Black-Eyed Susans See the Good

Hello! I finally got around to making a slim-line card that seems to be trending so much now.  I used to make this shape and size of card years ago when I first began making cards on the computer before I began stamping.   I used Power Poppy digital stamps from the Black-Eyed Susan set.  I resized and printed the image and sentiment on heavy white cardstock and colored with Copics.   I love these flowers and mine will soon be blooming in the garden. I inked the edges with a brown marker and simply attached to a Green GKD card stock as the base. 

Challenge:
Creative Confetti Challenge: Change It Up-make a slim-line card to change it up. 

Just Us Girls Challenge: Trend Week #544 Long & Skinny

The Flower Challenge: #46 Summer/Winter.  Featuring Black-eyed Susan a summer flower.

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Friends are Flowers

Hello! It seems that I have been using a lot of digital images lately.  When I used pre-colored images, I feel like I am cheating since they make card making so quick and easy.  For this card, I printed out this Bucket of Sunflowers from Beccy's Place and teamed it with a digital sentiment from Whimsey Stamps.  I trimmed the corners with a corner punch and attached to a dry embossed yellow mat and then to a Purple card base. Finished with a twine bow that I hand made.
Challenges:
Beccy's Place: April challenge -Create a card using a image from Beccy's Place -additional optional element is a flower or foliage challenge. 
Sweet Stampin' Challenge: Bloomin' Wonderful
Artsystamper Digital Challenge: #14 Springtime


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Walking in the Rain

Hello! We have had so much rain this month and also snow.  I decided to make a card with a rainy theme.  I found this digital image from Sparkle and Sprinkle in my files and teamed it up with a digital sentiment from Piece of Heart.  After printing both on a white card stock, I colored the image with Copics.  I decided that I wanted to show a shower of flowers rather than raindrops so I added small die cut flowers (leftovers from a frame die cut).  Used a bright yellow card base.
Thought of my sister when I made this card.....she too has had a lot of rainy days this month in Tennessee.  Guess this is my way to share a walk with her.
Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge: #568 Flowers and/or Showers. Combined both.
Daring Cardmakers: Challenge Umbrella
Love to Scrap Challenge Blog: LTSCB #132 For the girls.
Double D Challenges: Showers and Flowers

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A Girl in the Garden

Hello! Today I have a card for the current challenge #57  at The Library.  The book for this challenge is A Child's Garden of Verses shown below.  I was inspired by the cover layout and colors as well as the picture of the girl.  I treated the cover as if it were a sketch challenge for a card.  I printed out a digital image of a Flower Girl by Inger Harding from my files that I saved in 2010. I colored the image with Copics  and added some glitter gems to the flowers. Cut the image with an oval die and framed with a Yellow frame die cut with Cheery Lynn Swedish Spring Oval die. Finished with a sentiment from Power Poppy stamps die cut with circle dies. Used a  Blue card base. 

Challenges:

As You Like It Challenge: Animals or People-which is your favorite and why?  I like to create cards with people although they are a challenge to color and I like to be challenged. But of course my favorite theme is flowers so I chose to use this flower girl. 

Happy Little Stampers: April Anything Goes With Dies

Love To Scrap Challenge: LTSCB #132 For the Girls

The Paper Players: PP486 Color Challenge.  The bit of green may not fit into challenge? but I do have blues, yellow, and gray.

The Library Challenge: #57 A Child's Garden of Verses

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Easter Cards Continued

 Welcome!  I have more cards to add to the box to send to my Mother's Life Care Center.  And I have a request-can anyone identify the digital image that I used in the cards above? I failed to identify the source of the image in my file.  But I thought it was perfect for Easter cards. I hope I am not infringing on any copyrights.  I printed the design on watercolor paper, inked the edges with a pastel Copics, and attached to an assortment of pastel card bases.  Used printed messages inside. This is an easy and quick card to mass produce if I need more.

These are 2 cards from my stash that I modified to fit the Easter theme and added inside messages. 

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Love My Coffee

Welcome! Hope you have time for a cup of coffee!  I'll tell my DH to pour another one.  My DH is the coffee barista in the house and this cute digi  from Dearie Dolls reminds me of him in a way....but he does not have a moustache.  But he is always ready to serve a cup of hot coffee. 

I printed this colored digital image (never used before) from my stash of images on white card stock.  I added some color to the shoes and skin tones with Copics.   Added some red foil to his kerchief using some quick glue and added glossy accents to the cup and shoes.  Printed the sentiment with Angelface font which I just downloaded. ( Been looking for a hand written script like this and found it.)

Finished the card by inking the edges of the trimmed image with a Black Copic and attaching it to a card base of patterned paper with circles. 

Challenges:

Artsystamper Digital Challenge: #10 Hot Drinks

Use Your Stuff: #392 Circles-I used patterned paper with circles from my stash. 

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using patterned papers. 

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Butterflies Fly Again

Hello! Sometimes I am immediately inspired by a challenge and know at once what I am going to create but other times, it takes awhile to come up with an idea.  I knew at once what I was going to use for the Just Us Girls Photo Inspiration shown below.   It might not be acceptable but I knew that I wanted to recycle some butterflies that were on a card that I had received some time ago.  I carefully removed two  die cut butterflies that were already enhanced with glitter and gemstones and set aside while I created a card for them.  I printed a digital image of orchids (inspired by the JUGS challenge graphic) that I had from Beccy's Place on Ivory Cardstock and colored with Copics and Pencils and stamped a birthday sentiment from Gina K Designs. I attached the image on a card base of the same Ivory CS and adhered the saved butterflies. I drew on the antennas with a black marker.  I am pleased with the results and happy to have found a use for the beautiful butterflies.

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge: Week 556 Take Flight

Beccy's Place Monthly Challenges: January Create a card or paper-craft project using any Beccy's Place image. Used Beccy's Orchid.

613 Avenue Create: Challenge 229 Anything Goes with optional twist Make It Shiny

Just Us Girls Challenge: #520 Photo Inspiration Week

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Snow Bunny

Hello! It's a snowy morning here in Ohio so I thought this would be an appropriate card to post.  I printed the Snow Bunny digi from my stash of Meljens images on white CS and colored the cute image with Copics and a bit of snow with a Snow Marker for texture. Added some stickles to her fuzzy hat and metallic silver to her buttons.  Trimmed the image with a rectangle die and attached to mat of pink CS, layer of striped pattern paper(old SU), and card base of the GKD pink CS. Finished with heat embossed sentiment (old Creative  Clear Stamp) using Silver EP.  I chose this image because of her long scarf. 

Challenges:

Artsystamper Digitals Challenge: #7 Baby It's Cold Outside

Winter Wonderland: Theme is Little Friends

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge #615 Anything Goes

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper

Creative with Stamps: Challenge #46 Scarf

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Christmas Poinsettias

Hello! Baby It's COLD outside! About 9 degrees this morning.  I finished the last of my Calendars that I make for gifts and decided to play with some digital images that I bought from The Artsytamper Shop. I made these Christmas tags using a Poinsettia Image, a sentiment, and a border that I cut from one of the pattern papers all in my purchase.  I printed them on white CS, trimmed the tags,  and added a mat of green card stock.  Finished with red satin ribbon and a touch of gold stickles.

Challenges:

Artsystamper Digitals Challenge: Challenge 6 Wrapping and /or tags. Not these tags would be perfect for this challenge.

Make My Monday Challenge: #111 Anything Christmas

I also created a Christmas card using the Poinsettia image with one of the digital pattern papers in the set.  Started with a Green Card base, added a layer of textured white CS, the a layer of the pattern paper.  I added the colored poinsettia that I printed on white CS and die cut with a circle die.  I added a mat of green CS also die cut with a circle die before attaching to the card ….used a foam circle to give some dimension to the image.  I stamped a Gina K Design sentiment with Versafine Black Ink to finish the card. 

Challenges:

The 12 Months of Christmas: Challenge #60 Anything Christmas wit Optional Twist Layer It Up. Have 5 layers.

Cut It Up: Challenge 189 Create any kind of Christmas Project that uses a die cut.

Use Your Stuff: Challenge #388 It's Christmas Time.

Shopping Our Stash Weekly: #410 Happy Holidays

Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge: Always about using Patterned Paper

Craftyhazelnut's Christmas Challenge: # 468 Anything Christmas -Optional Theme Use Word Merry

Happy Holidays! I love reading your comments. Theresa

Happy Travels

Hello!  I am back as promised with another unused digital image from my files.  This one is by From The Hearts called  Happy Travels.  I am glad to have these lovely digital images in my files as this artist is no longer with us.  I printed the image and sentiment in black ink on Cream Cardstock and colored with Black, Brown, and Cream Copics.  I created the brick background ( inspired by the photo) using my Scor-pal and sponging with DOI Vintage Photo. The brown ink took on a  orangey cast on the cream CS? Added a die cut tag from the cream CS embellished with  stickers and a bit of string. Attached the image to a black card base to finish.   Guess the style of the card leans more to clean and layered even though I gave the luggage a vintage look.
Challenges:
The Card Concept: #121 Adventure Awaits. Second entry.  Just had to use this image of stacked suitcases in a card.
ModSquad Challenge: Use 3 colors Black, Brown, and Cream on a card plus a tag.

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Ready for a Trip

Welcome to a rainy day in the studio!  A couple of challenges brought to mind some digital images that I have never used.  This card uses one of them -the Tiddly Inks image of Suitcases which was a freebie.  I thought it would be perfect for the ModSquad challenge to use only 3 colors black, brown, and cream plus a tag.  All suitcases need some type of tag and most are brown or black??  I printed the image on a cream card stock with black ink of course. I colored the images with Brown and Black Copics and sponged the edges with DOI Antique Oxide and Vintage Photo.  This gave an antique look to the stack of luggage. Added some texture with Glossy Accents to the corners and latches. I die cut a couple of tags in the cream CS and added some stickers from Imaginations (in my stash).  Attached the tags with a Brown Brad.  Also added a sticker to the side of the locker.  Finished with a mat of brown and card base of black, both card stocks from GKD. I would call this Clean and Simple style. 

I'll be back later with another image that I remembered in my digital files.

Challenge:

ModSquad Challenge: Gail asked us to create a card with only 3 colors-black, brown, and cream plus add a tag.

The Card Concept: #121  Adventure Awaits. Inspired by the luggage and colors in the photo. Did not realize that I have use the same image as Susan on the DT until I posted this. 

Happy Little Stampers: October CAS  Challenge Adventure  

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Amazing Pigeon

Hello!  Isn't it amazing all the things author Mo Williams' pigeon does and tries to do like "Driving a Bus"?  I was not familiar with this children's book so had to do a little research on the author and book.  For the challenge at The Library Challenge #40 "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus",  I decided to create  a card featuring a pigeon to send someone amazing.  I was inspired by the colors of the cover and also the speech bubble.  I found  a digital image of a pigeon, printed it on white CS and added more blue to  the color and some coral stripes (inked with DOI Abandoned Coral) to anchor the bird on my one layer card.  Stamped the bubble and sentiment stamps from Jane's Doodles set in Memento Black ink.  Fun to make! 

Challenge:
The Library Challenge: #40 Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #166 One Layer

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Favorite Peonies

Hello!  Glad that you stopped by.  What is your favorite flower?  One of my favorites  is the peony.  I love the beautiful colors, fragrance, and shape of this flower and they are so great for bouquets.....actually one flower looks great in a vase.  I made this card with a Power Poppy digital stamp Peonies printed on White CS and colored with pastel Copics.  I tried to capture a very soft look and used a Patterned Paper from Pink Paisley Color Wash paper pad as the background.  I embossed the paper with Cuttlebug EF Polka Dots before attaching the image that I matted with a Pink circle cut with Spellbinders die.  I only embossed a portion of the paper by using the EF at an angle.  I also inked the edges of the Yellow card base and the Pink circle with Hero Arts White Unicorn ink to soften the color to better match the color wash look of the pattern.  I stamped the Power Poppy sentiment from the Dahlia set with DOI Spin Sugar to finish. DOI Squeezed Lemonade was used to softly ink the edges of the image.

Challenges:

Creative Confetti Challenge: It's Free for All-Create anything you desire with Power Poppy stamps.

The Flower Challenge:  #35 Use your favorite flower. Mine is the Peony. 

As You Like It Challenge: Favorite Flower and Why. Love the shape, colors, smell and the way they grow in my garden.

Cute Card Thursday: Challenge 594 - Circles.  Lot of circles in the polka dots embossing as well as circle dies. 

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Vintage Car

Hello!  This card was made with a digital image that I saved from TLC Creations.   I printed the image on white CS and added some highlights with Silver Metallic Marker. I stamped sentiments from Heartfelt Creations and Flourishes with DOI Vintage Photo. I attached this to a card base of Brown CS.  When my DH saw this, he identified  it as a 1930 Cadillac.  This will be an anniversary card for my DH in October.
Challenges to enter:
 Double D Challenges: Looking Back In Time- 3rd entry
Simon Wednesday Challenge: Simon says Clean and Simple
Alphabet Challenge: V is for Vehicle
Allsorts Challenge: #503 Make It Masculine
Always Fun Challenges: #94 Wedding or Anniversary
The Male Room: Challenge #102 Anything Goes

Note: My DH really knows his Cadillacs. I found this photo on line of  a 1930 Cadillac 

                                      

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Happy 99th Birthday!

 Welcome!  Today I am sharing a special card that I created for my Mother's 99th Birthday that is later this month.  I made a similar card for her a couple years ago and she loved it so I thought I would repeat my design by adding some more candles and also the Happy Birthday song.  I used Photoshop Elements to create the pages with text  and candles and then added dots and strips of glitter paper and used Diamond Stickles for glitter on each of the 99 Candles. That took a bit of time.  The front with 3 candles was attached to a Pink CS and then I attached 8 pages with 12 candles each printed on white CS.  The Happy Birthday song lyrics and music was printed across the bottom of the pages to which I added glitter dots.
The card fits these challenges:
Allsorts Challenge: Week # 502 Milestones with Numbers
Cards In Envy: It's all about the numbers challenge.  This card is less than 1/4", actually 1/8" so it does fit into an envelope.
Make My Monday Challenge: #87 Use Words or Sentiment.
Use Your Stuff: Challenge 342 As Time Goes By. 99 years is a lot of time gone by!
Crafty Catz: #444 Anything Goes with Optional Twist Birthdays

Photos below show the card as it appears opening.

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Santa with Deer

Hello!  Today I have a simple Christmas card made with a digital image from my files....not sure of the source but think it was filed under Prairie Fairy. Colored in red, greens, and browns(Kraft).  GKD sentiment stamped with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink and used card stocks of Kraft, Green, and white.  Love the scene of Santa feeding the baby deer.
Challenges:
Cards in Envy: The Spirit of Christmas. Card depicts the spirit of Christmas giving and fits into envelope.
Double D Challenge: Run, Run, Rudolph.  Just had to enter this cute deer in the challenge.
Color Throwdown : #523 Red, Green, Kraft, and White

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Harvest of Apples

Welcome!  This is a great time for Harvesting Apples....so many choices to choose.  As you see in my card above I have 3 bushels featuring 3 different types of Apples.  I was inspired by the Twofer Card Challenge #10 Harvest to create the cards above using Bushel of Apple stamp (Gina K Design) for a birthday card and another card for Thanksgiving.  I used Gina K Design stamps for the sentiments on the birthday design and  a Mark Finest Papers sentiment on the second.  I used Memento Black Ink for stamping and Copics for coloring.  I had thought I was finished with the harvest card on the right.....just had the apples and sentiment on the strip of dotted paper (shown below).  But when my DH saw it, he said it was not much of a harvest and should have some corn on the card.  So I went back to the drawing board( so to speak) and came up with digital image of corn that I printed in various sizes and colored with Copics to make it colorful Indian corn. Fussy cut and added it to the bushel of apples. 

Challenges:
Twofer Card Challenge: #10 Harvest

Crafty Sentiments: Birthday Challenge

Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes for Birthday

Daring Cardmakers: Apple Day 

Before Corn added

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