I'm so glad its Monday!!! You wouldn't believe the weekend I've had. I just wanted it to END!

It all started with my hitting a cat and it subsequently dying, then some personal stuff, then a visit to the ER with a handful of stitches in my oldest and just life in general with a 14, 8, twin 2 year olds - all boys.

I am pretty sure I haven't shared this card with you yet. I uploaded it to Splitcoast, but I think its new to the blog. If it isn't my apologies.

I chose to show it today because it makes me smile. The little chicks are just so cheery and I like the yellow with my little pink one thrown in. Its the chick stamp from a set called Just So Hoppy by Melanie Muenchinger. You can find it at Gina K. Designs. I did some masking with the card and then colored them all in with my Copics. The card itself was cut using the long rectangle nestabilities. I did add some bling to the little flowers on the basket with my Copic Spica Glitter pens. These are fabulous and I try to use them whenever I can.

Thanks for stopping by and here's to a wonderful week!



Cardstock: Georgia Pacific White, Colonial White, Petal (CTMH), Lemon Tart (PTI), Ink: Palette Noir Black, Stamps: Just So Hoppy (Gina K), Other: Large Rectangle, Circle Nesties, Spica Glitter Pens, Copics,

Birthday Fishes -sketch card

Good morning. I've been lapsing on following some of my favorite sketches. One of them is Lauren Meader's Saturday sketch, but I finally got to it :) I've had this stamp for a bit now and have been wanting to ink it up and I finally did! Its an Impression Obsession stamp and when I saw it I thought it was so cool looking. This stamp is called Ocean Fish and is designed by Leigh Hannan and her stamps have such a distinct style. She also designed one of my favorite coffee sets that I got from My Little Stamp Shack called Smell the Coffee.

anyway back to Impression Obsession. I really like their store because they offer a variety of ways of getting your stamps. Many of their stamps are clear sets, but all the other sets are offered as a choice of cling mounted, wood mounted, or just plain rubber. I love options.

So here's my card. I had to change it a little bit because my image was a bit big, but it still turned out pretty. I stamped my fish in black and then used my copics to color it in. Then I took CTMH dye ink and lightly sponged the background. Then I added just a bit of stickles for the bubbles (its so hard to resist those stickles) as well as used it to glue down my clear buttons. The sentiment is from Papertrey's Pond Life Sentiments.

Thanks for coming by and I hope you have a fishy (in a good way) sort of day.




Cardstock: Lemon Tart (PTI), GP White, PP: Close to my Heart special promotion paper, Ink: Palette Noir Black, Stamps: Pond Life Sentiments (PTI), Ocean Fishes (Impression Obsession), Other: Copics, Nestabilities, Stickles, White gel pen

Greetings

I just received a stamp set from this little company called Pink Persimmon. I love clear stamps so I was immediately drawn to these, plus their designs are almost nostalgic I guess. I really want the Little Red Wagon set, but decided to just hold off for a wee bit. I had been going back and forth as to how much I could spend and what I wanted. I really wanted 3 sets, but opted to just one for right now. The one I picked is called Scottie Dogs and it is just the cutest.

Plus, Caardvarks is having Pink Persimmon blog candy - really GOOD candy. Go check it out. This is the card that I made for my entry and while I was at it I made another one that I think I will send out as a Christmas card. I always think of black and red plaid with Scottie dogs and that was my intention with the second card, but it ended up with a holiday look instead.

For this card though, I used Papertrey ink's Polka Dot Basics for my background (in pink) and accented it with more pink, a little bit of peach, and gray. I stamped my dog in grey as well to give him a softer look. I did a bit of paper piecing added a bit of blink with some stickles and used my nesties to frame my image.

Cardstock: GP white, Baby Pink, Taffy (CTMH), Ink: Baby Pink, Grey Wool (CTMH), Stamps: Scottie Dogs (Pink Persimmon), PTI's Polka dot Basics, Other: Ribbon, Stickles, Nestabilities
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And here is my festive scottie dog card. I am quite pleased with the way it turned out. I really feel like these would make really cute holiday cards, fairly simple like this or jazzed up. Its card to see, but I embossed the dog to jazz him up a bit.

Thanks for stopping by and checking things out. Hope you are having a great weekend.




Cardstock: Colonial White, White Daisy, Ponderosa Pine (CTMH), PP: Everlasting Level 2 (CTMH), Ink: Versamark, Black (CTMH), Stamps: Scottie Dog (Pink Persimmon), Other: Copic, CTMH Ribbon, paper Piercer, Nestabilities, EP

Craft Critique Cards

Good morning! Today is the REAL Friday and my article about Close to my Heart's paint is being posted today. Let me tell you that I am not a big paint person of any kind. I won't go into a lot of details because I wrote how I felt about the paint in my article which you can read -->HERE<--, but I did want to share the cards that I made for it. I had a blast using the paint and I think its because of the shimmer. CTMH's paint is a pearlescent paint and I felt different than the average paint that you might paint your altered wood or paper projects with. I think it worked really well with cardmaking and could be used in scrapbooking as well. Anyway, I guess I am digressing so without further ado here are the cards. I have to say that I LOVE how this card turned out. It is really so soft, yet shimmery at the same time without being glitzy. I can't wait for the right person to send it too. I did just find out that a friend of mine is pregnant so I'll hope for a boy. I colored my paint with a CTMH reinker called Crystal Blue and check this out. I used a yellow Copic Marker to color the paint yellow. All I did was scribble a base down on my plastic paint tray and quickly mix. I had enough to stamp with so all was good. The stamps I used are Danelle Johnson Art Warehouse and I also stamped my chipboard star after I painted it, but while it was still wet (cool effect). The ribbon is Papertrey ink Lemon Tart as well as the sentiment which works perfectly with this theme. Here's a card that I did while doing my other cards but didn't show with my article. For this card, I created my background using the same colored paint but used one of the texture tools from CTMH. Just dabbed it right on. Then I used the same Copic colored yellow paint and used an SU! stamp to stamp on PTI's Lemon Tart cardstock, then added some prisma glitter to it. You can't read all the fine writing under the big words but it still looks great. I used 2 different sized scallop punches for the stamp. Again, so shimmery.
And finally, my last card to share with you. Hope you haven't fallen asleep by now :) zzzzzz
This card has a lot of shimmer. I took a Swiss Dots Cuttlebug Embossing Folder and painted it with the paint that was colored with CTMH's Blush Reinker. Then I placed a piece of PTI's Sweet Blush cardstock in the folder and ran it through. The mat on the card is CTMH's textured Chocolate cardstock that I painted then stamped with PTI's Out on a Limb stamp. I then used Liquid Pearls for the buds. Then, the Prima flowers were also painted with the same paint. This was a fun card to make!

Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

oops

I totally flubbed and posted my Craft Critique cards early and then realized that I don't know what day of the week it is (shhh, don't tell). Anyway, who knows how my day will go and we'll see if I get something posted. I tried working on stuff last night and it was a total flop. I think I threw away everything I tried to color - the horror of it all!!! The Craft Critique article goes up tomorrow the REAL Friday.

-Katie

Papertrey ink Blog Hop - Transparency

Woo Hoo! Another BLOG HOP - I can't believe it came so soon. Ok, I don't have anything "out of the box", but rather, I just have a box (haha). Boy, I know that I'm not that funny, but a girl's gotta try...

Anyway, I LOVE to make nugget boxes (Scor-pal) as little gifts and of course that means I have to use PTI's Limitless Labels set, so this time because the challenge was to use transparencies, I decided to make my nugget box all clear. I LOVE (wow, I guess its just a love fest tonight - please forgive) being able to see the pretty nugget labels without having to slide the case off. I added a bit of "bedding" of shredded cardstock and the whole project looks great because of the gorgeous Plum Pudding. I (heart) Plum Pudding with the Lavender Moon. Its purple, but not PURPLE - I know that you know what I mean.

So, I had to make a matching card and am quite pleased with the way it turned out. Again, nothing innovative here, just a pretty card. Here is the card closed:

And here is the card open so you can see the inside sentiment and the nugget box with it.

Finally, a close up of the nugget box.

Thanks for hopping by and I can't wait to see rest!



Everything is PTI unless noted.
Cardstock: Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon, Vintage Cream, Transparency, Ink: Plum Pudding, Lavender Moon, Stamps: Borders and Corners, Limitless Labels, Birthday Basics, Beautiful Blooms, Other: PTI Ribbon, SU! Tag Punches, Hole Punch, Scor-Pal, Paper Piercer,

Wishing you a beautiful day!

Good morning! I wanted to share this new stamp I got from Clear Dollar Stamps (CDStamps). I like the simplicity of the vase and flowers and it came with 2 perfect sentiments. One of the things that I really like about CDStamps, is that Lori offers individual stamps (just $1.00), smaller and larger sets too. She has a great variety! Check it out!!!

For this vase, I colored in my image with my Copics, matted it and down it went. Its a nice simple, quick, easy card.

Don't forget to check out blog for all the latest and greatest info about the wonders of Copics.

**** Its the BLOG HOP this evening, so watch out for another post. ****

****Plus, I have a Craft Critique article running tomorrow that I can't wait to share with you - if you are interested in reviews of paint head on over *****

Thanks for stopping by and stay tuned :)


Cardstock: Georgia Pacific White, Kraft, Lavender Moon (Papertrey ink),PP: My Minds Eye 29th St. Collection, Ink: CTMH Black, PTI Lavender Moon, Stamps: Thankful for You (CDStamps) Other: Michaels Satin Ribbon, Copics

Papertrey ink, friends

First, I would like to say thank you to Jackie aka Teal from the Papertrey ink message board. She had ordered the entire set of stamp labels and had some left over and offered them up to anybody who needed them. I just received 2 sets yesterday and would like to give Jackie a shout and tell her she is Fab!!

One label set that I got was for Mixed Messages and I can now tell what all my stamps say without STUDYING them, plus I found a stamp in there that didn't' belong :)

I finally got a chance to play with my new stamp set from Papertrey ink. It does take a little patience, but is definitely worth it. Both cards are pretty simple, but well worth the effort. If you aren't quite exact with the matching of the Grid Line stamp, its not the end of the world because once its all put together, you just cant' tell. The new colors are wonderful and I'm thinking the new Plum Pudding is my "new" favorite.


The tab on the first card is from the SU! punch and the sentiment is from PTI's Mixed Messages. Oh, and I also added the little stamp from Everyday Blessings to the design. The sentiment on the second card is from Beautiful Blooms.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!




All Ppaertrey ink products unless noted

Cardstock: Plum Pudding, Spring Moss, Vintage Cream, Lavender Moon, Ink: Spring Moss, Palette Noir Black, Lavender Moon, Plum Pudding, Stamps: Mixed Messages, Beautiful Blooms, Guide Lines, Everday Blessings, Other: Ribbon, SU! Punch, Dew Drops, SU! Ticket Punch

Quickie Post

Why its Monday morning again. Its amazing how quickly they come around! :) We start our second week of swimming lessons and other than that, its pretty quiet on the home front. I''m still working on some things that I can show you later this week, but I did want to post a card that I finished up a couple of days ago.

There is a story to this card. Its one of those that looks so simple yet took me FOREVER to figure out and finish and I still don't necessarily like it. The image is a Lockhart image that I stamped while at my Copic Certification. I colored it in with my Copics, used Papertrey Ink's Polka Dot Basics for the background, added some stickles and that is about it. The reason why the colors are what they are on the cupcakes and frame is because I was following a piece of patterned paper that I ended up not using in the end - whatever... Plus, I can't figure out where the heck to put my sentiment or even what kind to put on there. I'll take suggestions :)

Anyway, thanks for sharing in my angst. Enjoy the day!!



Cardstock: GP White, Chocolate, Hollyhock (CTMH), Ink: Chocolate, Hollyhock (CTMH), Stamps: Lockhart Stamp, PTI Polka Dot Basics, Other: Ribbon, Copics, Stickles

Misc, RAK, and Howdy Partner!

Hi everyone! Today is Sunday and I'm pooped and achy. I went to the Doctor a while ago with some complaints and of course the Dr. couldn't figure out anything - mind you I HARDLY EVER get sick or have anything wrong with me. He suggested some very basic blood work, but to be honest, I never went and then all my symptoms subsided. Then this past week, things have been acting up and I just hope they go away on their own again.

Then on the home, home front, I feel like I can't keep up... I'm just playing catch all the time and can never get ahead... I'm sure most of you feel the same way. I might feel all caught up and maybe even a little ahead for one day and then BOOM, back to feeling behind again the next day.

So, that is what is going on in my world, but I always go back to my fun stuff. It just makes me feel better :)

Yesterday, I got a lovely RAK from Cherisse. She sent a wonderful card and a cute little bookmark using Papertrey ink stamps. She used PTI's Garden of Life set and I really liked the look of her card. I forget that black is such a great compliment to the look of a card. If you are reading Cherisse, thank you so much. It was a wonderful surprise and I appreciate you taking the time to make me this lovely card.






I also have some stamps that I got in the mail that I haven't had time to play with yet. One of them is the Billy Dress Up from Pink Cat Studio that I purchased from My Little Stamp Shack. Carrie is great, so check out her little shack when you have time.

So here is a card that I made in the past, can't remember if it was 4 days, 6, days, or 2 weeks ago. This little guy is just too cute. I love coloring him in too, with Copics of course. I'm ok with the blending thing, but I still think I need to take a course on the correct shading. I find it personally difficult to shade correctly as in "realistic lighting". Where are the natural shadows going to fall? I know the concept, but applying it is rather uncertain. Anyway, something to work on...

One thing that I love to do is use the actual designs from the designer paper I'm using and cut them out to put on my cards. That is what I did with the circles and the stars on my card. Its hard to tell because most of the paper is covered, but the stars and circles are cut out, some are torn (using scissors) and then they are all pop dotted for dimension.

So, all of the above is my story of today and I'm sticking to it. I'm off to run on the treadmill which I haven't done in weeks. The twins are napping and I sent nephew and Hunter off to the mini mart. Hope everyone is enjoying the last of their weekend.



Cardstock: GP White, Indian Corn Blue (CTMH), PP: Kaiser crafts, Ink: Palette Noir Black, Indian Corn Blue (CTMH), Stamps: Billy (Pink Cat Studio), Other: Copics

Does this make me look too hippy?

Good morning all! I have made several cards using Melanie Muenchinger's (at Gina K ) stamps for a contest she is holding, and this one was one of my favorites. When I thought of this, I just knew that I wanted to use a red and black theme for it. Don't ask me why. One of the reasons why I like her Just So Hippy, Just So Hoppy, and her accessories sets are because of the puns. I've been enjoying a lot of the Pun stamp sets out their in stamping land.

So what I did was take my Michaels ribbon and gathered it at the top with my sewing machine. Then after I had stamped and colored my hippo, I took my craft knife and cut slits on her "hips" and slid my gathered ribbon through. Since nobody is going to see the backside all I did was tape the mess down with scotch tape. The sentiment is actually from her Hip-Hop Accessories set.

I wish I looked this cute in a little red sheer tutu :) Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!




Cardstock: GP White, CTMH Black, PP: Around the Block, Ink: Palette Noir Black, CTMH Grey Wool Stamps: Gina K Just So Hippy, Other: Nesties, Michaels Ribbon, White Gel Pen, Copics

I'm back and a card that I love

Good morning! I am back home after a quick trip down to Seattle for the Copic Certification class. I ended up attending the Wednesday class and drove down Tuesday evening and stayed with my sister. We always have fun!

The class was great! Marianne is full of information and it was great getting it all from the guru herself. If you didn't' know it already, Marianne has her own blog full of fabulous info. It was so nice to have a break from the boys and all that house responsibilities for a little while. I sat next a very sweet lady named Cathy from Canada, got a chance to physically meet a fellow PTI message board friend named Sonya, and got to meet in person Diana Crick the creator of the Scor-Pal. It was really a great day!
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And now for my card. I did this card last week sometime and I love how it turned out. I think I ended up doing it twice because the frist time didn't end up working out right, but the second one was the charm. I can't tell why I like it more than others, but I think its because it looks so clean yet has lots of color to it.

This is a Papertrey ink stamp that I stamped in black and then used my copics to color it in. I sent this card to somebody and now can't remember what I did exactly, but I'm pretty sure that I used my spica black glitter pen in the center of the flower for some subtle bling as well as for the dots along the stem. (Note to self - write this stuff down while doing card)

Anyway, I still like this card a lot. Thanks for visiting and have a great day!




Everythiing is PTI unless otherwise noted
Cardstock: Stampers Select White, Summer Sunrise, Berry Sorbet, Black (CTMH), Ink: Palette Noir Black, Moss Green, Stamps: Garden of Life, Other: Spica Glitter Pen

Blessed Twice, Craft Critique Article, and Misc.

As many of you know, I am a mother of a set of twin boys and as such, I belong to my local multiples group. One of the things I signed up for was to be a mentor mom and the mom that I got assigned to just had her babies a week ago. We haven't had a chance to meet yet because of schedules and the such, but I have been in contact with her over the past few months. I'm hoping that I will be able to meet her and her family this weekend. Because of that, I wanted to put together just a small little greeting gift for her and I wanted it to be twin themed. So, all you designers out there, twins are becoming more prevalent and I think some stamp sets would be awesome with a twin theme!!!

There are a lot of stamps that I could have doubled up, but I really adore the little skunk from Clear Dollar Stamps called Cute Critters plus the the sentiment that comes with the set. So what I did was stamped the skunk then masked and stamped another one. My mother had boy/girl twins so instead of coloring my skunks, I colored my flowers - one boy colored and one girl colored. The sentiment just said "Congratulations on your little stinker" and I needed it to say "stinkers" so I just inked up a larger "s" from another sentiment and just added that onto the end - perfect!

For the nugget box, I also used a CDS stamp set called Too Sweet and made girl and boy nuggets. I used my Scor-pal to make my nugget box and I tell you its the only way to go. Click -->HERE<-- for all the details. Cardstock: Kraft, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist, Lemon Tart (PTI), GP White, Ink: Palette Noir Black, Sweet Blush, Aqua Mist (PTI), Stamps: Too Sweet, Cute Critters (Clear Dollar Stamps), Other: PTI Ribbon, Copics, Nestabilities, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Scor-pal
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On another note, I get to go to the Copics Certification class in Seattle tomorrow - woo hoo. I'm very excited to do that. I also have an article running over at Craft Critique today as well about CTMH's Ribbon Rounds as an embellishment. Here is the card that I made for the article.
Everything is CTMH unless noted.
Cardstock: Bamboo, Olive, Cocoa, PP is Rustic Trail Level 2, Ink: Olive, Stamps: Fun Times, Other: Ribbon (retired), SU! Label Punch, EK Success Corner rounder (for scallops), Hole Punch

And finally, today we are off to swim again and hopefully Will will stay in the water today, although its pretty chilly out. Keep those fingers crossed. Thanks for stopping by and have a great day everyone!

I couldn't wait - Papertrey ink Card

Papertrey ink had their new release party the other night and one of the things I ordered is a set called Guide Lines. Nichole did some really neat background stamped cards and I can't wait to get my set, but in the mean time, I really wanted to try it out.

So, looked through the stamps I had and I ended up making my grid lines with a stamp from Faux Ribbon and then I realized that Everyday Blessings has some cool filigree stamps in it. I liked how it turned out and quite pleased with it, but still can't wait to get the actual set that I ordered.

I did some scoring around the text to highlight it and also used Grey ink instead of black to soften it a bit.

Thanks for stopping by and we are off for swimming lessons :)




All Papertrey ink unless noted
Cardstock: GP White, Pink Blush, Ink: Pink Blush, Grey Flannel (CTMH), Stamps: Faux Ribbon, Everyday Blessings, Other: Ribbon, Scor-pal

Bee Mine and Happy Father's Day!

Good morning! This is a card that I submitted for Papertrey ink's Guest Star Stamper (GSS) that occurs every month right before a new release. Nichole and her gang did another fantabulous job. Its crazy all the great stuff she has.

Anyway, this card is actually a full size version of an ATC (Artist Trading Card) Swap that I joined. This ATC Swap is my very first swap ever and it is also the very first ATC I've ever made. It was fun and I just might do it again. Who knows. So back to the Big Card - I made it with my hubby in mind. Its kind of girly, but he's my hubby so he won't care. I like the sentiment Bee Mine from Honey Bees and of course he is mine so...

Everything is from Papertrey ink unless noted
Cardstock: Kraft, Stampers Select White, Lavender Moon, Itty Bitty Blessings PP Ink: Palette Noir Black, Versacolor Black, Lavender Moon, Moss Green, Stamps: Honey Bees, Other: Nesties, Stickles, SU! Ticket Punch, Ribbon, Clear ep

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And of course today is Father's Day. For all you Dads out there, I hope you have a great day or wives you can tell them that for me :)

All I can say is that my hubby is the best Dad! He is what you call a hands on Dad and he is there for me as well as for the boys.

I didn't make this card for him, but for another Dad we know. To be honest, I don't have a lot of male schtuff to stamp with so I used a lot of animals this year. I went out today looking for some stuff and found an awesome stamp of a peg board with tools on it - really cool stamp - really big - and REALLY expensive for me. It was $16 for one stamp. I know it was big, but I just couldn't.

Hope everyone has a great day and thanks for stopping by!



Cardstock: Colonial White, Olive (CTMH), PP: gotta check, Ink: Olive, Black (CTMH), Stamps: Pond Life (Papertrey ink), Other: CTMH Edge Anchors, Nesties, Paper Piercer, SU! Ticket Punch

Happy, happy news!!!!

It is official now so I will share the news. I am very happy to announce that I was chosen as one of the guest design team members for Lori McCroskey's Clear Dollar Stamps for the month of August. I'm super excited about this opportunity to showcase these great stamps. I'm excited to see what all the new releases will be for the summer.

I also want everyone to know (which you probably already know), that I'm a total newbie in regards to DT's, I've never had anything published, and I think its wonderful that Lori still picked me for this opportunity. Thanks Lori!!!

Thanks for letting me share with you all. Now we off to Seattle for some Sushi and baseball!

Last day of school cards

Today is the last day of school and Hunter is practically giddy about it - me not so giddy :) The class gathered money and got the teachers a nice gift certificate, but I wanted to make a thank you/happy summer cards. When I was thinking about cards, I immediately thought of my penguin stamps from Imaginisce. Those little penguins are the epitome of summer.

The card that has both the penguin boy and girl are for the student teacher who of course is graduating and is also getting married this summer. I stamped the girl penguin first, masked her and then stamped the boy penguin, then paper pieced the grass skirt and the board shorts. And of course, these days a card isn't a card without a little bit of stickles. I love them.

Here is the close up of the stickles and a bit of liquid glass for shine on the popsicle.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day. Please hope for a bit more warmth for us today. We are headed off to a Mariner's game tonight - "I know we can win, I know we can win, I know we can win..."



Cardstock: GP White, Summer Sunrise (PTI), Collage Press Printed Paper, Clover Meadow (CTMH), Ink: Black, Clover Meadow (CTMH), Summer Sunrise (PTI), Stamps: Its a Shore Thing set (Imaginisce), Simple Blossoms, Say it in Style, Sans Small Caps (CTMH),Graduation (MSE), Other: Ribbon, Stickles, CTMH Liquid Glass, CTMH mini paper flowers, MM Slot Punch, Copics, Nestabilities

Have a Snappy Day

I really love this stamp set called Cute Critters from Clear Dollar Stamps. I ran across this company via Erin Bigler when she announced that she made it on the design team. Well, Erin makes awesome cards, so I of course had to check out these stamps.

I love the accompanying sentiments that go with all these great animals. They are fun to color and make really cute cards. I used my Copics to color mine.

Other than that, not much else to share. Thanks for visiting and have a great day.



Cardstock: GP White, Topiary (CTMH), Summer Sunrise, Aqua Mist (Papertrey ink), American Crafts Printed Paper, Ink: Palette Noir Black, Stamps: Cute Critters (Clear Dollar Stamps), Other: Nestablities, Copics, Scor-pal, Hole Punch

Thinking of you

I love to do cards that have a lot of generic sentiments on them like "thinking of you", "hello", "just for you" etc. So, here is another one, but I have to admit that I LOVE how this turned out. It was one of those cards that I added a bit here and a bit there - I think its simple, but not at the same time. Does that make sense? I also think the color makes the card too... ok, I'm sorry, I'm sort of rambling. I am scheduling this posting so its kind of late at the moment.

Oh, I did want to mention that I actually cut one of the little stamps apart to get my small circles in between the larger circles. I think I will enjoy having them separated.

Everything is PTI except for all the bling. I also used a clear spica glitter pen on my stem too. Hope everyone has a great day today. Send us your sunshine if you have some to send.



Cardstock: Lavender Moon, Stampers Select White, Ink: Lavender Moon, Palette Noir, Stamps: Shapes by Design, Other: SU! Scallop Punch, ek success circle punch, dew drop equivalent, Darice rhinestones, hole punch

Thinking of you - Sketch Card

This card is based on Beate's weekend sketch. I used some American Craft printed paper that I picked up somewhere. I thought it would perfectly with Pink Cat Studio's Tweet stamp. I colored her in with my copics. I've been using Palette Noir to stamp my images, but I think I might have to switch over to something. I've been having some bleeding issues with the yellows and lighter colors. If I'm mored careful then there isn't an issue, but I would like something wehre I don't have to be that careful. I think I'll try Brilliance ink since I've read elsewhere that it works well. I guess I'll let you know.

Anyway, thanks for stopping by. Hope you have a great week. We are working on our last week of school - ack!!!




Cardstock: GP White, American Crafts, Ink: Palette Noir, Stamps: Pink Cat Studio Tweet, CTMH Say it in Style, Other: PTI Ribbon, Dew Drop or Equivalent, Darice Rhinestone, Copics, Nesties

One last My Favorite Things Challenge

So, I have been working on this card for the last couple of days. A little here and a little there. It wasn't that the card was difficult, it was that I just didn't have a lot of bulk time to work on it. This challenge is called a paper tole technique and I think I did it right, but it appears to have some slight variations when I was looking it up. I would love to try something like this with the right stamp.

The way I did it was: I stamped my image 3 times, colored them all (copics) and then cut out the pieces that I wanted to pop dot. So, the boots have one extra layer pop dotted on
top of the original image, the dress is pop dotted twice over the original image and the umbrella is pop dotted 3 times but without the original image because I wasn't sure where I was going to place the umbrella until I was done. I also embossed the umbrella for a cool shiny affect. I really like how it turned out.

No sentiment for the card yet just because I don't know what I want to use it for yet, but it will be easy to place on there at some point.

Try this technique if you haven't yet. It was a lot of fun to do and creates a really cool looking card.

Thanks for stopping.




Cardstock: GP White, Lemon Tart, Aqua Mist (PTI), Ink: Palette Noir, Versacolor Black, Lemon Tart, Summer Sunrise, Stamps: Rain or Shine (MFT), Polka Dot Basics (PTI), Other: Michaels Ribbon, clear ep, Hole punch