STILL MORE CHRISTMAS CARDS (AND A FEW MORE TO FOLLOW)

These cuties are PTI PomPom Pals.  Colored with Copics, Stickles Mercury Glass, Lawn Fawn note cards.  The PomPoms I found on Amazon but I saw some at Michael's too.  

ANOTHER PINE BOUGH CARD

I used the same technique as I used on this card but I used Black Soot, Concord Grape, Chipped Sapphire and a little Seedless Preserves distress inks.  The die was cut from some very sparkly, peel and stick Kodak paper that I had in my stash for ages.

PURPLE ONION CHRISTMAS CARD

I am in love with Stacey Yacula stamps for Purple Onion Designs.  I colored these with Copics and mounted with dimensional tape.  The sentiment is embossed with filagree gold and silver embossing powders.  Stickles on the snow.

PENNY BLACK MIMI'S WINTER FRIENDS CHRISTMAS CARD

I colored this stamp last year with Derwent Inktense Pencils but never used it.  I added some Stampendous Chunky White embossing powder and mounted on embossed MFT cardstock.  The Celebrate die is from Serendipity Stamps.  The candy cane stripe paper is from Lawn Fawn Peace Joy Love 6 x 6.

DON WE NOW OUR UGLY SWEATERS- SIMON SAYS STAMPS

I love this versatile stamp from Simon Says Stamps.  You can mix and match all the images. Copics, Glossy Accents, White Gel pen.  MFT wood grain background stamp.

ANOTHER PTI MAKE IT MONDAY CHALLENGE # 193

So much fun to make a baby card after all the Christmas cards.  I used a variety of pigment inks to blend the background of the card and even used them to color the train stamp from Lawn Fawn.  The PTI hearts were cut from a ruined spare background. I just love the way the pigment inks blend together.  

PAPERTREY INK MAKE IT MONDAY CHALLENGE: CAMOUFLAGE DIE CUTS

I wanted to try to camouflage something other than a word die so here are my takes on this challenge. For the first card I first masked off a 4 x 5 1/4 Neenah solar white card stock and created my background using distress inks. shimmer spritz and Hero Arts white mister.  I then die cut the PTI Christmas tree and two layers of Craft-a-Board from Ellen Hutson. I decided I didn't want the tree to be too camouflaged so I coated it with Versamark and embossed in clear embossing powder.  The greeting is from Pom Pom Pals embossed in Ranger Liquid Platinum

For the second card, I created a background using Viva texture paint and waited and waited and waited till it dried.  I then used the same process of die-cutting and mounting on Craft-a-Board. I then cut a frame using Simon Says Stitched Rectangles and added Wink of Stella Clear to the frame, die cut PTI wonderful words Joy out of Crafter's Companion Shimmer Cardstock Silver Starlight.  I assembled the frame, die cuts androunded off the top corners to finish.

DISTRESS RESIST PINE BOUGH CARD

I started by stamping and embossing the pine bough in silver and then white.  I then used distress inks to create my background.  Spritzed and added die.  Pretty easy but when I attached to card base I didn't like the way the white looked so I removed the image and used the same silver embossing powder on the sides of the card base and then re-attached the image.

HERO ARTS BIG PINE BOUGH
PENNY BLACK LET IT SNOW DIE
BAZZILL MIRRORED SILVER CARDSTOCK
DISTRESS INKS
PERFECT PEARLS MISTER
SHIMMER SPRITZ FROST
FILIGREE SILVER EMBOSSING POWDER
STAMPENDOUS WHITE FINE EMBOSSING POWDER

TIDDLY INKS CHRISTMAS CRITTERS

Ooh, I had so much fun coloring these images.  I couldn't decide to cut them up and use them individually but I liked the impact of using them together.

The white pen is a Gelly Roll.  WOS on the Snowman. 

Lawn Fawn Snow Day paper  and MFT Nightshift blue cardstock.

Mama Elephant Season's Greetings sentiment

POWER POPPY GINGERBREAD HOUSE CARD

PTI papers

I thought this stamp would make a perfect shaker card, so having watched up-teen videos on making shaker card I decided to give it a go.  OMG, I cannot believe what a disaster!

I had double stick foam sheets and thought how easy to use those but ...NOT!  I couldn't get the layers to line up and once it was down, couldn't be moved.  So I ripped it apart and decided to cut out the colored image and instead of using a scissor, I ran it through my

big shot.   Can you picture the mess?  Adhesive on die (cleaned off), adhesive impressed into cutting plate (unsalvageable) ego, bruised.

This is the mess  but I was able to save the colored image and made a simple but cute card.

Love those Viva Pearl Pens

SIMON SAYS SENDING GOOD THOUGHTS

Made this a while ago so I can't remember what colors I used for the envelopes.

"Sending" is embossed with WOW Violet.

HOLIDAY CARDS 2014 - Snowman

 After I colored and cut out the image  I cut a piece of Bazzill gumball Carde Shoppe paper and used a bit of distress ink just at the top.  I then mixed up some embossing paste and mixed in some extra fine glitter.  When that was dry I sprayed the whole card with Shimmer spritz sparkle which gives a subtle sparkle (I used it on the felt).  I die cut the tree from scrap paper that I had run through a corrugator and used the Marvy Snow Marker for the snow.  I then attached the felt using Aleene's tacky glue and tucked in the tree.  The snowman was attached with 3m Mounting tape on the top of the image and Aleene's on the bottom.  This was the most difficult card for me to photograph.

Can you see the shimmer?

SP STAMPS SNOWMAN & SNOWDOG (old)

IMPRESSION OBSESSION WINTER TREES DIE

COPIC SKETCH MARKERS

WINK OF STELLA CLEAR

SHIMMER SPRITZ SPARKLE

SIMON SAYS SNOW FALLING STENCIL

ALEENE'S GLITTER SNOW MIXED WITH MARTHA STEWART EXTRA FINE GLITTER

SIMON SAYS SLOPES AND HILLS DIE

PTI FELT

3M MOUNTING TAPE

MARVY SNOW MARKER

CHRISTMAS CARD CHAOS

It is such a crazy busy time and I have made almost all my Christmas cards but have had no times to post a SINGLE one.  Soon, I promise.  However, here is a peek at my totally chaotic work area.

A better picture of the disaster.  Stamps and Dies on left are ALL holiday!

Copics in yogurt container are the ones I have been using and still need.

TIDDLY INKS HALLOWEEN CARD

I am slightly jet lagged but wanted to finish this card today so I could get it in the mail by tomorrow.  When I took the Copic certification classes we did a little bit with the airbrush system but I really haven't used it much but decided I wanted to use the Tim Holtz Shatter stencil and airbrush it for the background.  Once I masked off the colored image I taped down the stencil.  Really like the way it turned out but it wasn't that easy for me to do.  You can see how I made the mask for the digital image HERE  I used the the Copic fluorescent markers for the critters and they are much more neon in person. 

TIDDLY INKS MONSTROUS PARTY
TIM HOLTZ SHATTER STENCIL
WOW METALLIC VIOLET EMBOSSING POWDER
COPIC SKETCH MARKERS
CLEARLY BESOTTED DIAGONAL STRIPES
DOODLEBUG HALLOWEEN 6 X 6 PAPER PACK
RECOLLECTIONS FOIL PAPER BLACK
VERSAMARK 
WINK OF STELLA CLEAR
GOOGLY EYES

QUICK TIP - MAKING A MASK FOR DIGITAL STAMPS

I love this stamp from Tiddly Inks but after I printed and colored it, I realized that I wanted to spray the background or even use distress inks.  OOPS, I need a mask.  Here is what I did to create a mask for a digital stamp.  I took a piece of plain printer paper and put it over my colored image.  I then stuck a piece of Inkadinado masking paper over the visible image and printed it again.  Easy peasy digital mask to cut, peel and use. 

upper image is sized for another project

Here is a sneak peek of the colored image which I will finish when I return from NYC next week.

HOUSE MOUSE HALLOWEEN CARD

I started this card for the OnlineCardClass: Copics for card makers but we have been travelling (again) so I just now finished it . I think this is just the cutest stamp to use and I need to color more of my House Mouse stamps.  Not sure I would use this paper again for copic coloring.

I embossed the whole card so that the spiderweb looking pattern is all over the back side of the card too!

TIM HOLTZ STAMP- CRACKS

STAMPENDOUS- HOUSE MOUSE  MONICA & MUDPIE

COPICS

RECOLLECTIONS TEXTURED CARDS AND ENVELOPES

WOW! COPPER PEAR

WOW! CLEAR GLOSS SUPERFINE

MME 6X6 PAPER PAD FRIGHTFUL

WINK OF STELLA CLEAR (USED ON ORANGE PAPER)

BLUE SHIMMER PAPER (STASH)

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: COPICS FOR CARDMAKERS

So this bit of coloring was a two-fold experiment.  The first part was I didn't use my usual paper, X-Press it or even Neenah solar white but this textured paper from Michael's.  It is actually a 5.5" square card with envelope pack and I really liked the way it looked.  I stamped the Stampendous image with MFT Hybrid black ink pad and the image came out
very clear (I was surprised because of the texture of the paper).  Then I colored it and was pleasantly surprised with how it came out.  The second part of the experiment was the dark background ( I so love how Sandy Allnock  does her wonderful dark backgrounds and I have only used distress inks for mine).  The colorless blender didn't work very well on this paper to pull color out so a little weird on the dots in the background. I used a black multiliner to added more definition to the fur cause it kind of got lost in the color and it helped with the edges. No card made yet but here is the colored image. And yet again I forgot to watermark!

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Most of the markers I used and one multiliner.

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: COPICS FOR CARDMAKERS

Failed! I tend to go crazy and cannot use only a few markers.  So here is my coloring for the day.  Was trying for iridescence on the birds.  The right image is on laser printer paper the left is Copic X-Press it paper.  The laser jet is fine for practice.

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LAWNSCAPING CHALLENGE: CRITTERS

Love this challenge, can never get too many critters!  This card, however, morphed from my original idea a bit and took a lot of masking and hand cutting (really don't like to do that) but I think it ended up pretty cute.  There are a lot of supplies which I will try to list tomorrow but I wanted to get this up tonight .

This is my working sketch (using all the masks I made).The original idea was to just cut out the middle but I did't like that and ended up changing it up.

A GLITZY BIRTHDAY CARD

This card is for a childhood friend who remains one of my favorite people to this day.  I am lucky enough to get to see her this week for her birthday.

I first applied the gold embossing paste to the stencil and when it was thoroughly dry I layered distress inks.  I die cut the sentiment our of three layers of the same purple cardstock so the sides would show purple.  I stamped with the gold metallic ink and embossed with the gold tinsel embossing powder (I used the same embossing powder on the edges of the card stock)
Hearts have a glob of Glossy Accents and the whole card was spritzed with a bit of water and then the gold Color Shine.  

This is the inside which I totally forgot to photograph before signing (sigh).

It is PTI Framed Love die embossed with the same Ranger gold tinsel

                                                                                 

This is the bottom inside which is just a gold foil paper (stash) stamped and embossed in the same gold tinsel.  Hard to photograph with my cell phone but it is a nice and shiny gold on gold that does match the rest of the gold on the card.

MFT SCROLLED BACKGROUND STENCIL

PAPERTREY INK BIRTHDAY TRIO, TIPPED TOP DIES, FRAMED LOVE DIE

DISTRESS INKS AND MINI DISTRESS BLENDERS

TIM HOLTZ GOLD STARS COVERED IN GLOSSY ACCENTS

RANGER GOLD EMBOSSING TINSEL

DELICATA GOLDEN GLITZ INK PAD

WENDY VECCHI GOLD EMBOSSING PASTE

HEIDI SWAPP COLOR SHINE GOLD

BAZZILL CARD SHOPPE CARDSTOCK 

ONLINE CARD CLASSES: STRETCH YOUR STAMPS 2 DAY 4

Here is my take on Kelly Marie's card technique.  I tried to work on this a little in the am, a little in the aft and a little in the pm but wow, I am sometimes so slow!  Wish I had more time to spend on this card cause all I can see are the flaws.  Drat!

                  Yes, I know, some of the letters are wonky but I thought I wanted them to look totally random.  And I still can't get that chunky embossing powder to look bumpy and not smooth and still stay on the card!