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Last Monday’s Technique challenge was to color an image with watercolor pencils and then blend them with watercolor brush and pink twinkling H2O. I thought that sounded interesting and gave it a whirl. I went a little bit overboard with the Twinkling H2O’s, but it was still fun.

I stamped the image from the Serene Spring hostess set in Black Stazon on  a 2 3/8″ x 3 1/4″ piece of watercolor paper. It was colored with Watercolor Pencils that were blended with my Aqua Painter and Rose Twinkling H2O’s.

The corners were punched with the ticket corner punch and the edges were paper pierced. The watercolor paper was adhered to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Black cardstock. Each four corners were ticket corner punched as well.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half. It was topped with a 4″ Pink Pirouette cardstock square that had a 2 3/8″ x 4″ layer of the retired Rose Red Prints Designer Paper attached to the bottom. The designer paper was distressed with a sanding block and Striped Bashful Blue grosgrain ribbon was tied around the top. The top right corner of the Pink Pirouette layer was paper pierced.

The sentiment was stamped in two rows, punched out with the small oval punch and layered first on a 1″ pink pirouette circle, then on a Black designer label punchout. A Flower designer brad with an 1/8″ bashful blue cardstock circle in it’s center finish off the sentiment. To tie in the hardware, I added two styled silver brads on the left hand side next to the top and bottom corner of the image.

I am sorry my posting is so  sporadic. I like to post every morning at 8:30 a.m. I like order. LOL  But life/work is busy right now and I don’t know if I will be able to post everyday and not sure when I get to post when I do have a chance.

Here is the first sample I made for my weekend sketch challenge. I thought I couldn’t show this for a while, but I decided I could after all. Now….most of this is non Stampin’ Up! So if you don’t like anything but SU, look away ( don’t look away…)

The card measurements are just like yesterday’s card.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Close to Cocoa cardstock. It was folded in half, the front was stamped with the En Francais background from Stampin’ Up! and the edges were sponged.

The patterned paper is from the BasicGrey Blush paper pack. It was layered on Shimmery White cardstock. The photo corner was punched out of Basic Black cardstock with Stampin’ Up!’s photo corner punch. Martha Stewart self adhesive half pearls were added to the corner.

The 1 1/2″ x 5″ strip of Shimmery White cardstock was punched with Martha Stewart’s Lace Edge Punch. I went to the newly reorganized Michaels here in Destin and couldn’t help myself. That punch is just too pretty! I also had to pick up her 24 different color assortment of glitter. It was just begging to be coming home with me. LOL

The 1″ x 4 1/4″ paper strip is from the Blush collection of BasicGrey again. The bottom edge was paper pierced.  Two May Arts ribbon were tied around the horizontal strips.

The image is one of the new JustRite stamps. It’s from the Classic Circle III Ensemble. I stamped it in black Palette Ink on Shimmery White cardstock and colored it with my Copic Markers (R81, R83 and R85). It was cut out with my circle Nestabilities and layered on a Black scallop circle that was also cut with out with Circle Nestabilities.

To finish it off I adhered a tiny prima flower with Crystal Effects to a clear round button and adhered that with dimensionals to the card.

Sorry I am late with posting! I made a card for the challenge last night. But…I can’t show you until Wednesday. I am such a goober. So this morning I started again. BUT….Lucas woke up with a teary swollen eye (started last night…didn’t get better) and I have to take him to the doctor in five. I am pretty sure it’s allergies. But it was very scary last night. Ask Jenn, I called her at 9:30 p.m. His eye just swelled up. Only one of his eyes. It was red rimmed and the white of the eye was red as well. The redness is gone, but the oozing started. Yuck!

Lucas Update:
We are back from the doctor visit. They think it was allergies as well. He got eye drops he should take to preventing his eyes from swelling and ear drops because he has a bad swimmers ear. Thank goodness no pink eye!
Thank you all for your well wishes.

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Riding Hood Red cardstock. It was stamped with images from the Winter Post stamp set in Riding Hood Red. The edges were first sponged in Riding Hood Red, then in Chocolate Chip ink.

The white rectangle layer is a 3 1/2″ x 4 1/4″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock. Since most of the cardstock is hidden, I cut the inside out, only leaving 1/2″ frame. It was covered with a 3 1/2″ x 4″ piece of Ski Slope Designer Paper. That was paper pierced. A Riding Hood Red photo corner was punched with the Photo Corner punch, stamped with the snowflake from Winter Post and sponged again with Riding Hood Red and Chocolate Chip classic inks. Three 1/4″ Shimmery White circles were attached to the photo corner with Antique Brass brads in the center.

The brown strip is also from the Ski Slope Designer Paper Pack. It measures 1″ x 4 1/4″. It was taped to a 1 1/2″ x 5″ strip of Shimmer White paper. The bottom of the Shimmery strip was punched with the Scallop Edge Punch. I added a hole with my Crop-a-Dile in each scallop. The bottom of the Designer Paper was paper pierced and then sanded with my sanding block. The strips were adhered to my rectangle layers and Alpine Ribbon was tied around the brown paper strip. Then I adhered all layers to the the card base, lining up the horizontal strips with the edge of the card base.

The reindeer stamp is also from the Winter Post stamp set. It was stamped in Chocolate Chip ink on Shimmery White cardstock and punched out with the 1 3/8″ circle punch. The edges were sponged with Riding Hood Red ink. It was layered on a 1 3/4″ circle out of Old Olive. The olive circle was stamped with the snowflake, sponged and paper pierced before layered on a sponged scallop circle. That circle was cut with my Big Shot and the Pennant Bigz XL Die. The reindeer layers were attached to the card with dimensionals.

I stamped the postage stamp twice in chocolate chip ink, once on Shimmery White and once on Riding Hood Red cardstock. I punched the white center out with a 1/2″ circle punch and punched the entire circle out of the Riding Hood Red with the 1″ circle punch. The edges of the Riding Hood Red circle were first sponged with Riding Hood Red, then with Chocolate Chip. I topped it off with a page pebble from the Build-a-Brad and attached my layered postage stamp to the card base with dimensionals.

Yesterday’s Color Challenge was fun! Pink Pirouette, Kiwi Kiss and Chocolate Chip. What’s not to love? I came up with this card.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Pink Pirouette cardstock folded in half.

I cut a 4″ x 4 1/2″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock and punched on of the short edges with my Scallop Edge Punch.

A 3 3/4″ x 4″ piece of Whisper White was stamped with the Bella Toile Background stamp in Pink Pirouette, attached to the chocolate layer and paper pierced. Kiwi Satin ribbon as tied around the right hand side. On the bottom right I adhered three 1/4″ Chocolate Chip circles and topped them with three Styled Silver Brads. The layers were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

Demonstrators can order the Statement of the Heart on a supply order. I love this Statement.  Anyway….I stamped the sentiment in Chocolate Chip on a 2″ x 3 7/8″ piece of Whisper White cardstock and adhered it first to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Kiwi Kiss, then a 2 5/8″ x 4 3/4″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. The bottom edge was punched with the scallop edge punch. The top right corner was paper pierced. The layers were attached to the card with dimensionals.

I stamped the flower from Bella Blossoms in Pink Pirouette four times on Whisper White cardstock. I cut one out completely, the other three always a bit smaller and adhered the pieces on top of each other. I inked up the small leaf of the big flower with Kiwi Kiss and stamped it twice. They were cut out and taped behind the rose. The flower was attached the the sentiment layers and Dazzling Diamond Glitter was added with Liquid Glue (retired).

This BIC wasn’t very easy for me. It took me quite a while to decide what layout I wanted to use. Colors were no problem. I picked: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White, Tangerine Tango and a touch of Old Olive (plant on top of one shelf). I finally decided to use the shelving as my inspiration for the card.

I had planned to use a background stamp or something on the back panels since they could only be 7/8″ wide. 

But then I decided to use the stamp set Eastern Influences. The colors seem to fit. I changed the layout up a little bit and came up with this card:

The card base is a 5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock folded in half.

A 3 3/4″ x 5″ piece of Haiku Designer Paper was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Gray cardstock and the edges were paper pierced.

 5/8″ wide Olive grosgrain ribbon was tied around the lower third of the layers. Three 1/2″ black circles were taped to the bottom right corner. Those were topped with brads from the Styled Silver Hodgepodge Hardware kit. In the center of each flower brad a small olive circle was adhered and topped with Dazzling Diamond Glitter.

I stamped the flower branch from Eastern Influences in Black Stazon on a 1 7/8″ x 3 3/8″ piece of Shimmery White cardstock. It was colored with Aqua Painter and Classic inks (Tangerine Tango, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa and Going gray) and cut in three 1 1/8″ x 1 7/8″ pieces. Those were adhered to a 2 1/8″ x 3 7/8″ piece of Basic Gray cardstock which was layered on a 1/4″ bigger piece of Basic Black carsdtock. The edges of the Shimmery White cardstock were paper pierced and the image layers were attached with dimensionals to the card front.

For the sentiment layers I inked the bird stamp from the same set in Tangerine Tango, stamped it off once on scrap paper and then stamped in on Shimmery White. I stamped the Beautiful symbol over it in Black Stazon and punched it out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch. That was layered first on a 1 3/8″ Basic Gray circle, then on a black scallop circle. I added paper piercing under the sentiment and then attached it to the card with dimensionals.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles

I had a little time stamping yesterday. So I decided to participate in the Featured Stamper challenge. I picked this card from Emily. I changed it up just a bit. I made it into a long card and added a few layers on the stars. I also added the sentiment.

The cardbase is a 6″ x 7″ piece of textured Baja Breeze cardstock folded in half.

The Chocolate chip layer measures  2 5/8″ x 4 7/8″. The top corners were punched with the ticket corner punch.

A 1/4″ smaller piece of Ski Slope Designer paper had it’s top corners punched with the ticket corner punch, was adhered to the Chocolate Chip layer, paper pierced and sanded with the sanding block. Both layers were adhered to the card base.

I stamped the round snowflake image from Scandinavian Season three times in Baja Breeze on Baja Breeze and three times in the same color on Whisper White.  The white snowflakes were cut out, the Baja Breeze snowflakes were punched out with the 1″ circle punch.

Three stars were punched out of Riding Hood Red cardstock with the large Star punch, three flowers were punched with the Trio Flower punch out of the same cardstock. I punched three 1/4″ circles out of Chocolate Chip and adhered them to the little flowers. Then I adhered 1″ Baja circle to the Star, topped it first with the cut out snowflake, then with the flower. To finish them off, I added a silver brad in the center, added liquid glue (retired, boohoo) on the white snowflake and added Dazzling Diamond Glitter over it.

The stars were adhered to the Designer Paper layer with dimensionals. 5/8″ wide Chocolate Chip ribbon was tied around the card base. The sentiment is from the stamp set Fundamental Phrases. I stamped both words in Chocolate chip on top of each other and punched them out with the large oval punch. I added a 1/4″ Riding hood Red circle to the bottom right and topped it off with a brad. The sentiment was attached on the bottom right with dimensionals and snail adhesive.

Have a wonderful Monday! I won’t be doing all my Monday chores today. They are bumped back to Tuesday since the kids are home (Teacher Work day). Wohoo! That means sleeping in and hanging with my girl (and my boys if they want to). Hugs and smiles

I had so much fun making the mini pizza box last week, I wanted to try out a bigger one. Mary Fish had already done all the math for me so it was easy peasy. I needed to make a project with coloring for my stamp camp yesterday. So I picked Harvest Home stamp set to decorate the top.

The box is made out of a 6″ x 11″ strip of Kraft cardstock.

The image is stamped with Chocolate Chip craft ink on a 2 5/8″ square of watercolor paper and embossed with clear embossing powder.

It was colored with Aqua Painter and Classic Inks (Creamy Caramel, Close to Cocoa, Chocolate chip, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Baja Breeze.)

The edges were distressed with the cutter kit. The square was adhered to a 1/4″ bigger piece of Chocolate chip cardstock that was distressed as well. The top right corner was paper pierced.

I took a 3 3/4″ piece of Chocolate Chip, punched the corners with the ticket corner punch and distressed the edges. It was layered with a 1/4″ smaller piece of Old Olive that was ticket corner punch and distressed as well. On top of that is a 2″ x 3 3/4″ piece of Baja Breeze Patterns Designer Paper that was distressed and sanded.

 To make it fit for the Limited Supply Challenge, I added three eyelets on the bottom right. The sentiment was inked with Chocolate chip marker, stamped on Confetti White and punched out with the large oval punch. The edges were distressed, the oval taped to a big scrap of Chocolate chip and cut out. I added another eyelet to the right and adhered it over the main image. The image as well as the bottom layers were attached with dimensionals.

Have a wonderful Sunday! Hugs and smiles

I hardly had time to stamp the last few days, so my card sample for today’s sketch challenge had to be super quick.

My card base is a 3 1/2″ x 11″ piece of Baja Breeze cardstock folded in half.

The Urban Garden Designer Paper strip measures 2 1/8″ x 3 1/2″ It is layered on a slightly bigger piece of Whisper White. The top was punched with the Scallop Edge Punch. On the bottom of the strip I added a scalloped Old Olive Layer. 5/8″ wide Olive grosgrain ribbon was tied around the lower part of the designer paper and the top of the designer paper was paper pierced.

The sentiment is from the Pocket Silhouette stamp set. It was stamped with Night of Navy classic ink on a 1 3/8″ whisper White cardstock circle. The circle was taped underneath the Old Olive cardstock. I attached a small Filigree designer brad with a circle Ice Rhinestone brad on the top of the sentiment. All layers were attached to the card base with dimensionals.

Tuesday’s Color Challenge was Pink Pirouette, Basic Black and Whisper White. A very soft and pretty color combo. I don’t know why I had such hard time with my card. I tried a card sketch I had written down a while back and I just couldn’t make it look right. Since I didn’t get to stamp yesterday, I share this card with you anyway.

I am about to bring Rebecca to school and go for my walk, so today the description will be short and sweet.

The card base is a 5″ x 8″ piece of Pink Silhouette, scored at 4 1/4″.

The little cupcakes are from the Holiday Blitz stamp set and were stamped in Black Stazon. The cupcake top was stamped on Pink Pirouette Pattern Designer paper, run through my xyron, cut out and dipped in Dazzling Diamond Glitter. They were cut out and mounted with dimensionals on 1″ Whisper White circles.

The sentiment is from Bitty Birthday. It was stamped in Black Stazon, punched with the small oval punch and layered on a 1″ black circle. Under the styled silver brads is a 1/4″ circle of Pink Pirouette Pattern Designer paper with Dazzling Diamond Glitter.

I had originally planned to have three cupcakes on the front, but then didn’t know where to add the sentiment.

Since I had an extra cupcake circle, I added it to the inside.

Got to run. Will post more details later. Hugs and smiles

Today’s tutorial on SCS is Stained Glass with Vellum.

There are other ways to create a Stained Glass look. I will create another tutorial in a few weeks for a variation with Acetate and Glitter.

The card base is a 4 1/4″ x 11″ piece of Chocolate Chip cardstock. The edges of the card front were sponged with chocolate ink to make it richer looking.

The 4″ x 5 1/4″ piece of Ski Slope Designer Paper was adhered to the base. The edges were paper pierced and sanded with a sanding block.

The frame was cut with the Top Notes Bigz Die Big Shot template out of Chocolate Chip. It was stamped with the branch from A Cardinal Christmas, the edges were sponged.

I cut an oval from Riding Hood Red cardstock with the Coluzzle. Again I stamped the edges of the oval with the branch, this time with Riding Hood Red. I sponged the edges, taped the oval to the Chocolate Top Note and cut another smaller oval through both layers. I paper pierced the oval.

Next I stamped the Cardinal in Black Craft ink on Vellum Paper and embossed it with Clear Embossing Powder. The image was colored with Ruby Red, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa, More Mustard and Pumpkin Pie markers on the other side of the vellum.

The sentiment was stamped in Chocolate Chip on Very Vanilla cardstock punched out with the large oval punch. I taped it to a scrap piece of Riding Hood Red and cut around it. It was taped to the bottom left of the frame. I clipped a Mini Library clip on it and tied Red Taffeta Ribbon on it.

I got another busy day, heck rest of the week ahead of me. I hope I get to stamp so I have something to post for you every day. Can’t promise it though.

Have a wonderful day! Hugs and smiles