Just For Fun July Challenge

Hi and welcome to my blog. Are you looking forward to the Fourth? We always love watching the fireworks in our town. How about you? The challenge at Just For Fun this month is to use the colors red, white and blue. Your card does not have to be a July 4th card but I made a July 4th card to show you that you do not have to necessarily use patriotic symbols. On my card I used the Just For Fun Birthday Cupcake stamp and some fun dies.

I started with a striped embossed blue background. I used the cascading stars from Spellbinders, by cutting a few from that die and adding them to the top of the card. I inlaid red stars into two of the white stars. The letters USA are dies from Momenta. I stamped, colored and fussy cut the cupcake and pop dotted it to the card. Star sequins were also added. I made the banner by hand and used the saying from the Sentiments 1 unmounted sheet.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you will join our challenge. We would love to see what you create with these colors!

Happy July 4th!

Challenges entered:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Birthday With Friends

Hi and welcome to my blog. What can be better than celebrating a birthday with friends? My stamping friends and I celebrate our birthdays at a favorite scrapbook store where we spend the day stamping, chatting and eating cake! It is always a fun day. We just celebrated a birthday the first of this month and we are ready to celebrate again in July. I want to show you the birthday tag I made with these cute House Mouse friends. I just bought the stamp and numbers dies today!

I followed Tim Holtz's techniques for his June tag. I sponged a tag with Distress inks. I then took out some white tissue paper and stamped the music and birthday on it. I covered another tag with white school glue and adhered the stamped tissue paper on the tag and smooshed it around a little to make wrinkles. When this dried, I used Tim Holtz's numbers dies on the tag. I adhered this tag over my background tag for the colors to show through the numbers. The image was stamped, colored with Spectrum Noir markers, fussy cut and pop dotted to the tag. The ribbon was colored using Distress inks. I also added stickles glitter to the cupcake.

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

Challenges entered:

House Mouse and Friends:  A Day Spent With Friends

12 Tags of 2016 :  June

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Animal Magic

Altered Dies #7

I am back again with another altered die card. I have had so much fun with these altered dies. I hope you enjoy what I have done with my dies today. April is the month of rain so I have made a fun "rain" card with this cute duck from Rubber Stampede.

I wanted some raindrops on my card so I used this Spellbinders butterfly die that I cut from blue glitter card stock and kept the small cut outs for my raindrops!

Next I used one of Gina Marie's Stitched Circle dies to make the umbrella.

I cut the circle in half and used some decorative scissors on the bottom of one of the halves.

I scored the middle of the umbrella so that it would pop up a little and added some Stickles Crystal glitter to the raindrops for more sparkle.

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

Challenges entered:

Scrapy Land:  Anything Goes

Love

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I want to show you a tag I made with these sweet chickadees by Sparkle N Sprinkle.

I made the background using the splatter stencil from Tim Holtz and doing the mono printing technique here. I used Tumbled Glass and Weathered Wood stains. You can see the white splatters in the middle of the tag.

Next I used white matte embossing paste and Tim Holtz's snowflakes stencil. I added Stickles Diamond glitter glue on the snowflakes to make them sparkle.

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


Challenges entered:


Crafty Cardmakers:  Love, Love, Love
Our Crafty Corner:  Anything Goes Challenge 6
Simon Says Wednesday:  Have A Heart
Tim Holtz: 12 Tags of 2016 - February
We Love 2 Create:  Anything Creative Mixed Media Goes Challenge 3

Quiet Garden

Hi Everyone! I hope you had a good Labor Day weekend. I want to show you a tag I made using alcohol inks, a stencil and some acetate.

I used glossy card stock, put various purple and blue alcohol inks along with silver on my craft mat. I swiped the card stock through the ink for my background. I laid the leaf stencil over the background and used translucent stencil paste. After it dried I outlined the leaves with a white marker.

It was fun using my new dragonfly stamp from Our Daily Bread. The dragonflies were stamped on acetate and glittered on the back of the wings. I fussy cut them to add to the tag.

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

Challenges entered:

Artistic Stamper:  Things With Wings

Mod Squad:  Marvelous Marbling

Paper Take Weekly:  Things With Wings

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Use a Stamp

Tim Holtz 12 Tags of 2015: September

Tea Party

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I hope you are enjoying your day. I want to share a card I made using one of my teapot stamps. I love tea parties, teapots and teacups. I got the inspiration for my card from this beautiful photo from The Shabby Tea Room. Wouldn't this teapot make a lovely table centerpiece?






I stamped  my teapot with pink ink, fussy cut it and covered it with Glossy Accents to make it look like porcelain. TIP: When fussy cutting it helps to cut away large pieces of paper to give you room to cut better. I also turn my paper as I cut to help the "flow" of the scissors. The leaves were cut from the Memory box die - Fresh Foliage.

I added Stickles Icicles glitter glue to all the flowers.

The bow is made from seam binding that I dyed by using Distress Tumbled Glass ink.

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

Challenges entered:

Scrapy Land:  Anything Goes/Die (Memory Box - Fresh Foliage)

Simon Says Monday Challenge: For the Love of Plants

Top Tip Tuesday: Cut it Out

Celebrate

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. It is nice and sunny here at my house. I want to share a birthday card I made using House Mouse stamps. I know no better way to be in the kitchen than baking a birthday cake! I will be doing that soon as my husband's birthday is not far away.

This is a Z fold card. Above is the card folded and below is the card opened.

On the bottle of ink on the front of the card I colored with copics and used Stickles Sprinkled Sugar glitter glue over the top. On the cake's icing on the inside of the card, I used Copper Flame embossing powder by Sparkle N Sprinkle.

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

Challenges entered:  House Mouse & Friends -- In the Kitchen

Sparkle N Sprinkle -- Anything Goes With Loose Glitter/Embossing Powder

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge -- Anything Goes

Christmas Tag

Hi Everyone! I know many of us are scrambling around getting Christmas things done. The outside of my house has decorations, but we still need to get out the Christmas tree. I went shopping today at our annual Holiday Fair and boy that will put you in the holiday spirit! I came home with a trunk full of items! I want to share a Christmas tag I made yesterday. I used a piece of clear acetate, ran it through a snowflake embossing folder, then dabbed Picket Fence ink on the indented side of each snowflake. I let the ink dry some and then wiped the excess off and the white ink stayed in the indented areas. I added the embossed acetate piece over a blue sprayed background and stitched around the edges.

The deer is a Tim Holtz Sizzix die and the lamp post was cut using an svg cutting file. I WON an eclips 2 die cutter a few months back! What a fun surprise! I have really enjoyed using it so far. The snowflake is a foam sticker that I added Stickle's glitter to.

To the bottom I added Moon Rise Glitter Tinsel from Sparkle N Sprinkle! Don't you just love the shimmer? 

Thank you for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas season!

Challenges entered:

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Christmas/Holidays

Tim Holtz:  12 Tags of 2014 - December

Brrrr- It's Cold Outside

Hi Everyone, I hope you are having a good day. We are warming up some here this week, but I hear that real cold weather is on its way! Here is a card I made for the House Mouse challenge -- Brrr-It's Cold Outside. I guess this card will get me ready for next week!

I just love using my House Mouse stamps. This little fella is having fun in the snow. I remember when my sons were snowboarding and what fun they had. 

The bottom of the card is an svg file I cut with my new eclips2. I placed blue glitter card stock under it. I added glitter to the snowflakes, border and image for a frosty look!

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

House Mouse Challenge: Brrr - It's Cold Outside

Hello With Smiles

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my blog. I want to show you a card I made where I did a lot of altering. I have always enjoyed making cards with bits and pieces of things left over from other projects. I went through my stacks of leftovers and this time I also altered many of the pieces. First, here is the picture of things I found in my stash.

I altered the embossed background piece by sponging on Distress Peeled Paint ink. I used clear embossing powder on the Spellbinders frame to enhance it and to make it stiffer since it was cut from patterned paper.

I cut the flower from the second tag and pop dotted it over the first flower and added gold Stickles to the center. I used Brown Fizz embossing powder from Sparkle N Sprinkle on the Spellbinder swirl dies.

I also altered the bird die by adding the Brown Fizz embossing powder to them.

I had a lot of fun making this card with bits and pieces and doing some altering. A lot of times I do not think to alter something so this helped me to go outside my box. 

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

Challenges entered:

Joan's Touch:  Fall, alter things already cut or used, embossed background

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

12 Tags of 2014 -- September

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share the tag I made for a few challenges. I was inspired by Tim Holtz's tag he made for September. You can see his tag here. 

We were to use our imagination a bit more as you can see that Tim has butterflies as "hair" on his lady. I used 2 leaf dies to make butterflies. Black Diamond Stickles was used on the flower's center. I used Tim's Bubble stencil for the background, used blending solution and then swiped the tag through Aqua alcohol ink. I added some of Tim's Element rub ons and washi tape numbers. The sunflower, by Sparkle N Sprinkle, was colored using Distress Markers.

Thanks so much for stopping by today. I hope your day is fabulous! God bless!

Challenges entered:

12 Tags of 2014:  Septmeber

Artistic Inspirations:  Anything Goes

Diva's by Design:  Anything Goes

Simon Says:  Create Your Own Background

Sunshiny Day

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. It is very sunshiny here today. My title reminds me of the song "it's a bright, bright sunshiny day!" Now I will be singing it the rest of the day. LOL! I want to share a card I made for a few challenges and at All Sorts the challenge is to use sunshiny colors. I just love these bright colors together. I loved using the Penny Black hedgehog from the Wonderful Day stamp set.

The flowers, butterfly and frame are all Cheery Lynn dies. I love to embellish so these dies really add a lot to a card.

Stickles Black Diamond glitter glue was used on the hedgehog and flower center.

Thank you so much for dropping by today. I hope your day is super!

Challenges entered:

All Sorts:  Warm Sunshiny Colors

Cheery Lynn:  Frame It

Penny Black:  Floral  Fantasy

Make A Wish

Hi Everyone! We are having a thunderstorm rumbling through right now. It seems par for the course this week! I hope you are enjoying your day. I want to share a card I made for some challenges. I am always making birthday cards for it seems I need them more than others now. I love this cute House Mouse stamp. I hope his wish comes true!

As you can see, I used a lot of layers, distressed the edges and inked them. I cut out my image using a Spellbinder's die and the leaves is a Memory Box die.  I used 2 sizes of flower punches to make the flowers. I dyed seam binding to make the ribbon match my card. I had a lot of fun making my card today. Here is a close up view of the cupcake where I added Stickles glitter to look like icing.

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

Challenges entered:

Crafty Ribbon:  Anything Goes With Ribbon

House Mouse and Friends:  Lots of Layers

Scrapbooker PHD:  Die Cuts

Through the Craftroom Door:  Anything Goes

Planting Season

Hi Everyone! It is a beautiful day here. I made this card with Impression Obsession stamps (listed below) that remind me that I need to go buy plants for my pots real soon! My pansies are still looking great, but I know they won't last too long as it heats up here. This is also a Mother's Day card for my MIL. For many years we would go to her house on Mother's Day and help her plant flowers in her big flower box on the patio and by the side of her house. She is now in the hospital and will be going to a nursing home soon. We will have good memories of all the beautiful flowers that were blooming at her house each year.

I went outside my box and made this card using a large die to create a different shape.  I fussy cut the flowers, added Flower Soft to the leaves, added glitter to the flowers and pop dotted one of the flower bunches over the others. The background was made by using two large background stamps, paisley and crackle, than stamping the large flourish in the corner. The butterfly is from Cheery Lynn.

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

Impression Obsession stamps used:

Garden Pots  090913

Petit Tussie  090913

Flourish 1  F5549

Cover  A Card Crackle  CC048

Cover A Card Lg. Paisley  CC039

Challenges entered:

Cheery Lynn:  Mother's Day

Carft-Dee Bowz:  Anything Goes With a Handmade Bow

Impression Obsession:  Outside of the Box

Simon Says Monday Challenge:  Big Stamp

Through the Craft Room Door:  Anything Goes

Happy Easter

Hi Everyone! I cannot believe Easter is here. We have had such a long Winter and a hint of Spring. I must say it is beautiful in my area with all the trees and flowers blooming. I want to wish each of you a wonderful and blessed Easter.  "He is not here: for He is risen, as He said."  Matthew 28:6a.

Challenges entered:

Catch the Bug :  Spring Time

Cheery Lynn Designs:  Pretty in Purple

Country View:  New Beginnings

Jo's Scrap Shack:  Happy Easter

Simon Says Stamp:  Animal Antics

Sweet Stampin':  Flowers

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

Holly Jolly

Hi Everyone and welcome to my blog! Christmas will be here before you know it. I still have a couple of gifts to get so I had better hurry! Aren't these Penny Black images the cutest? Looks like they are ready for Christmas!

I had fun using my new Spellbinders snowflake dies. I sparkled them up using Star Dust Stickles glitter.

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

Challenges entered : 

All That Stickles:  Happy Holidays

Die Cuttin'Divas:  Happy Holidays

Eureka Stamps:  Anything Christmas

Paper Take Weekly: Christmas

Penny Black:  Christmas

Rogue Readhead Designs: Winter Holiday

Through the Purple Haze:  Here Comes Christmas

Christmas Fun

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share a card I made for the Basic Grey and House Mouse challenges. I just love this House Mouse stamp. I purchased this stamp when my boys were snowboarding a lot. They always had a great time on them. It was fun watching them doing flips and tricks and flying down the mountain! I miss those days now that they are grown and we don't go as a family anymore. I am getting too old to ski since I have not been in many years. I am afraid I might break a bone now! LOL!

I used Basic Grey papers from the Basics, Out of Print and Green at Heart packs. White Liquid Applique was used for the snow and then I added Stickles glitter to make the "snow" sparkle.

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

Challenges entered:

Basic Grey -- Happy Christmas
House Mouse and Friends -- Anything Christmas