Thursday, October 22, 2015

Friendship

Sometimes I can sit down, read a challenge and just go to work and get it done. Yet, other times I sit and think, and think and it takes hours. I read the rules for this one yesterday and finally today it clicked. 
The challenge is to use an image depicting a friend or family relationship and/or a sentiment focused on relationship (mom, sister, friend, etc).

Here is my card... first the outside then the inside. 

 Products used:
Georgia Pacific Bright White Premium Cardstock
Tim Holtz Distress Inks: Pickled Raspberry, Dusty Concord, Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn, Tea Dye
AMuse Ink & Paper: Navy
Stamp-N-Stuff: Sahara Pearls embossing powder
Stamps: So Suzy, Virginia Turtle, Lawn Fawn and Simon Says Stamp. 
Silhouette Cameo and Big Shot

Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Lawnscaping Challenge: Too Cute To Spook

Lawnscaping Challenges is doing a "Too Cute To Spook" challenge.
So "scary" Halloween has never been my thing. I don't like horror movies, haunted houses or gore. Most expect that from this candy filled holiday. But I am fine without it. Perfect  Halloween for me is Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party.

So for my 'Too Cute To Spook' card I decided to have a ball. Using the Lawn Fawn "Sweet Smiles" stamp/die sets I used some Black Onyx Versafine ink and stamped on Neenah white cardstock. Once all was stamped I used the big shot to cut out the Gumball Machine and 12 gumballs, colored and colored with Bic Mark-its and Ganzi Tambi Watercolors. I then stamped out 6 cute gumball figures from a Sweet Shop Planner stamp set, colored with both Bic Mark-its and Ganzi Tambi Watercolors.
"Happy Halloween" sentiment is from Virginia Turtle Designs.
This was a fun project and I had a great time making it. I hope you enjoy it as much a I do.

Items used:
Lawn Fawn "Sweet Smiles" stamp/die
Sweet Stamp Shop "Lets Face It" stamps
Virginia Turtle "Happy Halloween"
Versafine Black Onyx
Bic Mark-Its
Ganzi Tambi Watercolors

Tuesday, October 20, 2015

PINKALICIOUS is the word!!!

PINKALICIOUS

The newest challenge is to unscramble the word PINKALICIOUS to make three or four words to use in or on the project. SO... here we go Pink of course, Lion, Ink, and CIAO... I really had fun with this one. 
 Using a 3 step build a lion stamp from Stampology and GinaK honey mustard ink stamped the first layer, second layer with Tim Holtz tea dye, and the final AMuse bubblegum. The palm tree is from Hero Arts stamped with GinaK dark chocolate and AMuse grass inks. 
I then used contact paper to mask of the top so I could use mowed lawn for the grassy mound. Another section of contact paper was used to mask off the lion and tree while I used tumbled glass for the sky area. 
After removing the contact paper I went back in to fill in sections with the inks that were missed, this also created somewhat of a shadow effect. 
I then put the final touch on with CIAO, this little piece is from a card making package I received on my birthday cruise this year, during the cardmaking class that my friend and I were the only ones to show up to. I used a project life die to cut out the banner piece, the pink layer is a post-it note that I also used the banner die to cut. 

Hope you enjoy the first creation of the day.

Monday, October 19, 2015

Stamping Smiles Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I have to say this was fun. The idea for this challenge is to create a card while winning the game. How do you win the game, 3 in a row of course. I have never played tic tac toe by myself, so I had to improvise. I remade the board and held 2 markers up let them go, once the game was won, that would be the methods used to make my card.
So, yellow won, I would be making my card using Forest Friends, Embossing, and Woodgrain at minimum, I also hit on leaves so figured I would throw them in as well, and to tie it all together I used "Thank You" as the sentiment.
Products used in this project were Woodgrain embossing folder on kraft cardstock. GinaK Dark Chocolate Dye Ink to highlight the texture of the woodgrain.
Tod is my little fox, he is a stamped image from inkadinkadoo, stamped in AMuse Studio Orange pigment ink and embossed using Whispers Orange embossing powder. Tod's background was done with Mowed Lawn and Tumbled Glass Distress Inks.
Copper is my puppy, he is a clear inkadinkadoo stamp that I embossed using Whispers Copper embossing powder, and colored his highlights with a honey brown bic mark-it.
The leaves were cut with Impression Obsession Rake/leaf die on colorbok Autumn Leaves paper.
I used a project life frame die to cut out the window of my card base so that the two friends could see each other.
The ladybug in the corner of the window near Copper is  a sparkle dot from Virginia Turtle Designs.

I really had a great time with this, and look forward to more fun in the coming months :)



Krafty Mimi Button

I am krafty, (love the spelling); I am a Mimi; so my button will read Krafty Mimi... I have seen so many cardmakers with their own buttons for their blog photos and I wanted one myself, so another project for today was to make one.

Hope You Can Cling To 2015 Challenge entries part 2

Today I woke up thinking I should catch up on this months HYCCT challenge, since I decided I was going to push myself to complete all 36 challenges. Well I did 3 on October 1, and nothing since. SO.... today I completed 5 challenges. 
 I am a Warrior- For those fighting and those supporting them. The design can reflect Camo or a Native American theme. For this I went with the Native American route and focused on feathers.
 Trio of Hearts- Make a card with a trio of hearts and the color red.
 Make a card showing a form of Transportation
 Make it tasty- make a card with food images. Some people like sushi and find it tasty, I do not but I had the stamps so wanted to use them :)
My favorite and last card of the day. HUGS... 

I hope you all enjoy my creations today.

Saturday, October 17, 2015

WCMD Challenge Win

WOW, really I do not know what to say, except thank you. Not sure which one of my 10 cards did it, but I am one of the winners over at Stamp Nation for the World Card Making Day 10 card Journey Around the World!!!
These are the fun cards I created for this challenge. I am not sure which card was the winner, but will update when I find out :)






And my prize for having all this fun... a $15 gift certificate to an awesome online stamp store... whimsystamps.com  I know what I want, just need to place the order. 
Congratulations to everyone who was in the challenge, and to the other eight winners as well.