It's Your Special Day

Casology is celebrating their 5-year anniversary with a blog hop and a balloon-themed challenge.  I looked through my stash and found the perfect stamp for the occasion--Penny Black's slapstick cling Birthday Girl.   I used Bristol Vellum paper and Zig brush markers.  My sentiment is from Your Next Stamp, Whatnot Sentiments Four.   Happy Anniversary Casology!  

I'll be linking my card to these challenges:

Casology, Clean and Simple - Balloon

Addicted to Stamps and More #252 - Make Your Mark (Zig brush markers)

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

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Christmas in July

Several challenges have Christmas themes right now--a great incentive to help us get started on our Christmas cards.

For this card, I used the Santa's Elves stamp and die set by MFT, the elves were colored with copic markers.  The fireplace was put together with Impression Obsession die cuts and the sentiment is an oldie but goodie by Amy R called Winter Sentiments.

Here's a list of the challenges:

Casual Fridays CFC 178, Christmas in July
ABC Christmas Challenge, N is for New and O is for Old
Happy Little Stampers, July Christmas Challenge Anything Goes with an optional twist, die-cuts

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Duoprinting with Chlorophyll

Hello fellow crafters!   I recently learned a new technique called duoprinting with chlorophyll that I'd like to share with you today.

The image you see on my card was not done with a stamp but from leaves.  I pressed some leaves (like the ones you see above) between two pieces of watercolor paper, ran them through my Cuttlebug and was able to get this result.  When I first saw these beautiful cards on Splitcoast Stampers, I couldn't wait to give this technique a try.  You can find the tutorial here by Lydia Fiedler.

 I don't know the name of my tree, but the sap from the branches and leaves are milky and sticky so the process got pretty messy.  I initially wanted to get a print of  leaves on a branch but because of all the sap that got squeezed out of the branch, it got really wet and sticky and turned out to be a huge mess.  So I had to be satisfied with just the leaves but was still excited with the colors I got.  Now I'm anxious to try some other leaves and maybe flowers too.

Thank you so much for visiting me today!   Would love to hear if you've tried this too.

Words Take Centre Stage

  

I purchased a set of acetate cards from Pink Fresh Studio a while back and there was one card I particularly liked and thought was a good rule to live by.   When I saw AAA's CAS Challenge, Words Take Centre Stage, I was inspired to make something with this quote.   To keep it CAS, I simply placed the acetate card in a frame and added an accent.   The die-cut flower is called Joyful from Penny Black.

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These are the challenges I'm playing in:

Anything Goes!

Wishing you a lovely day!

Hello fellow crafters!   I hope you're having a great weekend!

The inspiration for my CAS card today came from three challenges--two of them have birthday themes and the third is a color challenge--coral, aqua and grey:  Addicted to Stamps and More #247 Make Your Mark; Seize the Birthday Anything Goes; and Cas-ual Fridays CFC176 Color Challenge.

The bicycle is from a digital print & cut stamp set (Camping) from Lori Whitlock, the butterfly is from a rubber stamp set from Lili of the Valley (Easter Sweeties), and the sentiment is from Stampendous (Posie Greetings).  I used copic markers and colored pencils to color.

Thanks so much for stopping by!   Have a great week!

 Happy 5th Birthday!

 

Congrats Grad!

Penny Black "Grad"; Studio 490 Wendy Vecchi "Art From Us" sentiment

Today I'm sharing a graduation card I made for my niece using her school colors.  The Penny Black Grad image was stamped on Bristol Vellum paper, water colored with Tombow markers and cut with the ScanNCut 2 machine.  The window for the sentiment was cut with the Rectangle Peek-a-Boo Window Die-namics from MFT and with the scattering of a few sequins, the card was done.

I'll be entering my card in the Penny Black and More Challenge June - Anything Goes and the inspiration challenge from Inspired by All the Little Things #60 Featuring Jen Wills.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit.   Have a great week!  

Hi-Ya

I finally made my first inter-active card with the action wobble springs that I bought last year.  I put the spring in back of the ninja warrior in red and when you give him a little flick, his whole body goes into action, so fun!  I showed this card to my DH and he really got a kick out of it.  Did I say "kick"? LOL.  

Here's a picture of the red warrior delivering his karate kick to his opponent.  Ouch!

Ninja-mazing by MFT

I colored my images with copic markers and cut them out with my newly-acquired ScanNCut 2 machine.  I'm hoping this will eventually pay for itself since I will no longer have to buy the corresponding dies to the stamp sets.

I will be linking my card to the following challenges:
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge:  Anything Goes
Simon Says Monday Challenge:  The Great Outdoors

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