Trying Emboss Resist

After watching Gina K's Stamp TV segment a few days ago, I have been wanting to try this technique. I found both of these papers from Jo-Ann's open stock area, I hate not having a computer in my craft room anymore, I always forget something and tonight is is who made the paper! The image was stamped in Versa-Mark and then covered with clear ultra think embossing powder. I then took some giant sponge daubers and sponged the entire white panel  with VersaMagic Mango and Pixie Dust. After that I decided that it needed a little bit of shimmer so I added a little Brilliance Pearl Beige. I used a sponge to wipe the excess ink off my embossed area and that was it. I used a SU ticket corner punch to notch in the corners. Some ribbon from Hobby Lobby and some pearl Dew Drops finished off my card.  This is the card that we will be making at church on Friday night. I will try to find some simple sentiments that we can add for everyone to personalize their cards.

About the stamp I used: I have mentioned that my Mom is the queen of the yard sale. She found me about 10 sets of Stampin Up sets one day. I am not sure what the names of most of these sets are, I have identified a couple from old catalogs, but not all of them. Some were in the clam shells but some were just in plastic sandwich bags. They stamp the same though, so I was happy with them! Speaking of Mom, she is definitely going to be able to go on the Girl's Weekend with us! She has never been to Nashville, Indiana before so she should have a great time. Before she commited though, she made sure she didn't have to take the Copic class. My sis-in-law will enjoy Papertrix, but the moms are not paper crafters and they will be shopping elsewhere. I am still so very excited and counting the days!

Quickly, this is a picture of one the rhododendrons that is in my front yard. They just started blooming on Sunday. Kip lived in this house for three years before we got married and they never bloomed. The first spring after we got married they erupted in blooms. I tease him about that, that love had to live here first. Ahhh, isn't that sweet? I can be so corny at times. Have a great night.

CAS Little One

I am really enjoying making cards that are more on the clean and simple side. The first one, I really struggled with but the more I play with this style the easier and more enjoyable it becomes. Both the image and the sentiment are from SU. For some reason this bird's nest made me think of baby cards so I used the "Little One" stamp from another set to give it a baby feel. The image was stamped with Memento ink and then colored with Prismacolor pencils. I used Marvy punches for the square and the scalloped square. The ribbon is American Crafts and the sentiment is stamped with CTMH ink. Pretty quick and simple but I really like the look of this card. Thanks for visiting tonight!

Olive Flowers

Good Saturday afternoon! It's good here since I have been able to spend the majority of today in my craft room. Part of that time has been cleaning and organizing, but it's still been a good day. This card uses an older Stampin Up set, but I can't remember the name of it. It's Nature something, I think. I stamped the background piece of white using the same stamp, but after inking the stamp with CTMH Olive ink, I stamped off onto a scratch piece of paper and then stamped to my panel here. For the main image I inked the stamp using the same ink but I also painted some Twinkling H20 paint directly onto the stamp. I took the picture at a little bit of an angle so that hopefully you can see some of the shimmer.  I love my H20s and was sorry to see that the company is going out of business. The main panel is popped up with foam squares, paper is DCWV, brads are from Jo-Ann's and the ribbon is from Hobby Lobby.

I had a great time with my sister in law last night. We had our Sushi dinner and then since we were so close, we had to go to Jo-Ann's. I was looking for the newest Studio G stamps and was able to find a few. I am happy to report that since I am on a mission to use the things that I have been hoarding that I bought nothing except a couple of the Studio G stamps and some glitter glue and only the color that I use a lot of and was out of. After that we went to Books-A-Million and looked around for a while. I picked up the latest Paper Crafts magazine so I got to see Jennifer's card in print! When we were done shopping we went to the coffee area and had a frozen Almond Joy Frapachino. Oh my, was that good!

Sympathy Card

I try and keep a supply of cards on hand so that if I need something quick I can grab one instead of having to go to the store. Except with sympathy cards for some reason. I usually wait until I need one to make one of these. I generally make them pretty simple. A friend of ours from church lost her Mom this week so I needed to make a card to send to her family. The "pearls" down the left side of the card aren't really pearls, I used Tulip dimensional Pearl paint in Snow White. That paint dries fairly quick and gives me the ability to create any size that I need. It is actually fabric paint, but when I saw that it was dimensional, I decided to give it a try. Not bad, I got a good size bottle for, I think, $1.39 and it comes in several colors. The stamp is from SU and was stamped with CTMH Garden Green and Petal. The sentiment stamp is from My Sentiments Exactly and was stamped with the Garden Green ink also. Paper is DCWV. Thanks for stopping by tonight!

Bird Card

Hello! Just a quick post here today. I didn't think I was going to be able to find time to get any crafting in, but I did manage to get a few minutes and this is what I made. For some reason I couldn't get the colors on this to turn out right with my camera. The card stock is a dark chocolate brown and a dark navy blue. The blue piece is embossed with a Cuttlebug folder, Birds and Blossoms I think is the name of it. I took about 15 pictures and this was the best I could get. Sorry. I stamp this image with Palette ink and colored with Prismacolor pencils and OMS. Since I have gotten some new colors, I am enjoying my pencils a lot more that I was before. I have been using them to color more and more often. The stamp is from SU. I don't know if you can see or not but I used navy blue eyelets in the corners where I used the SU Ticket Corner punch. I went over the flowers with the clear Spica marker that I got this weekend. Gotta run!

Thanks Card

Good evening! I appreciate you stopping by to see what I have been up to. I have been seeing lots of Christmas cards on other blogs that use combinations of blue and white. I wasn't in the mood tonight to make Christmas cards so I decided to make a thank you card instead. In the spirit of Thanksgiving I try and send out thank you notes to people that I appreciate, especially for things that are easy to overlook. I also try to do this at my birthday. Anyway, I am trying to build my stock of thank you cards. I am getting much better at making cards before I need them, so I have not had to go out and buy a card in months. This image is from SU, from the Gently Falling set. I stamped the image with CTMH Lilac Mist ink, cut it out and then mounted it with pop dots onto white card stock. Paper is from DCWV and ribbon is American Crafts. We are off tomorrow to the Stamp Scrap Art Tour!

Stamp Something Challenge- Friendship Card

The challenge this week at Stamp Something was to stamp something for a friend. I made this friendship card to give to a friend at work that hasn't been feeling very well lately. She is always so thoughtful and thinking of everyone else. I am so bad though, I have been meaning to make her something for the past week. When I saw this challenge I decided now was the perfect time. The image was stamped using my friend Elaine's stamp set. It is a SU set, but I can't remember the name of it. I stamped it with Brilliance ink and colored it with Spica markers, if you click to enlarge the photo, you can see how sparkly it is. I was going through my stash of paper and found this from one of the DCWV Stacks. I don't normally used these printed sheets, but for some reason this one jumped out at me. I picked the colors on the dress from the paper. I have used this combination several times in the past couple of days, I am in the middle of another project using purple and green. The flower is also from my stash and I have had it for quite some time. It wasn't in the original packaging so that probably means a friend gave it to me! So this is a card for a friend, using the stamped image from a friend and an embellishment from another friend!

Almost the Right Colors

I was looking at the color challenges on SCS today and the colors were Real Red, Basic Gray and Always Artichoke. I don't have any SU paper so I looked up the colors in my catty and found close substitutes. But I couldn't think of anything that would include all three of those colors. I played with a couple of different ideas and layouts but everything I tried just looked off. And a little weird. I don't think the green that I picked was a close enough match or something. So I decided to use only two of the colors and came up with this. I do love red, gray and white together. The flower is from SU and the sentiment is from CTMH. Both are stamped with Brilliance ink and the flower was colored with Prisma Markers. Cardstock is DCWV and the brads are from Paper Studio.

Pink and Green Vine

Hello everyone! This is another of the new SU sets that I bought last week, it is called Garden Silhouette. I stamped it with CTMH Topiary ink. After stamping the image I used a small flower punch that matched the flowers on the stamp to punch out little pink flowers. I then used a white gel pen to make the center of the flowers and then attached them with pop dots for dimension. I still cannot get great details on my cards so it is hard to see the details on the flowers. My cardstock is DCWV, ribbon is from American Crafts and the brads are from Jo-Ann's. It was one of those nights that I couldn't quite decide what I wanted to do. I started making a Halloween card and just wasn't feeling it!

I feel so good right now! I just cut about 8 inches off my hair. Feels pretty good, let me tell you. My hair is naturally curly and it tangles so bad. I love having the longer hair but the tangles were getting very old. I have been thinking about getting it cut for the past several week and all day today it was bothering me so when I got home tonight off it came. I let Kip cut off the length in the back and then I took over from there. He was way more nervous than I was I think. Thanks for taking the time to drop by tonight!

I'm Alive!

Wow, it has been a rough week. I think that is the sickest I have been in a while. Not being able to wear my contacts was pretty bad too. Evidently it was just allergies to something, but that has never happened before. Thanks for the well wishes from everyone, I really appreciated them. So I am back today with this card. I haven't stamped a sentiment on it yet. A lot of times I wait until I need a card to add the sentiment that way I have a better choice when I am looking through my stash. My friend Elaine called me yesterday to tell me about a yard sale near my house that had a bunch of Stampin Up sets for sale. I went over there is picked out three sets, including this one. It is called Touch of Nature. I stamped it with black Palette ink and colored with Prismacolor pencils. All cardstock is DCWV, the flower is from Making Memories and the center of the flower is a decorative accent from Micheal's. The twine came from Jo-Ann's but I am not sure of the origin.

On a personal note, if you don't mind, please keep Kip and me in your prayers. Hopefully we are nearing something pretty great, but nothing is certain. I believe God knows our needs and that prayers made with a faithful heart will be answered. Thank you so much. I do have to tell you though, that I have an amazing husband. Sometimes I still can't believe that he is mine. Thanks for stopping by tonight.