Happy Hump Day, Crafters!!! I finally had some time to create. I saw a video Made by Sannie, and just had to try her techniques. OMgoodness it was tremendous fun!

Supplies:

• Papers: Arteza Watercolor Paper, Fuschia card stock, Silver glitter card stock, white fun foam
• Stamps: Stamping Bella’s Oddball Marilyn, Tim Holt’s Ledger Script CMS241, SSS Good Reading Background
• Stencils: Kindred Stamps “stars” (retired)
• Sentiment: Cricut cut
• Inks: Distressed Oxide Ink Stampad (Kitsch Flamingo,Picked Raspberry, Victorian Velvet, Tattered Rose, Wild Honey, Scattered Stray), Archival Inks (Black Soot, Speckled Egg), Versamark Watermark, Distress Ink Spray (Speckled Egg, Hickory Smoke)
• Embossing Powder: Emerald Creek’s Black Cherry Aroma
• Guache: White
• Texture Paste: Distress Matte with Distress Frosted Crystal
• Distress Micro Glaze
• Embellishments: “Diamonds” from the stash, White Gel Pen
• Stamping Platform: Mini Misti

Time to make – 2 days, Craft time – 3.0 hours.

Directions:

Stamp Marilyn in Archival Ink twice and then with Versamark. Emboss with Black Cherry powder. Color using a water brush and Distress Oxide Ink “smooshed” onto a working surface. Allow to dry and place micro glaze over Marilyn. Spray with water and the Distress Ink sprays until you are happy with the color. Heat dry or air dry. Splatter with Picked Raspberry and white gouache. Add the texture paste through the stencil and allow it to air dry. Randomly stamp with Archival Speckled Egg using SSS’s Good Reading stamp. Randomly stamp with Archival Black Soot using Tim Holt’s Ledger Script CMS24. Add sentiment and jewels. Mount to white fun foam and add to the card front.

Here is a copy of the inspiration card:

Go check her video for detailed instructions on how to make a card like this!

Challenges entered: Creative Knockouts, STAMPlorations, Not 2 Shabby, 613 Avenue Create, SSS Monday Challenge, Crafting Happiness Challenge, Scrapping4Fun Challenge, As You Like It Challenge (All my products were new stash products. Although I like recycling, I like to use new in my makes☺.)

As a warm and welcome spring gift to my BFF, I created these adorable sunflower earrings.

Supplies: Yellow and Brown – DMC embroidery thread using 3-ply, 0.4mm crochet hook, stock earring hooks.

 The flower pattern is from the book 100 Micro Crochet Motifs: Patterns and Charts for Tiny Crochet Creations by Steffi Glaves.

Craft time: 2 hours

There is another challenge over at the Colorful Options Challenge this month. And as you might have guessed, the featured color this month is YELLOW!

Please visit this month’s challenge for more inspiration!

Happy April, crafters! It’s been a crazy month down South. I can’t believe I barely posted last month….. I hate it when life gets in the way of my hobbies. 🤣 Back to crafting!

There is another challenge over at the Colorful Options Challenge this month. And as you might have guessed, the featured color this month is YELLOW!

Here is how I made my bright and sparkly card.

Supplies:

• Papers: Nina 110lb White Card Stock, Gold Card Stock, Yellow Card Stock
• Stamp: My Monthly Hero Arts, September 2021
• Stencils: My Monthly Hero Arts, September 2021
• Dies: “hi”, butterfly – both from my stash Retired Sizzix
• Inks: Distressed Oxide Ink (Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade); Hero Arts (Butter Bar, Caramel), Versamark Embossing Ink, Ink on 3 Disappearing Ink
• Embossing Powder: Ranger Yellow Tinsel, Ranger Holographic
• Water Color: Kuretake Gansai Tambi Starry colors 6 color set
• Stamping Platform: Mini Misti

Craft time: 1.5 hours

Directions:

Tape off a border to the white background base. Ink blend with Distress Oxide and Hero Arts Butter Bar until happy. Splatter with watercolor gold and yellow ink. On the second piece of white cardstock, stamp using Ink on 3 Disappearing Ink and a stamping platform. Then ink blend using the coordinating stencils. (You could also color with watercolor, Copics, pencils – whatever you have on hand). Once colored, use the coordinating die to cut out the flowers. Place the “frame” from your cutout and the flowers back into your stamping platform and stamp the flowers a second time with Versamark Ink. Emboss using Yellow Tinsel. Cut out and ink your butterfly and sentiment. Stamp the sentiments with Versamark Ink and emboss using coordinating powders. Strategically place the flowers and butterfly around your background until you are happy. Mount to coordinating papers for a framed appearance.

Don’t forget to visit this month’s challenge for more DT inspiration!

Stay safe and Happy Crafting!

Inspiration Card: Colorful Options Challenge: April – Yellow

Happy HP Friday crafters!

OMG! I was so excited to see this on Cricut this morning, I just had to share. They have Chibi Harry Potter. There are 67 images that are SVG cut files. I can see adorable cards coming in the future! Had to share!

Is everyone ready for some green beer on the 17th??? This little gnome is!

My gnome comes from Cricut access and then inked with corresponding Distress Oxide colors. Versamark ink and puff embossing powder was used for the beer foam. His background is a combination of Distress Inks (Speckled Egg, Squeezed Lemonade, Rustic Wilderness). A little stitching was added for some interest. After which, some horseshoes and clovers were added with a Makira-made stencil and translucent DO grit paste; Green was added with Rustic Wilderness distress crayon. Gold splatter was added with gold watercolor and Rubin Buff gold leaf. The sentiment and clovers were cut out of some green cardstock. Gold leaf was added to the sentiment as well. Add a green and yellow frame and you are ready to celebrate.

Challenges entered: The Card Concept Challenge, SSS Wednesday Challenge, The Fairy and Unicorn Challenge

“A poisoned apple! Ho-ho-ho-ho-ho! One taste of the Poisoned Apple, and the victim’s eyes will close forever in the Sleeping Death. Dip the apple in the brew. Let the Sleeping Death seep through.” – Evil Queen

The recipe, you desire? You sure? Hopefully no draught of living death here:

Ingredients:

• Papers: Tim Holtz Ideology Warm & Cool; Craft Card Stock, red card stock, lime green card stock
• Digit Images: Graphics Fairy-LunaMagicalQueen
• SVG Apple: Makira creation
• Embossing folder: Tim Holtz® Sizzix Texture Fades™ – Poison 
• Sentiment: 1929 Underwood Typewriter, “Now Begin Thy Magic Spell”
• Stencil: Rabbit Hole Design Weird Science
• Inks: Distressed Ink (Candied Apple Red, Peeled Paint, Bubling Cauldron)
• Distressed Crayons: Candied Apple Red, Aged Mahogany, Bubling Cauldron
• Hot Glue

Prep Time: 20 minutes Craft Time: 1 day-ish Yield: 1 card

Directions:

Spray the Red Warm Tim Holtz Cardstock with a very liberal layer of Candied Apple Red Distressed Ink and allow to dry. The dry time is many hours ( think 6+), however, it will dry. Print the Digi image from The Graphics Fairy on craft card stock. Apply Distressed crayon in Bubling Cauldron using the stencil over the printed Digi image to achieve the background. Use the Time Holtz Green Cold Cardstock in combination with his Poison embossing folder to add a second layer. Then use a mixture of Candied Apple Red and Aged Mahogany on the embossed paper to give it a slight red tint. By now the red cardstock should be dry, using the Cricut and SVG files, cut it out along with the lime green to form the apple. The SVG is available through Cricut. Liberally apply Peeled Paint Distressed Ink and Bubling Cauldron Distress Mica Spray to the lime green cut cardstock. While still wet, add the hot glue to the edges to form the ooze. Immediately after adding the glue, with the ink still somewhat wet, use your embossing gun or heat tool to melt the glue; this will help incorporate the ink into the glue to give it the green ooze look. Type your sentiment and cut it to size with a paper trimmer. Use Aged Mahogony Distress Oxide Ink to ink the sides of your sentiment. Last, just some glue to put the layers together.

Challenges Entered: Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge, SSS Monday Challenge, Can You Handle the Pressue?, Make the Cards Challenge, Allsorts Challenge, As You Like It Challenge

This card will be sent for Halloween, my favorite occasion. Why is it my favorite, I love the freedom to dress in costume and just have fun for the day.

Inspiration Card: The Colorful Options Challenge – olive and lime green

This cute little fairy home was brought to life by Eden. As Lawn Fawn products are her favorite stamps, she chose Fairy Friends and Frosty Fairy Friends to create her scene. The images were stamped with Ink on 3 disappearing ink and then colored with a varitey of Prismacolored pencils. The tree and bushes were painted using Distressed Oxide Rustic Wilderness paint and decorative moss as her sponge. Why moss…. why not? She thought that the the moss would create the mossy forest effect she had envisioned.

This is Eden’s contribution to the Colorful options Challenge. It’s time for another month and another color challenge at the Colorful Options Challenge. This month, can you guess? The color is GREEN!

To check out the challenge, just click on the photo above or below. Our color this month is green… ANY green. Remember, the color does NOT need to be monochromatic; just the primary color needs to be a shade of green. If you do not like green, a card with a rainbow of colors is also welcome. Hope to see everyone’s makes soon! Cheers! Eden

“Butterflies are flowers with wings.”

It’s time for another month and another color challenge at the Colorful Options Challenge. This month, can you guess? The color is GREEN!

My Colorful Options cards involved lots of inky fun. I was inspired by a Tim Holtz technique video using stencils with spray stains. The sprays used with the stencil were Distressed Inks-Peeled Paint and Rustic Wilderness with a little Bubbling Cauldron to add some shine and shimmer. The birthday card’s background had an initial layer of Distressed Oxide in Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters prior to stenciling. Adding color to the butterflies was done by the addition of ink to the embossing folder.

To check out the challenge, just click on the photo above. Our color this month is green… ANY green. Remember, the color does NOT need to be monochromatic; just the primary color needs to be a shade of green. If you do not like green, a card with a rainbow of colors is also welcome. Hope to see everyone’s makes soon! Cheers! Makira

It’s spring and the horses are ready. “Here we come Churchill Downs!” Rosemary and her filly Include Betty are ready!

For the pony obsessed, I present this sweet card

The paper is from Stamperia Romantic Horses and vellum I had in the stash. The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted Unicorns and stamped with Versamark Clair Morning Mist. The white and rose pink cardstock is from the stash as well. The technique for this card comes from a Stampin Up youtube video by Rachael Tessman; fast forward to 6:03 for the technique of the video to start.

This card was inspired by the Double Trouble Challenge. Thing One requests a card to be spring-related; I could think of nothing more “Spring-y” than the Kentucky Derby. I received this paper as part of my Christmas gift last year and thought these sweet flowers fit the Spring vibe well. Thing 2 is desiring a “fun-fold” card. I stumbled across this fun-fold card layout by Rachael Tessman and had to recreate it for my DD14 whose 15th b-day will be in just a few short weeks. She loves horses and this girl and pony from the ephemera pack by Stamperia I thought was perfect. A little velvet Ribbon from Tim Holtz, gives it a finishing touch.

“Now! Now! Have no fear. Have no fear! My tricks are not bad,” said the Cat in the Hat.

I am presenting my version of a CAS card this sunny, cold Saturday morning. My Cat in the Hat was created by Eden and then placed into a button and added to a spotted rosette. Four coordinating strips of patterned paper create a more interesting background. A simple sentiment in Versafine Clair Monarch completes my birthday card.

Challenges entered: AAA CAS Challenge, Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge, Critter Crazy Challenge, Watercooler Wednesday Challenge

“You’re off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting….so get on your way!” Dr. Seuss