Friday, November 29, 2013
Hey Turkey!
A relatively quick card I sent my eldest who wasn't able to join us for Thanksgiving this year. I'm thinking now I should have either split the sentiment to make a "ground" or stamped it in the leaves corner.
I'll update my supplies list later when I'm atat my craft table.
Sunday, June 9, 2013
A truly Golden Anniversary
I raided my stash and embellished it to make this card. I will be honest with you I really wanted to make a different card by downloading a die and making multiple roses etc.... and I think my subconscious was secretly saying "Girl! You have got to be kidding!" so this is what my "oh I don't really have time to do all that so what am I going to do with what I already have because it would be really silly to go shopping when I could supply one" brain told me to do.

I really like this last shot of the card for showing the dimension and the reflection of the embossing.
I hope they thought it was a special as they are.
And yeah, I am still squeeing for joy at my successful heat embossing on vellum attempt! Bet you can see my happy dance if you look real close!
Thanks for looking. Now to get back to my table and get some more cards done!
Ingredients
Cardstock - Neenah Classic Crest Smooth Solar White, Gold unknown, Gold Iridescent Vellum: The Paper Source;
Stamps - Kitchen Sink Stamps:3-step Hearts and Roses (Happy Anniversary); Recollections: Big One Double ; Clear Dollar Stamps June Flower of the Month;
Ink - Versamark;
Accessories - Embossing Power: Zing White, Zing Gold Glitter ; Paper Roses: Unknown; Pearls: The Paper Source ; Martha Stewart Border & Corner Punch: Modern Garland; Dimensional tape; Nestabilities: Hearts, Scalloped Hearts;
Sunday, December 9, 2012
High Flying 16th Birthday!
I made this card for my cousin on his 16th birthday. I forgot that I actually used this stamp on his card a couple of years ago. Must try harder next year! I freehand drew the curve for the flight and cut it out. The rest is stamping, spinner card instruction from Splitcoast Stampers, coloring in and airbrushing for that soft sky effect.
Ingredients
Card Size 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah Solar White Classic Crest Smooth
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps (airplane), Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Paintball Turkey
Anyway here is the backstory to this card! It was for my youngest male cousin who's birthday is the week of Thanksgiving. He had just recently been with all my lads paintballing, and of course they are yellow. So although I can't take any credit for the hodge podge of inspiration I think I brought those together in a pretty fun way.
You can feel it can't you? Especially with that dripping goo punch greeting bar! Genius I hear you exclaim! Oh yes! I can hear you!
Right - the nitty gritty - looked up loads of paint splats on line. Planned to just print one and couldn't get my computer to speak to my printer in a way I needed it to do. On to plan B. Wing it! So I cut out my own splat and fussed about and eventually adhered it to the card base. Decided to color the turkey and paper piece it to the splat. Googly eye was a must at this point. Then worked on the greeting bar. I punched both colors and then layered. Found out that the black was too narrow so

Ingredients
Card Size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Recollections, Georgia Pacific, Wassau
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Memento, Multiliner pen
Color - Copics
Accessories - Googly eye, Dripping Goo Punch
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
And when Football (Soccer) Season begins so do the themed cards!

Monday, August 22, 2011
From your favorite Aliens...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
CAS Kentucky Wedding.

I know a lot of people struggle with Wedding Cards but I think if you know the invitation is designed by the couple then it gives you more information than who and the venue - it gives you a style and reference point. That said when I got married I had plain and simple black and white invitations.
This is what I came up with using the invitation as inspiration. The damask stamps are from Clear Dollar Stamps and I think they mimic the original pretty well.
Monday, May 9, 2011
A Big Cheesy Birthday to you!
So what do you think? More cheese? More Mice? Indigestion? Too cheesy?
I've been trawling CAS cards on SplitcoastStampers and Lateblossom on Simplicity to try to get it - I think think this might be as plain and simple as I can go. All that white space seems pretty clean to me but I think I fail on the simple part. There was a lot of masking and mock ups and one potential image was harmed in the making of this card - its cheese got ahead of itself when I forgot to mask it.
What I really enjoyed on this card is that it was my first time airbrushing! OMG how fun is that to do - I keep finding excuses to do more of it!!! I can't believe how intimidated I was at the thought and then how easy it is. I have easily had my Harbor Freight Compression and Copic adaptor for six months and just kept looking at the box. Now I have to learn how to airbrush with real paint as I have two or three Radio Controlled Cars to paint for my boys! YIKES! And one of them wants a Union Flag on roof! Luckily thanks to SCS I have heard there is a masking material in the hobby section of Hobby Lobby that I need to check out! Wish me luck and hopefully it won't take me another six months to get them painted!
Anyway that's my cheesy story and I'm sticking too it.
The making of involved the usual culprits
Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 x 5.5 inches
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Stampendous
Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections
Ink - Memento
Color - Copics
I know I don't have many followers, however I'm toying with the idea of playing with my layout a bit more to modernize it. So any helpful comments in that direction will be much appreciated. Many thanks and I bet you noticed that my blogging is like the weather in Ky - when it rains it storms! LOL! Take care!
Monday, February 28, 2011
Vroom! Vroom! Happy Birthday!
ETA - to answer the question - yes the diamond plate background is stamped.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Fly by Birthday for future Fly boy.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
A planted wagon of Birthday Cheer.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Flower wishes and lost pictures
I like the simplicity of the image but wonder if it needed more. What do you think?
Recipe
Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, Recollections
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Memento black tuxedo
Color - Copics
Accessories - Glossy Accents
Now for the lost pictures - I seem to have lost the pictures of the Anniversary card I made for my BIL and SIL this year and also the pictures from the card I sent my Neice. What is really bad is I can't even remember what I stamped! as we have moved my craft area from area of the house to another and done some decoration since then. Oh well, I hoped they liked and more importantly I hope that it comes back to me what I did when I'm least expecting it!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Pink first communion card
Recipe
Card size - 8.5in x 5.5in
Cardstock - Neenah, DCWV
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Versacolor
Accessories - iridescent embossing powder, nestabilities, prima flower, brad, grosgrain ribbon
Saturday, September 25, 2010
All aboard!
Recipe
Card Size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock - Neenah, The Paper Source
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Kitchen Sink Stamps
Ink - Memento, Kaleidoscope, Distress
Color - Copics
Accessories - Nestabilities, straight edge
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Purple Pansy Petal Power!


Sunday, February 21, 2010
Owl thank you!

Card Size - 4.25 in x 5.5 in
Monday, February 8, 2010
A 2010 card! but only on the scanner

I covered the entire front in S.E.I. designer paper Alpine Forest (the white around the card is the scanner lid). The image is from Clear Dollar Stamps. I used it for my BIL because it reminded me of the birds that advertise Guiness which is just perfect for my BIL. I chose the cardstock to reflect that history and earthiness of the thick stout. After deciding on a layout I thought I should emboss a greeting but I wanted it unobstrusive, so I decided to use my Kitchen Sink set and Zig white embossing powder so that the "Brother" was there but not glaringly so.
I think the card is a little quirky with the mix of earthiness and cute birds but I think I like it because of that; I could have bought a card that was either or but this combination is truly unique because it is handmade. What do you think? Did I take it too far? Not far enough?
Ingredients
Card size - 8.5 in x 5.5 in
Cardstock/Paper - Neenah, S.E.I.
Ink - Memento, Versamark
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps "Hanging Out" , Kitchen Sink Stamps "Whole Family"
Copics - 0, B000, B00, C3, C5, C7, E50, E51, E08, E49, R35, R37, YR02, YR04, YR07,
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Autumnal Birthday greetings

I was hoping that the ink would bead (and it did) for the tree trunk just to create some bark texture. I think just played with the leaf stamps from the set and kept over stamping in different autumnal Memento inks.
The one thing I would absolutely change on this card is that I would have had the exact match memento ink pen for the brown lines on the kraft card base.
The layers are done so that the brown echoes the size of the image and the green the dimensions of the card base.
Ingredients
Card size - 8.5in x 5.5in
Cardstock - Archivers Kraft, Bazzill, Neenah
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps
Ink - Versamark, Memento - Summer Sky, Canteloupe, Desert Sand, New Sprout, Bamboo Leaves, Rhubard Stalk, Rich Cocoa.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Hi! Ho! Sheffield Wednesday Superstar!

I used my Clear Dollar Stamps for my owl and coloured him in with my Copics and then put glossy accents on his eyes. (and one of these days I will get a good close up picture I promise!!!)

I think the idea of the background almost worked but didn't quite. I didn't want it so regimented but I wonder if that would have been better.
Ingredients
Card Size - 8.5in x 5.5in
Cardstock - Neenah, Bazzill
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, See D's, Stampology
Ink - Memento Tuxedo Black, Summer Sky
Copics - 0, 110, B000, B00, YR20, YR23, W1, W3, W5, W7, E31, E33, E35, E37
Accessories - Nestabilities
Just in case you wondered what the Hi Ho is about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6PXSRsaloo&feature=related Please be warned that it is not my posting on youtube and I can't be accountable for comments people make on such footage.
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Grungy 21st Birthday.
Is it wrong to send a card you don't like? Well I have in this case. I had this concept of cutting out a large card with my Cricut - worked it all out on the Design Studio and was pleased enough with it but it needed more. So I used my Clear Dollar Stamps and Kitchen Sink Stamps to stamp guy things related to carpentry to make an insert card to the die cut card. I think attempted to personalize it and that is where it started to go all wrong. I stamp on the "R" and it doesn't stamp completely... Yikes! - so to save it I decided to shadow stamp the name and emboss it for texture. I still didn't like the look so I grunged it up so that front would stand out against the background.

Why do I have so many "guy" relatives in my life? ACK!!!!
Anyway - you honestly won't hurt my feelings if you comment that you don't like it because I'm not certain I like it either.
Ingredients
Size - 8.5in x 5.5 in
Stamps - Clear Dollar Stamps, Kitchen Sink Stamps, See D's
Ink - Memento
Accessories - Cricut