Bits and Bobs #13

Hi and welcome to my blog. Today I am showing another bits and bobs card. I found a whole bunch of vellum sheets in my stash that had some pretty designs on them. I have not used these in ages! It was fun making a card with one of the patterned sheets of vellum. This is the sheet I chose to use.

I found the stamped birds in my stash and layered the vellum over top of them. I used an old but goody Stampin Up splatter stamp and stamped it randomly on the vellum using brown ink. I found these word stickers and added them to the card along with some old cord.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

One Crazy Stamper:  Anything Goes

Enjoy Your Day

Hi! I am glad you stopped by today. I always love using the House Mouse stamps and isn't this little "Happy Hopper" cute!

I used some new supplies that I bought around Christmas time.  The gift border is a new Memory Box die. I used my new Spetrum Noir  amethyst sparkle pen on it to liven it up. I used my new Spectrum Noir pink garnet sparkle pen to color the ice cream. The saying came from another set of House Mouse stamps.

Thanks again for stopping by. I hope you enjoy your day!

Challenges entered: 

Dies R Us:  Anything Goes With Dies

House Mouse:  New, New, New

Simon Says Wednesday Challenges:  New Something

Altered Dies #20

Hi and welcome to my blog. I have another altered die card to show you today. I made a fairy using a Cheery Lynn butterfly die for her wings!

                            I started with the butterfly die and cut off the antennas.

I patted my Versa Mark ink pad over the butterfly and added Sparkle N Sprinkle Glisten embossing powder to it and heat set it. Then I adhered the girl image to the die.

Here is a picture of the fairy that shows the sparkle better.

The background was made by inking up the negative flower stamp with Bundled Sage Distress ink then making streaks across the stamp using teal and brown markers then stamping it on cream card stock.

The first butterfly I cut did not cut out all the little pieces so I cut another one. I then had the negative of the 2 butterflies left. Not wanting to throw away that piece I placed washi tape behind them and made a quick card! Here is the result.

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

Oldies Technique # 11 -- Emossing and Coloring on Vellum

Hi Everyone! It is time for another Oldies technique. With June being a big wedding month I thought I would use one of my favorite Oldies technique -- using vellum on a wedding card. Vellum makes cards look so lovely I think.

Supplies needed:

vellum ( I used a heavy vellum and cut out a shape from it )

open stamp to color

bright markers 

Versa Mark or white pigment ink

white embossing powder

embossing buddy

heat tool

Swipe the embossing buddy over the vellum so that the embossing powder will not stick to areas you do not want it!

Ink up the stamp with Versa Mark or white pigment ink, sprinkle on white embossing powder and heat set it.

Turn the vellum piece over and color the image using your markers. 

Here is how it looks when you turn it back over to the front.

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

Challenges entered:  

Artistic Stamper: Summer is on its Way ( June weddings and flowers!)

Paper Take Weekly:  Ohh So Pretty

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Favorite Technique/Product

Hello Friend

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to show you a tag I made. I hardly ever use any word dies so it was fun to use one on this tag. The blue background was made by spritzing the white card stock with water and spraying a light blue spray over it. After it dried I splattered some Faded Jeans Distress ink over it. The flowers are water colored using Distress markers and a water pen.  I faux stitched around the blue piece using a dark brown marker. I stamped using a script stamp on the kraft paper tag.

I added a metal butterfly charm and tore the bottom of the blue piece to give interest. I then sponged around the edges using Faded Jeans Distress ink.

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


Challenges entered:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Make Your Own Background
Tim Holtz -- 12 Tags of 1215 -- April

Mixed Media

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share a card I made using mixed media. This is always fun for me. At Joan's Touch this week we are to use stencils, lots of colors of ink and textures. My good enabler friend ( I seem to have several of those! ) showed me her Crayola air brush system and let me play with it. Well, of course I had to get one for myself! LOL! I used it doing the background. I used a fern and dot stencils with green and brown markers on yellow card stock.

To make the glittery flowers I used a stencil with white stencil paste. I colored over the flowers, but I was not liking the look, so I ended up using the wonderful velvet glitters from Sparkle N Sprinkle. I made the blue flower by using Tim Holtz's Tattered Flowers die, cut from cardboard. I inked the flower by rubbing on Inka Gold inks.

The bluebird is a chipboard piece I had and I also rubbed Inka Gold colors on it.  I enjoyed using the chipboard and I ought to use it more often!

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

Challenges entered:  

Joan's Touch:  lots of ink colors, different textures and stencils

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  I ought to use this more (chipboard)

Floral Frame

Hi Everyone! Here is a another Spring card I made today. We have about 6 inches of snow and it is now sleeting! This is a major storm for us in the South. I am looking forward to Spring! I have been playing with Winterfest challenges over at Two peas in a Bucket. It has been a lot of fun! This is the card I made for the Five in One challenge where we are to use 5 different stamps on our card. I have been wanting to play with my Tapestry stamps lately and this was the perfect challenge to use them.  My TIP is if you want to have different colors on your stamp, use different colors of markers where you want color and then huff on your stamp to moisten a bit and stamp. Now you have the colors where you want them.

Here  you can see the stitching around the oval. I used magenta metallic thread. This is not my favorite thing to do, but I am glad I did.

I used an embossing folder and then popped the oval piece on top and added the image in the middle.

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


Challenges entered:

Amusing Challenges:  Bird
Avenue 613:  Create Your Own Challenge -- ribbon, stitching, image
Craft Creations:  Always Anything Goes
Top Tip Tuesday:  Girly
Through the Craft Room Door:  Anything Goes