DB - Fintastic Hello

Swim over to the Doodlebugs WA blog to check out a super cute underwater hello!

SOSS #211 - W for Wicked

The latest challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is #211 W for Wicked.  So many directions to go with this one.

I happened to have been searching for a different stamp set when I rediscovered this one from AALL & Create. How perfectly wicked!

I'm very pleased with my coloring of the dress on this. I used warm grays for that and cold grays for the cape so there would be a clear difference.

• Visible Image Oz Wicked Witch
• Visible Image Time Tunnel Stencil
• Whimsy Brick Pattern Stencil
• Pretty Pink Posh Holiday Scripts
• Distress Oxide Salvaged Patina and Fossilized Amber

ATCAS #221 - Stripes

Are you ready for another Addicted to CAS challenge?  This round we're asking that you use stripes on your card.

I made a holiday card using a rainbow for my stripes. Isn't that scene cuter than cute? 

   

I tossed about the idea of adding a sentiment around the mountain but ultimately settled on faux snow globe. I added the lightly sponged clouds to the card base because it just felt a little naked.  Weird as I generally like plain old white for my CAS cards.

• Simon Says Clearly Besotted Stamptember 2021 Magical Christmas
• MFT Mini Cloud Edges Stencil
• Mama Elephant Holiday Messages
• Zigs: 020, 030, 036, 044, 047, 050, 070

BPD - Foiled String Art

Birch Press Design and Memory Box have added hot foil to their product lineups.  Woo hoo!  Read more on the BPD blog.

ATSM #430 - Diecuts and/or Stencils

It's diecuts and/or stencil time at the Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge.  I hope you'll take a moment and join us!

I used some leftovers to create this card, cutting the poinsettia out of a mixed media panel I had abandoned. I added some glitter gel and mounted everyting on a foiled panel with a foiled sentiment. 

• Altenew Poinsettia 3D (SBC | ALT)
• Spellbinders Mini Christmas Sentiment Strips Hot Foil Plates (SBC | SB | SBP)
• Spellbinders Diagonal Stripes Hot Foil Plate (SBC | SB | SBP)
• Spellbinders Aura Hot Foil (SBC | SB)
• Spellbinders Gold Hot Foil (SBC | SB)
• Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System (SBC | SB | SBP)
• Nuvo Moonstone Glimmer Paste (SBC)
• Liquitex Gesso
• Distress Oxide Sprays

DB - Old Goat

I'm over on the Doodlebugs WA blog today with a fun interactive birthday card for an old goat in my life.  LOL!

DB - Simple Sympathy Card

I'm sharing a unisex sympathy card over on the Doodlebugs WA blog today.

SOSS #210 - F for F Words

It's time for another F Word prompt at the Sisterhood of Snarky Challenge.

I made mine into a Christmas card by drawing holiday lights on the elephant and adding a Santa hat.  Its expression is so very very apt.

• Katzelkraft Elephant Van Gogh
• Lawn Fawn Hats Off to You
• Copic 0.3 Multiliner

ATCAS #220 - Flower

This round at the Addicted to CAS Challenge we're asking for you to use a flower on your project. Easy peasy for this flower-loving girl!

 

I watercolored my flowers then added Inktense shadowing.  I had noticed the tip of the pink pencil had oxidized or something but paid it no mind so was surprised/not surprised that oxidation turned out to be a separation of the colors so I had purple shadows when it mixed with the Zig pink. Fab result!  

Btw, the oxidation was just the outside; the interior of the pencil was the whole color.

• Mama Elephant Poinsettia
• Hero Arts Christmas Rose
• Salvaged Patina Distress Ink Spray
• Zigs: 025, 036, 052, 402
• Derwent Inktense: 503, 1320

BPD - Summer Birthday Blooms

I'm over on the Birch Press Design blog celebrating summer just a tiny bit early!

ATSM #429 - Any Occasion

Hello!  The latest Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge is the ever popular "any occasion."  I obviously chose Christmas for my card but feel free to make a card for any reason.

I had worked up the background on a piece of Bristol, lots of sponging, stencils and spattering. I wasn't sure how all that texture and layers would work under the foiling and was very pleasantly surprised by the results of experiment 1.  Just amazing.

For experiment 2, I used a sand eraser to distress to the pink foil then foiled it again with opal, but offset for a shadow effect.  Hot damn!  Distressed and still blingy--woo hoo!

• AALL and Create Starry Night Stencil
• AALL and Create Wood Pile Stencil
• Gemini FoilPress Stag Head (discontinued)
• Spellbinders Mini Christmas Sentiment Hot Foil Strips (SBC | SPA
• Spellbinders Gold Hot Foil (SBC | SPA)
• Spellbinders Opal Hot Foil (SBC | SPA)
• Spellbinders Glimmer Hot Foil System (SBC | SPA | SBP)

DB - Is that you, Qbert?!

I'm feeling all nostalgic for the 80s of my childhood with my card featured on the Doodlebugs WA blog today.

HLS Christmas - House

It's Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge time!  This time the optional code word is "house."

I broke out my as yet unused Spellbinders Glimmer Winter Village and created a rather modern card. I used a simple patterned paper to foil and covered up any splotchies with my Silver Wink of Stella pen.

• Spellbinders Glimmer Winter Village (SBC | SPA | SBP)
• Spellbinders Matte Silver Glimmer Foil (SBC | SPA)
• Fancy Pants Designs Holiday Hustle 6x6 Paper
• Pinkfresh Studio Silver Metallic Pearls (SBC | CTC | SBP)