Happy birthday!

 Another birthday card. I have several family and friends’ birthdays here at the beginning of the year. This is a Gina K inspired card as well, featuring the Fancy Feathers and Master Layout 2 dies, the Fizzy stencil, and Passionate Pink, Wild Lilac, and Turquoise Sea inks.

Wintry Days!

 

It seems like it’s been cold everywhere lately. Here in Texas, we’ve had quite a spell of unseasonably freezing temperatures-the perfect time to stay inside and be creative. I staged this card instead of my usual card only picture-let me know if you like the change.

The card uses Gina K. stencils and stamps, with Stellar Snowflake in the background, created with White Shimmer Delicata ink. The smaller snowflakes are from Last Minute Labels and Blizzard. They were stamped with embossing ink and heat embossed with white tinsel embossing powder. I finished off the card with some silver sequins and popped the blue panel up using foam tape onto a silver card base.

Happy Mail

 I used the new Postage Collage Coloring set from Waffle Flower for today's card. The inks are from a variety of companies, mostly Gina K. and Concord & 9th. The coordinating die cuts the perforations around the stamps. Now to make some holiday cards-or do my Crop & Create September 2023 homework-I can't decide which! The Crop & Create event will be here before I know it, so I should probably work on that. But I really don't want to run out of time for all the holiday cards I want to make like I did last year. Such are the decisions of a carmaker!

Out of This World!

 This week's cards are gifts for two of my nephews. Their mom says they are always excited to see what my cards do, so I made them special slider cards with their interests. The younger one likes mythology and the older one likes space. I also made my granddaughter a space card, since that's what she's into. Hers has a rocket ship that takes off from the moon when you pull a tab. All of the interactive designs and stamp sets are from Lawn Fawn, and were colored with Copic markers. The clouds behind the dragon were done in Gina K. inks and the galaxy with Distress Inks and Oxides. I hope they like them!

Let's Stamp Together July 2023

 I made this card in the Scrapbook & Cards Today Let's Stamp Together July class with Kelly Kohout from Honey Bee stamps. It's considered the July class, even though it was actually held August 9th. The theme was Love You to the Core, and we made several fun apple themed cards. For this one, I created the background by stamping with Distress Oxide Antique Linen on cream paper, then colored the other stamped apple images using a stencil and Distress Oxides in Lumberjack Plaid, Rustic Wilderness, Antique Linen, and Spun Sugar. I then die cut them using the coordinating dies. The sentiment was stamped in Lawn Fawn Jet Black ink, and the front panel was attached to a top folding A2 card base in red using Altenew foam tape.

Make a wish!

 Birthday card using the eclipse technique and Pretty Pink Posh's Wish stamp and die set, Ranger Fine Detail white embossing powder, and Gina K. inks in Red Velvet, Tangerine Twist, Wild Dandelion, Lucky Clover, Turquoise Sea, Wild Lilac, and Passionate Pink. I've had this idea since I got this set, so it was good to finally put it to use. My ink blending could still use some improvement, especially using the small brushes I used for this.

Cool kitty!

 This tan kitty knows how to keep cool with glossy sunglasses and a tasty popsicle. The watermelon paper is from the Newton's Nook Summertime pad, and the cat image, die, and sentiment are from their Newton's Summer Treats set. I cut the ovals using the Oval Frame Set, also from Newton's Nook. The solid papers I had in my stash. I colored the cat image with Copic markers and used a black Gelly Roll Glaze pen to color in his sunglasses. The popsicle is covered with Ranger Glossy Accents. 

Never too early for Christmas cookies!

 An entry for the Lawn Fawnatics Christmas in July challenge. Using Lawn Fawn's Platform Pop-up die, How You Bean and the Christmas Cookie add on stamps and dies, and their Stripes and Sprinkles paper. The sentiment is from the Simply Winter Sentiments, stamped in Noble Fir ink. The other images are stamped in Jet Black ink and colored with Copic markers.

A Purr-maid!

 This pretty purr-maid is from Newton's Nook, as are the patterned papers, dies, sentiment (and seahorse).She was colored with Copic Markers and then accented with Glossy Accents on the seashells and Stickles on her tail. A few sequin bubbles complete the card. Made as an entry for Inky Paws Challenge #201, which was a sketch challenge.

Happy (belated) Birthday, America!

 I really thought I'd posted this before the holiday. I also thought I'd posted one more time in here, but clearly I did not. Anyway! Lumberjack Plaid and Prize Ribbon Distress Oxides with silver pigment ink for the fireworks. Stencil and cat are from Newton's Nook. Colored with Copic markers and glitter pen for the center of the sparklers. Silver star cut from Simon Says Stamp Silver Matte Cardstock.

Shiny!

 This is an entry into Simon Says Stamps Wednesday challenge. The theme this week was Anything Goes, so I pulled out some products I've been wanting to play with: Lindy's Magical Powders! You can't really tell from the picture, but the background is very shimmery. I first embossed the SSS Arches background stamp in white on watercolor paper. Then I wet the paper thoroughly and flicked on the powders. I combined Beach Ball Blue and Dip a Toe Teal. The sentiment is CZ Designs for Simon Says Stamp, and I used SSS Matte Silver Cardstock for the mat and sentiment. Both panels are cut with Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles. I then added a few silver sequins just for fun. 

A Huge Thank You!

 

I've been gone from my computer and card making supplies for a couple of weeks while I took care of my youngest daughter at her house while her father (who she primarily lives with) went to South Carolina to care for our granddaughter while our oldest daughter and son-in-law went to St. Augustine. This required some rearranging of schedules at my work, so I decided to make cards thanking the coworkers who covered for me. This one uses Simon Hurley's Geo Circles stencils with Gina K. Wild Dandelion and Turquoise Sea inks and a thanks word from Hero Arts. I also added a few silver sequins for sparkle, as well as painting the thanks with Wink of Stella. I used Gina K.'s Master Layouts 2 to trim the panels and popped it up on foam tape before attaching to the card base.

Summer is coming!

 Here in Texas, we're already having warmer temperatures. Nothing like it will be in July and August, but warm enough to start thinking about all the good parts of summer, like ice cream. This is an entry in the Inky Paws Challenge-this time it was a sketch challenge. I rotated the sketch 90 degrees to have horizontal stripes instead of vertical ones. The patterned papers are from the Newton's Nook Summertime paper pad and the image of Newton and his ice cream, as well as the sentiment, are from Newton's Summer Treats stamp and die set. I colored Newton with my Copic markers and cut out the oval using Newton's Nook Oval Frame set and then adhered Newton to the oval with tape runner. The stripes are adhered to the front of the card with tape runner as well, and the oval is popped up on foam tape.

I won't be posting until after the first of June, as I will be out of town until then. I will try to put new images up on Instagram.

Challenge #197-Colors

 My entry into the Inky Paws Challenge #197-use olive green, royal blue, sunshine yellow, and white to create a card. I layered pieces cut with the Newton's Nook Circle Frames set and cut from papers I had in my stash, except for the yellow dot-that comes from the Newton's Nook Springtime paper pad. I colored Newton and his fishbowl with Copic markers and backed him with vellum to mute the green and make him stand out a little more. The green circle is mounted on foam tape, as is the banner below. The image of Newton comes from Newton's Summer Vacation, and the sentiment is from Newton's Antics. If I was that fish, I would be very concerned!

Birthday Balloon!

 This happy birthday balloon is an entry in the current Inky Paws Challenge: Birthdays. I used paper from the Newton's Nook Birthday Party pad for the balloon and the background. I used the Frames and Flags die set from Newton's Nook to cut the background, and the balloon shaker is one of their dies as well. The shaker is filled with silver sequins and clear seed beads. I like to use seed beads in my shaker fill-I think it helps the pieces move around. the string of the balloon is cut from matte silver cardstock and the sentiment was silver heat embossed, then stacked up on several layers of cardstock. I backed the panel with Altenew foam tape and mounted it on some yellow paper from my stash, cut to A2 size.

Hooray! This card won an Inky Paws Birthday Challenge Designer's Favorite award!

HBD!

 This is another card from the Crop & Create Delivered weekend. This one was taught by Angie from LDRS Creative. I shared it with my sister-in-law for her birthday. It did involve fussy cutting, not my favorite as everyone knows, but the cutting wasn't that bad and the card came out pretty nice. I know I'll be using these sets for other cards in the future.

Have a Happy Day!

 This little bear is properly dressed for sliding down rainbows! This card was created for a Lawn Fawn color challenge using the four colors you see in the rainbow plus the yellow of the sun. I ink blended the background in Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, and then used Distress Oxides in Broken China, Prize Ribbon, Wilted Violet, and Picked Raspberry for the rainbow and Squeezed Lemonade for the sun. The little bear is from Lawn Fawn's Beary Rainy Day stamp set and was colored with Copic markers and cut out with the coordinating die. The sentiment is from the same set. I finished off the card with some sequins from Trinity Stamps.

Another Purrfect Entry!

 This is my entry into the current sketch challenge in the Inky Paws Challenge group. The patterned papers are from the Newton's Nook Birthday Party paper pad, and the image of Newton and his gifts, as well as the sentiment, come from Newton's Birthday Bash. The image was stamped and then colored with Copic markers. Happy birthday!

Be Kind

Kindness was the theme of many of the cards we made over the four days of the Crop & Create Delivered Spring 2023 weekend. I especially like this one made with layering stencils and coordinating stamps from Brutus Monroe. Simon Hurley's inks give it such a pop!
 

Fun with Gina K.!

 

Here's another card from the Crop & Create Delivered Spring 2023 classes. This one was taught by the incredible Gina K. using her new Curved Floral Banner stencil and die set along with her Masks and Fillers stencil and her beautiful inks as well as Master Layout 2. I love how it turned out.