Spring Bird

Hi and welcome to my blog! My most favorite things to stamp are birds! I love watching all the birds at my feeders. I have been seeing the beautiful goldfinches lately. They look like Easter eggs in the grass near the feeders.

I want to show you a Spring card that I made, of course using a bird stamp! This little bird is from Dina Wakley's Scribbly Small Birdies stamp set. I use this bird a lot.

I made a simple Dutch Door card. Here is the card opened.

I stamped the image and colored with alcohol markers. I cut the image out using the Gina Marie stitched circle die and matted it onto a larger blue circle.

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

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  April 2020
Creative Crafters:  Anything Goes
ModSquad:  Birds

House Mouse and Friends Monday challenge #314

Eeeeekkkkk!!! Welcome back House Mouse FANS!

Welcome back to a brand new challenge!

#314
Anything Goes

or Flowers

hosted by our Talented Teamie MIA

We are thrilled to be welcoming back our AWESOME sponsor,
the Official Mousey Family, House-Mouse Designs(R)

 

HMD is offering a Lucky player a $20 Gift Certificate to go shopping at the official House-Mouse Designs(R) site! Eeeeek!!  

And our lovely hostess Mia will be giving away this lovely prize too!

Please remember you must use a
 House Mouse Design image on your card/project to enter.


Spring has been beautiful here in our area. I have been taking long walks to see all the beautiful blooming trees and flowers! I just love this cute stamp. I am not much of a green thumb. It looks like these mousies are not either! They had to dress themselves up as flowers. I hope that you have been able to enjoy the spring and I hope that you had a nice Easter as well.

Stamp:  Stampabilities - Spring Blossoms

Papers:  BoBunny - Double Dot Design

Authentique - Bliss

Die:  Gina Marie - Stitched Oval

            Tim Holtz - Butterfly Frenzy

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope that you will join us in this fun challenge. Have a wonderful day!

Challenges entered:

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge:  April 2020
ModSquad:  Spring Has Sprung
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Spring Mood Board

Happy Easter!

Hi and welcome to my blog. Because of the rough time we are in right now many of us are celebrating Easter in creative ways. I will miss being at church and celebrating with my fellow believers. I am thankful that we have technology where we can have virtual church these days!

I Peter 1:3 says -- Praise be to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

I am so thankful that Jesus willingly gave Himself to die for me so that I might have eternal life with Him. I am glad that He is alive in heaven and waiting for all of His children to come to live with him for eternity.

I hope that each one of you will have a blessed Easter!

Handmade Backgrounds #7

Welcome to my blog! Here is another background card for my handmade background series. It has been fun going through my many backgrounds to see all the neat techniques I have done.

For this background I sponged Distress inks through a leaf stencil. I kept the stencil on my card stock and then stamped a script stamp over it using a Distress brown ink. I lifted off the stencil and it left a neat looking background! I have had this stencil forever and it is one of my favorites.

This bird is also and old stamp. I stamped the bird on white card stock by applying my brown and green ink pads directly to the stamp using my stamp positioner. The bird was cut out using the Spellbinders small circle die. I watercolored around the bird using Distress Wilted Violet ink. Next I sponged the edge of the circle with Distress Gathered Twigs ink. This was pop dotted to the card and cord and sequins were added to the card for interest.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a blessed day!

Challenges entered:

All Sorts Challenge:  Something Old, Something New Week 566

House Mouse and Friends Mid Way Challenge #313 Reminder

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We have more fabulous inspiration to share with you as

 a reminder to join our current challenge

'ANYTHING GOES'

with the option of

Sparkle 

Hosted by our Talented Teamie Lorraine aka 'Lols'

Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image 

 so join the fun!  Please use  a House-MouseDesigns^(R)
  House-Mouse Friends /Happy Hoppers, or, Gruffies image stamped/decoupage or CD rom.

Due to the pandemic challenge prizes are being sponsored by the Design Team. 

This week we will be giving away a Watercolor Wishes and a Cupcake Sprinkles Cling Stamp to one lucky entrant! 

I had fun making this card. I had this black card stock laying on my desk where I had cut out the hello die. I decided to layer it over green glitter card stock for a shimmery look. I used this cute mousey that is writing a glittery hello. I colored the image with alcohol markers and cut it out using an oval die. The ink jar was paper pieced. I also added flowers cut from black card stock to add as interest. The flowers' centers were made using a hole punch.

Stamp:  Stampa Rosa

Dies:  Hello - Tonic, Small Oval - Spellbinders, Tattered Flowers - Tim Holtz

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Paper:  Glitzy Pastels - DCWV

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope that you will enjoy doing this challenge. Have a blessed day!

Challenges entered:

The Creative Crafters:  Anything Goes

House Mouse and Friends Challenge #313

Eeeeekkkkk!!! Welcome back House-Mouse FANS!

Our new challenge is

'ANYTHING GOES'

with the option of

SPARKLE 

Hosted by our Talented Teamie Lorraine aka 'Lols'

Please use any House-Mouse, Happy Hopper or Gruffie image 

 so join the fun!  Please use  a House-MouseDesigns^(R)

  House-Mouse Friends /Happy Hoppers, or, Gruffies image stamped/decoupage or 

CD rom.

Due to the current coronavirus pandemic we have made the difficult decision to suspend company sponsor prizes for the time being. We would like to thank our sponsors for their continued support and we will look forward to everything being back up and running in the very near future :-)

Our Hostess Lorraine will be giving away a Watercolor Wishes and a Cupcake Sprinkles Cling Stamp to one lucky entrant! 

We are going into the rainy month of April! I don't know how much more rain we can stand to see after our real rainy Winter we had. We might be floating away soon! LOL! I used this sweet stamp called Puddle Fun on my card. Clear glitter was used on the puddle. A neat thing happened with my card when I ran it through my Sizzix. I had colored the image and added blue teardrop rhinestones on the raindrops. THEN I decided I wanted to cut the image out using a shape. So I went for it and ran the image through the machine and the rhinestones flattened, but they did not ruin the paper. WHEW! So I still have wonderful shimmer on the raindrops and the card will go through the mail better too!

Stamp:  Puddle Fun - Stampabilities

Dies:  Labels 8 - Spellbinders and Hello - Recollections

Spectrum Noir Alcohol Markers

Paper:  Pretty Pastels - Creek Bank Creations

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope to see your creations over at the challenge.

Have a wonderful day!

Handmade Background #6

Hi and welcome back to my handmade backgrounds series. Everything on this card is glossy, so I hope that  you can really see the patterns. It was hard for me to get good pictures without a lot of shadows or shine from the light.

I love stamping with Mica Gloss on black glossy card stock because the backgrounds look mysterious to me. Mica Gloss is a beautiful metallic ink that is a little thicker than others and you can stamp with it and paint with it. It also works very well on a gelli plate.

On this card I randomly stamped a vine stamp all over black glossy card stock and used various colors.

I found a cute panda stamp in my stamp stash that I have had forever! I colored the bamboo using Twinkling H2Os.

I am really enjoying going through my backgrounds because it is forcing me to make cards out of my box. 

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