Thursday, December 5, 2024

COD December 2024 Inspiration And Challenge

 

Hello and welcome.  It's my turn to inspire everyone with my design team makes for this month's Conjurer of Dreams challenge.  This month, we're all about Santa going on a well deserved vacation, or at least getting to relax after making all of those deliveries on Christmas Eve.  Here are my makes below:


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Sets used: Scottish Santa

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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to enter this month's challenge over at Conjurer of Dreams.


Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Awesome!!


 
 
 
Hello and welcome.  I thought I had posted this but apparently not.  I found out my StarStampz card won at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends.

Monday, December 2, 2024

PIP Challenge 2448

Sponsored by 

 
 
Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Gerda Steiner Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship.  My card uses Gerda's Under The Weather digital stamp, which is discontinued, but the clear set is still available.  
 
After combining the image, and saying, I printed it off onto Neenah white card stock then colored using my Copic© markers before layering and adding black brads.  I then took my card and added raindrops using a raindrop stencil, Tim Holtz stormy sky and milled lavender distress inks and a blending brush.  After stippling ink around the edges of the card, I added my layered image, and small bow, using glue dots.  The final touch was adding waterfall stickles.

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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us for this week's challenge at Pammie's Inky Pinkies. 

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs
Ink: Tim Holtz Stormy Sky, Milled Lavender
Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up Scrap
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Stencil, Blending Brush, Stickles, Brads, Glue Dots, Bow, Copic Markers

Saturday, November 30, 2024

Awesome!!

 

Hello and welcome.  I just found out my stained glass Conjurer of Dreams card was the winner for the The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #172.


Thursday, November 28, 2024

Woodblock Wednesday November 2024 Edition

 


Hello and welcome to another  Woodblock Wednesday edition where we dust off all of those wood block stamps and show them some love again.  I chose to use a stamp I recently won in a giveaway Amy Tsuruta recently had.  I love anything that looks like stained glass so this stamp is perfect for me.

I started out by stamping the image in memento tuxedo black onto Copic X-Press It card stock before coloring using Copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I lightly blended stormy sky distress ink around the edges using a blending brush before layering and adding brads.  Taking my layered image panel, I adhered it to a black card using glue dots before die cutting my saying using a Spellbinders Celebrate Everything hello/bubble die I received as a RAK.  After adding some Meraki Sparkle Midnight Shimmer bling, and painting crystal ice stickles on my tulips, my card was finished.  Here's another look:



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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Judikins
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress
Card Stock: Copic X-Press It; Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Copic Markers, Bling, Glue, Brads, Ice Stickles, Q-Tip, Big Shot, Spellbinders Die, Blending Brush

Monday, November 18, 2024

PIP Challenge 2446

 
 Sponsored by StarStampz
 

 
Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by StarStampz. For my card, I am using the Polar Bear digital image.

I started out by printing the image onto Neenah white card stock before pulling out my Castle Arts watercolor pencils, colored the image before blending with an alcohol marker.  After edging the image in memento tuxedo black ink, I layered it before adding white brads and distressing the edges then setting aside.  My card is dry embossed using a Sizzix© snowflake embossing folder with Stampin Up bliss blue ink rubbed lightly over the embossed images and sides.  Taking some snowflake felt fusion I've had for years, I added a border of individual snowflakes before adding my layered image using pop up glue dots.  The final embellishments were white/silver bakers twine, snowflake sequins, silver star stickers and ice stickles glitter glue.  As an afterthought, I added just a touch of white gel pen to the little girl's eyes.

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Peace On Earth

 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to enter the challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

Stamps: Star Stampz
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Bliss Blue
Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Sizzix Embossing Folder, White Gel Pen, Stickles, Pop Up Glue Dots, Glue, Brads, Paper Distresser, Castle Arts Watercolor Pencils, Blender Marker, Silver Star Stickers, Bakers Twine

Sunday, November 17, 2024

A Little Stained Glass Winter

 
Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a couple of cards made using Conjurer of Dreams Winter Stained Glass Windows images along with several others.  First, let me just say, I absolutely LOVE Kim's stained glass images!!  For both of these cards, I merged the stained glass with the following: Polar Bears AI Art Digitals, Frosty Quirky Elves, Christmas Gnomes and Christmas Ducks.

I started out by printing a non-merged Winter Stained Glass images twice to use as designer paper before printing the merged church/gnomes/ducks image at 3.5 x 5.  After layering, and adding brads, I adhered it to my card using glue dots before adding crystal stickles to highlight the snow/church windows/frozen creek. 
 
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Peace On Earth #76 - See Inspiration Board (inspired by the reds, snow 
 
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Next is a card using a different stained glass church image.  This time I combined it with the Polar Bears AI Art and Frosty before printing it also at 3.5 x 5 then layered and added silver brads before adhering it to the card using glue dots.  After adding some silver cord, I again highlighted the snow/windows/frozen creek using crystal stickles.  I am really happy with how both of these turned out.

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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.  Also, you still have time to enter this month's Winter Critters  over at the Conjurer of Dreams blog.  Plus don't forget about our Christmas blog hop starting on the 15th of December.  There will be prizes and free images, so don't forget to join us then.



 

Saturday, November 16, 2024

Feeling All Festive

 
Hello and welcome.  Second post today.  I'd like to share with you a Christmas card made using the Conjurer of Dreams Ugly Sweater Grumpy Seniors digital set.  The image, and matching saying, just reminds me so much of my dad because this was just how he was.  He would put those ugly sweaters on and have fun.  I hear his voice every time I look at the saying since it was the way he'd talk. Oh do I miss him!

After combining the image, and saying, in Photoshop©, I printed it on to Neenah white card stock before layering and adding brads.  I then adhered the layered panel to my card using glue dots before adding crystal stickles as the only embellishment.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out although I'm not sure I'm going to leave it as a card or turn it into a journal page.

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Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to check out the current challenge over at Conjurer of Dreams.  Also don't forget about the blog hop next month.


 
 
Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams
Ink: None
Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Brads, Glue Dots, Stickles