Rock Star!!

The awesome and super talented Sandy Allnock has a super fun challenge on her blog.  It's called #craftchella2016 and you can read all about it here.

The challenge is to make a card that is musically inspired and also to use a stamp by creatively stretching its use.

I was stumped at first, but I went through all of my stamps and came up with an idea inspired by Sandy's card.  I have fiddle-diddled with this card all week and finally got it all put together.  I can't believe how many different stamp sets I used a piece of in this card.

Here is the photo of my card showing the stamps that I used most creatively (well, not the bird, Haha!   But I suppose birds don't hold microphones when they sing :)

Check out his podium that he's singing on!  And the pool of light?  Yep, it's the sand stamp!  His microphone is the pencil with the round tip being one of his eyeballs that was die cut with his beak!

Just look at the stamp sets and dies that I used at least one piece from!

Pretty crazy I think!  Thanks, Sandy, for this fun challenge!  I really admire your work and have learned a lot from you!

Thanks for taking a look and for any sweet comments too!

Happy Birthday Multi-layering stamps

My daughter loved this card I made her for her 26th birthday!  How does the time fly?

I used JustRite Romantic Wild Roses stamp and dies for this card.  As you can see from the photos below, I made an extra panel, adhered with washi tape, that opens so I could right my sweet, mushy birthday message to her. :)

I'll be entering this into Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: We Can See Clearly

Thank you so much for looking!  I really love it when you leave comments too!  :)

The frame is a die from Impression Obsession (DIE242-YY)

I cut the sentiment from Design Space with my Cricut Explore.

Here you can see how I added the piece to hide my message.

Day 6, Smoosh Resist

Haha!  Love the title for this day's class in Altenew Academy!  I really think I set a personal record for how quickly this card came together!

I used the same Distress Ink colors that Laura Basson did in the lesson.  I used the gorgeous flower from Altenew"s Beautiful Day.  The sentiment is from that set too.  The clear dew drops (that's what I call them :) are from Pretty Pink Posh  and are officially called droplets.

This was really fun to make and I thought it turned out pretty good.  My test is always "would I send it to someone".  LOL!

Thanks for taking a look!

Day 2, Generation Stamping

I've enjoyed Altenew's Altenew Academy, Clean, Simple and Colorful Techniques in spite of having forgotten about it until yesterday.  It is a fantastic class!  How could you not like it with the fabulous, enjoyable, and talented Laura Bassen teaching us these fun techniques.

For Day 2 I needed a geometric shaped stamp.  Well, seriously, the only thing close was from a stamp set by Sunny Studio called Birthday Smiles.  I actually used the ice cream cone stamp for my generation stamping.  I highlighted one of the stamps by finishing it with the layering stamp for the cone.  My biggest hurdle was finding inks to do the generation stamping with.  I really don't have a lot of quality dye inks.  I know there are some fabulous ones out there---but how to choose?!!

Anyway, here's the card with some Wink of Stella and a few sequins added.  I really like it when I'm reminded to look at my stamps differently!   Thanks for looking :)

I'm entering this in Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "food and drink".

Tweet Friends Thank You card

I've made a thank you card with two of my most favorite stamps by My Favorite Things called Beautiful Blooms and Tweet Friends and their coordinating Die-namics by the same names.  I also used the perfect handwritten sentiment from Joy Clair from the Thank You for Everything stamp set.  The checked tablecloth was made with a cute gingham stamp from Lawn Fawn called Gingham Backdrops.

I inked a bit of a background yellow with Distress Ink in Squeezed Lemonade.

I just love how this card turned out.  It was quite the challenge to get all of the flowers and stems that I stamped situated just right! :)

I'm entering this into Joy Clair's Monthly Challenge for March titled Spring.   I think this card fits the bill with all of the soft spring colors!

  Thanks so much for taking a look & for any comments you would like to leave!

Lasting Hearts Card Drive cards

I wish I'd had more time to make more cards for this awesome card drive.  I first read about it on Jennifer McGuire's blog post here.  She is one amazing, talented, and very caring blogger and designer.

Here are the cards I made.  Thanks for taking a look!

Altenew Beautiful Day stamps (card inspired by May Sukyong Park, click HERE for blog post.)

I used Spellbinders Die D-Lites called Flower Surprise along with some patterned paper in my stash.  The embossing folder is We R Memory Keepers.

Left:  Mondo Hydrangea by Julie for Ellen Hutson w/JustRite Three In a Row die; right:Altenew Beautiful Day stamps colored with Zig Clean Color Real Brush markers

This is a piece I watercolored in the Online Card Classes for Card Makers Intermediate Techniques.  Was glad to find a way to use it for a card.

Dinner Cruise Scrapbook Layout

I made this page for my daughter's scrapbook.  We were on her senior year choir trip to New York City.  I was thrilled to get to go along as chaperone.

One of the many fun things we did was a dinner cruise on our last night.  I used my cool We R Memory Keepers Fuse tool to make the shaker pockets behind the circles.  I used their Waterfall Photo Sleeves for extra photos on the page (that's what my goal always is---as many photos on the page as I can while keeping it uncluttered).

The title and ship were cut with my Cricut Explore.  The circle paper is from Jillibean Soup.

Here is a close up of the shakers.

I really love how this turned out.  I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge--Shake It Up.

I really love how this page turned out!  Thanks for taking a look! :)