Featured Artist!!

Oh wow! My Sunday keeps getting better.  Just found out my card for the Outlawz Twisted Thursday challenge this week has been featured.  Awesome!!!   You can find my card below and here.  The image is from Bugaboo Digital Stamps.

I'm a winner!

Hello everyone.  Just saw I was chosen randomly for winning the Stella Says Sketch #508 over at Catch the Bug for Bugaboo Digital Stamps.  What an awesome way to make my Sunday.  Thanks to the Bugaboo Design Team.

Fake Plants

If you are looking for my Testicles and Tires post, please scroll down one posting. Thank you.

Second post for me today.  Now since I couldn't sleep the night before due to pain again, I decided to try and get my mind focused on something else besides all the pain and try to make a card for the Stella Says Sketch #508 challenge.  So I pulled Grumpy Gertrude and her fake plants image from Bugaboo Digital Stamps and got to work.

After coloring the image using prismacolor and copic markers, I stippled some tumbled glass & brushed corduroy distress inks around the image then layered. Now I had to take a bit of creative license here since the sketch had layered circles and my image was printed a tad too large for my circle punches to fit on the card.  So I decided to make a "squaricle" (a square circle) using my corner rounder punch instead.  For the background I stamped the oak leaf from SU Lovely As A Tree.  I added a distressed die cut daisy in one corner and the saying in another corner.  I'm happy with how this card turn out considering the amount of pain I was in.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great weekend!


Stamps: Bugaboo Grumpy Gertrude Digi, SU Lovely As A Tree
Ink: SU Garden Green, Sahara Sand, Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Brushed Corduroy
Card Stock: SU
Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Printer, Computer, Stipple Brushes, MFT Crown Die, MFT Daisy Die. Pearl Bling, Brads, Dimensionals. Corner Rounder Punch, Glue Dots

Testicles or Tires

Have I said how much I just love Bugaboo Digital Stamps??  If so, then I'm saying it again - I LOVE them!!  My card today is a CASE(Copy And Share Everything) of a card I made a while back during the 30 day marker challenge.  Right now it's totally perfect since my car engine has decided to take a vacation - without asking permission I might add.  Grrrrr.....  It's also my submission for the Twisted Thursday Anything Goes challenge this week over at the Outlawz.

So, after printing off my Stella Tidbits digi, I colored it using both prismacolor and copic markers before stippling tumbled glass distress ink around it, then layering and distressing the layered panels.  Since this is a "guy" inspired card, I added some Phillips and Flat Head screws.  Being me, I just had to add some mini primas with platinum ice stickle centers to finish everything off.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and I hope my card gave you a bit of a giggle.




Stamps: Bugaboo Stella Tidbits Digi
Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Computer, Printer, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Stipple Brush, Primas, Glue Dots, Platinum Ice Stickles, Brads, Dimensionals. Distressing Tool

Friendship

If looking for my April Showers post, please scroll down one.  Thank you.


Second post for me today.  I'm on a roll here!  I have another card I would like to share using some very old Stampin Up! stamps I had to dust off in order to use.  I needed a simple card that would be easy to mail and not cause any "issues" with the postal service.

After dusting off my chosen stamps, I started out by stamping the card using the Aida Cloth background in wisteria ink onto some lavender card stock before over stamping a "stitched flower" from Sampler Sayings in lavender ink. I then took a scrap piece of lavender card stock, stamped the same Aida Cloth background only this time in the lavender ink for softer feel before over stamping my saying from Sampler Sayings in memento black, then layered and added some mini brads.  I then " faux stitched" around the edges of the layered saying allowing the brads to be mini "knots" for the corners.  I then made a border strip by stamping and sponging an apricot scrap before adding to my card using glue dots to make sure it was not going to add any extra "dimension" for the postal service.  The only other embellishment I allowed myself were two mini felt flowers with mini brads adhered using glue dots.  The flowers and brads will still fit into an envelope easily since I always mail with a white card stock front anyways to protect any coloring I have done from weather.

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Pammies Inky  Pinkies - Anything Goes Monday

Cards In Envy -  Pretty Pastels

Outlawz Monday Greetings - GCC042417 Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Stampin Up!
Ink: Stampin Up!, Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Rosebud
Card Stock: Stampin Up!
Accessories: Sponges, Black Markers, Brads, Mini Felt Flowers

April Showers

April showers bring May flowers.... How many times have you heard that phrase over the years?  Well today I'd like to share a card I made inspired by that phrase.

I started off by printing off the April digi from SimplyBStamps and then coloring it using both my prismacolor and copic markers.  Once my coloring was complete, I stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass and broken china distress inks around the image before layering.  I also stamped my card and all layers using an old wood mounted Posh Impressions rain stamp I've had in my stash for years before sponging the matching dye inks around each stamped layer.  Finally, I added some yellow flower brads from my stash along with some yellow & orange silk flowers.  To finish off the card, I added blue waterfall ice stickles to all the colored rain drops in the digital image before adding some additional ice stickle "rain drops" for added effect.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Outlawz Festive Friday - April Showers, Farmer's Day, Relaxing, Ho Ho Ho

Great Impressions April 2017 April Showers

Pammies Inky Pinkies - Monday Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: SimplyB Stamps April Digi, Posh Impressions

Ink: Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Wild Honey; Stampin Up! Lovely Lilac, Pink Passion, Bliss Blue

Card Stock: Stampin Up!

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Prismacolor And Copic Markers, Silk Flowers, Glue Dots, Brads, Ice Stickles, Sponges, Stipple Bruches

Warm Hugs

Hello and welcome.  I hope you are enjoying your weekend.  Today I am sharing a card I made for the Twisted Thursday Look Alike challenge over at the Outlawz.

After printing off both my designer paper and image, I colored the image using both prismacolor and copic markers.  Once the image was colored, I then sponged some Stampin Up! brocade blue ink around the edges of the image before layering and adding brads.  Once that was done, I then added "snowflakes" by taking my lightest copic blue markers and adding dots around the bears and on the snow.  After sponging brocade blue ink around the card itself and then stamping a brocade blue border, I added two glittered silk flowers as the only embellishment.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: Clear Dollar Stamps Digital Warm Hugs, MFP Stamp Shop Winter Scenes
Ink: Stampin Up! Brocade Blue, Tim Holtz Broken China
Card Stock: Digital Paper Clear Dollar Stamps, SU Brocade Blue, Bordering Blue, Sahara Sand, White
Accessories: Prismacolor & Copic Markers, Glittered Silk Flowers, Brads, Sponge, Stipple Brush, Glue Dots

Eggcited Chicken

Hello and welcome.  Today I am sharing another card I made for the Festive Friday challenge over at the Outlawz.  I chose Easter eggs for my inspiration and pulled out my retired Stampin Up! Best Of Cluck set, which I have never used, some scrap card stock, a pink tag from my stash, and a large jumbo eyelet and pink twine.  After stamping the main image and coloring with colored pencils, I then stamped the background images before sponging pink passion ink around the edges of the card, adding the eyelet and twine, and finally bling along with mini page pebbles.  This card took a total of 10 minutes to make and was so easy.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.


Stamps: SU Best Of Cluck
Ink: Memento Black, SU Pink Passion
Card Stock: Scrap SU Pink Passion, Pink Tag
Accessories: Colored Pencils, Jumbo Pink Eyelet, Twine, Bling, Mini Page Pebbles, Sponge