Birthday Slimline card With Newton's Nook

I am loving the look of slimline cards so I had to make some birthday cards featuring the Birthday Bash stamp set!

The card stock base starts from an 8 x 9 inch paper with the center folded at 4 inches on the 8-inch edge. This size is perfect to fit into a standard business-sized envelope.  The top panel is about 1/4 inch smaller than the front of the card stock base.

I'm stamping my scenes and masking images to make the background wall. This confetti wall is made by sponging die ink all over and then again through the confetti stencil. (For more dimensional flooring, first draw the horizon line of the floor where it is meeting the wall. Then draw the wooden floor using a ruler by making a starting point higher than the actual horizon/floor line, and start drawing the planking right below that horizon line, down to the edge of the card panel. Each line of planking is made by lining up the dot at the starting point above the horizon/floor line and fanning out your ruler along the bottom edge of the card front. Then color in to resemble wooden panels.)
 Images are colored with Copic markers. Grey Copic shadows around images and sparkle pen are added for dimension. Finally, black pen is used around the outside edge of the cover panel before it is adhered to the card base.   Crafty Hugs!!

Honeybee Stamps Buzzworthy Challenge 17

My first Honeybee Challenge! -their 17th!  It's on Facebook and it's anything goes!! It's a good time to check out their shop if you don't already have some of their sets! They have a wide variety to fit many styles. (Sorry-not sorry for the enabler alert!)

I knew I wanted to use distress oxides on the background so I reached for some Bristol cardstock. I masked the ground level and blended blues above; used a brick stencil and water. Then splashed on yellow, orange and blue drops. The ground was burlap and sage. 

I stamped Blah Bunny onto the same paper and discovered it it's not my favorite for Copic markers as it bleeds easily. (I used Simon Says Stamp Intense Black ink.) The sentiments are from Blah Blah Blah and Happy Everything; stamped in Versafine Onyx Black ink. The same used on the card inside.

I think this flat Bunny is funny and hope you had a chuckle too!

Up for a challenge? Power Poppy Style!

I'm back with another Power Poppy January 2018 Power and Spark Challenge with the help of Page Maps! 

10 different examples of layouts!!      -WHAT!!                           It's totally sparked my mojo!

 

This time I used the card in the first column, second row. -The one with the flag banners on the top left of the card.

 This image is from the photopolymer clear stamp set is called Peony Muse and there are matching dies if you'd like. I just hand cut the images I used today. I popped up the larger peony to add a little more interest. The sentiment is from the Potted Primroses set.
I stamped the image with a pale distress ink color from my stash; any light ink works great for no-line coloring!  Copic marker colors: R35, R32, R22, YR20.  G99, G92, G20, YG95, YG25, YG11.

The paper flags are out of a Colorbok-Homespun paper pack. The sentiment was stamped in some dark green ink since I did not have any other black in the card. A Lawn Fawn border die was used for the scallop border on the right side and Stitched Line Die from Your Next Stamp used across the banners. 

Thanks for looking! Challenge entries are still open until the end of the month for a random draw win! Come Play!

A Celebration of Favorites ADFD (1)

A Day For Daisies is closing down their blog and having a final blog challenge for us to enter our favorite ADFD cards. I have to admit, I'd had this image in my stash with this idea for quite a while before I finally made it a reality.
The image is colored with Copic markers and the background was made with inks and a cloud template. The sentiment is put together with a Lawn Fawn alphabet set.
Thankfully, ADFD is keeping their shop open, and it's loaded with tons of fantastic images covering all occasions! This image, kangaroo ballet, is available in the shop still too!
ADFD still has their Facebook page available as A Day For Daisies Community, so come join in if you are not already a member!
Here's another shot showing off the tulle I stitched directly onto my card. This 3-D tulle makes this one of my favorite cards!! (The tulle was first folded in half and I did a running stitch up the side of the fold line to pleat the tulle and then poked a few holes into the card with my sewing needle and thread to adhere the material!)                      Thanks for checking out my post!

Well I didn't get this linked up, but it is still one of my favorites, so I'll still put up the post!

Sassy Studio Designs DTBST #324-Shades of Green

(If you are looking for this week's Open-Minded Crafting sponsorship challenge post, just scroll up!)
Here's my card made with the image given out during the discussion group for the last Star Wars release. I love the surprise in her face and hands!! LOL!

The image is called Birthday Surprise and was colored with Copic markers. BG 15, 32 pants; 99, 96, 93 ground; YG 41, 06 shirt; YG 41, 11 background; G7, 14, Y06, 38 candles; YG 11, E51, 53, 55, 57 cake.
Thanks for checking out my blog and come play on Facebook this week with any SSD image using the theme "Shades of Green".
(Sentiment is the birthday balloons from Clearly Besotted.)

Monochromatic Challenge

This challenge at Crafting By Designs is sponsored by Sassy Studio Designs. 
The image I used is a SSD Friday Freebie image called Wednesday Sassy.   SSD has many fabulous images, check in the clickable link above! Also, every Friday SSD has a 24-hour freebie image in their Facebook group, a weekly blog challenge, as well as a free monthly progressive Facebook challenge! Come Play!

 

I used Copic markers in the BV family, mostly. I really like to have real skin tones on my people for a monochromatic challenge, so I used my artistic license a little bit here. I was also trying to find just the right sentiment for an everyday card that would not be too offensive...LOL! The sentiment is from Create with TLC and she has tons of great sentiments!

 

Thanks for checking out my blog, and here are my color choices: Skin: E04, 21, 51, 550, R11. Bear:  W5, 3, 1. Hair:100, W9, C7, BV01. Clothes: BV29, 25, 23, 20.

 

The background was quickly water colored with Dioxazine Violet and Payne's Gray. I did not use water color paper, so I watered down my colors and tried to quickly brush them on, adding the colors back and forth to get a look I wanted. I tried to keep it lighter by the sentiment. After this dried I pressed it flat under a few books for the night, then I adhered it to a dark purple cardstock that seemed to match pretty well. Good luck if you play!

 



FBF Strawberry Shortcake in SSD Style



Here's my card with this week's 24-hour Flash-Back Friday image!!



Every Friday the team will provide you with inspiration on a particular image. These images are ones that may have been forgotten about, need a little extra lovin, or just out of the vault for 24 hours! YOU CAN GET THIS IMAGE FREE!

 

All you have to do is join the SSD Facebook Fan Page; but this image will be available for 24 hours ONLY!

Also, every Thursday is a themed-blog challenge and a chance to win some digital images (SSD's blog ) - and there's also the monthly progressive challenge on Facebook! Come play!

My card is colored with Copic markers and the Reds/pinks are: RV 69, 29, 25, 23, 21, 000. Green: G19, 5, YG06.  White shading: W5, 3, 1. Background: BV00, 000, 0000.
Thanks for checking out my blog!

Tinker Sassy Flash back Friday Image Sassy Studio Designs

Here she is: Tinker Sassy is the Facebook 24-hour freebie for this week! Time to get your Disney on! Everyone needs some fairy dust, right?

Sassy Studio Designs Facebook page.         Sassy Studio Designs blog and shop link.

Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps Krop Weekend Cards!

What an inspiration the Krafty Krop has been to me! I pulled out all of my KKS images and had a stampin' party for one! The challenges got my mojo flowin'; thanks Kimmie for giving us a week to get our groove on!!
All my images were colored with Copic markers and mostly Stampin' Up! papers are used. Here are the cards I entered for the challenges. (All images and sentiments are from Kraftin' Kimmie Stamps and they are rubber or clear stamps!)
Krop Challenge 1: Birthday (Everyone needs more birthday cards for our men, right!)

 

Krop Challenge 2: Paper Piecing (Dress and hair bow match the peach flag paper!)

 

Krop Challenge 3: Pink! (What could be better than a Pink Cadillac!?- Is the song in your head like it is in mine, Aretha Franklin style!)

Krop Challenge 4: Fussy Cutting (Graduation will be here before I know it!)

Krop Challenge 5: Flowers (I have loved this image from the moment I first saw it; can you believe this is the first time I used it!)

 

Thanks for checking out my post and cards!