Month: October 2015

  Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is Anything Goes.   This was inspired by a youtube video by Vicky at Clips n Cuts.  She used this technique to “set in” the die cut words by Penny Black.  Background is distress ink.   The snow flake stamp is also by Penny Black and is heat embossed…

Simon Says Monday Challenge is to go back to previous challenges and choose one to make a card.I liked the challenge of using stamps and dies.  My granddaughter said this was her favorite card!She has a Wonder Woman costume.  I tried to represent it with this MFT stamp.  The lasso on the belt was what…

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is to make anything having to do with wrapping.  Perfect for my favorite holiday craft, gift tags!  The shaker portion of the card is made with Paper Smooches die called Retro Arrow with Bo Bunny pattern paper.    The car stamp  and sentiment are from Avery Elle.  The car is embellished…

I made this card for both Paper Smooches Anything Goes Challenge and Simon Says Stamps Monster Challenge .  The pigs are from Paper Smooches Green Acres stamp set.  The houses are from Paper Smooches Bitty Bungalows stamp set.  The layers of hills are from Paper Smooches Waves dies.  The sky and grass are done with…

                  Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is a combination of muted fall colors.I selected this Art Impressions stamp with it’s co-ordinating die called Window of the World.I stamped the image in VersaMark on Watercolor paper and painted the scene with distress markers mixed with water.  The pattern paper…

October is National Breast Cancer Month.  This is for a friend who is on her way to cured!This is for the I Love Sparkle and Shine Challenge. Stamps are all from Paper Smooches.  They are stamped in Memento ink and colored with Copic markers.  Sentiments are stamped in VersaMark and heat embossed with white embossing…

                                   This Christmas Tag is for MFTWSC250 Sketch Challenge. I used a Prima stencil and embossing paste  on the MFT fireplace die and the background behind the fire.  I rubbed  red Viva Decor Inka Gold over the dry embossing paste….

Card #2 from the Prima class mentioned above.  I kept the base of the card as taught in class then changed the rest.  I added color with Prisma watercolor pencils and distress ink painted with water.  Of course, gold had to be added with Inka-Gold and Heidi Swapp Color Shine.   The Thankful is die…

On Saturday I went to Bluemoon Scrapbooking for a class streamed from Delaina Burns from Prima and taught in person by Susan Bossiere.   I added my own spin to the card with Viva Ink-Gold, gold embossed sentiment from Inkadinkado, and gold string.  (Sandy Allnock’s class Go for the Gold magnified my obsession with gold.)Simon…

This really should be a video so you could see how the feet shake on the Action Wobble!This is a really cute Artistic Impressions shaker stamp set.  On this great Me and My Big Ideas  paper it makes a great Halloween card.  The pumpkin could be eliminated and it could be a great birthday card…