I'm In Shape

Hello and welcome.  Third post if you're looking for my Crazy Horses or GinaK Christmas cards, please scroll down 1-2 post.  Today I'd like to share with you a card using another pre-colored image.  This beautiful fairy godmother is a freebie this month in the Conjurer of Dreams Facebook Inspiration Group.  

 

After seeing a friend's Instagram post about body image and how people need to look beyond weight, makeup or lack thereof, and see the person inside.  You never know if your comment is helping, or hindering, someone emotionally.  I for one have experienced this with doctors or in-laws making a comment about my own weight, which medication and chronic conditions contribute to, and how it negatively affects me emotionally and psychologically.  So with that in mind, I decided to use this image and create something that reflects my feelings on the subject.

I started out by combining the image with a hand generated saying in Photoshop, before printing her out on Neenah white card stock then layering, adding some black brads then setting aside.  I then printed out my designer paper from Gecko Galz called Island Girl and added that to a white card base.   After adhering the layered image to my card, I finished it off with some Crafty Meraki Midnight Illusion gems and yellow ice stickles to highlight the star.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS 

Conjurer of Dreams July 2024 - Winged Beauty 

A Place To Start July 2024 - Anything Goes 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 655 to 656 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

613 Ave Create July 2024 - Anything Goes 

Cards 4 Galz #229 - Shades of Blue 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Conjurer of Dreams

Ink: None

Card Stock: Neenah White; Recollections; Gecko Galz

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Meraki Shimmer Illusion Bling, Brads, Glue Dots, Glue, Yellow Ice Stickles

 

Perfect Crazy Horses

 

Hello and welcome.  Second post today.  If you're looking for my Pammie's Inky Pinkies DT card, please scroll down one. 

I've been somewhat quiet lately.  I'm still dealing with this blasted migraine that will not go away but I've tried crafting a bit to focus on something else but the pain.  That's the main reason I've been using so many pre-colored images lately.  I felt I needed something fun so I pulled out this Crazy Horses image from Sheepski Designs that I've had printed for some time but hadn't used yet.  I started out by coloring the horses using my Castle Arts watercolor pencils until I was happy with the coverage.  Taking one of my blending brushes, I added some Tim Holtz stormy sky distress ink around the horses before layering and adding brads.  For the card base, I printed off the distressed graph page from Gecko Galz Time After Time digital designer paper then added it to white card stock before stippling Tim Holtz faded jeans and tea dye distress inks over the designer paper.  I then adhered my colored image panel to the card before stamping my saying from an old Hero Arts Good Friends stamp set directly on the card.  After adding some googlie eyes, my card was finished,

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (image, designer paper)

Critter Crazy #88 - Anything Goes With Critters (horses)

CD Sunday Plus #137 - Anything Goes Digital (image, designer paper)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 655 to 656 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

Farm Quest General Store #18 - Anything Goes Farm, Country Related (horses)

Crafty Catz #676 - Anything Goes Optional Make It Cute 

Paper Funday #67 - Anything Goes Optional Critter Crazy (anything goes,  critters) 

Sheepski Designs Challenge #88 - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Sheepski Designs; Hero Arts

Card Stock: Neenah White, Stampin Up

Ink: Tim Holtz Tea Dye, Faded Jeans, Stormy Sky Distress Inks

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Blending Brushes, Brads, Glue Dots, Googlie Eyes, Glue, Watercolor Pencils

PIP Challenge 2428

 

Sponsored by

Gina K. Designs

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by GinaK Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship this week.  For my card, I pulled out this beautiful Winter Flower Mini and "knock out" another Christmas card going with a clean and simple (CAS) layout.

I started out by stamping the leaves, and saying, on Copic white card stock using my MISTI, before stamping the poinsettia onto scrap Copic card stock.  I then stippled some Tim Holtz tattered rose on the image panel to help soften the white a bit.  Once that was all finished, I colored all of the images using Copic markers before fussy cutting the poinsettia out and gluing to the layered panel.  I then pulled out my snowflake sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  After gluing those down, and adding some faux brads, I pulled out my color spritzer and spritzed some rose romance marker over the whole card.  The final touch was adding some yellow ice stickles to the center of the poinsettia.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set) 

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #233 - Anything Goes

My Time To Craft #538 - Clean And Simple

Krafty Chicks #724 - Christmas 

Crafty Gals Corner #257 - Anything Goes Optional Christmas

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget join us this week at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

Stamps: GinaK Designs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tattered Rose

Card Stock: Copic; Stampin Up

Accessories: MISTI, Copic Markers, Ice Stickles, Small Hole Punch, Glue, Sequins, Color Spritzer, SU Rose Romance Marker

Mermaid Lagoon

Hello and welcome.  Today, I'd like to share another framed piece I've been working on for a few weeks thanks again to my migraines.  I've only been able to concentrate for short periods of time especially this last week.  Between wildfires, heat and humidity I've not been doing good physically and mentally.  The mermaid image was a  Gecko Galz freebie last month for their fantasy challenge.  Besides, swimming in a lagoon is a lot cooler than sweating in the heat. ;)

I started out by printing the image as a 5x7 photo on Neenah white card stock then set it aside.  Taking some of my dusty Sizzix© and Cuttlebug© dies, I die cut several leafy branches, seashells, starfish and sand dollars before stippling all of those with Tim Holtz mowed lawn, dusty concord, tattered rose, broken china, tea dye and chipped sapphire distress inks and my blending brushes.  Taking the 3.5x5 mat out of the frame, I then blended Altenew lagoon dye ink to get a soft "teal" palette before re-adding it back into the frame.  I then added my printed image taping it to the die cut mat to make sure it stayed in place before re-adding the glass "window" behind my mermaid so she'd be a bit more secure.  Taking all of my die cut little pieces, I adhered all of those to the frame and mat using Ranger's© glossy accents.  It was at this point I decided she needed some coral so taking my dusty EK Sucess "oak tree" whale of a punch and more scraps, I punched out several colors of "oak trees" making sure to snip off the lower tree trunks so it would like more like coral.  The final touches were adding some small pearls all around the frame and googlie eyes to the sea horses, ice stickles to the mermaid's hair/tail and a few red crabs made using an old Fiskars© crab punch.  It took a while to make this but I'm very happy how it turned out.

 

Here's a close up showing all of the dimension before adding the last two googlie eyes:

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (mermaid image) 

Gecko Galz Quarterly July 2024 - Altered Wall Plaque 

Snippets Playground #484 - Use Those Snippets/Scraps 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2024 - Use Your Unloved Stash (sizzix/cuttlebug dies)

Shopping Our Stash #525 - NBUS (never before used schtuff) (frame, image)

Gem of a Craft #13 - Anything Goes 

Park Hopping My Happy Place July 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Park Related (inspired by the original submarine ride at Disneyland, had "real" mermaids at one point )

Gecko Galz Facebook Group July 2024 - Mermaid Dreams 

Gecko Galz Facebook Group July 2024 - Ocean Life (die cut seahorses, mermaid)

CD Sunday Plus #137 - Anything Goes Digital (Gecko Galz image)

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.  Please stay hydrated and out of the heat/sun.

Stamps: Gecko Galz

Ink: Altenew Lagoon; Tim Holtz Mowed Lawn, Dusty Concord, Tattered Rose, Broken China, Tea Dye, Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks

Card Stock: Neenah; Scraps/Snippets

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Cuttlebug Dies, Punches, Pearls, Googlie Eyes, Glossy Accents, Frame, Blending Brushes, Ice Stickles

I'm Not Crazy....

......although I feel like it sometimes. *shrug*  Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you an altered frame made using Gecko Galz Ask Alice collage.  As soon as I saw the crazy Cheshire cat image, I knew I needed to make an altered frame with it.  Plus, the added help of being pre-colored helps a lot when trying to create with these blasted migraines.

I started out by printing the collage on Neenah white card stock before trimming the Cheshire cat down to fit into a 3.5 x 5 frame.  Taking a bunch of orchid scraps, I punched the hydrangea pieces, both large and small, before adhering them to the frame using Ranger's glossy accents.  The final touches were two small butterflies and adding diamond ice stickles to all of the flower/butterfly centers and highlighting the cat's eyes using a clear 3D glaze pen.

Challenges entered:

 

Gecko Galz Altered Quarterly - Wall Plaque 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (frame, GG image)

Critter Crazy #88 - Anything Goes With A Critter (Cheshire cat) 

Splitcoaststampers F4A749 - Cats and Dogs (cat)

CD Sunday Plus #137 - Anything Goes Digital (GG image)

A Place To Start July 2024 - Anything Goes 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gecko Galz

Ink: None

Card Stock: Neenah; Scraps

Accessories: Computer, Printer, MS Punch, Glossy Accents, Ice Stickles, Frame

Enjoy The Summer

Hello and welcome.  I'm trusting everyone is trying to stay cool and safe during this nasty heat wave.  It's certainly not helping my migraines and breathing issues.  This last week has been rough with the weekend being down right unbearable at 114 and 113 degrees and it never really cooled off at night.  I was finally able to push myself to, somewhat, go through some boxes still unpacked from our move.  I do realize it's been several days since I posted last, my health just wouldn't let me.

 

I was digging through my stash of designer paper when I came across this blue, watercolor style paper and the first thing I thought of was swimming pool so I pulled out this Pool Piggies stamp set, with matching dies, from Gerda Steiner Designs I received as a RAK from a friend.  I started out by stamping all of my images using memento tuxedo black ink on neenah white scraps then colored using copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I die cut the images out using my Big Shot© before adhering them on my slimline card using glue dots.  I then added some blue/green fibers from my stash and adhered a few teal sequins from Picket Fence Studios.  Taking one of the sentiments from the set, I inked it in tuxedo black, stamped it directly on the card before going over it using a Sakura 3D glaze pen.  Taking a few more glaze pens, I highlight parts of the piggies, and added some polka dots to the yellow swimsuit) before declaring the card finished.  

 

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set, designer paper)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 655 to 656 - Anything Goes Uplifting (sentiment)

Park Hopping My Happy Place July 2024 - Anything Goes Theme Park Related Optional  (Inspired by Walt Disney World Typhoon Lagoon)

The Four Seasons July 2024 - See Inspiration Pic (inspired by the pool)

Paper Funday #67 - Anything Goes Optional Critter Crazy (pigs)

Critter Crazy #88 - Anything Goes With A Critter

Inspiration Station July 2024 - See Pic Below (inspired by relaxing, water)

 

The Four Seasons

Inspiration Station

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs

Card Stock: Neenah White; Scraps; Designer Paper

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Accessories: Copic Markers, MISTI, Sequins, Big Shot, 3D Glaze Pens, Glue, Fibers

Winner! Winner!!

 

 

 Hello and welcome!  Found out today that my Smile card here was the winner at Four Seasons challenge for the month of June.

PIP Challenge 2426

 

Sponsored by Lawn Fawn

Lawn Fawn FB

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Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by Lawn Fawn.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship this week.  I decided to increase my children's birthday card stash so this week my card features Lawn Fawn's Winter Narwal set I received from a friend and hadn't used yet. 

 

I started out by stamping the main image on scrap white card stock before cutting up the Happy Birthday included with the set.  Once I had done that, I wanted to create my own saying, so I stamped the Have A Narly saying first before stamping the Birthday underneath it before coloring using my copic markers.  After I had the image panel colored, and layered, I adhered that to a retired Gecko Galz ATC Anchor's Away background sheet then layered that.  Since I was making this for a child's birthday, I didn't add any embellishments so the card could be used for any child's age.  Now as an afterthought, I lightly stippled leftover tumbled glass distress ink from a previous project.  I'm fairly happy with it especially since my migraines have been really active again.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #64 - Use Your NBUS (image, ATC sheet)

A Place To Start July 2024 - Anything Goes 

Cupcake Inspirations #597 - Anything Goes 

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk13 - Anything Goes 

Cardz 4 Guyz #350 - Masculine (went with masculine child)

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us this week at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.

Stamps: Lawn Fawn; Gecko Galz

Card Stock: Recollections; Scraps

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Copic Markers, Blending Brush