Challenges
MFT Color Challenge 122 – Prehistoric Fun
Here is my card for the current MFT color challenge and the inspiration for it: I used the MFT Cloud stencil to create the background with Distress Oxide inks. Then I stamped images from the MFT Prehistoric Fun stamp set. I watercolored the images with Tombow markers in coordinating colors. I intended to use the […]
MFT Summer Camp Day 1 & MFT Color Challenge 121
Take 2 on Day 1 of MFT’s Summer Camp! This is another fully watercolored card, painted with the 36 color set of Gansai Tambi’s. I need to use these more often cause I just saw they now offer a 48 pan set but I refuse to buy it (yet) with so much paint left in […]
MFT Summer Camp Day 1 – Watercolor
I’m making an effort to participate in MFT’s Summer Camp every day this week. I had so much fun with the first day’s event of watercolor, you may see more than one card from the effort! This card, using MFT’s Friends in the Forest, is my favorite!!! I used my 36 Gansai Tambi watercolors on […]
Sitting Here Thinking of You with Hero Arts
My mom passed away 10 years ago. Seems like it was just yesterday. Certain dates and events are especially hard for my dad now that she is gone. Their anniversary is coming up, and while this isn’t “exactly” a sympathy card, that really is what this is. Thinking of you in your time of need […]
Happy Birthday Art Impressions!
As part of the celebration of Art Impressions 32nd birthday, their monthly challenge this month is Birthdays! I chose to make a card with their Birthday Wishes stamp set. I paired it with a color combo from the July Daring Card Makers challenge, though I didn’t follow their challenge requirements, so I’m not submitting to […]
Missing You Always beach scene
This card is hopefully going to serve two purposes… one, to tell my friend I miss her, and two, for her to re-purpose and send to her daughter 🙂 I was inspired by a color combo for the current challenge at Crazy 4 Challenges. And there are so many beach and summer challenges this week, […]
Ice Cream Hugs
My bestie isn’t a chocolate or cookie girl, so I can’t send her a Hershey bar or homemade chocolate chip cookies to show her I care. Her vice is ice cream, and *that* you unfortunately cannot ship 600 miles away and hope it will hold on a porch in the middle of Florida. Next best […]
Bouquet of Thanks for a Friend
So, my BFF is about to face the biggest challenge of her life thus far… her one and only child, now 18 years old, is leaving for college and not only that, she’s leaving this weekend so she can attend a summer session. She’s going to need something… anything… to make her smile when she […]
CAS Christmas card with Close to My Heart
Today’s card is super quick and CAS. This card was made with the CTMH present stamp from the Jingle Borders stamp set and the sentiment from their Say It In Style set. I chose to go with non-traditional colors for this Christmas card for the Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge as well as a couple […]
Color Throwdown #547
Coming in just under the wire with a card for ctd547, using their inspiration colors: I used Primacolor pencils to color images from SSS’s Even More Spring Flowers stamp set using the following colors (Grass Green 909, Peacock Green 907, Carmine 926, Crimson Red 924, Pale Vermillion 921, Yellowed Orange 1002, and Canary 916). The […]
Altenew Hennah Elements March challenge
Squeaking in just under the wire on the deadline for the March inspiration challenge: I used the Hennah Elements stamp set and colored it with Tombow markers (reds 835, 847, 856, oranges 925, 933, and greens 126, 158). I used the Altenew Halftone stencil for the background with Nuvo Glimmer Paste in Seaweed Quartz. […]
MFT Birthday Challenge – You’re How Old?
*Cough, cough* Whoa, sure is dusty around here! Dusting off the blog today to post a card I made for the monthly MFT Birthday Project Challenge. I used the MFT Balloon Strings background stamp and heat embossed in Wow Fine Silver embossing powder. I used MFT Block Happy Birthday Dienamics to cut the letters from […]
Furry Friend
I think these puppies are so stinking cute! I’ve had a set of rubber stamps mounted on foam called Doggies since, well… forever… that sadly had never been inked up. I tripped over them… almost literally when a rack I use to hold stamps tipped over… and left them out on my desk to play […]
Best Wishes Butterfly
Most of the northern hemisphere of the world is desperate for Spring to kick in. Where I live, we’ve been enjoying mild temperatures for a couple weeks, but am only just beginning to see signs of life and color returning. Here’s a burst of sunshine and brightness for you! The flowered paper was made […]
Blueberry Butterfly Birthday
Say that 5 times fast! Blueberry Butterfly Birthday! Blueberry Butterfly Birthday! Ok, perhaps I’m getting a little giddy since I was able to finish off another half finished project laying on my desk. Take a look: I know… very purple, right? Definitely not my go-to color, but there it is anyway 🙂 In fact, […]
Flying By to Say Hi – Hot Air Balloon
Happy Tuesday, all! I’m super glad to be posting today! That dang mojo of mine has been playing hide and seek with me these last few weeks. Between the misplaced mojo and life in general getting in the way a little, I haven’t had a chance to work on a whole card from start to finish […]
Thinking Of You Watercolor
I have been a follower of Heather Telford at Bits and Pieces for quite some time. She makes the most beautiful watercolor cards with stamps and Memento inks. My mojo has apparently been on vacation or in the Witness Relocation Program… so I decided to get inky and see if I could channel some of […]
Metamorphosis
Today’s card is not my typical style, but the mojo was flowing so I tried very hard to go with it and not question it 😉 This card was inspired by this week’s sketch at Fusion Card Challenge: The patterned paper is from My Mind’s Eye 6×6 pad called My Girl. The chevron design […]
Sending You Sunshine
I’ve been itching to make a shaped card but didn’t know where to start until I saw the weekly challenge at The Friday Mashup is Hexagons or Triangles. Before Christmas, I just HAD to have the Spellbinders Hexagon dies, so it was time to break them in! I used the largest die for the […]
Big Birthday Wishes
Howdy folks! Today’s card is bold, bright, and blingy!!! The inspiration for the layout is this week’s sketch from Techno Stamper. I was browsing through my 6×6 paper pads and Hip Hip Hooray by American Crafts was just begging me to use it today 😉 Now, I wouldn’t normally mix really bold papers, but I think […]
Misplaced Mojo 