Another Top 5

 
I just found out my Rachelle Anne Miller card made Top 5 at the The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge #133. 

 

 

 

I also made Top 5 over at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #199.

Coffee and Joyful Stories

Hello and welcome.  Second post from me today.  I have a couple of cards that have been waiting to be blogged because of my ongoing health issues.

First up is the card I made for my husband for Valentine's Day - a little late.  I started out by die cutting the coffee mug and coffee saying twice using my CAS-ual Friday's dies (store now closed).  After setting the coffee saying aside, I blended some Tim Holtz tattered rose and aged mahogany distress inks over my cup before stamping the small hearts from a long retired Stampin Up Conversation Hearts stamp set.  I then stamped the rest of my sayings in memento tuxedo black before assembling my main image panel then layered.  My card base was created using a dusty Cuttlebug heart block embossing folder I've had for years with Stampin Up real red ink applied to it before running it, and the card, through my Big Shot.  Once my card was embossed, I stippled more real red ink around the edges before assembling my card.  The only embellishments added were some red sequins I found in my stash.

Challenges entered:

 

Can You Handle The Pressure - Anything Goes With A Twist Of Hearts 

Splitcoaststampers F4A678 - Drinks (coffee)

Splitcoaststampers WT935 - Warm and Cozy (coffee, hearts)

Creative Fingers #248 - Anything Goes 

 

Second, I have a cute little one layer, clean and simple, card using a digital stamp from Rachelle Anne Miller called Woodland Snowman.  After printing the image on to Neenah white card stock, I colored it using Castle Arts and Lyra pencils before highlighting parts of the image using glitter gel pens and a black gel pen.  I then took a retired Stampin Up set called Perfect Ending stamped the "joy" in memento tuxedo black before adding a couple of Gin and Tonic sequins from Picket Fence Studios. 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 - Use Your NBUS (image)

The Holly and Ivy Christmas #133 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 583 to 584 - Anything Goes Uplifting (Joy saying) 

CD Sunday Plus #103 - Anything Goes Digital (image)

Digi Choosday Wk 6 - Anything Goes Digital (image)

Krafty Chicks #651 - Clean And Simple (CAS) 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous weekend.

Coffee card

Stamps: CAS-friday; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Real Red; Tim Holtz Tattered Rose, Aged Mahogany

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Big Shot, CAS-ual Friday's Coffee Dies, Cuttlebug Heart Block Embossing Folder, PFS Blending Brush, Sequins, Bearly Arts Glue

Joyful Snowman Stories

Stamps: Rachelle Anne Miller; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Neenah White

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Sequins, Glue, Castle Arts and Lyra Pencils, Glitter Gel Pens, Black Gel Pen

Kit-Tea-Cat

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a quick, clean and simple, one layer card I made.  After a frustrating day with doctor's trying to figure out what's going on with me, I needed a quick and easy card to try and take my mind off of my health issues.

I started out by stamping the image, and saying, from the Newton's Nook Designs set called Newton's Mug, I bought last year and hadn't used yet.  After stamping the image/saying in memento tuxedo black ink, I colored it using my Castle Arts pencils before blending a couple of retired Stampin Up inks, summer sun and yo-yo yellow.  The only embellishment added are some white sequins I found in my stash.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Inky Paws #191 - Color Board (see below) 

Inspiration Station #46 - See Mood Board (inspired by colors)

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero Feb 2023 - Animal Crackers (cat focal point)

Splitcoaststampers F4A678 - Drinks (cat drank my tea lol)

Outlawz Festive Friday Feb 17 to Mar 2 - Anything Goes 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set) 

Critter Crazy #71 - Anything Goes With A Critter (cat)

Show Us Your Pussycats #85 - Anything Goes With A Cat

 

 Inky Paws #191

 

Inspiration Station #46

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous weekend.

Stamps: Newton's Nook

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Summer Sun, Yo-yo Yellow

Card Stock: Hammermill White

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, PFS Blending Brush, Sequins, Bearly Arts Glue

 

 

 

Challenge 2306

 Sponsored by SheepSki Designs

SheepSki Designs FB

SheepSki Designs FB Sharing

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Sheepski Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing images for the design team to use.  For my card, I am using their Christmas Box image.

After printing my image out onto Neenah white card stock, I colored it using Castle Arts and Lyra pencils before stippling Tim Holtz stormy sky and tumbled glass distress inks then layered it using scrap card stock I had set aside from another project.  After adding some red brads, I set the image panel aside to work on the card base.  My card is dry embossed using a Cuttlebug snowflake embossing folder, along with my Big Shot, before stippling more tumbled glass distress ink over the raised images.  As an afterthought, I then stippled picket fence distress ink over the raised images to "age" then a bit with broken china is stippled around the edges of the card.  I then stamped the "joy" in memento tuxedo black on a white scrap then punched it out using a retired Stampin Up oval punch before layering it on another punched blue scrap.  That was then added to my card using pop up glue dots.  The final touches were some white/silver bakers twine from my stash along with diamond ice stickles to highlight the snow.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 - Use Your NBUS (digital image)

The Four Seasons February 2023 - Anything Goes (see mood board) (inspired by snow/trees)

Snippets Playground #447 - Use Those Snippets (layers, punched saying pieces)

 

The Four Seasons

 

 

 

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

Stamps: Sheepski Designs; Stampin Up Small Script (retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky, Picket Fence, Broken China, Tumbled Glass Distress Inks

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Castle Arts and Lyra Pencils, SU Oval Punches, Brads, Glue Dots, Pop Up Glue Dots, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder, PFS Blending Brushes, Twine, White Chalk Marker, Ice Stickles

 

Be Merry

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a clean and simple card I've had colored for some time but I just haven't completed it until now although I'm not sure why.  Possibly since I've been sick for the last 6 weeks and the doctors can't figure out what's going with me.  To top things off my hubby had to have surgery so life has been nuts.

 

I started out by printing my Christmas Tree digital image from  Rachelle Anne Miller Designs before coloring it using both Lyra and Castle Arts pencils.  Once my coloring was finished, I blended some Tim Holtz tumbled glass and broken china distress inks using my brushes from Picket Fence Studios before I stamped the saying in the right upper corner using a retired stamp from Stampin Up Warm Words set.  The only embellishments is yellow ice stickles highlighting the stars.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 February - Use Your NBUS (image)

Polkadoodles Wk6 - Anything Goes 

Gem of A Craft Challenge Wk3 - Anything Goes 

Holly and Ivy Christmas #133 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Krafty Chicks #650 - Christmas 

Park Hopping My Happy Place - February 2023 (inspired by Disneyland Christmas decor see below)

  

Park Hopping My Happy Place

 

 Disneyland Main Street USA

(my inspiration pic)

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous weekend.

Stamps: Rachelle Anne Miller

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China Distress Inks; Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Neenah White

Accessories: Castle Arts and Lyra Pencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Computer, Printer, Ice Stickles

Does This Make My Butt Look Big?

 

Hello and welcome.  A bit of Christmas snark for you today (yes I've started on this years Christmas cards already)  especially since asking this question is usually...shall we say....taboo?  Of course, our cute little polar bear hasn't fully mastered the "rules" of what you do, and do not, ask/answer.  

I started out by printing Self Conscious Paulie from Sweet N Sassy Stamps on Neenah white card stock before coloring her using both Prismacolor and Copic markers before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass and stormy sky distress inks.  I then cut the image down to size, layered using scrap card stock then added it to a green card left over from another project.  I then went and used 3D glaze pens to highlight all of the colored marker parts before adding my own "faux brads" using a red 3D glaze pen.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 February - Use Your NBUS (image)

Critter Crazy #71 - Anything Goes With A Featured Critter (polar bear)

Digi Choosday Wk 4 - Anything Goes Digital 

CD Sunday Plus #103 - Anything Goes Digital (image) 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #199 - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky Distress 

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, 3D Glaze Pens, Glue Dots, Prismacolor and Copic Markers 

Clean And Simple Jar Vase

 

Hello and welcome.  I'd like to share with you a card using a digital stamp I recently bought and haven't done anything with.  I originally did the coloring while my husband watched the news end of December, it just took until now to complete them.  I've been sick and just have not had the energy to do much of anything.

First up is a cute little clean and simple card using the bottle bouquet from Sweet N Sassy Stamps.  After printing the image onto Hammermill white card stock, I colored it using Castle Arts pencils before highlighting parts of the image using 3D glaze pens.  I then stamped the saying from Sweet N Sassy script sentiments set, I received as a gift, in memento tuxedo black ink then highlighted it using a black 3D glaze pen.  The final touch were some blue sequins from a retired Picket Fence Studios sequin mix called Spiked Ocean Water.  Done! I'm really happy with how this one turned out considering how I've been feeling.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 - Use Your NBUS (image/saying)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 581 to 582 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

CD Sunday Plus #102 - Anything Goes Digital Stamping (image)

Digi Choosday Wk 4 - Anything Goes 

The Flower Challenge #77 - Use Your Latest Stamps or Dies (digital stamp)

Park Hopping My Happy Place Feb 2023 - Epcot Flower and Garden (see insp. pic)

 

The Flower Challenge

 

Epcot Flower and Garden

 

 

Park Hopping My Happy Place

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Sweet N Sassy Stamps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black 

Card Stock: Hammermill White

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Sequins, Glue, 3D Glaze Pens

 

Woodblock Wednesday Watercolored Flower Celebration

 

Hello and welcome to another edition of Woodblock Wednesday.  I missed last month's Woodblock Wednesday with a migraine and flu bug at the same time.  In fact, I'm still dealing with it and it may have turned into something else.  Since I wanted to try and do my best to participate in this month's so I pulled out some old, retired, Hero Arts stamps I received from a friend and got to work.  I decided to "ink" the floral one by coloring directly onto the stamp image using my dusty Stampin Up watercolor crayons then misting it with water, then stamping it onto a Neenah white scrap repeating the steps three times.  I then inked a "grid" square shadow stamp using Tim Holtz tattered rose distress ink and over-stamping the grid on top of my flowers before pulling out a retired Stampin Up Wonderful Words wood set.  I then took a Picket Fence blending brush using it to stipple more tattered rose distress ink around the edges of my image panel.  After layering it, and adhering it to black card, I added some pink sequins to the flower centers that I found in my stash that I've had for ages and never used.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #47 - Use Your NBUS (flower, square shadow)

Woodblock Wednesday Feburary - Use Those Wood Blocks (all images/saying)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (sequins, stamps) 

Splitcoaststampers F4A676 - Shadows (used shadow stamp background)

Park Hopping My Happy Place Feb 2023 - Epcot Flower and Garden (see inspiration pic)

  Epcot Flower & Garden

 

Park Hopping My Happy Place
 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a fabulous evening and rest of your weekend.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Stampin Up Watercolor Crayons, PFS Blending Brushes, Sequins, Glue, Glue Dots, Mister