Coffee with Girlfriends

Hi everyone. I’m here with a card for the 2017 Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop.

I wasn’t quite sure how to go about making a summer themed coffee card. Normally with fall and winter it is more predictable, so I decided to just go ahead and use summer colors.

Here is my card –

I started this card with with a panel of Neenah Solar White card stock which I cut with the My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Stax. I used the coffee cup from the PaperTrey Ink stamp Heart-2-Heart #1 and colored it in with Copic markers. For the cozy, I used 6×6 patterned papers from Lawn Fawn’s Hello Sunshine and paper pieced it to the coffee cup. I arranged the cups at the center of the stitched panel.

For the sentiment, I used one from the same Heart-2-Heart set from PTI. I stamped it with Versafine Onyx Black and heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.For the card base, I covered the base with a patterned paper from Lawn Fawn’s Daphne’s Closet and attached the smaller panel on top with foam tape.

I am also entering this card for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

For information on the tools and products I used for this card, here is the supply list:

SUPPLY LIST

1. Neenah Solar White card stock
2. Lawn Fawn Daphne’s Closet 12×12 sheet
3. Lawn Fawn Hello Sunshine 6×6 paper pad
4. PaperTrey Ink Heart-2-Heart #1
5. My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Stax
6. Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink
7. Versafine Onyx Black ink
8. American Crafts Zing Clear Embossing Powder
9. Copic Markers – N0, E11, E13, E15
10. Elmer’s Glue Dot Runner
11. Scotch Foam Tape

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

To My Mama Bear – Happy Birthday

My mom and I always joke around calling each other Baby Bear and Mama Bear. So even if my mom’s birthday is still far away, I jumped on the chance to make this card using the Lil Hoot set from Hero Arts.

I am entering this card for the A Blog Named Hero Interactive Card Challenge sponsored by Chibitronics. Chibitronics is not required for this challenge but the card had to be interactive. So after a lot of thought on what kind of interactive card I wanted to make, I settled on a spinner card.

Here is my card —

I started this card with a the Neenah Textured card stock in blue and stamped the Hero Arts Magical Background using Versamark ink and embossed in American Crafts Zing Clear Embossing powder. I wanted it to haver stitched edges but I didn’t have a big enough die, so I used the straight line die cute from Pretty Pink Posh on each side. I cut the circle on both the panel and card base at the same time. For the image, since the bear from Lil Hoot wasn’t symmetrical, I had to do mirror image stamping to get the the back side of the image for the spinner.

For the sentiment, I used one of the smaller dies from the My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangles Stax. I used Milo’s ABC from Lawn Fawn to create the mama bear sentiment and a happy birthday sentiment from the It’s Your Day set from Hero Arts.

Here is a short clip of the spinner card in action —

For information on the tools and products used, here is the supply list

SUPPLY LIST:

1. Neenah Solar White Card stock
2. Neenah Light Blue Textured card stock
3. Hero Arts Magical Background
4. Hero Arts Lil Hoot
5. Hero Arts It’s Your Day
6. Lawn Fawn Milo’s ABC’s
7. My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Stax
8. Sizzix ThinLits Circle Die
9. Pretty Pink Posh Stitched Borders 2
10. Versafine Onyx Black ink
11. Versamark ink
12. American Crafts Zing Clear Embossing Powder
13. Prismacolors Colored Pencils
14. Masterpiece Odorless Mineral Spirit
15. The Paper Studio Paper Blending Stump
16. Be Creative Double Sided Tape
17. Coats Grey Thread

That’s it for this card. Thanks for stopping by.

Thanks For Being There

Hi everyone! I’m here with a new card for a few challenge blogs. I will link and mention these challenges at the end of the post.

If you read my previous post about starting to make cards again, I promised myself that I will not buy anything new until I can follow through cardmaking for at least a month. So for this card, I used stamps from Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp that are oldies but goodies.

Here is my card —

I started this card with Neenah Solar White cardstock and stamped the images from Lawn Fawn’s Critters in the Forest using Versafine Onyx Black Ink. To color the images, I used Prismacolor pencils and blended the different colors with an odorless mineral spirit and a paper stump. I blended some Surf Blue ink from Simon Says Stamp around the image to give it some depth. I used the Stitched Borders 2 from Pretty Pink Posh to cut the panel diagonally.

For the card base, I used a standard size Neenah Solar White cardstock. I adhered the sequins patterned paper from Doodlebug and Simple Stories from an old SSS Card Kit.

For the sentiment, I die cut the thanks die from a textured gray card stock (I don’t know the exact name) from Neenah. I layered 4 pieces to get some dimension and from the matching stamp set, I stamped a sentiment on a thin strip with Versamark ink and embossed it with the American Crafts Zing white embossing powder.

I am entering this card for the following challenges –

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – use patterned paper

 

Freshly Made Sketches – Sketch #293 

The Paper Players Challenge – using our Feathered Friends

For information on the the tools and products I used for this card, please check the supply list below:

SUPPY LIST:

1. Neenah Solar White card stock
2. Neenah Textured card stock – gray
3. Doodlebug/Simple Stories 6×6 patterned paper
4. Lawn Fawn Critters in the Forest
5. Simon Says Stamp Thanks stamp set and coordinating die
6. Versafine Onyx Black ink
7. Simon Says Stamp Surf Blue ink
8. Versamark ink
9. American Crafts Zing white embossing powder
10. Prismacolor coloring pencils
11. Masterpiece Odorless Mineral Spirit
12. The Paper Studio paper stump
13. Post it paper for masking
14. Elmer’s Glue Dot Runner
15. Scotch Foam tape
16. Ranger Multi Matte Medium glue

That’s it for this card. Thank you for reading. See you in my my next post.

 

Sending You Buckets of Love

Hi everyone! I’m here today with a  card for the Casology Challenge this week.

The Cue Word this week is vehicle. Here is my card —

 

I am not really into clean and simple cards – honestly I don’t know my style yet but I like trying different ones and just being quite diverse. I definitely know that I am a modern card maker. I don’t fancy the vintage look that much.

With this card, the started with smooth white card stock from Simon Says Stamp. I masked the sky and grassy hills and colored it in with distress inks. I used Broken China for the sky and Mowed Lawn for the grassy hill. For the vehicle image, I used the Hero Arts Father’s Day set (I think it’s discontinued). There was a truck image with a heart and I loved it. I stamped additional hearts from Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC to have some hearts falling of the truck. I colored the images with a combination of Copic and Spectrum Noir  markers. For the sentiment, I used a stamp from Simon Says Stamp in Versafine onyx black ink. I cut the entire panel from the My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Stax and adhered that panel on to another white card base.

That’s it for this card. I will update this post later with the supply list.

Thanks for reading.

 

 

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

 

 

Happy Birthday! (Lawn Fawn Critters)

Hi everyone! I’m here today with a birthday card I made using Lawn Fawn stamps.

Here is my card –

(I’m sorry for the picture quality but it was quite dark and gloomy when I took this picture and I had to do a lot of editing to make this picture bright.)

I started this card with a 4 bar Neenah Solar White card base. I attached the piece of patterned paper with the same size as the card base from the Lawn Fawn Daphne’s Closet paper collection. For the front panel, I stamped various critters from different Lawn Fawn Stamps. I used the masking technique to make the critters look like they are behind and/or in front of each other. When I finished stamping, I colored the images with Copic markers. For the sentiment, I stamped the birthday sentiment from Year 1 using Versafine Onyx black ink and clear embossing powder.

I centered the biggest stitched rectangle die from My Favorite Things on the image to create the stitched panel. To finish the card, I adhered the panel to base with foam tape and highlighted the party hats with the Zig Clear Wink of Stella glitter brush.

This card is an entry for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The theme for this week is Anything Goes.

 

For a complete list of all the tools and products I used, please check the supply list below.

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

SUPPLY LIST

1. Neenah Solar White card stock
2. Lawn Fawn Critters in the Forest
3. Lawn Fawn Hats Off To You
4. Lawn Fawn Year 1
5. Lawn fawn Year 3
6. Lawn Fawn Daphne’s Closet 6×6 paper pad
7. Assorted Copic Markers – B01, B04, Y00, Y13, Y18, RV000, RV52, RV55, E70, E74, E79, N0, N2, R17, G43, G46, G94, G99, BG11, BG13, E13, E15, E18, 
8. My Favorite Things Stitched Rectangle Die
9. Elmer’s Tape Runner
10. Scotch Foam Tape
11. Zig Clear Wink of Stella Glitter Marker

(I will post an InLinkz Supply List as soon as a I can.)

 

You Are My Sunshine

This is my second post for the day. To check out my first post, click here. 

My second card for the day is also for the CASology Challenge. I am using the same CUE CARD which is MUSIC. This was the first card I made, so I decided to share and enter it as well.

Here is my card —

I started this card with some Neenah Solar white card stock and I die cut the largest stitched rectangle from My Favorite Things. I stamped the sentiment using Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC and Simon Says Stamp Color and Sunshine using Versafine Onyx Black ink and Hero Arts shadow ink in Butter Bar. For the sun, I die cut a sun from the You & Me set from Sizzix with a paper from the Doodlebug Lemonade Stand 6×6 paper pack.

I adhered the panel on a piece of Simon Says Stamp Sunshine cards stock that is a standard size top folding card. To finish the card, I used some Pretty Pink Posh sequins. I also covered the sun with some clear Wink of Stella pen and covered with with Glossy Accents.

That’s it for this card. For a complete list of the all the products and tools I used, check out the supply list below.

Thanks for reading.

SUPPLY LIST:

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SUNSHINE SS9 *Simon Says Clear Stamps COLOR AND SUNSHINE sss101399 Lawn Fawn MILO’S ABC’s Clear Stamps Tsukineko VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad VF-82 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad BUTTER BAR Mid-Tone AF207 Bo Bunny 6 x 6 LEMONADE STAND Paper Pad 16317403 Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 7PK – You & Me My Favorite Things STITCHED RECTANGLE STAX Die-Namics MFT MFT506 *American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170 Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD Watermark VM-001 Pretty Pink Posh Sparkling Clear 6mm Sequins Pretty Pink Posh Lemon Drop 6mm sequins *Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive

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DO RE MI-ssing You

Hi everyone! I’m here today with a card for the CAS-ology Challenge. The CUE CARD for this week is MUSIC.

I was trying to think of a way to interpret music and I had a “You Are My Sunshine” card at back of my head. But I definitely wanted to try and think outside the box. Then an idea hit me, and I think this could be one of my favorite card I’ve made. The card came out exactly how I imagined it which is rare for me. It may not be clean and simple with a lot of white space, but i think grey is pretty close. 🙂

Here is my card —

I die cut the letters / words DO, RE, MISSING, and YOU from different colors using the My Favorite Things Bright Lights Alphabet. I wanted to create a pun on words so I created a space between MI and ssing. For an accent image, I didn’t have any large music note stamp or die cut, so I found a clip art online and cut it. I emembellishedhe note with some Clear Wink of Stella pen and then layered with Glossy Accents.

For the card base, I used a standard size top folding card in Simon Says Stamp Smoke card stock. I stamped the music notes stamp from the Teeny Tiny Backdrops from Lawn Fawn is Hero Arts Soft Granite ink.

That’s it for this card.

For a complete list of all the tools and products I used, please check the supply list below.

Thanks for reading.

SUPPLY LIST:

Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SMOKE Gray SM28 Simon Says Stamp Card Stock 100# SUNSHINE SS9 *Bazzill LICORICE TWIST Card Shoppe Heavy Weight 8.5 x 11 Cardstock *Bazzill CANDY NECKLACE Card Shoppe Heavy Weight 8.5 x 11 Cardstock *Bazzill CANDY HEARTS Card Shoppe Heavy Weight 8.5 x 11 Cardstock *My Favorite Things BRIGHT LIGHTS ALPHABET Die-Namics MFT Lawn Fawn TEENY TINY BACKDROPS Clear Stamps Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad SOFT GRANITE Mid-Tone AF226 ZIG Wink of Stella GLITTER CLEAR Brush Tip Marker 025320 *Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive Tombow MONO Adhesive PERMANENT Tape Dispenser 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent

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New Job? Yay

Hi everyone! I’m here today with a card I made for a friend who landed a new job recently. I wasn’t sure how I was going to make this card since I really didn’t have any job related stamps. As I was looking through my stamps, the To Thine Own Shelf stamp from Simon Says Stamp really stood out with some images I could use. So I started with that and the idea just went in different directions from there. I also used other stamp sets from Simon Says Stamp and Lawn Fawn.

Here is my card —

I started this card with a standard card base with the fold on top from some Simon Says Stamp 120 lb white card stock. I stamped the images related to a workplace from the To Thine Own Shelf set and and I also stamped some sentiments from there and from other SSS sets. For the word “new job”, I didn’t have any so I used Lawn Fawn’s Milo’s ABC which is my favorite alphabet stamp ever. I stamped all images ans sentiments with a variety of ink colors.

I wanted the card to be one layer but I later decided to put a strip of patterned paper from Simple Stories on the side.

That’s it for this card.

This card is an entry for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. The theme for this week is Anything Goes.

 

 

For a complete list of all the tools and products I used, please check the supply list below.

SUPPLY LIST:

Simon Says Stamp WHITE CARDSTOCK 120 LB Base Weight 12 Pack Simon Says Clear Stamps TO THINE OWN SHELF sss101452 Simon Says Clear Stamps LOVE THIS SSS101364 Simon Says Clear Stamps SPARKLE AND SHINE sss101487 Lawn Fawn MILO’S ABC’s Clear Stamps *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad DOLL PINK ink016 *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad COTTON CANDY ink015 *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad ISLAND BLUE ink012 *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad AUDREY BLUE ink018 Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad SURF BLUE Ink019 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad CORNFLOWER Blue Mid-Tone af235 Hero Arts SHADOW Ink Pad SOFT POOL Aqua AF146 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad SOFT CANTALOUPE af242 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad DARK QUARTZ Mid-Tone AF260 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad SOFT GRANITE Mid-Tone AF226 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad CHARCOAL Black Mid-Tone af236 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad LIME GREEN Mid-Tone AF262 Hero Arts Shadow Ink Pad BUTTER BAR Mid-Tone AF207 *Simple Stories DIY BOUTIQUE 6 x 6 Sn@p Paper Pad 5122 Tombow MONO ADHESIVE DOTS DISPENSER Permanent 3M Scotch DOUBLE-SIDED FOAM TAPE Permanent

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I Only Have Eyes For You

Hi everyone!

Today I’m sharing a card for the Create A Smile March Guest Designer Call.

The guest call will run until February 13 so if you’re interested, go and check it out here.

For this card, I decided to use one of the freebies they have on their website. Here is my card —

Recently I have been enjoying using digital stamps. I used a Newton’s Nook freebie and I purchased some from Gerda Steiner and now I’m using another freebie from Create A Smile. I will always love clear stamps and I will never stop using them, but digi’s are pretty cool to use once in a while.

I started this card with a panel of Neenah Solar White card stock that measures 5 x 3 3/4 inches. I wanted to color some embossing paste so I used Audrey Blue and Doll Pink from Simon Says Stamp to color some white embossing paste from Wendy Vecchi. I used a chevron stencil from Heidi Swapp and did alternate colors of the paste.

For the focal panel, I cut the image from the Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling card but I wanted the top to have a straight edge but still keep the stitched detail – so I used the straight border die from the Stitched Borders 2 from Pretty Pink Posh to cut the top part.

I colored the bird with some Copic markers. I will mention the colors in the supply list below. For the sentiment, I was struck with the bird’s big eyes so I wanted to use a puny sentiment related to that. I stamped the sentiment from the Only Have Eyes for you set from Simon Says Stamp with Versafine Onyx black ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder.

To finish the card, I adhered the stitched panel to the chevron piece and I adhered the chevron panel to a standard size card from Neenah Solar White. I also added  Glossy Accents to the eyes of the bird and his stomach. I used enamel dots from My Mind’s Eye to tie in all the colors together.

That’s it for this card.

For a complete list of all the products and tools I used, please check the supply list below.

Thanks for reading.

SUPPLY LIST

*Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SUPER SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE Paper Pack 25 Sheets *Heidi Swapp CHEVRON 6 x 6 Stencil HS00837 *Wendy Vecchi WHITE EMBOSSING PASTE Studio 490 *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad DOLL PINK ink016 *Simon Says Stamp Premium Dye Ink Pad AUDREY BLUE ink018 *Simon Says Clear Stamps ONLY HAVE EYES FOR YOU sss101382 Create A Smile Freebie – bird VersaFine ONYX BLACK Ink Pad Pigment Tsukineko *American Crafts Zing! CLEAR Embossing Powder 27170 *PRE-ORDER Lawn Fawn STITCHED JOURNALING CARD Lawn Cuts Dies Stitched Borders 2 Dies *My Mind’s Eye WITH YOU Enamel Dots Now & Then Mildred NT1074 *Copic Sketch Marker RV55 HOLLYHOCK Magenta Pink Red Violet Copic Sketch Marker BLENDING TRIO 5 Set Five 53492 Copic Sketch Marker BLENDING TRIO 2 Set Two 53461 Copic Sketch Marker BLENDING TRIO 4 Set Four 53485 *Tombow MONO Adhesive PERMANENT Tape Dispenser *Ranger Inkssentials GLOSSY ACCENTS Glue Dimensional Adhesive *Best Creation BIG SQUARES 3-D Foam Tape Adhesive FT004

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