Woodblock Wednesday April 2024 Edition

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'm taking part in the Woodblock Wednesday challenge on Instagram where we're challenged to dig out, and dust off, our woodblock stamps and show them some love again.  My card this month is using a long retired set of Hero Arts Poetic Prints Collection called Patterns and Petals that I haven't even used yet.  It was still in it's original packaging.  I'm not even sure how long I've had this stamp set, but I do know it's been over a year.

I grabbed a scrap piece of Neenah white card stock and folded it to make a clean and simple slimline card.  Taking three of the stamps out, I stamped them using various Versamark inks (key lime, aquatic splach, mango madness) before stamping my anniversary saying using memento tuxedo black ink.  The only embellishments I added were a few Gin and Tonic sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  

Challenges entered:

 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero April 2024 - Anniversary 

Woodblock Wednesday April 2024 - Use Those Woodblock Stamps  (Hero Arts, Saying)

Crafty Gals Corner #254 - Anything Goes 

Colorful Options April 2024 - Pastel Colors or Rainbow (pastels) 

Paper Funday #64 - Anything Goes Optional Sweet Treats (anything goes)

 

Hero Arts

 

Colorful Options

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Rubber Stampede (saying)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Versamark Key Lime, Aquatic Splash, Mango Madness

Card Stock: Neenah White Scrap

Accessories: Sequins, Glue

Falling For Wednesdays

 

 

 Hello and welcome to week 1 of Falling For Wednesdays hosted by @kellysantdesigns 🍂🍁 This is a continuation of Summer Crush Wednesdays and we wanted to keep the cardmaking fun going for the next 7 weeks! Hop along with #ffwcardgroup2023 where each week holds beautiful fall splendor. This week’s fall theme is: Colors of Fall (see mood board)

For my card, I decided to pull out some silk leaves I've had for at least a decade and never used combined with a long retired Stampin Up jumbo wheel.  I started out by inking the wheel with dusty durango dye ink and rolling it over a matching card base until the entire base was covered.  I then took six of the leaves, arranged them onto my base before adhering using some glue dots.  Once that was finished, I stamped my saying using an old Hero Arts stamp I received from a friend when she had to downsize her stamp collection to move across country, stamped it in memento tuxedo black on a corn husk scrap, then layered and added copper brads.  I then adhered the layered saying using pop up glue dots before adhering some retired copper bling from Not 2 Shabby stamps.  I'm really please with how this turned out since I have another migraine.  Here's another look of the card with the stamps:

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #53 - Use Your NBUS (saying)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stuff (saying, SU wheel)

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero August 2023 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 609 to 610 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Stampin Up

Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Dusty Durango

Accessories: Glue Dots, Pop Up Glue Dots, Copper Brads, Silk Leaves, Copper Confetti Bling, PFS Blending Brush

Summer Collaberation Sea or Pool Party

 

 

 

 

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 3's themes are Sea or Pool Party.  Since Mother Nature has really turned up the heat here in Central California, I went "swimming" with the pool party theme and pulled out some scrap pool water designer paper I've had for ages and paired it with Impression Obsession's Pool Party set.  

Once I had my images stamped in memento tuxedo black, I colored everything using both Prismacolor and Copic markers.  I then stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the image panel before layering and adding brads.  I then added it to a blue card layered with the scrap pool water designer paper before stippling tumbled glass around the card.  I then went over the saying with a Sakura 3D black glaze pen before adding some Picket Fence Studios sequins before adding some waterfall ice stickles and blue/green fibers I've had in my stash for a while now.

Challenges entered:

Inspiration Station July 2023 - See Mood Board

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (fibers, pool water designer paper)

Hero Arts Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero July 2023 - Here Comes The Sun (sunshine saying, summer swimming)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #210 - Anything Goes 

We Love 2 Create #6 - Anything Mixed Media Goes (fibers, sequins, markers, ice stickles) 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 605 to 606 - Anything Goes Uplifting

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk 14 - Anything Goes 

 

Inspiration Station

 

 Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Impression Obsession

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; Unknown Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Fibers, Sequins, Glue, Brads, Glue Dots, Sakura 3D Glaze Pen, Ice Stickles

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:

 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set)

The Four Seasons July 2023 - See Mood Board (went with beach/ocean theme)

613 Ave Create July 2023 - Anything Goes Optional: Nautical (went with beach/lighthouse)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #210 - Anything Goes 

A Place To Start July 2023 - Anything Goes Optional Life's A Beach (went with beach)

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero July 2023 - Here Comes The Sun

 

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

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 On A Thursday May Edition

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I have another card to share for the Woodblock Wednesday challenge.  For this one, I used the same Stampin Up background as yesterday's card but a different Hero Arts stamp called Garden Flowers Sketch.  I also received this stamp as a RAK from a friend and hadn't used yet (NBUS).  Thank you Amy so much for starting these challenges.  So many of my woodblock stamps are seeing love again.

I started out by stamping the Hero Arts flowers in memento tuxedo ink on to scrap Hammermill white before coloring using my prismacolor watercolor pencils with alcohol blender again.  Once the coloring was finished, I blended some Tim Holtz tumbled glass and mowed lawn distress inks before layering and adding some white brads.  For my card, I again stamped the dots and posies background in mowed lawn before adhering my layered image using glue dots.  I then added some green/white baker's twine from my stash before adding a wooden wheelbarrow I picked up from the dollar store using mini glue dots.  The finishing touches were some Meraki Sparkle Green Illusion bling I won earlier this year (NBUS) and my saying stamped in memento tuxedo black directly on to the wheelbarrow from a long retired Stampin Up Fancy Flexible Sayings wood stamp.  The inside again uses the retired Helen Keller saying from A Stamp In The Hand.

 

inside

 

Challenges entered:

 

Woodblock Wednesday May 2023 - Use Those Wood Block Stamps 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #50 May 2023 - Use Your NBUS (hero arts stamp, wheelbarrow, bling)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash  (wheelbarrow saying)

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero May 2023 - Dance Of The Flowers (main image, background)

The Four Seasons Spring May 2023 - See Mood Board (inspired by the flowers)

Triple B Challenge May 2023 - Birds, Blooms, Butterflies (I used the blooms, colors of mood board) 

Retro Rubber #207 - Anything Goes Using Stamp Over 1 Year Old (floral 1yr, background 1.5, saying in wheelbarrow 10yrs old, inside saying also 10 yrs old)

The Four Seasons

Hero Arts

Triple B Challenge

Retro Rubber

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great rest of your week.

Stamps: Hero Arts; Stampin Up; A Stamp In The Hand

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

Card Stock: Hammermill White Scrap; Stampin Up

Accessories: Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils, Alcohol Blender Marker, Bling, Glue, Brads, Glue Dots, Baker's Twine, Wooden Wheelbarrow, PFS Blending Brushes

 

 

Sympathetic Koi

 Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card that I originally started a month ago and thanks to health issues, plus migraines, has taken me until now to finish.  It was inspired by the Splitcoaststampers MAR23VSNE - Cutting Board (or make a tag) challenge.  I decided to pull out a long retired Stampin Up set Oriental Brushstrokes to make my tag.  

After stamping the koi fish image in memento tuxedo black onto scrap Neenah white card stock, I colored it using Castle Arts pencils before stippling Tim Holtz broken china, spiced marmalade and tumbled glass distress inks around it using my Picket Fence blending brushes then layered onto a punched scallop scrap.  I then dusted off my hand held rectangle punch and made a hole in the top of the layers before adding two snippets of scrap ribbon.  Then, taking a white gel pen, I added dots to the scalloped "parts" before setting aside to dry.  My card has a dry embossed layer with memento pear tart and summer sky ink rubbed over the embossed images.  I then added the scalloped koi tag using pop dots before stamping my saying from another retired Stampin Up set called Hope For Comfort.  The final touch was adding a few gems from my Crafty Meraki sparkle green illusion bling pack.  There's also two tiny gems from the pack added to the koi fish eyes.

Challenges entered:

 

Hero Arts Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero May 2023 - Dance Of The Flowers (on dry embossed layer)

Gem Of a Craft Wk 9 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 593 to 594 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

Snippets Playground #453 - Use Those Snippets/Scraps (tag layers, ribbon)

Tic Tac Toe #207 - See Inspiration Board (ribbon, dry emboss, free)

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

 

Tic Tac Toe #207

 

 Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, Pear Tart; Tim Holtz Spiced Marmalade, Broken China, Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up; Scraps

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Marvy Punches, Ribbon Scraps, Bling, Glue, Pop Dots, White Gel Pen, PFS Blending Brushes, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Floral Screen Embossing Folder

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

 

 

 

Baby It's Cold Outside

 

 

Hello and welcome.  It's still been a bad couple of days for me so I'd like to share a card that I made using one of the sets Picket Fence Studios offered in a World Cardmaking Day package (for a steal I might add) called Baby It's Cold Outside along with a couple of their stencils; Snowy Trees (retired) and the Slim Line Cloud Coverage.

I started out by stenciling my trees using mowed lawn distress ink and blending brushes.  Once my trees were finished, I stenciled the clouds using stormy sky distress ink and the blending brushes.  At this point, I stamped my gnome's in memento tuxedo black ink onto some scrap white card stock before coloring using Castle Art's and Lyra flesh tone pencils.  Once my coloring was finished, I cut them out and adhered using Bearly Arts glue before stamping the saying from the same set in memento tuxedo black ink above the trees.  Now came the fun.  After adhering the image panel to my card, I took some Snowtex snow paint and craft spatula and created the snow on the trees and ground.  For the snow sparkle, I added some crystal ice stickles to the snow and to create falling snow.  It's not how I envisioned it in my head, but I'm really happy with how this turned out.  Not bad for creating on a migraine.

Challenges entered:

 

Falling For The Holidays 2022 - Anything Goes Holidays 

Peace On Earth Christmas #26 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Never Before Used Schtuff #43 - Use Your NBUS (gnomes)

The Holly and Ivy Christmas #126 - Anything Goes Christmas 

The Most Magical Time Of The Year #1 - Anything Goes Halloween or Christmas 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero October - Merry Everything 

 

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge

 

 

 Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

 

Stamps: Picket Fence Studios

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Pine Needles, Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: PFS Stencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Castle Art and Lyra Pencils, Brads, Glue Dots, Snowtex Snow Paint, Crystal Ice Stickles

PIP 2224

 

 Sponsored by The Cutting Cafe

The Cutting Cafe Blog

 

 

Hello and welcome.  Today starts another challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies  and this week we are being sponsored by The Cutting Cafe.  I would like to thank them for providing the design team with the templates we are using this week.  For my card, I am using the PDF version of the Polo Shirt card.

I started out by printing my template onto Neenah white card stock before scoring, then cutting out, my template.  Taking a retired Stampin Up striped stencil, I blended some Tim Holtz stormy sky distress inks over it using my Picket Fence Studio blending brushes before stamping the sea life pattern in broken china distress ink using some long retired Hero Arts mini stamps I had picked up years ago at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and never used.  Once the pattern was finished, I stamped my saying also from a retired Hero Arts saying set in memento black.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #39 - Use Your NBUS 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2022 - Use Your Unloved Stash 

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk 12 - Anything Goes 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero June - By The Sea 

Crafty Calendar June - Anything Goes 

Outlawz Festive Friday June 10 to 15th - Thinking Of You theme 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to stop by the rest of the design team blogs to leave them some love.  While you're at it, join in our challenge this week.

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Stormy Sky, Broken China

Card Stock: White

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Stencil, PFS Blending Brushes

What Cancer Cannot Do And A Walk Along The Beach

 Hello and welcome.  Today I have a couple of cards to share that I've made over the week but first, an update on me. I was told Wednesday by my pulmonary doc that I'm officially considered "long haul" COVID. I'm still very short of breath, coughing like crazy (pulled something in my chest Tuesday night), running a low grade fever off & on and coughing up some really gross, thick milky yellow garbage. Yuck! Doctors don't want me to go on any more antibiotics at this point since I've been in them too much & I'm starting to not respond to them anymore. I'm still taking a bunch of pills ( and vitamins recommended to me by my doctors to help combat the COVID) as well as Dupixent shots every two weeks to help the asthma. Thank you Lord for patient assistance programs! Those Dupixent shots are around $5000 each!! I'm also restarting the nebulizer meds 4x's a day plus adding an inhaled steroid twice daily in the nebulizer. Also have regular inhalers plus a steroid inhaler to help combat the trouble breathing. Downside-I'm gaining more weight again plus getting puffy like my late mother in law would complain about. The last couple days I've been losing my voice from coughing so much. Hubby and I have noticed lately my memory seems to be affected. When I asked the doc about it she said unfortunately in some long haul patients they're seeing this. She suggested I do everything I can to keep my brain engaged- reading, talking, etc. I told her I do read quite often & color/card make. She said all that is great. She also went over my last breathing test and said my lung function has decreased & wants to schedule me for a more in depth lung function test so we have a better idea how bad it is. My sense of smell is coming back slowly still so that's good.  My energy level still stinks though.  This COVID stuff has aggravated my migraines & put me in a fibromyalgia flare. The worst part of the visit, our pulmonary doc (hubby sees the same one) is relocating to the Bay Area the end of August, so we have to find a new one. There's only one other pulmonologist locally and there's no way he can handle the whole county. My husband's diabetic doc has recommended one at the Fresno UCSF clinic. The doctor is the head of pulmonology at Fresno's Community Regional Medical Center & she says is top notch. So we're going to see if our primary can refer us there.  Now on to my cards.

First up is a card made using using a NBUS Peonies stencil from Picket Fence Studios along with their blending brushes.  I started out by blending Stampin Up regal rose, pretty in pink, certainly celery and garden green inks on a Hammermill white panel before layering it.  I then stamped the What Cancer Cannot Do from The Cottage Stamper (now closed) that I've had for some time and never used in memento tuxedo black ink on vellum card stock.  After trimming, I added it to the layered panel using brads before adding the who thing to a regal rose card.

Challenges entered:

 

Stay Crafty With Hero April - Blend It Up (blended my background )

Word Art Wednesday Wk 541 to 542 - Anything Goes Uplifting

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #37 - Use Your NBUS 

Cards 4 Galz #171 - Think Pink 

Splitcoaststampers F4A635 - Pink Background 

 

Second up is a card made using  SheepSki Designs

digital image Breezy Beach Walk.   After printing the image onto Neenah white card stock, I colored it using Castle Arts pencils before stippling Tim Holtz mowed lawn, broken china, tumbled glass and brushed corduroy distress inks then layered it before adding to my card panel.  Since I didn't have any matching brads, I made my own by using a really small hole punch and a Marta Stewart 2-way glue pen.  The final touch was waterfall ice stickles to highlight the ocean.

Challenges entered: 

 

SheepSki Designs Facebook Challenge - Anything Goes 

Colour Crazy Craft Wk 17 - Anything Goes Coloring 

Digi Choosday Wk 17 - Anything Goes 

Simon Says Wednesday - Anything Goes 

Outlawz Festive Friday Apr 29 to May 12 - Scenery/Outdoors Theme 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend!

 

What Cancer Cannot Do card

Stamps: The Cottage Stamper 

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Regal Rose, Pretty In Pink, Certainly Celery, Garden Green

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Vellum; Stampin Up

Accessories: PFS Peonies Stencils, PFS Blending Brushes, Brads

Beach Scene card

Stamps: SheepSki Designs

Ink: Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn, Broken China, Tumbled Glass, Brushed Corduroy

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Castle Arts Pencils, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, MS 2-Way Glue Pen