Hooray It's Your Birthday!

 Hello and welcome!

It's been kind of a ghost town here lately, as I've been

busy making my annual Christmas cards. Now that I got

that done, I've switched to some much needed

birthday cards. Here's one:

I love to use collection kits that have a sticker sheet included. It takes

the guess work out of trying to match totally unrelated items together.

I wanted a really thin matte around the main panel, so I traced

around the die and fussy cut it. The panel is adhered with foam squares.

Another simple sentiment finishes the inside:

My card is based off of this fabulous sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #712.

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting, and I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Honey Bee Stamps - Mini Messages: Birthday, Inside Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Echo Park - Fairy Garden

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Echo Park - rainbow sticker from the Fairy Garden collection; Sunny Studio - Rounded Rectangle matte die; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner and foam squares; Bearly Art glue

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #268 D is for Drink

 

Hello and welcome, snarky peeps!

Can you believe that it's November 1st already?!!

A new month means a new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This month, we want to see projects that feature DRINKS!

Now, as most of my sisters did, they went the 

alcoholic beverage route, but not me:

(Shameless plug.)

I used a sentiment from one of my own STAMPlorations stamp sets, Hot Mess. 

I paired it with the Wonky Stitched Grid Texture Plate, along with

the Zen Coffee Cup Layering dies. I had made a panel smooshed with

Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed DOX ages ago, and used that

to cut out the detail coffee cup die.

I hope that you get a chance this month to play along in our Drinks challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more inspiration, check out what my sisters and our reigning Queen, Beverly have created for your viewing pleasure.

Thanks for visiting. I hope that you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Hot Mess

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Ranger DOX - Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed

CS: Cardstock Warehouse; Strathmore Bristol paper; Neenah; Recollections vellum

Accessories: STAMPlorations - wonky stitched grid texture plate, Zen coffee cup layering dies; Lawn Fawn - steam whisps from Build-A-Cauldron die set; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares; Bearly Art glue

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #267 S is for Spooky

 

Hello snarky peeps and welcome!

Can you believe that it's October already?

A new month means a new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

No surprise here. We want to see your spooky

projects! Also, this being 

Breast Cancer Awareness Month, as an option,

use the color pink on your creation.

I decided to make an art journal page:

I went all out spooky for this page,

my inspiration being the movie, The Shining.

What started it was the two girls (Tim Holtz Halloween

Paper Dolls). I coated them with Liquitex matte gel and once

dry, colored them using a water pen and Derwent

Inktense Block 0400. I used a spiderweb stencil with

crackle paste. After it dried, I painted orange and raw umber acrylic 

paint over it. Random stamping, splatters, and gold Stickles were also added.

I added some themed paper and boarders, and finally alpha Thickers 

to spell REDRUM.

Here are some process photos:

I hope that you'll join us this month at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for our Spooky challenge!

Please do yourself a favor and check out what my 

sisters created and also our reigning Queen, Wendy! 

Thanks for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

Supplies:

Strathmore: art journal; mixed media paper w/vellum

Golden Gesso

Ranger Texture Paste - opaque crackle

Echo Park - Spooky Spiderweb stencil

DecoArt Americana - bright orange, raw umber

Stazon ink - Timber Brown & Jet Black

Indigo Blu - Tasty Textures stamps

Ranger - gold Stickles

Tim Holtz - Paper Dolls Halloween; water mister

Liquitex - matte gel

Derwent inktense block 0400

American Crafts - Thickers alpha stickers

Authentique - Enchanted papers

Recollections - Halloween boarder stickers

EK Success - Vampire die cut borders

Bearly Art glue

various brushes & pallet knife

Creepy, kooky, freaky, spooky

Hello and welcome!

It's been some time since I've posted anything.

Lots happening this month. First, I got the

worst case of food poisoning I've ever had.

It took 1-1/2 weeks to finally get over it,

with a trip to Urgent Care thrown in.

Then we drove home to visit family in Illinois

and Wisconsin for a couple weeks.

Now we are home and I'm back to making cards.

For this card, I used an image that I colored when

we were up in Wisconsin visiting my MIL.

I brought a bunch of images to color with my

Prisma Color pencils. The pencils are much easier

to haul cross country than my markers.

(But I do often haul the markers. I was just lazy)

To make the clear bottle pop more, I did use a

Spectrum Noir marker (LG1) to color the background.

The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's Small Talk Occasions 

sticker pad. A stamped sentiment finishes the inside.

I'd like to enter this at the Paper Players #757 challenge.

Thanks for visiting. Have a wonderful day!

Supplies:

Stamps: The East Wind - Dragon Tears digi; Queen & Co. - Halloween

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: Graphic 45 - Rare Oddities

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Prisma Color pencils; LG1 Spectrum noir marker; Sunny Studio - Lg & Sm stitched oval dies; Tim Holtz - Small Talk Occasions sticker; MISTI; Computer & printer

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #266 F is for Finally Fall

 

Hello and welcome snarky peeps!

Isn't this graphic by Sister Lee absolutely amazing?!!!

It's time for another fun challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS!

This month, we'd like to see your Fall themed projects!

Here's what I came up with:

No snark this time, but I did add a punny sentiment. 😁

I tried that technique that I keep seeing on Simon Says Stamp,

where you blend color on the debossed side of cardstock embossed

with an embossing folder, then swipe a black ink pad over the whole

panel to fill in the background.

This is what it looked like before swiping the black ink pad over it:

That adorable mouse was hard to see with the busy background,

so I used a strip of the same green cardstock as my card base,

and embossed it (debossed?), lining it up with the colored panel

to keep the design flowing. Make sense?

Another sentiment finishes the inside:

I hope that you find some time this month to play along in

our Fall challenge at the

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!

For more ideas, do check out what my sisters and our

reigning Queen, Michelle, have created!

Thanks for visiting. Have a fabulous day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - You Autumn Know & dies, Offset Sayings: Birthday

Ink: Taylored Expressions - Pineapple, Granny Smith, Sweet Potato Pie, Guava, Gumball: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Taylored Expressions; Neenah; Spectrum Noir

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Darice - Fall Leaves Swirl Embossing Folder; MISTI

Adhesives: Bearly Art glue; Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

It's a mile marker challenge at Freshly Made Sketches!

 Hello and welcome, crafty friends!

I'm joining the festivities at

Freshly Made Sketches for their 700th sketch challenge!

That's quite the mile marker, congrats!!

Here's what I came up with:

Does that heart sticker match exactly with the background colors?

Nope. Am I stressing out about it? Also nope. LOL!

This is such a versatile sketch. I'm planning on making another

or 6 more cards using it. 😊

ETA: Well, the blog said that it was open until 3 PM, but the linky already

closed. Got to remember not to enter at the last minute, even though

it's only 2 pm. Oh well. Congrats anyway! 😏

Here's to many more FMS sketches! 🥂

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

DP: Queen & Co. - Bring On Spring

CS: Neenah; Cardstock Warehouse

Accessories: Paper Rose - Stitches Square die; Honey Bee Stamps - Big Birthday dies; Doodlebug Designs - heart sticker from the Party Time collection kit

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

Not a day over fabulous

 Hello and happy Friday to you all!

Here's a festive card I'd like to share:

I used markers that matched as close as possible to the colors

of that background panel. For some sparkle,

I dotted the centers of all the stars with some Nuvo Glitter Drops.

Of course, with my crack photography skills,

you can't see that. LOL!

I liked this so much, that I made a couple

more cards with the same design,

I just changed either the sentiment or the

background paper:

The new challenge at Seize the Birthday #311 prompts us to NOT use

any flowers on your card, so I'll be linking up there.

Also, Just Us Girls #788 has a birthday challenge this week.

Thanks for visiting. I hope that you have a great weekend!

Take care.

Supplies:

Stamps: Spellbinders - Awesome Birthday; Avery Elle - Inside Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Dandelion

DP: Doodlebug Designs - Lot's O' Luck; Simple Stories - Hello Summer

CS: Spectrum Noir; Neenah; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; LDR Design- Arched & Scalloped Arched dies; Queen & Co. - Stitched Rectangle die; MISTI; Nuvo Glitter Drops - white blizzard

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares

Time to get it started

 Hello and welcome!

I'm sharing the second Christmas card

I've made so far this year.

Gulp. Better get going on those now. LOL!

I went riffling through my Christmas stash and rediscovered

this cute, quirky reindeer. I colored him up with Copic markers

then blended Vintage Photo DI around the edge of 

the oval, the back panel and sentiment strip.

Another simple sentiment finishes the inside.

Jingle Belles has a sketch challenge that's just about

ended, so I'm squeaking in at the last minute to enter that.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Cosmo Cricket - Jolly Days; Honey Bee - Inside Holiday Sentiments

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Cottage Ivy; Ranger DI - Vintage Photo

DP: Carta Bella - A very Merry Christmas

CS: Spectrum Noir; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Copic markers; Sunny Studio - Rounded Rectangle Mat & Stitched Oval dies; MISTI

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner, foam squares

Let's Shell-abrate!

 Hello and welcome!

I'm still plugging away trying to

use my new (or new to me)

stash of crafty goodies.

(Buying craft supplies and using them are two different things.)

This card combines items from

a bunch of different companies:

The stencil, sand dollar/seahorse dies, and sentiment are all new

items. I masked around the different shells to blend

different inks for different shells. Time consuming, but

I love how it looks! For the seahorse and sand dollars,

I blended the same inks onto the same cardstock, (a beige

color, because it looks like sand! LOL!) I die cut,

then left the die cut pieces in the die to blend in the darker

colors. This reminds me of looking for shells at

my favorite happy place, Topsail Island, NC.

We just came back from a little mini vacation there,

and I'm ready to go back!

Paper Players #749 has a By the Water challenge going on, so

I'm linking up there. My card is based off the current 

sketch at Atlantic Hearts Challenge #641.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a wonderful rest of your day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Lawn Fawn - Magic Messages; Avery Elle - Inside Birthday Greetings

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky, Teal Zeal, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Cantaloupe, Lu Lu Lavender, Grape Jelly; Altenew - Blush, Pink Pearl, Puffy Heart

CS: Taylored Expressions - Thunderbolt

Accessories: Pretty Pink Posh - Layered Seashells stencils; Spellbinders - Seahorse and Sand Dollar dies; Avery Elle - double pierced rectangle dies; Paper Roses - stitched square dies; MISTI; Prismacolor pencil

Adhesives: Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner & foam squares; Bearly Art glue

Have a fruitful birthday!

 Hello crafty peeps and welcome!

I'm back with another card using

more 'new to me' stuff.

Last month, my snarky sister, Jules, was

in town so we met up and took a trip to

Enchanted Cottage in Lewisville, NC.

This is one of the die sets that 

I purchased there:

Admittedly, I pretty much copied the picture on the

packaging, with a few tweaks and additions.

I had the background panel sitting on my desk

leftover from this card, so I decided to use it.

I love the dramatic effect of the dark blue background.

It really makes the die cuts pop!

Addicted to Stamps and More #498 has a birthday challenge,

so I'm linking up there. Also, I'm linking up at

Seize the Birthday #296. No toppings this time, just ATG.

And of course, I used new stuff so also at NBUS Challenge #77.

Thanks for visiting. I hope you have a great day!

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Signature Sentiments & dies

Ink: Taylored Expressions - Blue Corn

DP: Taylored Expressions; Neenah

Accessories: Spellbinders - Citrus Spritz die set; Pink & Main - Reversed Scalloped Rectangle die; MISTI

Adhesives: Bearly Art glue; Scrapbook Adhesives - tape runner, foam squares