All Is Calm Winter Scene

Hello and welcome.  If you're looking for my Friend-ship post, please scroll down one. 

So far I'm still doing good on getting at least one Christmas card done per month, sometimes two.  For this card, I stamped the image from my never before used (NBUS) Cardinals In Winter set from Mark's Finest Papers which is unfortunately now closed.  Once I stamped the image in memento black and colored using copic markers before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass ink around the edges of the panel and layering.  Once that was done, I made my own brads by punching a snippet of scrap black card stock and adding using a Martha Stewart glue pen.  I then stamped the saying on a snippet of white card stock before punching using my Stampin Up oval punch and lining with memento black ink.  After assembling my card, using Martha Stewart punches, I made my floral spray and cardinal from snippets of green and red card stock; adhering them with glue dots.  I then added the cardinal's eyes/beak using a Sakura black glaze pen.  My final touch was highlighting the snowbanks, frozen creek and "falling snow" using diamond ice stickles.

Challenges entered:

Jingle Belles Rock - Rockin Robin
Pammies Inky Pinkies #1911 - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Craft #11 - Anything Goes
Pixie's Crafty Workshop #348 - Anything Goes Use Snippits
Outlawz Festive Friday March 22 to April 4 - Christmas
Splitcoaststampers USEIT2019 - Anything Goes Use Your Unloved Stash

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day!!

Stamps: MFP
Ink: Memento Black, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass
Card Stock: Stampin Up
Accessories: Copic Markers, Recollections White Marker, SU Oval Punch, MS Pine Branch Punch, MS Cardinal Punch, MS Fern Punch, Small Hole Punch, Ice Stickles, MS Glue Pen, Glue Dots, Stipple Brush

Up The Friend-Ship River

Hello and welcome.  The calendar says it's spring but so far the weather isn't cooperating to much here.  We have another cold "winter" storm coming in tonight again my migraines are not happy.  I originally started this card for another challenge 3 weeks ago, but with all of the frequent storms and temperature changes it's taken me until now to color and actually finish it; let alone blog it. 

I started off by stamping the tug boat, trees and clouds using Stampin Up's Loads of Love and Boatloads of Love (both retired) in memento black ink before stamping the smaller boat with heart onto white scratch paper then colored everything. Once the coloring was finished, I stamped the grass in 3 different inks using fern stamp from Stampin Up's retired set Watercolor Minis before doing the same for my riverbank. I then created the river using 3 different copic markers before stippling 3 different inks around the edge of my image panel.  I then cut out the smaller boat and heart and added them to my river scene.  The card is stamped using the same tree and some more hearts in hunter ink.  I then stamped the saying before highlighting portions of the boat and "birds" using Sakura glaze pens.  As an afterthought, I stamped 3 more clouds onto white scrap paper, colored using a Recollections white marker and cut out to pop up for some added dimension.  My final touches were brads and waterfall ice stickles. 

Challenges entered:

Shopping Our Stash #391 - Friendship
Splitcoaststampers - USEIT2019
Splitcoaststampers MMTPT554 - Make A Scene
Pammies Inky Pinkies #1911 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stampin Up Loads Of Love, Boatloads Of Love, Watercolor Minis
Ink: Memento Black; SU Certainly Celery, Garden Green, Old Olive, Soft Suede, Close To Cocoa, Chocolate Chip; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China
Card Stock: Stampin Up
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stipple Brushes, Brads, Sakura Glaze Pens, Ice Stickles, Glue Dots, Recollections White Marker

Love, Hugs, and Prayers

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a sympathy/hugs card.  Unfortunately, I'm needing a lot of those lately.  It took me several days to make since my mojo has taken another unauthorized "leave of absence". 

I started out by stamping four WP846 Watercolor Butterflies from Impression Obsession on scrap white card stock in some rarely used (RBUS) Versamagic mango and thatched straw chalk ink before fussy cutting two of the butterflies out to pop up later.  I then stamped the love and prayers words in the same chalk ink onto the uncut panel before stippling Tim Holtz wild honey and spiced marmalade ink on the side and over the stamped images.  I then spritzed some orange ink over that using a color spritzer tool and an orange marker.  After layering the image panel, I added some punched some "faux brads" using punched circles and a glue pen. 

For the card, I stamped the background using images from the same Watercolor Butterflies set in memento tangelo ink before stippling spiced marmalade around the edges.  I then added my fussy cut butterflies to the image panel using glue dots before adding black pearls to the center of the bodies.  My final embellishment was spritzing the orange marker ink over the popped up butterflies.

Challenges entered:

Impression Obsession - Sending Hugs
Pammies Inky Pinkies #1911 - Anything Goes
Outlawz Festive Friday March 8 to 21 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day!


Stamps: Impression Obsession Watercolor Butterflies
Ink: Versamagic Mango, Thatched Straw Chalk, Memento Tangelo
Card Stock: Stampin Up
Accessories: Stampin Up Only Orange Marker, Color Spritzer Tool, Glue Dots, Stipple Brushes, Pearl Bling, Hole Punch, Glue Pen

Well Then.....

When it rains, it really pours doesn't it.  *sigh*  A lot has been going on these last few weeks.  You have to live here to believe all of the stuff that's been going on, however,  I live here and am having a hard time believing it.  I've tried to stay positive, and as busy as my health will allow, but two more members of our family are no longer with us.  It's now been a little more than two months since our sweet fur baby, Bella, died in my arms from a massive seizure.  It still hurts so bad.  I'm really missing my cute little girl so much.  On top of that, my step-dad also passed away as well a couple weeks ago so I'm still dealing with that as well.  My precious kitty's have done everything "in their power" to help heal my heart.

My health hasn't been doing well either.  Migraines have been overactive again, and I'm sure it's the stress on top of the weather changes helping cause the flare-up.  California desperately needs the rain and snow, I just hurt so much more when the storms come in and not just from the migraines but the fibromyalgia as well.  Chronic pain really sucks!! I really feel like I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown again.

Thanks for listening.  Needed to vent a tad.

It Is Well

Hello and welcome.  Today I'm sharing a sympathy card made for my step-mom after the passing of my step-dad.  Because of my own health problems it's taken me longer than I would have liked to make this.  Dusted off some older stamp sets that I had yet to use from Our Daily Bread Designs which is now Divinity Designs.  I have a very hard time making sympathy cards as it is although I'm not sure why.

I started out by stamping the hymn It Is Well in memento black onto vellum card stock then stamped The Mighty Sea in weathered wood distress ink before coloring with chalk and layering. I used two silver brads along with vellum glue dots to hold the vellum hymn over the colored sea shore before adding everything onto a blue card stamped with the same sea shore in faded jeans distress ink.  Silver cord ribbon with a silver heart charm finish the front off.

For the inside, I stamped sayings from both The Mighty Sea and With Deepest Sympathy.

Challenges entered:

Pammies Inky Pinkies #1909 - Anything Goes
Outlawz Festive Friday 2/22 to 3/19 - Anything Goes
Addicted To Stamps & More #331 - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday #376 to #377 - Anything Goes
Splitcoast USEIT2019 - Use Your Forgotten Stash
Double D Challenges - Let's Make Music

Thank you for stopping by today.  Have a great day!!


Stamps: Divinity Designs (Our Daily Bread Designs)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Weathered Wood, Faded Jeans
Card Stock: Stampin Up
Accessories: Chalk, Applicator, Silver Cord, Heart Charm, Silver Brads