Smooshing with Happy Little Stampers

It's time for a new challenge at

Happy Little Stampers CAS

This month's challenge is

If you're not sure about this technique,

 Loll has found several links to smooshing videos.

Tutorials:

Smooshing with Acetate by Laura Bassen (5:59)

Smooshing with Inka Gold by Loll Thompson (4:02)

Smooshing with Waterbased Ink Markers by Sage Kimble (5:10)

Smooshing with Re-inkers by Loll Thompson (3:46)

Smooshing with Alcohol Inks by Artful Splodger (1:19)

Smooshing with Gelatos by Kimberley Crawford (starts on video at 2:58 mark)

Smooshing with Inks by Loll Thompson (3:42)

My flower was cut from pieces of smooshed watercolor paper.

The green was done with re-inker and metallic Perfect Pearls

spritzed with water on a craft mat.

The flower head was mopped up from Brusho overrun.

I find that I get some really pretty papers from the leftovers.

Our challenge is sponsored by

and the winner will receive one stamp set from HLS.

Joyce is our fantastic Guest Designer this month.

Smooshing is fun!  I hope to see lots of smooshed cards this month!

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Snippets (PB)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Mixed Media, 140 lb Cold Press Watercolor (Strathmore)

Other:  Joyful Die (PB), Tall Rectangles Nestabilities (Spellbinders), Garden Green re-inker (SU), Gold Metallic Perfect Pearls (Ranger), Brusho Crystals (Scarlet), Simply Scored (SU), Basic Pearls (SU)

Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly

and other stuff too.

'Tis the season to be jolly...

and busy!

I made this card a while ago and I'm just getting around to posting it.

I used the sketch at 

Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge

and

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Challenge

I have stamping with embossing and punching for added texture.

and I see this works for

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

HOLLY JOLLY STAMPING

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Mixed Christmas Messages (HLS)

Ink:  Real Red (SU)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White, Real Red, Greens

Other:  Stitched Squares (Lil' Inker), Kars Snowflake EF (retired), Holly Punch, Pine Sprig Punch (both MS), 1/8" Circle Punch (SU), White Gel Pen

Christmas Thank you for Happy Little Stampers

The Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge this month is

Please be sure to include the WHAT, WHY and HOW of your favourite technique in your blog post.  Thank you!!

That's kind of like choosing my favorite child which is an impossible task.

So I tried doing a card using a few of my favorite techniques and

this is the best of the lot.

Dry embossing has been one of my very favorite techniques.

I like a lot of white space and texture.

I love my Big Shot and embossing folders!

This is one of my favorite folders.

I also used a punch, which was my favorite technique before I discovered embossing.

Now won't you share your favorite technique with us at 

Happy Little Stampers?

(Make sure it CAS)

If you need inspiration, I promise you'll find it at the site.

The Design Team has done some awesome work to inspire.

Our fabulous Guest Designer is TaeEun.

I love her work.

There are prizes for the winner too.

Our challenge is sponsored by

Winner will receive

I'm entering into

Addicted to CAS

and

Addicted to Stamps #173

HOLIDAY

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Thinking of You (HLS)

Ink:  Garden Green

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White, Snippets of Garden Green and Real Red

Other:  Powdered Sugar EF (Sizzix), Holly Punch (MS), Ribbon (Michaels), 1/8" Circle Punch

All supplies are Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted

Soft Colors for Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday Morning!

Our talented friend Deanne is hosting this week's challenge.

It's one of my favorites because I always love these soft colors on a 

Christmas card, but don't think to go to it on my own.

I love the way this turned out!

The rest of the Design Team has outdone themselves!

Be sure to check out that wonderful inspiration.

I rarely do a sketch challenge, but when I saw this at 

Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge,

I knew just what I wanted to do.

And for once, it turned out like I envisioned!

I hope you'll get out some pink, green and white and

join us at Merry Monday.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Mixed Christmas Messages (HLS)

Ink:  Pear Pizzazz (SU)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena, Whisper White, Shimmery White*, Snippets of greens (SU)

Other:  Breezy Wreath die, Pinpoint Main Street Tag die (both Poppystamps), Softly Falling EF (SU), Sparkle Texture Effect (MS), Frost White Ink (Tsukneko)

* smooshed with pink re-inkers and Frost White Ink

Guest Designing for Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

I am very excited to be joining the

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

Design Team this month.

Here's the challenge for November

I hope you'll join in with this challenge.

The winner will receive this 
Happy Little Stampers stamp set



(It's one of my favorites)

Edited to add that Loll says this is mixed media so I'm off to join in at

I have stamping, die cutting, embossing and ribbons for texture.

I'm also taking this over to
Poppystamps Challenge #14

(My family comes home to my house for Christmas.
This will be on one of their gifts.)

and

Pixies Snippet Playground
as the ribbon is a snippet and the poinsettia was cut from snippets.

Here's the keys to let yourself in if you dare.
(Last week there were some shenanigans going on over there.
I suspect everyone is laying low this week!)

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Everyday Sentiments (HLS)

Ink:  Real Red, Garden Green (SU)

Paper:  Real Red (SU), Solar White (Neena)

Other:  Pinpoint Main St. Tags and Pinpoint Dome Tag Decorations (both Poppystamps), Poinsettia Parade Die (SSS), Iced Rhinestone (SU), Ribbon (?)

Gilded Leaf for Happy Little Stampers

It's time for the 

Happy Little Stampers November CAS Challenge

Here's this month's challenge

DEFINITION:

gild·ing

ˈɡildiNG/

noun

1. the process of applying gold leaf or gold paint.

   • the material used in, or the surface produced by applying gold leaf or gold paint.

Suggestions:  use gold on all or part of a card base or embellishment (gold embossing powder, gold metallic pen, gold paint, gold mica powders, Inka gold wax paste, liquid gold pearls, gold shimmer mist, gilding flakes)

You can find links to video tutorials at the challenge site.

This challenge is sponsored by

The winner will receive this stamp set.

We have lots of inspiration for you from our fabulous Design Team

Karen Mead is our talented Guest Designer this month.

I used the technique from this video tutorial for my card.

I stamped the leaf and heat embossed with gold powder for the main image.

Then I masked off 2 edges, inked with VersaMark and heat embossed those edges.

I repeated the process for the other 2 edges.

I found a piece of handmade paper from an ancient pad in my stash and cut

a piece to fit the card front.

Now what to do for splatters?

I put a drop of Encore Gold reinker in my palette, dropped a little water in 

and stirred it until it blended good.  Picked some up on my paint brush

and tapped to get some splatters on the background and the design piece.

Finally, I inked the edges of the card and dipped into 

the embossing powder and heat set.

I didn't add a sentiment because I'm not sure what I'll use this card for.

Now it's your turn to bring on the gold.

I hope you'll join us at 

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

(Please make sure your cards are CAS.)

I can't wait to see what you come up with.

Thanks for the visit.

Enjoy!

   

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Vintage Leaves (SU)

Ink:  Encore Gold

Paper:  Very Vanilla (SU), Handmade Paper (Stash)

Other:  Gold EP (SU)

Christmas Lights for Merry Monday

It's Merry Monday time

Here's my card for this week.

Wendy chose our challenge this week

My friend Jan had lent me a Sizzlit that had a Christmas tree light on it.

I'd say that was serendipitous!

I cut them from different snippets of colored paper,

smacked them with VersaMark,

sprinkled some Heat and Stick Powder on them,

heat and sprinkled Dazzling Diamonds.

I cut some snippets of foil with the base of the lights

and did a little bit of scoring.

Strung them on some of Stampin' Up!'s new gold twine (love it),

and I was done.

Now it's your turn.

I hope to see you at Merry Monday.

I haven't been to visit at 

Pixies Snippet Playground

for quite awhile.

So I'm off to see if they'll let me back in.

and

Christmas Card Challenges #47

Thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps: Mixed Christmas Messages (Happy Little Stampers)

Ink:  Cherry Cobbler (SU)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Garden Green (SU), Gold Foil (SU), Various snippets (SU)

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inker), Sizzlit Die (Sizzix), Heat and Stick Powder, Dazzling Diamonds (SU), Gold Twine (SU)

Happy Little Stampers New Release Blog Hop

We're now into the second release at

Happy Little Stampers

Woot!

Comment on the Happy Little Stampers Blog then hop along to all the bloggers
for a chance to win.

Here's the list
Happy Little Stampers
Kylie 
Loll 
Joyce 
Gloria 
Tanja 
Susan 
LesLee
Gail 
Carol 
Melissa 
Linda 
Birgit 
Kim 
Valentyna
Sue T.
                     Bonnie  (you are here)
Toni
Chrissie
Anita
Carol
Ingrid

If you lose your place just go back to the Happy Little Stampers blog to find your way.

The blog hop runs from October 26th - October 31st, 2015.

Grand prize is a $50.00 gift certificate to the 

Happy Little Stampers Store.

Four lucky commenters will win a mystery prize.

(All prizes will be random draw.)

Here are my cards....

MADE WITH 

FUN BIRTHDAY SENTIMENTS and THINKING OF YOU

MADE WITH
THINKING OF YOU and BUTTERFLY BIRTHDAY 

MADE WITH

THINKING OF YOU and BUTTERFLY BIRTHDAY

Hop along and see what the rest of the Designers have done.

Don't forget to comment on each one for a chance to win.

Glad  you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card 1 Recipe

Stamps:  Fun Birthday Sentiments, Thinking of  You (HLS)

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Whisper White (SU), Basic Black (SU), Watercolor (Arches)

Other:  Brusho Crystals, Tiny Crystals

Card 2 Recipe

Stamps:  Thinking of You, Butterfly Birthday (HLS)

Ink:  Distress Ink (Antique Linen, Crushed Corduroy), SU Inks (Tangerine Tango, Wisteria Wonder), VersaMark, Distress Marker (Stormy Sky)

Paper: Soft Suede, Very Vanilla (SU), Solar White (Neena)

Other: Black EP, Aqua Painter (SU)

Card 3 Recipe

Stamps:  Thinking of You, Butterfly Birthday (HLS)

Ink:  Antique Linen (Distress), Crumb Cake (SU), VersaMark, SU Marker (Tangerine Tango)

Paper:  Crumb Cake, Very Vanilla, Solar White (Neena)

Other:  Black EP, Aqua Painter (SU)

The butterflies have been fussy cut.  Hoping for dies in the 3rd release?

Paper Piecing for Happy Little Stampers

It's time for another challenge at 

Happy Little Stampers CAS

Here's the challenge

and there's a prize for the winning card!

from

I have a love/hate relationship with Decorative Paper.

I love to buy it.

Hate to use it.

So I dipped into my hoard  stash and found some Fall colored papers.

It didn't hurt at all.

The rest of the Design Team has some awesome inspiration

and we have a fantastic Guest Designer too

so do go check out the challenge.

I hope you'll pull out some of your papers and join us at 

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

also going to enter at

Addicted to Stamps #164

CLEAN AND SIMPLE

I'm so glad you stopped by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  You've Got This (SU), Butterfly Birthday (HLS)

Ink:  Delightful Dijon, Old Olive, Early Espresso (SU)

Paper:  Naturals Ivory, Very Vanilla, DSP (SU)

Other:  Simply Scored (SU), Twine (stash)

Watercoloring for Merry Monday

Good Merry Monday morning!

This week our challenge is brought to you by our fantastic former 

Merry Maker, Katie.  Miss you Katie.

You know I love this challenge!

And I had bookmarked this card by my friend Heather Telford.

She always inspires me with her watercolor techniques!

I used the holly from a new Stampin' Up! set called Embellished Ornaments.

I love every stamp in this set!

I inked the holly with Garden Green and stamped on a piece of Mixed Media paper

then used my Aqua Painter to move the color.

I used a Cherry Cobbler marker to color the berries 

and stamped this fantastic sentiment from my Happy Little Stampers

Mixed Christmas Messages set.

A snippet of red twine and embossed rectangles finished this off.

If you want to see some other fantastic inspiration using the 

Happy Little Stampers sets,  do check out the Blog Hop over there.

If you follow the blog hop and comment on each entry, you have a

chance to win all Kylie's fantastic sets!

The Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge is

 

there's a prize up for grabs over there too.

and don't forget Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge

I hope you'll try a watercolor technique on a Christmas card

and join us at Merry Monday.

And be sure to go check out all the fantastic cards from the Design Team.

They are bound to inspire you!

I apologize for not getting around to your blogs like I'd like to.

Sometimes life gets busy and time gets short.

I'm hoping to get caught up soon.

Meanwhile, thanks for stopping by.

Enjoy!

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Card Recipe

Stamps:  Embellished Ornaments (SU), Mixed Christmas Messages (HLS)

Ink:  Garden Green, Cherry Cobbler Marker (SU)

Paper:  Solar White (Neena), Cherry Cobbler (SU), Mixed Media (Strathmore)

Other:  Stitched Mats Rectangles (Lil' Inkers), Red twine (stash)