, R01, R20, R20, R22, R24, R27

Check out all the awesome projects my fellow design team members have created at the Purple Onion Designs blog. And of course, head on over to the Purple Onion Designs store to see all the images in this adorable collection. 

New Pine Cone Trail Collection by Stacey Yacula {Purple Onion Designs}

The brand new Pine Cone Trail collection by Stacey Yacula for Purple Onion Designs is available for purchase now. The complete collection consists of 19 stamps and will be $85.00 until Friday, November 8, 2019. This represents a savings of 30%. As always, you may order individually as well but if you want it all, then now is a great time to order. FYI, the Warming Winter Sentiment set and Rosemary (turkey) must be ordered separately as they are not part of the bundle. 

I used a birch tree stencil to create the background using hawaiian shores, blueberry sky and dark indigo ink onto a stitched Neenah cardstock piece, then added cardstock snowbanks at the bottom for a wintery scene. Aftering stamping Maggie (mouse) from a previous release, Bianca & Neve (snowman and bird) and Erica (hedgehog) onto Copics X-Press It cardstock, I colored with Copic Markers and fussy cut out. The images were then attached to the background using foam dots. Lastly the sentiment from the Warming Winter Sentiment set was stamped onto a patterned paper paper piece using gala red ink then attached with a layer of craft foam and a couple of red mini brads.

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, My Mind's Eye dp, PTI cs, Recollections mini brads, The Cat's Pajamas stencil, PTI, WPlus9 and Altenew ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Mouse-C00, C1, W00, E81, R00, R20, YG01, YG03, YG11; Snowman-W00, E81, R20, R22, R24, YG01, YG03, YG11, B41, B32, E30, E33; Hedgehog-W00, E81, R00, E33, B41, B32

I will have more projects using the new collection throughout the coming days. In the meantime, check out all the awesome projects my fellow design team members have created at the Purple Onion Designs blog. And of course, head on over to the Purple Onion Designs store to see all the images in this adorable collection. 

Happy Thanksgiving {Purple Onion Designs}

I am trying to finish up my fall cards so I can concentrate on Christmas full time. Here is another one for Thanksgiving.

This was one of those rare times where I prepared the background first. I stamped the Spring Fence partially off the panel as well as the largest image from the 2 Cornfields set also partially off the page. The sentiment from the Essential Happy Sentiment set was stamped directly onto the panel. After coloring with Copic markers, I splashed some fine linen ink on the panel using a small wet brush and cut with a stitched die. The Scarecrow and the Pumpkins were stamped onto Copics X-Press It cardstock, colored with Copics and then fussy cut out. The images were attached to the panel with foam squares.

Products: Purple Onion Designs stamps, Neenah and PTI cs, Memento and PTI  ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Fence-E21, E23, E2500; Corn Stalks-E81, E84; Grass-YG91, YG93; Scarecrow-E0000, E000, E01, Y21, YR23, BG10, BG72, E30, E33, E35, E81, E84, E87, YR12, YR14, YR16; Pumpkins-Y21, YR23, YR27, BG10, BG72, BG75, YR12, YR14, YR16, W00, E81, YR12, YR14, YR16; Sky-BG0000, BG000

Thank you for stopping by.

{Reminder} TCP Tuesday October Challenge

Today I am sharing my second card for the October TCP Tuesday #362 Challenge which is all about Fall. There is still plenty of time to submit your project. There is a $50 gift voucher to the TCP store in play!

This card was part of a welcome to a new neighbor. I stamped the wreath from the Wreath Building Kit using fine linen ink, then stamped the twigs and berries using canyon clay ink. The leaves were stamped using canyon clay and cut with the matching die from the Leaves set. The sentiment from the set along with another one from the Hay Neighbor set was stamped using honey nut and canyon clay ink. The birdhouse stamped with blueberry ink and then diecut came from the Take Flight/Birds/Birdhouse bundle.

Products: The Cat's Pajamas stamps and dies, Touchmaster and PTI cs, PTI and MFT ink

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Wishing You a Beautiful Autumn Season

We just suffered through one of the hottest and driest Septembers in history here in the south and October just recently changed to something tolerable. With that in mind I am sharing three fall themed projects.

Originally this project was to be just the tags attached to some baking goods but time and back problems curtailed my plans. Using lots of Sunny Studio products I started by cutting the tags from white cardstock and patterned paper from the pretty Colorful Autumn paper pad using dies from the Build-a-Tag #1 set. For tag #1 I stamped the leaves and acorn using the Beautiful Autumn stamp set and then cut out with the matching dies. For tag #2 I stamped the pumpkin and leaf from the Pretty Pumpkin set and cut out with the matching dies. I curled some twine to add to the top of the pumpkin. For the last tag, I stamped the flower and leaf from the Sunflower Fields set and also cut with the matching dies. All images were attached to the tag with a combo of glue and foam squares for dimension.

When attaching tags to a card, I like to keep the backgrounds simple so I added touches of patterned paper and stamped the sentiment from Beautiful Autumn stamp set using rich cocoa ink.

Products: Sunny Studios stamps and dies, Sunny Studio dp, PTI and Master's Touch cs, Hemptique and The Twinery twine, Memento ink, Wplus9, Catherine Pooler, Simon Says and PTI ink, Copic Markers

Copics: Maple Leaf-R39, Y15, Y38, YG03; Oak Leaf-R32, R35, R39; Acorn-E30, E31, E25, E27

Happy Fall Y'all!!