Floral Friday Arch flowers card

Background created with a Gina Marie stencil positive and the negative. The flowers are die cuts are from Creative Memories. The arch is die was cut out with my Cricut. The shelf is a Spellbinders die. 

Simon says Stamp feminine challenge

Sympathy Cat card with a Gelli Plate background

The cat stamp on this card is by Newton’s Nook. I love the silhouettes in this stamp set. The black die cut is by Spellbinders. The outside frame is a piece of cereal board I cut out with my Cricut. 

I created the background playing with my Gelli Plate…so I thought. Here’s the backstory, I have unmounted red rubber stamps from Purple Onion Designs and I wanted to use them in my MISTI. So I bought a “Clear Mount Stamp” from Purple Onion Designs. It stands in place of the foam that is normally on the back of red rubber stamps.

Well, I misplaced my Gelli Plate and while looking for it I came across the said Clear Mount Stamp. It looks similar to the Gelli Plate so I grabbed it and went to a class by Alison Heikkila. 

On this background, I used two colors and two types of paint and then waited too long to pull the print. It created a thick, messy, textured panel and what goes better with a messy background, a sharp silhouette image. 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge -4 Legged friend 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Anything goes

Floral Friday Llama Graduation Card

I stamped the llama image with black Memento ink and I colored it in with Copic markers. (See the colors I used in the photo below.) Then I adhered it to the top folding card on a card. When you lift up the llama card front, you see a graduation cap that I cut out with my Cricut. The orange ribbon is from Michaels. Funny thing, I tried so hard to conceal the ribbon behind the white flap. After fiddling with it and it wouldn't do what I wanted it to. When I closed the flap and I liked it better sticking out from behind. Then I had to fiddle with it and make it stick out more.
 

 I heat embossed the background stamp with red, magenta, and orange embossing powders on white cardstock. Then I heat embossed a sentiment on a piece of vellum with Magenta embossing powder. I used a Xyron sticker maker to adhere the sentiment to the background.

Craft Roulette #268. Parameters: Project: A card for a student. This is a quirky graduation card for Maya. Colors: In modern. It's black and white with a loud color to carry the load and give it a pop.  Element: Clothing. The llama has a covering on its back, but you could count the graduation hat. Random: Abstract blob. The flowers in the background stamp by Hero Arts look like blobs.

The colors in this card are loosely based on this Color Cube card.

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4 Legged Friends Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge 

Anything goes Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge

Pussy Cat Hello card

I made this card for a pet sympathy card and it looks more like a Halloween card. Oh well. 

The purple corner dies are by Ultimate Creations. The hello die is by The Crafter’s Workshop. The cat is a stencil that I inked with orange pigment ink. Then I heat embossed it with clear embossing powder. I inked the paper and then I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist.

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Simon Says Stamp 4 legs friend

Simon Says Stamp anything goes Wednesday challenge

Lawn Fawn Bunny on a Sled

I made this card for Craft Roulette #316. Parameters: Project- Hello card. Colors-strawberry fields. Element-Hop(s) hopping. Random-large letters. 

The background was created by distress ink. I made some hills with a stencil and distress oxide and Versa Magic chalk ink. The letter dies are by Sizzix (665335). I cut them out of Color-aid paper and stamped them with small snowflakes by Lawn Fawn with a Versa Magic ink. 

The bunny is by Lawn Fawn, houses border by Stampendous, and winter is a stamp from another Stampendous stamp set. I colored the images with Copic markers. The bunny is on a foam sled. 🛷 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Four legged friends challenge 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Anything goes challenge

Golden Retriever card

This dog card is one of many different dogs. This golden is one of many that I put together while upstairs with my new dog that had an infection on her incision. It was disappointing that her kennel didn’t keep her cone on her. But it is what it is. 

The patterned paper is by Provo Craft and the embossed paper by Cloud 9. The enamel dots are by Hero Arts. The border stickers are by Mrs.Grossmsn’s. 

Simon Says Stamp four legs challenge

Manly Monday Alcohol Ink Backgrounds

I made these backgrounds with alcohol inks on photo paper. The sentiments are cut out with my Cricut. The turtle stamp is unknown. I stamped it with Memento Black ink and colored him in with Copic markers. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp four legged friend Monday challenge

Bunny on a sled card

I colored this Lawn Fawn bunny with Copic markers. I used Versa Magic inks on the background stencil by Stacey Park with Sizzix.

The circle snowflake by Creative Expressions is also a stencil. I inked it with distress ink and then Solar paste around the edges  

I made this card for:

Simon Says Stamp more than one stencil

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Double stencil birthday card

I used distress ink on a Creative Expressions Chevron stencil and the sun stencil is by Hero Arts. The cake is a die by Cuttlebug. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp more than one stencil challenge

Roller Skates card

The background has some layers. It is the back side of a thin piece of patterned paper. Then I used a dollar store stencil on the background in light colors. Then I applied Broken China distress ink pad to paper. The blue glitter is Simon Hurley Astro paste with a Waffle Flower stencil. The rollerskate and sentiment are by Hero Arts. Stamped in black memento ink and colored in with Copic markers.

Simon Says Stamp bright n cheery

Simon says Stamp Quite Quirky

Spring bunny decor

I cut this out with my Cricut and then inked the leaves with Distress Oxide. 

I put glow in dark paste on the circle. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon says stamp not a card

Coffee Productivity Cards

The die cut is by Scrapbooking Made Simple. The sentiment stamp is by Deep Red Stamps.

Simon says stamp food or drink challenge

Strawberry Shortcake card

The patterned paper is by Paper Favorites. The stamps are by The Sassy Club and colored in with Copic markers. That’s it.Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon says stamp food or drink challenge

Happy Easter

The butterfly is heat embossed with pink powder by Stampendous. The background is a Gina Marie stencil. 

The sentiment was a die that I borrowed. I colored it in with colored pencils and markers. I’m entering this card into:

Simon says Stamp embossing challenge

Heat Embossed Pink Butterfly card

The butterfly stamp by Stampin Up is heat embossed with pink powder by Stampendous. The background is a stencil by Hero Arts. I’m entering this card into the 

Simon Says Stamp embossing challenges

Floral Friday Tulip Stencil cards

These cards were made with Scrapbooking Made Simple tulip stencil and distress ink.Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon says Stamp-beautiful blooms challenge

Trio of Simple Cricut cards

There are three cards but I’m only entering one into the challenges listed below the picture. 

I literally cut the overlay/background out with my Cricut and glued it on a piece of yellow cardstock. That’s what I consider clean and simple. I’m entering the card above into the,

Simon says Stamp clean and simple 

The background on this middle card was created with distress oxides and spritzed with water.

This last card I inked the edges with distress oxide.

Thanks for looking. HAGD!

Manly Monday Frog on mixed media background

Background-wave stencil by Stampendous green Astro paste. The sky is blue distress ink sprayed with blue glimmer mist. Then a plastic doily and used as a stencil to put a pattern on that upper portion by spraying it with a distress spritz in green. It didn’t really show up. I used it on another project sprayed it with a blue and then turned the stencil onto the card. It’s hard to explain. 

Then took a stencil by Creative Expressions called outlined duo rectangles that has multiple levels of dotted lines in an outline around the edges with distress oxide. 

There’s a slit cut into the paper within the green border where frog die cut slides in. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday add green challenge

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge Add green

Floral Friday Green Mixed media Card

The Stampin’ Up flower was heat embossed with platinum in embossing powder from Ranger.  Then I used a stencil from Recollections to add some interest to the background patterned paper by K and Co. I sprayed it with Glimmer Mist from Tattered Angels. 

I wrapped some felt ribbon by Current around the bottom portion of the card front but thought it needed something. So I took a piece of blue string and wrapped it around the ribbon and tied it into a knot.

The sentiment die was cut out of scrap paper that I used to check my Copic markers. 

Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday add green

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday add green challenge

Large Christmas tree with strips of paper card

I die cut a bunch of Christmas trees and then had the seniors at church decorate them from behind

I did things a little bit different on this card then many of the others. I added the green background frame to set it apart from the blue patterned paper. I adhered the paper strips to the back and then ran that whole thing into an embossing folder with ornaments on it. After embossing, I inked the inside areas of the tree with distress oxides. The star is an iron on patch that can use an iron on to adhered it to anything. 

Monday Simon Says Stamp- add some green