Spread Your Wings

Hi everyone! I’m here with a card that I will be entering into a few challenges.

Here is my card

I started this card with Canson XL Student Grade watercolor paper. I decided to use the mini distress ink pad from Tim Holtz and just swipe it on the paper. To soften the lines, I went over it with a damp paintbrush.

For the sentiment, I used a Ranger wood stamp with Versafine Onyx black ink. I used the same ink with the Stampabilities butterfly stamp. I heat embossed the sentiment and image with clear embossing powder.

To finish the card, I adhered some Sparkling Clear sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

CAS(E) This Sketch – Challenge #228

AAA Cards – Words Take Centre Stage / Words Have Power

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge – TicTacToe (Butterflies-One Layer Card-Stripes)

Addicted to Stamps and More – Clean and Simple card

For a list of the tools and supplies used, please check below.

1. Canson XL Student Grade watercolor paper
2. Tim Holtz Distress ink – Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Salty Ocean
3. Ranger/Dylusions Wood Stamp – Wings Quote
4. Stampabilities Wood Stamp – Tiny Butterfly
5. Versafine Onyx black ink
6. American Crafts Zing Clear Embossing powder
7. Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear sequins
8. Ranger Multi- Matter medium.

Thats it for this card. Thank you for reading.

Sending You A Latte Thanks

Hi everyone! I’m back with a card today using the emboss/resist technique.

Here is my card —  (I’m still trying to figure out lighting, so please forgive this very dark picture)

I started this card with a panel of Neenah Solar White cardstock and I stamped the Hero Arts Tiny Flags background set using some WOW Clear Embossing powder. After embossing, I cut the paper in half and tried to resist some colors. I used some distress inks in rainbow order.

For the image, the sketch challenge I had an object to the right side of the card, so I used the Coffee Cup die cut from Simon Says Stamp.

I adhered the coffee cup and stamped my sentients from the What’s Brewing set also from Simon Says stamp.

This card is an entry for the following challenges:

1. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Emboss It2. CAS(E) This Sketch Challenge 

Here is the sketch —

3. AAA Challenge – the theme was Resist

Thank you for  reading.

SUPPLY LIST:

1. Neenah Solar White  80lb cardstock
2. Hero Arts Tiny Flags background stamp
3. Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6×6 paper pad
4. Simon Says Stamp – What’s Brewing
5. Simon Says Stamp – Coffee Cup Die
6. My Favorite Things DieNamics Stitched Stax Rectangles
7. Versafine Onyx black ink
8. Tim Holtz Distress Inks – Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed and Cracked Pistachio
9. WoW Embossing Powder – clear
10. American Crafts Heating Tool
11. Scotch Foam Tape
12. Elmer’s Dot Runner

SMILE – It’s Your Birthday

Hi everyone. I’m back with a new card for you today – well not really a new card. I made this card a few months ago and life happened before I was able to post this. So here I am today sharing this card.

Here is the card —

I started this card with a card base from Core’dinations. I cut the largest rectangle from the MFT Stitched Rectangle Stax from Neenah Solar White card stock. I created a circle template and colored it in using different colors of Tim Holtz Distress inks to create a rainbow ink blended effect.

For the sentiment, I cut the smile die cut from Little Yellow Bicycle from Bazzil Black Licorice card stock. To make it look like an embellishment, I added some Wink of Stella to the entire word and then finished it off with Glossy Accents. After it dried, it looked like an enamel accent which I really liked. I will definitely do that more often. For the second sentiment, I spelled out the words using Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC and embossed it with white embossing powder on black card stock.

To finish the card, I added some black enamel dots from My Mind’s Eye to give it a finished look.

That’s it for this card.

I really feel productive and hopefully this continues until next year. Four months in a craft funk is no joke. I’m pretty excited to be creating again – stress free.

For a full list of products and tools I used, please check the supply list below: (InLinkz to follow)

1. Core’dinations Bright Smooth A2 cards and envelopes (blue)
2. Neenah Solar White card stock 80 lb
3. Bazzill Black Licorice card stock
4. My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Stax
5. Little Yellow Bicycle “Smile” die
6. Lawn Fawn Milo’s ABC
7. Tim Holtz Distress Ink (in rainbow order) – Fired Brick, Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Peacock Feathers, Mermaid Lagoon, Seedless Preserves.
8. American Crafts Zing white embossing powder
9. Clear Wink of Stella pen
10. Glossy Accents
11. My Mind’s Eye Charmed black enamel dots
12. Tombow tape runner
13. Scotch foam tape

 

 

Love, Laugh, Smile

Hi everyone. I’m here today with a card for the Pretty Pink Posh Watercolor Bloghop.

I have yet to be successful coloring an image with watercolor or do some no line coloring, so I decided to do something I am sure I know how to do – create a background with watercolors.

Here is my card —

I also made a video with the steps I used to create this card. You can watch it below or on YouTube.

 

That’s it for this card. Thank you for reading.

 

12 Days of Christmas Cards – Giveaway Post

Hi everyone! For the past two years, I haven been wanting to do a holiday card series however it never came to fruition. Lack of time, busy schedule and many other excuses were always the things I would say to justify why I never pushed forward with the series. But this year, I decided that no matter what, I will do my very best to come out with 12 cards with an accompanying video. And today is the start —

 

12 Days of Christmas Cards will feature a Christmas card and video twice a week for the next 6 weeks leading up to Christmas day. And what is Christmas without a giveaway? Which is why I have a giveaway for this series (my first giveaway ever).

The prize pack is a Stamp and Ink set.

It contains the following – Hero Arts OWH Year Round Sentiments, Tim Holtz Mini Blue Prints clear stamp, Tim Holtz Mini Distress Ink Cubes, Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Salty Ocean (full size), Tim Holtz/Ranger Fine Tip Water Brush, and a Simon Says Stamp Lipstick Red ink pad.

To enter this giveaway, you will have to enter through Rafflecopter. You will have six chances to enter by doing simple tasks such as commenting on this blog post, or following my You Tube channel, etc. Th giveaway will run until 12 midnight Central US Time on December 26, 2014.

You will have to click the link below to get to the Rafflecopter site to enter the giveaway. I could not put the widget itself on this post because I don’t have a self hosted blog. Here is the link —

a Rafflecopter giveaway

I hope you enjoy this series and thank you so much for your support.

 

Thanks For Thinking Of Me

Hi everyone! I’m here today with a card for the Pretty Pink Posh Cutting Edge blog hop hosted by the ever so sweet and awesome – Paulina. I enjoyed the shaker card blog hop and this one this definitely another fun one.

I have been recently enjoying die cuts, and my sister who is my most generous gift giver, has given me quite a few dies over the past few weeks and I was excited to use them. For this card, I used the Spellbinders Inspire – Birds On A Wire die. It’s a very elegant and versatile die.

Here is my card —

I started this card with a panel of Tim Holtz distress watercolor paper cut to  5 1/4 by 4 inches. Using the Tim Holtz mini distress ink blending tool, I blended in the inks from top to bottom. I started with Fired Brick on top then blended in Spiced Marmalade and at the bottom I used Mustard Seed. To darken the colors a little bit, I went over the entire panel with some Antique Linen distress ink.

For the die cuts, I used the Birds on a Wire from Spellbinders and cut 3 rows of birds from some Bazzill Licorice Twist card stock. I used the Xyron sticker maker to adhere them diagonally on the top of the card leaving some space on the bottom left for my sentiment.

For the sentiment, I used the Thanks set from Simon Says Stamp and stamped it with black pigment ink from ColorBox and then I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I have recently been loving the pigment ink + clear embossing powder combination.

To finish the card, I adhered the front panel to a top folding standard size made some Bazzill Licorice Twist card stock.

I am also entering this card for the current challenge at A Blog Named Hero. The theme for this challenge is Ombre.

For a list of the products I used, please check the supply list below. 

That’s it for this card. Thanks for reading!

SUPPLY LIST:

*Bazzill LICORICE TWIST Card Shoppe Heavy Weight 8.5 x 11 Cardstock IN-024 Spellbinders BIRDS ON A WIRE In’spire Die *Tim Holtz DISTRESS WATERCOLOR CARDSTOCK Ranger Ink TDA39549 *Tim Holtz DISTRESS INK PAD FIRED BRICK Red Ranger TIM20202 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SPICED MARMALADE Ranger TIM21506 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MUSTARD SEED Ranger TIM20226 Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad ANTIQUE LINEN Ranger TIM19497 *PRE-ORDER Ranger MINI ROUND INK BLENDING TOOLS IBT40965 *Simon Says STAMPtemberÃ�® DIE & STAMPS SET REALLY BIG THANKS SetRB31 *Colorbox BEETLE BLACK Premium Pigment Ink Pad Doodlebug 380093 *American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170 *Xyron STICKER MAKER Assorted Colors XRN150 *3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent

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Birthday Wishes

Hi everyone! My card for today is an entry for the CAS(E) This Sketch challenge. Here is this week’s sketch —

This card is also an entry for the Moxie Fab World Fabulous Friday challenge. The theme is Trendy Triangles. Here is the inspiration graphic —

Here is my card —

I started this card with a standard size piece of Neenah Solar White card stock with the fold on top. I also cut some masking paper to the same size. I die cut the triangle dies from the Sizzix Banners Framelits to accommodate the sketch. After die-cutting, I stuck the masking paper on the front of the card. I stamped the Hero Arts Tiny Flags background stamp with Versamark ink and and heat embossed it with white embossing powder from American Crafts. I removed the mask and added a new mask using the Post It tape to mask each triangle. I blended some Distress Inks in 2 colors for each triangle. For the first triangle, I used Mustard Seed and Peacock Feathers. For the second, I used Salty Ocean and Seedless Preserves. For the third triangle, I used Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberries.

After blending the colors, I stamped a birthday sentiment from the It’s Your Day set by Hero Arts in black pigment ink by ColorBox. Then I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to give it some shine and dimension. To finish the card. I trimmed a little on the edges making it smaller than a standard size card and I also added some enamel dots from My Mind’s Eye.

That’s it for this card.

For a list of the products I used, please check the supply list below.

Thanks for reading!

SUPPLY LIST:

*Neenah Classic Crest **110 LB** SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets	*Hero Arts DESIGNBLOCK TINY FLAGS Rubber Stamp s5881 2014	*Hero Arts Clear Stamps IT’S YOUR DAY 2013 CL661	*Sizzix Framelits BANNERS #2 Combo Wafer Thin Die & Stamp Set Stephanie Barnard 658696
*PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MINI KIT #1 TDPK40316	*PRE-ORDER Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MINI KIT #2 TDPK40323	*My Mind’s Eye CHARMED Enamel Dots Record It! REC104	*Inkadinkado STAMPING MASK PAPER Dimensional Crafting 62-01022
*American Crafts Zing! OPAQUE White Embossing Powder	*American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170	*Versamark WATERMARK Rubber Stamp Emboss Chalk Resist INK PAD	*Colorbox BEETLE BLACK Premium Pigment Ink Pad Doodlebug 380093
*3M Scotch ROLL WHITE MASKING TAPE Post-It Adhesive 2650-W

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Owl I Want For Christmas Is You

Owl I Want For Christmas Is You 

I made this card in October and I entered it for the Lawn Fawn and Two Peas In A Bucket challenge. I thought I would share it since I never made a blog post about it. 🙂

I started out with a bamboo green card stock from The Paper Company cut to a standard size card with the flap on the side. To that I layered some red card stock and then layered the green chevron paper from Lawn Fawn’s Fa-la-la patterned paper pack. For the top panel, I stamped the Polaroid image from Say Cheese on the O Christmas Tree patterned paper from the same Fa-la-la paper pack. I distressed the Polaroid with some Dessert Sand ink from Memento. For the actual picture in the Polaroid, I distressed the background with some Summer Sky ink from Memento on the entire square and some Broken China Distress ink for a darker effect on the sides. Then I stamped the Snowflake stamp from Imaginisce in Bahama Blue ink from Memento and accented each snowflake with some blue stickles. For the owl, I used Lawn Fawn’s Winter Owl set. I stamped the owl on some plain white card stock and colored it in with Copics. I paper pieced the scarf with the same green chevron paper from the Fa-la-la paper pack by Lawn Fawn. I used googly eyes for fun. For the sentiment, I used the puny sentiment from the same Winter Owl set. I stamped the each word individually to properly space it between three lines in Lady Bug and Cottage Ivy inks from Memento. I also stamped the mini heart border. I placed some peppermint single cord from Lawn Fawn under the die cut image for added accent.