Take Time To Live

Hello and welcome to Wednesday!!!  I am late uploading my card for this week's Friends of SpeedyTV Father's Day challenge by Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company.  My migraines have just been out of control lately.  It took me 4 days to stamp this clean and simple card and another 3 to be able to upload it.  Not good if you ask me.  However, I digress.

I started out by stamping my images from Father Time in memento tuxedo black onto MFP corn husk card stock and then using the direct to paper technique added some Tim Holtz forest moss to the sides of my layered images.  Once that was done, everything was then layered onto some vintage watch designer paper I bought at Costco years ago and then onto a black linen card.

The inside saying is also stamped in memento tuxedo black with the same clock image over stamped lightly in Stampin Up! going grey.

I also decided to enter this into SCS's Queen For The Day challenge.  Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and why not join this week us at Friends of SpeedyTV.


Stamps:  MFP Father Time
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Forest Moss, Stampin Up! Going Grey
Card Stock: MFP Corn Husk, Black Linen, Costco Designer Paper
Accessories: Brads

Happy Birthday Cupcake

Hello and welcome.  Today is a special day since it's Taylor's from Taylored Expressions 30th birthday!!!  Can you say Happy Birthday Taylor!!!!!  A few weeks ago, everyone that receives the TE newsletter received a special one from Jon (Taylor's husband) asking us to make a very special birthday card and mail it in time to arrive between June 7th-12th to surprise Taylor.  Here's my card I mailed off to Taylor.  I hope she likes it.  I was dealing with some major migraines at the time I made this but didn't want to miss Taylor's special day.

I started out by stamping my images from Cozy Cottages and CreativiTEA in memento tuxedo black onto MFP snow storm white card stock and colored with prismacolor markers before cutting one image out to pop up later.  Then I stippled Stampin Up! bashful blue & sage shadow inks around the edges of one cottage, layered, and added some faux rose red brads before popping up over a TCP die cut heart border.  Then I popped up the main image panel over the border before popping up the additional cupcake cottage and adding ice stickles to highlight the frosting and hearts. 

Once that was done, I took the second set of images, cut out the flower and saying, popped them up over the border and added some Michael's olive bridal confetti flowers as leaves before adding some layered rose confetti flowers with gold sticker centers as the only embellishment.  With the addition of some luscious chocolate satin ribbon from Stampin Up! my card was finished and ready to mail off.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Make sure to stop by Taylor's blog and wish her Happy Birthday today.

Stamps: TE Cozy Cottages, CreativiTEA
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Flue, Pallet Burnt Umber, Adirondak Espresso
Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Basic Gray Sweet Threads Designer Papers, Stampin Up! Chocolate Chip, Rose Red, Pretty In Pink Card Stock
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Michael's Bridal Confetti Flowers, Glue Dots, Pop Dots, Ice Stickles, Gold Stickers

Celebrate!

Hello and welcome to the first Your Next Stamp challenge hosted by my buddy KJ.  This week's challenge is a color one: pink, orange and green, so I went with a celebration theme and pulled out my Celebrate set I won from the Hope You Can Cling To challenges over on Splitcoast back in October and got to work even with a migraine.

I started out by stamping my pinata onto white card stock in memento tuxedo black and colored with prismacolor markers before cutting one pinata out and setting aside to pop up later.  Then I stamped the banner in memento black and also in Stampin Up! pixie pink onto scrap card stock so I could color the open "flags" and cut/paste the solid ones.  After that I stamped the streamers in only orange before stamping the card in green galore and adding a scalloped border.  The only embellishments I added were ribbon, balloon brads, and primas with baby brad centers.

Also made the card for this week's SCS WT378 banner challenge.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: YNS Celebrate

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Pixie Pink, Only Orange

Card Stock: White, Green Galore, Pixie Pink, Only Orange

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Brads, Primas, Pop Dots, Ribbon, MFT Die-Namic, Stipple Brush

One Ol' Bag - My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch Review

I originally made this card while dealing with a nasty migraine.  Still can't believe I posted it.

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Hello and welcome to another My Time Made Easy Pretty Pattern Sketch challenge.  This week we are doing a review of sketches 34-40, so you can choose your own sketch to base your card on.  This week, I chose to go with sketch #37, however, with a bit of creative license.

Once I had downloaded MTME's new Let's Go Camping digital stamp set and the matching Camp Out digital paper, I cut out and colored the backpack and matching saying to make a birthday card.  Once I added my layers and primas with bling, I was finished. 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to participate in this week's challenge.

Stamps: MTME Let's Go Camping

Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Sahara Sand, Pumpkin Pie, Garden Green, MTME Camp Out

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Primas, Bling, Glue Dots, Black Marker

Fabulous Fifties

 I recently found a challenge blog focusing on clean and simple (CAS) cards called CAS-ual Fridays and haven't had a chance to participate in any of the challenges yet.  Well, today, I finally got a chance to with my version of a clean and simple card. This week's CAS-ual Friday challenge was to use bling on our cards so that's no problem for me at all.  The hard part was keeping the card fairly clean and fairly simple.

I started out by printing off some images onto white card stock I had on my computer from Pink Cat Studio called Retro 50's before coloring with prismacolor markers and lightly stippling SU pretty in pink around them.  Then once my layering was finished, I added silver brads, ribbon, and bling onto the glasses and then the dots for the "i's" in the saying before adding to my card.

This is fairly simple for me.  Usually I would add a few more things, like primas, more bling, and pop up an image or two, but I didn't here.  Here's a close up of the glasses.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: Pink Cat Studio Retro 50's
Ink: Stampin Up! Pretty In Pink
Card Stock: White, Stampin Up! Pretty In Pink, Basic Gray, Burgundy, DCWV Matte Stack
Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Bling, Silver Brads, Glue Dots, Ribbon

Under The Sea

Hello again and welcome.  This week's Do You Stack Up challenge is all about the sea - specifically under the sea.  The whole time I was stamping my card, I had the silly song from Disney's© The Little Mermaid movie going through my head - Under The Sea.  Not what I needed while battling a persistent migraine, but thankfully the meds were working enough for me to stamp and occupy myself for a bit.

For my card, I chose to use some long retired sets from MFP called Flourished Sea Creatures and Fish You Were Here since I felt they fit the theme so well.  I started out by stamping my seabed and background images in various memento inks onto MFP snow storm smooth card stock and then the turtle, larger gold fish, and blue fish onto scrap card stock in memento tuxedo black ink so I could color them with prismacolor markers, cut out, and pop up later.

Once my coloring was finished, I lightly stippled Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink and Stampin Up! bermuda bay ink over and around the stamped seabed images before layering my main image panel and adding some bashful blue brads.  Finally I was ready to cut out and pop up my sea turtle and larger "gold fish".  Once I had those added, it was time to add some pearls as water bubbles and googlie eyes to the seahorse and fish.  Here's a close up of the dimension of the card.

Since I ended up with an extra fish, I decided to decorate the inside of the card as well this time, so after stamping my saying and adding some sea ferns, I added the additional fish and then some royal blue satin ribbon.  Here's the finished inside.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Retired Flourished Sea Creatures, Retired Fish You Were Here

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Pacific Pointe, Bermuda Bay, Various Memento Cat Eye Inks, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Pacific Pointe, Bermuda Bay, Bashful Blue

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Pearl Stickers, Pop Dots, Googlie Eyes, MS 2-Way Glue Pen, Black Marker

Lemon Branches & Butterfly

Second post for me today.  If you're looking for my Play Date Cafe and Just Inspirational challenge post, please scroll down one post. 

This week's 4 Crafty Chicks challenge is all about branching out - basically using anything with branches.  Here in the Central Valley it's fruit picking season so I went with the idea of lemon branches.  Also this week's Crazy 4 Challenges blog challenge is all about butterflies - no problem there since I have lots of butterfly images.  So even though my migraine was bothering me again, I got to work stamping since it was either stamp or cry.

After stamping my images from Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company Pucker Up and I'd Pick You mini stamp sets onto snow storm smooth card stock and colored with prismacolor markers before stippling Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around them for the sky before layering.  Then taking my extra images, I cut them out and added them to the main panel allowing parts of the lemon and butterfly to extend off the layered panel before adding some small pale yellow prima flowers with gold ice stickle centers.  The only other embellishments I added were some faux brads made from scrap spring leaf card stock and purple & black ice stickles to the butterfly.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: MFP Pucker Up, I'd Pick You Mini

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Green Galore, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: All MFP

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Stipple Brushes, Primas, Glue Dots, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, MS 2-Way Glue Pen

Flap Your Wings

Hello and welcome to the weekend!!  Today I am sharing a card I made for a few challenges since they all just fit together nicely.  Once I saw this week's Play Date Cafe and Just Inspirational color challenges, I knew I had to pair them both with the new Crazy 4 Challenges butterfly challenge.  The colors all just screamed flowers and butterflies.  So I pulled out two of my favorite Mark's Finest Papers, a Heinrich Company sets, Hello Butterflies and Mother's Magnolia, and got to work stamping, even with a nasty migraine (thank goodness the meds were working).

I started out by stamping my flower images in memento tuxedo black onto snow storm smooth card stock, then colored with prismacolor markers before stamping one butterfly directly above the magnolia's and the rest onto scrap snow storm smooth card stock before coloring, then cutting out to pop up later.  Now I just had to have some sort of sky behind my butterflies, so I cheated a bit on the colors and added just a stipple or two of bashful blue to barely color the background before stamping my saying. 

Once I had all of my layering finished, I then added the cut out butterflies by popping them up on dimensionals, then pinching the wings up a bit for some added dimension.  My only embellishments is some crystal ice stickles highlighting parts of the butterfly wings and some ripened tomato satin ribbon tied into a knot.

Challenges submitted:

Crazy 4 Challenges - Butterflies

Just Inspirational #31 - Color

The Play Date Cafe #134 - Color

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend.

Stamps: MFP Hello Butterflies, Mother's Magnolia

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Stampin Up! Bashful Blue

Card Stock: MFP Snow Storm Smooth, Stampin Up! Pure Poppy, Summer Sun, Pink Pirouette

Accessories: Prismacolor Markers, Ice Stickles, Stipple Brush, Dimensionals, Soft Subtles Brads