Chalkboard

I always liked these stamps but never got the impression on them like I wanted before the MISTI stamping tool, so now that I have it I thought I need to give these stamps another try and I just love the results I got from them now, so I decided to make cards out of both stamps.

Our Daily Bread designs- Chalkboard Birthday/Thank you stamp set
Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence die
Lilybee designs - Head over Heels Paper
Martha Stewart - Flower punch
Candi minis for flower center

Our Daily Bread designs- Chalkboard Birthday/Thank you stamp set
Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence die
Sassafras - Mix and Mend Paper
Martha Stewart - Flower punch
Candi minis for flower center

I don't know how I managed it but I got an eye infection at least that is what the doctor thinks, my eye is swollen and my vision is blurry.  I tried to make an appointment with the eye doctor on base but they won't see retired military anymore so I have to find an off base eye doctor, so I went to my family doctor. He gave me some oral antibiotics and ointment for my eye, no change yet.  It makes doing anything a bummer, especially trying to color anything, it is just like when I had my cataract in that eye.  Praying that my vision comes back after the infection or whatever is going on heals.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by and have a wonderful weekend!

Connie

New Baby

Our Church Music Director and His wife are having a baby boy very soon and we had a baby shower for them. This old stamp set I have had for years is usually my go to but I have never used this one out of the set before.  After coloring it I was trying to figure out what embellishments I could use with it and remembered I had a cattail die that would go with the ones in the stamp, after coloring them up I just wasn't sure about it but I was at the last minute making this so I just went with it.

Cornish Heritage Farms - Baby Dear stamp set, image and sentiment, colored w/ markers
Spellbinders - A2 matting basics A & B dies
Impression Obsession - Cat tails die, colored w/markers

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Super Star

I was in need of another teen boy card, for my great nephew, I like this stamp for teen cards. I have used it a few times so far so I think I have got my $1.50 out of it, I used another set for the banner that I stamped twice and hand cut,  remember those small stamp sets Michaels had a few years back. I wrote his name on the banner.

Studio G - stamped sentiment, colored w/markers
Spellbinders - classic rectangles lg and A2 matting basics A die
Poppystamps - Super stars dies
Crate paper - Party Day paper

Hubby and I went away for a few days down to Echo Bluff State park in Missouri, you can read about it HERE.  The weather was supposed to be in the 70's and we thought it was the perfect time to get away and do some hiking and just enjoying the new park we hadn't been to yet, we had a wonderful time.  We are back to the cold weather but am always thankful for some warm time in the middle of  winter.

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today,

Connie

Shaving cream and stencil

I chose this challenge for last because I was worried it was going to be the most challenging and I think it was the easiest except for the preparation and clean up.  I did them in my kitchen and had a sink filled with soapy water so as soon as I was done with a stencil I just put it straight into the soapy water and cleaned it.

You can see the challenge how to's in THIS VIDEO.

You are to use waterbased reinkers, well I only have one color of waterbased reinker so I was trying to think what I could use, some of the girls suggested watercolor paint. Then I remember that my sparkle pens are waterbased and when you squeeze the barrel it give you drops of the ink. I don't know if this is good for the pens or not but I wanted to give the challenge a try, and it worked!!!

Here are all the backgrounds I did using the stencils.

Here is my first card using the stencil that looks like a quilt block.

The stencil is a square, I applied it to a rectangle piece of paper but I liked just the look of the actual star so I cut it done to a smaller square, I had some extra left over that I cut the sentiment out with,

Spectrum sparkle pens for my ink colors - harvest moon, Olive Jade and Smoked Quartz
TCW - stencil
PPD - mini stitched square and stitched banner dies
Spellbinders - classic square dies
Cardmaking and papercraft magazine - sentiment stamp
Recollections - glitter gem

For my second I went with the sun stencil.

I liked the marble effect it gave to this one especially.

Joggles - Sunshine stencil
Spectrum sparkle pens- Biscuit and Red berry
Spectrum Aquatint - Moonlight
Lawn Fawn - Fancy Scalloped rectangles
SRM - Thinking of you stickers
Craftaroo - clear gems

I hope the challenges this week helped spark your creativity and you can have some play time and try one of them yourself :)

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by,

Connie

Marble 2

I was able to finish two more cards last night using the second set of colors I used using the same technique as in my last post.

I also spritzed this marble background, not sure if I liked the results as well as the last card.  Also I used a lighter sheet of kraft paper that is printed on the other side instead of my lightweight cardstock and I think you don't get as fine as marbling when you use the softer paper, but I do like the way the background came out against the kraft paper, but first the marble background,

Our challenge was to use a stamp on the these but I would like to try it again when I can use diecuts because I have some that I think would look great against the marble. I did some shadow stamping with this stamp, first stamped with black then moved it over and stamped to the left again without reinking, didn't think it showed up as well, so I used some grey ink for my 3rd stamping to the right.
Had to add some butterflies.  My sentiment didn't show up as well as I liked against the grey piece, but it was a sticker and I didn't want to chance things and mess it up.

Stampin up - Of the earth stamp set
Spellbinders - A2 Devine Eloquence Die
Hot off the press - tiny words and phrases stickers
Nuvo Crystal drops - Pale gold
Distress oxides for background - Wild honey, faded jeans and walnut stain

Here are my backgrounds that I made.

Here is my finished card using the crunched up piece.

It just felt antique to me so I once again went with an antique stamp using the same blue as the background onto a piece of Kraft paper that had text onto it.

Tim Holtz - The Journey stamp set
Spellbinders - A2 distressed edges and classic rectangle dies
PPD - Stitched Postage stamp die
Pebbles - Candy dots
Distress oxides for background - Wild honey, faded jeans and walnut stain

Thanks so much for taking out the time to stop by today, hope you are all staying warm that are going through this cold weather snap.  We are to get above freezing later today, YAH!!

Connie