Flamingo Thanks

 

 

Hello and welcome.  I recently received several boxes from a friend that had to give up stamping due to health issues, and since I wanted to make a thank you card for her, I pulled out this retired set from Picket Fence Studios called Hello Beautiful and went with a pink theme for Breast Cancer Awareness month.   

I started out by stamping the flamingo, and saying, using my MISTI before coloring using prismacolor and copic markers before layering and adding brads.  Taking a retired Stampin Up flamingo wheel, I then stamped the card using pixie pink ink.  Once that was done, I adhered the image panel to my card before adding some silver/white twine along the edge.  As an afterthought, I stippled some leftover pixie pink ink around the main image then highlighted the glasses using a black 3D glaze pen.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #55 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #215 - Anything Goes 

Polkadoodles Wk 40 - Anything Goes 

Moving Along With The Times #159 October - Anything Goes 

Time Out #248 - Cancer Awareness, Friendship, Encouragement (friendship thanks/cancer awareness)

Critter Crazy #79 - Anything Goes With A Critter (flamingo)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Picket Fence Studios; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; SU Pixie Pink

Card Stock: Copic X-press; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Brads, Glue Dots, 3D Glaze Pen, PFS Blending Brush

Dare To Get Dirty 2023 Day 7

 

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:

 

Gerda Steiner Designs July 2023 - Anything Goes Using GSD Stamps 

 

29 Again Card

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs (Cupcake Mice); Stampin Up (Wonderful Words)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Chipped Sapphire, Tumbled Glass, Stormy Sky

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: PFS Blending Brushes, Ice Stickles, Brads, Pop Dots, Sequins

Challenges entered:

 

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

Splitcoaststampers F4A695 - Get Out And Play (I'm at the beach)

 

 

Lighthouse Shaker Card:

Stamps: Stampabilities (lighthouse); Stampin Up (bubble wheel)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Stampin Up Pacific Pointe; Tim Holtz Broken China, Chipped Sapphire

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Shaker Kit, Sequins, Confetti, Stickers, Glue

Challenges entered:

 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash 

 

Rainbow Tree Card

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Card Stock: Copic Xpress It White; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Walnut Stain; Kaleidacolor Calypso

Accessories: MISTI

Mushroom Card Supplies:

Stamps: Unity

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

Card Stock: Neenah White; Stampin Up Scrap

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Lyra Pencils, PFS Blending Brushes, PFS Slimline Cloud Stencil

Out Of This World Thanks

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card I made to say thank you to another healthcare worker on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

After printing off the Monster 4 Block from Bugaboo Digital Stamps, I colored it using both prismacolor and copic markers before layering.  I then stamped the card background using a retired Stampin Up set before adding a dry embossed scrap strip.  I then added the layered image using dimensionals before adding some SU enamel dots then highlighting parts of the image using 3D glaze pens.  The only other embellishments added were ice stickles for parts of the antenna and planet rings, googlie eyes, and buttons.

Challenges entered:

Catch The Bug - April Bingo (Button, Image, Sparkle) 
Catch The Bug - Stella Says Sketch #808 
Pammies Inky Pinkies #2016 - Anything Goes 
Splitcoaststampers F4A530 - True Heros 
Arty Divas #20 - Anything Goes 
Not Just Cards April Challenge - Anything Goes 
Outlawz Twisted Thursday - Anything Goes 

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

Stamps: Bugaboo, SU Itty Bitty Backgrounds (retired)

Ink: SU Pixie Pink

Card Stock: SU

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Googlie Eyes, Sakura 3D Glaze Pens, Ice Stickles, Buttons, Big Shot, Sizzix Mesh Embossing Folder, SU Enamel Dots, Dimensionals

Thank You Tulip Block

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share a card with you I finished earlier in the week.  Thanks to my health and migraines, I couldn't post it until now.

I started out by printing off this Tulip Block Square from Bugaboo Digital Stamps.  Once printed, I colored using copic markers before layering, adding brads and then distressing the bottom layer using a fingernail before adding to my card using pop dots.  I then carefully cut apart a wooden "thank you" saying and added using glue dots.  My final embellishment was a black bling flourish.

Challenges entered:

Catch The Bug Challenges - November Thankful
Pammies Inky Pinkies #1945 - Anything Goes
Arty Divas #8 - Anything Goes
Brown Sugar November 2019 - Anything Goes
Colour Crazy Craft Week 44 - Anything Goes
Outlawz Twisted Thursdays Nov 14 to Nov 20 - Anything Goes
Splitcoaststampers Free For All F4A504 - Thank You or Thankful

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Bugaboo
Card Stock: MFP
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Copic Markers, Fingernail, Bling Flourish, Brads, Pop Dots, Wooden Thank You Saying, Glue Dots

Thank You

To all of our veterans - current, retired, and families of those making the ultimate sacrifice, THANK YOU for your service.  You are truly appreciated.

Giving Thanks

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Thank you to all who are serving for our country (USA), your own, or have served & to their families for supporting them.  "Freedom is not free" - Colonel Walter Hitchcock U.S. Air Force.

Red Poppy Thanks

Hello and welcome to another week.  Definitely not a happy Monday for me as I'm dealing with a nasty migraine again so it's a good thing I was able to come up with a clean and simple card during the few moments my head wasn't pounding for a couple of challenges.

With the holidays over, everyone needs a few thank you cards and this one is so easy to mass produce as well.  My image and saying are from Welcome Poppies by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company and is stamped onto MFP white then colored with prismacolor markers.  Once my coloring was finished, I layered the poppies onto MFP scarlet and black linen card stock along with some Making Memories black baby brads.

Challenges entered:

Moving Along With The Times - Thank You
CAS-UAL FRIDAYS - CFC84 Thank You

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

MFP: Welcome Poppies
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Card Stock: MFP
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads

Thankful For You

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my Thomas Kincade post, please scroll down one.

This week is Thanksgiving here in the States, so I decided to make a quick and easy Thanksgiving card to show another type of clean and simple that's easy to duplicate.

I started out by stamping my image from one of  Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company's mini sets called Count Your Blessings in memento tuxedo black onto snow storm smooth card stock before coloring with koh-i-noor pencils and a blender marker.  Once my coloring was finished, I lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass and forest moss distress inks around the sides of the image before layering and adding some pumpkin brads.  Then I stamped the leaf from Oh Happy Day in pumpkin pie ink directly onto the card before adding my layered image and saying.  The only other embellishment added was some fall colored Michael's bridal confetti flowers from my stash with bling stickers.

Challenges entered:

Card Makin Mamas - Thanksgiving Challenge
CCEE1246 - Fall or Thanksgiving
Party Time Tuesday #94 - Thanksgiving
Paper Playtime Challenge #89 - Anything Goes
Pause Dream Enjoy #46 - Thank You


Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: MFP Count Your Blessings, Oh Happy Day
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pumpkin Pie, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Forest Moss
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, Really Rust
Accessories: Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Blender Marker, Stipple Brush, Glue Dots, Bridal Confetti, Bling Stickers, Pumpkin Brads,

With Our Thanks - Friends Of SpeedyTV 2012 Challenge #2

Hello.  Short post today thanks to another migraine.  Welcome to another Monday and to another Friends of SpeedyTV challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  This week we are challenging you to make a thank you card.  With the holidays over, we all have a lot of people we need to send thank yous to.

For my card this week, I chose to ink one of my favorite sets A Trip To Lancaster.  This set is so versatile and can be used for birthday's, thanks, just because, well just about anything that strikes your fancy when paired with a sentiment from another set as well. 

After stamping my image in memento tuxedo black onto Mark's Finest Papers Snow Storm Smooth premium paper, I pulled out my koh-i-noor pencils and blender marker and got to coloring before stippling Stampin Up! bashful blue ink around the image for the sky.  This image looks fantastic colored with just pencils instead of markers because to me pencils give more of a rustic, or even a painted, feel.  After adding some vintage brads and my sentiment from A Walk In The Woods, my card was done with a clean and simple look along with a rustic feel to it.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and I hope you'll join us this week for our challenge over at SpeedyTV.


Stamps: MFP A Trip To Lancaster, A Walk In The Woods
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Tangerine Tango, More Mustard, Wild Wasabi, K&Company Designer Paper
Accessories: Koh-I-Noor Pencils, Prismacolor Blender Marker, Vintage Brads, Stipple Brush

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Just wanted to wish all of my friends and readers out there a happy and wonderful Thanksgiving.  A few things I'm thankful for are not only my family, but all of my SCS stamping friends, MFT Junkies, PSF's, and especially for all of our troops and their families. 

For all of our troops and families, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COUNTRY.  I truly appreciate all you do.

Happy Birthday Seth and Colin - Giving Thanks

Have you ever wondered how two little smiles can lighten your day? Or how the sound of a babies cry just seems to make the would seem a bit more precious somehow, even with all of the nastiness around us. For some people, those same smiles and cries bring tears instead of joy because they cannot carry a child, have lost a child before, or cannot even get pregnant to be blessed with a child.

So why write this post, with birthday card? Well, because of two little boys in Ethiopia, the wonderful orphanage taking care of them, and the mother that made the painful decision to give them up for a better life because she could not feed them or support them with the other children she had after their father died.

My niece & her husband are adopting these two beautiful boys as soon as the Ethiopian court signs off on their application; so I cannot publish their pictures or their Ethiopian names at this time. Even though, the boys first names with be American, they will also be keeping their Ethiopian names as their middle names. One of the Ethiopian names means "to replace" and is so appropriate because my niece has had two ectopic pregnancies and cannot have any babies of her own. Both of these children will be replacing the ones she has lost physically, even though in her heart she will always still remember those babies as well.

Both Seth and Colin celebrated a birthday recently, so my husband and I wanted to send them a birthday card and welcome them to the family even though they are not physically here yet. Colin, is the youngest and just turned 2years old, so I thought it appropriate to have a card that was younger looking and this was accomplished using stamps from CC Designs.

Seth, just turned 3 years old, so I thought having a card that had some "African" animals, or lions, would be appropriate for him. This was accomplished using GinaK stamps.

Now since both of these cards would be belated birthday cards, I didn't want anything "mushy" inside and decided to keep everything semi-cute for Seth as well.

A koala bear on the inside with a saying on a tri-fold card, with a snake on the other part of the tri-fold did the trick.

Both of these little guys have made me realize just how much God meant with the scripture "He gives to the broken hearted" and "He is the Father to the fatherless". He has been protecting both Seth & Colin for my niece and her husband all of this time, just waiting for them to be ready for their children, the children He has given to them, to come home to their arms.

Thanks be to God, for He is good!

Stamps: CC Designs, GinaK Designs

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Garden Green, More Mustard, White, Green Galore, Gable Green, Glorious Green

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! More Mustard, Garden Green, Soft Sky, Old Olive

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Watercolor Pencils, Brads, Dimensionals, Stipple Brush, Brads