Spring Birthday

Hi and welcome to my blog. I am showing a Spring birthday card today using Penny Black stamps. Spring has sprung here in South Carolina. Many trees and flowers are in full bloom! At the bottom of my card, I used a border embossing folder. I have not used one of these in a very long time and I saw that I had quite a few! I need to pull them out and use them more often. I know we all have those things that are stashed away and forgotten. 😏

Stamps:  Wreath Whimsy - Penny Black

Embossing Folder:  Border - Cuttlebug

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Saying:  Sticker - Krazy Kreations

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a fine day!

Challenges entered:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Things with Wings

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Hearts and/or Flowers

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Technique and Fun Fold Card

Hi and welcome to my blog. I have a fun fold card to show you today and a technique I have been enjoying lately. I did this technique many years ago, but I have recently seen it, so I tried it again. First you stamp the image, color in the whole image using a white colored pencil and then sponge colors over it. Wipe off the excess ink on the image with a paper towel. The white pencil acts as a resist. I like the artsy effect of this technique. I am not one who likes to color a lot either, so this is a good way to color without me having to think about blending colors, etc.

Stamps:  Pretty Perch - Penny Black

               Sayings - Birthday Wish - Stampendous

Distress Inks:  Shaded Lilac and Kitsch Pink

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

I would like to enter this card into these challenges.

Double D:  Birds

Penny Black:  Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Many Ways to Color #4

Hi and welcome to my blog. Here is another fun way to color your stamps! This technique is called Rock N Roll. This is an old technique, but gives beautiful results. Take solid stamps and stamp the entire stamp on your stamp pad that is a lighter color of ink. Next turn your stamp around on the edges on a darker color of ink and then stamp on your card stock. For example I stamped the pink flower using a pink ink pad and then rolled the edges around on a red ink pad. You can see the darker color edges on all the flowers on my card. This gives the flowers a little more depth than just stamping with one color. I stamped on glossy card stock for this card.

Stamps:  Large Flower - Studio G

Small Flowers - Blossoms - Sparkle N Sprinkle

Saying:  Thoughtful Wishes - Stampendous

Distress Inks

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Challenges entered:

Pammies Inky Pinkies:  Anything Goes 2307

Word Art Wednesday:  Anything Goes #583-584

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge #384

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MORE THAN ONE FOLD

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I love making different fold cards. This is a square card that opens up in a unique way. I call it a split diagonal card.

Here is what the card looks like inside when it is opened. I drew a frame around the saying using a black marker.

Stamp:  Donut Bliss - Stampabilities

      Inside Saying - Fiskars

Best Wishes Saying:  Sticker - Starform

Dies:  Stitched Circle - Gina Marie

Small Circles - Spellbinders

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Glitter Glue:  Sprinkled Sugar - Stickles

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope to see you over at the challenge! Have a great day!

Challenge entered:

Pammies Inky Pinkies:  Anything Goes 2307

Flower Bouquet

Hi and welcome to my blog! We have a beautiful Spring like day today. I enjoyed being outside and taking a walk. I made this card using the Hero Arts Togetherness Floral Bouquet stamp. I colored the stamp using a white colored pencil and then sponged over the bouquet using purple and blue inks. I made a wood panel for the background by scoring randomly on white card stock and swiping blue and purple stamp pads over it. I die cut the "lattice" out of gold card stock and used half of the die to go behind the image.

Stamp:  Togetherness Flower Bouquet - Hero Arts

Dies:     Kaleidoscope - Spellbinders

             Stitched Oval - Gina Marie

            

Distress Inks - Shaded Lilac and Tumbled Glass

White Colored Pencil - Prisma

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Die Cut Divas:  Use Some Gold

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Fun With Dies

Script Bird

 Hi and welcome to my blog! Today I made a "spring" card. Today it feels like Spring outside. I took advantage of this beautiful day and took a nice walk. In two days we will be back to winter weather!

I love birds, so I used this great bird stamp by Hero Arts. I stamped it using purple ink to go with the paper. It is a stamp from 2012. 

I would like to enter this into the Hero Arts February challenge - Animal Crackers.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful day!

Many Ways to Color #3

It is time to show another card in my Many Ways to Color series. To color these flowers I used 2 colors of Tombow markers ( coral and red ) and colored directly on the flowers stamp. I spritzed the stamp a few times with water and stamped on glossy card stock. This works well on matte card stock too. I like this method of coloring because you can use many colors on the stamp - for example if there were leaves on the stems, I could have colored them green with my markers. When using just a stamp pad it would be hard to use different colors. Also this gives the stamps a watercolor look. I have a sample in the second picture where I colored the flowers in different colors using this method. These were stamped on matte card stock.

Stamp:  Poppy Field - Rubbernecker

             Saying - Summer Blooms stamp set - Rubbernecker

Frame - Free Hand Drawing

Tombow Markers

Stamp:  Poppy Fields - Rubbernecker

             Saying - Gina K

Stencil: Love & Cherish - Photo Play

Dies:     Stitched Rectangles - No Brand

Distress Markers

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!   

Challenges entered:

Pammies Inky Pinkies:  Anything Goes 2305

 

House Mouse and Friends Challenge #383

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Welcome, we are here with a new challenge for you

# 383 

ALWAYS ANYTHING GOES

with the optional theme of 

Add Doodling

Hosted by our Talented Teamie  Carol

Challenge ends February 19th

 so join the fun!  Please use  a House-MouseDesigns^(R)
  House-Mouse Friends /Happy Hoppers, or, Gruffies image stamped/decoupage or CD rom.

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I am always in need of birthday cards. I used this cute stamp and doodled on some streamers to make the card more festive.

Stamp:  Birthday Cupcake - Stampendous

Die:  Stitched Circle - Gina Marie

Paper:  Happy Cake Day - American Crafts

Glitter Glue:  Yellow - Stickles

Spectrum Noir Glitter Markers

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Washi Tape

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope to see you over at the challenge. Have a great day!

Get Well Teacups

Hi and welcome to my blog! This time of year it is good to have some get well cards on hand. What better way to help the healing process than with a nice cup of hot tea! 

Dies:     Stacked Butterfly Cups - Tutti

             Stitched Oval - Gina Marie

Paper:   Mariposa - DCWV - black with gold flecks

             Gold card stock mat                                                      

Saying: Stickers - Starform

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Die Cut Divas - Add Some Gold

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Food and/or Drink

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes #581-582