Dare To Get Dirty 2023

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PIP Challenge 2324

 

 Sponsored by Gerda Steiner Designs

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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 and for providing images for the design team to use.

I started out by printing the Squirrel with Acorns digital stamp on Hammermill white card stock before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I stippled some walnut stain and mowed lawn distress ink using my brushes from Picket Fence Studios then layered.  My saying from the Cupcake Mice set released last month was then stamped in memento tuxedo black ink before punching and stippling more walnut stain distress ink around the edges.  Once I was finished with everything, I adhered the image/saying to a espresso card with an embossed tree stump panel with walnut stain stippled over the raised edges.  The final embellishments was some faux sewing around the squirrel and highlighting the saying using a black 3D glaze pen.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #51 - Use Your NBUS (image, embossing folder)

Critter Crazy #75 - Anything Goes With A Critter

Gerda Steiner Designs June 2023 - Share Your Designs Anything Goes 

A Place To Start June 2023 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Wks 589 to 560 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

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

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs

Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Mowed Lawn; Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; MFP Corn Husk

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Texture Fade Embossing Folder, PFS Stipple Brushes, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Oval Punch, Black Gel Pen, Black 3D Glaze Pen

Trees and Jello

Hello and welcome.  Today I have another card to share made for this month's Woodblock Wednesday challenge.  While looking for the saying I used in yesterday's project, I came across this wood block stamp from Whipper Snapper that I totally forgot I had.  I must have bought it either online, or at a stamp convention, 20 years ago.  

 I started out by stamping the saying in memento tuxedo black ink onto a top note die cut I received from a secret sister a while back before stippling Tim Holtz spiced marmalade and tumbled glass distress inks around it.  My card is stamped in using a retired Stampin Up Fresh Fillers wood block set (I haven't used in years) in tangerine tango ink before adhering my die cut saying panel.  Once that was finished, I pulled out some dusty prima flowers and adhered them to the card before pulling out my Martha Stewart fern punch and punching scrap green card stock with Tim Holtz mowed lawn distress ink stippled over them.  I then adhered the "ferns" to my card and added some bling to finish it off.  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out since I was making it with another migraine.  

Challenges entered:

 

Woodblock Wednesday June 2023 - Use Your Unloved Wood Block Stamps (saying, background stamps)

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #51 - Use Your NBUS (saying, die cut)

Retro Rubber #208 - Sweet Summer ( saying, background stamp)

Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero June 2023 - Sentimental Journey (sentiment prominent)

Inspiration Station June 2023 - See Mood Board (inspired by the colors)

Splitcoaststampers June Fan Club Challenge - Orange You Glad (must be Fan Club member to participate)

Colorful Options June 2023 - Peach or Rainbow Inspired (I went with rainbow inspired)

 

 

Inspiration Station

 

 

Colorful Options Challenge

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Whipper Snapper Designs; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Spiced Marmalade, Mowed Lawn; Stampin Up Tangerine Tango

Card Stock: Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: PFS Blending Brushes, Primas, Glue Dots, MS Fern Punch, Glue, Bling, Top Note Die Cut

 

Woodblock Wednesday June 2023

 

 

Hello and welcome to another edition of Woodblock Wednesday where the challenge is to pull out those woodblock stamps that are collecting dust and show them some love again.  I bought the Stampabilities ©Peanuts stamp almost 20 yrs ago and to this day it's still one of my favorites even though I don't use it much.  The stamp image along is long enough to make a mini slimline card, and that was before slimline cards were a "thing".  The Art Impressions saying I bought at a stamp convention around the same time as the ©Peanuts one.

 

After stamping the image in memento tuxedo black ink, I colored the image using both prismacolor and copic markers before adding the clouds using a Picket Fence Studios slimline cloud stencil, tumbled glass distress ink and my Picket Fence Studios blending brushes. I then stippled the grass using my brushes and Tim Holtz mowed lawn distress ink.  I then adhered the panel to a blue slimline card before highlighting the saying using a black Castle Arts gel pen.

 

Here are my stamps used:

 

 

Challenges entered:

 

Woodblock Wednesday June 2023 - Use Those Unloved Wood Block Stamps 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash 

Shopping Our Stash #498 - Let's Hear It For The Boys  

Crafty Calender June 2023 - Summertime 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #236 - C Is For Critters 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us for this month's Woodblock Wednesday.  

Stamps: Stampabilities; Art Impressions

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up Pacific Pointe

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, PFS Slimline Cloud Stencil, PFS Blending Brushes, Black Gel Pen

Awesome!!!

 Hello and welcome.  I just saw that two of my cards were top pick at the Retro Rubber #207 challenge!!!  Here's the cards:

 

 

I was also a Top Pick for Jan's Digital Stamps May 2023 challenge with this card.

PIP Challenge 2322

 

    Sponsored by 

Varada Sharma

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Hello and welcome.  Today begins another challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Varada Sharma.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing images for the design team to use.  My card today is featuring the set Pretty Little Tulips.

I started out by printing the vase three times and the tulip flowers five times before coloring them using both prismacolor and copic markers the fussy cutting everything out.  I then took a trimmed Hammermill white panel and stippled my background using a retired Picket Fence Studios brick wall 6x6 stencil and my blending brushes using some fired brick distress ink before adhering the vase and two of the colored tulip spray before cutting apart a third tulip spray to add additional pieces throughout my vase bouquet.  I then took a dusty Martha Stewart punch and created the thank you saying then adhering it to the vase.  The final touches were a small bow and then adding some Meraki Sparkle Midnight Illusion bling.  The final two floral sprays and vases were used to make two additional cards.

Here is another card made using the same image, and layout, a little differently.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #60 June 2023 - Use Your NBUS (images, stencil, bling)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (MS punch)

A Place To Start June 2023 - Anything Goes 

CD Sunday Plus #111 - Anything Goes Digital (main image)

The Flower Challenge #81 - Use Your Favorite (mine is tulips) 

Triple B Challenge June 2023 - Birds, Blooms or Butterflies (mine flowers)

 

 

 

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

Stamps: Varada Sharma

Ink: Tim Holtz Fired Brick Distress Ink

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, PFS Stencil, PFS Blending Brushes, Glue, Crafty Meraki Bling, Bow, MS Punch