Challenges Entered:
Saturday, April 8, 2017
Happy Mother's Day
So I decided I wanted to make a bunch of cards today and proceeded to start off with a new stamp set I hadn't used yet from Winnie & Walter called In Bloom: Lola's Bouquet with Joni Andaya. It has a bunch of flower layering, leaf layering, and several vase stamp choices. I thought I might make a Mother's Day card & enter it in the Winnie &Walter Rerun Challenge, casing design team member Heather Hoffman's card. WELL...let's just say that I don't think it comes close to hers but besides that, it defeated the whole purpose of making a "bunch" of cards, because I had to do all kinds of masking & thinking!!! So....no bunch of cards today...and that's okay, it was still fun & I now have a Mother's Day card to give to my Mom. The fact that she doesn't see as well as she used to at her 86 years of age is a blessing for me because I totally screwed up the stamping of the sentiment as you can see! The Happy Mother's Day sentiment is from a Hero Arts set (CL334). Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peek!!
Thursday, April 6, 2017
Inspiration Abounds!
So I've made another card to send to my coworker battling cancer. She in her own words "is very lucky" because the chemotherapy treatments she endures do not make her sick to her stomach...just very tired. I think she takes chemo only once a week, but I am still amazed as all my coworkers are, that she has seemed to never miss a day of work since she's been diagnosed!! She said there is no sense in sitting home dwelling on her sickness, I was actually inspired by a Pinterest link from the blog "Simply Stamped" from April 2013! I recently purchased the Halftone Circles stamp set from Altenew & knew it would work perfectly with this sketch!! The dark blue & yellow ink colors were Memento Dye Inks, and the Turquoise ink is Turquoise Gem Chalk ink from Versamark. The "Sending You Good Vibes" is from the Avery Elle set called Sending You, and the You Are My Inspiration" stamp is from the same Halftone Circles used on the card. I stamped all those sentiments with Versafine Black Onyx Ink using the Misti so that I could reink & stamp them several times to get a dark sentiment over the inked circles. Thanks so much for stopping by to take a peak!!
Challenges Entered:
Friday, March 17, 2017
Happy Spring!
Even though we've had a rather mild winter here in Northern Kentucky, I'm still looking forward to Spring! Some of our spring bulbs have already come up & bloomed and I have no idea how our perennials will fair with all this warm/cold back & forth weather lately. I saw a card on the MASKerade pinterest site & tried to recreate it with my own stamps & flowers. This flower is actually the outline of a layered stamp from the Geometric Flowers set from Altenew. I LOVE the layered flower sets they have, but also like to stamp just the outline with Versamark & emboss with white embossing powder & color it in with Zig Clean Color Brush Markers as I did here. I added a black enamel dot to the center of the flower, and stamped the word "happy" from the MFT All Occasions Sentiment set & cut the "spring" word from the Walter & Winnie Big, Bold & Seasons set. Talk about mixing it up!! Anyway..I added one yellow sequins behind the word happy just to give it a tiny bit extra. I love CAS cards & I created two more just like it coloring the flower in with an orange & blue zig marker! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!
Challenges Entered:
Friday, February 24, 2017
Trials Make Us Stronger
I love making cards but am not super creative by nature, so I love to look at Pinterest to get ideas on how to use the stamps I really like and own to come up with ideas. I came across this Pinterest post at https://stampercamper.com/2017/01/01/special-reason/. I loved the design & technique she used so I recreated it with a flower stamp of my own. It is actually a layered stamp set from Altenew called Majestic Blooms but I only used the outline stamp to make my flower. I'm not sure I actually did the exact same technique, but did what I thought was similar and liked the outcome! I stamped & heat embossed the flower outline with Versamark & white embossing powder. Then I turned it over & "colored" it with Tim Holtz Picked Raspberry distress ink & cut it out with the coordinating die. I used the same die & cut the flower out of white card stock & glued the colored vellum over top of the card stock die. I then popped the entire flower up on some white card stock with foam tape & stamped the sentiment with Versafine Black Pigment Ink. OF COURSE...in all my creative frenzy...I cannot find the sentiment stamp set but I believe it is from the Unity Stamp Co. I added some silver sequins in the flower center & around the sentiment, added the entire panel to some pink card stock I had on hand that matched the pink of the flower, then adhered that to a white card base. I repeated the whole process to make more of the same card using the colors yellow, orange, purple & pistachio ink for the flower. I will mail the pink version you see here to my coworker battling cancer. The others ( with different sentiments) will be donated to a children's hospital! I'm sorry that the only picture of my card that I captured is blurry!! Thanks for stopping by to take a peek!!
Challenges Entered:
Aloha Friday Flowers
Monday, February 6, 2017
Just Dropping You A Line
I learned recently that a coworker of mine has cancer & will have to undergo chemotherapy. I made this card for her just to let her know I was thinking of her and hopefully bringing a little smile to her face. Both the image & sentiment are from a set from Serendipity Stamps Inc called Three Dresses. I bought it a while ago....I think from a yard sale or something, and had never used it before. I think the sentiment is so clever with the image! I colored the three dresses with some watercolors I bought at Michael's recently, and cut it out with a stitched rectangle die. The blue mat & patterned paper behind that both came from a DCWV set called Citrus Stack. I think she'll like it and I really enjoyed making it for her! Thanks for stopping by to check it out!
Challenges Entered:
![Smile 4Kids](http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae96/logan409/Karen/karenbadge2.png" /></a><br /></div>)
