Another cow card!

After I made the cow card that I just posted, I found this cow image that is from Limited Runs Digital Stamps and decided to make one more cow card! First I printed 3 of the same image.I then used one to fussy cut a mask. I cut the cardstock around the 2nd image to create a 4 x 5.25 card front. After placing the mask over this image, I used three Distress Oxide inks - lucky clover, broken china, and wilted violet - to create the blended background. I stenciled the stars in the upper right corner. I removed the mask, then cut the head from the 3rd image to pop up and create some dimension on the blended cardfront. After adding the two sentiments and some Wink of Stella on the eyes, I finished the card with a few color-coordinating sequins. This made such a cute birthday card...perfect for a guy, don't you think?

Wish Big!

Birthdays are a time that we should be able to Wish Big! This is a fun image that I think I've had for a long time! I plan to use it more!!
Again, I colored the image with my Copic markers...love using them!! I fussy cut the image and picked out some coordinating patterned paper to use behind the image. But first I put a piece of denim colored ribbon across the bottom of the mat that I cut with a stitched rectangle die. I mounted the image over the ribbon using mounting squares. I used a Heidi Swapp speech bubble stamp and die and stamped Wish Big on it. I also stamped Happy Birthday on white cardstock and cut this into a banner to place along the bottom of the patterned paper, under the ribbon. I matted with grey cardstock that I did faux stitching on with my pen. I added three Stickle dots, matted it again with lime green cardstock and called it done!

Fabulous Fairy

I received an image of my choice as a prize from Limited Runs Stamps. I chose Willow, a sweet fairy image, and made a card to enter in the Limited Runs General Challenge. She was a really fun image to work with. I colored her with Copic Markers and used Wink of Stella on the wings to give them a sparkle. I then used a nestabilities die to cut the image. I put a dot of Star Dust Stickles on each of the ovals around the embossed edge. I cut a lace doily strip with my Martha Steward lace doily punch from a light lavendar and mounted it on a darker lavendar print paper cut with a large stitched rectangle die. I chose the sentiment You Are Fabulous to use in the upper left hand corner. I stamped it with Versamark ink then used silver detail embossing powder. I glued the image over the lace doily then added another sentiment, Happy Birthday to You, stamped on white cardstock and popped up with mounting squares. And I have a really cute fairy birthday card!

 Thanks for looking!!

How to Beat the Heat!

My solution...sit in my studio and make a cute set of cards for a friend!

Before I did that, though, I was watching tutorials and ran across this Sandy Allnock tutorial on her cute panda set of cards.

http://sandyallnock.com/create-a-6-pack-of-panda-cards/?mc_cid=7ba3b74227&mc_eid=daf1f54fe6

I wanted to CASE this set so badly but wasn't sure if I had any stamps that would work. Then I saw my WPLUS9 set called Unforgettable

https://www.wplus9.com/unforgettable/









and knew I could make it work.
So I used the elephant stamps from this set as well as various greenery and flower stamps from other sets. As Sandy indicates in her video, these cards required multiple stamps per card and some hand-drawing as well. So it was indeed a 'time-intensive' set but so much fun!!The images were all stamped on 110 white cardstock and matted with black then placed on the white A2 card front. I added just a touch of color to each card and put that same colored image on the coordinating envelope. I had to do some masking of the flowers and the leaves to keep them from overlapping. I sketched and colored the green portion of the leaves in with Copic Marker. I sketched in the sidewalk and the brick wall, added the scribbles of grass and sketched in half the hillside.

I gave this set to a friend who is going through some health issues. I hope these cheered her up. Creating them made my day!!