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!!

Joy

Our Christmas this year will look very different. I didn't have hubby get any of the 15 boxes of decorations out of the attic. I have only put out the things that were stored in closets, etc. We are leaving the 16th for a week-long Western Caribbean cruise with our son and his family (4 kids ages 16, 14, 13, 7)! So we really won't be here for the holidays. I am so excited though to get to spend this quality time with my family. We enjoy playing games, reading, and of course going on excursions away from the ship. It should be filled with lots of Christmas 'joy'!

And that brings me to my most recent card - an entry into Limited Runs Progressive 10 Challenge. If you enter the challenge using their selected image, you get the next challenge's digital image free. Their images are cute and sometimes even a bit edgy!

I created this card by dry embossing the card front with Darice's Tree with Pine Cones embossing folder. I inked the edges and colored the embossed images with colored pencils. I used Spectrum Noir Sparkle markers on parts of it also. I colored the digital image with the Sparkle markers except for the cat. Colored pencils on the cat. I used Marvy Snow Marker on the cuff to give it the texture. I added a few dots around the image, I mounted the image with foam squares and added a bow and a sentiment. I matted the card front and mounted on cardstock. It was a little time-intensive but made a cute card!

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends                    Always Anything Goes
Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge          Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday                            Anything Goes
Hiding in My Craft Room                     Christmas Colors 
A Perfect Time to Craft                         Anything Goes
The Crazy Challenge                            Christmas is Coming
The Crafty Addicts                               Anything Goes/Christmas
Whoopsi Daisy Digi Challenge            Anything Goes/Digi image

May your Christmas be filled with the Joy of the Lord as we celebrate His birth.

Friends We Don't Forget

Down through the years, there have been a handful of friends that left behind specks of glitter on my heart even though miles now separate us. These are the friends that, when we get to talk, it feels like we just talked yesterday even though it may have been months. These are the friends that make me smile when I remember our time together. They are a sweet blessing from God! They have left glitter on my heart! I'm sure you have a friend like that too.

So when I saw this cute image from Limited Runs Stamps, I immediately knew what I wanted to do with it and what sentiment I wanted to use. Sometimes it is just that obvious!!

I colored the image with Copic markers then added lots of stickles. I also sprayed the background paper (that I pulled out of my scrap bin) with glitter mist, cut a lace trim from the same bg paper and added stickles to it as well. I mounted the image on a piece of paper from my scraps that I die cut into a scalloped oval using mounting squares to give dimension. The sentiment is stamped with black onyx Versafine ink then embossed with clear embossing powder. I finished the card off by adding a trail of stickles from the image to the top of the card. Last, I coordinated the envelope by adding a trail of stickles across the bottom. I can't wait to send this card to a friend!!

This card is entered in the following challenges:
Limited Runs Challenge 9                            use the designated digital image
Little Miss Muffet Challenge 174                anything goes
Lil Patch of Crafty Friends                           anything goes
Polkadoodles Crafting Challenge                 anything goes
Word Art Wednesday                                   anything goes
Hiding in my Craft Room                            use some scraps
Crafty Friends Challenge Blog                    anything goes
A Perfect Time to Craft                               anything goes
The Corrosive Challenge Blog                    anything goes
Simply Create Too                                      favorite color combo (turquoise/green)