Birthday Cards With No Coloring!?

Second post tonight folks.

This weeks Wednesday Stamp Club challenge was to make birthday cards with no coloring on them. Hello!!! That is not my cup of tea let me tell you. If I'm going to stamp I have to color. What a challenge this challenge was and still is. So, I had to cheat a bit and lightly stipple some almost amethyst ink around my bunnies so they would show up white and not get lost. I cannot have lots of white space on my cards unless it's a one layer white card to begin with (JulieHRR cards), then it's a different storey.

So after pulling out and discarding about 10 different MFT sets, I finally settled on trying out one or two to see how they would or would not work out. If I couldn't find something to work, then I would just skip this week's challenge and just color my cards. :) So I stamped the Cuddle Bunnies on plain white cardstock and layered on sage shadow and almost amethyst cardstock to match my prima nursery rhyme designer paper I had found on clearance at Michaels a year or so ago. Pulled out the matching Prima flowers, also bought on clearance, ribbon from the $1 bins, and some Stampin Up! from when I was a demo a couple of years ago. This time I stayed with the "Jody rule" and didn't have any nekked buttons on the bunny butts, but next time....

For the second card I tried, I pulled out some Basic Grey cupcake paper to match A Cupcake Kind of Day stamped on white cardstock layered on pretty in pink and bashful blue cardstock popped up on dimensionals. I found a button sticker I've had in my stash for years from Colorbook and some flowers from Walmart before adding a ribbon knot to the top to brighten things up.

Now that this week's challenge is over, I just may go back and color the cupcake later since it looks kind of funny all white with just the cherry colored with a button. Hmmm, not sure yet.

Have a great day.

Stamps: MFT It's A Cupcake Kind of Day, Cuddle Bunnies

Cardstock: White, Pretty In Pink, Bashful Blue, Sage Shadow, Almost Amethyst

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Almost Amethyst

Accessories: Buttons, Brads, Flowers, Dimensionals, Ribbon, Glue Dots, Thread

Butterflies With Razzelberry

Hello everyone. My second Color Throwdown and what awesome colors were chosen this week. I didn't get a chance to stamp until tonight thanks to a busy week with work, however , I knew I was going to use my All A Flutter stamps again from My Time Made Easy. I'm so in love with those stamps and razzleberry is a perfect color for a butterfly. Don't you agree?

I started by pulling out a PTI set, With Sympathy, that needed to see some ink for a non-sympathy card. I used the rose from the set in sage shadow (because I grabbed the wrong color ink and didn't realize it until now) to stamp the background on the card base, then the flourishes on the top layer in garden green with the tulips in razzleberry. After stamping the saying from the All A Flutter sayings in memento black, I stamped the butterflies in rich razzleberry with the outline in memento black before cutting out, adding and then adhering some bling stickers. I layered the butterflies to give a "in flight" look as though they were flying towards the Irish Blessing.

Stamps: PTI With Sympathy, My Time Made Easy All A Flutter, All A Flutter Sayings

Cardstock: Mellow Moss, Garden Green, Rich Razzleberry, White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green, Rich Razzleberry, Sage Shadow

Accessories: Brads, Border Punch, Bling, Glue Dots

A Cat For Miss Kitty

Third Post today, I'm on a roll here. Acutally I'm playing catch up.

This is the first time I've had a chance to play in the teapot challenges and it's taken me all week to get this one uploaded dealing with the blasted flu.

I've had this stamp from Penny Black for some time and just have not inked it up yet, and this challenge was the perfect time to do so.

I stamped my main image in memento tuxedo black on white cardstock and colored with prismacolor markers before stippling Stampin Up! soft sky around the image and layering. The background is from MFT's In The Background set in Stampin Up! regal rose ink. Ice stickles highlight the "unmentionables" the cat is hanging around in.

Stamps: Penny Black, MFT In The Background

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Soft Sky, Regal Rose

Cardstock: White, Regal Rose, Bashful Blue, Almost Amethyst, Pretty in Pink

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Stipple Brush, Ice Stickles, Bow, Glue Dots, Gem Stickers

Get Well Lily

Second post today.

I made this card for a friend that had a heart attack a few days ago and thought this image would cheer her up.

I downloaded the sick Lily image from Pink Cat Studio and re-sized it for an A2 card. Since Lily has a checkered blanket over her legs, I thought having an argyle cuttlebugged background would match perfectly. After I done with the dry embossing, I lightly stippled Stampin Up! almost amethyst dye ink over the top to highlight embossed argyle pattern. Then I also stippled the same ink around the image that was colored with prismacolor markers.

After adding some brads, primas with gem centers, the card was done. It took a total of about 15-20min max to make a fairly clean and simple card.


Stamps: Pink Cat Studio Sick Lily Digital Stamp
Ink: Stampin Up! Almost Amethyst
Cardstock: Stampin Up! Almost Amethyst, White, Pretty In Pink
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Argyle Cuttlebug Dry Embossing Folder, Big Shot, Primas, Gem Stickers, Glue Dots

Little Pixie With Mushrooms

Happy Sunday everyone! I have another cute little Pure Innocence card for you today. I'm in love with these cute little ones from MFT. I found some awesome designer paper at Michaels that I thought would pair up perfectly with these.

I started by stamping my image with memento tuxedo black on MFT perfect panels and coloring with prismacolor markers. Once everything was colored, I stippled Stampin Up! soft sky dye ink around the image and along the edges before layering; then added MFT's winter baby brads. The flower is a prima plastic adornment flower I received in a RAK from a splitcoast member a couple of years ago and was just waiting for the perfect card to use it on.

Stamps: MFT Fairy Girl

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Soft Sky

Cardstock: Stampin Up! Blush Blossom, Bashful Blue, Pretty In Pink, Green Galore, MFT Perfect Panels, Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Dimensionals, MFT Winter Baby Brads, Stipple Brush, Prima Flower, Glue Dots

Flopsey and Chocolate - WSC Sketch

Second post today.

For this last week's Wednesday Stamp Club challenge Frances posted a sketch for us. It's been a long time since we've had a sketch to do and this one was just as fun as the others have been.

I altered my sketch card just a bit by removing the star and inserting the top note die cut instead so I could use one of my Flopsey stamps. I stamped my Truffles Flopsey in memento tuxedo black and then colored him with prismacolor markers before stippling Stampin Up! regal rose ink around the edges of the die cut. Then I punched two scalloped circles to place above the die and highlighted the larger one with pearl stickers before adding primas with pearls in their centers.

After sponging regal rose around the edges of the card, I cut a slit along the side, and slits along the sides of Flopsey's face before threading some Martha Steward ribbon I found on clearance at Michaels through everything and making a knot.


Here's what the inside of the card looks like.


Stamps: Truffles Flopsey
Cardstock: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, White, Pretty In Pink,
Designer Paper K & Co
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Regal Rose
Accessories: Stipple Brush, Prismacolor Markers, Ribbon, Pearl Stickers, Marvy Giga & Mega Scallop Punches, Primas, Mini Glue Dots, Fiskars Finger Craft Knife

Fluttering By Butterflies

Hi all. I've been wanting to try the Color Throwdown challenges for sometime and just never did it. Well, New Years resolution (hope I keep it) is to definitely give it a shot from time to time. This week's colors were perfect for that shot.

So, I inked up my brand new sets from Lauren's new store, My Time Made Easy, downloaded my new digital papers and I was off. The All A Flutter set is perfect for adding all kinds of bling to the butterflies wings.

The card took me less than 20 minutes to make and 3 days to upload thanks to the blasted flu. So what do you think?

Stamps: All A Flutter

Ink: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Soft Sky

Cardstock: Regal Rose, Chocolate Chip, Dusty Durango, Fluttering By Digital

Accessories: Bling, Primas, Mini Glue Dots, Stipple Brush, Computer, Printer, Black Marker, Sponge

Flopsy's Toys For Tots

Happy New Year everyone!!

For this months MFT Guest Designer challenge I decided to go 3-D for the challenge. I've been wanting to try out this new sled template I found at Lauren's (mytime) new shop. I used some MFT jeweled brads to hold the "top slats" of the sled together.

Then I stamped Pure Innocence Presents For You twice on MFT perfect panels, and Wrapped In Love several times on perfect panels as well before coloring with Prismacolor markers and cutting out. Now I needed someone, or something, to pull the sled and I just knew Flopsey was the perfect bunny for the job. So I re sized and printed off my digital I'm Pullin For You Flopsey, colored, and cut out as well before adding all kinds of bling to the presents.
The hardest part was trying to figure out a way to make Flopsey stand up long enough to pull the sled. I finally figured out how to make him stand, and how to keep the cord in his hands as well. Pretty cool. Here's a close up of Flopsey below.

I hope you enjoyed my little bunny's trip though the snow. Too bad I didn't think to put a little Santa's hat on him before snapping a pic.

Stamps: MFT Pure Innocence Presents For You, Wrapped In Love

Cardstock: White, Stampin Up! Close To Cocoa

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Bling, Prismacolor Markers, Gold Cording, Computer, Printer, Glue Dots, Sled Template, Jewel Brads