Heat Embossed Penguins

The above card uses patterned paper by Cosmo Cricket. 

The holographic paper is by Sizzix. The corner punch is by Marvy. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday add some texture challenge the heat embossed images are  textured. 

Playful Penguins cards

Creative Memories stickers make the background. These butterfly bright blue background is made from acrylic paint. 

These background is a Darcie embossing folder that I inked with distress ink. The brad says Happy Holidays.

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge

Floral Friday Flower Butterfly

The background is made with a stencil by Hero Arts and paint. These butterfly is a Stamin Up stamp that I heat embossed it in pink. Then I used a Spellbinders die to cut it out.  I inked the inside before taking the die off the paper.

Simon Says Stamp Monday stamp it challenge

Heat Embossed Santa Card

The Santa stamp is by Inkadinkaso. Then I ink the background with distress ink. It was so boring so I cat it up after I added washi tape cut with decorative scissors. The sentiment is a rub on by Making Memories. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-stamp it

For the Lovebirds

I put the heart earring from the 1980s around two of the closest doves on the patterned paper. 

I heat embossed the Lawn Fawn letter stamps in gold onto self adhesive vellum. 

You can see how much dimension that heart has in the picture above. 

This is the first fold using patterned paper by Paper Favourites, gold cardstock by Creative Memories, and heart dies. (unknown)

 

This is the final fold using heart patterned paper from the same paper pack and a wedding stamp by Stamping Up. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

I’m entering this card into the

Simon Says Stamp Monday PUN challenge

Creative Fingers-Anything goes challenge

Peach with Blue Butterfly Card

The butterfly stamp is by Stampendous. I heat embossed in white on white cardstock. I colored it in with Copic Markers. The background paper is by Provo Craft. The ribbon is by American Crafts. Thanks for looking.
Simon Says Stamp Wings challenge

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.

Thanks for looking.

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

Manly Monday Old Car in the Field

The green cardstock is by Recollections. I heat embossed a variety of twig stamps by Stampendous with platinum embossing powder by Ranger. Then I cut out a few of the leaves and tucked the car underneath.

I made this card for Simon Says Stamp Wheels challenge

Manly Monday Desert Card

This was my Craft Roulette 296 card last week. I love how it turned out. The background was in the bin that I like to call, the
"I don’t know what to do with this background" . 

It almost got cut up into sentiment. But I’m glad it didn’t.

The background stamp is by Hero Arts and is heat embossed in silver. It was inked with two different colors of distress ink, which you can see how the top is one color is different from the bottom.

The image was made on a blank business card. The stamps are by Stampendous. I stamped the image a while back to see how it looks. 

The parameters for Craft Roulette were 

Project-A2

Colors-Fresh and Clean

Element-From the Desert

Random-Distressed edge

The one that is a head scratcher is thecolor parameter and how my card works with it. I followed Donna Shelcucky .

Thanks for stopping by.

Manly Monday You’re Turtley amazing

I made this card for Craft Roulette #292

Project-encouragement card. Color-sophisticated. Element-house pet. Random-thread

The green patterned paper is by Provo Craft and the blue background is by Basic Grey. The rectangle die and word stamps are by Lawn Fawn. The turtle is a stamp by Waffle Flower and colored in with Copic markers. The word Turtley is heat embossed in white on a Cricut die cut. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Manly Monday multiple steps background

The background doesn’t really look like much, but it took a couple of steps to get there. I don’t love it but somebody will love getting this card. What I see and what the recipient sees are very different.

The card base is cherry red and I was going to work that background into an orange red like the sentiment card. Stand back! LoL! 

I took a background stamp from Stamping Up, inked it with black distress oxide ink and placed the card on top of it. I sprayed the background with water and hit it with the heat tool. I heavily inked the background with two oxides and the one I know was Rusty Hinge. I went direct to paper and it wasn’t changing the color like I thought it would. While the ink was still wet I heat embossed it with clear powder. The embossing didn’t cover it completely but that’s okay

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge-Thank you card.

Double stenciled backgrounds

This is a Tim Holtz tag that I did a stencil on a stencil technique. The twisted square stencil is by Momenta, and the dot stencil is by Gina Marie. I used Distress Oxides. The sentiment is by Sizzix. I stamped it with purple ink and clear heat embossed.

Then I created a small tag using a different stencil with the square stencil, but I didn't know how to finish it off, so maybe next time.

This last one uses two stencils and the same sentiment stamp.

Simon says Stamp Use more than one stencil

Floral Friday Roses Slimline cards

On this first card, I inked the stencil with pigment inks by Colorbox onto vellum with white stripes. Then I heat set it with clear embossing powder by Hero Arts. From there, I just cut it down, added mats behind it, added some rhinestones and then added a sentiment onto a red die cut.

This second card has the same background just on Sizzix gold opulent paper. 

You can see the heat embossing on this picture. Thanks for looking. HAGD! 

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-add pink

Poppystamps Butterfly

This card was a simply card to put together. I die cut the Poppystamps butterfly out of a messed up heat embossed background. The sentiment is also by Poppystamps. The die cut was a premade and then some brads in the body-they were on my desk. 

Keep it simple challenge

Thank You for Hawaii with Hibiscus Flower

Hi. I stamped the hibiscus stamp by Deep Red Stamps with Versa Mark ink and heat embossed it with platinum embossing powder by Ranger. The red die cut is by Gina Marie. The thank you die cut is from my stash. 

I made the background paper with blue distress inks and foam applicator using a wavy mask at different angles on white paper. I put a little ink here, then moved the mask and put a little bit of ink there. It creates white space and with the blue it looks like waves. I lamely tried to add in some brown distress ink at the bottom to resemble the sand. I hate it but not enough to redo it. 

Thank you for looking

Floral Friday Christmas Cricut Slimline card

Slimline cards are a challenge for me. I feel like there’s so much wasted space yet if you fill it up, it’s just too much. 

The background patterned paper is by Bo Bunny.  The poinsettia is a Cricut die cut (Image set called Christmas Noel).

 

I dry embossed one of the layers of the poinsettia with a Cuttlebug embossing folder before adding Stickles to the petals.

The sentiment is by Hero Arts; I heat embossed it in gold and then colored in the frame with a mixture of paint and chalk. The ric rack is from my mother-in-law‘s stash.

Thanks for looking.

Valentine's Day card

Peace Christmas dry and heat embossed card

The background is vellum that was dry embossed with a Cuttlebug folder and then painted with white sparkle paint. The die cut in the back is made out of silver card stock. The die cut in the front has been heat embossed with silver silver powder around the edges and the sentiment. The Simon says stamp challenge this week is SPARKLE  That vellum gives off some  beautiful sparkle.  Thanks for looking.

Floral Friday Poinsettias Heat embossed in circles Christmas Cards

This card is in the Simon Says Stamp weekly challenge. This week it is Add some sparkle. The red paper is glitter cardstock

I clear heat embossed the poinsettia stamp, inked with distress ink to give them color, and circle punch by Creative Memories. The white die is by Papertrey Ink and inside it is a Spellbinders die. The sentiment is unknown. The glitter cardstock is by Recollections and the dotted line is a rub-on by Die Cuts with a View.

I made the flowers the same way as the first card. You can now see what they look like before adding red ink. The large center die cut is unknown but the square behind the center is by Spellbinders. All of the edges are inked with Distress ink. 

I have more of these to play with so you'll see them again. Thanks for looking.