Sending Hugs

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I have made a card using the Altenew Beautiful Day and Vintage Flowers stamps. I masked the flowers and leaves, added an svg die to the top corner and adhered some purple sequins. I love these layer stamps and the beautiful detail on them. I am entering this card in the Altenew September Inspiration Challenge. Here is the inspiration picture.





Here is the card I made.

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

Challenge entered:

Altenew: September Inspiration Challenge

Black and White

Hi and welcome to my blog! I have been trying to use up some of my old stuff in my stash and I found this neat velvety zebra print paper. I used it for the background of my zebra image.

I stamped the zebra using black pigment ink and added Ebony Spark embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle. You can see the sparkle more in this picture.

I cut out the image using Spellbinders Labels 4 die and added interest to this shape by cutting into it with Tim Holtz's Alterations Collection die. The leaves are from Memory Box - Fresh Foliage. 

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

Challenges entered:

Double D:  Black and White Only

Crafty Creations:  Anything Goes #333

Inspiration Destination:  Anything Goes #120

Vintage Flowers

Hi and welcome to my blog! Of course all my flowers are gone except for my pansies, but I am showing a flower card I made today from this picture inspiration from Altenew. Aren't these lovely flowers and colors?  These flowers look like snow and we have snow in the forecast today!

Here is my card. I used the Altenew Vintage Flowers set and stamped the flowers with white pigment ink. The ink tends to soak into the card stock so I colored over the flowers again with a white colored pencil. I used Gold Liquid Pearls for the flower centers.

The saying came from the Altenew layered Lily set. I embossed the saying with gold embossing powder and outlined the "thanks" with a black marker.

I flicked some gold metallic paint across the card for interest and then added the bow and butterfly. The twig was outlined with a gold metallic marker.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you are enjoying the new year so far!

Challenge entered:

Altenew:  Inspiration

Wedding Card

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog! Today am showing a wedding card I made. I have not made a wedding card in awhile and it is never to late to have a few on hand. I have had so much fun using my new Altenew Vintage Flowers stamp set. I got the inspiration for my card from this photo at Altenew's July challenge.

I stamped and masked all the flowers on three pieces of white card stock. I then added various dies and svg dies to the step card. Dies are one of my favorite embellishments. They add so much to a card. Here is a list of the dies I used.

Just Rite Garden Circle

Spellbinders Raindrops on Roses

Spellbinders Flourish Trim

Spellbinders Fancy Tags

Flourish Heart and Heart Butterfly -- svgs

Here is a side view of the card.

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

Challenges entered:

Altenew:  Weddings

ABC Challenge:  " L" is for Lots of Layers

Frilly and Funkie:  All Lined Up

Joy

Hi Everyone! My Christmas season has started off with a bang. How about yours? I have had many Christmas activities stacked up one after the other. I am enjoying it and I hope you are enjoying this joyful season as well. Here a tag I made I call joy. I started by cutting burlap into the shape of the tag, adhering double sided sticky paper to the tag and then sticking the burlap onto it. I used Tim Holtz's sweater stencil and sprayed the burlap with Fired Brick Distress spray.

I stamped Tim Holtz's tree from the Just Believe stamp set, fussy cut it and pop dotted it to the tag. I added a deer svg die and a burlap poinsettia. I made the pine cones by cutting circles with my deco scissors and rolling them up. To finish the tag I added Stickles Diamond glitter on the tree, antlers  and pine cones.

Thanks so much for stopping by. have a wonderful and blessed day!

Challenges entered:

Frilly & Funkie:  'Tis the Season

Shabby tea Room:  O Christmas Tree

Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2015 -- December

Oldies Technique #10 -- Shadow Stamping

Hi and welcome to my blog. It is time for another Oldies technique. Today I am showing how to do shadow stamping. I have not used this technique in years and had nearly forgotten about it! I like this because it is so simple yet really neat looking.

Here are the supplies you will need:

shadow stamp

any lighter color ink ( I used a tan pigment ink )

light card stock

several stamps to stamp over the shadow

dark ink ( I used Distress Faded Jeans )

Here are some examples of a shadow stamp. It is any stamp that is pretty large and solid so that you can stamp something over top of it. Here I have an oval and rectangle shape. 

I am working with the oval shaped shadow stamp. I have stamped it with the lighter color ink. I like using pigment ink on the shadow stamp because it seems to go on more evenly and stamp more evenly, but you can use dye inks as well. 

Here is the result after I have stamped it on the card stock.

Now you can take your other stamps and stamp over the top of this shadow using your darker ink.

That's all there is to it! Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day. I hope you have a fun time working with this technique.

Challenges entered:

Penny's Paper Crafty:  Anything Goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge;  Make It Masculine

Stamp & Create:  Summer Fun

Oldies technique #9 -- Kissing

Welcome to my blog! It is time for another Oldies technique. I have had so much fun revisiting these techniques. This technique is called "kissing" because you "kiss" one stamp to another. I love the beautiful designs that you can get with this. I am entering this card in the Party Time Tuesdays challenge and Penny's Paper Crafty challenge.

Here are the supplies you will need:

large solid stamp and 2-3 smaller solid stamps

3-4 colors of pigment inks ( I used gold, brown and blue )

white or cream card stock

Turn the large stamp rubber side up. Stamp the lighter color all over the stamp.

Using pigment ink helps you buy time as you ink up the other stamps since it stays juicy longer. Take a smaller solid stamp and ink it up. Then stamp it on the large inked stamp. I stamped my smaller stamp partially on the pear and turned it around and stamped it again somewhere else on the pear so as to use up all the ink on the small stamp. You can also give a tiny twist to the small stamp as you stamp on the large one. This gives a little more interest to the piece.

Now take the other solid stamp and do the same thing using a different color. 

This is the final look of the pear.

Now it is time to stamp the pear onto the card stock. This is how it looks! Cool huh!

I want to make more images. This is so easy and fun! Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day!

Challenges entered:

Party Time Tuesdays Challenge

Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge:  Anything Goes

Oldies Technique #4 -- Rock N Roll

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share another easy Oldies technique called Rock N Roll. The name comes from kind of rocking and rolling your stamp around in an ink pad.

Supplies needed:

two colors of pigment ink pads

solid stamp

white or cream card stock

Ink up your stamp with the lightest color of pigment ink. Pigment ink stays juicy longer and this is helpful with this technique as you will see.

Do not stamp yet. Take your second color and roll the stamp around the edges on the ink pad. You will see that you have a border around the inked stamp. The ink is still wet even though you haven't stamped yet. Yes, your pad may get a little muddied, but you can lightly wipe off the top ink and usually it fades away after stamping off on paper a few times.

 Stamp your image onto the card stock.

I really like the artsy look of this. Here is another picture of this image using teal and red.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope your day is wonderful and I hope to see you back here again on  March 19th to see another Oldie!

Challenges entered:

Scrapy Land:  Anything Goes/Die ( Memory Box - Victorian Frame )

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Special Lady/Girly