What a great day to wake up to one of my favorite Youtubers with such a fun card, and I hint at a new challenge. It was for certain a marvelous Monday morning. So, my inspiration is 100% by Maaike Uijthoven’s card from Youtube. Her entire tone last year of use, don’t horde reminded me of a set of stamps and stencils from Kindred Stamps that I have not yet used. I found some craft cardstock and inked the edges lightly with Vintage Photo Distressed Ink and then used the same ink on the stencil and the map for my background. I then did crazy simple Copic coloring of Peter. The sentiment is from the same stamp set and is stamped in Distressed Oxide Forest Moss. Ok folks. This is about as clean and simple as I get. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy New Monday! New Week! New Year! Y’all

I didn’t have time to share over the holidays. I was busy making cards. But a few of my cards were winners at different challenges. I am so very thankful for the challenges and the people who run them. I look forward to all my sidebar listed challenges this year!

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Happy New Year ! This card is a combination of the Ton background with Stampabilities’ Runway. I received the Runway set as a Christmas gift and new exactly which background to pair it with. The background was stamped in Ink on 3 disappearing ink on Arches cold press watercolor. I used watercolor paint I had on hand. I “inkblended” the trees and the street. I used a sponge and some gauche paint to add a few clouds. After it dried, I stamped again with Versafine onxy black ink. The model was stamped with Versafine black ink as well. I then used some Crayola watercolor pencils for her dress and skin with a waterbrush. She is then positioned in Paris using some foam tape.

Have a Fantastic weekend, y’all!

I LOVE Disney! I miss seeing their Holiday decorations and opulent change to the Magic Kingdom at DisneyWorld. So, I just had to do a Disney Park inspired Christmas window. Here is her story….

It is a beautiful sunny day in Kissimme Florida where Tiffany lives. She and her family are Disney fans with her mom being fortunate to work for the WDW Enterprises. There are very thankful this year that her mom still has a job and everyone is healthy. Tiffany is surprised one morning by her parents that allow her to go shopping at Disney Springs. She quickly dresses, Disney-bounding in her beautiful Tiki-dress from 13 Cherry Tree Lane. She and her mom are there to finish some last minute Christmas shopping. They stop to see the Jingle Cruise window display at The World of Disney; the baby elephants have just emerged from the backside of water and are happily wearing their Santa hats. Sad to leave, Tiffany takes one last photo and heads for home.

Have a magical day, y’all!

Here is a new Christmas window for this year! It is a very dimensional card. This mixed media card was inspired by the Card Concept 145. I loved the rich brown, cream and gold color scheme. The scroll work of the candle stands inspired the background behind the Christmas tree. Here’s what was used. The window and the frost on the window are svg cuts from svgcuts.com Winter lodge. The fence is a cricut design space image set in front of a simple snowbank made with a LawnFawn hill die. The greenery are Cricut design space as well. The background is dark brown cardstock stamped with Cocoa ink from Memento with LawnFawn’s wood grain die. The beautiful tree is from Hero Arts colored with Copics and Prismacolored pencils. Have a great week, y’all,

Happy Black Friday Shopping! This Christmas card was inspired by the colors at The Color Throwdown Challenge this week. The colors reminded me a 1950s color palate. The November 2018 set from Hero Arts was used for the window. The fire was colored in prismacolor pencils and the remainder of the card was colored in Copics: R27,R29,R46,E55,E57,B02,B12, G07, C0,C1,C3,E23,Y24. Silver and Gold Gelly Roll pens were used for the ornaments. It is hard to see the siliver balls in the wreath, but they are there (my photography is lacking😁). Wink of Stella clear was used for the colored ornaments. The background was a wallpaper I downloaded from the internet and cut out. I pieced the white and blue for the background. My favorite part is her pearl bracelet with Just White Nuvo Drops.

Happy Shopping, y’all!

Welcome back! I started a series of cards with my last post…. Christmas Windows. I love and miss the store windows at Christmas! This is my second window in this series, inspired by the Card Concept Challenge, Holiday Home. This is fairly simple mixed media piece done with the majority of the same dies as it’s predecessor. The obvious difference are the colors. I used Distressed oxide Tye Dye, Abandoned Coral, Fired Brick and Aged Mahogany. The window is made from a Spellbinder’s Die: Four Seasons. The girl’s purse is from from a Karen Burniston’s die set. The embossing powder is Aroma Spiced Candy by Emerald Creek Crafts. I hope you enjoy it!

Happy Weekend Crafting, y’all!

This is my attempt at an “old-school” Christmas window one might have seen on 5th Avenue. The color scheme is Winter Blues inspired by Double D Challenges; the girl inspired my shopper’s hair and dress colors, the blue jay is sitting in the tree, the wreath is on the awning, the snowy branches inspired the trees and the blue-green inspired the Speckled Egg window background. I used quite a few different companies’ stamps for this card. The girl shopping is a stamp from May May Made It, stamped in Memento Black ink and colored with Copic B21, C1,B24, E55,E23 and E57. The window and wreath are from Hero Arts November 2019 and April 2018. The awning was colored with B21 and B24 then cut out and the bottom of the awning mounted on foam tape with the top of the awning glued down to give it a more 3D effect; this is hard to see in this picture🙃. The window scene is Distress Oxide Speckled Egg then sprayed with a misting of a light blue perfect pearls. The snowy tress, hills, bird and deer are from Cricut Access. My background was cut out with a Lawn Fawn stitched die and the top 2/3s embossed with a brick embossing folder; I then used a score board to embossing the sidewalk. The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn’s Holiday Helpers and embossed using Versamark and Emerald Creek’s Aroma Chocolate Dream. I believe Emerald Creek has the BEST embossing powders. That’s about it! I hope you enjoy!

Have a fun Friday, y’all!

I have tried for years to coax one of my cats to ride our Roomba with no avail. But now, I have a cat in the house riding a Roomba. Thank you MFT! I loved their current color challenge and couldn’t wait to play! I used tan cardstock as a base for everything. The background was created with a Confetti stamp, Versamark Ink and Ranger tan embossing powder combined with Distressed Oxide in Pink Raspberry, Speckled Egg and Peacock Feathers. The floor is a wood grain stamp by LawnFawn stamped with Distressed Ink in Antique Linen and the paw prints in Tea Dye. The cat and roomba were stamped on tan cardstock with Memento Rich Cocoa and Tuxedo Black with simple copic coloring in R2,R4,C9,C7 and C5. The hello die cut is a Sizzix die cut from the same cardstock.

Hug your furry friends, y’all!

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The nice people over at As You Like It Challenge’s topic is His or Her Birthday. Although, I make more cards for women, the challenge for men is fun in such a different way. This card (although going to a 15yo girl) is definitely a more male themed card. The recipient plays VR games and is an Arc Trooper (think Star Wars, Clone Wars). This card is made exclusively using the Cricut machine. I used the Foil Quill for the sentiment. The foiling looks fabulous. However, it is tough for me to get a great photo as the silver foil lines are quite thin (It says, “Eat cake, you will. This is the way.”). The arc trooper was a digital download that I altered using paint 3D trying to get it as close to her armor as possible. 🤞 The rest is simple Cricut use. The color scheme for this was inspired by the Less is More Challenge.

Craft you will. This is the way, y’all!