“We’re painting the roses red.” Or the hearts in this case. I love, love, love this version of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland. The Oddball series from Stampingbella is adorable in such a quirky way. The Queen was stamped with Memento Black ink on some Expressit card stock. The hearts are a simple stamp that was stamped with a red Hero Arts ink. The alcohol markers used were from a $8 set I bought on Amazon. Honestly, they worked as well in my hands as the Copic markers. But for $8? I can easily recommend these to friends that have smaller children and not break the budget or worry that they are not taken care of properly. Have a happy hump day everyone!

“Y’all stay safe now, ya hear?”

Happy Sunday Crafters! I have a new mixed media card for you today. The background was made by first embossing a distressed brick background stamp in white embossing powder. Then ink “smooshing” was done using Distressed Oxides: carved pumpkin, tattered rose, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry. The stamp of the bunnies and sentiment came from a retired Carftin’ Desert Divas. The stamp was stamped on Bristol smooth cardstock using ink on 3 disappearing ink. A base layer of distressed oxides were painted on the image. Then a top color of colored pencils (prismacolor and black widow) were used to add finishing touches. Hope you enjoy!

Stay healthy y’all!

Card challenges entered include: Color Throwdown Challenge #608, Time Out Challenges: Season, 2 Crafty Critter Crazies.

I’m back. Have you ever made cards and they don’t turn out?? I have. But, yeah! I finally had a card turn out that is “postable”. This card was inspired by the TimeOut Challenge #168 and The Card Concept challenge #138d. These two challenges clearly blend well together and were the basis for this mixed media card.. The clear bowl from TimeOut was the inspiration for the shaker card. I chose pink as my primary color. I loved the shells from The Card Concept and the starfish from TimeOut. I used images from multiple different desingers. The designers included: Lawn Fawn (Screen Time, Keep on Swimming, Ready Set Snow), MFT (BB Polynesian Paradise, Penguins in Paradise) Designing Desert Divas (mermaid). The background die was created with Nina solar white cardstock usning Lawn Fawn’s Sparkle Background and and Sizzix Polkadot embossing folder. The images were colored with some simple Copic coloring. Add some clear star gems, foam tape and glue and you have a cute card.

Stay safe y’all!😢😢😢 Hurricane Laura

I’ve been sending (and creating) quite a few sympathy cards recently. This is a card for a dear friend whose beloved horse passed away. The card was inspired by the clouds on the current Lawnfawnatic’s challenge. The card is completely done with die cuts, my favorite tool to use. I used Lawn Fawn’s cloud and stitched rectangle dies along with MFT’s rainbow die. The sentiment inside is “hidden” by the clouds and is from a retired Designing Desert Diva’s (😪) sentiment set. On the back, I used some Lawn Fawn vellum and printed the poem Rainbow Bridge for horses. I thought this turned out to be an elegant and sweet card. Hopefully, it will be an inspiration for a slightly different twist on Rainbow Bridge.

Here is the inside and the back of the card. I forgot to mention that I used glue dots to secure the vellum to the back.

Happy Hump Day Y’all!

Challenges entered with this card include:

A little foiling to start the week. We all need to send sympathy cards at one time or another. This was a very simple card to make. The flower is a die from SSS that was cut and then foiled. The sentiment was a simple hot foil die set. A bit of background stamping to add interest. A simple and elegant card!

Have a great week, y’all!

This card was inspired by the current MFT sketch challenge . I used stamps from BB Penguins in Paradise and BB Polynesian Paradise. The penguin and the large flower are stamped on Copic paper and colored with a combination of copic markers and Black Widow pencils. The stamps were also used on Shrinky Dinks for pencils and used as shaker elemets: the pinapple, the drink, and flower. The foiling is from  Elegant Twist Collection by Becca Feeken and Gemini Hot Foil in Cherise. The background stamp is Starry Night by Hero Arts using Versamark ink. Put it together and you have ……… Hello Lovely!.

Have a Lovely Day, y’all!

Challenges this card is entered include: MFT sketch challenge, SSS Early Bird Challenge, 2 Crafting Critter Crazies

A beautiful and peaceful scene. A little unicorn enjoying his home. This card was designed by DD14, who was inspired by the current Color Throwdown Challenge. She used Lawn Fawn dies and stamps to create the scene. The background is a blending of some distressed oxide and a great use of washi tape. Fabulous job girl!!

What an honor! Thank you so much to the group over at The Card Concept challenge. I was surprised to see that I won an honorable mention to your last card challenge. It was a fun challenge and look forward to this next fortnight challenge as well.

Happy Hump Day, y’all!

A gun gift card to make and receive. My DD14a created this card with some help from Lawn Fawn stamps/dies and MFT gift card dienamics and plastics. She did some simple copic coloring and the gift is ready to be used. She was inspired by this weeks color throwdown challange. It’s hard to see, but the gift card is gold.

Great Job, girl!!

A card inspired by the current Card Concept challenge. I was inspired by the colors, the rustic setting and the lake in the background. Definitely a mixed media card: distressed oxide ink, copic coloring, memento ink, Black Widow pencil and gellyroll pen along with some die cutting and embossing.

Happy Thursday y’all!