FS99 Bleached Butterfly

 

Whew! I'm finally back to playing with these challenges. I hope everyone had a nice holiday. I guess you could say I took a break. I was so busy and trying to keep up with the challenges was a challenge for me. Here is a simple card I picked for todays Featured Stamper Barbara by the screen name Stampfilled Dreams. Have a wonderful night!


I used the oval scallop punch (provided by my penpal Carol).

I added white dots with the galaxy pen.

I stamped the butterfly with versamark ink, embossed it black powder, used my bleached pen, then colored the inside of it with my cranberry marker.

WT196 Forever Friends

 

Well, I still have the pencil lead in my foot. It is wrapped with a yellow onion hoping it will fall out tomorrow. It is sure painful. Anyhow, while I was out shopping today, I kept thinking about how I was going to do the Half Baked Challenge. I decided it was going to look like a Best Friends pendant necklace only on a card. I started out by using the versamark on the vellum paper and stamped the heart. I added silver emboss power with the heat gun. I did the same thing for the sentiment of "Forever Friends". I cut the heart in 2 pieces down the middle. I then mounted it onto Sage Shadow c/s. If I didn't have it mounted to it, then you wouldn't of been able to see the sentiment as good. I then mounted it to vanilla c/s leaving about 1/4 inch. I made a scallop edge of the heart with my decorative scissors. The heart is mounted with 3D dimensions for a flattering effect onto glitter dp from MME. I used the heart decorative corner punch on the MME DP and also the ticket corner punch. It is mounted onto vanilla c/s. I sponged the vanilla c/s with silver ink and added silver brads. I added the metallic ribbon to finish it. This will go to one of my friends and hope they will like it. I enjoyed this and I thought this stamp worked great for this challenge. Thank you for your comments and thanks for looking. Have a great night.

I'm sorry that I'm not sure of the color of the base of the card. Can you help me out? Looks almost like a dark teal.

Please note that the card is silver and not gold. It appears that way due to the lighting. Sorry.

FS95 Latest Moos

 
This is my first try at doing a Featured Stamper Challenge on SCS. www.splitcoaststampers.com, the Featured Stamper Flowergal36. The FS stamper picked for this week was Flowergal36. We were to change 3 things from a card we case from one of her cards. I cased her Cow card. It's towards the older posts when she first starting stamping. I really had fun doing it and will probably play again. I think it helps you create your own style casing someone elses cards. Thanks for dropping by and have a great day!

I changed it to a Criss Cross card made from Beate's tutorial on SCS.

I handmade the template for the spots and colored.

I added spots to the ribbon with a sharpie.

I used Diamond Glaze and liquid applique for the cow.


Stamps: SU On the Farm, Inkadinkado (sentiment)
Cardstock: black bazzil, Georgia Pacific (white), SU Pretty in Pink
Ink: Versadfine Onyx black
Supplies: scor-pal, Offray ribbon, black sharpie, pencil, scissors, liquid applique, diamond glaze, sponge

FS96 Merry Christmas

 

CC196 SC202 Peace on Earth

Oh my gosh, it's been one of those days here at my house. You know the kind where nothing goes right and if you try, you get knocked down anyways. Well, it wasn't so much me, it was our DARN CAT. I was so mad at her. She ripped my back door screen, then she went to the couch, then to the floor. She's lucky to be alive. Anyhow, today at www.splitcoaststampers.com, the Color Challenge, we were to use Taken with Teal, Real Red, Sage Shadow, and Whisper White. I also included SC202 as the sketch challenge too. This is the image from a few cards before this one, but I couldn't think of anything else that would go with colors. I played heck trying to accomplish this challenge today, in spite of our silly cat. It should get better tonight, my son is in a school play and he's got a leading part as a reindeer. I just love these colors together. I started out by stamping the image onto WW c/s with black ink. I colored with Prismacolor pencils, mineral spirits, and blending stumps. Once it was colored, I used 2-way glue for the horn, halos, red part of candy cane, and the wings on the angel with clear embossing powder. I then added a little bit of Diamond Dust to the wings as well. I added liquid appligue to the outline of the snow and used the Diamond Dust for the ground too. I used the CB scallop squares for the white squares and used the CB snowflake folder on these as well. I stamped the sentiment and cut out free hand and mounted. I added gold ribbon to finish along with the gold pearls on the corners. I had fun making this card in the colors that were chosen. Let me know what you think? Have a wonderful evening!

Stamps: Sweet Music (Stampabilities), Walmart Clear (sentiment)
Cardstock: Bazzill Red, Bazzill Teal, SU Whisper White
Ink: Versafine Black
Supplies: Prismacolor pencils, blending stumps, Odorless Mineral Spirits, CB Snowflake folder, CB Scallop Square die cut, clear emboss powder, heat tool, pearls, gold metallic ribbon, liquid applique

IC157 My Poinsettia Pendant

 
It's the night owl again! Again, my husband asked me if I knew what a bed was. It was 4am when he came upstairs. He just left for work. Yes, I stayed up all night again, but its really the only time my imagination comes to life. It's so quiet and I have my easy listening music on. I made this card for the Inspiration Challenge. It didn't take me long to figure out which one inspired me. I chose the Christmas category because that is what I am working on, so far as cards go. Here is the item that inspired me
Images under Glass. I love Poinsettias. Believe me, this isn't my first attempt at trying to make this happen. After I got my first one made, I tried just to see what would happen if I went back over the stamped, colored, and embossed look again but in different areas on the vellum. It didn't look good at all, so I threw that away and started again. By this time, it was going on 2am. I'm so glad that my second one came out because I was nervous about coloring it. If you remember, I stayed up all night the night before. I go through this during this time of year with everything going on like school projects, volunteering my time at my kids schools, household things, and things like that. Anyways here is my story. After seeing my inspiration, I knew I wanted to make it into a stained glass pendant. I had already made a stain glass card before so, I knew about the instructions which was great. I dabbed the vellum with my cornstarch sock only for the ink not to run. I use this because I don't have an embossing buddy. Works great! I started out with a piece of clear vellum and carefully stamped the poinsettia with Versamark ink. I did the same thing with the leaves. I stamped both images separately all at once, so I can pour the embossing powder on them together. Does this make sense? I had a couple of poinsettia stamps, but I figured this poinsettia would work better for the stained glass look. I used white embossing powder and carefully dusted the areas that I didn't want heated. Heat set. I flipped the stamped vellum over for the coloring. See Beate's tutorial for stain glass in the Resources over at www.splitcoaststampers.com. I used my Bic Mark it markers to color the poinsettias and the leaves using the colors that they are. A little time consuming and I thought for sure I was going to mess it up, since I should of been sleeping by now at 2am. I also used the CM corner rounder. Once it was done with the coloring, I started with the ribbon. I remembered a short cut for ribbon tying from Kitty found here rubberneckerstamps. WOW! It works great. I have 2 small glue dots not visible from the outside holding the ribbon on and the stamped vellum is attached with Zip Dry Glue. I tried to make the ribbon look like the chain around the pendant in the inspiration piece by adding silver rhinestones to it. I used the CB mini tag die cuts and stamped the sentiment using a clear stamp from Walmart. I embossed it using red powder. I attached the pendant and tied underneath the bow. I really liked this challenge and I'm looking forward to more in the future. Does it look somewhat like the inspiration picture? When the light hits the card, it looks like I embossed in gold. But I didn't. Sorry for the long post! Thanks for dropping by and have a wonderful weekend!

Stamps: Studio G (Poinsettia) HL Christmas $2 stamp (leaf) Walmart (sentiment)
Cardstock: SU Whisper White, Vellum (clear)
Ink: Versamark
Supplies: DP Impressions white and red embossing powder, heat tool, cornstarch with sock (substitute for embossing buddy), Mark It Colored Markers by Bic, CB mini die cut tag, Zip Dry Glue, glue dots, rhinestones, wired ribbon, silver cording

Christmas Penguins

 
Ok, I am caught up with the current challenges and now I am working on my pen pal cards. This is a card that I cased from Karen found here at www.CardoftheWeek.com Of course, I enhanced it more to fit my needs. I seem to do that when I case a card to make it more personal to me. Anyhow, for my pen pal cards I try to make them flat with little bumps. The less bumps, the less trouble at the post office. I'll do a few different ones so that way each pen pal doesn't get the same card. On to my story: I used the same idea as in Karen's card but I changed a few things like the use of the Cuttlebug. I used the CB Swiss Dots folder on the Night of Navy c/s for the sky. I went over the dots using the white gel pen. I never used Rub-Ons before, so I used them here for the snowflakes. I ripped 2 pieces of white c/s and sponged the rough edge of the paper with the same color ink as the c/s. I stamped the sentiment at this time. I then used the CB Bubbles folder for the snow. I thought about using the liquid applique in some areas of the snow, but that would just add more bumps and more feeling around by the postal clerk. I hate that when that happens. It happens every time I go to the post office. Maybe it's because I get the same clerk. Everytime I do go, I pray that I don't get the same lady to help me. It wouldn't of looked good all smooched. The colored edge appears to the penguins like water. I attached accordingly. I stamped the penguins from a stamp from Stampendous that had 3 of them on it with ice skates. The penguins are stamped onto white c/s using black ink. I colored the scarfs and beak with Prismacolor pencils. I went back over the black part of the penguin using my Bic it Marker. I wanted the penguins to look like they just came out of the water, so I used my versamarker pen, clear emboss powder, and applied the heat tool to set. They appear shiny. I added liquid applique to the hat and earmuffs. I cut all 3 out. I placed the penguins just a little bit underneath the snow with glue. I added sheer ribbon with silver cording to complete the card. I think it turned out cute. What do you think? Thanks for looking and have a wonderful night.

Stamps: Stampendous (Polka Penguins), Studio G (sentiment)
Cardstock: Whisper White, Night of Navy
Ink: Night of Navy
Supplies: CB Swiss Dots and CB Bubbles folders, Prismacolor pencils, clear emboss powder, heat tool, HL rub-ons, rhinestones, CTMH sheer ribbon, silver cording