I pulled out a Christmas set that I enjoy creating with, Festive Frame.
I embossed with Ranger gold embossing powder. I can’t remember the name of the cardstock, but I think it might be Charcoal Brown. I added a bit of color with a Tombow marker than added rhinestones to the center of the flowers. This is a simple card, but I know whoever received it will enjoy it.
Playing along with the Mod Squad Challenge this week. Having fun ink blending and creating a birthday card for my stash.
I followed Cathy Zielske’s card idea, https://www.cathyzielske.com/2020/07/more-masking-ink-blending-and-silhouette-stamping-featuring-products-from-gina-k-designs/, and created this card. I used the stamps Scripty Sayings and Nurturing Blooms for the stamping. My ink colors are Jelly Bean Green, Lovely Lavendar, and Sea Glass. After adding my sentiment and embossing in gold, I felt my card needed a bit more gold. I used the Versamarker and embossed the outline. It is not perfect, but works.
I enjoyed creating this card. Thanks for a fun challenge!
I pulled out an older stamp for a challenge at Split Coast Stampers and it is perfect for the Retro Rubber Challenge.
The little girls is getting her moves on. I found the best paper in an Carta Bella paper pack where the woodgrain makes a dance floor with the floral being the wallpaper. She in dressed in all pink tones to match the paper. The set used is Stampendous Boots Kiddo. I have had it for a few years purchased off the clearance rack at Hobby Lobby. I looked on Stampendous blog and found this was released in 2013. She is on a wooden block, so that helps with the age of the stamp. This was fun to create!
I created a card using a Gerda Steiner Designs stamp and had a lot of fun with it.
This card was created with a song in mind, “Born to be Wild”, from the Splitcoast Stampers Virtual Stamp Night challenges. The challenge was to select a song from the 1968 top 40 playlist and I chose a song with an image that came to mind. I do not own any motorcycle images, so I went with the next best thing of a scooter. I scoured the GSD-Stamps blog with design ideas used by the design team and it placed many ideas in my head. I decided on paper piecing for the scooter and pulled out SU colors from the 2018-2020 In Color cardstock and designer paper. Everything not paper pieced was colored with alcohol markers.
It has been a long time since I have stamped this image and colored it. It was such a fun card to create!
Baseball is a favorite past-time in the summer, and I have been to Busch Stadium a few times to watch the Cardinals in action. This was created for a challenge at Split Coast Stampers depicting Summer in the City. I made sure that the stars I added had stitching lines to meet the D and D Challenge of stitching.
I used a digital image from Power Poppy called Baseball Vignette Digital. I resized the image and printed it on our laser printer on Gina K Designs Layering Weight cardstock. When the toner was dry, I was able to color the image with alcohol markers. I fussy cut the image out and placed it on my cardbase with foam squares. I added stars all around with The Stamps of Life Stitched Stars dies; this is the smallest star in the set. Before cutting, I applied Sizzix adhesive sheets to the back side of the cardstock, this way the stars became a sticker.
Thanks for a fun contest!
This was a fun card to create. It has stencils, so is perfect for the Make My Monday challenge.
I used the Tim Holtz Rays layering stencil for the sun on this card. I used the yellow and orange inks from Lawn Fawn for the layering. The sunglasses are from The Stamps of Life, sunglasses2stamp dies. Enjoyable card to create.
I pulled out a very old stamp to create a card with. This will be entered in the Retro Rubber Challenge Blog.
The stamps shows the name Anita’s on the end, with no name or date. I have had this for 15 years at least. It also had a sticker or marking that reads $3.99. That also helps with the age.
I stamped the image with Memento Rich Cocoa ink, then colored the images with Spectrum Noir markers. The scalloped edge is Gina Marie Designs Stitched Scalloped Rectangles die. I enjoy pulling out very old stamps to create with every once in a while.
Still playing along with Virtual Stamp Night, using more Paper Smooches stamps.
I decided to pull out a rose stamp from Paper Smooches. I decided to create a Christmas card with this beautiful rose, so I added a Christmas greeting. All of the paper is from Stampin Up. I watercolored the rose using markers and a water brush. I spritzed the card with gold when completed.
I have been enjoying stamping with Paper Smooches stamps recently. I forgot how versatile they are. More Virtual Stamp challenges to go. I have no idea how many I will accomplish, but have enjoyed the ones I have participated in.
One last card for the current Paper Smooches challenge. I am playing along with the Virtual Stamp Night with Split Coast Stampers and this card was for a hat challenge.
I started with the hat. The SCS challenge is to use a Stetson on your card. There is a wonderful set called Noggin Toppers from Paper Smooches which is all about hats. I stamped the Stetson then masked it off before stamping the bear. The bear is from Courteous Cuties. I colored him with Spectrum Noir markers. Then it needed a greeting and didn’t have anything acceptable for this stetson wearing bear, so I created one using the Alphadot set. This was a fun card. It is only 3 X 3 inches, so will work well for a gift.
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