Christmas Card Challenges #32 - Snowman

It's time for another challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week we have a new Word Prompt Challenge and our word this week is one of my favorites - Snowman.  I seriously love snowmen. I hope you will join us this week with a fun snowman creation. I can't wait to see what everyone creates.

For my card, I used some Distress inks to created the background and I used a Lawn Fawn dies and stamps for the background, sentiment and snowmen. I colored the snowmen with Copic markers. These are two of my favorite snowmen ever. I think they look so cute together.  Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Card Challenges #10

It's time for another challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week we have Photo Inspiration. It's time to start thinking about next year, so why not get started on next years cards now? I can't wait to see what you create.

I was inspired by the night sky in the picture and the reindeer.  I created my background using several colors of Distress Inks that I applied to the card with a foam blending tool. The reindeer is from a Darcies Stamp Set called Polar Express (he's supposed to be a little splotchy) and the sentiment is from Hero Arts. Thanks for stopping by!

Christmas Card Challenges #36

It's time for this week's challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week our Challenge theme is everybody's favorite "Anything Goes".  Get a head start on your Christmas cards and come join us this week. We now pick a weekly winner and honorable mentions! Thanks for stopping by!

This week I used my new Tim Holtz Bird Crazy Stamps and dies for the first time. I watercolored the birds with my Distress Inks. The background was made from Distress Stains, sprays and inks. The candy cane and santa hat are from the Bird Crazy Accessories stamp set. The sentiment is from a Tim Holtz sentiment stamp set. I added some Tim Holtz green tinsel at the bottom for the birds to stand on. 

Unity Friends With Flair Friday

This is my Unity Friends With Flair Entry. I'm got another back to one of my Faber Castell Design Memory Craft chipboard mini journal pages.

First, I heat embossed the Dandelion Stamp and sentiment in white. Then I blended some Distress Inks on the page. I used Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry and Wild Honey Distress inks. When I finished with the colors I sprayed some water on the top to create some texture on the surface of the colors. It was a quick, easy and fun mini journal page. Thanks for stopping by!!

Christmas Card Challenges #6

It's time for this week's challenge over at Christmas Card Challenges. This week is a really fun Challenge. We were supposed to CASE a card made previously by one of the other Design Team Members. I decided to use a card by Alanna Moses for my inspiration. I loved how she created this flawless background by blending Tim Holtz Distress Inks.

Here is the card from Alanna. You can see the original post HERE.

I created my background using Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold and Barn Door Distress Inks. The deer head is a die from Ellen Hutson and the words are dies by Papertrey Ink. I also inked the edges using a Prima Ink Edger in Black Coal. It's a different kind of Christmas Card, but I love how it turned out. I'm excited to see what you come up with this week for this fun challenge. Just pick any previous card by one our DT Members and be inspired. Thanks for stopping by!

Here's my card.

Exciting News!!!

They've started announcing World Card Making Day Contest Winners over at the Paper Crafts and Scrapbooking Magazine Blog and I'm thrilled to share that I was a winner in the Love Category!!! I have to say that I was stunned and honored when I got the e-mail. The card will be in the It's been so hard to keep this a secret from my crafty friends and I'm so glad the cat is finally out of the bag!!

I entered two cards that and I thought I would share the one that was not a "winner". It was so much fun to make and I love the colors. The star is from the Unity March 2014 SMAK Kit. I used Distress Inks with water. The "thanks" is a Lawn Fawn die. The paper is Hawaiin Shores from Papertrey Ink. It says exactly what I want to say Thanks!!!!

The Play Date Cafe 191

Welcome to this week's color story at The Play Date Cafe - Cream, Melon and Cantelope. We are sponsored this week by My Favorite Things and graciously given stamps designed by Mona Pendleton to use in our projects. I used a set called MPD Distressed Background Blocks. They are perfect for layering backgrounds. 

My colors may be slightly off, but it's because they blended together. I used a large manila tag and covered it in Tim Holtz Bundled Sage Distress Ink. I stamped the background images in Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink. The wooden letters and butterflies are from Studio Calico. l colored the wooden shapes with Bundled Sage and Ripe Persimmon Distress Stains and Inks. The trim is by Maya Road. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you will play along with us this week. And don't forget, one lucky winner will get a FAB prize from Mona Pendleton and My Favorite Things. 

Grungy Monday 38

I made this card for the Grungy Monday 38. I used Tim's technique to stamp with dabbers, clear emboss, then create background with distress inks. To see Tim technique click here. The stamps I used are all Dylusions by Dyan Reavely. I stamped the sentiment on white paper and rubbed it on my Antique Linen distress ink pad. Thanks for taking a look!

Materials

1. Stamps - Bags of Bunting, Quintessential Quotes, Birds on a Wire, Doolally Dorris - DylusionsDyan Reaveley

2. Dabbers - Red Pepper, Purple Twilight, Pitch Black

3. Ink - Black - Stampin' Up

4. Embossing Powder - Crystal - Martha Stewart

5. Distress Inks - Stormy Sky, Peeled Paint, Seedless Preserves, Antique Linen

6. Ribbon - Perfect Plum - Stampin' Up

Tim Holtz March Tag 2012

Today has been a great day. I found out I was a winner in Tim's Tags February Giveaway!! I can't wait to see what goodies I get from Tim Holtz!!! And, on my doorstep was my signed copy of Tim's new book A Compendium of Curiosities Volume II. He is selling the signed copies on his blog!!

So, I was totally inspired to get working on his March tag. Here's a link to the post where he describes how he did the March Tag. Here's what I did differently. I didn't have that cool tape he used so I cut up little pieces of paper and glued them to the butterflies. Then I covered the bare grunge areas with my Zig embossing pen and embossed with Tim's Milled Lavender powder - I don't have Cement and it was the closest I had. Trust me, I wish I had that tape - mine worked, but it was not the easy way!! The paper I used was Vintage Shabby. I made my tag from Stampin' Up Crumb Cake paper and Tim's #8 Tag die. My woodgrain stamp is from Stampin' up. The Distress Ink I used was Gathered Twigs, because I don't have Walnut Stain. Then, I used frilly trim from Tim's Holtz Lavish Trims and colored it with Milled Lavender Distress Stain. Thanks for taking a look!

Getting Dylusional - A Life Without Dreams...

Today, I'm showing something a little different. At the Stamp & Scrap Art Show last week I picked up a few of Dyan Reaveley's Art From the Heart Dylusionals Stamp sets at the Stamper's Anonymous Booth. This is the first card I made with my stamp sets called Doolally Dorris and the sentiment set called Quintessential Quotes. I also got a set called Birds on a Wire that I can't wait to work with this weekend!

I can't get over how much I enjoyed making this card! All the elements in the set were fun to color and so easy to cut out. I made the background by blending Tumbled Glass and Shabby Shutters Distress Inks. Then I colored in the different elements with my Prismacolor Markers and blended with Gamsol. I love the result and I can't wait to make more. And of course, I've already got more sets on order, because I have that little shopping problem I may have mentioned on this blog before :) Thanks for stopping by!!