Pink Stamper Challenge

This card I am going to include in the halloween series that I made for Robyn's challenge on My Pink Stamper. The Challenge was to used the colors; pink, green and purple. I used Paper Doll Dress Up cricut cartridge for the monster costume and ran it through the Cuttlebug using a fiskars texture plate, then I ran my melon mambo inkpad over the top to bring out the embossing. The bag is also from Paper Doll Dress Up and I went over the trick or treat on the bag with a black gel pen. The ribbon and patterned paper I had gotten last year from Michaels on clearance. This card was fun to make and I made it in 20 minutes (would have been shorter but my daughter kept interrupting me). Thanks for looking.

Let the Trick or Treating begin

I will start out my Halloween series with this cute little treat bag that was made from a standard A2 size envelope. The stamped images are from Stampin Up's "Fang-tastic" set. I used watercolor pencils and the water brush to color them in and sponged around the edges of the white cardstock. I used Glossy Accents on the bat and bow tie. I mounted the stamped image onto a piece of old olive cardstock and placed on the bag tilted. The bag front was covered with a piece of patterned paper. The top of the bag was scallop punched and folded over. I used Stampin Up's scalloped ribbon border punch for the lace, then a black ribbon was tied between two punched holes to secure the bag closed. Thanks for looking.

Stampin Up Fishing card

This card was made for a co-worker who loves to fish. I first stamped the fishing lures on the card in crumb cake for a background, then I took glossy white cardstock and added ink and alcohol on a sponge to add the marbled effect on top of that I stamped the fishing stamp using black stazon ink. I matted that on a piece of yellow cardstock that had the lures stamped in gold and then matted onto a piece of old olive cardstock. The sentiment was stamped on yellow cardstock with the lures stamped in gold on the background and punched out with the word window punch and layered on the modern label punch and brads were placed at both ends. All stamps are from Stampin Up.

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Stay tuned, I will have a Halloween series coming up with a few Halloween ideas running through my mind.

Old School Challenge

Here is my submission for Emma's old school challenge (make a card without using your cricut). This was not too much of a challenge for me since I am still old school and use my stamps and patterned papers alot. My cricut I use for alot of projects but not always on my cards since my cartridge collection is fairly small. The stamp is from Stampin Up which I stamped on cardstock and bleached out the centers of the flowers and glossy accented the leaves. Thanks for looking.

Brayered Deer Birthday card

This card has to be one of my favorite cards. I used the brayer in Marina Mist and Night of Navy for the sky and water. The stamp set is from Stampin Up.  I mirrored image the stamp to reflect in the water. I used SU weathered background stamp for the background on the card and also on the photo corners that were stamped and embossed and then popped up with dimensionals. With my white gelly roll pen I did some highlighting in the tree and water. I am very pleased at how this card has turned out. Thanks for looking

Aviary card

This is a 4 1/4" square card. The base is crumb cake (craft card stock) stamped with images from Stampin Up's "Aviary" stamp set stamped in crumb cake ink. I then placed a 1" strip of Bermuda Bay card stock stamped with the swirl from SU's  "Elements of Style" set in versamark ink. Layered on top of the Bermuda Bay is white card stock punched with SU's lace border punch. The main image is stamped on a 1 5/8" x 2 1/8" white card stock. The cage is stamped with Soft Suede ink and the owl is stamped with Bermuda Bay ink. I punched out a Bermuda Bay lace border and cut in half for the scallops on the side of the white card stock. I placed the main image on the card with dimensionals and added a crystal brad to the top of the birdcage. I then placed 4 crystals on the white lace border. Thanks for looking.

Back to School Teacher Gift

This project was made for my daughter's Kindergarten teacher as a back to school gift. We had bought some teacher peg stamps that have sayings on them "Good Job" etc. and decided to make a box for them to go in. There are four different stamps and one ink pad in the box.  The card was made using the Stampin Up "Greeting Card Kids" that I stamped on paper and then my daughter used SU's watercolor crayons and the waterpen to color. She chose the colors and did all the coloring herself (Libby did a great job on trying to stay in the lines, her Kindergarten teacher should be proud of her). The designer series paper is from DCWV's flower shower spring stack. I punched out one of the stars and placed a rhinestone brad in the middle, layered the star on a 1 1/4" circle and then on a 1 3/8" circle and used a dimensional to adhere to the card. I used a red marker to do some stitching on the layers of the card. I then used glossy accents on the apple and the buckle on the books. This was a fun card to make with my daughter and it got her excited about going to school.
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