3 From Stamp On It

My work schedule has settled down a bit the last few weeks so I was able to make extra DT cards for the QKR Stampede Challenge. Stop by the challenge, which is always “Anything Goes” and several prizes are awarded.

The front of the first one features a Eureka digi (ES-digi34502 Tree Losing Leaves) and a Eureka sentiment (ES-digi7706 Thinking of You.) After coloring the scene with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen, I added “leaves” with three beautiful colors of Nuvo Crystal drops. I love the sheen and texture that they add to the card! The inside sentiment is also from Eureka (ES-digi 19801 You Loving Ways) with the added bling of scattered Nuvo drops.

 

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenge- Saturday Paper Ala Mode- Kindness                      

Power Poppy- Creative Confetti- Make it Shimmer

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

My second DT card for the QKR Stampede Challenge is a delicate Easter card. The front features a butterfly fussy-cut from a large Eureka digi (ES 58501- Butterfly background) and a fun-to-color Eureka sentiment (ES-digi3701 Happy Easter.) The background is created with a handful of paper strips and a tutorial I found HERE. I cut a frame into pretty notecard that has an embossed edge and taped the pastel background behind this frame. I colored the Happy Easter sentiment and beautiful butterfly with Spectrum Noir markers and added details with a white Sakura Gelly Roll gel pen. I didn’t want the patterned background to overwhelm the butterfly, so I added a layer of vellum atop the background. The inside sentiment is also a Eureka digi (ES-digi57502 Easter Blessings.) I added a few little butterflies colored and fussy-cut from the butterfly background digi. Am entering this card into several challenges including Butterfly Challenge (it includes one color- Pink Lavender.)

Entered into: 

Butterfly Challenge- #127 Letter K for Kenetic                
Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #400-401 Anything Goes                   

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- August                             

My final  card for this post is from the company Biblical Impressions, which is one of the companies sold on a website named Stamp On It (which also sell QKR and Eureka stamps and digis!)  This card features a wonderful wood-mount stamp named Large Hermit Crab which is a favorite of mine. I love coloring the cute critter with my Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. For this card, I used a bunch of scrap papers in assorted colors, circle dies and photos from old calendar pages (I NEVER throw calendars away… and several people now save them for me. So fun!) The sentiments are computer-generated.

 

Entered into: 

Di’s Digi Stamps Circles                                                                        

Pixie's Snippets-Week #359                                                                               

Lemon Shortbread Challenge- Anything Goes #100

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge – 3 colors and a Twist

Seeing stars and Giraffes

It's Wednesday! So time for another challenge at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog where challenges are always Anything Goes and prizes are awarded from one or more sponsors.  Stop by the blog to check it out! The sponsor this week is The Paper Shelter, and I couldn’t decide which of the images to use… so I made cards with two of the images from a set named Giraffes on Holidays! 

This first card features a Mummy Giraffe image from the set. I colored the funny guy with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. The sentiment and strips of patterned paper are actually a party napkin that I adhered to the front of the card. Don’t you love it?  I used a scrap of the napkin to decorate the inside and created a sentiment with alphabet stickers from my scrapbook stash. The final touches were to perch a little pumpkin sticker on the letter “k” and sprinkle the front and inside of the card with clear green plastic dots. So fun!

 

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Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge

Polkadoodles Challenge Week 33-Anything Goes                                  

Ching-Chou Kuik's Digital Stamps Inspiration & Challenge- Four-Legged Friends  

         

The second features a St. Paddy Mummy from the set. I colored the dapper fella with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. The background is a sheet of stationery, and the shamrock embellishments are fussy cut from a sheet of patterned paper  The “A Happy Hello” sentiment on the front is from a Whimsy digi set named "Vintage Sentiments."  [You can find it HERE.]  The “Wishing You a Happy Day” sentiment on the inside of the card is a freebie from WinkWinkInk. (You can find it HERE.)

I'm entering this card into several challenges including Outlawz Color Challenge (my card includes every color in the photo... and then some!) 

 

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge – 3 colors and a Twist

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Midsummer Blues                          

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

My final card for this posting features an adorable image from All Dressed Up called “Stars and Back.”  It is the free image for the August progressive challenge at Outlawz… and I love it! After printing the sweet kiddo onto white cardstock, I colored her with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. I next fussy-cut the image and adhered it to a card front atop a background of starry sky patterned paper. The final touch was to color in the “love” part of the sentiment and the stars with a glittery gold gel pen. This last step allows me to enter the card into the current challenge at Power Poppy since it adds some wonderful sheen to the card. (It took a photo with a flash to try to show this sparkle. It shows a bit of the sheen but doesn’t do the card justice. It really is pretty in real life.)  

 

Entered into: 

Outlawz Challenges- Progressive Freebie- August
Power Poppy- Creative Confetti- Make it Shimmer

All Dressed Up- Anything Goes- #96 Anything Goes                             

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #400-401 Anything Goes                   

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #595– Add a Quote

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- August                             

Cuteness Overload

I love this sweet image from The Paper Shelter named “All Wrapped Up” and had fun creating a flurry of snowflakes just for her joy. The snowflakes were made with a Lawn Fawn die set and two snowflake punches. I colored the cutie with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen, then fussy-cut the image and mounted her to the card front with foam tape to make her "pop up." The final touch was to add a bit of fuzzy texture with a wonder cotton ball that came from a bottle of asperin. I saved it because it isn't the fake cotton but the real thing. It came apart in wonderful layers that were easy to glue to the hat. The sentiment on the inside of the card is from a Beccy’s Place digi set named “Seasonal Windows.”

 

Entered into: 

The Paper Shelter- #393 Punches & Dies

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #400-401 Anything Goes                   

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

My second card features a cute image from All Dressed Up that is a Freebie. You can find it HERE. I printed the little pup on kraft paper, coloring him with a few  Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. I paper pieced the ribbon and bow with the same patterned paper that I layered behind the image. The wonderful sentiment is part of the sentiment. It makes me smile!

Entered into: 

All Dressed Up- Anything Goes- #96 Anything Goes                             

Outlawz Challenges- Monday Greeting Challenge
Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #595– Add a Quote

My final card for this posting is also adorable. The image from Tiddly Inks is named “Thanks a Latte.” My card was inspired by one of the cards featured on the Tiddly website, loving its shabby chic beauty. The image is colored with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. I paper pieced the tablecloth, cups and embellishments on the inside of the card, by printing those segments of the image on several different patterned papers, then fussy cutting them, and adding a bit of shading and highlighting. To add some depth to the card I added foam tape behind the tablecloth and cups on the front of the card. The inside sentiment is a freebie from HERE.

 

Entered into: 

Tiddly Inks- Challenge-#228- Anything Tiddly Ink Goes     
Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- August                             

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge – 3 colors and a Twist

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Midsummer Blues                          

August Twofer Challenge

I love the intriguing stamping opportunity called "Twofer Card Challenge" which requires the use of the exact same stamp or die to make two cards with distinctly different designs for two different occasions. The August Challenge is called named "Nautical" and I used a Stamps Happen wood mount stamp named “A Friendly Light.” I goggled to see if this stamp line is still available but could not find it. I did find assorted stamps on Ebay AND a website for artist D. Morgan, who made a whole line of beautiful scenery stamps which included her “signature touch” of delicate handwritten sentiments many years ago. Stop in HERE to see her amazing artwork, with prints at very affordable prices.

 

My first card is a sympathy card. I stamped the image onto white card stock, trimmed it down to size, then colored it. I usually use alcohol markers but thought that a dawn sky would work well for a sympathy card, and would fit well with the inside sentiment. So, used Aquarelle Watercolor pencils, a Dove blender pen, and added a few highlights with a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen. Added “light” strips of white and yellow vellum, fussy-cutting around the top of the lighthouse and taping the vellum strips in place. I also cut a small slit in the card front along the left side of the framed area, allowing me to slip the vellum beneath it so as not to block the delicate lettering. When finished I layered the stamped image onto the card front, trimmed the ends of the vellum strips, and put the rest of the card together. The sentiment on the front and inside are both computer-generated. (And the sweet little anchor on the inside was made with a paper punch that I picked up at JoAnn's last year for $2. Love the look of it punched in silver paper and tied in place with a scrap of think jute.)

 

Entered into: 

Twofer Card Challenge- #19 Nautical                                                    

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #400-401 Anything Goes                   

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

Pink Gem Challenge- Week 16 Anything Goes

Scribbles Designs Challenge- #80: Include a Sentiment

For the second “Adventure” card I stamped the image onto an earthy blue-grey card stock, and used Spectrum Noir markers, a white colored pencil, white gel pen, and fine-line black pen, and a lot of experimenting to color it! I wanted the card to depict a “blustery day“ (love that Winnie the Pooh quote!) and think I accomplished that. I used scraps of patterned paper from my scrapbook stash, plus made a little “boat knot” to accent the card front. (I googled “Nautical Knots” and found a nice diagram of knots HERE. I made a few square knots (fairly easy) then decided that I wanted to try a Carrick Bend knot and found a  video tutorial that helped immensely HERE.) The little star embellishment was made with some scrap papers, a little anchor from a strip of scrapbook paper, a star punch, and several different sized circle punches. The sentiment on the front of the card is from a Beccy’s Place digi set named “Walk By Faith” and the inside sentiment is from a Lil of the Valley digi set named “Quotables” appears to no longer be available. Am entering this card into several challenges including Outlaws Tuesday Color Challenge (I used beige, plus red and a few shades of blue. For the twist- how about a creative twist of jute?)

 

  

Entered into: 

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Midsummer Blues

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge – 3 colors and a Twist

The Paper Shelter- #393 Punches & Dies

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #595– Add a Quote

Di’s Digi Stamps- Circles                                                                        

Let’s Craft and Create- Anything Goes (August option- Entwined)

Friday FUN!

My final entry in the current Double D Challenge named “It’s a Jungle Out There” features a cute digi set from Tiddly Inks named “Monkey Around.” I created a sky background with a handmade template, chalks and makeup sponge. I colored the images  with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen before fussy-cutting them out. I cut a vine with a QuicKutz cookie cutter border die, carefully wove it through the digi vine that the monkey was swinging from then adhered the whole thing to the card front. The sentiments are from the digi set, but I added the word “for” to the beginning of the one on the inside. The sweet little monkey on the inside, titled “Monkey Toy” reminds me of the sock monkeys that my mom made for all of her kiddos… so I really did want a monkey hug while making this card! Or better yet, a Mom hug!

 

 

Entered into: 

Double D’s Challenge- It’s A Jungle Out There               

Outlawz Challenge- Festive Fridays                                                       

Tiddly Inks- Challenge-#228- Anything Tiddly Ink Goes     
Let’s Craft and Create- Anything Goes (August option- Entwined)

I used a Tim Holtz Collection wood mount stamp from Stamper’s Anonymous to create my last card in this posting, which I’m entering into a fun challenge named Pixies Snippets, that requires the use of paper scraps. I wanted a monochromatic color scheme so I dug through my folders of scraps and found lots of potentials for the card. I then embossed the sentiment in white on black cardstock to create bold contrast and trimmed the stamped image into a rectangle. After a bit of experimenting, I decided to create geometric shapes with the paper scraps, making four triangles that became two nice squares and layered these atop a rectangle of some lovely swirly paper.  I planned to adhere the sentiment atop this base, but it looked way to blah for me. So I switched up one triangle with bright red striped paper. Better, but still kinda boring. The sentiment rectangle needed more pizazz so I added a few layers of paper scraps behind it, turning it into a tag. I then tied a snippet of thin red ribbon around the base of the black ribbon on the tag, attaching a little silver star charm. The final touch was to punch a few little red hearts that were added to the card front. Bye-bye blah!

Entered into: 

Pixie's Snippets-Week #358                                                                              

Word Art Wednesday Challenge- #400-401 Anything Goes                   

Cute Card Thursday- Challenge #595– Add a Quote

Crafty Hazelnut’s Patterned Paper Challenge- August                             

Scribbles Designs Challenge- #80: Include a Sentiment

I am using one of my newer digi sets from Power Poppy named “Cuppa Cupcake” to enter their “Free for All” challenge. The instructions were to make anything at all that we wanted as long as we use a Power Poppy digi or stamped image. I printed the cupcake tower on kraft paper and colored them with Aquarelle watercolor pencils and a Dove Blender pen. The Merry die-cut on the front of the card is from a Stampin' Up Expressions Thinlit Die set, and the inside sentiment is from a Beccy’s Place digi set named “Just Desserts.” To give the card a festive touch I added rhinestones to the candle and sparklers on the card front, and a little pink gem heart on the inside.  

 

 

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Power Poppy- Creative Confetti- Free For All

The Paper Shelter- #393 Punches & Dies

The Sisterhood of Crafters- Die-namics 

This months Progressive Challenge at the FB Cute As A Button features a cute image named “Beach Babe.” I colored the image with Spectrum Noir markers and a Sakura Gelly Roll white gel pen then adhered her to a card front that featured a beach photo upcycled from an old calendar.  The sentiment on the front of the card is a freebie from HERE.  The sentiment on the inside is from a Bugaboo Stamps digi set named Under the Sea. Am including this card into several challenges including Outlawz Tuesday Challenge (three colors-beige, blue, and rusty red; and a twist- upcycled calendar page.)

 

 

Entered into: 

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Midsummer Blues                          

Simon Says Monday Challenge- Midsummer Blues

Outlawz Challenges- Tuesday Color Challenge – 3 colors and a Twist

Cute As A Button-Facebook Progressive Freebie Challenge No. 27-Beach Babe

Cute As A Button-#47 Anything Goes