Shabby Chic #9

Hi! I hope you are having a good day. Well, it is May and on my shabby chic card today I am using a cone flower from Tim Holtz. I just love cone flowers with all their pretty colors! Aren't these gorgeous?





Here is the card I made with the stamp.

All of the items on my card were things I already had in my stash. All the dies are Spellbinders dies. The butterfly is from Tim Holtz's Butterfly Frenzy die. The background and flower were colored using Twinkling H2Os. The saying is from Sparkle N Sprinkle.

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

Challenges entered:

Double D Challenge:  May Flowers/Inspiration
Stamping Sensations:  Close To Nature
The Paper Girls:  Friendship

Just For Fun March Challenge

Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope you are enjoying your day. Just For Fun Stamps has a new challenge and for this challenge you are to use dies. The two dies I used on my card are the Marianne Birdcage die and the Memory Box Fresh Foliage die. I cut the birdcage from a pewter metal sheet. Most of you already know that I love birds. On my card today I used the Just For Fun Fashion Warbler stamp.

The bird was stamped and embossed with white embossing powder. I colored the bird using Twinkling H2Os, fussy cut it and pop dotted it to the card. The background was made by tapping Distress inks onto my craft mat, spritzing them with water and swiping the card stock through the inks.

I hope you will join us in our new challenge this month. We would love to see what you make! You might even win a gift certificate to the store.

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

Challenges entered:

Cuttlebug Mania:  Ribbons and Bows
Simon Says Monday Challenge:  In My yGarden
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes
The House That Stamps Built:  Anything Goes F2818

Some Birdie Loves You

Hello and welcome to my blog! I want to show you a card I made using the StampTangle Chickadee and a saying from the Sentiments 3 stamp set from Just For Fun Stamps. I love birds and this is one of my favorites! I love the stamptangle stamps because you can color them in many different ways and get different looks using the same stamp.

I stamped the bird with Versa Mark ink, added white embossing powder and heat set it. Then I colored the bird using various colors of Twinkling H20s. I also colored the Memory Box Fresh Foliage die with gold TH20s and added it above the bird. I love these paints because of their beautiful shimmer. Here is a closer look at them.

I used a fun technique for the background. I put a few drops of light green acrylic paint on a piece of packaging plastic and spread it rather thinly over the plastic with a brush. I laid a darker green piece of paper on top of the paint and then another piece of plastic on top of the paper. I then pressed and patted down on the plastic with my fingers. Next I lifted off the paper from the plastic and came up with a neat looking background. This is called the dentrite technique.

Thank you for stopping by today. I hope you will enter our Sweet Things challenge here. You still have a few days left! You might even win a store gift certificate! 

Have a wonderful day!

Oldie Goldies

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful Memorial day weekend! I want to show you a card I made using all old items from my stash. I have been stamping for about 21 years so I have a lot of old things to work with. The House Mouse stamp is at least 8-10 years old. I use this stamp a lot for birthdays. I stamped and colored the mouse using my Spectrum Noir markers that I have had for about three years. I stamped him again on some background paper I colored with Twinkling H2Os. Remember those? I have had them forever! I paper pieced the "icing" onto the doughnut with the H2Os paper. I also added Sparkle N Sprinkle Diamond Dust loose glitter to the doughnut to look like sugar. You can see shine of the H20s and the glitter here.

I used the Cheery Lynn Mega Italian Flourish Doily die behind the image. I have had that die about 5 years and the round Spellbinders die I used to cut out the image is about 7 years old. The yellow border was made using a Martha Stewart corner and border punch that I have had about 6 years too.

The silk flowers are about 10 years old. My dear stamping friend and I went to a warehouse store one day and found that they had the silk flower bushes on clearance for 90% off! We loaded up a cart full and divided them between us. I remember sitting watching television and pulling off the flowers for many days! I still have a lot left!

Also the little "glass" beads I used, we purchased at Michaels about 6-7 years ago or more.  They were clear. So we colored them by putting a few drops of alcohol inks in a zip lock bag and shaking the beads around in the inks. I still have plenty of them too!

I used a cuttlebug dotted swiss embossing folder on the patterned paper. Both of which are about 7 years old as are the card stocks I used.

The ribbon is seam binding I purchased 2-3 years ago on a large spool and dyed using my Faded Jeans Distress ink that I have had about 4 years. Even my glue I used to put it all together is about 2 years old.

I had fun making my "oldies" card. It brought back memories of when and how the items were purchased. Maybe this will inspire you to look in your stash to see what old things you have forgotten and can use to seem like new again!

Thanks so much for stopping by and reading my ramblings. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Cherry Lynn:  Lots of Layers - die

House Mouse and Friends:  Something Old - Nothing New

A Summer Day

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog. Have you been sweltering like I have? I am trying to keep my plants and grass alive! While watering my flower garden I have seen some pretty butterflies fluttering by. I have some pretty phlox growing in my garden too. These things have been my inspiration for my card today. I love summer even though it has been so hot.

I used Tim Holtz's Tattered Flower Garden die to make my flowers. I used Twinkling H2O's to color them. 

The butterfly is a stamp I fussy cut from the Butterfly Corner from Our Daily Bread stamps. The leaves behind the window were made by using a leaf stencil, matte white embossing paste and coloring using Distress inks and water.

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

Challenges entered:


Frilly and Funkie:  Raise It Up (lost of layers)
Love To Create:  Anything Goes (mixed media, creative, inky)
Our Daily Bread:  Floral Inspiration
Paper Take Weekly:  Build It Up (not flat)

Sweet Birthday Wishes

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a wonderful day. I am always in need of birthday cards so I decided to make one today for some challenges. I just love this cute House Mouse image. The sentiment is computer generated and then I used one of my label dies to cut it out.

 On the cupcake I used White Liquid Applique and added Stickles glitter to make it look like frosting. 

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope your day is good and blessed!

Challenges entered:

Artistic Inspirations:  Anything Goes for Kids

Divas by Design:  Make it Sparkle

House Mouse and Friends:  Anything Goes

Make Something Monday:  Use Stamping

Simon Says Stamp:  Anything Goes with Pearls

Tissue Paper and Pearl Ex Powders

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. It is sunny and warm here today and it is putting me in the Spring spirit! I want to show a flower card I made recently for a Two Peas Winterfest challenge. I love techniques so I really enjoyed doing it on this card.

Squirt out some school glue onto a craft sheet and brush the glue onto a piece of dark card stock. I used purple card stock. Crumble up a piece of white tissue paper, uncrumple, and lay it over the glue. You can smooth the tissue paper some with your brush (I used a foam brush so that the tissue paper would not tear too easily) or you can leave it more crumpled if you want more texture. That is what I did on my piece. I also brushed on more glue over the top of the tissue paper so that the Pear Ex powders would adhere to it better.

I used 3 colors of Pearl Ex powders and flicked them over the tissue paper with a small paint brush. I used teal, white and gold colors. Let this dry and now you have a beautiful shimmery and textured background!

It was fun using some new stamps I purchased recently. The flowers were stamped using TH2Os. I used gold embossing powder around the die edges.

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

Challenges entered:

ABC Challenge:  F is for Flower

Crafting From the Heart:  Anything Goes/Use a Flower

Die Cut Divas:  Girly

Great Impressions:  Floral Image

Through the Purple Haze:  Embossing

Technique Tuesday -- Stamping With a Paper Towel

Hi Everyone! Welcome to the Sparkle N Sprinkle Technique Tuesday. It is time for vacations and hitting the beach! I made a card using the beautiful Serena Mermaid. The technique I used does great for a water background. I hope you will join me in making some for yourself.

Supplies needed:

1.  paper towel with a pattern
2.  large multi-colored ink pad 
3.  brayer
4. Penboss
5. Sparkle embossing powder
6. heat tool

Take the paper towel and fold it several times. I folded it to fit my 4 1/4"   x  5 1/2"  card.

Now place the folded paper towel on top of the large multi-colored ink pad and brayer over the paper towel a few times.

The paper towel will look like this when finished. It needs to be pretty saturated with ink. 

This time take white card stock and lay it on top of the inked side of the paper towel. Brayer the top several times.

Here is what the background looks like when you are finished.

When I saw this pattern, I wanted to make an underwater scene,  so I used the Penboss , traced the swirl print with it,  added Sparkle embossing powder and heat set it.   Now my "water" looks shimmery.

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this technique. Have a great day!

April

Also used saying from Fancy Butterflies  stamp  set  and Sea Glass Mudd Puddles.