Swimming Through The Kelp Forest Among Others

 Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share some cards made for the Dare To Get Dirty challenges over at Splitcoaststampers.com.  If you're not a Fan Club member of Splitcoast, you can find more information here. The challenges are open until August 20th at 11:59pm CST.  Sorry I haven't blogged them before now.  I'm dealing with a nasty migraine again.

My little mermaid's inspiration was taken from Monterey Bay's kelp forests and ferns/flowers that were punched from lots and lots of scraps then added using Ranger glossy accents.

 

Challenge entered: Pixies Crafty Workshop #409 - Use Your Snippets/Scraps

 

My Halloween card below was inspired by the ghost stamp set and the saying both from Picket Fence Studios.

My floral spray is made using die cut flowers and leaves along with some punched fern greenery that's been run through a paper crimper.

Made my cowboy card thinking of little boy birthday cards which I need desperately.  Images from Stampin Up!

My dog bone card is made from an old template I purchased from My Favorite Things over a decade ago.  Saying from Picket Fence Studios. Dog image from a long retired Stampin Up set Ruff Day.

These are just a few other the cards I've made.  Thank goodness the design team had a month of planning to allow me time to make these.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Dare To Get Dirty 2021

 

 Splitcoaststampers.com fan club Dare To Get Dirty is coming!!  It's one week of jam packed challenges open only to members of the Splitcoaststampers Fan Club.  So what are you waiting for?  See how to join here.

Unicorns And Boobs

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card I had originally started making for the Dare To Get Dirty challenges before being sidelined with a migraine.  I've finally gotten a chance to finish it.  The image I chose is Bugaboo's snarky Unicorns Are More Real image.  Now this is an image really good friends would send to each other in fun; or a family member with a great sense of humor.

After printing off the image onto Hammermill white card stock and coloring using copic markers and layering, I added it to a plain cameo coral card.  I then added some enamel dots in place of brads, a white silk flower I bought at Michaels years ago, white ribbon and finally some heart enamel dots.  As an after thought, I then color spritzed some cameo coral and green galore markers over the image and the entire card including the embellishments.  Considering I still have the migraine, I'm really happy with how it turned out.

Challenges entered:

Sisterhood Of The Snarky Stampers #167 - F Is For Friends
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #141 - Anything Goes 
Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #18 - September 
Crafty Friends #144 - Anything Goes 
Dis Digi Designs Challenges - For The Girls (I went with big girls and "THE Girls") 
Outlawz Festive Friday Sept 4 to Sept 17 - Make It Funny 
Splitcoaststampers DTGD20LMcAree - Unicorns
The Fairy and the Unicorn - September Anything Goes Mythical 
Crafty Catz #517 - Anything Goes (optional twist not a square) 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great rest of your weekend and please stay safe out there.


Stamps: Bugaboo
Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Silk Flowers, Ribbon, Enamel Dots/Hearts, Color Spritzer Tool, SU Cameo Coral and Green Galore Markers, Copic Markers

It's A Halloween Pumpkin Patch

Hello and welcome.  Second post from me today.  For my stained glass sunflower, please scroll down one. 

I'm sharing one of the cards I made for Splitcoaststampers Dare To Get Dirty challenges.  It's a week full of online challenges hosted by the Dirty Girls for SCS fan club members once a year.  You can do as many, or as few, as you like or physically can.  You just have to be a fan club member.

My project is a slimline card and is made using a long retired, and dusty, Stampin Up set called Carved and Candlelight.  I stamped the images onto Hammermill white card stock then masked the pumpkins before stippling basic gray, pumpkin pie, garden green and Tim Holtz chipped sapphire, stormy sky, and dusty concord before layering and adding silver brads.  I then stamped two more pumpkins, fussy cut them out and popped up on dimensionals.  Taking some pumpkin pie and garden green scraps, I punched several different flowers, added using glue dots and then highlighted using silver ice stickles.  The final touches was a silver moon brad and some hand drawn "bats" using Souffle 3D pens.

Challenges entered:

Pixies Crafty Workshop #385 - Anything Goes Using Snippets
DL.Art Thankful Thursday #266 - Halloween 
Krafty Chicks #523 - Stamp Act 
Moving Along With The Times #122 - Create A Scene 
Time Out Challenges #169 - Season (Autumn for this card) 
Outlawz Festive Friday Aug 22 to Sept 3 - Autumn/Fall  

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stampin Up
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Basic Gray; Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire, Dusty Concord, Stormy Sky
Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up
Accessories: Brads, Stipple Brushes, MS Punch, Glue Dots, Silver Ice Stickles, Souffle 3D Pen

Isaiah 41:10

Hello and welcome.  I'm sharing a card I made for one of the Dare To Get Dirty challenges over on Splitcoaststampers.  The DTGD challenges are a week of special challenges for Fan Club members only.

After dusting off a Stampabilities stamp I've had for eons it seems, and never used, I stamped it in memento black before layering the negative of a book die over it then stippling Tim Holtz old paper distress ink to "age" it a bit.  Kind of like the pages of a well worn bible.  I then popped up the layered saying using dimensionals onto a red card before adding some red silk flowers I've also had for years.  The only other embellishment was a red bling center to the flower. Besides the DTGD challenges on Splitcoaststampers, I'd like to enter this into the following:

Challenges entered:

Word Art Wednesday Weeks 454 and 455 - Anything Goes Uplifting
My Time To Craft #439 - Clean And Simple 
Creativ Fustion Arts and Crafts #20 - Anything Goes  
Shopping Our Stash #427 - Pile It On 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend and please stay safe out there.

Stamps: Stampabilities
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: Hammermill White, Stampin Up
Accessories: Die Cut Negative, Red Silk Flowers, Glue Dots, Bling

Shifting Shapes and More NBUS #4

Hello and welcome.  This month's Virginia's View Challenge is to make a shape card.  Not your good 'ol run of the mill normal square or A2 size card, but a shape.  So for this month I made a triangle card as part of the yearly Dare To Get Dirty challenges over on Splitcoaststampers.  However, instead of publishing my blog post, I must have deleted it somehow instead.

So for my card, I pulled out a stamp set that had never been used before from My Time Made Easy LLC called Singing Silhouettes.  After stamping the birdcage in memento black, I stamped the vine and flowers in various colors of memento dew drops before finally adding the birds inside the cage in memento black.

I had also made a second card using a long retired Stampin Up! set called Hand Painted Petites stamping it again in various memento dew drops.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MTME Singing Silhouettes, SU Hand Painted Petites
Ink: Memento Dew Drops
Card Stock: White

Dare To Get Dirty Day 1, Blog Challenges and More NBUS #3

Hello and welcome.  This week at Splitcoaststampers is also the annual Dare To Get Dirty challenges for Fan Club members.  Thank goodness my migraine meds were working today to help me so I could make some cards instead of hiding in the dark in pain. I have several cards I'm going to share today, however, the first one was made for three (3) different challenges.

Sunflower Sprite card: Stamps digital Aurora Wings, background dots Stampin Up! Itty Bitty Backgrounds

Aurora Wings Sprite Delight

Kraftin Kimmie Stamps - Wonderful Wednesday Anything Goes

SCS Dare To Get Dirty 2014 - DTGD14rainy Sketch

Now the rest of the Dare To Get Dirty Day 1 cards made.

also used some NBUS on this card by using a never before used stamp set

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Dare To Get Dirty Day 1

It's that time of year when SCS thanks it's Fan Club members with a crazy week of fantastic challenges, chatting and prizes. This year, I actually got all of the first day of challenges done.  Here are my cards.

This last card is also submitted for the Crazy 4 Challenges Picnic challenge.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.