Spring Fever CAS54

Spring fever seems to be all over the challenges this week. Here is my card for the

SCS simple card challenge.

The image is from KLM Digital Designs.

Papers: SU Certain Celery, Orchid Opulence;

PTI White

Ink: Bashful Blue, Certain Celery, Wild Wasabi

Accessories: Copic Markers, Nestabilities, Ribbon, Crystal Effects

Ahh, a day to create

Hello all,
I hope you all had wonderful holidays. I finally decided to take a day to create. I needed to make an anniversary card for my in-laws for today. We had a big party for them this afternoon. A good time was had by all, and a lot more food on top of the holiday goodies. Diet, here I come.
If I stamp I won't eat!

This first card is a Mo Manning image. Her work is simply incredible. I thought this was perfect for an anniversary. There are several challenges out there addressing "NEW".
I decided to use this card. A new chapter in their lives, from a very long book.
See Mo's Challenge here .
For the No Time to Stamp challenge, here, I used a new technique to me, combining Copics and Prismas. I will be doing this more!

Three Clovers Designs challenge #45 was Celebration! 60 years worth!
Papers: SU Always Artichoke, Elegant Eggplant, Old Olive; GP white CS; DP from Provo Craft Scrap Pad
Image: Mo's Digital Pencil
Color/Ink: Copic markers, Prismacolor Pencils, Opalite Golden Mist
Accessories: Cuttlebug, Sizzix dies, MS fern punch. Primas, dimensionsl tape, Nestabilities


This next card was an attempt at combining challenges. The first is Mojo Monday's 119, and the second is SCS Color challenge CC251.
I used an image from KLM Digital Designs, colored with Copics and Prismacolor pencils.
Papers: SU in challenge colors
Accessories: Cuttlebug folder, Nestabilities, assorted letter stamps, SU hat punch, Hero Arts crystals.


Hope you enjoy. Until next time, create with reckless abandon.

Copic technique

This card started out as a SCS challenge, but went in a different direction. Oh, well, I did get to try a neat technique with the Copics. See the dots in the background of the flower? This is so easy to do. I chose the light colors found in the image an dotted them here and there on the background. Then I used the "blending pen". This really is a misnomer, to me. The solution actually pushes the ink away. It leaves some neat voids and lightens colors. Image, KLM Digital Designs; papers, stamped sentiment, word window punch, Stampin'UP; hardware, Nestabilities.

Cards for a Cause

Here she is . . . proud as can be. The is my oldest grandchild (8years). We spent most of yesterday's rainy afternoon and this morning putting together a pile of cards for the Splitcoast challenge "Cards for a Cause." We had a great time working together.  I used many scraps as well as images I had already stamped and colored. What better way to use the materials. I wish I had time to make more. I wonder what next months cause will be. Hope I can carve out some time to make more, along with carving turkey :-)

Fall inspiration

I just got this cute set in the mail and had to try it out. This entire card took about 20 minutes, start to finish. All products are SU. My daughter did the challenge for 2Sketches4U blog . I haven't done any in so long, I decided to do it, too. Sorry the photo is a bit "blah". I was rapidly losing the light!

Stamp: Happy Blessings

Paper: Saffron texture, Artichoke DS, Pumpkin, Whisper White

Accessories: artichoke ribbon, blender pen, markers, Sponge.

How is this for inspiration! The colors this year are certainly impressive. The "leaf peepers" that come this weekend will not be disappointed. Even on cloudy days, the colors are stunning, the best we have had in several years. My opinion!

I decided to do a series of fall cards. I love this season and the SU leaf set With Gratitude.

I used this set and markers to get the            multicolored leaf. Then I cut the image into 

pieces. The green has been stamped with a the same leaf , but in a gold metallic ink. There wasn't enough light to pick up the sheen.

I reassembled the leaf image with a few slices of the green. The ruby red base was sponged with ruby to give the card more depth.

All supplies are Stampin'Up!

Old challenge and new PTI

Well now, senioritis had arrived in a big way! I thought I would be smart and print out lists of some of the SCS color and sketch challenges to go to NH. I had them there and made this first card, but did I write down the sketch? No. I think the color challenge is CC169 and the sketch is SC183. Anyway, it is one of the first scenic images I did with WC Crayons. I'm not sure it is the effect I was looking for. I needed more control than the aqua painter would give and I didn't like the way they worked with the blender pen. I'm still learning!

Recipe: Stamps: SU Canvas, Stampendous Poppies

Paper: Whisper White, Blue Bayou, Soft Sky, Real Red

Ink: same as papers plus black

Accessories: WC Crayons, Ribbon, Pima flower, brads, Millennium fine point pen for the outer doodled frame.

This is the latest PaperTrey challenge. I got this set and promptly loaned it to Kate and never used it myself. I used the color challenge CC171.

It seemed to lend itself well to the mailboxes.

Inside it reads. . . "Hope you feel up to getting the mail soon!"

Recipe: PTI Mailbox Greetings; SU! Canvas

Paper: SU! Kraft, Black, Soft Sky

Ink: SU! real red, celery, versamark, soft sky, going grey, black, cocoa and chocolate chip

Accessories: blender pen, sponge, ribbon, button,

Sakura black glaze pen

Today I need to finish my mother's brag book of the great grands so she can take it with her on vacation. I almost never scrapbook! This will be interesting. . . will share some of it later.

Have a great day.

A New Challenge

Here is a challenge from KWERNERDesignblog 

that my daughter told  me about. She did a great challenge piece so I thought I would try it too. The colors are all SU: soft sky, celery, pumpkin and vanilla. What a great combination! This stamp is from one of my favorite Hostess sets, Garden Silhouettes. I used marker on the stamp then shaded areas with blender and ink. the image was clear embossed and then I sponged over the image with soft sky.

The background is scored then clear embossed with the same image. Ivory ribbon was lined with the markers using the celery and pumpkin.

I apologize for the dull picture. The clouds rolled in faster than I could get this done and I ran out of good light.

Have a great evening.

Lost Post

I lost my homework, really!  I posted these cards last night when I gothome from NH. I should have known better than to try then! I was too tired and obviously forgot something and lost the whole thing! D****! Oh well, I'm up and had coffee and done some cleaning so I guess I'm awake. 

My daughter is inspiring! She is so talented and just knows what to put where. She kept us challenged all weekend so I will have several things to share this week. 

We had a great time and made quite a  mess of her kitchen and dining area. I'll have to share the pictures I took. 

This is a really  simple little card and only took a few minutes to make ( unlike the cherries). It was another SCS challenge. They are really fun. I used all SU papers and inks.  Stamp: Memory Box

   Papers and Ink: SU WhisperWhite, Black, Basic grey, Pomegranate

   Accessories: Cuttlebug, organdy ribbon, Fiskar punch, Hero Arts                                 pearls, blender pen

 This was an exercise in using teeny scraps. The thin 

strips are trimmings from another project. The images were stamped on really small scraps, cut, sponged and layered using dimensionals. Everything here was SU except the little crystal in the corner and the accent dotting, which is hard to see. Anywhere there was a dot I went over it with a Sakura glitter pen.

Stamp: SU, One of a Kind

  PTI, Mixed Messages

Paper and inks:  Not Quite Navy, Bayou Blue, Soft sky, DS               and Texture

Accessories: Sakura glitter pens, Hero Arts crystal,               dimensionals

This is a double challenge at Split Coast.

SC182 and CC132. I had been meaning to do the sketch challenge but was busy with kids. I really like this size and think I will work on some gift sets using this. 

Stamps: PTI, Beautiful Blooms and Mixed Messages

Paper and Inks: SU, WW, Chocolate Chip, Rust texture,

River Rock DS

Accessories: Signo white pen, GG ribbon, Nestabilities, Blender Pen

Challenges and grandchildren

My daughter recently posted a beautiful card on her blog and SCS that was for one of the challenges. I saw the challenge and remembered this little book I made in February of 2003 for my granddaughter. You will see that this book is well loved. I wanted to make an educational book for her using family photos. It has pages for each letter of the alphabet and numbers to 20. She learned to recognize her letters and numbers with this little book. At the time the only materials I had to work with were stickers and my brand new Sizzix machine. (I had to drive 80 miles to a large craft store to get it! Sometimes rural living isn't all it's made out to be!)

Imagine this book now with the room full of supplies I have. I need to make one for the next two babe's using all the new stuff! Wahoo-- inspiration! Here are a few pages of the old work. You really can do fun things with very little.

These are from the number section of the book.

The sad part about this is that I can't keep her this way. She is now approaching 8 going on 18 with the beginnings of all those attitudes of a tween!

I just love to look at the pictures and remember.

I will have to try a more up dated entry for this challenge once school is out. I promise!

Splitcoast challenges

I need to stop this! It's all together too much fun. Needed to burn a personal day at work so I took today and played on Splitcoast and decided to do a few challenges. Who knows, maybe I'll work into the night and do a few more. This was a card sketch. I'm still trying to keep it to scraps and prestamped images. Simple, simple, simple! I went over the image and the squares with the Sakura black glaze pen. It made tihe lines look like leading in a stained glass window. I really like the glaze pens. They add a nice touch without adding metal and weight to a card.

Stamps: Stampendous, Garden Box Set

Paper: Whisper white, Garden Green, DS Saffron, Textured Bashful Blue

Inks: Basic black, saffron, Banana, Caramel,Rust, Red, Bashful blue

Accessories: Corner punch, Sakura black glaze pen, white ribbon, SU markers.

I know I saw these colors listed somewhere. I thought it was a challenge but I couldn't find it. Just gettin' old! This is for my sister-in-laws birthday.

Stamps: SU Baroque Motif ( in the background)

Blooming With Love

It's Your Birthday

Paper: River Rock, Artichoke & DSP, Ruby Red

Ink: Versa, Black, Rust, Artichoke, Ruby Red

Accessories: Ivory grosgrain, Signo White pen, SU marker,

Clear Embossing, dimensionals

I made this for my grandaughter to give to her teacher.

She goes to a great school. They do a really nice job.

Stamps: Lockhart, Pencil Jar

SU, Tart and Tangy

Hero Arts, Bird Branch Alphabet

Image colored with inkpads and blenders

Inks: basic black and many bright colors from SU

Papers: Saffron, Turquoise, Real red

Accessories: Puncges: Scallops giga, mega

SU Scallop and 1 3/8" circle

Cuttlebug and Dots folder

Dimensionals ( behind the apple scallop)

Guess I'll go do some house work and then stamp some more :-)

Have a great evening.