I saw this video by Jennifer Mcquire and the second card she made really appealed to my eye. I wanted to try it. Just a note, it’s harder than she makes it look. I had a difficult time laying the numbers on the panel straight and then when I moved them they left glue marks all over the place. I am using it anyway. This card is for our son’s 40th in October and he won’t mind a little misplaced glue.
I am entering this in Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge, anything goes.
It’s been years and years since I found this stamp and I laughed and thought it was so fun. I have used it off and on over the years but of course it doesn’t get a whole lot of use. But I don’t want to let it go, it’s one of those, ya want it for when ya need it kind of stamps.
The challenge for this idea came from a challenge posted to create a dream vacation that you have never done. Well I always thought it would be fun to go on one of those stamping class weekends to a place on any of the coasts except the north route. Wouldn’t it be fun to take a water color class with an expert? 
The Monday Challenge at Simon Says this week is Let’s get Artsy and so I shall enter my artsy piece into their challenge.
How fun this card was to make. All those bright colors. I bought this small pack of cardstock several years ago. WHAT was I thinking…wellllllllll, I was thinking how much I like bright colors. What I wasn’t thinking is how difficult it would be to pair this up with things and make it look good. And so we have learned. There are several patterns in here and yes, I am slowly finding ways to use them. 
This card is made with the BLUEPRINTS 4 from My Favorite Things. I used one of their suggested layouts. I use parts and pieces from this blueprint set quite often. I find myself doing that with several of the blue prints but I also love the pre made sketches they suggest for a quick go to idea.
I adhered the orange cardstock to some chipboard before I ran it through the bigshot to give the button some stability and dimension.
Oh and you know, that cool beach scene I made with the salted background???? Guess where that ended up? Yep, it jumped right off the top of the file cabinet and fell behind it. Guess it will stay there until we move cuz that cabinet is a beast to move. bye bye fun card. 
I won this stamp set over two years ago and thought it was so cute but could never find a way to use it. I suppose because our summer season is so short it just never jumped out to be be used in time. The back ground is called Salted Background. You use glossy paper and paint with reinkers and then sprinkle salt on and let it dry and then wipe off and it makes a funky kind of texture look but I don’t think it makes enough of a difference to bother with the mess. In order not to cover up all that salty goodness I wanted to use die cuts. I took a chance and cut my sun out with a flower die and I love it! I had thought circle at first but that’s just so boring sometimes. Next, I would love to have had some dies in the shapes of the palm trees but this worked out great. I cut half of the right hand one off to give the leaves a way to overlap the first oval that I placed down. Pulling out some oldies. Hey, Princess Judy, do you recognize the two papers under the vellum? Loved them and they worked perfectly for this. To help the images stand out a bit I covered the flowers DP with a soft vellum piece. I computer generated the sentiment. This card is for my son and his wonderful wife. We are so glad they joined lives thirteen years ago. (they eloped)
I have always loved this set. Well I used to have my kitchen decorated with moons and suns like this from Mexico. I now only have one of them. well, two of them.
Well I had to post a picture after I told you that.
This is one of those little sets I got at Good Will for $1.99. WHO could pass up a bargain like that. There are still two more stamps in this set that I couldn’t figure out how to use.
Using a mask that had the center cut out, I took my Dew Drop shape memento inks and did direct to paper swiping with three different colors. Keeping the mask in place I stamped the little scene. too cute, those little guys. I love the designer who came up with these images.
Years ago I won an ebay auction for stickers. I was astounded when the box came. You wouldn’t believe how many stickers there were. Thousands. Yes, thousands. How do you ever get those all used up. I sorted them, kind of, by category and every once in a while I dig through them and find a way to use some up.
Here’s a good example. the bursts of fireworks and the borders are stickers. LOVE easy cards like this. Thanks for looking. Leave me a comment and let me know if you have a stash of stickers that need looking at.
I have made several cards that need blogging. Where does the time go. Well it’s always fun to create and I want to remember that blogging is part of the creating too. It’s so fun to share. And I love to see everyone elses blog posts so I need to get busy. Let’s start with where we left off a week or so ago. Stamps #229 and #230 are from Mark’s Finest Papers. Never been used. I really like how this ended up though I didn’t know where I was going with it when it started. I needed a masculine sympathy card and thought this fit. I used Raindrop Petal shapes on the large flower. The sky is sponged.
I don’t think I have ever shared my work space on WOYWW before. Todays seemed a good day to jump in; after all it is their 5th birthday. Happy Birthday WOYWW. Because I was using re-inkers I pulled the whole drawer out of it’s space. It’s kind of hard to get to and I thought it would be easier to access the different inks right from the drawer. How’s that for filling up space. I was trying a new technique called “salted background” and
So there you have it my first WOYWW posting. Oh the big meat thing in the middle is the mouse pad I use to stamp on for cushioning. It’s one of them olllllllllddddd fat ones. Works great.
How fun was this??? A never been used before stamp and she’s so fun. I took her apart from the sentiment that was attached to it and NOW I can use it. Gotta think outside the box sometimes.
Core’dinations paper used and I don’t know where the other papers are from they have been in my stash so long. The flowered one is GKD.
Dies are MFT from different blueprints sets. I did the inside of this card too. Well, the coffee beans are covering up a smudge or two.
For a coffee lovin’ friend of mine who is joyous about retiring. I’m happy for her. I used the MFT sketch for this even though it is way past the due date to count for the challenge. I just like the sketches as a starting off point. Gives a lot of character to the cards, eh? Sentiment is computer generated and hand drawn speech bubble.
So fun to use this bird house die set from My Favorite Things. I bought it off season and only used it once. My 96 year old stamping friend and bird watcher will be very happy to receive this. She likes to get happy mail instead of just flyers in her mail box. I like to make her smile. I am entering this into MFT’s color challenge for May. Using Pink Lemonade, Sno Cone, Berry-licious and Kraft. Everything on this card is from My Favorite Things except the enamel dots and the embossing folders. I used the Wood Grain Background stamp on the bird house. It was such a fun card to make.
I will enter this in the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Die Crazy. After embossing the panel I used it as a layer over the card base. It is cut just a fraction smaller than the base. 
Because I still had wet water color paint spots left over I dragged another tag through it and this is what that morphed into. Another Masculine grad card and I will enter this into Simon’s Monday Challenge as well. It’s also Mbossed (chuckle)
It does signify time Marching on though so it’s a good fit.
Image: Stampabilities
Stencil: The Crafters Workshop
Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug
As an afterthought I added two amber hued clear RAIN circles as embellishments going vertical in the lower right corner. It was needing something and that matched the stitching.
The Monday challenge at Simon Says is Use the letter M. M in this case is for Magic Marker. I used one to color my Candies which were a light blue previously.
Also it’s a Masculine card. It fits the challenge two ways.
Image and sentiment: MFP
BG stamp is SU Argyle
Tim Holtz Distress ink in Tea Dye
Truck is colored with chalks
Candies Embellishments
Whew, what a fun day spent in the stamp room. But OMW, I was having a time of it this morning. I was trying to add a sentiment to a wedding card. I stamped it crooked, I smeared the ink, I creased the paper when I was trying to lay a piece over the crooked sentiment, I dropped the ink pad. Needless to say, it took over an hour to just put a sentiment in the card. sheesssshhhh!!
I cleaned my space up, thought maybe that was part of the problem. I should have taken a Work Space Wednesday photo of it last night but you all would not want to see that, I’m sure of that.
Then I got to stamping the grad cards I needed for an order. How fun that was. I got seven cards made today. I will be posting them separately as I will be entering them into different challenges.
Here’s the card I made for the shower. I love how this turned out with the glittery handle.
The punch is Martha Stewart
Graduations will be happening soon. I have a few cards to get made. I started with this one. I used the Peerless Water Colors again and had a bit of trouble getting them all to shade correctly. Practice Practice Practice. I have seen beautiful work done with these and I know it just takes lots of practice. All in all I love how the card turned out.
did you ever do that? Colored with those Peerless Water Colors again. So enjoying them. Takes a bit of practice but hey, that’s what we do when we create, eh? The goldish hued papers on either side of the red are Creative Memory Scraps. They did have fabulous papers. I feel badly they went out of business. The oval die is My Favorite Things. 
Oh my, stencils, spray, water color paper…..I am loving it. I got these Heidi Swapp stencils back in February when I met my cyber friend Angie for the first time. We had to do a Michaels shopping trip and I haven’t really played with them that much but the urge hit today. So spray away!
I love how everyone of these turned out. Mostly with my own concoctions for sprays. Some are acrylics in water, some are Dylusions in water, some are radiant pearls in alcohol water mixture, but the results are beauty every time. Feeling happy. Had to honor all those pretty birds that are coming back to us for the season. So far, the Orioles, the Grosbeaks, the Indigo Bunting, The Pine Warbler have all showed up. Waiting for the hummingbird, he should be bringing his happy little self around soon. But brrrrr….it was warm this morning, well, warm as in 61 degrees, but it has now dropped down to 56 and I had to close the windows and turn the furnace on and since I’m wearing walking shorts I tossed on a sweater too. the walk ain’t gonna happen. it’s COLD out there.
I love this little froggy stamp. And I got to use that BIG rub on flower. I used the paper that it rubbed off from as an embellishment under the vellum sentiment, to give it cohesive look.
I don’t know whose stamp that is. It was bought from a bin at a huge rubber stamping store in Vegas. The Vellum sayings are on a page that have been in my stash forever. It sure feels good to use up some of these things. I think maybe I bought a lot of this stuff when I was doing traditional scrap booking and then it got kind of hidden when I gave that up.
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The details:
Image: Stampin Up
Sentimet: My Favorite Things
Lyra: AquaColors
Pearls: Michaels grey painted black with Permanent Ink Sharpie
Isn’t he a cutie. This was a stamp my daughter gave me. I decided to make him into a recessed image. I stamped him on the base of the card then cut a circle into the top layer and embossed it and layered it. It went together very quickly. I used my Aqua Color crayons scribbled onto my craft mat and applie with a water brush onto regular 110lb cardstock.
I will enter this into the Simon Wednesday Challenge for Spring Flowers. They are featuring Penny Black images and he fits there too. 
The details:
Image: Penny Black
Sentiment: Mark’s Finest Papers
Candies
Ribbon: Stampin Up and that’s the last of it 
Lifestyle Crafts embossing folder
These pieces of scraps were lying there on the table just begging to be used and I heard them and turned them into this wonderful friendship card. Isn’t it wonderful in all it’s orangey tones. I water colored the image with my Peerless water color papers. I was wondering where they had gotten off too. I found them hiding in a drawer with envelopes. Don’t know how or why they got put in there.
I used Simon’s Monday challenge for this card to use FIVE things. I used FIVE shades of orange and fun doing it. This is a small sized card 3.25 by 5.50 and will fit into a standard mailing envelope. Using up some of that embellishment goodness I found at Good Will.
The details:
Home Made paper from Michaels
SU image Sentiment Mark’s Finest Papers
Peerless Water Colors
What a surprise I got in finding that old box of goodies. There’s also lots of Rub-On’s in there. Remember those goodies? I used one for the sentiment on this quick little card that uses the My Favorite Things Sketch Challenge 174. This is one of those smaller cards and I am using up that Kraft paper. 
There’s more, but I’m tired and thinking I need to go and take that third nap for the day. Will I ever get my energy back, I wonder? The coughing wears me out. Thanks for stopping by.
