Father's Day

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

This stamp was a gift.  It's old and stained but stamped beautifully.  All that was needed

after stamping was a tiny bit of coloring.

Challenges:

Can You Handle the Pressure - Use embossing folder option Boys to Men

I.D.E.A.S. - Embossing Week

Krafty Chicks - CAS

The Male Room - Outdoors

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Loon (Northwoods 1999)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC), Bordering Blue (ret SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White

Other:  Molded Frame EF (SB), TH Watercolor Pencils (Lost Shadow, Hickory Smoke), Caran d'ache Supracolor Pencils (Olive, Dk Green, Brown)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

More Birdies

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

When I made this card, I die cut a couple sets of birdies and they 

needed a home.  So for some Friday fun,  I'm playing with these 'tweet' birdies.

Three found their way on this card.  I die cut the frame from patterned paper with

a very subtle pattern and popped that over some embossed leaves.

Two more found their way to welcome a new baby.  I rarely need a baby card, but

my daughters ask for one once in awhile.  That yellow cardstock was a gift from a

friend.  I love this light, bright shade and will be sad when it's all gone.  Fortunately

she gave me several 12 x 12 sheets.

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Rosemal Reflections (Grtry)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, DP (?) 

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Leafy EF (SB), Mini Slimline die (SSS)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Welcome Baby (?)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Yellow Texture (?), DP (?) 

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Square Peek-a-boo Window die (MFT)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

A Sweet Wish

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

This bunny with a sundae has been in my NBUS box for (ahem) years.  I'm not

sure why it's taken so long to use it.  He/she was easy to color with Copics

 I even added a bit of stenciling.  

Challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches #587 - Sketch below

Just Us Girls #827 - Summer

NBUS #87 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Time Out #315 - Pick 2 (Summer, Ice Cream)

 

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sundae Funday (CC), Happy Snippets (PB)

Ink:  Nocturne (VC), Pink Pirouette (SU)

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Cotton Candy (SSS)

Other:  Sundae Funday die (CC), Wavy Grid Stencil (Alt), Copics (E13, #33, RV00, RV02, R83, R37), Pinpoint Main Street Tags dies (MB)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Three Birdies for Color Hues

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for another challenge from Color Hues!

This month Carol picked one of my favorite combination!  She chose....

My first thought was to go with bees.  But I'd done a bee recently.  Then I saw my 

friend Leslie's adorable birdie card.  It sent me shopping immediately (thanks for the

enabling, my friend.  Like Leslie, I die cut the birds from patterned paper.

The dies cut six different birdies and I only used three here.  You'll be seeing

more of them pop up from time to time.  I had such a good time playing with them!

Now let's go and see what my talented friends and our

fantastic Guest Designers Barbara Campbell & Diana Karlova have done to inspire you.

I hope you'll create a card using Yellow & Black and add it to the gallery at

Color Hues.

Challenge ends at 9:00 AM on June 29th.

The winners will be posted an hour before our next challenge and the overall

 winner will have the opportunity to be a future Guest Designer.

Most importantly, just have fun!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Nature's Dance (SB)

Ink:  Versafine Onyx Black

Paper: Neenah Solar White, Black, PP (?)

Other:  Birdies die (SSS), Leafy EF (SB), Nature's Dance die (SB), A2 Thin Frames die (SSS)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Deer to Me

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

Ooh, it's been hot.  The air conditioner is having trouble keeping the heat

at bay upstairs in my craft room.  But I managed to get a card done.

Michele's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches nearly stumped me.

I think I made it harder on myself because I needed to make an anniversary card

for my DH.  We have been married a l-o-n-g time and that anniversary is looming!

Here's the sketch

I remembered a pad of decorative paper that has some pretty scenes in it and looked

through to see if I could find one that would work. 

It took a couple of tries, but I found one that worked and cut it up and rearranged it

to make some hills with a sunrise/sunset over the hills.

Then there was the problem of finding a die cut to go with it.  My only tree die 

didn't work, but these deer did.  I had to do a little surgery on one of them as one is

supposed to be me and she deer don't have antlers.

Once I got the hills figured out the rest was easy.  A little sponging on the deer

was all that was needed.

In the end, I'm happy with the card and enjoyed the challenge.

Thanks, Michele!

Now I'd better get it over to Freshly Made Sketches before they lock the door.

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bouquet of Thanks (SSS)

Ink:   Whisper White, Brushed Corduroy, Gathered Twigs (DOX)

Paper:   Thoughtful Journey DSP (SU), Natural (MFT)

Other:  Deer to Me dies (PTI), White EP

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

CAS Christmas Birds

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I am so happy to see that my dear friend Loll has brought back the

CAS Christmas Challenge!

I was so excited that I made two cards with this new to me Alex Siberia set.

First up, I also used a NBUS Molded Frame embossing folder.

I die cut the bird and greenery from mixed media paper and used Distress Re-inkers

to color the bird and Twi-markers and my waterbrush for the greenery.  

The berries were punched from a scrap of red cardstock.

This time I die cut the bird from Real Red cardstock and sponged a darker

red on the edges.  The leaves were colored with a sponge dauber and Distress Ink.

I die cut a label and used a pierced cover plate die with a frame to

mount this one.  Kind of the same but different and a good addition

to my Christmas stash.

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - J is for Just Enough (CAS)

CAS Christmas - Bird

CAS on Friday - Bird

NBUS #87 - Never Before Used Schtuff - Bird die

 

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Real Red, 

Paper:   Neensh Solar White, Real Red

Other:  Garden Tweets, Winter Foliage (AS),  Molded Frame EF (SB), Distress Re-inkers (Candied Apple, Barn Door, Fired Brick), Arteza Twi-markers (Sage Green, Olive Green, Pine Green, Moss Green)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Sparkle & Shine (GKD)

Ink:   Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler (SU), Bundled Sage, Rustic Wilderness (DI)

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Real Red 

Other:  Garden Tweets, Molded Frame EF (SB), Elegant Rectangle STAX dies (MFT), Spring Leaves Cover Plate (HB)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Graduation

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's graduation time around here and our Luke is among the high school graduates.

Here's the card I did for him.

The graduation cap embellishment was included in a gift from a former

card maker who is no longer able to craft.  Knowing this graduation was

coming up, I set it aside.  His school colors are purple and gold so that

made the color choice easy.

I used a star die and a my sunburst card front die for a base and some

alphabet and number dies to complete the design.

Our next door neighbor is graduating too.  A friend had brought her graduation

cap embossing folder when she visited a while back and I used the cap sticker

from Luke's card to make a pattern so I could add one to this card too.

It seems like yesterday that these kids were babies!

The time has sure flown!

I hope you have a great weekend!

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Butterfly Trio

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I hope you're having a nice week and you're able to get some crafty time in.

Just Us Girls is have a die week and the theme is butterflies.  Ha! That's not a

problem for me.  The biggest problem is which of my sweet butterfly dies do I use!

I did a smooshed background, die cut some windows and die cut the butterflies

to go in the windows.  They are already in flight to someone who needs a lift.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #826 - Use a butterfly die

I.D.E.A.S. - Die Cut week

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Words of Encouragement (Stamp Simply)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC)

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Stitching Butterflies die (SSS), Square Window Trio (HB)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Daisy Chain

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

I love daisies and remember that there was a meadow full of them behind

our house when I was a child.  We would pick the daisies and try to make

a chain from them...or a crown.

When I saw Karren's sketch at Freshly Made Sketches, those circles spoke daisies to me.

The daisy dies are unmarked in my collection so I don't know who to credit

them with.  I only used the two largest dies for this card.  They were cut from

Neenah Solar white and colored with Copic Sketch Markers.

I tried several colors for the background and settled on MFT's Natural.

(I am going to hate it when I run out of this cardstock!)

Looks like we have a ladybug infestation!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Handwritten Borders (SSS)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah Solar White, Natural (MFT)

Other:  Daisies (?), Copics (Y15, Y17, Y18, C00), Burlap EF (HB)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Bee Sweet

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

My flowers are blooming and I'm still waiting for the bees.

But the  bees are plentiful in the studio.

I had die cut the honeycomb for an earlier bee card and decided not to use it.

I stamped over top with an old wood mount stamp and placed a piece of

yellow smoosh from my backgrounds.

Every now and then I die cut and assemble bees and butterflies to have at

the ready for embellishments. I die cut the bees from Daffodil Delight cardstock 

and color the stripes with a black Sharpie.  I love that the wings are 

separate and add extra dimension.

Hope you have a sweet weekend!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Sanded (ret SU)

Ink:   So Saffron, Whisper White, Mustard See (for sentiment(

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Daffodil Delight

Other:  Hexagon Element die (SSS), Buzzing Bumblebees (MB), Black Sharpie, Sweet die (SSS)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Fun Friday Bees

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

It's time for fun on Friday.  No challenges, just fun.

I am on a committee to support staff at a local elementary school.

I thought it would be fun to send them a card with a bookmark, hoping they

will have a chance to read for fun during the summer.

The image was stamped on a piece of cardstock with a punched top.

I heat embossed the stamping to get an nice shine.

A yellow Sharpie was handy so I colored the bee with that and blended

a bit of blue around him.  My ink blending is always splotchy so I stamped 

some splatters to kind of cover that up.

Without the bookmark.

A little band holds the bookmark to the front of the card which had been

embossed with a new to me (on clearance) embossing folder.  I used my favorite 

trick of patting with a white inkpad to highlight the raised design.

The message inside.

Our team supports four of the support staff that counsels, teaching remedial reading,

STEM & Speech therapy.  Each card is a bit different.

I patted the natural embossing with a pale yellow inkpad and it was too dark

and splotchy.  So I patted with the white inkpad over top and that toned it 

down perfectly.

I hope you have some crafty fun today!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Peeking Bee (Unity)

Ink:   Nocturne (VC), Whisper White, Soft Sky

Paper:  Neenah Solar White, Daffodil Delight

Other:  Clear EP, Yellow Sharpie, Bee-cause 3D EF (SB), Ornate Tag Topper Punch (ret SU)

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!

Fuchsia Note

Hi there.  I'm so glad you stopped by!

What a glorious spring day as I write this!

This is not a flower that I'm very familiar with, but when I saw this 

embossing folder, stencil combination, I was intrigued.

Then it was on sale and it caught me.

This was not my first try.  

My first try almost convinced me to say no to

any more stencils!  I seem to have an issue lining them up whether I emboss

first of after coloring.

So I stood up to line the stencil on the embossed image.  It's still hard for me to 

see, but it did line up better.

Will I be buying more embossing folder, stencil sets?  Maybe.

Will I be comfortable using stencils eventually?  Hopefully.

I used blending brushes and Distress inks for all the coloring.

I used the finer point of an Arteza Twi-marker for the stamens.

Challenges:

Just Us Girls #825 - ATG using a stencil

NBUS #87 - Never Before Used Schtuff

Stencil Fun - ATG using a stencil

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Wildflowers (W+9)

Ink:   Spun Sugar, Wilted Violet, Seedless Preserves, Shabby Shutters, Rustic Wilderness (DI), Soft Sky,  Blackberry Bliss

Paper:   BP Porcelain (SB), Neenah Solar White, Pink Pirouette

Other:  Layered Magical Fuchsia EF & Stencil (Alex Syberia/SB), Graceful Butterfly Die & EF (SSS), Ruffles & Dashes dies (CP), Arteza Twi-marker

Enjoy!

If you would like to subscribe by email,

please fill out the contact form in the upper right sidebar.

It is also important to add stampingwithklass1@gmail.com to your contact list

so Google recognizes the address and delivers the updates.

To unsubscribe please use the same form on the sidebar adding

unsubscribe to the message.

Thanks to all who have subscribed to my blog by email.

Your sweet and thoughtful comments warm my heart!