Emerald Coast Seahorses

January 12, 2024 | Lisa K

I have been participating is an alphabet challenge this year. I get to select my destination and this week’s letter is E. With my husband’s help, I chose the Emerald Coast of Florida. Seahorses live in the Panhandle area of Florida, which is in the Emerald Coast.

The stencil used is from LDRS Creative, called Under the Sea. I used an assortment of Lawn Fawn inks on the stencil, placing the stencil on Bristol Smooth paper. The seahorses, greeting, and water droplets are all from Lawn Fawn Seahorsin’ Around set. I had these seahorses colored and cut out sitting in my stamp pocket waiting to be used.

This will be entered in: https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/01/january-2024-stencil-fun.html

I chose the optional challenge without birds. I may have to come back when I have time and create a card with birds and a stencil for this challenge.

I am also adding this to Word Art Wednesday as the sponsor is Lawn Fawn.

https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2024/01/anything-goes-weeks-629-630.html

The challenge is Anything Goes this time. I like how I managed to use a Lawn Fawn set.

I have been busy recently taking care of household things, as well as creating this month’s cards for the Splitcoaststampers.com Dirty Dozen monthly reveal. I participated in January’s challenge which will be live on January 15. You can view the cards there, if you join the fan club.

Thanks for sharing in my card. I am enjoying this challenge as it is stretching my creativity finding a destination that I can create something for.

Word Art with Sketch

January 1, 2024 | Lisa K

I was asked about how to use the Bible Verse on the Word Art Wednesday blog. I helped the person then decided to actually use the verse and see what I could create.

This sketch is from Crafty Al December, 2023. I used Gina K Designs stamps, patterned paper, cardstock, and ink for this card. I used the frame from Christmas Wishes. I chose this frame as I received a stamped one in the mail; each month I have received an image to color but this time, the person sent stamped images. I printed the verse on my laser printer, than stamped the wreath on the printed verse. The printing was not as dark as I like, so I traced it with a thin line marker. The patterned paper is Watercolor Garden and the cardstock is lemon yellow and the red is possibly red velvet; my reds are all stored together so I am not sure exactly which red it is.

https://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2023/12/anything-goes-annual-blog-hop.html

A new year! I hope to continue to create and share my cards this year. I often create more than I post. Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate each of you.

Smiling Faces

May 7, 2020 | Lisa K

Having fun with Online Card Classes Spring Camp2. Day 1 lesson is all about masking. I completed a card following the Reverse Masking technique.

https://papersmooches.blogspot.com/2020/05/welcome-new-ps-dt-and-our-may-challenge.html
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/2020/05/anything-goes-438-439.html

I used the Best Buds by Paper Smooches for the flowers and leaves. The sentiment is from All About You, a Stamp of Approval Cas-ual Friday set. I colored the images with Spectrum Noir markers.