Manly Monday Surfboards with a Big Wave

I made this card for Craft Roulette #227 

Project: 4x8

 Colors: Mountain  

Element: Float(s) or floating. 

Random: Water 

I made the background when I added water to leftover distress oxide on my mat. I smooched the paper onto the mat and tada. I followed up by adding yellow distress ink in the upper right corner. For the sand, I ripped paper and inked it with distress oxide.

The wave is a Cricut cut. It’s messed up. I think the pieces got lost on my desk. I had cut out a few different waves and then got distracted by something else. Then as a try to make the wave look better I got out an old Fiskars textile plate and a stylus to put waves onto the waves. It was a fail. LoL! So to try and make the wave better I pounced on powdered chalk. Meh. 

The chair die cuts are by Gina Marie. The surfboards are stamps by A Stampers Journey. I added the arrow like pattern with a colored pencil. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

City girls by Deep Red Stamps

The Deep Red Stamps girls are on summer vacation and others are ready to go. I stamped all of them with Memento black and colored them in Copic markers.

The Sassy City girl wearing the pants, the pink embossed paper used in this card is from a store-bought. I put a slit in the top left corner to allow the white paper to go through it. Something different so it’s not exactly the same as the store-bought one

The background for Missy in the pink party dress above was made with powdered chalk mixed with paint in red and brown. The 4” square patterned paper is by DCWV. The two brown brackets are rub-ons.

The City party girl in purple has a really easy and short list of supplies, the background with embossed hearts is a store-bought card. All of the purple cardstock is from my stash.

Let's talk about the City Girl wearing a blue skirt,  I had made a really ugly background with the Milled Lavender, Tumbled Glass…and one more distress ink. But it worked well with the way I had colored her a long time ago. The black cardstock behind her is by SMS. The sentiment is by Stampin Up.

Which card or girl do you like? Leave me a comment below.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Floral Friday Easter Bible Card

I found this colored-in image in the drawer and it needed to get on a card. It's painted with powdered chalk and paint. This next picture shows how the paint shines.

The other supplies are as followed. The background paper has been dry embossed with a Spellbinders embossing folder and the ovals were cut out with Creative Memories Cutting System.

The lace in the center is fake and by that I mean it's self-adhesive from Michael's. Thanks for looking. Happy Good Friday to you all. 

Floral Friday Coral Floral Card

The patterned papers are by My Mind’s Eye, Cosmo Cricket, Basic Gray. The sentiment by Hero Arts is stamped onto a Martha Stewart label sticker. The flowers are by Prima and brads probably from Making Memories.

Papers are same as above. The sentiment stamp by Hero Arts is stamped with Versa Fine black ink on a scrap of paper that has powdered chalk on it. It punched out beautifully using an oval punch by Marvy. The sentiment stands out from the white flowers most of which are by Prima. Thanks for looking.

The above photo is the rough draft of the 2nd card. I like what I went with. Thanks for looking.

Gingerbread Man Easel card

I used a polka dot background stamp by Hero Arts with pink Umbrella ink. The gingerbread stamp by Stamp N Plus. I stamped it onto a Spellbinders die cut before coloring it in with powdered chalk mixed with paint. I gave the icing some dimension with Liquid Pearls. The border is washi tape and the sentiment was typed up on the computer. 

I did not to take into account that there was another design on the other side of the paper, duh!

The circle is punch by Creative Memories. The pink door stopper is a former hair clip.  Thanks for looking.

Pink and Red snowman Christmas card

Hi. For my card today I used, Best Creations patterned papers, three different dies, two coloring mediums, and one sentiment stamp. So the dies are by Gina Marie in red, a Spellbinders die for my image, and an unknown die in black, The Spellbinders paper was inked with distress ink before I removed it from the die. The snowman is by Deep Red Stamps. I black heat embossed it and colored it in with powdered chalk mixed with paint and watercolor pencils by Stampin Up. I was able to smooth out the pencil lines with a water pen. The warm wishes sentiment is a stamp by Hero Arts.

I'm entering the 

Simon Says Stamp Anything goes challenge
I started doing this challenge more regularly about a month ago. I don't always make the card before the challenge ends. but that's okay because I use challenges as a way to spark my creativity or make me use supplies that I have. Last week's challenge was "not a card". I would have liked to use the challenge to get going on my calendars but Christmas cards took precedents. I will say that one of the recent challenges was to use foil and I finally pulled out the foil that had been in my stash for over a year. I'm not doing the challenges for the $25 prize because if I was I would get it done and linked up before the challenge expired. 

 I started thinking about how if I won the gift card that I would love to gift it to someone that doesn't have a lot of supplies and/or money to buy supplies. I have plenty of stuff but not everyone does.
So, I've decided that that's my new goal, Do the challenge, blog about it and link up before the challenge expires. Wish me luck and thanks for looking.

Gingerbread man on a Twisted Easel Card

The stamp and powdered chalk are from Stamp N Plus (closed). The polka dot background is a Hero Arts stamp in pink Umbrella ink. The darker pink border on the side of the card is washi tape. The sentiment was computer generated. The little pink flower is a hair button. Thanks for looking. Here are a few other Gingerbread people cards: 

Gingerbread man Christmas cards 2013

Manly Monday Gingerbread man 2022

I'm entering the 

Simon Says Stamp anything Goes challenge.

Happy Dog image colored in with Chalk card

The patterned paper by Moxxie on the bottom and My Mind's Eye on the top. I cut the image and the mat behind it with my trimmer and rounded the corners with a Creative Memories edge rounder. There's a border between the two papers and it is by Martha Stewart. The digital image is by Robyn's Fetish and colored in with powdered chalk mixed with white pearl paint both by Stampin N Plus. Then I came in with colored pencils to finish and add shadows. Thanks for looking.

Labour Of Love Card

I’m still working on getting images that have been  abandoned and left in a drawer. I want to get them out and onto some cards. These blue panels on the outside were made when I was involved with the powdered chalk company.  It looks as though something else was added to the chalk but it has been so long that I am not sure. The pattern paper are scraps from a friend. The vellum sentiment is from Quick quotes. Thanks for looking.

Chalk zig zag border card

This card was a bit frustrating to make. As my husband would say, this card is kicking your butt...and why, well

The Spellbinders zigzag borders are covered with powdered chalk mixed with paint.

The borders are leftovers from this card:

Here’s a card using the same borders

The sentiment stamp is one that I bought off of eBay.

I used different colored distress inks to give it a multi-color appearance. Then I hand cut the sentiment out and inked the edges with distress ink. 

So here was my drama with this card:

I lacked planning the card before I put it together. When I put glue adhesive on the entire zigzag border, the glue stayed on the card base and was tacky. I could not remove the border from the card because it started to come apart. So when I decided to do this frame, the adhesive was/is on the card where those zigzag die-cuts were going to be. WTH did I just say? 

The adhesive is everywhere and I can’t get it off with an adhesive remover square thingy. The corner pieces are so small that when I rubbed over them with the square adhesive remover the corners came off.

The adhesive got on the edges of the card where I originally placed the border. But now that I’m thinking of it and writing this, I could just cut the frame off this card base end it here it to another one, and then cut those corners out to adhere to another card base as well. I might just do that. 

Thanks for looking

Floral Friday Sunflower card with Scraps of paper card

Sunflowers are my favorite flower. I found this image in my bin and matched it up with this background that was in another bin.
I found it colored it in with chalk and decided to enhance it with Smooch inks. Super old products. But it did the trick.
I'm entering this card into Pattie's Creation Design Challenge: Autumn/Fall

HERE'S A 2011 SUNFLOWER CARD

Thanks for looking.

Happy Fall Pumpkin

The pumpkin in a barrel stamp is no longer available. Many years ago (2012 is my guess) I colored these images in with paint and powdered chalk.
Happy Fall is unknown.

I'm entering this card into Pattie's Creation Design Challenge

Autumn/Fall

The patterned papers from Left to Right:

My Little Shoe Box
Provo Craft
K and Co.

For this second card, I stamped the background with some small leaf stamps and Antique Linen Distress ink. Everything was inked with distress ink. The sentiment was white heat embossed. The pumpkin and background stamps and powdered chalk are by a company no longer in business. 

Here are links to other pumpkin cards
Sept 2011

A totally different Pumpkin in Sept 2011

Oct 2011 pumpkin

November 2012

Same Stamp 2013

Manly Monday Hang in there Frogs. It's only a birthday

The stamp is by Stamp N Plus. I did a second-generation stamping on these two cards. Years ago I colored them in with powdered chalk mixed with paint. I added some Copic markers and colored pencils to make the frogs look more enhanced.
The frog images were too close on the white cardstock to die-cut. So, with the wild theme, I just ripped the paper and inked the edges. The background is a Fiskars embossing plate but I think they had a different name than that. I took a distress ink and went direct to paper and look how fun it is with the lizards, dragonflies, and frogs showing up in white.

This is the inside of the card where I was able to use Cricut's Draw feature. I placed the card base on the mat and it did what it did. 

Thanks for looking

Here are some other examples of this stamp

2016

2015

2014

2012

For Your Daily Grind Card

I’m using a background that has been sitting in a drawer. 

The stamps used in this card are by Mystamp Box. I colored in the images with Copic markers.

I made the background paper by using a stencil from The Crafters Workshop 

The blue medium, is powdered chalk mixed with paint on watercolor paper by Strathmore.

Thanks for looking

5 Different Snowmen Cards

This is a longer post with different snowmen images. The description of each card is under the photo. Enjoy.

I love this snowman card because the snowman stamp by Close to My Heart is so playful. The green die cut is by Dreamweaver Stencils, and the polka dot glitter paper is by Doodlebug. This embossing folder is by Spellbinders, and I stamped snowflakes in each square of the dry embossed.

Next, I used a snowman stamp from 1998 by Designs by Trena Hegdahl for Westwater Enterprises.

 I colored it in with chalk mixed with paint before cutting it out with a die by Spellbinders. To get the color inside the die cut, I added distress ink with an ink blending tool while the paper was still inside the die. The patterned paper is by Bazzill.

The sentiment is a heavy brass embellishment by The Paper Studio and is held down with brads

For this next card, I used one of my Mom’s fabric squares.

A link with other links to cards using my Mom’s fabric squares

The background is a recycled card.

The scalloped die cut behind the snowman is by Spellbinders and the red scalloped die cut is from eBay. 

In the cards above, I upcycled snowmen images from two different store-bought cards. On the left, I stamped the white background with snowflakes. And then I cut a red cardstock square into triangles.

For the card on the right, I added the snowman onto a scalloped rectangle die cut by Spellbinders. I placed some red rick-rack down the center of a piece of blue cardstock that is dry embossed with an embossing folder by Spellbinders before adding the snowman on top.

The last card is my Elsa card that I finally finished up. She doesn’t need a post of her own. 

The patterned paper is by The Paper Studio and Carter’s Bella.

Colored with Copic markers, with some white paint on her cape. 

The sentiment came with the set of images.

Thanks for looking

Elsa Sparkles Card

I used a digital stamped image of  Elsa by Sassy Studio Designs

The die- cuts are by Cricut and Spellbinders

The glitter patterned papers are by Recollections and DCWV
I used distress ink to color her in along with powdered chalk and water to create the beauty of her cape.

The second picture is to show how sparkly she is.

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards using the same stamp.
This may have been my favorite image with them.

Elsa 2014
Oct 2014
April 2016
March 2016
March again 2016
Sept 2015
June 2015
April 2015
Jan 2015
Again Jan 2015
OMGoodness. Again Jan 2015
Elsa with banners 2015
Nov 2014
Chalk June 2014

Olaf card for tattoos

My husband's cereal has these Frozen 2 tattoo things that I wanted to send to the granddaughter of a friend of mine. I think she will like them. Well, I'm working on getting some of these images that are laying around onto cards and this was the perfect opportunity to use this image.

I used the Olaf digital stamp by Sassy Studio Design. They are no longer in business.
I don't like that it is off-white paper and the rest of the card is white but some things I have to remember people probably don't notice the little things that I do.
I colored him in with white powdered chalk mixed with paint and the nose is a distress marker. This should tell you how long I've had this image, the chalk company I worked with went out of business around 2015 which was about the time I started the design team for Sassy Studio.
Yup...I have a lot of images to get on cards.
Anyway,

The sentiment is by Sassy Studio Designs

The snowflake sticker is by EK Success

The patterned paper is by Carte Bella
I inked the edges with distress ink.

Thanks for looking

Here are some other cards using the same stamp.
Olaf 2014
Olaf 2015

Pink Floral Birthday Card

I used stamps is a digital stamp and I apologize for not knowing who made the stamp.
The image is colored in with powder chalk mixed with paint.

The sentiment is by Stampin Up with pink SU ink

The die-cut by Spellbinders
The patterned paper is unknown.

Thanks for looking

Blue Hugs card with Stencil background

I used a stencil by The Crafters Workshop with paint mixed with powdered chalk.

The sentiment is a Sticko sticker

The die- cuts: the circle is unknown and the hearts are felt by Jenni Bowlin Studio

The ribbon is by Offray

Thanks for looking

Deep Red Stamps North Pole

My cards today use a Snowman by the Northpole by Deep Red Stamps and can be found
Deep Red Stamps on eBay

North Pole Snowman on DRS website

The image is colored in with powdered chalk and paint.

The patterned paper is by Making Memories

Yarn by EK Success.

Rectangle die-cuts from eBay

I've already blogged about the 1st card.
Deep Red Stamps Snowman by the Northpole
Thanks for looking