myasperations 9-11-24

       I pulled out a purrfectly sweet clear stamp set from Art Impressions to make a card for their current challenge. Although the theme is “My Favorite Peeps”, I created my card to show that some people's favorite peeps are furry!  This card will be set aside to give to one of my co-workers who proudly claims the title "Cat Lady." Her feline friends (and people friends) do ADORE her!

 

Supplies: 

·   Cat Lady Clear Stamp Set from Art Impressions (Retired)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen  

·   Front Sentiment “Loads of Love” from  Beccy’s Place Digi Set- The Long Haul  (Retired)

·   Inside Sentiment- “It will be a Cat-astrophy…”” from Eureka Digital Stamps (Currently not available)

·   Pioneer Black Photo corners- available from several sources

·   Paw Print paper-Hobby Lobby

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Art Impressions Guest DT Challenge- #386 My Favorite Peeps

Polkadoodles Challenge- Week #35 AG                                          

Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge- Furry Thing Goes- #104 Sept  

     I had three brothers, so grew up in a rough-and-tumble world with lots of softball, fishing, and collecting bugs! I even took an entomology class in college because I liked learning about [most] kinds of bugs. Butterflies were always a favorite. So… I like everything about this card! I wanted to find a unique way to include this large sentiment, and decided on a special fold, named the Standing Pop-Up card. (My supplies list includes a link to a tutorial.) However, for the sentiment to fit, I did end up making the pop-up section bigger and… and then rotated the card design a bit, making more of a “lying on its side” pop-up card! A scrap of paper doily and pretty ribbon added a romantic vintage feeling to the card. Ahhh… nice!                           

Supplies: 

·   Standing Pop-Up card tutorial can be found HERE

·   Sentiment Digi- Eureka Digital Stamp (Happiness is like a Butterfly…) Currently Not Available

·   Butterfly Digis- Fred She Said Designs (Distressed-Butterfly & Blossoms-Digi-Set)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Paper Doily, R&W ribbon, thin strips of acetate, and other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Cupcake Inspirations- #601 Theme Challenge- Buggy for Bugs   

Path Of Positivity Challenge- Challenge #123 (Anything Goes Positive)

Paper Funday- #69 Anything Goes

We Love Stamping- Hand Colored  

   I made this card featuring a Di’s Digi Stamps image named “Halloween Crew,” from for their current “Fun Fold” challenge. The wonderful colored background image is a freebie from Di’s Digi FB Page. You can join HERE, then access the freebie by typing Halloween Moon into Di’s FB search bar.) I printed a copy of the Halloween Crew digi on white cardstock, colored, fussy-cut and set it aside. At this point, you can quickly finish the card by adhering the digi, sentiments, and creating some green grass “fringe” to slide under the wheels.

      Or…if you don’t mind a little more time creating, you can add a little bit of googly-eyed fun to the card! Just print off and fussy-cut an extra copy of the ghost, use an Exacto knife to trim out his eyes and mouth, plus trim around the windshield and side of the car where the ghost sts. Then slide the spook into place and tape him down on the underside of the car. Add the googly eyes… and enjoy a bit of giggling while finishing the card front!

    If you follow my blog you’ll know that I like to decorate the inside of my cards, and I really had fun with this one! I printed off a smaller background scene, in greyscale since my ink levels were a little low, traced the ghost from the printed digi onto a scrap of vellum, fussy cut then adhered it behind a fun (and freebie) sentiment. So fun!

    I’m entering my card into several challenges including Park Hopping: My Happy Place (I have one Halloween theme park on my bucket list-Hersheypark Halloween. Two words-Free Chocolate!)

Supplies: 

·   Halloween Background- Dis Digi FB Halloween moon freebie- Oct 10 2023

·   Digi- from Dis Digis B&W Digital Image (Halloween Crew)

·   Colored with Spectrum Noir Classique markers and Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen

·   Front Sentiments- hand printed on scraps and cut into talk balloons.

·Inside Sentiment- TLC Creations Freebie (FaBOOlous Halloween)

·   All other items from my stash.

Entered into:  

Di’s Digi Stamps- Fancy Folds

Park Hopping-My Happy Place (Sept)  Hersheypark Halloween

Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge- Anything Goes

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Friday (Fall Is Coming)

Outlawz Challenge- Sept 2024 Linky