Mercy's and Jen's Sketches

I have really been on a sketch kick lately......why should I tax my poor old brain when there are such talented stampers out there creating sketches for me to use.....Whoohoo!!!!
The Color Challenge on Splitcoast today was a real challenge for me...I'm not used to using such bold colors but they really grew on me; the colors were Crushed Concord, Cherry Cobbler, and Old Olive. The sweet little Pure Innocence image from MFT called Boy and His Dog Snow Adorable was colored with copics and the background papers were from Basic Grey's Sugar Rush. I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #96 and the die cut snowflake and button with twine finished it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Pure Innocence by MFT
Paper: Whote, Old Olive, Crushed Concord
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories: Snowflake Die , Button, Twine, Nestabilities, Copics

I bought this adorable set called Ship Happens from the Cat's Pajamas a month ago and finally had a chance to ink it up...well I didn't use much ink because the majority of it is paper pieced. The papers are from basic Grey's Pyrus set...aren't the colors gorgeous!!!! I used Jen's awesome SFYTT sketch, sewed around the edges and added the ribbon and buttons. It sure does pay to keep things forever because the old Stampin Up! Blue Bayou ribbon matches the paper perfectly!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: The Cat's Pajamas

Paper: Kraft, Really Rust, White, Basic Grey's Pyrus

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky for sponging around the image

Accessories: Buttons, Twine, Nestabilities, Ribbon, Sewing Machine

This is also for a few other challenges:

1. Anything Goes Challenge Blog - ribbon

2.Speedy the Cat's Friends Challenge - stitching

3. Cinema Saturday Creative Challenge - diecut/hand cutting

4. The Pixie Cottage - stitching

5. Papertake Weekly Challenge - 3 of something

Thanks for visiting..have a great day!!!!

TLC and Paper Piecing for Fun!!!

Good morning everyone!! I finally had some craft room therapy this morning..after our busy weekend, it sure felt good to get my fingers inky!! I made this card for the Technique Lover's Challenge this morning on Splitcoast. Holly had a great technique for us to try called Make it Shimmer. The tutorial can be found on Lisa Spangler's blog . We were to stamp our image with water proof ink, apply color to a stamp block and stamp it over the image for the background, color the image with watercolor pencils, and blend with Perfect Pearls and water. My background color is Almost Amethyst...the Rubbernecker Iris was colored with watercolor pencils and blended with Perfect Pearls and water. Pearls and wrinkled ribbon with a button and twine finish it off. It is really shimmery IRL!!

I just love to paper piece and thought this image from Sparkle and Sprinkle called Jasmine would be perfect. The face and skin were colored with copics, Fruit Punch Stickles was added to the flowers, and the big flower was popped up on foam tape. The sentiment was from Verve's Blessings set and Adirondack Peach Brilliance was used to sponge around the image.

Recipe:

Stamps: Sparkle and Sprinkle Jasmine, Verve Blessings

Paper: Pure Luxury White, Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Basic Grey's Porcelain
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Adirondack Peach Brilliance

Accessories: Prima Pearl Flourish, Nestabilities Labels 12, Stickles Fruit Punch, EK Success Corner Rounder Punch

Thanks for stopping by...now I have got to get busy and clean the stamp room...yikes...what a mess!!!

It's Friday Already???

Can you believe it's Friday already.....this week has just flown by!!! We are having our October birthday party tomorrow so I'll be cleaning my house all day and planning something to eat. I promised my DH we wouldn't have lasagna again so now what will I fix....maybe he needs to BBQ some hamburgers and hot dogs...yea baby!!! In fact, I might even volunteer to make some potato salad and baked beans...yummo...the last summer hurrah!! Anyway....
I got into the craft room yesterday and made a card for The Color Throwdown to use Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzaz, So Saffron, and Chocolate Chip. I also made it a birthday card for Crazy 4 Challenges and I used Mercy's Tuesday Sketch #95.
The Stamp Oasis background stamp from Rubbernecker called Baroque Background was stamped with Chocolate Chip Craft ink and embossed with clear ep. It was then colored with ink pads and an aqua pen. Part of the leaf was cut out using and Exacto Knife and draped over the sentiment from Rubbernecker's Party Time set. The ribbon, button, and twine finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rubbernecker
Paper: Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzaz, Pure Luxury Chocolate Brown, Basic Grey's June Bug dp, Watercolor Paper
Ink: So saffron, Poppy Parade, Pear Pizzaz, Chocolate Chip, Chocolate Chop Craft
Accessories: Nestabilities, Button, Twine, PTI Tibbon, Clear Embossing Powder

I made this fun little Halloween card for the Ways to Use it Challenge on Splitcoast. The challenge was to use your embellies in a new and different way. Julia challenged us to think outside the box and come up with something creative. It took me all morning but I finally came up with a frame using punched bats. I also glued a punched bat to a stick pin and stamped the Rubbernecker Bat image from the Halloween Set #1 ...the sentiment from the same set was just perfect for this batty card!!!
Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker

Paper: White, Black, Papertrey Ink Halloween Prints

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Balck

Accessories: Ribbon, Twine, Martha stewart Bat Punch, EK success Scalloped Border Punch, Buttons, Stick pin

This is also for a few other challenges:
1. Frosted Designs - Halloween/Fall
2. Fussy and Fancy - Halloween
3. Paper Cutz - anything goes
4. Really Reasonable Ribbon - Halloween
5. Stamp Something - Halloween
6. Stampin for the Weekend - Halloween
7. Stampin Royalty - Halloween

Thanks for stopping by on this wonderful Friday.....have a really great day!!!!

A Moxie Fab World Jolly Holiday Greetings Challenge and a Halloween Teaparty

Hello everyone...I had a great day today...spent most of it in my craft room!!! I just love it when I can whip out some projects that have been half finished for a few days...whoohoo!!! I made this card for the Moxie Fab World's Jolly Holiday Greetings Challenge to make a Christmas card.
I used Jen's SFYTT sketch and used my new Bingo cards from Jenni Bowlin...they are just tooo cute!!! The Two Deer In Winter image from Red Lead Paperworks was stamped with Riding Hood Red and the sentiment from Waltzingmouse Stamps Oven Fresh Gingerbread Joy set was stamped with Wild Wasabi. Sewing and Distressing was done around all the edges and the Prima Poinsettias, Making Memories Stick Pins, and the button with gold cording finishes it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: Red Lead Paperworks, Waltzingmouse Stamp's Oven Fresh Gingerbread Joy
Paaper: Stampin Up!
Ink: Riding Hood Red, Wild Wasabi
Accessories: Prima Poinsettias and Leaf, Button, Gold Cording, Christmas Stick Pins from Making Memories, Bingo Card from Jenni Bowlin, Sewing Machine

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Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge

Oh boy...we are going to a Halloween teaparty!!! It seems that Mitsey Bitsey the spider and her friend, Dunkin Pumpkin, are trying to get Casper the Ghost to come to the party but they are running into a few snags. They need to find some pumpkins, bats, and lots of goodies to show up that snooty Miss Muffet!!! I am going to bring an extra bat and a whole bowl of Halloween candies...yummmm!!

I have had these stamps for 2 years and this is the first time to ink them up..I also lost the wrapper so I have no idea where I got them. If anyone knows the company name, please let me know. The images were all colored with copics and the bat and cloud chipboard are the only details...what...no ribbon...yikes!!! Our distination this week is Jacob, a 5 year old who is undergoing Chemo treatments. Hope this brings a smile to Jacob and his parents!!

This also qualifies for Sara's Hope You Can Cling To Challenge (HYCCT06) on Splitcoast to use something old (my stamps) and something new right out of the package (got the chipboard Saturday). There will be a challenge each day of the month to celebrate Breat Cancer Awareness Month...you can find the forum with all the challenges here!!

I'm so glad you came by ..it means a lot to me!!!

Technique Lovers Challenge - Wet Paper Stamping

Hello everyone...it's my turn to host the Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast this week and my challenge is to do Wet Paper Stamping!! I found this wonderful technique on my friend Kathy's blog, Lucky Stamper...she made a gorgeous fall card and added some flower soft to the trees!!

I wet my watercolor paper with a wet paper towel...

The tree from Flourishes Flourished Christmas was stamped with Baja Breeze onto the wet watercolor paper....clear stamps work best for me because I could see placement for the top stamping.

the ink will bleed out a bit ....which is a good thing!!!

dry with a heat tool and then....

stamp over the top of the Baja Breeze tree with a darker color...I used Old Olive
.

I love how the Baja Breeze layer bled out to create a glow behind the Old Olive tree....tooo cool!!!

I used the same technique on the sentiment and cutout the images with a Nestabilities. Sewing was done around the background layer along with some distressing. The scallop was cutout with a Spellbinders scallop die and the wrinkled seam binding, button, twine, and the gold holly and sprig sticker from Martha Stewart finishes it off.
Recipe:

Stamps: Flourished Christmas from Flourishes

Paper: Watercolor Paper, Riding hood Red, Old Olive, Tinsel dp by Memory Box

Ink: Old Olive, Baja Breeze

Accessories: Wrinkled Seam Binding, Button, Twine, Martha Stewart Sticker, Neatabilities, Spellbinder's Scallop Border Die, sewing Machine

I just had to make another sample...I LOOOVE this technique!!! For this card I wet my watercolor paper, stamped the sentiment with Lavender Lace, and dried it with the heat tool.

Old Olive was used to stamp over the Lavender Lace image.

Then I wet the paper around the sentiment, stamped several snowflakes with Lavender Lace, Certainly Celery, Basful Blue, and dried it again.

Old Olive, Bordering Blue, and Elegant Eggplant were the darker colores used to stamp over the snowflakes. I did go back and move a little ink with an aqua pen to get the Old Olive to bleed just a little.

The image was cutout with a Nestabilitits, layered on Lavender Lace with piercing around the edges. A silver pearl was added to one of the snowflakes and the ribbon, snowflakes, button, and silver cording were the finishing touches.

Recipe:

Stamps: Flourishes

Paper: White, Lavender Lace, Bo Bunny dp called A Gift of Love
Ink: Bashful Blue, Bordering Blue, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Lavender Lace, Elegant Eggplant

Accessories: Ribbon, Silver Pearl, Button, Silver Cording, Felt Snowflakes from Hero Arts, Nestabilities

Thanks for stopping by......now get out that watercolor paper and create something FABULOUS!!! If you upload to Splitcoast use the keywords TLC294...I would love to see what you make!!!

Moxie Fab World Pleat Challenge!!

Hello everyone...hope you are having a great weekend so far....Call me crazy but I'm still up stamping away!!! It's almost 1:00 AM and I have to be up at 7:00 AM to get ready for my DGS Ryan's football game and then Caitlyn's 3rd birthday party in the afternoon...I'm going to be a pooped old grandma tomorrow night!!! Anyway.....I went to the Moxie Fab World Blog about 30 minutes ago and just had to make a card for their Perfectly Placed Pleats Challenge in the Moxie Fab World.
I bought a sack full of lace and other sewing stuff at my church's garage sale this morning and when I saw the turquoise zipper, I just knew what I wanted to do with it....pleats!!! The stamps from Darcie's Create set from Stamper's Dream were stamped with Memento Tuxedo Black and the dress form was cut out and matted with black. The background paper is from Papertrey Ink's Beautiful Blooms and the rounded corners and buttons with twine finishes it off.

This is pretty short and sweet...I'll be back Sunday night with another tutorial for the Technique Lover's Challenge on Splitcoast....it's such a fun and fabulous technique and I can't wait to show it to you!!! Thanks for dropping by!!!

Waltzingmouse and Color Throw Down Challenges

Good morning everyone...can you believe it's Thursday already.....is it just me or is time moving way tooo fast???!!! We have been busy getting ready for our church garage sale this weekend...I will be working it all day Friday. Saturday we have our DGS Ryan's football game and our DGD Caitlyn's birthday party. Grandpa built her a playhouse for the backyard...it's 6'x6' ( big enough for her mom and dad to play, too) with shutters on the plexiglass windows and a little porch on the front. He tiled the floor and painted the inside with chalk paint so she can write all over the walls...tooo fun!!! Anyway...after riding the horses last evening (btw...midnight's eye is much better!!!)I finally settled into the craft room to make this card for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #17 and the Color Throw Down Challenge to use Perfect Plum, Early Espresso, and Vanilla.
The images from Waltzingmouse's Sewing Box Hugs set were paper pieced with vairous designer paper scraps amd popped up with dimensionals. The brown ribbon was scrunched under the sentiment, sewing was done around the edges, and pearls were added for a little glam. Pretty simple but sooo much fun to make!!!
Recipe:
Stamps: Sewing Box -Hugs
Paper: Vanilla, Perfect Plum, Chocolate Chip, Designer paper scraps: Stampin Up, Basic Grey
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa
Accessories: Sewing Machine, Pearls, Ribbon

Thanks for stopping by today...hope all is well in your little corner of the world!!!!

It's a Tuesday Trigger and a Shabby Halloween

Good morning everyone....we have had a little excitment around here. Midnight was stung somewhere around her left eye yesterday and we had to have the vet come and take a look. Her vision was ok but her eye was swollen shut!! She received a steriod shot and today she is able to open it. Hopefully, she will be back to normal is a couple of days. It's amazing how animals try to communicate their feelings...she was so still and not like herself. She would stop eating and just look at me....as if asking me what I was going to do about her problem. It was so sad... like having one of my own children in pain!! Anyway
....above is the Tuesday Trigger on the Moxie Fab World Blog....an Abstract Folk Art Painting by Catherine Horvath Buchanan. Aren't the colors gorgeous!!!

I found my inspiration from the colors and the beautiful fall scene...the rolling hills were created with Basic Grey's Sugar Rush dp and sewing was done along the edges. Cosmo Cricket's Fly a Kite dp was used for the sun and the tree bases and sentiment were stamped with Papertrey Ink's Everyday Button Bits stamps. The leaves were stamped with More Mustard, Old Olive, and Really Rust. The buttons with twine finish it off.

I made this card for the Shabby Tea Room's challenge to make a shabby Halloween card. A Crafty Secrets Vintage Booklet Seasonal Picture was distressed around the edges and mounted on black matting. It was adhered over the chipboard tree from Little Yellow Bicycle and Martha Stewart punched bats give it a spooly look. Piercing was done around the background layer with the sewing machine, then the edges were distressed. The spider web and sentiment were stamped with stamps from Crafty Secrets Halloween Fun set and the ribbon bow, flowers, button, and twine finish it off.

This is also for a few other challenges:

1. Paper Playtime - ribbon, buttons, or rhinestones
2. The Character Cafe - 2 embellishments, ribbon, and the color orange

3. Simon Says Stamp and Show - distressing

4. Stamptacular Sunday Challenge - at least 5 layers (I have 5)

5. Paper Sundaes - use something from your stash (I used the lace, flowers, and designer paper)

6. Sentimental Sundays - Autumn or Fall

Tuesday's Projects

Hello everyone!!! I actually got up this morning and headed to the craft room and didn't come out till I had made three cards. I'll share two of them with your today...the first was made for the Color Challenge on Splitcoast: Rich Razzleberry, So Saffron, and Tangerine Tango....such pretty fall colors!!
The Rubbernecker Wildflower Background stamp was used to create the background and the sentiment from RN's Flower Silhouettes 2 #468 was embossed with white ep for the dessert option. The three layers were then run through the Cuttlebug with a leaf folder for a little texture. The sketch is Card Patterns Sketch #84.
Recipe:
Stamps: Rubbernekcer
Paper: Rich Razzleberry, So Saffron, Vanilla, Orange Zest
Ink: Versamark, So Saffron, Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry
Accessories: Ribbon, Twine, Button, Cuttlebug, Nestabilities

This is the card I made for our DGD Caitlyn's third birthday....she wanted a princess birthday so, of course, she needed a princess card!!! I used the sketch from Sweet Sunday Sketch #87 and stickers from EK Success. The paper is also from EK Success and it's called Disney Princess. The sentiment was computer generated.

Recipe:

Paper: EK Success dp, Pink Pirouette, White

Accessories: Punches for the sentiment, Ribbon, EK Success Stickers, Pearls, Heart Bling

Thanks for stopping by....hope you have a super special day!!!

Happy Sunday!!

Good morning everyone....I am kinda shell shocked this morning!! I met my friend, Bev (TexasGrammy), in Salado yesterday...it's a little village about 12 miles south and it's full of shops, antiques, and the best little stamp shop ever!! We shopped for a few hours and then went back to my house....we fed the horses, went out to eat, and then stamped till 3AM...yikes!!! Bev made a card called Best Friends for one of the Cling to Hope challenges on Splitcoast for Breast Cancer
awareness (the brown challenge by Lori Craig) and I thought I was making a CAS card for the pink challenge by Lydia Fiedler but I failed to read all the criteria. It was supposed to be pink and for a holiday of some kind. I hardly think making a wish is much of a holiday!!! That's what happens when I stay up too late and my brain cells stop functioning...LOL!! Anyway...I'll share it here with you and make another one for the challenge.

The silhouette from Flourishes Kids at Play set was stamped with Black Onyx Versafine and embossed with clear ep. The frame was made around the image and sentiment with a Labels 12 Nestabilities...the pearls in the corners are the only embellishment. This is pretty simple but very CAS!!

Edit: Betty Wright (gbedwright) suggested I enter this in the Flourishes World Card Making Day challenge since it's not an A2 size and it's pink....thanks Betty!!!

Sweet Bev is making friends with Midnight....

The girls have been a little cranky because we made them wear fly masks....they can see through the mesh but the flys can't attack their eyes. They will pout for a few days before they get used to the masks.

Thanks for stopping by this morning...have a great Sunday!!!

Waltzingmouse Sketch, Color Throw Down, and a Tea Party!!!

Hello everyone!!! I finally had a little time to stamp this evening while I watched Project Runway...love that show!!! Anyway...I made this for the Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge #16 (BTW, I was one of the Top Mouse Award winners last week...Whoohoo!!!) and I used the pretty colors from this weeks Color Throwdown Challenge #112: Old Olive, Riding Hood Red, and Pumpkin Pie. The flowers were stamped with Waltzingmouse Stamps Sewing Box Hugs set and papers from Basic Grey's Sugar Rush papers. The button, twine, and the Candy Dots finish it off.

This is also for a few other challenges:
1. C.R.A.F.T. Challenge Blog - Fancy Florals
2. Stamp Simple #159 - think in 3's
3. Sisterhood of Crafters - use 3 flowers on your card
4. Caardvarks - clean and simple
5. Creative Card Crew Challenge - flowers
6. Craft Your Passion Challenge - clean and simple
7. Paper Cupcakes - fall inspiration

This is the card I made on Tuesday for this weeks Color Challenge on Splitcoast to use Basic Gray, Daffodil Delight, and Rose Red. My dessert option was blue. I had a hard time with the yellow, though...the flower centers in the background paper were punched from a scrap of yellow cardstock and glued to centers...not a whole lot of yellow but at least it's there!!! This is also for da Mudders Teapot Tuesday challenge to help Summer win the Tutu by bringing stash that's worth all of the cash! We were to gussy up our cards with lots of stuff...ribbon, bling, flowers...ya know, all the things we love to hoard!!! I used the Mojo Monday Sketch #158 for the layout...stamped the adorable little teapot from PTI's Tea for Two set with Ballet Blue Craft ink and embossed with clear ep. The little metal flowers with the blingy centers are from Making Memories and the ribbon and pearls finish it off.
Recipe:
Stamps: PTI's Tea for Two
Paper: White, Basic Grey, Summer Sun, Stampin Up dp
Ink: Basic Grey, Ballet Blue
Accessories: Ribbon, Pearls, Metal Flowers, Clear ep,

Thanks for visiting tonight...now I have to go watch Out on the Rode with Austin and Santino....call me crazy...LOL!!!

Splitcoast's TLC Challenge - Stamping on Tissue Paper

Hello everyone!! I am the hostess this week for Splitcoast's Technique Lover's Challenge (TLC292) ...today we are going to stamp on tissue paper....it really adds a lot of texture to your artwork!! I bet you have some of that crumpled up tissue paper in the bottom of an old gift bag....go dig it out and lets have a little fun!!!

The first step is to spray it with water...I mixed a little Perfect Pearls powder in the water so mine would have a little shimmer. You could also mix a little Pearl Ex in the water or spritz with Glimmer mist...what ever flips you skirt!!

Dry the tissue paper with a heat tool...

I colored the Rubbernecker Wildflower stamp with Old Olive and Ruby Red markers...

and stamped on the dried tissue paper...the image was stamped off three times.

When the ink was dry I cut it out with a round Nestabilies.....

A background layer the same size as the tissue paper image was cutout so the tissue paper layer will show up....the light colored tissue paper looks best with a light background layer.

Use a glue stick to adhere the tissue paper layer to the background layer.....

Now it's ready......

Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Wildflower

Paper: White, Riding Hood Red, Basic Grey's June Bug and Offbeat

Ink: Ruby Red and Old Olive Markers

Accessories: Wrinkled Seam Binding, Button, Twine, Nestabilities, Spellbinders Scalloped Die, Dotted Swiss Cuttlebug Folder, Tissue Paper

Now we will use a piece of brown tissue paper.....spray it...

dry it.....

stamp it with white ink.....

how cool is that!!!

Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Wildflower

Paper: Vanilla, Stampin Up dp

Ink: PTI's Perfect Match Fresh Snow, Memento Rich Cocoa for the stamped weeds images on the background vanilla layer

Accessories: Ivory Silk Ribbon, ZVA Pearl Flourish, Nestabilities, Martha Stewart Butterfly Punch

I love this technique so much that I just had to make another card using pink tissue paper!!! Memento Rich Cocoa was used with the Rubbernecker Wildflower image.

Recipe:

Stamps: Rubbernecker Weeds and Sentiment from Rubbernecker's Party Time set

Paper: Pink Pirouette, Chocolate Chip

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa

Accessories: Webster's Pages Brown Bloomer, Stampin Up! Leaf Die, TH Brick Embossing Folder, Nestabilities

I hope you found a little inspiration here today...now go dig out the tissue paper and stamp away!!!