Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

 When I saw the challenge at Color Hues I immediately thought St. Patrick's Day and Fluffles. The two colours to use are Green and Gold. I have worked on my card off and on for almost a week, life really gets in the way of crafting sometimes. Enough said, so here is my finished card.

I made an alcohol ink background  by scribbling greens on a huge ziplock bag, spritzed it with alcohol then took a 4 X 6 photo sheet (bought a couple of packs at a yardsale) put it shiny side down wiggled it a bit then lifted it up. Drying time is minimal. Stamped and coloured Fluffles, layered him/her on green and then gold. Added a couple of banners and a Hero Art's "one liner" cut with a banner die. Then because I really wanted to have another bit of gold on the front I added Stampendous stickers I've had for at least 20  years. 

Close up of Fluffles (sorry it's a tad out of focus) The image was elevated with three rectangles of heavy cardstock . 

Finished with a Stampablilities stamp (have no idea where I bought it) added a scrap of patterned paper with a sticker.

I'm adding this to:

Color Hues ~~ #36 Green & Gold

Show us Your Pussycats ~~  #76 Furrything goes.

Thanks for stopping by today and have a lovely weekend 

V is for Vibrant at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers.

Looks like Edna is seeing which background flatters her new hair colour.

Front and upper left in all it's glory is a genuine, first edition Chris. Dring Designs sentiment it perfectly paired with the Art Impressions coffee gal. As always you need to have everything that is trending and a few years ago I had to have Dylusions sprays, I bought 4 I know I made a card with the purple and have used the turquoise but the blue was still sealed and as you see didn't spray well. I always use a fairly deep box to spray the cardstock and when I finished I set the piece to dry (and warp) looked over and my "helper" was proudly sitting in the box. The background was attached to black layer and on the Green base. The image was framed and yes I see the dimensional backing now and I was way too far into the cropping, lightening, adding the watermark to start over. Those suckers stick to everything. 

Close-up of the sentiment, oh yes and the coffee lady. 

Thanks for stopping by and head over to the MAIN BLOG and check out what the rest of the design team have made. 

 

Time for the March Edition of Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge.

Oh my where did February go? it's already time for March's challenges at Happy Little Stampers. 

As you see it's always anything goes, so if it is Christmas we want to see it!! Twine is optional, now I cannot remember the last time I used twine so this challenge gave me a run for my money. I started out making my card and was very excited as it was looking pretty good and THEN I realized I left no place to add twine so off to plan B, it seems I'm having a lot of Plan B moments these day but I perservered and this is what I came up with.

The image I used is a wood mount stamp from Inkadinkado, I love these funky birds and they are fun to colour, I used just a basic sketch added some red/white baker's twine and popped up the image on top. I would have likes a gold sentiment but only had silver sticker sentiments. 

Here is a closer look at the funky winter birds.

The inside was finished with a Rubber Stampede sentiment, some paper scraps and silver stickers.

I would like to add this to:

Crazy Hazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by to day and check out the awesome projects the rest of the Design Team have made. 

 

Have you ever seen a Holiday Narwhal?

 I have two Holiday Narwhals for you today. I love to enter the Jingle Belles Christmas challenge and I have been a little slack the last two challenges, not that I didn't have ideas just no time to execute them. The challenge is Oh Christmas Stencil, Oh Christmas Stencil, well I don't have much in the line of Christmas Stencils and I am a "newbie" at stencils so don't look too close.  Since I planned on using my Christmas/Holiday narwal stamp and die I used a "bubbles" stencil fit the 5 1/2 square perfectly. 

The cute narwhals are popped up on some waves I made with a piece of smooshed cardstock and a rectangle die. there is one flat attached and one popped up to "ground" the narwals. I added a night of navy narrow frame for interest. 

Closer look at the narwhals and the wave as well as my stenciling. 

Finished the inside with a scrap of navy and did a bit of stenciling around the Impression Obsession sentiment. 

I'm entering this in:

The Jingle Belles Christmas Challenge ~~ Oh Christmas Stencil

12 Months of Christmas Challenge ~~ #86 anything goes optional something that flies.

Thanks for stopping by today and stay safe stay healthy. 

Time for a NEW Challenge at Shopping Our Stash!!

 Hello fellow crafters, it's time for a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash and the theme is Full Metal Jacket.....use something metal on your project, metallic cardstock, a charm, wet embossing with one of the metal embossing powders.  I went with the easy one, making a metal car. 

I haven't used this die set in a long time and I quite often check to see when I used it last by going through my blog and I have never blogged a card made with this set, but I'm sure I have made one or perhaps I've only cut the images. The patterned paper is from Dollarama bought probably 5 years ago, the 12 X 12 pad was all B&W. The car and sentiment were cut twice from black heavy cardstock and once in gold posterboard and glued together for dimension. The card is a 5 1/2 inch square card. I thought it looked a little blah so I added as thin gold frame. 

Close up angled picture to show how the image is elevated.

Finally I finished the inside with a "old" sentiment and a few scraps of the paper. 

I am entering this in:

AAA Birthday ~~ Game #34 Pattern.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the MAIN BLOG to see what the rest of the team have done with the theme. 

It's February Rudolph Days!!!

` I'm really on top of the challenge this month, of course I had to be as there are only 28 days in February this year. I even had my image coloured and ready, it still seemed to take me all day to get it done. 

The image is the last of the three stamps in a retired set from Stampin'up called Holiday Line-up. The other two can be found HERE and HERE. I made a Mini Slimline card (3 1/4 X 6 1/4) dug out one of the many border punches I have and added Starfoam stickers in silver, I also added a silver Merry Christmas sticker. The plaid paper is very shiny and slippery. 

Close up of the "line-up" of reindeer, I added a enamel dot to Rudolph's nose.

I used up a few scraps on the inside with a sentiment from Stampabilities. 

I'm entering this in:

Rudolph Days ~~ February

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge ~~ Challenge #583 Anything Goes/use some Green.

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge ~~ February. ATG. 

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great week. 

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Digging through my "Never Been Used Stuff" (NBUS)

 When I saw the Inkspirational Challenge my thoughts went to the Easter Egg Die from Elizabeth Craft Designs can you imagine my surprise when I realized I had never even opened it, I think it's at least 4 years old and I have no idea why I have never used it, it's so lovely it doesn't need to be just Easter. 

The fancy part of the egg was cut from white stardream cardstock layered on the sparkly cardstock I found at a dollar + store. There are 2 each of 5 different ombre colours. I cut the sentiment out of the same glitter cardstock and twice out of heavy weight white cardstock and layered them. 

Side view to show how the sentiment looks and at the back the small bit was cut off the base so it stands on it's own. I watched a video from Elizabeth Craft Designs on how to do this. 

I don't think I needed to cut so much off but the first cut I made was not straight, you know the old saying measure twice cut once. The egg shape I used for the sentiment is also a NBUS, the sentiment is a very vintage Hero Arts wood block sentiment 

I am entering this in:

Inkspirational Challenge ~~ #259 Technique Challenge ~~ Shaped Cards

NBUS ~~ Challenge #35

Happy Little Stampers ~~ Anything Goes with Dies.

Thanks for stopping by and stay healthy, stay safe. 

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