BRI - Wonderland

I'm on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today with a couple of bold and graphic floral cards.

The Details:  Altenew Wonderland, Versamark, Altenew Beautiful Day, Versafine Onyx Black, Aall and Create Quadrilaterals Stencil, Lawn Fawn Everyday Sentiment Banners, Distress Oxide Black Soot, Lindy's Magicals Bells of Ireland Green, Hi Maintenance Magenta, Yellow Rose of Texas, Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

ATCAS #156 - Ombre

Are you ready for a new Addicted to CAS challenge, pardners?  The code word is "ombre," one of my favorite techniques.  Plus, it's rather punny:  hombre, ombre.  Get it?   I didn't say it was a good pun.

I used a circle die to create a mask through which I sponged the ombre purple. In real life, it gets noticeably lighter toward the top. Then I colored up the MFT image and stamped the sentiment. Super easy, right?

The Details:  MFT Saddle Up and Celebrate, Distress Oxide Blueprint Sketch, Seedless Preserves, Wilted Violet, and Shaded Lilac, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Copics

Whimsy M4 - Breakfast for Two

I'm over on the Whimsy Blog today!

The Details:  Whimsy We Go Perfectly Together, Messy Mesh Background, Pierced and Stitched Circle Dies, and Quick Strips, Distress Oxide Salty Ocean, Mustard Seed, Picked Raspberry, Twisted Citron, Ranger Glossy Accents, VersaFine Onyx Black, Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics

TFS - XOXO

I'm over on the Topflight Stamps Blog featuring the set I'm giving away on Instagram!

The Details: That's Crafty Magda Polakow The Mama Bear Collection, Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Realbrush Watercolor Markers, Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper, Copic Multiliner 0.7

Oh, Baby

I'm over on the Doodle Bugs blog today!

The Details: Mama Elephant Little Monkey Agenda and Celebration Balloons, Zig Watercolor Markers, Versafine Onyx Black, Copic Multiliner 0.7, Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper, Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers, Wilted Violet, Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed

TFS Birthday Hop!

It is Topflight Stamps 2nd birthday! To celebrate, we’ve teamed up with up some of our favorite crafters to bring you a blog hop showcasing some of the fabulous products available from Topflight Stamps. Please hop along with us all and show all of the crafters some love!

There's a sale going on through March 31.  Use code SAVE20 to save 20% off all purchases over $20!

Of course, it wouldn’t be a birthday celebration without prizes! Topflight Stamps is giving one lucky winner a $50 Gift Certificate, and each stop on the hop has an additional $15 Gift Certificate up for grabs. For chances to win, make sure to visit every stop on the hop and leave a comment by April 8th.

Winners will be announced on the Topflight Stamps blog on April 9th. Good Luck!

And get this!  I'm having an additional giveaway of my own on IG to make this birthday hop even sweeter! You could win the That's Crafty Magda Polakow The Mama Bear Collection set!  I'll announce the winner of this set on IG.

Now on to my card!

Let's start with the background. Rainbow. Shamrocks. Lots of future good luck! 

I covered the card front panel with Scor-Tape and laid down the the Visible Image Time Tunnel stencil over it.

Visible Image Time Tunnel

I then burnished on the rainbow Deco Foil through the stencil. Next I carefully removed the stencil and burnished gold Deco Foil on the remaining exposed adhesive. I added a couple of layers of patterned paper hills. The edges of the foil got a little mucked up when I pulled off the stencil, so I used a frame die to remove the ick.

I used the quirky Aall and Create Dog Attitude and Aall and Create Moody Kittens images because how could I not?  They are so not in a celebratory mood, which is exactly why I love them. Their faces say it all for us introverts!

Aall and Create Dog Attitude

Aall and Create Moody Kittens

I stamped them (and the sentiment for that matter) with Versafine Onyx Black and colored them with Zig markers. Their expressions crack me up and I'm looking forward to more snarky cards with them!

Whew! Here's to much future success for Topflight Stamps!

Now keep hopping and enjoy all the amazing creativity you'll find by these wonderful ladies!

Topflight Stamps
Sandy Allnock
Jenny Colacicco
Justine Hovey
Toni M. Maddox  <------you are here
Kelly Martin
Annette Allen
Kymona Tracey
Ashley Cornell
Josefine Fouarge
Lisa Hoel
Laurel Beard
Ericka Strange
Ingrid Blackburn
Dana Joy
Amy Tsuruta
Lindsay Weirich

The Details:   Aall and Create Dog Attitude, Aall and Create Moody Kittens, Visible Image Time Tunnel, Doodlebug Designs Lots o' Luck 6x6 paper, Honey Bee Deckle Edge Rectangle Die, Lawn Fawn Simple Stitched Hillside Borders, Versafine Onyx Black, Zig Realbrush Watercolor Markers, Deco Foil, Scor Tape, Strathmore Bristol Smooth Paper, Lindy's Bells of Ireland Magicals

BRI - So Mushroom

I'm over on the Butterfly Reflections Ink blog today!

The Details:  Lawn Fawn Mushroom House, Doodlebug Design French Kiss paper, Lawn Fawn Oh Gnome, Mama Elephant Little Fairy Agenda, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black,  Clear Wink of Stella, Hero Arts Into the Woods stencil, Copics,

SOSS #131 - U is for Unicorn

Time for another Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge--U is for Unicorn!  How could I not use this unicorn image?  I swear I feel (and look) like this all the time too!

Really easy card with a Copic colored image on top a card base wit ha bit of washi and stenciled clouds.  The 24-7 amuses me immensely--too under caffeinated to even get that straight!

The Details:  Rabbit Hole Designs Caffeinated Unicorn, Visible Image The White Rabbit, Distress Oxide Salty Ocean, MFT Mini Cloud Edges stencil, Recollections washi tape, Copics, Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black

Whimsy M3 - Nap

Hello, Whimsy fans!  Today's card cracks me up.  Look at the expression on the old woman's face from the Old Fart set--so derpy! LOL.

I stamped her with VersaFine Onyx Black and used Zig Real Brush Markers to color her up.  I then cut her out with one of the new Pierced and Stitched Circle Dies. I'll be using these circles a lot and am hoping we'll see some rectangles and squares in the future (hint, hint).

I thought with the sentiment (LOL!), I would use the Shaker Maker Pennant Flags to create a party banner. I'm like the old woman, happy hour really is a nap for me!

The sentiment is also stamped in VersaFine Onyx Black with a bit of festive washi beneath.

The Details: Whimsy Stamps Old Fart, Pierced and Stitched Circle Dies and Shaker Maker Pennant Flags, Echo Park Splendid Sunshine 6x6 paper, VersaFine Onyx Black

Happy Birthday, Sweetie!

Today is a momentous day!  My partner turns 60. 60 is a huge milestone! Close to retirement but not close enough. Gravity has taken its toll on every body part (EVERY--trust me). You start getting a different type of junk mail like build-your-own-coffin.  In essence, you're officially old. 

But my sweetie is young at heart and still loves to rock out. Ok, smooth jazz out but close enough. That said, I HAD to make him a card using the MFT Turntable die and coordinating For the Record sentiments. It's like MFT knew I needed this set!

I started the card by sponging the card base with Distress Oxide Mowed Lawn and Twisted Citron so a bit would peep out from behind the Hero Arts Heart Confetti Die (a great substitute would be the Lawn Fawn Polka Hearts Backdrop).  That die is cut from DCWV Winter Frost 6x6 paper.  So is the PTI Banner Die.

Now the really fun part for me was creating the turntable. I cut out the bits, coating the record in Ranger Glossy Accents then re-cutting that so the impressed lines would show up even more. Plus shiny. The arm is cut from Recollections Silver Mirror Board.

I added the MFT Happy Birthday Circle Frame cut from one of my Adirondack Alcohol Ink leftovers for funky fun.  I love how that looks, especially with the record label cut from the same.

Final steps were stamping the For the Record sentiment in Versafine Onyx Black and gluing everything down using the Ranger Glossy Accents. I even used it on the black enamel dots as the adhesive on them seems to wear off over time. Oh, wait, the turntable arm is popped up on Scotch Foam Tape.

I'm entering this in Seize the Birthday #161 without optional dots and stripes, Cardz 4 Guyz #125 To Die For, TIME OUT #131 Inspired by Words