A Couple Of Bookmark Eras

Hello and welcome.  For one of my final projects to share for 2024, I'd like to show you a couple of bookmarks I made my daughter for Christmas.  She is an avid reader and a HUGE Swiftie so when I saw this Taylor Swift look alike Country Girl stamp set from Scrabby Boy, I bought the stamp set in a hurry.

I started out by stamping the images in memento tuxedo black ink onto scrap Neenah white card stock.  I then stamped the song lyrics around "Taylor" before coloring them using both Lyra Giant Skintone and Castle Arts colored pencils.  Once my coloring was finished, I lightly stippled leftover stormy sky distress ink that was on my blender brush.  After layering the image panels, I added matching bling and stickles to her outfits as much as possible to the ERAS Tour ones.  I then placed them into some sleeves I had (bought 10+ years ago in bulk) before adding matching ribbon.  I'm really happy with how they turned out and so is my daughter.  She's asked me to make a couple more for one of her Swiftie friends.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #69 - Use Your NBUS (images)

My Time To Craft #550 - New (Scrappy Boy images, also Christmas present for my daughter)

Splitcoaststampers F4A775 - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and a safe and Happy New Year.

Stamps: Scrappy Boy

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky (leftover)

Cardstock: Neenah White Scraps

Accessories: Lyra & Castle Arts Pencils, Blending Brush, Bookmark Sleve, Ribbon Scraps, Bling, Stickles

 

 

PIP Challenge 2428

 

Sponsored by

Gina K. Designs

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by GinaK Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship this week.  For my card, I pulled out this beautiful Winter Flower Mini and "knock out" another Christmas card going with a clean and simple (CAS) layout.

I started out by stamping the leaves, and saying, on Copic white card stock using my MISTI, before stamping the poinsettia onto scrap Copic card stock.  I then stippled some Tim Holtz tattered rose on the image panel to help soften the white a bit.  Once that was all finished, I colored all of the images using Copic markers before fussy cutting the poinsettia out and gluing to the layered panel.  I then pulled out my snowflake sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  After gluing those down, and adding some faux brads, I pulled out my color spritzer and spritzed some rose romance marker over the whole card.  The final touch was adding some yellow ice stickles to the center of the poinsettia.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set) 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #233 - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft #538 - Clean And Simple

Krafty Chicks #724 - Christmas 

Crafty Gals Corner #257 - Anything Goes Optional Christmas

 

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

Stamps: GinaK Designs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: Copic; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Copic Markers, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, Glue, Sequins, Color Spritzer, SU Rose Romance Marker

PIP 2332

 

  Sponsored by

Jan's Digi Stamps

Jan's Digi Stamps Challenges

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today starts a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Jan's Digital Stamps.  I would first like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing images for the design team to use.  For my card today, I combined then printed the image and one of the sayings from Across The Miles.

After printing my image on Neenah white card stock, I colored it using both Prismacolor and Copic markers before stippling Tim Holtz faded jeans and tumbled glass distress inks around the colored image before layering and adding brads.  For my card base, I took a ballet blue card and stippled Heffy Doodle's basket weave stencil using my blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios using more of the faded jeans distress ink.  After adding the layered image panel, I dug out some cherry chocolate dew drops and added those using glue dots.  The final touch was adding a bit of orange slice ice stickles in the center of the flowers.  I'm really happy with how this card turned out since I'm still dealing with this migraine and Mother Nature is not playing nice right now. Nothing is helping the migraines at the moment.

Challenges entered: 

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #53 - Use Your NBUS (image, stencil, dew drops)

Jan's Digital Stamps August 2023 - Anything Goes 

CD Sunday Plus #116 - Anything Goes Digital (image)

Digi Choosday Wk 31 - Anything Goes 

My Time To Craft #514 - Stenciling (background basket weave) 

Stencil Fun August 2023 - Anything Goes Optional Butterflies (stencil used basket weave)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stencil)

 

 

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

Stamps: Jan's Digital Stamps

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Faded Jeans Distress Inks

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Heffy Doodle Stencil, Dew Drops, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Glue Dots, Brads, PFS Blending Brushes, Ice Stickles.

Flowers And Bears

Hello and welcome.  Second post from me today.  For my Pammies Inky Pinkies post, please scroll down one.  As I type, we are finally getting some rain and snow in the nearby mountains here in Central California.  Hopefully as the week goes one, the rain predictions will come true.  In the meantime, I'd like to share a couple of cards with you made with a stamp set from The Cats Pajamas I during their Black Friday sale called Nature's Hello..

 

Onfer

 

I started out by stamping my images in memento black onto a Hammermill white scrap then colored it using prismacolor and copic markers before stippling tumbled glass and garden green ink around it.  Once that was done, I layered the main image then dusted off my Crop-A-Dial and some eyelets I received as a RAK.  After adding the eyelets, I stamped the main image for card background using spiced marmalade distress ink. The border was stamped in summer sun.  I then added the layered image before die cutting my sun out twice from scraps; once in summer sun and once in only orange.  After adding the die cut suns using dimensionals, I dusted off my clear epoxy circle stickers and added one to the suns center.  The final touch was crystal ice stickles to the flower centers.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff #22 - January 2021 Use Your NBUS 

The Cats Pajamas #375 - Think Spring 

My Time To Craft #449 - Glitter or Sparkle 

Outlawz Monday Greetings Jan 18 to Jan 31 - Anything Goes 

 

 

Twofer

 

My second card I chose to keep clean and simple (CAS).  Using the same stamp set, I stamped the main image repeatedly in a row in memento tuxedo black ink.  After coloring using prismacolor and copic markers, I layered it once onto a pacific pointe scrap, added the layered image to the card before stamping the saying also in memento black.  I received the saying as RAK and I'm not sure what Stampin Up set it came from.

Challenges entered:

 

Less Is More #435 - In A Row 

Taylor Made Cards 4U #1 January 2021 - Friendship 

Outlawz Festive Friday Jan 22 to Feb 4 - Anything Goes Theme 

CAS On Friday #197 - Animals 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.  Stay safe out there and please wear a mask!

Stamps The Cats Pajamas

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Spiced Marmalade; Stampin Up Summer Sun, Garden Green

Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stipple Brushes, Ice Stickles, Crop-A-Dial, Dimensionals, Eyelets, MFT Sun Die, Big Shot, Clear Epoxy Stickers

 

PIP 2104

 

  Challenge 2104 - Team A

Jan. 25

Sponsored by CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

https://www.cas-ualfridaysstamps.com/

 

CAS-usal Fridays Stamps FB

 

 

Hello and welcome to another Pammies Inky Pinkies challenge.  As always our challenges are anything goes.  This week we're sponsored by  CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and I'd like to thank them for the stamps provided to the design team.  For my card, I am using the beautiful Everyday Dragonflies and there are matching dies here. 

After stamping the larger dragonfly in memento tuxedo black ink onto Neenah white card stock, I colored it using Castle Art Pencils before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass and tattered rose distress inks around it then layered.  Once I had added some brads from my stash, I adhered the layered image to a card made using white card stock and Echo Park Clover Meadow designer paper I've had for years and never used (NBUS) until now before sponging regal rose ink around the edges.  I then stamped the saying in memento tuxedo black onto scrap white card stock then lightly stippling leftover stormy sky ink around it before layering onto scrap card stock and added that to my card using glue dots.  I then took some scrap wasabi card stock, punched it using my dusty Martha Stewart fern punch, ran it through the crimper before adding to the card using Ranger Glossy Accents along with some Jolee's die cut flowers with bling centers.  The final touch was to add crystal ice stickles to the dragonfly's flower centers and hearts.  I'm very happy with how this turned out and I got to use a lot of scraps in the process of making it.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #22 - January Use Your NBUS 

Pixies Crafty Workshop #395 - Use Those Snippets 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2021 - Use Your Forgotten Stash 

613 Avenue Create - January 2021 Anything Goes 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #150 - Anything Goes 

Corrosive Challenges #1 - January 2021 Anything Goes 

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 3 - Anything Goes Coloring

My Time To Craft #449 - Glitter and Sparkle 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Please stop by the rest of the design team blogs to leave them some love and we hope to see you join in the challenge here.  Stay safe out there and please wear a mask!!

Stamps: CAS-ual Fridays

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Tattered Rose; Stampin Up Regal Rose

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up; Echo Park Clover Meadow Designer Paper

Accessories: Castle Art Pencils, Blender Pencil, Brads, Stipple Brushes, Glue Dots, MS Fern Punch, Crimper, Jolee's Flowers, Ice Stickles

A Spooktacular Day

Hello and welcome.  It's time for another Stella Says Sketch over on Catch The Bug.  For my card, I decided to go with a spooky theme and use an image I've had for a while but just never used called Have A Spooktacular Day.

 

After printing my image onto Neenah white card stock, I colored it using some Castle Art pencils I received for my birthday last month before layering and adding some black brads.  I then took some scrap card stock, dry embossed it using a cuttlebug spiderweb embossing folder and my big shot. For my card, I took some scrap designer paper I bought from the Target dollar spot years ago, added that, then added my embossed panels before popping up the main image panel using dimensionals.  Since my saying is part of the main image, I added some yellow/green dew drops to the bottom right corner.  The only other embellishments was yellow ice stickles, Sakura 3D glaze pens highlighting parts of the image panel and sponging green galore dye ink around the edges of the card.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #19 - October NBUS 

Craftyhazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge - October 2020 

Through The Purple Haze #172 - Halloween Fun 

If You Give A Crafter A Cookie #153 - Halloween (see pic)

Cute Card Thursday #656 - Halloween

Crafty Calendar October - Halloween 

My Time To Craft #443 - Halloween or Cats 

Outlawz Festive Friday Oct 16 to 29th - Halloween 

Splitcoaststampers Inspiration IC776 - Halloween Costumes (inspired by Mummy see pic)

CD Sunday Plus #46 - Anything Goes Digital 

 

 

 Halloween Costumes Store

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and stay safe out there.  While you're at it, join in the challenge.  You can find it here.

Stamps: Bugaboo

Ink: Stampin Up Green Galore

Card Stock: Neenah White, Stampin Up Scraps, Target $1 Spot Designer Paper

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Spiderweb Embossing Folder, Castle Art Pencils, Dimensionals, Brads, Sakura 3D Glaze Pens, Sponge, Dew Drops, Glue Dots

The Colors Of Fall

Hello and welcome.  I hope your weekend is going great.  I've been asked to guest design for the Outlawz Sunday Songs & Rhymes challenge the next two weeks.  For my project, I am using one of the images from the challenge sponsor Sherry West Art. I would like to thank Sherry West Art for sponsoring the challenge.  The inspiration rhyme for the challenge is as follows:

The Colors of Fall

(Diane & Daniel Henderson)

Orange is for a pumpkin big and round.

Yellow is for leaves that fall to the ground.

Red is for an apple ripe for eating.

Green is for monsters that go trick or treating.

Brown is for a football, thrown down the field.

Purple is for grapes from a bountiful yield.

Blue is the sky, what a wonderful sight.

Black is for cats that howl in the night.

White is the moon looking quite luminescent

Sometimes it shines in the shape of a crescent.

Pink stripes at a sunset ending our day.

Tan is the scarecrow  - the color of hay.

Grey is the shadow of geese flying by.

Kaleidoscope colors that lift our hearts high. 

After printing off my image onto Hammermill white card stock, I colored it using both prismacolor and copic markers before stippling several Tim Holtz distress inks around it to give more of a "early dusk" feel before layering onto scrap card stock and adding brads.  I think pulled out my pumpkin harvest embossing folder, ran it and some cocoa card stock thru the big shot before adhering the panel to a pumpkin card.  I then sanded the dry embossed pumpkin panel to distress it a bit before popping up my layered image over it.  After punching some scrap pumpkin card stock, using a Martha Stewart hydrangea 3 flower punch, I added those to the card along with silver ice stickle centers.  The final touches were some fall fibers, googlie eyes, and highlighting parts of the image using Sakura 3D glaze pens.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Pixies Crafty Workshop #387 - Use Up Your Snippets

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #18 - October 2020 

Crafters Castle #34 - October Anything Goes 

My Time To Craft #442 - Autumnal Colors 

Colour Crazy Craft Wk39 - Anything Goes Coloring

2 Crafty Critter Crazies #43 - Anything Goes With A Critter 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join the challenge over at the Outlawz Sunday Songs and Rhymes.

 

Stamps: Sherry West Art

Ink: Tim Holtz Brushed Corduroy, Milled Lavender, Chipped Sapphire, Wild Honey Distress Inks

Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up, Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, MS Punch, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stipple Brushes, Ranger Crystal Accents, Fibers, Ice Stickles, Brads, Cuttlebug Pumpkin Harvest Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Distressor Tool, Sakura 3D Glaze Pens, Sanding Block 

Isaiah 41:10

Hello and welcome.  I'm sharing a card I made for one of the Dare To Get Dirty challenges over on Splitcoaststampers.  The DTGD challenges are a week of special challenges for Fan Club members only.

After dusting off a Stampabilities stamp I've had for eons it seems, and never used, I stamped it in memento black before layering the negative of a book die over it then stippling Tim Holtz old paper distress ink to "age" it a bit.  Kind of like the pages of a well worn bible.  I then popped up the layered saying using dimensionals onto a red card before adding some red silk flowers I've also had for years.  The only other embellishment was a red bling center to the flower. Besides the DTGD challenges on Splitcoaststampers, I'd like to enter this into the following:

Challenges entered:

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 454 and 455 - Anything Goes Uplifting
My Time To Craft #439 - Clean And Simple 
Creativ Fustion Arts and Crafts #20 - Anything Goes  
Shopping Our Stash #427 - Pile It On 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend and please stay safe out there.

Stamps: Stampabilities
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up
Accessories: Die Cut Negative, Red Silk Flowers, Glue Dots, Bling