Summer Collaberation Sea or Pool Party

 

 

 

 

Welcome to this years #summeraspired2023 hop. Organised by @kellys.craft and @kellysantidesigns.  Where each week we have 2 choices for themes where we can create either or both themes or even combining both together. Week 3's themes are Sea or Pool Party.  Since Mother Nature has really turned up the heat here in Central California, I went "swimming" with the pool party theme and pulled out some scrap pool water designer paper I've had for ages and paired it with Impression Obsession's Pool Party set.  

Once I had my images stamped in memento tuxedo black, I colored everything using both Prismacolor and Copic markers.  I then stippled some Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink around the image panel before layering and adding brads.  I then added it to a blue card layered with the scrap pool water designer paper before stippling tumbled glass around the card.  I then went over the saying with a Sakura 3D black glaze pen before adding some Picket Fence Studios sequins before adding some waterfall ice stickles and blue/green fibers I've had in my stash for a while now.

Challenges entered:

Inspiration Station July 2023 - See Mood Board

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (fibers, pool water designer paper)

Hero Arts Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero July 2023 - Here Comes The Sun (sunshine saying, summer swimming)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #210 - Anything Goes 

We Love 2 Create #6 - Anything Mixed Media Goes (fibers, sequins, markers, ice stickles) 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 605 to 606 - Anything Goes Uplifting

Gem of a Craft Challenge Wk 14 - Anything Goes 

 

Inspiration Station

 

 Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day.

Stamps: Impression Obsession

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; Unknown Designer Paper

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Fibers, Sequins, Glue, Brads, Glue Dots, Sakura 3D Glaze Pen, Ice Stickles

A Little Retro Beachfront Lighthouse

 

Hello and welcome.  I am thrilled to be guest designing for the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog for this week's challenge which is a tic-tac-toe challenge. (see below graphic)  For my project, I went with the pens/pencils, beach (mine has a lighthouse) and stencil (background clouds).

For my project, I did a late Father's Day/Birthday gift to my husband and used a Lighthouse Scene stamp from Hero Arts that I bought back in 1996 or 1998 (copyright info too small for my migraine) when I first started stamping.  My husband has been asking for me to make another project using this stamp for years now and I finally got it done.  It's amazing to see how my coloring skills have improved from way back when.  I had given him a framed lighthouse as a birthday present years ago and colored it using Crayola pencils.  This new one is colored using Castle Arts pencils and I'm amazed at the difference in my shading from then to now.  Behind my lighthouse I used a slimline cloud stencil from Picket Fence Studios along with Tim Holtz tumbled glass distress ink using blending brushes also from Picket Fence.  Below is the side by side view.

And then with the stamp:

I'd also like to enter this into the following challenges.

 

Challenges entered:

 

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set)

The Four Seasons July 2023 - See Mood Board (went with beach/ocean theme)

613 Ave Create July 2023 - Anything Goes Optional: Nautical (went with beach/lighthouse)

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #210 - Anything Goes 

A Place To Start July 2023 - Anything Goes Optional Life's A Beach (went with beach)

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero July 2023 - Here Comes The Sun

 

The Four Seasons

 

613 Ave Create

 

A Place To Start

 

Stay Crafty With A Blog Named Hero

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day and don't forget to join us over at Retro Rubber for this week's challenge.

Stamps: Hero Arts

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass Distress

Card Stock: Hammermill White

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

PIP Challenge 2328

  Sponsored by

 PIP CHALLENGES

The prize will be a $10 Gift Certificate from

My Favorite Things

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies.  This week we our prize is a $10 gift certificate to My Favorite Things.  My card today is using a retired MFT stamp set I had bought last year and hadn't ink yet.  It's designed by Rachel Ann Miller called Away In A Manger.

 

I started out by stamping my manger scene in memento tuxedo black ink on some scrap Hammermill card stock before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers, along with Lyra flesh tone pencils, before fussy cutting the scene and star out before setting aside.  I then pulled a 12x12 sheet of Recollections designer paper to use as the background of my scene before adhering it to a navy card base.  Once I added my manger I was able to stamp the saying onto scrap white card stock then layered.  The final touch was color spritzing some Stampin Up night of navy marker.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #52 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set, designer paper)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set/designer paper) 

Park Hopping My Happy Place July 2023 - Anything Goes Related To Theme Parks (I went with Christmas at Disneyland)

The Most Magical Time Of The Year July 2023 - Anything Goes Halloween or Christmas (I went with Christmas)

Happy Little Stampers July - Christmas 

The Holly And Ivy Christmas #143 - Anything Goes Christmas 

Word Art Wednesday Wks 603 to 604 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

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

Stamps: MFT

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; Recollections

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, SU Night of Navy Marker, Color Spritzer

Summer Collaberation Rainbow or Floral

 

 

Hello and welcome. It's week 2 of the #summeraspired2023 collaboration hop over on Instagram where we're given two prompts for the week and we choose which one to use or combine them.  For my card today, I pulled out a GinaK Designs stamp set called Vintage Rose Mini (now retired) I had won last year and just hadn't used yet.

 

I started out by stamping my image in Memento tuxedo black ink onto scrap Hammermill white card stock before stamping the saying right underneath.  I then pulled out my Castle Arts pencils to color the rose bouquet using rainbow colors since I needed a pet sympathy card. Once my coloring was finish, I then color spritzed a long retired Stampin Up Only Orange marker then layered.  My only embellishment used were some small black brads before adhering the layered panel onto a white card. On the inside I stamped a Scrapbook.com sympathy sentiment with a paw print from a retired Papertrey Ink pet sympathy set stamped underneath.

 

I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I've been dealing with some bad migraines again.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #52 - Use Your NBUS (stamp set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (stamp set)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 603 to 604 - Anything Goes Uplifting (sympathy, pet sympathy) 

Try It On Tuesday July 11th - Use 3 Colors (I went with rainbow colors)

Triple B Challenge July 2023 - Birds, Blooms, Butterfliles (I went with blooms)

Simply Clean & Simple July - CAS Optional Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue (I went rainbow)

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great rest of your week.

Stamps: GinaK Designs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Scraps

Accessories: Castle Arts Pencils, Brads, Color Spritzer, SU Only Orange Marker

Summer Collaberation On The Beach

 

Hello and welcome.  Today I'd like to share with you a card I made for a summer themed collaboration
with a few stampers on Instagram, so I pulled out a stamp set/die combo I won a few months back from Picket Fence Studios. Since California has "finally" turned on the furnace and the weather is roasting everyone to be well done, I'm dreaming of the beach and cool ocean breezes.

I started out by die cutting the background beach, and water, using the Scene Building Seashore Cover Plate before coloring the die cut pieces using my blending brushes and Tim Holtz walnut stain, tumbled glass, chipped sapphire and tea dye distress inks.  Once my "coloring" for the sand/waves was finished, I stamped all the images/saying I wanted from the Summer Beach Friends Dear in memento tuxedo black ink onto scrap white card stock before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers before die cutting.  After adding some pop dots to my die cut images, I arranged them on my card before finishing it off with some crystal ice stickles to the "water line" and a black 3D glaze pen to the crab eyes.  I'm really happy with how this turned out.

Challenges entered:

 

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #52 - Use Your NBUS (stamps/die)

The Four Seasons July 2023 - See Mood Board (I went with the beach)

A Place To Start July 2023 - Anything Goes Option Twist Life's A Beach  (went with beach)

Hand Stamped Sentiments #417 - Inspiration Board (see below)

Inspiration Station #51 - July 2023 See Mood Board Below (I went with swimming at the beach)

 

 The Four Seasons

 

 A Place To Start

 

 Hand Stamped Sentiments

 

Inspiration Station

 

 

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great day!

Stamps: Picket Fence Studios

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Tim Holtz Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Tea Dye, Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks; Adirondack Caramel

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up!

Accessories: Big Shot, PFS Seashore Cover Plate, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Ice Stickles, Pop Dots, PFS Blending Brushes

PIP Challenge 2326

 

 Sponsored by Lawn Fawn

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Hello and welcome.  Today beings 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.  My card uses Lawn Fawn's Flamingo Together set.

 

Since Mother Nature has turned on the furnace to high heat for California, I went with a beach theme.  I started out by stamping my flamingo images in memento tuxedo black ink before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  I then stamped the palm trees using memento rich cocoa, cottage ivy and pear tart before stamping my saying in both memento black and lilac posies.  Then, using a direct-to-paper technique, I created my "sand" by applying memento desert sand directly underneath the flamingos before stippling Tim Holtz broken china distress ink in the background for the ocean and sky before layering and adding brads.  My card is stamped using a retired Stampin Up flamingo wheel with regal rose ink before I added the image panel popping it up using pop dots.  The final touches were applying some 3D glaze pens to highlight parts of the flamingo's and their legs before adding some old Queen and Company floral sequins with ice stickles.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #52 - Use Your NBUS (flamingo set)

Splitcoaststampers USEIT2023 - Use Your Unloved Stash (wheel, sequins)

The Four Seasons July 2023 - See Mood Board (inspired by the beach)

A Place To Start July 2023 - Anything Goes Optional Twist Life Is A Beach (went with the beach theme)

Word Art Wednesday Wks 601 to 602 - Anything Goes Uplifting

Jan's Digital Stamps July 2023 - Anything Goes

Critter Crazy #76 - Anything Goes Featuring A Critter (mine is flamingos)

 

The Four Seasons

 

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; Stampin Up

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Cottage Ivy, Pear Tart, Rich Cocoa, Desert Sand; Tim Holtz Broken China; SU Regal Rose

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up

Accessories: Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Pop Dots, Queen and Company Sequins, Ice Stickles

Dare To Get Dirty 2023

 Hello and welcome.  Splitcoaststampers's Dare To Get Dirty challenges for 2023 has been scheduled!!!  DTGD will run from July 22 - July 28 and is for Fan Club members only.  Not a member?  There's still time to join before the challenges begin.  Find all the details about becoming a Fan Club member here. 

PIP Challenge 2324

 

 Sponsored by Gerda Steiner Designs

Gerda Steiner FB

 

Hello and welcome.  Today begins a new challenge over at Pammie's Inky Pinkies and this week we're being sponsored by  Gerda Steiner Designs.  I would like to thank them for their sponsorship and for providing images for the design team to use.

I started out by printing the Squirrel with Acorns digital stamp on Hammermill white card stock before coloring using both prismacolor and copic markers.  Once the coloring was finished, I stippled some walnut stain and mowed lawn distress ink using my brushes from Picket Fence Studios then layered.  My saying from the Cupcake Mice set released last month was then stamped in memento tuxedo black ink before punching and stippling more walnut stain distress ink around the edges.  Once I was finished with everything, I adhered the image/saying to a espresso card with an embossed tree stump panel with walnut stain stippled over the raised edges.  The final embellishments was some faux sewing around the squirrel and highlighting the saying using a black 3D glaze pen.

Challenges entered:

Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) #51 - Use Your NBUS (image, embossing folder)

Critter Crazy #75 - Anything Goes With A Critter

Gerda Steiner Designs June 2023 - Share Your Designs Anything Goes 

A Place To Start June 2023 - Anything Goes

Word Art Wednesday Wks 589 to 560 - Anything Goes Uplifting 

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

Stamps: Gerda Steiner Designs

Ink: Tim Holtz Walnut Stain, Mowed Lawn; Memento Tuxedo Black

Card Stock: Hammermill White; Stampin Up; MFP Corn Husk

Accessories: Computer, Printer, Big Shot, Texture Fade Embossing Folder, PFS Stipple Brushes, Prismacolor and Copic Markers, Oval Punch, Black Gel Pen, Black 3D Glaze Pen