Having a Ducky Day

Welcome back everyone!!!
Today is the 1st Tuesday on the month. The Craft-Dee BowZ designers post on Tuesdays and I usually post on the 1st Tuesday of the month.

This month the sponsor is Robyn's Fetish. They have a great selection of digital images to choose from so I think there is something for everyone. Click here to browse her store

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More is proud to sponsor this challenge.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is

owned by Robyn Weinrib.  Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion.

Robyn’s Fetish Digital Stamps And More is happy to award 3 digital stamps of the winner’s choice to the winner of this challenge.

Seems I am into animals this month so I chose a darling duck to use on my project.

I decided to show a momma and her babies. That's the great thing with digi stamps, you can enlarge or decrease the size to get the look you want. I had a cattails die in my stash and also a die to cut grass, so I was off to make this adorable card.

The bow on todays card is another layered stacked bow. but this one is just 2 layers (loops) but the tails from the band around the card and the tails from the two layers make the bow look bigger.

Lets take a closer look

See, just two loops, but lots of tails, that makes this bow look fluffy and bigger than it really is.

LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE I SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  Digi - Robyn's Fetish Paper/Card Stock: White, Yellow CS, Medium Blue Ink: Copic - various, Memento - Summer Sky Dies Used: Spellbinders - Cattails,Elizabeth Crafts -Outdoor Edges ( Grass), Accessories: Ribbon,  Craft-Dee BowZ  tool, dimensional foam

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

One Stitch At A Time - #267 Anything Goes with Dies  (#68)

Animal Friends Challenge #41 - Summer (#6)

Crafts and Me (M, P1, SIO) August - Anything Goes (#10)

Creative Craft Cottage Challenges #68 Anything Goes (#101)

Creative Craft Cottage Digi Creations  #54 Anything Goes (#12)

Doodle Pantry  #20 - Anything Goes (#4)

The Sisters of Craft August - Always Anything Goes (#11)

World Wide Open Design Team Challenge Always Anything Goes ((#96)

Thanks for stopping by today. I will be back tomorrow with one more post, hope you can stop in.

Christmas Wishes

Hi Everyone and welcome back!!

I thought I'd share with you a Christmas card that is fun to make and really makes a statement.

The die cut tree is attached to give a 3-D look. Cut 3 trees. Score down the center on all trees and fold. Using Glossy Accents, attach the underside of right side of 1st tree to the underside of left side of 2nd tree. Attach the underside of right side of 2nd tree to the underside of the left side of the 3rd tree. Attach the underside of the left side of tree and the underside of the right side of tree on top of the white lattice.(I sure hope this description make sense)

Now your tree has a 3-d effect.

Well I know I don't need to remind you, Halloween will be here Friday and that means Christmas is going to be here before we all know it. (I know you don't want to hear that. LOL) You know that holiday sneaks up on all of us, every year!! Are you getting ready?? Have you started on your cards??

OK get ready for the kids and their begging. See you soon

SUPPLIES USED ON MY PROJECT

Stamps:  JustRite -Christmas Wreath (Sentiment) Paper/Card Stock: White CS, Red CS, Green CS, Gold CS Ink: VersaMark Dies Used: Heartfelt Creations - Banners & Trees (HCD739); Spellbinders - Fancy Tags Three S5-031, Fancy Lattice S5-152 Miscellanous: Gold Embossing Powder, VersaMark, Snowflake Brad, Specturm Noir (Colored the brad), Glossy Accents

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Polkadoodles - No.42 -  Christmas Fun (#63)
• Sister Act Card Challenge - No. 80 - Anything Goes (#71)
• Winter Wonderland  – Gold Christmas (#13)
• Party Time Tuesdays - #186 Anything Goes  (#143)
• Sweet Stamp - # 192  - Anything Goes (#69)
• Through The Craft Room Door - Always Anything Goes (#158)
• Crafty Bloggers Network - (October) Christmas (#138)
• House of Cards - C10 - (October) Punch and/or Die(#131)
• Not Just Cards - Always Anything Goes (#134)
• The Paper Girls -  Anything Goes (#45)
• Penny Black and More –  Get Ahead for Christmas (#125)

Roses

Hi Everyone
Saturday I taught a class at Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland Ohio. My class was a techniques class that focused on using colored pencils to color . I love coloring with colored pencils. Using gamsol and stumps to blend the colors is such an easy way to color and I wanted to teach the students how easy it really is. You can even layer colors which can add additional interest and depth to your image. Have you ever tried coloring that way? If not, give it a try. Let me share with you one of the cards that I used as a class sample.

Here is a closer view of the roses and the coloring.

There are so many coloring agents available today and this is just one of them, one that is such an easy way to color. Try it, you may like it.

Supplies I used:

Stamps - Just Rite Stamps With Sympathy

Pencils - PrismaColor

Gamsol

Glitter

Pearls - Fab Scraps

Spellbinders Die - Octagon 

Punch - Fiskars

Ribbon

Bow Maker - Craft-Dee BowZ

I am submitting my card in the following challenges-

• Challenges 4 Everybody - Challenge #37 Anything Goes (#322)
• Dragonfly Dreams 1st  Challenge Thoughts of Summer (#13)
• Lacy Sunshine -  #24 Digi available.  (2nd Week) Anything Goes (#87)
• One Stitch At A Time - #195 Starting New (#16)
• Robyn`s Fetish - CHALLENGE # 194 - No Pattern Paper/Card Stock only (#16)
• Sunday Stamps - (1st week)- SSC67 It's a pop of Pink (#5)
• The Corrosive Challenges - Challenge #190 (2nd week) New Beginnings (#46)  

I will be back soon, have a great week.

Get Well

Hi Everyone,
Happy Summer!!!! Well I have been busy giving my monthly classes and I also took time to actually take a class over at Scraps Etc.-KY. The class was so great. Karen Burniston was in town and she gave a fabulous class. We made 4 fantastic cards using her easy to use Sizzix dies that she has designed. I will be back in a few days to show you the cards we made.

In the meantime I have also been busy making a few cards for Sparkle N Sprinkle. I want to show you this one in particular.

I designed this card using lots of glitter and some embossing powder. The stamps are on the nicest set, called Swirls (set 497). Love this set

I decided to use glitter as a layering element and after I attached my two designer papers I added a border of 1/2" tape around all four edges of the card. I then covered the tape with glitter. Next I added a trellis piece and layered that on top of the DP.

I stamped the flower, heart and the butterfly using black ink. On the butterfly, I colored it using Spectrum Noir markers and then covered the image with glue and I covered the butterfly with Sparkling Snow glitter.

On the hearts I then traced the black swirls using a glue pen. I covered the glue with Meadow Spark Glitter.

The flower was covered in the center area of the image with VersaMark. Then I covered the VersaMark with  Shimmer EP, tapped off the excess and heat set it.(It's hard to see but its there. LOL)

All of the images were fussy cut and I used dimensional foam to mount the flowers and the hearts.

The sentiment was stamped in the same black ink and I used Spellbinders Labels Three to cut out the sentiment and the bordered piece under the sentiment. 

Here is a review of what I used on this card:

Large Flower, Hearts, Butterfly and Get Well sentiment –Sparkle N Sprinkle stamp set 497Swirls

Adhesives: ¼" Tearific Tape- SAT01, 1/2"  Tearific Tape -SAT04, Brushable Glue - 540, Glue Pen - 053482384809 

Spellbinders Labels Three S4-189 (2^nd & 3^rd smallest dies)

Inks: Memento–Black Tuxedo 712353259003, VersaMark -712353310018 

Glitters: Meadow Spark G1014, Sparkling Snow G1003 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Embossing Powder: Shimmer EP137 from Sparkle N Sprinkle

Other products used:

Cardstock: Designer Papers (DP) 3, White, Yellow, Mint Green

Dimensional foam

Alcohol Ink Markers

Swirl Die

Lattice Die

I am submitting this card in the following fabulous challenges:

• Craft Lovin Challenge Blog - Anything Goes
• Crafty Calendar  Things with Wings
• Paper Creator's Crafts Make it Sparkle
• The Hobby House  Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Add Some Embossing
• Inspire Me Fridays - Anything Goes

For the next day or so I am purging. Simply Said Rubber Stamps in Loveland Ohio, is having a used stamp sale next Saturday and I am bound and determined to get rid of a lot of stuff (to make room for more). So if you are in the area, ya might want to check out her sale, I know there will be some great deals.

Well I hope you have a great week this week. I will be back soon.

Tulips from the Garden

Hi Everyone,
I know spring is just about officially over but I thought you'd enjoy some tulips from the garden. These tulips are in a newer set over at Sparkle N Sprinkle. Aren't they lonely!!! They're in set 491.

I used a 6"X 6" white card and embossed it using Spellbinders Embossing Folder – Flora EL-009.

I stamped the tulips on white cs and colored them with my Spectrum Noir markers. Next I fussy cut them out  and mounted them on a green mottled card stock cut with the Spellbinders Spellbinders Beaded Squares – S4-315. I also cut orange cs using the beaded squares die. I added glitters to the beaded shapes on the cut outs, and to some of the embossed areas on the card. Next I added a bow made by using the Craft-Dee BowZ tool.

Products used:

Tulips – Set 491 - Sparkle N Sprinkle

Spellbinders Beaded Squares – S4-315

Spellbinders Embossing Folder – Flora EL-009

Glitters: Sparkling Snow G1003, Parisian Mist G1037, Orange Surprise G1010- Sparkle N Sprinkle

Card stock: White CS, Orange, Light Green Patterned  CS,

Martha Stewart Twig Punch

Spectrum Noir Markers

Ribbon

Bow Maker Tool - Craft-Dee BowZ

Submitted to the following challenges:

• 4Crafty Chicks  - Flowers
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - Anything goes
• Inkspirational  - Colors
• Paper Shelter Challenge - Flower
• Rhedd & Rosie's Challenge Blog - Ribbons and Lace
• Bearly Mine Challenges  Dies and/or Punches
• Creative Card Crew - Punches/Dies
• Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - From the Garden
• Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes 
• Papertake Weekly  - Anything Goes    

Thank for stopping in today!!! I'll be back soon

Happy Birthday Linda

Hi Everyone
Just a quick post to share with you a card that I made yesterday to give to one of my dearest friends, Linda.

Her birthday was Saturday and in her honor I made one of these cool book cards. She  really liked this.She was so surprised when I gave her the card.

Here is the card closed. I used designer paper and added a spine cover to the book and had it come over onto the front of the card/book cover. I  had embossed it and then used white ink to show off the embossed design.

Here is the card opened.

Here is a close up of the verse on the inside cover.

This is a shot of the card open to the inside. I love the way this side has a recessed area, it enables you to showcase a few things in this spot.

I just used some spare flowers I had in my stash and I had the this rosette but since it was round it needed to be smaller to fit better, so I just cut it in half to fit it inside the opening. I used a Hero Arts  happy birthday stamp and it fit perfectly on the Spellbinders Banner. 

Hope you enjoyed this card book. Stop in on Monday, I have something new from Sparkle N Sprinkle to show you.

Hope to see you then

Courage Strength and the Tiger

Hi Everyone,
Sparkle N Sprinkle just recently introduced a new stamp set. It's set 466 Wild Cats. And I particularly love this set because I have always loved cats, wild or domestic. I have 3 tabbies right now, one looks like Morris the Cat.

Anyway, I have had this set on my work table and have just got to it. (I am digging out) I worked this up last night and thought I'd share this with you.

The designer paper I used has that African tree already on it and it just adds to the African flavor of this card, don't you think??!!?

Here are the elements I used in designing this card:

Tiger 3657-466K

Courage Set of 4 3656-466H

Spellbinders Dies- Classic Circles S4-116

¼” Tear-ific Tape   SAT01

Black Detail EP  EP171

Copic Markers – COPICA1 – G21, R81

VersaMark Ink – 99702

Sponge Daubers - 99450

All of the above products are available at the Sparkle N Sprinkle online store, just click here to go there.

Other products used:

Card stock/Paper: Cream CS, Brown CS, Designer Paper

Fresco Dye Ink – Tuscan Earth

Gold Leaf Pen

Well that is it for today, have a great week

Cornish Heritage Farms Challenge

Hi Everyone

It's time for the next CHF challenge. This challenge is being hosted by ubber talented Cindy. The theme she decided on is Pearls and Lace. I personally love pearls, I usually am always wearing a pearl. 

With that theme in mind here is what I decided on:

I used the sweetest digi stamp 450R Fairy Dance

She is so cute.

I used Copic Markers and non smear chalks to color the image and the background.

The swirls are cut from a Sizzix die and I added pearls from Fab Scraps. 

The bling  is from Recollections.

All of the die cuts are from Spellbinders.

The lace is from - unknown

Background is embossed

We'd love for you to play along

If you would like to play along with us of course we would love to have you! AND - if you do, you could win a $10 Gift Certificate and a Winner's Badge to put on your Blog!

To play create a card using CHF images. You can use either CHF digi or rubber stamps to create a card or project.... anything you like as long as the stamps are Cornish Heritage Farms. (Yes, they can be older stamps.) 

Once you have created your card/project go to the CHF blog and place a comment with a link to your card/project to this post so that we can see what you created. If you upload your card/project to SCS don't forget to include the keyword CHF03. We can't wait to see what you create! 

Don't forget to check out the Cornish Heritage Farms Design Team's card on their blogs. 

• Anne Harmon
• Barb Gmitro-Best
• Barbara Bruder
• Cindy Haffner
• Dawn Bennett
• Debbie Standard
• Deneen Treble
• Dianne Beans
• Frances Byrne
• Holly Brown
• Jacqueline Smith
• Kris Chirhart
• Kristine Reynolds
• Lisa Silver
• Michele L
• Petra Amico
• Silke Kittmann
• Steph Ackerman
• Vicki Davis

Thanks for stopping in today.

Celebrate

Hi Everyone
I am so glad you've stopped in today. I have a fun card to share with you. Today's theme over at the Art Impressions weekly challenge is a Circle Card. And on top of that, the postman delivered me some new Art Impressions stamps today, perfect timing!!! I knew what kind of a card I wanted to do and when I looked at the new stamps, I envisioned which stamps I thought would be perfect for that round card. I selected the Party Girls because of the balloons, it just fit with the round card theme.

Here is the card opened

The girlfriends are having a blast and I just added some more balloons to add to the party look. I added bakers twine to the balloon bottoms so they could hold on to the balloons. LOL.  The sentiment is sitting on a tag cut from the Spellbinders Fancy Tags Die. I actually extended the die to allow the sentiment to fit. Also, since there is a large area of white space, I added my squiggles to that white background using a glue pen and covered that with Sparkling Snow Glitter. That just adds to the party atmosphere. LOL

Stamps - Art Impressions - Party Girl Set - 4131

Glue Pen

Glitter - Sparkle N Sprinkle G1003

Spellbinders Dies - Fancy Tags  S4-235, Grand Circles LF 114

Copic Markers - E57, E33, E000,YR68, YR61, YR04, R29, RV13, RV14, BV000, V09, Y06, Y17, YG06, YG41,  100, C-5

Bakers Twine

Card stock - Lt. Purple, Dk. Purple, White CS

Ink - India In Black

Well hope you had fun at the party the girlfriends are hosting.

Have a great day, see you soon.

Anything New

Hi Everyone,

Today for Art Impressions I thought I'd go country and visit the Bird-Brains group. They are so funny, aren't they. Well, as I assembled this card, I thought I'd use some things that you usually don't see with these birds, like glitter and ribbon ?? !!! Can you just picture hens and glitter and ribbon. LOL

OK, here you go....... hens, ribbon, and glitter

Too funny!!!

Supplies used:

Art Impressions Stamps  Oh Look  L1835, Anything New D1860

Card stock - Yellow CS White CS, Brown CS

Ink used - India Ink Black

Die used -Spellbinders Ironwork Accents S5-058

MS Punch

Ribbon

Glitter

OK now this hen is more "uptown" so to speak. LOL

Well I have multiple posts tomorrow too, so, I hope you check them all out.

See you soon,

Barbara

Easter message

Welcome to Wednesday!!!

Do you believe it, this month is almost over and we are less than two weeks away from Easter!! I am so amazed at how fast time is going. Speaking of Easter, I have another Easter card for you. I love Easter lilies and I decided that I had to use this stamp for this Easter card, although I could use it after Easter as well.

OK check out that trellis looking light pink accent behind the lily, I made it using a Martha Stewart border punch. Yep I did and coming soon will be a pictorial how to. That darker pink panel was made using a Spellbinder M-bossibilities folder. That was one of the goodies that I won from Spellbinders back in January. I have to tell you that those folders are AWESOME.What a great idea, embossing designs on both sides of the folder. duh!!

Supplies used:
Art Impressions Stamps - Easter Lilies  L4022, Easter Message  F1420
Spellbinders Die - Crown Ovals S4-303
Spellbinders M-bossibilities folder - Nobility ES-002
Ink- India Ink Black, Fresco Florentine Rose
Copic Markers- BV00, Y17, G21
Paper/Cardstock - Green cs, designer papers
Pearls

Thanks for stopping in today. I will be back tomorrow with my design based on the Art Impressions Weekly Challenge. Hope to see you then.

Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone
Today is Thursday and I want to show you the card I made in this weeks theme for the Art Impressions weekly challenge.

The theme this week is monochromatic and I decided to use a pink color.

The stamps I used are from Art Impressions. Looks like the lady is wearing her Easter hat.

Supplies used:

Art Impressions stamps - Helene G2522, Happy Birthday E597

Cheerie Lynn Die - Lattice Die

Spellbinders - Lace Doily Motif  S5-063, Lace Doily Accents S5-062,  Classic Circle S4-114

Cardstock/Paper - Pink CS, Med. Pink CS, Designer paper

Ink used - India Ink Black

Ribbon

Thanks for stopping in today

Warmer Easter Wishes

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to Wednesday!!!  Have you been out getting the Easter candy?? Or maybe getting an Easter outfit?? I love all the soft pastels that are out at this time of the year.

I just got some new stamps from Art Impressions and since they are Easter themed, I will be showing these off in my next few Wednesday posts. Hope the cards inspire you and give you some great ideas.

This card is using a new set called Kate - set 4118. And this bunny is sooooo cute. the set even comes with a seperate little pinafore stamp as well. I stamped the rabbit on white cs and colored the rabbit with Copics. Next I stamped the little jacket part of the stamp on a small piece of designer paper and I stamped the dress part of the stamp on another designer paper. I trimmed the dress, jacket and the rabbit out and layered them all together. It was like playing with paper dolls. I remember how fun that was when I was a kid. Next, I added the matching bow in her hair, or should I say fur. Then I added the glitz. The background  I used is an embossing folder and I colored it with distress inks. Lastly I added a pastel yellow bow, punched a few corners and added the sentiment and the card is done.

Supplies used:
Kate set - 4118
Copic markers - E57, E71, R81
Cardstock/Paper - White CS, peachy pink cs, designer papers (3 different ones)
Embossing Folder - Sizzix
Spellbinders Die - Labels Sixteen  S4-301
Punch for corners
Inks - Versafine black, Distress inks scattered straw, victorian velvet
Ribbon

Tomorrow I will have 2 posts. I will have the card for next week's Art Impressions weekly challenge and I will have a post for the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop. Please stop back for both posts I would love to see you again.

Got Eggs

Welcome to Wednesday!!!
I love this cute chubby bunny over at Art Impressions.He looks like he is handing out Easter eggs to all. Great for your Easter card or in a scrapbook layout showing kids on that Easter egg hunt in the back yard.

Supplies used:

Chubby Bunny - T4020

Got Eggs - D4015

embossing folders (3)

embossing powder - Sparkle N Sprinkle Shimmer EP - EP137 (on eggs to give them glittery effect)

ribbon

copic markers - RV21, RV13, V12,V09, R81, R00, E43, E51, G21, G82, YG03, Y08,Y11, B32, C-0, C-2.

Egg Die - Nested Eggs S4-264 Spellbinders

Still need to make your Easter cards??  Still looking for that perfect stamp?You might want to check out the Art Impressions 2012 Easter Series for a great selection.

I get a lot of great comments on my bows. Most of my bows are made using Craft-Dee Bowz maker. Easy to use (trust me when I say that). Tell Donna Barbara sent ya, if you order one.

Thanks for stopping in today. Stop in tomorrow for my next Art Impressions weekly challenge card.