Just Us GIrls #754 - Mood Board Week

As it gets closer to Christmas, Carol Mc has chosen a great mood board to inspire your cards at Just Us Girls.

Here's a close-up view of a lot of things to choose from for your card. 

I was inspired by the lantern on the lower left.

The lantern is from PTI and the main image was embossed in Weathered Gold and then the detail stamped in black and heat embossed in clear.  The greens are from a TH die that were cut from white and colored with artist markers so I could have red berries that were covered with Glossy Accents.  I also glossed the candle from the set.  The bow is also from PTI, colored with markers, and the background was cut first with The Greetery Crimped Frame and then embossed with the SU Timeworn Type.  

What part of the mood board did the Design Team and our guest Jenn choose?  Take a look and get some inspiration of your own.  We'd love to see what you make.

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Time Out #277 - Inspired by Words

It's time for another Time Out Challenge and this time you are to be inspired by words.  "There truly is not an occasion that is not improved by wearing something festive. " Emma Straub 

I think we all enjoy putting on a little bling now and then, or maybe even an ugly sweater.  Whatever you like, transfer that into a card for the challenge.  For inspiration, check out the Design Team. 

How festive is this little lady with her ornament decorated antlers and glittery sweater?!  I knew right away she would be the star of my card.  I colored her with Altenew artist markers, adding Glossy Accents to the ornaments and Sparkling Snow heat embossing on the collar and cuffs.  The sentiment is from C9.  

Top Flight Stamps is our sponsor and the winner of the challenge will get a $25 credit to their store.

We'd love to see your card in our gallery.

Edited to Add:  I just saw The Paper Players challenge and this card fits there perfectly.  

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AAA Birthday #53

I'm back home in my craft studio so I should be able to use more of my crafty stash but the card for AAA Birthday is one I made before I left.  I knew I wanted to play with my Heart Hugs animals from Honey Bee and this is what I did. 

 

The bear was cut from kraft and colored with Distress Ink for shadows and dimension.  Both the balloon and the heart are from the set and were cut from red, with Glossy Accents on the balloon and black glaze pen on the nose and eyes. The sentiment is from Altenew. 

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CAS Christmas Challenge September 2020

The fact that I found a stamp set I brought with me at the last minute that was hidden in a hastily packed bag means I can enter the CAS Christmas Challenge- Tree. 

The tree and sentiment are from RC and the dome die from WF.  I stamped the tree with C9 Parsley and clear heat embossed it, then colored the circles with Zigs and added Glossy Accents over them.  I embossed the panel behind and lightly inked with Speckled Egg before popping up the domed panel with foam.  The sentiment looks crooked but then so does the bottom of the card.  A photo mystery for sure.

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Tag You're It! #95

Kim is our host for this challenge at Tag You're It! This is her theme choice.

The only Barbecue stuff I have is from EBE Bearware but it worked great.

Distress Inks were used for the background and grill, which also has a coating of Glossy Accents. The sentiment and apron were borrowed from Michele's Bearware 4 set.

The Design Team would like to show you what they made to inspire you.  Check out the blog and then make a tag based on BBQ.  We'd love to see you in the gallery.

Tag You're It! #91

We have a luscious inspiration photo for you at Tag You're It!

Since it's Cherry Festival time in northern Michigan I decided to make cherries my summer fruit.

I stamped a background grid from HA onto a scrap of white cs and cut my Frantic Stamper tag, adding a polka dot top. The cherries from Sunny Studio are layered with Altenew ink and covered with Glossy Accents.  A PB sentiment and some red ribbon finish the tag off.

The Design Team would love to see what summer fruit(s) you use for your tag. 

Freshly Made Sketches #373

I was trying to combine two challenges and that didn't quite work.  What started out as a card for the other challenge (because it had an owl in it) ended up being solely for Freshly Made Sketches.

The owls came to me from Joyce Mehrberg a long time ago.  I forgot to check the maker on the back of the image before I cut it down.   She was so good about labeling all the ones she sent to me and I dropped the ball. :(  I colored them with PolyChromos pencils, added Glossy Accents to the eyes and balloon, and mounted it on Summer Sunrise from PTI that matches their polka dot paper.  The sentiment is from another owl set from MFT.

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CAS(E) This Sketch #286

CAS(E) This Sketch gave me a chance to use my NBUS  'Hooray' die from MFT.

I had this shaving cream marble panel in my WTDWT drawer and thought it would make a celebratory background for the Glossy Accent covered word die (which is actually the same color blue).  I tied in the yellow (pun intended) with a balloon from SSS, also covered with GA. 

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TIME OUT #116

Sometimes card ideas just pop into your head and other times it's a struggle.  I thought of my card for  TIME OUT while looking for a stencil for another challenge and it all came together just like I imagined.

Once I inked the MFT ray stencil, I made my embellishment to go in the center.  I saw Jennifer McGuire do this technique here and knew it would be perfect, especially since I had the 'sunshine' die from EbyE and lots of Glossy Accents.  Here's  a close-up.

I have a free day tomorrow so I'm planning to put my craft room back in order.  I have NBUS that needs labeling and filing and bits and pieces of paper, backgrounds and card bases that are scattered about.  I'm not usually this disorganized but the weeks away and then the whirlwind stamping of last Friday and Saturday left me with a mess.  A happy mess but a mess never-the-less.  Now that I'm getting back on track with challenges, I need a little more structure so I can find what I need.  You never have that problem do you?

Twofer #4

The new Twofer challenge is up and it's going to be a fun one because Darnell wants to see pets on our cards.  If you're not familiar with the challenge, you have to use the same stamp on two cards for two different occasions.  Over the years my children have had dogs, cats, birds and the occasional hamster or snake.  I'm cheating a little because while we've never had pet bunnies that's what I'm using on my card.  I just HAD to since getting these darling ones from Gerda Steiner.

The bunnies on both cards were colored with Zigs.  The birthday card includes a balloon (covered with Glossy Accents) and a sentiment from the set with a background made with Distress Inks and a Clarity brush. 

The valentine has the bunny blowing hearts on a die cut panel with a sentiment from PB.

Aren't they just the cutest critters?  I couldn't resist them.

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Merry Monday #284

It's time for a red and white card at Merry Monday. 

I pulled out my CP peppermint striped background stamp and inked it up with Candied Apple DOX.  The label die, candy canes and sentiment are all from CP.  I added a little Glossy Accents to the canes. 

I just counted and I have 47 Christmas cards already done.  Some were left from last year but most have been made for challenges this year.  There's no doubt I'll be ready when it comes time to mail them out.

It almost looked like Christmas here with snow covering the ground this morning. And it's snowing again.  Come on Spring!

 

Addicted to CAS #132

Ellenor is our host at Addicted to CAS and she chose birds as her code word.

I love birds and toyed with which one I might put on my card.  I hope it's okay to do just one because that's what I did, using my long neglected Crazy Birds from TH.

As usual it's the sentiment that proved more difficult but I thought his buggy eyes went perfectly with the sentiment from MFT.  He's colored with Zigs and his eyes are cut separately, popped up and covered with Glossy Accents.

I know you have at least one bird stamp you can use to make a card for our challenge. The rest of the Design Team and I are waiting to see what you do. Happy Little Stampers is offering a $20 voucher to the store for the winner of this challenge.  Just make sure your card is CAS.

Fusion, CASual Fridays #192, AAA #108 and HLS/CAS

The one thing about February is that with Valentine's Day a lot of the challenges are all about hearts.  I have four challenges for today's card and I'm sure there are more that I haven't found.

My inspiration was the challenge at Fusion. The PB stamp is embossed with Black Sparkle and the hearts watercolored and topped with Glossy Accents.

It will go to CASual Fridays.

AAA Cards

and Happy Little Stampers February CAS Challenge.

A storm is moving through so I'm looking forward to a day in the craft room.  Don't I always?  lol
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CAS(E) This Sketch #255

There are so many stamps you can use and so many way to interpret a sketch challenge that it can be overwhelming at times.  Case in point - this week's sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch.

It just happened that I got a prize package from Leigh last week and in it was the perfect RC stamp set for this challenge.  It was only a matter of implementing it.

I knew I was going to use the hive and bee but floundered a little about the strip across the card.  Nothing I tried pleased me until I thought about the honey itself and it all came together with some watercolored DOX in what else but Wild Honey - and some Glossy Accents.

I'm glad you dropped by.  I hope you have a bee-utiful day.

Less Is More #357, CAS Watercolor December, and HLS Watercolor

Although my Christmas cards are done I keep making them for challenges like Less Is More who want a red and green card.  I mean that says Christmas to me.

Since I watercolored this PB image with Distress Oxides I'm also sending my card to the CAS Watercolor Challenge where the theme is Anything Goes and Happy Little Stampers Watercolor where the theme is Christmas.

I'm glad you dropped by today.  I love it when you do.