Hey Diddle Diddle

Good evening! I hope you are having a great start to your weekend. We had dinner at Olive Garden with my in-laws tonight. Kip has to work on Sunday so we had Mother's Day with his mom tonight.  He made the card for his mom and I didn't have a chance to take a picture of it. I still haven't made my mom's card, but we will celebrate next weekend with her, so I am good. I saw this stamp set a few weeks ago at Jo-Ann's, it is part of the Debbie Mumm collection. It has probable eight or nine different nursery rhymes represented and I thought it would make the cutest baby cards. I chose the Hey Diddle Diddle stamps for my card, in part because I remember reading this over and over again to my brother when he was little. I colored the images with Prismacolor pencils and OMS and punched out each images using Marvy punches. The brads are from Jo-ann"s. paper is DCWV, ink is Memento and CTMH Garden Green.

Does any one have fun and exciting plans this weekend? I am hoping to have lots of crafting time to catch up on the blogger group challenges. Have fun!!

I Wheely Like You!

That was the name of the Limited Supply Challenge on Splitcoast this morning. The challenge was to use 1 wheel, 1 image stamp, 1 embellishment, and one sentiment. I am normally off on Friday mornings and have been participating in this challenge. I enjoy playing along with the different challenges I find because they help me learn new things and keep me from getting in a rut. Since my crafting time is normally a late night activity I don't always get to play along with the SCS challenges.

When I got up this morning and read the challenge I was a little disappointed because I don't own any wheels. Then I remembered this Charlie wheel stamp from Clear Dollar Stamps. I don't have it mounted as a wheel, I use it on a regular acrylic block but it is a wheel stamp. So yippee!! I was able to play along. I stamped my wheel and then embossed it with Ranger expresso embossing powder. The main Charlie image is stamped with Memento ink and then colored with Prisma and Copic markers. Not quite sure what is up with his nose area in the photo, but it doesn't look like that in person! The scallop was punched out with a Marvy punch and then the edges are inked with CTMH Terra-cotta and Brown Bag inks. My one embellishment is that cute little button that I knotted some twine through. ETA, my friend Angela confirmed that the paper is from a Creative Memories pack that she gave me some time back. Thanks Angela!

I am off tonight for a Girl's Night out with my sister-in-law. I think we are going out for sushi at a fairly new restaurant that she hasn't had the chance to eat at yet. Hope you have a great start to your weekend!

Bunny Parade

This is the card that I made for my sister for Easter this year. Every year I make her some type of card that references bunny ears being eaten. It's been a running joke for years. I found this pattern in the Paper Creations magazine last year and have been waiting to use it since then. This is also my card for the Limited Supply Challenge on Splitcoast today. It was a Triple Play challenge: three colors (plus a neutral), three layers and three focal points.

I think this is the first card that I have ever made that has no stamping on it! I cut the bunnies out of brown paper and then drew the eyes on using a white paint pen and a Sakura glaze pen. I used a Fiskars Threading Water border punch and a Stampin Up Word Window punch. My sentiment was handprinted with a gel pen.

We are having some very rough weather right now. The tornado sirens have been going off and on for part of the morning. I think the worst part has passed us right now. Be safe!

Black Sheep

I was able to participate in the Limited Supplies Challenge today on SCS. The challenge was limited to using shades of black and white only. In the instructions she mentioned that since it is the end of March comes and like a lion and out like a lamb, she used the lamb for the color choices. We were not limited to using a lamb image but since I recently found this cute little Studio G stamp at Michael's  I wanted to use it. As soon as I thought about black and white and sheep I thought of doing a black sheep somehow. Of course now, I  have "Black Sheep of the Family" by Hank Williams Jr. running through my head (and now you do too, right?). I stamped my little sheep in a straight line and then used white applique on two of them and black liquid applique on the last one. The black sheep is also sporting some black glitter from Doodle Bug in her coat, I sprinkled the glitter on before I used my heat gun to set the liquid applique. to make my black sheep stand out a little more, I used a different patterned paper under that sheep and used my Stampin Up photo corner punch to emphasize it a little more. I then used a white gel pen to make little dots on my photo corners. The sentiment stamp I bought at Big Lots a long time ago and Big Lots is the only info on it. All paper is DCWV.