DB - The Witches

Are you a fan of Halloween? Join me and my coven of fans over on the Doodlebugs WA blog to read how I made these cute coordinating cards.

HLS Christmas - Non-Traditional

For this month's Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge the optional theme is Non-Traditional. Yikes! 

I used purple and green for the background, rather unusual I think and perfect for sheep who prefer Easter over Christmas any day. LOL.

I love their expressions.  And, those sentiments about kill me--so funny and cute!

I hope to see you playing along with us this month!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED INCLUDE:

• Distress Oxide Milled Lavendar & Mowed Lawn
• Clearly Besotted Baa Humbug
• Sunny Studio Comic Strip Speech Bubble (Sunny Studio, Scrapbook.com)
• Mama Elephant Let's Chat

SOSS #193 - P for Paper Piecing

These little ladies crack me up and are soooo me (and my snarky sistahs, of course!).  Come join us for the latest Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #193 P for Paper Piecing.

• MFT Brick Stencil
• MFT Sunrise Radiating Rays Stencil
• MFT Mini Cloud Edgers Stencil
• VLV Plate 1397
• Mama Elephant Oval Deco Frame

Blessed Autumn

One of my cats recently tipped over my water bottle on the craft table and destroyed quite a few works in progress.  I managed to salvage this one.

I had sprinkled Lindy's Magicals on the card front and spritze with water.  Once dry I used the Spellbinders Autumn Leaf Border Glimmer Hot Foil Plate with copper hot foil to impress the leaves.  I particularly love this plate, don't you?

I cut out the Birch Press Design Blessed Honey Script Die and popped it up on a couple of additional medium brown layers. 

The metallic touches are so pretty against that dreamy background. LOVE it!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED

• Spellbinders Autumn Leaf Border Glimmer Hot Foil Plate
• Birch Press Design Blessed Honey Script Die
• Lindy's Magicals Sassy Sapphire, Peony Scarlet Red, Yellow Rose of Texas
• Paper Studio Washi

DB - Tropical Toucans

I'm over on the Doodlebugs WA blog with a fun tropical card.  Fruit Loops, anyone?

ATCAS #205 - Nature

Nature is the code word for the latest Addicted to CAS Challenge #205.  There were lots of different options I thought of for this one, settling on a jungle theme. I think this may be the first time I've used the Hero Arts cover plate tho I've had it for ages. Eek!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED INCLUDE:

• Pretty Pink Posh Tropical Toucans
• Avery Elle Luau Party
• Hero Arts Leaves & Vines

3D Embossing: Yes, Please!

I'm guest designing for the current TIME OUT Challenge #195 and posted a card for that a couple of days ago. 

As is often the case for me, since I had the stuff out, I went ahead and made more cards, one still fitting the challenge.

I used PTI Soft Stone cardstock when embossing the Altenew Spring Blooms 3D Embossing Folder. I then ran Memento Luxe Pear Tart ink pad lightly over the embossed blooms.

I embossed the MFT Essential Sentiment with Ranger Gold Embossing Powder and added a Pinkfresh Studio Small Butterfly that I had hot foiled in Spellbinders Speckled Aura Hot Foil onto acetate.

I'm entering this one in CAS on Friday #212 Butterfly.

For the other card, I brushed the Altenew Spring Blooms 3D Embossing Folder blossoms with Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink. I trimmed down the panel and cut some strips from scrap vellum and Papertrey Ink Kraft cardstock which I then adhered to the card base on top of Birch Press Design Shimmer Lines Washi.

I added a Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiment hot foiled in Spellbinders Gold and applied a few Pinkfresh Studio Gold Metallic Pearls using Glossy Accents. 

A rather different look for me but I like it!  I'm entering this one in Fusion Crayons (sketch).

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED

• Altenew Spring Blooms 3D Embossing Folder
• PTI Soft Stone Cardstock
• PTI Kraft Cardstock
• MFT Essential Sentiments
• Pinkfresh Studio Perfect Sentiments Hot Foil Plate & Dies
• Pinkfresh Studio Small Butterflies Hot Foil Plate & Dies
• Spellbinders Gold & Speckled Aura Hot Foil
• Pinkfresh Studio Gold Metallic Pearls
• Birch Press Design Shimmer Lines Washi
• Glossy Accents
• Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink
• Memento Luxe Pear Tart
• Versamark
• Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Caroling Critters

I've had this card partially completed in my stash for a year if not two.  I just wasn't feeling the background.  

I discovered the card in my UFO pile recently, added a few Distress Oxide Antique Linen Lawn Fawn Ready, Set, Snow  snowflakes to the sponged background and finally felt I could move forward.

I added the Lawn Fawn Shut the Front Door, using a holiday plaid for the frame. I colored up the Pretty Pink Posh Caroling Critters image with Copics using the holiday plaid to guide my color choices.  They are soooo cute!

I'm entering this in Sparkles Christmas Challenge #127 Christmas Music.

Thanks for stopping by!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED

• Pretty Pink Posh Caroling Critters
• Lawn Fawn Shut the Front Door
• Lawn Fawn Ready, Set, Snow (snowflakes)
• Distress Oxide Antique Linen
• Distress Oxide Peacock Feathers
• Copics

TIME OUT #195 Guest Designer

I'm so honored to be guest designing for TIME OUT after a recent challenge win. It's always fun to play along with challenges and even better to be able to inspire others to do so as well!

Challenge #195 is using a colored card base with the optional twist of adding embellishments.

I've used an icy blue for my card, using the Altenew Spring Blossoms 3D Embossing Folder to create that stunning raised effect.  I gently swiped the embossed areas with Delicata Golden Glitz to highlight the edges.

I added a strip of gold striped washi and embossed with the MFT Essential Sentiment above it in gold. Glamorous!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED

• Altenew Spring Blooms 3D Embossing Folder
• MFT Essential Sentiments
• Delicata Golden Glitz
• Versamark
• Ranger Princess Gold Embossing Powder

The Great Bougainvillea Experiment

Last week I used the Pinkfresh Studio Bougainvillea Print Hot Foil Plate on a mixed media card.  At the same time I had foiled it in Spellbinders Glimmer Speckled Prism. It's like a fancier version of embossing in white so the watercoloring really pops.

I used only three colors of Zigs to color up the blossoms.  Once that was done I used the Pinkfresh Studio Hugs & Good Vibes Hot Foil Plate with Glimmer black foil on top.

It worked really well!  I only had one area where I used my Copic Multiliner to fill in some blank spots.  I will definitely be double, triple, even quadruple foiling in the future!

PRODUCTS USED AND/OR RECOMMENDED

• Pinkfresh Studio Bougainvillea Print Hot Foil Plate
• Pinkfresh Studio Hugs & Good Vibes Hot Foil Plate
• Zig 025 Pink, 040 Green, 050 Yellow
• Strathmore Bristol Smooth