Color Challenge

     I decided I needed to share this card I made, yesterday.  I found a "new to me" challenge at Your Next Stamp.  I decided on the color challenge #63, which includes some great colors!  They also have a great sketch, if you would like to play along!

     I am loving how this worked out!  All of the right colors!  My blue card stock is an unknown with the designer papers from Bo Bunny, and Molly & Rex.  The sentiment is from Unity Stamp Co.  My die cut bike is unknown, with the flowers being Prima minis with added pearl centers.

     We had a violent storm this morning, with the promise of more to come.  I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend, and thanks for spending a few minutes with me.

A Fun Sketch

     I don't see myself as being great doing sketches.  I Think I need to improve, so I decided to play along at Tuesday Morning Sketches # 400.  Here is the sketch we are asked to use.

Here is what was used:

Papers:  Solids are Cosmo Cricket, Designer paper is Sweet Nectar from K&Co.
Stamps:  Unity Stamp Co.  kit called Ol' Bag of Fun- Leaves, wine, and sentiment
Punches:  SU! flower, and a Marvy daisy.
Ink: Hero Arts Intense Black, Copic Markers, SU! Cucumber Crush
Embellishments:  Sequins

     I do believe I will post this for the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge which is Anything Goes.

     Thanks so much for popping in for a look see.  Have a great end to your week!

Silhouettes

   
     This week we have a challenge, at Double "D" Challenges, that asks us to use silhouettes.  The card I have chosen to share, is made with all leftover scraps on my desk.  The papers are all pieces I had laying and the die cut negative is from the Gina Marie Heron die.  I even had this Thank You stamped and in a pile of leftovers. A scrap of twine and a piece of paper doily finish it off. I hope you enjoy how I used things up!

     I would also like to take this to Pixie's Snippets Playground #277 and #278 .  There you must use snippets, and I think that mission is complete!

     Thanks for stopping by.  I have a busy weekend ahead, as my kids are all coming.  I see lots of cooking, eating and playing with my DGS in my future!  Hope you have a great weekend, also.

Happy Easter!

      Just a quick greeting from me to you!  Hope you have a wonderful Easter, and you don't get a tummy ache from too many jelly beans.  It is to be 85 degrees here with a melting chocolate advisory, LOL!

Don't Lose Hope

     Today I have a card, which I made using another of my Older Gina K. Designs stamp sets.  I have been pulling thing out and giving them some inky love!  This set is called Dream Birds, and was Illustrated by Asela Hopkins.  I also took this time to give my Ranger Oxide Inks a good workout.  Everything they say is true.  You can layer colors drying in between, and they do not get muddy!

     The card started with a white base and then a layer of Chocolate Chip card.  I created my background using Faded Jeans, Iced Spruce, and Fossilized Amber Oxides.  The bird and tree were colored with Copic markers.  I used a few SU! mini star punches and a white gel pen to add a little dimension, and finished by coating the punched stars with Diamond Stickles.

     I would like to take this card over to Addicted To Stamps Challenge #145, which is to use a stamped image and stamped sentiment.

     This will also fit in with the Crop Stop April Challenge- Link Party #27.  Suggested by a comment... thanks!

     Your visit is greatly appreciated, and I hope you will stop by again.

Spring-Easter!

   
     Happy Monday!  After visiting many blogs, there was one challenge that kept popping out at me.  I decided to give it a shot.  It is the Penny Black Saturday Challenge for April.  The theme is Spring-Easter.  Also, I have been trying too use things I have in my stash, and I pulled out a huge collection from My Minds Eye, which was purchased back in my scrapbook days, and used elements from that.

     I love the way the designer papers combined, and the little letters that I was able to spell spring with.  Even the ribbon is from the kit.  My little flowers are from the dollar bin at AC Moore.  My main image was cut with a Gina Marie stitched square die and layered on a sand card stock.  I hit the edges with a bit of tea dye Distress Ink and stamped my adorable hedgie stamp from Penny Black, called Hedgehog Joy.  I colored with Copics and added a background of inked bubble wrap to add texture.

      Here is hoping you enjoy what I have made.  I had real fun making it for you!

Egg-Cellent!

     I have a group of cards which I created for Easter sending,  My peeps and eggs, and daffodil are from an older Gina K. Designs set which was illustrated by Melanie Muenchinger.  It is called Basket Blessings.  My designer papers are from Echo Park's Celebrate Easter pad.  The coloring was done with Copic markers with a splatter of sequins added as embellishments.  I have made more of these, and some have twine bows added at a diagonal.

     I would like to enter these for the Little Red Wagon Challenge #388, which is called Egg-cellent.

     It is a really pretty Palm Sunday, with an expected high of 70 degrees!  Hubby is doing a little fishing with our son, and I am doing a few hours of work, and lots of crafting.  Hope you have a blessed day.

Oh, My Eyes!

     This go-round, the challenge at Double D is Neons/Brights.  I think of how much I love these colors, but am always afraid to use them.  Guess I don't want to scare the few of you that come around, away!  LOL!

   
     Anyway, here is my offering, which includes this pretty piece of digital paper I found in my file, and a deckle edge layer, placed on an orange base.  A stitched circle was cut from water color paper with a die from Gina Marie.  I stamped my fuzzy headed chicken and sentiment from the SU! set called Hey Chick.  I found this gorgeous orange satin ribbon in a box, along with the bright purple twine for my bow.  I added a few iridescent sequins and there you have my my bright, happy chicken card!

     I do believe I will also enter this card at Shopping Our Stash # 297, which is Tie One On, using ribbon and twine, plus cord, seam binding etc..  I have ribbon and twine.

     So much to do this morning, but I hope to get back to do a bit of crafting, later in the day.  Whatever you do on the Saturday, have fun!

What Was I Thinking?

     It's been one of those mornings, but first I will show you my completed card, which is pretty okay.  I used a stamp set oldie but goodie from Gina K. Designs.  It is called Funny Farm, and is from 2010.  My coloring was done with Copic Markers, and the sun was stenciled on using a negative cut from a Lil Inker sun die.  I paper pieced my hills with American Craft pattern paper, then popped up my sheep.  The middle layer of card stock is Neenah ivory.  Oops, I forgot.... two of the hills were cut using a MFT stitched valley die.

     I will be entering this at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, which is Happy Birthday.  Also, I would like to take this over to Creative Corners Challenges which is Farm Friends.

 

     Now on to Darnell's NBUS #11 and April Fools Boo Boo Card!  What was I thinking, indeed?  As much as I love this cute card, what made me think I could get a "RED" Copic in between those tiny barn doors, and  make it work?  I had to be a nutzoid!  Then I think I am going to be the hero, and save the day with a white gel pen... Oh my.....or perhaps it was the micron pen that I tried to straighten the black lines with..... Hence in the top photo we had a nice new paper pieced, blue barn.  The end!..... stop laughing, cause I know you have all done it!

     If you click on the RED barn, you will see what an utter mess I made!

     Have a fantastic Friday!

Using my Snippets!

     I have been trying to think in a different way and when I cut a die, I think about where I place it so I do not waste the negative piece.  Here is an example of what I mean.  When I went to cut the octopus, I made sure I could cut a card front with it in the corner.  I used a digital sentiment on the first card and on the second I used the negative..... (shhhh, it's my son's BD card).

     I have this great pewter metallic card stock and some embossed dot scraps, and lime green scraps, I found in my bin. The little fish are snippets punched with a fantastic punch my dear friend Carol owns.  I sure wish I could find one of those.  What a great way to use up bits!  My first card has a cut out from a Gina Marie stitched square die.

     There is the fun octopus die and fish dies on the son card ... just a wee bit different than the punches.  They are from Memory box, and I think they make great masculine cards, when you need that little extra something to add.  I also found a roll of this cool Washi tape on a recent trip to Tuesday Mornings.  Been trying to use that more, also.  I decided to use the coral stamp out of the SU! set called By the Tide stamped with Unicorn White ink by Hero Arts.

     Well I sure hope you like these.  I will be taking them over to Pixie's Snippets Playground # 275 and 276, where you must use snippets on your creation.  Also to Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge, which is Anything Goes, this week.

     Thanks for the visit.  My Grandson is visiting this weekend, so I had to sneak in here to do a quick post.  He is such a love!