Smiling Night Star

 



Grrrrrrr...have you ever cut up the card you just finished? I HAVE!! I just completed my card after making it twice because I got a smudge on the first one. I went off into another room, came back and was going to cut the back off the first one for a scrap  and instead cut up the card I had ready to photograph. You could say I'm not a happy stamper this morning. :(  But, I must carry on and post the latest card I did  (that would be #3).

I'm entering my card into the CASology challenge #10. The cue word this week is SKY.

The team asked us to look up to the sky this week and see where our creativity takes us. I recently bought this smiling star stamp and thought it would be good to hang in the night sky smiling down on us. I stamped my clouds and then stamped the star, colored, cut out, and popped over the clouds.

Recipe:
Stamps-Stampabilities/Cursive Smile (sentiment) and Stampabilities/Star, Stampscapes/Cloud(Cumulus)
Paper-PTI white cardstock
Ink-Memento Paris Dusk and Tuxedo Black
Accessories-Copic Y2 canary yellow, dimensionals for popping star

Christmas With a Woodsy Flair

Hope you all had a great weekend. Hubby and I travelled to a football game on Saturday to see the Alabama Crimson Tide play. They won!!! So, that made for a super day.  On Sunday night, hubby and I sang in a praise and worship concert. So, no crafting for me...just a busy and very nice weekend.

I really love my card today. Friends of Speedy TV's challenge this week, #37, is to case someone's card. Just find a card you love and case it (copy and share everything or copy and selectively edit).  I didn't get to play in the Featured Stamper 289 challenge on Splitcoaststampers about 3 weeks ago but this stamper, Maureen Merritt aka mamamostamps had the most awesome and fun gallery. When I saw this card, I knew it was the one I wanted to case.

The stamp set I used is from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co.,  Greetings of the Season Mini.  The image was stamped on a top note die from Stampin'Up! A bit of sponging was added to the edge.

I used an embossing folder called Woodgrain Texture Fades-Alterations from Tim Holtz. It was inked with chocolate chip ink before running it through the machine giving it a more woodsy look. I've added a bit of chalk and sparkle to my pine cone.  The last thing was to add my ribbon.

The stamp set being given away to some lucky winner playing in our challenge this week is New Pines. 

 Hope you'll come over to Speedy TV and join us.

Recipe:
Stamps-MFP Greetings of the Season Mini
Ink-Stampin'Up! Chocolate Chip
Accessories-Stampin'Up! Cherry Cobbler ribbon, CRAF-T Products Decorating Chalk/Brown, gel pen, SU Dazzling Diamonds

Christmas Pines

Here I am with my last card for the week. It is for the Queen for the Day challenge on Splitcoaststampers. The newly crowned queen is Peggy aka pegmac71. This is the card I cased.
Isn't her card beautiful? Of course, I changed it up quite a bit and made mine Christmas.  I added a layer, also. The ribbon was moved up and I added a sentiment.

My stamps are from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co.  The image is New Pines and the sentiment is Greetings of the Season Mini.

Recipe:
Accessories: Martha Stewart aspen snowflake punch around the page, Cuttlebug snowflakes embossing folder, Tim Holtz Distress embossing ink, Tim Holtz Distress embossing powder/peeled paint, Ribbon FX satin stripe ribbon, Recollections red gemstone, hand cut banner

My card is entered into the Aud Sentiments challenge to make a card or project with a Christmas or holiday sentiment.

Put That to Music

 

I love the challenge this week that Sabrina Friel gave us over at CCEE Stampers. The challenge is to use a bird/birds and music. It doesn't have to be music paper or embellishments...song lyrics count, too.  I happen to love both. And, the plus is, I got another Christmas card made. Of course, you don't have to make yours a Christmas card...only if you want.

 

My music paper and the plaid is from a 6 x 6 pad of paper from The Paper Studio and it is Old World Winter. I'm using Stampin'Up! Cherry Cobbler for the bases and panels.

 

My sentiment is from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co. and it is from the set, Christmas in the Country.

 

I'm using a Stampin'Up! bird punch and a Memory Box woodland branch die. The music punch is EK PSN LE Symphony large edger punch.

 

The banner is hand cut and I sponged the bird's wings with Memento Rich Cocoa and Desert Sand inks.

 

Hope you'll go over to the CCEE Stampers challenge blog and check out the beautiful cards made by the rest of the team .Of course, we would love for you to add yours, too.

 

My card is entered into the challenge at Aud Sentiments-Card or project with a Christmas or Holiday sentiment.



Family Fun-CASology

The cue card word at CASology this week for challenge #9 is FAMILY. I love my little snowman family. I'm thinking that is Mom and Dad on the bottom and little ones on top. Hope they don't fall off. LOL We don't have a lot of snow in AL, but occasionally we do, and what is better than playing in the snow? I've certainly had some fun times with my boys in the snow. What a treat! I know, I know,  some of you just want it to go away and never return. :-)

I'm using an Inky Antics stamp for my snowman image/The Whole Gang.  The sentiment is a 'no name' stamp....sorry.

I wanted to leave my card mostly black and white. It reminds me of some cards I see in gift shops done only in black and white and I love every one of them. I can't remember what company makes them. I did color a bit of the snowmen with a C1 gray Copic and colored the red heart. My twine is from The Twinery and is Maraschino.

I'm also entering my card into the Christmas challenge #18 at Creative Card Crew

Heading Back to School

I guess just about everyone will be back to school after Labor Day, if not already. So, the Friends of Speedy TV challenge #36 is to make a back to school card.

I am using a Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co. set call Lesson Learned. The small apples were on a desk image in the set and I just colored, cut out, and popped those on my card. The sentiments are on a  notebook paper embossing folder by The Paper Studio.

The designer paper is unknown. Ink used is Memento Bamboo Leaves and Potter's Clay.

Now, for the prize up for grabs this week:

If you play along with us this week, maybe you will be the lucky winner of this set, I'm in Stitches. So, it's time to get stampin' and show us your creation.

CASology challenge



 

This week's cue card at CASology, week 8, is 'relax'. I think it is very relaxing to sit on a bench like this and do just what my sentiment suggests...fun times with friends or family. 

 

The bench is a digital image from Digital Two for Tuesday. I have colored it with Copics and layered on Stampin'Up! Kiwi Kiss. The sentiment is PrintWorks Collection/Smile Giggle.

 

 

O.K., that's it for me until Monday when I'll be back with my FOSTV card. Have a fabulous weekend.

 

 

Christmas Wreath

I've made my usual Friday card for the Queen for the Day on Splitcoaststampers. This week's Queen is Kathleen aka Kathleen Lammie. This is the card I cased.

I used a Rubber Stamp Tapestry stamp set (peg stamps) called Ornament Holly. I love those peg stamps because you can just make any design you please with them. It doesn't have to be a wreath.

Stamp for sentiment-Hot off the Press (Christmas Words)
Paper-PTI white cardstock, Stampin'Up! Cherry Cobbler
Ink-Memento Bahama Blue, Sweet Plum, and Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink/peeled paint,
Stampin'Up! Cherry Cobbler and Always Artichoke
Accessories-Spellbinders Blossom Three die cut, Martha Stewart ribbon bow punch

Hope everyone has a fun and relaxing Labor Day weekend.

CCEE Stampers-Back to School

The CCEE Stampers challenge given this week by hostess, Anne Harmon, is to make a back to school card. I thought just an apple or two would be the perfect image. The image from Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co. called Lesson Learned.  My sentiment is from the same set.

I colored my green apple with  Copics and paper pieced the other apple to match my dp. It is a really simple card, adding my handmade banner and some corner pieces and that's it.

We hope you'll join us this week with your 'back to school' card.

I'm entering my card into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge-Anything Goes
Stampin' Royalty has a back to school theme for their challenge this week.

Recipe:
Stamps-MFP Lesson Learned
Paper-unknown dp
Ink-Memento Tuxedo Black
Accessories-EK Success Victorian corner punch, Copics

FOSTV-Labor Day challenge

This week the challenge at Friends of Speedy TV is to make a Labor Day card. This would include things you do on Labor Day, your holiday traditions, or you can make something patriotic. What's better than sitting under a palm tree at the beach to end your summer. Gosh, I hate to see summer go...it's my favorite time of year. Yes, I like my weather Hot!

I paper pieced my card and palm tree and the blue is made by inking my acrylic block and stamping. I think it makes a cool, beach background.

For my card, I used Mark's Finest Papers and Stamps, A Heinrich Co. sets called Flamingos on Vacation (palm tree) and Adirondack Summer Mini Stamp Set (chair and sentiment). 

We hope you'll join our challenge this week and maybe you will be the winner of this fun stamp set called Fabulous Dogs.

Recipe:
Stamps-MFP Flamingos on Vacation and Adirondack Summer Mini Stamp Set
Paper-Designer paper for piecing is PTI Bitty Dot Basics and tree trunk is scraps
Ink-Memento Rich Cocoa, Bahama Blue and Lilac Posies