Many Thanks

Hi and welcome to a new month! At Just For Fun we have a brand new challenge for you. It is a sketch challenge. We would love for you to join in the challenge and you might even win a gift certificate to the store! Also we are so excited about all the wonderful NEW stamps that have just been released. Please click here to see them.

Here is the sketch for the challenge and the card I made to go with it.

On this card I used the Just for Fun large Colorblock Butterfly. I used various colors of blue markers directly on the stamp, spritzed the stamp with water, stamped it on white card stock and fussy cut it. I adhered it to the Spellbinders Bow Elegance die on the card front. I stamped the Just For Fun many thanks saying on the bottom front of the card and used white embossing powder on it. The saying is from the Sentiments 3 unmounted sheet.

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

Challenges entered:

Butterfly Challenge:  Y is for You Choose and/or Wedgewood Blue

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes

Fancy Fish

Hi Everyone! Welcome to y blog. I hope you are having a good day. I just love all the great stamptangle stamps we have at Just For Fun stamps. There are so many ways to use them and they have such a unique look. You can take a peek at them here. I decided to use the small Stamptangle Fancy Fish on this card. I found a new technique and thought the fish would go perfectly with it.

I used patterned paper and several pieces of different colors of card stock. I cut circles using Spellbinders Small Circles dies from each piece, each circle getting smaller. I layered all the card stock and patterned paper on top of each other to make a porthole. The fish was stamped, colored with markers, fussy cut and pop dotted to the card. I added green rhinestones to the fish and porthole for embellishment. The saying is from the Sentiments 3 unmounted sheet. I stamped just part of the saying since it did not fit on the tag. Clear Stickles was added across the card for waves.

You still have a few days to join in the Just For Fun Hot Hot Hot challenge. You might even win a gift certificate to the store. 

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

Challenges entered:

One Crazy Stamper:  My Favorite Things (dies, fish stamp, ribbon)

Stamp Sensations:  Anything Goes

The House That Stamps Built:  Anything Goes A2317

Pretty Peacock

Hi and welcome to my blog. Lately I have been playing with some of my new purchases and I want to show you a card I made with this new peacock stamp from King Rubber. These stamps are beautiful and stamp so crisply. The stamps also come with dies so that you can cut them out. You can see on the peacock that some of the feathers are cut and you can raise them up to look 3D. I colored the stamp using blue and green markers and then stamped on glossy card stock.

On this card I also used a Tattered Lace die that my good friend let me use. Isn't it beautiful?  I still have a lot of items to play with and hopefully I will be able to get some more things done soon and show them here.

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

Challenges entered:

Inspiration Destination:  Anything Goes #122
Scrapy Land:  Add Texture
Simon Says Monday Challenge: Use Your Favorite Tool ( vagabond for die cutting )                                                                                                    
Stamping Sensations:  Animal Magic

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

Bits and Bobs #1

Hi and welcome to my blog. I hope you had a Happy New Year! I am starting off this new year with a new ongoing project on my blog. It is called Bits and Bobs! Have you ever heard of this term? While I was on a tour in Europe we had a delightful British tour guide who used this term quite a bit and I loved hearing her say it. The term "bits and bobs" in the UK means the same as bits and pieces here in the US. A bit was a 3 cent coin and a bob was a shilling worth 8 1/2 cents.

Like so many of us I have sooooo many scraps, stamped images, die cuts and bits and bobs that I need to whittle down and use! So it is my goal this year to use a lot of stuff I have in my stash already! So every first and third Thursday of each month I plan to make a card using stuff in my stash. One of the challenges I am entering is called Get Creative so lets get creative with our scraps! I would love to see you here and I hope I can inspire you to use some of your bits and bobs too!

This is my first bits and bobs card. I made this background awhile back using a stencil and my pump spray machine. I found this cute little bear in my image pile and thought he would go well with the background. I do not know the stamp company for this bear. I used an xacto knife to cut one of the trees and added the bear behind it. I also used a cuttlebug tag die I had cut a long time ago and stamped the saying from Hero Arts. Olaf White glitter from Sparkle N Sprinkle was added to the trees.

You can see the glitter better here in this close up.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Happy New Year! I hope 2017 will be full of  fun creativity for you.

I would like to enter these challenges! 

Crafty Creations:  Anything Goes

Dies R Us:  Anything Goes With a Die

Get Creative:  Anything Goes

Sparkle N Sprinkle:  Anything Goes With Loose Glitter, Embossing Powder, Flocking

Pink Butterflies

Hi and welcome to my blog! Today I am showing a card I made using butterflies I made from vellum. I wanted my butterflies to look delicate, so I made them from vellum by stamping my butterfly stamp onto vellum using Versa mark ink. I then added white embossing powder and heat set it. Next I turned them over and colored with pink markers on the back and fussy cut them. I like using the vellum because you can bend the wings in different ways to make them dimensional.

I also used some punches that I have not used in awhile. I used Martha Stewart corner and border punches to make the eyelet lace frames.


I also stamped a script stamp behind the butterflies and added white embossing powder. You can see it better here.

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

Challenges entered:

Butterfly Challenge:  Butterflies + Punches and/or Pink

Sparkle N Sprinkle:  Anything Goes With Embossing Powder, Loose Glitter, Flocking

Flap Card

Hi Everyone! I hope you are having a good day. I want to share a flap card I made for the Word Art Wednesday challenge, Let's Celebrate! They are celebrating their 200th challenge this week!

I found how to make this flap card online and I love how it folds out. Here is the closed card.

I stamped the butterfly on shrink plastic and colored it, then added it to the card to keep the flap closed.

Here is the card with the flap opened.

Now this is the card all the way opened.

I added rhinestones to some of the flower centers.

I really love making this flap card and while I was at it I made a few more!

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

Challenge entered:  Word Art Wednesday:  Let's Celebrate!

Oldies Technique #8 -- Watercolor Stamping

Hi Everyone and welcome back to another Oldies technique. I really love this one and it is so easy and beautiful. I love watercolor and how the colors blend.  I will show my card first and then we will get to the technique.

I stamped the butterfly on the watercolor paper and then I stamped another one on  another piece, cut it out and popped it on top of the first one.

Here is a view looking down on the card from the top.

Here are the supplies you will need:

solid stamp rubber stamp  ( rubber seems to work better than acrylic )

water based markers ( I used Tombows )

water spritzer

water color paper ( you can use other card stock, but watercolor paper seems to work better )

Take the stamp and turn the rubber side up and start coloring your stamp, much like you would do if  you were coloring the stamped image. You do not need to be real exact.

Now spritz the stamp with water. I used about 3 short sprays.

Now stamp the stamp on watercolor paper and look at the beautiful blend!

You might see some areas that are not blended well. You can take your water brush and go over the area lightly to finish blending it.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you have a good time playing with this technique. Have a wonderful day!