PCC 238 - Sketch Challenge with MFT Beautiful Butterflies

Hello and Happy Wednesday!  Once again I'm back over with the Paper Craft Crew with a design team card for a fun sketch!  Also, once again I actually stayed really close to the sketch.. Yay me!

Here's my card using the MFT Beautiful Butterflies Card Kit.  MFT should be releasing the stamp sets for these soon.  The kit is sold out :(

I also threw in a little more of the Lawn Fawn Rainbow Perfectly Plaid.. I adore that paper!  

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #93 Coming Up Flowers Challenge with Hero Arts Color Layering Poppy

Hello!  I hope you had a great weekend and your week is off to a great start.  I went to Knoxville last weekend to visit my granddaughters.  My 7 year old granddaughter, Taylor, had her tonsils and adenoids out last Thursday and I wanted to give my daughter a hand with her.  Taylor has been very rebellious in taking her medicine.  I'm afraid that she takes after me in that she can hardly drink gross stuff.  Bless her heart.  All of her medicine is liquid and none of it tastes good.   She always feels much better when she gets it down but it is so stressful trying to drink it!  

Well since it is Tuesday, that means it's time for another Stamp, Ink, Paper Challenge and this week it's all about flowers.  How fun is that?? 

I just received the awesome Hero Arts Color Layering Poppy Stamp Set so it was time to play!

This was such a super fun stamp set.  The colors that I used to layer were Stampin Up! Flirty Flamingo, Melon Mambo and Watermelon Wonder.  My cardbase was Stampin' Up! Watermelon Wonder Cardstock.  The top layer was Neenah Classic Crest Solar White 80# Cardstock.  I stamped the stems directly on the white layer with Stampin' Up! Mossy Meadow Ink (retired).  I added my stamped and die cut layers with Tombow Multipurpose glue and foam tape.  I used one of my Mama Elephant Borderlines Trio Creative Cuts  to cut a stitched curve on the bottom of the top layer before I layered it on the Watermelon Wonder Cardstock.  I added three Pretty Pink Posh Dew Drops with some Ranger Multi Medium Mat Adhesive.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

PCC237 - Sketch Challenge with Hero Arts Fun in the Rain

Hello all! Hope your mid-week is going well!   I am so so proud of myself!  I actually made a card that is soooooo very close to this week's Paper Craft Crew Sketch!  lol  I usually take some artistic liberties but this time I really stayed on task.  I loved this sketch so much I actually made three cards with it.  Don't worry.. I only blogged one of them!  lol  

I had so much fun with the Hero Arts "Fun In the Rain" stamp set on this card.  This animals are just adorable!   What do you think?

I started off with a Dapper Denim cardstock base that was 11" x 4 1/4" (scored at 5 1/2").  My next layer was 5 1/4" x 4" Neenah Crest Solar White 80# cardstock layer.  I used my distress ink blending tool to blend in somd Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress Inks.  After blending, I spritzed it with water and then dabbed it with a paper towel.  My clouds are Hero Arts Infinity Cloud Dies.  I used my Stampin' Up! Triple Banner Punch to punch banner ends on my Real Red Cardstock 3/4" x 3 1/2" banner.  The mat for the square is Dapper Denim and the top square is more of the Neenah Crest Solar White 80# cardstock.  Both the square and scallop mat were cut with Stampin' Up! Layering Square Dies.  I masked the bottom of the square off  and then ink blended it with Broken China Distress Ink .  I stamped the rain in with Faded Jeans Distress Ink,  Both the adorable bear and pig were stamped onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock with Black Versafine Ink and colored in with Zig Clean Color Markers.  

I wanted the inside to be blank to write a note but of course I had to decorate it a bit.  This little duck in the set seemed perfect and took very little coloring. :)

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

SIP #92 Color Inspiration Challenge with Mama Elephant Organic Blooms

Hello and Happy Tuesday!  Hope you had a nice relaxing weekend that got your week off to a wonderful start!  My Hubby was off this past weekend and we got a lot of things done around the house.  It rained quite a bit both Saturday and Sunday which made it easy to get some things done inside for a change.  I love the weekends that he is off work.  It really makes me look forward to our retirement from our day jobs.  I'm hoping to retire at 62 and since I am almost 58, that's just a little over 4 years... not that I counting! lol  

Since today is Tuesday, it means it's time for yet another Stamp, Ink, Paper challenge.  This week we have a cool color inspiration challenge photo for you!

I loved the look of the stripes of color so I decided to add stripes of ink blending to my background.

I used the beautiful Mama Elephant Organic Blooms stamp set.  Not only do I love the floral image but there are a lot of awesome sentiments in it!  I can see myself using these sentiments a lot!

I started off with a top folding Neenah Classic Solar White 110# cardbase.  The top layer was a 80# Neenah Classic Solar White that has masked stripes for Ink Blending of Various Distress Inks.  My Organic Blooms image was stamped in Versafine Black Ink and clear embossed onto Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  The image was colored in with Zig Clean Color Marks and an aqua painter.  I fussy cut the image out.. that was not fun.  I need to check to see if Mama Elephant has dies for this one! lol  I layered a doily onto the striped layer and then adhered the floral image with foam tape.  The sentiment Happy Everything was first inked with Versamark and then inked with Blackberry Bliss (retired Stampin' Up!) ink and clear embossed.  I ran a long strand of Natural Twine across the top of my card and tied it into a bow.  I used the side of my scissors to add a little curl in the twine.  I then added a few different light blue Pretty Pink Posh sequins to bring in more of the lighter blue color.

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Hero Arts March 2017 My Monthly Hero - you're somebunny special

One of the best things I've ever done was to subscribe to Hero Arts My Monthly Hero kit!  It is such a fabulous value!  March has been a crazy busy month and today I finally made a super quick and easy card with this month's My Monthly Hero Kit!  It is super adorable!

  

The kit even included the adorable dies that created the fence and the garden.  The little garden die has little slits to tuck the vegetables down into it.  I used Black Versamfine ink to stamp my images onto Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock.  I used Zig Clean Color Markers and an aqua painter to color in the images.  I loved that the bunnies only needed a hint of light pink in the ears and checks.  I also used the Hero Arts Cloud Infinity Dies that were an Add on for an early kit!

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina

Under The Sea.. Just Because!

What a fun project I get to share with you tonight!  I had some more time to play around with the Fun Stamper's Journey "Under The Sea" stamp set and I LOVE it!  The seahorse is just adorable.  Here's a card that I thought I'd share with you!  

This one was super fun!  Here are the products I used for today's card:

Fun Stamper's Journey "Under the Sea" Stamp and Die Bundle

Hero Arts Color Layering Goldfish Stamp Set (sentiment)

Zig Clean Color Markers

Aqua Painters

Strathmore Bristol Smooth Cardstock

Neenah Crest Solar White 80# cardstock

Broken China Distress Ink

Peacock Feathers Distress Ink

Ink Blending Tool

Pink Pirouette Stampin' Up! Cardstock

 Gold Embossing Powder

Heat Tool

Pretty Pink Posh Dew Drops

Misc Wood Grain Scrapbook Paper

Textured Brown Card Base

PCC 236 Shaker Card You're Nauti-Cool!

Hello!  Hope you're having a fabulous week!  I was beginning to think I would never get this post up!  There were some wicked storms that came through earlier today and the power was flickering off and on.  All three of our dogs were hiding in my craft room while I was finishing up my card.  My big 105 lb baby... Monty, is still in there.  He's my be a huge dog but he's a baby when there's a storm and wants near his Momma! lol

Of course, since it is Wednesday, it's time for another Paper Craft Crew and this week we have another fun sketch. 

I can tell you that pretty much anytime we have a sketch with a circle in the middle of it, it will end up either a shaker card or nautical themed card.  Well this time I ended up combining them!  lol

I just received the fun new Fun Stamper's Journey Stamp Set "Under The Sea" so I had to make a shaker card with an under the water scene!  I stamped and colored all of the images from this fabulous stamp set so look out.. there will be more cards.  These images were heat embossed with Gold Embossing Powder and colored with Kuretake Zig Clean Color Markers and an aqua brush.  My background for the under water scene was a piece of Neenah Crest Solar White 80# cardstock that had Broken China and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink blended onto it.  I spritzed it with water once done so get some pitting in the color and add some interest.  It looks super cool up close.  The sentiment You're Nauti-Cool is from the Avery Elle "Knotty" Stamp Set.  It has some awesome nautical sentiments that I love to use.  

Thanks so much for stopping by!  Blessings, Tina