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Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Conjurer of Dreams May 2026 Inspiration And Challenge


 Hello and welcome.  Today is my turn to share my Pool Party projects for this month's Conjurer of Dreams Anything Goes/Pool Party challenge.
 
Digital Page
 
Challenges entered:

Card
 

 
Sets used: Rats Pool Party, Aged Papers, Blue Silk, Rusted Signs, Spring Summer Photo Corners
 
Challenges entered:
 
 
 
 
ATC's

  
 Sets used:  Seniors Pool Party, Spring Summer Photo Corners, Blue Silk, 
 
Challenges entered:
 
 
 
 

 Sets used:  Spring Summer Photo Corners, Cowboy Pool Party, Aged Papers, Tea Dyed Papers 
 
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Thanks for stopping by today. Have a great day.
 
  
 
  
 
 
 
 
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Thursday, June 19, 2025

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)  
 
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 
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Tuesday, July 23, 2024

The Green Mermaid

 
Hello and welcome.  I'd like to share a card I finished a few days ago using a digital stamp from Gecko Galz from their Splish Splash digital stamp set (she is image SS46).  At the time I printed her out, I was dealing with this migraine that doesn't want to go away, so I made sure to print her at 3.5x5 inches so it would be easier to color on my eyes. 

Pulling out my dusty Koh-I-Noor woodless pencils, I colored her in various shades of green, and yellow, before coloring her headpiece in different colors.  I then blended Tim Holtz stormy sky distress ink (my go to color for muted water coloring) using my blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios before layering, before distressing those layers, before adding olive brads.  Dusting off my Cuttlebug mesh embossing folder, I dry embossed the card base before popping up my layered image using pop dots.  Digging through my stash, I found K&Company shell sticker and added that in the lower left corner of the image panel.  Pulling out my green scraps, I selected a few before punching them using my Martha Stewart fern punch then ran them through the paper crimper to make them look like kelp sprouts.  Feeling like it needed something else, I dug out some old MFT flat backed pearls I had bought 10+ years ago, I added those using Bearly Art glue before highlighting parts of my mermaid using diamond ice stickles.  It was at this point I decided something was still missing so I dug out my solid fish stamps and added a few "schools of fish" and a lone salmon.  Now my card was finished.  I'm really happy with how she turned out.

Challenges entered:
 
Park Hopping My Happy Place July 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Park Related (once again inspired by the mermaids that used to swim around for Disneyland's submarine ride)
 
Gecko Galz
 
Gecko Galz Facebook Group
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz (mermaid); Stampscapes (salmon); Stamp Oasis (school of fish)
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky
Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Computer, Printer, K&Co Shell Sticker, Pearls, Glue, Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Paper Crimper, MS Fern Punch, Paper Distresser, Brads, Pop Dots, Big Shot, Embossing Folder
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Monday, July 15, 2024

I'm In Shape

Hello and welcome.  Third post if you're looking for my Crazy Horses or GinaK Christmas cards, please scroll down 1-2 post.  Today I'd like to share with you a card using another pre-colored image.  This beautiful fairy godmother is a freebie this month in the Conjurer of Dreams Facebook Inspiration Group.  
 
After seeing a friend's Instagram post about body image and how people need to look beyond weight, makeup or lack thereof, and see the person inside.  You never know if your comment is helping, or hindering, someone emotionally.  I for one have experienced this with doctors or in-laws making a comment about my own weight, which medication and chronic conditions contribute to, and how it negatively affects me emotionally and psychologically.  So with that in mind, I decided to use this image and create something that reflects my feelings on the subject.

I started out by combining the image with a hand generated saying in Photoshop, before printing her out on Neenah white card stock then layering, adding some black brads then setting aside.  I then printed out my designer paper from Gecko Galz called Island Girl and added that to a white card base.   After adhering the layered image to my card, I finished it off with some Crafty Meraki Midnight Illusion gems and yellow ice stickles to highlight the star.

Challenges entered:
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams
Ink: None
Card Stock: Neenah White; Recollections; Gecko Galz
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Meraki Shimmer Illusion Bling, Brads, Glue Dots, Glue, Yellow Ice Stickles
 
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Sunday, June 9, 2024

Summer Of Travel

 
Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you an art journal page I made with summer traveling in mind.  Growing up I watched the Love Boat and always thought it would be so cool to go on a cruise.  However, now, you couldn't pay me to go on a cruise.  I know plenty of people that do and love it.  There are several reasons I personally don't want to go on one: 1) passengers "falling" overboard, 2) too many people 3) price and if there's one thing the pandemic taught me 4) cruise ships are like petrie dishes and exposure/getting sick is too risky for me. So I decided to make my journal page with flying, as well as cruising, in mind.

I started out by stippling some Tim Holtz picket fence, faded jeans and walnut stain distress inks onto navy card stock using my paper pouncers.  While that was drying, I cut apart a Gecko Galz Great Journey's collage sheet I had pre-printed a week or so ago, and layered the images.  Once I had adhered the layered images using glue dots, and my typed journaling, I dug through my box of wooden embellishments.  Some of the box I had received from a friend, when she had to give up paper crafting a while back and hadn't used yet, plus some from Dollar Tree.  After pulling out the ones I wanted to use, I adhered them all using Ranger's glossy accents.  The final touch was color spritzing a Stampin Up night of navy marker over everything.  I'm really happy with how it turned out especially since I'm still dealing with this blasted migraine.  Since physically I can't really travel anymore, I travel now through my crafting.

Challenges entered:
 
We Love To Create Mixed Medial #5 - Anything Goes Mixed Media (ink, digital stamps, wood embellishments)
 
 
Gecko Galz Facebook Challenge
 
The Four Seasons

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.
 
Stamps: Gecko Galz 
Ink: Tim Holtz Picket Fence, Faded Jeans, Walnut Stain Distress Inks
Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Paper Pouncers, Wooden Embellies, Ranger Glossy Accents, Color Spritzer, SU Night of Navy Marker

 
 
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Monday, March 25, 2024

A Little Steampunk Magic

 Hello and welcome.  I have a couple of cards to share with you that use pre-colored images from Gecko Galz.  
 
The first one up uses the free image for their monthly Steampunk challenge.  Now I don't make a whole lot of steampunk cards since it's out of my comfort zone, so I'm hoping this one is ok.  After printing the image off on Neenah white card stock, I cut it down to size and layered before adding brads and setting aside.  My card is dry embossed using a retro dots/swirls embossing folder in my big shot©.  I decided to highlight the embossed images before cutting, then embossing, a border strip using the embossed side for the border.  After adhering the layered image panel crookedly, deliberately, I dug out my Tim Holtz gear dies and die cut a couple of gears out of scrap card stock, then lightly stippled some walnut stain distress ink over the gears using a paper pouncer.  I then adhered the gears making sure to add some bling in the centers.  The final touch was some blue fibers I've had in my stash for years.

Challenges entered:
 
 
My second card is using the free image from February's monthly challenge at Gecko Galz.  I started out by printing the unicorn image on Neenah white paper before cutting it down to size, layering and adding brads.  I then printed off one of the Seasons of Hope digital papers, then added it to a pacific pointe card.  For some reason I decided to dry emboss the card at that point and use the debossed images before cutting a black border strip, dry embossed that and adhered using the embossed side.  I then color spritzed some pacific pointe marker over the card front before adding my layered unicorn using glue dots.  The only other embellishments were a black bling flourish and some blue fibers I've had in my stash for years.

Challenges entered:
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and rest of your week.

For Both Cards:
Stamps: Gecko Galz
Ink: Stampin Up Pacific Pointe; Tim Holtz Walnut Stain Distress
Card Stock: Neenah; Stampin Up; Gecko Galz Digital Designer Paper
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Swirls and Retro Circles Embossing Folders, Stipple Brush, Paper Pouncer, Bling Flourish, Tim Holtz Gear Dies, Fibers

 
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

Summer Collaberation Ocean Life or Shaker


 
Welcome to this years #summeraspired2023 hop. Organised by @kellys.craft and @kellysantidesigns . Where each week we have 2 choices for themes where we can create either or both themes or even combining both together. Week 5 themes are shaker or ocean life . Follow along using the hashtag or through the list of Participants. Graphic created by @kellys.craft.  

My card for today's hop combines both themes again.  Since Mother Nature's still not done baking California, I so want to be at the ocean, beach, or even the Monterey Bay Aquarium.  I started out by stamping my background images using Picket Fence Studios Little Coral Girl (retired) and I Am A Mermaid (retired) in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  I then stamp my mermaid and seahorses onto scrap white card stock, colored and set aside to die cut later.  Once I was happy with the coloring, I blended some Tim Holtz tumbled glass, broken china and chipped sapphire distress inks using my blending brushes from Picket Fence Studios.  Taking a clear cellophane envelope, I added my background and then some All About The Teals and Spiked Ocean Water (retired) sequins before sealing the envelope and adhering it to a navy card.  I then die cut my additional images and added them using glue dots and pop up glue dots.  After stamping my saying, I fussy cut around it to make it look like it was die cut before highlighting the wording using a black 3D glaze pen.
 
Challenges entered:
 
Shopping Our Stash #502 - Vacation Destination  (I so want to be at the ocean/beach even the Monterey Bay Aquarium)
Park Hopping My Happy Place August 2023 - Anything Goes Theme Park Related (inspired by the old submarine ride at Disneyland)
 
The Four Seasons
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: Picket Fence Studios
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink
Card Stock: Copic X-Press It; Stampin Up
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Cellophane Envelope, PFS Sequins, PFS Blending Brushes, Pop Up Glue Dots, Glue Dots, Black 3D Glaze Pen
 
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

Dare To Get Dirty 2023 Day 5


 
 
Hello everyone and welcome!  Today starts the annual Dare To Get Dirty (DTGD) challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.  The DTGD challenges are a special thank you to Splitcoaststampers Fan Club members.  For info on joining the fan club, see the details here.  My cards for today's challenges are below.
 
 
Challenges entered:

 
Tulip Frame Supplies:
Stamps: Magenta
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Chipped Sapphire, Mowed Lawn
Card Stock: Copic X-press It
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Wood Ladybug Stickers, PFS Blending Brushes, Ranger Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Q-Tip, Castle Arts Pencils, MS Punches, SU 2-hole Punch, Frame, Sanding Block
 

 Challenges entered:
Shopping Our Stash #501 - No Stamping Allowed (chipboard letters, die cut flowers)

Stamps: None
Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain; Tattered Angels Gold Glimmer Mist; Seth Apter Blue Moon Mist 
Card Stock: None
Accessories: Notebook, Alpha Letterz, Glue, Crop-A-Dile, SU Jumbo Eyelets, SU Close To Cocoa Ribbon, Cloud 9 Vellum Flower Kit, Glue Dots, Recycled Packing Paper From Chewy Box
 
 
 

 This card was made using the "negative" from a Sizzix flower I had die cut, so I made my own stencil.
 
 Challenges entered:


Stamps: SU Wonderful Words
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Fired Brick, Mowed Lawn
Card Stock: Hammermill White
Accessories: PFS Blending Brushes, Bling, Big Shot, Glue, Sizzix Daisy Bigz Die, PFS Sequins


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Tuesday, July 18, 2023

A Little Retro Beachfront Lighthouse

 
Hello and welcome.  I am thrilled to be guest designing for the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog for this week's challenge which is a tic-tac-toe challenge. (see below graphic)  For my project, I went with the pens/pencils, beach (mine has a lighthouse) and stencil (background clouds).


For my project, I did a late Father's Day/Birthday gift to my husband and used a Lighthouse Scene stamp from Hero Arts that I bought back in 1996 or 1998 (copyright info too small for my migraine) when I first started stamping.  My husband has been asking for me to make another project using this stamp for years now and I finally got it done.  It's amazing to see how my coloring skills have improved from way back when.  I had given him a framed lighthouse as a birthday present years ago and colored it using Crayola pencils.  This new one is colored using Castle Arts pencils and I'm amazed at the difference in my shading from then to now.  Behind my lighthouse I used a slimline cloud stencil from Picket Fence Studios along with Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink using blending brushes also from Picket Fence.  Below is the side by side view.


And then with the stamp:

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges.
 
Challenges entered:
 
The Four Seasons July 2023 - See Mood Board (went with beach/ocean theme)
 
The Four Seasons
 
613 Ave Create
 
A Place To Start
 
Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero
 
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us over at Retro Rubber for this week's challenge.

Stamps: Hero Arts
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress
Card Stock: Hammermill White
Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, PFS Slimline Cloud Stencil, PFS Blending Brushes, Frame
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Monday, October 3, 2022

PIP Challenge 2240

   Sponsored by Newton's Nook
Newton

 
 
Hello and welcome.  Today starts a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we are sponsored by Newton's Nook.  I would like to thank them for sponsoring our challenge this week.
 
I started out by stamping my images from Newton's Nook Cuppa Cactus in memento tuxedo black ink onto some scrap white card stock before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  I then went and stippled some Stampin Up ink (garden green, apricot appeal, pumpkin pie) around my colored image before layering and adding brads then adhering it to my card base using pop up glue dots.  After I had adhered my layered image, I decided I should have distressed the edges of the layers so I used a fingernail along the edge to distress it for me.  After adding some thread along the side, I added some flowers punched from more scrap card stock using Ranger's Glossy Accents.  The final touches were ice stickles in the center of the flowers and a black glitter gel pen highlighting the cactus spines before spritzing some garden green marker ink.
 
Challenges entered:
 
 
 
613 Ave Create
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  I certainly hope fall makes an appearance soon.  We are still having 90 degree days.  This is the time the trees usually start changing colors.  Right now they're just a dirty brown.  Some leaves have fallen off as a dirty redish/brown color.  Have a great week and don't forget to join us at Pammie's Inky Pinkies for this week's challenge.
 
Stamps: Newton's Nook
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Garden Green, Apricot Appeal, Pumpkin Pie
Card Stock: Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Brads, Pup Up Glue Dots, Fingernail, MS Punch, Glossy Accents, Thread, Color Spritzer Tool, Stampin Up Garden Green Marker 


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Monday, June 20, 2022

Biting Me and More VSN

 Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a couple of cards, and a tag, made for Splitcoaststampers Virtual Stamp Night and a few other challenges.

First up is a tag made using a mini set I won a couple of years back from Visible Image and hadn't used yet.  I don't see it listed anymore on their website so it must be retired now.  I started out by stenciling a dot background using a couple of Tim Holtz Multi Shifter Dots Stencils using fired brick and stormy sky distress inks before over stamping my images in memento tuxedo black.  After layering my image panel to create a tag, I added some ribbon scraps and red sequins from my stash adhering the sequins using glossy accents.  I'll add it to a card later.

Challenges entered:
 
 

Next up is a card made using a different Visible Image's set Rock Out.  I started out by creating my background by running a Tim Holtz tumbled glass and wild honey distress inks over my image panel before adding some Tim Holtz Multi Shifter Stencil dots by applying broken china and spiced marmalade distress inks using Picket Fence Studios blending brushes.  Once I was satisfied with my background, I stamped out my images in memento tuxedo black ink before layering and adding brads.  The card is stamped in broken china ink using Visible Image's Ink Splats.  After popping up my layered image panel, I added some Spiked Ocean Water sequins adding them using Glossy Accents.

Challenges Entered:
 
If You Give A Crafter A Cookie #169 - June (inspired by colors/guitars)
 

 If You Give A Crafter A Cookie
 
 
 
Finally, I have a cute little House Mouse card made using the retired Hummingbird Express and Too Cute saying.  Although Stampendous now produces the House Mouse line, my stamps are from Stampa Rosa which is closed down.  I started out by my image, and saying, in memento tuxedo black on a Hammermill white scrap card stock, before coloring using Castle Arts pencils then stippling tumbled glass distress ink around the edges and layering.  After adding some black brads, I added some crystal ice stickles to finish it off.

Challenges entered:
 
 
Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Bite Me Tag
Stamps: Visible Image
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky, Fired Brick Distress Inks
Card Stock: Scraps
Accessories: Ribbon, Tim Holtz Stencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Sequins, Ranger Glossy Accents

Rock Out Card
Stamps: Visible Image
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Wild Honey, Broken China, Spiced Marmalade Distress Inks
Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up
Accessories: PFS Blending Brushes, Brads, Tim Holtz Stencils, PFS Sequins, Ranger Glossy Accents

Hummingbird Express
Stamps: Stampa Rosa
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass
Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Stipple Brush, Brads, Glue Dots, Ice Stickles
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Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Frost-Tea And Succulent Sunshine

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a couple of cards I made to try and keep my mind off another migraine and still feeling like garbage from COVID.

The first card features a digital image from the now closed Craftin Desert Divas stamp shop called Frost-Tea that I've had for some time and just never used (NBUS).  I'm a tea drinker at heart although I do love a good cup of cocoa, with marshmallows, and coffee from time to time.  I started off by printing the image onto Neenah white card stock and coloring using Castle Art pencils before stippling Mowed Lawn distress ink using my Picket Fence Studio blending brushes.  Can I say just how much I LOVE their blending brushes!!  After I was done stippling, I layered the image before adding some green button brads I bought on an after Christmas clearance a few years back.  For the card, I dry embossed the card, and border, before stippling more mowed lawn ink then adhering my layered image using glue dots.  I then pulled out a Making Memories Noteworthy felt flower I've had for years (NBUS) and adhered it on the border with glue dots.  After adding my own "greenery" by punching scrap card stock using my Martha Stewart fern/pine spring punches, I realized the brad in the center of my felt flower was a different color, so I changed the color by using a green Copic marker.  As an afterthought, I highlighted parts of the image using Castle Arts gel pens. Inside the card is stamped: Glad Tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year using a Hero Arts stamp I received as a RAK.

Challenges entered:
 
 
My second card was inspired by the Art Nudge 90 colors and this week's Inspiration 849 challenge over at Splitcoaststampers.  I started out by creating a mini slimline white card before stamping images from my You Are My Sunshine (retired) set from Picket Fence Studios in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring them using Castle Arts colored pencils.  After stamping the saying, my clean and simple card was finished.  I'm REALLY happy with how this turned out.

Challenges entered:
 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Use Your Favorite Things (my favorite - Castle Arts colored pencils)
 

Splitcoaststampers IC849 inspiration pic

Art Nudge #90

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great rest of your week and please continue to pray for the citizens of Ukraine as they fight for their freedom, and for the Ukrainian refugees as well.

Frost-Tea card
Stamps: Craftin Desert Divas; Hero Arts
Ink: Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn
Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up; Scraps
Accessories: Computer, Printer, PFS Blending Brushes, Brads, Glue Dots, MS Punches, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Snowflake Embossing Folder, Castle Arts Colored Pencils/Gel Pens

You Art My Sunshine
Stamps: Picket Fence Studio
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: Neenah White
Accessories: Castle Art Colored Pencils
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