Meet Me At The Clubhouse

 

  

Welcome to the 3rd Annual Shark Week Card Hop, hosted by @createwithkas ! We’re thrilled to share our FIN-tastic shark-themed cards and take you on a journey filled with fun and fascinating shark facts at every stop on the hop. Our 2025 theme is “Stay JAWSitive” — a reminder to stay positive in all areas of life, while also promoting awareness around ocean conservation and marine life. Dive in and enjoy the creativity and inspiration! #3rdannualsharkweekcardhop

 

For my card, I decided to ink up a new stamp set from Brass and Bliss called Pirates Under the High Seas.  After I stamped my images onto white X-Press card stock, I colored everything using Copic markers before fussy cutting and setting aside.  I dug out a gnome house die I received as a gift, die cut scraps, before coloring and turning it into an underwater "clubhouse".  I then dug out some water colored designer paper and added it to my card.  After die cutting some sea weed out and adding pearls, plus sequins, my card was finished.  I then decided to add a touch of whimsy by adding googlie eyes to the shark, crab and octopus/rubber duck.

 

Did you know that sharks play an important role in the ecosystem by maintaining the species below them in the food chain and serving as an indicator for ocean health.   They help remove the weak and the sick as well as keeping the balance with competitors helping to ensure species diversity.

 

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #76 - Use Your NBUS (images, dies)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2025 - Use Your Unloved Stash (dies, googlie eyes)

Ally's Angels #95 - Anything Goes 

The Crafter's Cafe #320 - Anything Goes

Crafty Animals #96 - Anything Goes Animals (octopus, lobsters, shark) 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Brass and Bliss

Card Stock: Copic X-Press; Scraps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Accessories: MISTI, Copic Markers, Pearls, Sequins, Pop Dots, Glue, Blending Brush, Googlie Eyes, 3D Glaze Pens, Black Gel Pen

 

  

Floral Mushroom Gnome

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a card made using one of the images I colored while my husband's been in the hospital.  The images are from the Gnome One Like You set from Creative Worship Stamps.  I've had this set for a while and just hadn't used it until now.

 

After stamping the image/saying in memento tuxedo black ink onto white Copic X-press card stock, I colored everything using my Ohuhu markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I added some flower stems before stenciling my cloud background.  I then dug out my card stock scraps and Martha Stewart floral/butterfly punches to add to my scene.  After adhering some bling to the layered image panel, I added some tiny black dots for the butterflies.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #76 - Use Your NBUS (images)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 706 to 707 - Anything Goes Family Friendly 

Dream Valley #340 - Anything Goes 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #257 - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Creative Worship Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: Copic X-Press; Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: MISTI, Ohuhu Markers, MS Punches, Glue, Bling, Stencil, Blending Brush, Brads, Glue Dots, Black Gel Pen 

  

Conjurer of Dreams July 2025 Inspiration And Challenge

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today is my day to share with you my projects for this month's Conjurer of Dreams challenge.  With the price of postage these days, I'm starting to do my layering digitally, then print and put onto a card base for easy mailing.

 

 

Sets used: Baby Forest Animals, Circle Tags Gnome Craft Kit, Twig Frames, Vintage Tags and Elements Kit, Black Silk, Aged Papers

 

Challenges entered: 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #76 - Use Your NBUS (forest animal images)

Crafty Catz #697 - Anything Goes 

 

 

Sets used: Baby Forest Animals, Twig Frames, Vintage Tags and Elements Kit, Metallic Silk, Blue Silk

 

Challenges entered:

Digi Choosday #7 Wk 1 - Anything Goes 

CD Sunday Plus #161 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams)

 

Sets used: Baby Forest Animals, Twig Frames, Birds Clipart, Birdhouses Clipart,

 

Challenges entered: 

Paper Funday #78 - Anything Goes Optional Use Stencils 

Little Red Wagon #814 - Anything Goes 

 

 Digital collage

Sets used: Baby Forest Animals, Twig Frames, Birds Clipart, Vintage Tags and Elements Kit,

 

Challenges entered:

Ally's Angels #95 - Anything Goes  

 

 

ATC 

 

Sets used: Forest Lake View, Noble Elk, Vintage Tags and Elements Kit

 

Challenges entered:

Creative Fingers #304 - Anything Goes 

Moving Along With The Times #180 - Masculine 

 

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

 

PIP Challenge 2526

 

Our Sponsor is

Pattie's Creations

THEME = SUNSHINE

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Pattie's Creations.  I would like to thank Pattie for her sponsorship of this week's challenge.  Since this is also the 5th Monday of the month, we are having a sunshine theme.  Make sure your project(s) feature sunshine.  For my card, I'm using the Dog Days of Summer.  Which is really appropriate right now since we're "moving" into the triple digit "season" along with wildfire season.

 

My main image is colored using Ohuhu Honolulu markers before lightly stippling some Stampin Up bliss blue ink using my blending brushes.  Once all of the coloring was finished, I layered the image panel making sure to distress each of the layers before adding some faux brads.  I then took a summer sun scrap and die cut my sun using an old MFT die, then stippled summer sun and only orange ink over my sun.  After adhering it using glue dots to the image panel, I popped up the middle of the sun using pop dots.  A little bit of bling finished off my card.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #75 - Use Your NBUS (image) 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2025 - Use Your Forgotten Stash (sun die) 

Pattie's Creations #231 - Anything Goes 

 

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

High Five

 

 

Hello and welcome. Today I'd like to share with you a card made using the High Five set from Pajama Crafter Stamps.  I started out by stamping the images/saying using my MISTI in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring using Ohuhu Markers then layering and adding brads.  After adhering the layered image panel, I lightly stippled leftover stormy sky to soften the white then adding some copper sequins to finish it off.  I'm really happy with how this turned out.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #75 - Use Your NBUS (images)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 704 and 705 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

Krafty Chicks #773 - Clean and Simple 

Ally's Angels #95 - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Pajama Crafter Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky Distress

Card Stock: Hammermill; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Ohuhu Markers, Sequins, Brads, Blending Brush  

Thanks And Blessings

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a card I've been wanting to make for some time just didn't get to it before now.  The images are from a retired set called Gnome Home Fall/Christmas from Pajama Crafter Stamps/Prickly Pear.  

I started out by stamping everything onto scrap card stock before coloring using my Ohuhu markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I assembled the card before stamping my saying from a long retired Stampin Up set (Wishes Awash). I then added some copper bling before highlighting parts of the images using a clear Sakura 3D glaze pen.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

 

Challenges entered:

 

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #75 - Use Your NBUS (images)

Pajama Crafter Stamps Facebook Group June 2025 - Sketch (see pic below) 

A Place To Start June 2025 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 704 to 705 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

Art Nudge 625B - see insp pic below (inspired by the browns)

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Pajama Crafter Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky; VIVID Butterscotch

Card Stock: X-Press It; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Blending Brush, Ohuhu Markers, Bling, Glue, Pop Dots, 3D Glaze Pen 

  

 

 

 

Cowboys And A Red Barn

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a card I made using a few Conjurer of Dreams images.  I started out by combining the Old Red Barn, Rugged, Barn Owl and Cute Dogs before printing the combined image  on Neenah white card stock, layering and adding some copper brads.  After distressing the edges, I adhered the layered panel to my card using pop up glue dots.  Digging through my stash, I found some twine and added that to the side before adhering some copper bling and a copper clip from my stash.  I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff #75 - Use Your NBUS (cowboy images, owl, red barn)  

FarmQuest General Store #29 - Anything Goes Farm or Country

A Place To Start June 2025 - Anything Goes

613 Ave Create June 2025 - Anything Goes Optional For The Guys  

CD Sunday Plus #160 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams)

Digi Choosday #6 Wk 3 - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Paper Distresser, Bling, Clip, Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Twine 

Tranquility At The Beach

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a card made over the last several weeks in between my migraine and fibromyalgia flare-ups.  I used an image from Conjurer of Dreams greyscale coloring pages called The Beach.  Anyone that really knows me, knows the beach is my happy place.  I could just sit on the sand watching the waves for hours.

 

After printing it on Neenah white card stock, I colored it using both Lyra and Castle Arts watercolor pencils.  Once my coloring was finished, I softened everything using a prismacolor blender pencil before layering and adding some sand dollar brads from my stash.  After adhering the layered image using glue dots, I added some "seagulls" using a black gel pen before adding some star dust stickles to the wave white caps.  After adding a scallop shell sticker from my stash, I added a few Meraki green shimmer bling to finish it off.  I'm happy with how it finally turned out.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #75 - Use Your NBUS (image)

Cardz 4 Guyz #374 - Seashells 

CD Sunday Plus #160 - Anything Goes Digital (Conjurer of Dreams)

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends #256 - Anything Goes 

The Four Seasons June 2025 - See Insp Pic Below (inspired by location beaches, surf boards)

Paper Funday #77 - Anything Goes 

Double D Challenges June 2025 - See Insp Pic Below (inspired by the beach)

Conjurer of Dreams Facebook Inspiration Group Color Challenge June 2025 - See Insp Pic (added neutral brown/light orange)

Simon Says Instagram Challenge #SSIG June 2025 - Add Texture (sticker, bling, stickles) 

 

 

Double D Challenges

 

The Four Seasons
 

COD Facebook Inspiration Group Color Challenge
 

 

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Castle Arts Watercolor Pencils, Gel Pen, Lyra Pencils, Blender Pencil, Brads, Pop Up Glue Dots, Stickles, K&Co Seashell Sticker, Bling, Glue