You're Awesome

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

A quick post to share this fun little guy.

Hope you have a great weekend, my awesome friends!

Challenges:

Double D Challenges - Monochromatic

Card Recipe

Stamps:  The Gnomes (SB), Greetings Mix (SSS)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Sepia (Versafine)

Paper:   Neenah, Cinnamon Cider (SU)

Other:  Copics (E13, E23, N5, C00, C0, C2, C00, C0, C2), Subtle EF (SU)

Enjoy!

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Singing for Christmas

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

This sweet snowman and his birdie friend are singing their hearts out for

Jingle Belles.  They have me wanting to sing Christmas carols!

Challenges:

Jingle Belles - Christmas Melody

Peace on Earth #11 - Anything Goes Christmas

ABC Christmas - G is for Glitter - Glitter in the snow and edges of snowman

Krafty Chicks #602 - Christmas

  

 

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Falalalala (Stamping Bella), Bitty Holiday Wishes (MFT)

Ink:   Pumice Stone, Festive Berries, Real Red, Tumbled Glass (DI)

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Grout Gray (MFT), Real Red (SU), Neenah Solar White

Other:  Elegant Rectangles Die (MFT), Mini Stencil set 31 (TH), Rounded Corner Sentiments 1 (IO)

Enjoy!

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Singing Loud for Christmas

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

My friend Marcia is hosting CAS Mix Up this month and she chose....

I was excited to have a good excuse to use my NBUS snowman and sentiment set 

from Stamping Bella.

I've stamped this singing snowman and bird friend with Memento ink and

colored with Copic markers using different shades of gray and red.

I'd been wanting this sentiment for a long time and treated myself when

they had a great sale last summer.

I'll save this for my daughter who loves Christmas music and is known for

singing loud and cheerfully!

Challenges:

ABC Christmas - V for vocabulary (love this sentiment)

CAS Christmas - Gray and Red

Christmas Kickstart - For a Loved One

Christmas Crafts All Year Round - S is for Snowman

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff

    

Card Recipe

Stamps:  FaLaLaLaLa, Festive Gnome Sentiments (Stamping Bella)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Grout Gray (MFT), Real Red

Other:  Copic Sketch Markers (C00, C0, C1, C3, C4, W00, W0, W1, R35, R29, R37, YR07), Elegant Stitching Frames (PB), Chunky White Frantage, Dazzling Details (SU)

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My Peeps

Hi there.  I'm glad  you stopped by!

I have a fun card for you today.

This fun stamp is from Stamping Bella.  I've stamped it in archival ink and

colored with Arteza Twimarkers.

I made several of these to send to some of the gals I usually meet with regularly.

I sure do miss our get togethers!

I'm glad you're some of my peeps too!

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  One of my Peeps (Stamping Bella)

Ink:   Archival Jet Black

Paper:   Mixed Media, Neenah, Tempting Turquoise (SU)

Other:  Arteza Twimarkers

Happy Birthday Susan

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

 

Today is a special day.

My dear friend Susan is celebrating a very special birthday.

Happy Birthday sweet friend!

I can't find the photo of the birthday card I sent her, but I have a

photo of a card I sent her last Summer.

Our mutual friend Loll is hosting a virtual birthday party for Susan.

I wish I could go in person and give her those hugs.

I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration, as we celebrate you.

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bundle Girl with a Cornflower (SB), Sketched Flowers (SSS)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Neenah, Black

Other:  Copic Markers, Double Stitched Circle Die (LI-OOB), Circle Thin Frames Die (SSS)

WIzard and Boo

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

I have some more Halloween cards today.

This wizard with his potions is from a friend's set.  I stamped them the

last time we got together.  I've colored them with Copics, fussy cut them

and popped them over a Brusho background.

This one is for Jack who is into wizards, potions and magic crystals.

We're working our way through the Harry Potter movies.

I made multiples of this one.  The ghost is from Simon Says Stamp

and this is a case of a card my friend Candee sent me.

I used a spider web embossing folder for the base.  The orange background

is from rolling off my brayer when using the gelli plate.

The ghost is 3 layers with a coated cardstock on top and the letters

cut from different colors of glitter paper.

This was easy to mass produce.

One more that was a stamp my friend Nance brought for me to play with.

I've colored her with Copics and added a little sparkle to her crystal ball

and the stars.

Isn't she a sweet little wizardess?

Challenges:

Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - ATG Halloween

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Gnome for the Holidays Halloween (Photo Play)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Archival Shadow Gray

Paper:   Neenah, Basic Black 

Other:  Copics (B24, B26, B29, C10, C2, E21, E13, R20, N5), Spider Web EF (ret. SU)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  

Ink:   

Paper:   Neenah, Basic Black, Coated (?), Glitter (MB)

Other: Ghost Boo die (SSS), Spider Web EF (ret. SU), Acrylic Paint

 Card Recipe (card 3)

Stamps:  Bundle Girl Crystal Ball (Stamping Bella), Hocus Pocus (Whipper Snapper)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Whisper White (SU)

Paper:   Neenah, Blackberry Bliss (SU)

Other: Copics (V04, V06, V09, BV0000, BV02, BV04, E01, E21, E33, N5, N7), Caran D'ache Supracolor Pencils, Stitched Square Die (SSS), Subtle EF (SU), Clear WOS

Sending Gnome Hugs

Hi there.  I hope you're doing well.

A while back, my friend Nance came over for a day of coloring while 

socially distancing.  It's good that I have a large room so we can easily keep our distance.

We kept our masks on too.

She brought some of her NBUS stamps and let me ink them up.

This gnome was one of them.

I stamped him with Memento ink on mixed media paper and colored him

with Zigs and my waterbrush.

Since I want to send this to a friend, I opted to use a sentiment from

a Simon Says Stamp set instead of the thanks stamp that came with the gnome.

Nance had gifted me with a gnome stamp a year or so ago.  He's been stamped

with Distress markers and colored. He's waited patiently to be added to a card.

Challenges:

Sunday Stamps - Color Challenge

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Flowery Gnomes (SB), Sketched Flowers (SSS)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper:   Mixed Media (Strathmore), Grapesicle (MFT), Gorgeous Grape (SU)

Other:  Zig CCRBM (83 Lilac, 80 Violet, 53 Yellow Green, 46 Mid Green, 40 Green, 37 Cornflower Blue, 51 Lemon Yellow, 52 Bright Yellow), Subtle EF (SU), Double Pierced Rectangle Die (Avery Elle)

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Gnome on a Swing (SB), Snippets (PB)

Ink:   Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet, Hickory Smoke, Pumice Stone (Distress Markers), Tumbled Glass Distress re-inker (for wash) Gorgeous Grape (SU) Caran d'ache supracolor pencils

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore Cold Press 300 series), Bashful Blue, Neenah

Other:  Oval Punches (SU), Woodland EF (SU)

Bubbles and Baubles

Hi there.  I'm glad you stopped by!

I have a Twofer today.

This month's Twofer Challenge is

First my bubbles.....

I believe I first saw these Bubble Chicks at the Twofer Challenge.

When Stamping Bella had that good sale a while back, I treated myself to

both the stamps and the dies.  This was the perfect opportunity to get them out

of that NBUS box!

I stamped them with Memento ink and colored with Copic Markers.

A bubbly stencil with a bit of ink brushed through added interest to the

background and the die cut chicks fit perfectly in these die cut squares.

I can send this as a birthday card or to cheer someone up.

Next up is a Christmas card.  I used a marker to ink just the bubble part

of one of the floating chicks and cut the bubble off from the chick holding one.

There are extra smaller bubble stamps and dies in the set that I used for

the third bauble.  Again, I colored with Copics.

This time I colored the bird to be a Tufted Titmouse.

I've covered the baubles with Crystal Glaze and it blended the red into

the white streaks. I have since added some streaks with gouache paint, 

but lazy me didn't take another photo.

Challenges:

Twofer #28 - Circles/Bubbles

NBUS #15 - Never Before Used Schtuff

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Bubble Chicks (Stamping Bella)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, Tumbled Glass, Wilted Violet for sponging (DI)

Paper:   Neenah

Other:  Bubble Chick Dies (SB), Square Window Trio Die (Honey Bee), Subtle EF (SU), Copic Sketch Markers (Y13, Y15, Y17, YR15, YR18, B0000, BV0000, RV00, B000)

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Bubble Chicks (SB), Christmas Pines (SU)

Ink:   Memento Tuxedo Black, , Gumball Green (SU)

Paper:   Neenah, Gumball Green

Other:  Bubble Chick Dies (SB), Copic Sketch Markers (N3, N5, N7, C0, YR12, G12, G14, G17, R22, R24, R29), Nuvo Crystal Glaze, Gold and White Gelli Roll Pens)

A Sweet Twofer

Hello there.  How are you this fine Fall day?

I have a twofer to share with you today.

These cards have been repurposed from this card my dear friend Nance gave me a year or
maybe two ago.  I had tucked it away but never forgotten it.  So I asked her if she would
mind if I used some elements from it to repurpose it.  She told me to go for it.

When I saw Darnell's Twofer Challenge this month, these candy apples
popped into my mind.

First I have a Halloween card.

I was able to pop the front two apples off without destroying them.

I moved one over a bit and found a piece of cardstock that matched the teal dots

in that dotty apple.  The gold foil really looks like caramel.  Yum!

The third apple works as a toadstool for this sweet gnome to rest under

as he thinks of his favorite thoughts.

Can  you see the glitter in the polka dots?

I stamped this little guy, trying not to stamp his hands and the swing

he was sitting on.  After several tries, I decided that wasn't going to happen.

I used my new Arteza Twimakers to add some watercolor to the gnome and fussy cut him out.

Nance gave me this gnome stamp too.

The background was a watercolor piece from my stash.

I added some darker green to the bottom and stamped a bit of grass.

I think I'll send at least one of these back to Nance.

It's the card that keeps on giving.

The Twofer Challenge #21

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Enjoy!

Card Recipe (card 1)

Stamps:  Spooky Sentiments (Amy R)

Ink:   Whisper White (oops)

Paper:   Neenah, Textured Teal (?)

Other:  Apple Die Cut (Paper Sweeties), Goo Die (Your Next Stamp), Oxford EF (Cuttlebug), Gold EP

Card Recipe (card 2)

Stamps:  Gnome on a Swing (Stamping Bella), Friendship Messages (SSS), Foliage Set (Art Imp.)

Ink:   Versafine Onyx Black

Paper:   Neenah, Mixed Media

Other:  Black EP, Stitched Arch STAX Die (MFT), Apple Die (Paper Sweeties), Goo Die (Your Next Stamp), Arteza Twimarkers (A207 Forest Green, A221 Moss Green, A219 Cloudy Gray, A239 Ballerina Pink)  Loving these markers !!!

Gnome Fun

Hi there.  This week has flown by!

My friend Nance (Soul Stampin') came to spend a day crafting

and she brought me this stamp.

Isn't it adorable?

The swing reminds me of the swing at my grandparent's house

when I was growing up.

It was big enough for two people and often my

aunts would pair up to swing.

Sometimes my brother and I would climb aboard and we could

swing so high!

I put the stamp in my MISTI and inked it with markers, doing

small sections at a time then moving the colors with water.

I pretty much colored it like the package showed.

Since it's an outline stamp, I swiped some ink from the markers on my palette

and picked up color with my water brush to fill in.

I pulled some color from the design into the background for 

a light wash and picked up some color from the palette as needed.

I almost didn't catch that caterpillar on the branch.  Isn't he fun?

I love the sentiment but know that we can't always do what brings us joy.

Sometimes we have to do the other stuff and get our joy from doing a hard job well.

CAS Mix Up: Ink Stamps with Markers

Thanks for the visit and special thanks for your comments.

Enjoy!

Card Recipe

Stamps:  Gnome on a Swing (Stamping Bella)

Ink:   Distress Markers (Brushed Corduroy, Shabby Shutters, Peeled Paint, Mowed Lawn, Ripe Persimmon, Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet, Hickory Smoke, Pumice Stone, Blueprint Sketch, Tumbled Glass, SU Brown Sugar

Paper:   Watercolor (Strathmore 140 lb. cold press), Neenah

Other:  Foam Sheet