Bluebird

Another card without too many embellishments.  

I created this for the Virtual Stamp Night at SCS last week to use birds/bird nest.  Hard to tell from my photo but the egg and blue birds have been colored with a copic to match the pale blue cardstock/ribbon.

Hope you are having a great Monday, the little girl and I will be concluding our trip to Disney and driving home today so I anticipate being exhausted when I arrive home.

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Card details:

Stamps: Bluebird from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Trendsetter Blue, Whisper White

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic marker

Embellishemtns: Trendsetter Blue ribbon

GGSC112: Boy Power

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations we are leaving behind the girls from last week and moving on to BOY power.  

I pulled out a few stamped images I had from the Huck Finn set from Artistic Outpost and colored them with my watercolor pen-don't forget that Artistic Outpost also has a referral program each month-this month's theme is TRAVEL.  The sketch is the current SCS Sketch #382 .

Hoping this a masculine looking card and I might be able to use it as a birthday card in the near future.

Want to join us this week at Going Grey with Scrap-Creations?  Just link up directly to your post for BOY power here.

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Card details:

Stamps: Huck Finn from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: My Mind's Eye Be Happy, Sahara Sand, Perfect Little Black Dress, Watercolor Paper

Inks: Bashful Blue, Night of Navy, Sahara Sand, Creamy Caramel, Chocolate Chip 

Embellishments: Antique Brass Hodgepodge Hardware from SU

BC258: For the Birds

Creating just under the wire last night I was able to get my blogger's challenge card done.  "For the Birds"-and I have a ton of these stamps too, most very cutesy looking birds so I went with something a little different this go round.

I created my card using the SC378 sketch and the current color challenge over at The Playdate Cafe Challenge. The color challenge wasn't an easy one, the black, white and splash of BROWN???  Well, hoping that it worked out alright looking on this card although it does look like there's a little bit of a reddish tint, it truly is brown.

I wanted to say thank you to my blog followers who have been sticking around through my sporadic posts.  This is a busy time of the year for sports for us and this weekend we wrap up one sport which will free me up a few nights a week to get back to some stamping.  

Hope you will join us with your bird creations-link directly up to your creation here at Lisa's blog.

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Card details:

Stamps: Bluebird from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: Perfect Little Black Dress, Brown Leather Satchel, Neenah White

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Perfect Little Black Dress

Embellishments: distresser, sponge, flower from Webster's Pages Bloomers

BC240: Color my World

Today over at blogger's challenge is color my world using your favorite colors.  I chose the colors brown, kraft and blue.  Baby blue is one of my all time favorite colors.  

I used the Ephemera Background for my little strip of paper on kraft.  I then stamped my image from Bluebird and mounted on blue, coloring the birds with my copic markers.

I did a little distressing and I did stamp a sentiment although it's very difficult to see in this photo.  

Want to join us for Blogger's Challenge this week?  Just link up at Lisa's blog, we'd love to see what your favorite colors are.

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day.  I'm wiped out as hubby & I went shopping last night and didn't get much sleep.  Hoping that a nap is in my future today.

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Card details:

Stamps: Ephemera Backgrounds, Bluebird from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar, Confetti White, Bashful Blue

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, copic markers

Embellishments: Bashful Blue ribbon, distresser

BC237: Sketch

This week at Blogger's Challenge, Lisa has created a fabulous sketch for us.

I have a treat this week for you visiting, I created 2 cards this week!

 

  

For my first card I used The Play Date Cafe Challenge colors this week for some co-workers.  They asked me to make a few cards for them, and although these cards are not easy to make, I pulled out my favorite set to work with for sympathy cards.

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Card details:

Stamps: Kind Deeds from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Going Grey, You're Such a Gray-cious Host, Confetti White, So Saffron, Blush from Lost & Found by My Mind's Eye

Inks: Going Grey, You're Such a Gray-cious Host, Confetti White, So Saffron

Embellishments: Say Yellow to All Your Fans ribbon

Another super quick and easy card this week for our Blogger's Challenge.  This is one I definitely will use again and again, nice shapes and easy to use with a focal point (and the patterned paper). 

I used this week's colors over at the Splitcoast Color Challenge using Always Artichoke, Bravo Burgundy and More Mustard with dessert: the bird.

Want to join us for Blogger's Challenge?  Just link up here for us to see.  Please no back linking and link directly to your blogger's challenge project.

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Card details:

Stamps: Bluebird from Artistic Outpost, Sentiment Sampler from Paper Smooches

Cardstock: Bravo Burgundy, retired DSP from SU!, More Mustard and Confetti White

Inks: Maroon Maven, Brilliance Galaxy Gold

Embellishments: twill ribbon colored with copic YR23

"Fall"ing with Colors

Yeah for stamping time!  In between football and a baseball tournament I was able to get some stamping in here and there.  Had fun doing some challenges and just stamping in general.

This first card was a very easy card for me.  I had the background already inked up sitting in my pile to use.  I had just swiped some Wild Honey & Antique Linen distress stains across my watercolor paper several times go give a multi-colored effect.  I stamped my image from the Bluebird set directly on the background.  Loved how this turned out!

This card is for the CR84FN challenge to use orange, yellow and brown.  Hard to identify the yellow but is on my background and I layered my focal image on some summer sun cardstock.

Card details:

Stamps: Blue Bird from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: Watercolor paper, Chocolate Chip from SU!, Orange Zest from PTI, Golden Tiara from Clear & Simple Stamps
Inks: Wild Honey & Antique Linen from Tim Holtz Distress Stains, Stephanie Barnard ColorBox Chocolate

Embellishments: Lattice Rectangles from Spellbinders nestabilities, Natural Twine String, button from PTI

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Since I had been working with these colors I also chose to do The Play Date Cafe's 100th Challenge- congrats ladies!   I combined this with Mish's Sketch from 9/13/11 and used the Color Bleed Grid Technique from The Classroom.  Granted mine definitely is not as pretty as Julia's- I have some more playing to do with this technique using a variety of colors.

I used the Feathers set from Clear & Simple Stamps as a more masculine card with these colors.  I swear that is NOT a fingerprint in one of my grids, should have stamped one of the leaves over that.  

Card details:

Stamps: Feathers from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Kraft Like a Rockstar Cream from CSS, Pumpkin Pie from SU!, Mellow patterned paper from Basic Grey

Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Always Artichoke, Copic markers YR14, Y15, G99, Copic Blending Solution

Embellishments: Natural Twine String,Designer Mix Button from CSS

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Hope everyone had a good weekend and your Monday is starting off just right!

Wish you were here postcard

Today I'm posting a card that I created as part of a fundraiser that Jenn Shurkus is doing.  You can read more about the cause and how you can bid here.  This card will be donated to the highest bidder and they will get a lot of wonderful creations from various designers.

I was inspired by a few various things on this card.  The first being Suzanne's wonderful card here where she uses such wonderful techniques to make that awesome background.  I have a lot of those stamps and thought the Postcard stamp from the Ephemeral Backgrounds from Artistic Outpost would be perfect.  I pulled the Color Challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers yesterday and used that as my color choices.

The sentiment and palm tree is one of my favorite traveling sets from Clear & Simple Stamps called Traveller.  I didn't want to overwhelm with color so I sponged on some sand and ocean and used some seam binding to tie it all together, coloring it with my Wild Wasabi ink pad.  I decided to add to the sentiment, but signing it.

Hope you will come back on Sunday to see what I created for Jenn's blog, I will also be reposting this card as it's the one I'm giving away.

Thanks for visiting today!

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Card details:

Stamps: Ephemeral Backgrounds from Artistic Outpost, Traveller from Clear & Simple Stamps

Cardstock: Chocolate Chip, Confetti Cream

Inks: Vintage Photo Distress Ink, Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Trendsetter Blue

Embellishments: seam binding, chocolate chip pen

Chapter 26: Sizin' up a sketch...

 
 
CHAPTER 26: Sizin' up a Sketch...


"The Caterpillar was the first to speak. 

`What size do you want to be?' it asked. 

`Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; `only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.' 

`I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar. 

Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 

`Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar. 

`Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: `three inches is such a wretched height to be.' 

`It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high). 

`But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought of herself, `I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!' 

`You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again..."


Hello!  How is everyone here in Wonderland today?

We are sizing up a GREAT sketch by JEN and the main panel just HAPPENS to be THREE. INCHES. TALL.  :)  Now, of course you don't have to stick to this if your image won't fit, but we didn't want to anger Mr. Caterpillar by saying that Three inches wasn't a respectable height, so here's the sketch:

 

And here are some samples by our AWESOMELY Twisted team.
 
Here is what I created, I wanted to use this image but then after I was working on it realize that it was a little out of proportion to the sketch itself.  I used the Wonderland Collage plate from Artistic Outpost as well as the challenge over at Embellish Magazine which was Quirky, Cutesy, Clean with a color challenge. 

Hope you will join us over at Oh, Alice, we'd love to see what you create using Jen's sketch!
 
Card details:
Stamps: Wonderland Collage from Artistic Outpost
Cardstock: Melon Berry, Sage Shadow, Kraft and Rustic Cream Cardstock
Inks: Dish All the Dirt Brown, Copics
Accessories: Pearl from Kaiser Crafts, button from Clear & Simple Stamps, cream twine, flower cuttlebug die cut, ric rac die from Papertrey Ink

CHAPTER 23: Ravens and Writing Desks...

 

 
CHAPTER 23: Ravens and Writing Desks...

The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this; but all he said was, "Why is a raven like a writing-desk?"
"Come, we shall have some fun now!" thought Alice. "I'm glad they've begun asking riddles. — I believe I can guess that," she added aloud.
"Do you mean that you think you can find out the answer to it?" said the March Hare.
"Exactly so," said Alice.
"Then you should say what you mean," the March Hare went on.
"I do," Alice hastily replied; "at least--at least I mean what I say--that's the same thing, you know."


Hello everyone!


We are ready to FLY with this week's challenge here at Oh, Alice!   


This week, we challenge you to use BIRDS on your card or papercrafting project!   We may never know the answer to the riddle above, but while we're pondering that and life's little mysteries we may as well make a great card or two in the process, right?

 
Hope you will join us this week by adding your to the InLinkz on the Oh, Alice! website.  Can't wait to see what birdyful creations you come up with. 
 

 


My card uses the Play Date Cafe Challenge #39 and Mojo Monday Sketch #148 
with the Wonderland Collage plate from Artistic Outpost.

Alice in Wonderland

Today over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations our challenge is to use Pink, Blue & Yellow and your Basic Grey papers.  I kind of cheated on this and used more of a Blue/Green color and just a "hair" of yellow.

I was browsing my buddy Allison's blog and came across the Little Paper Shop sketch today.  I had a Little Paper Shop digital image, Alice and used her -she's a lot of fun to color.  I combined this sketch with yet another challenge over at Oh, Alice to use swirls-and Little Paper Shop is sponsoring their challenge over there as well.

The sentiment is from the Artistic Outpost set Wonderland Collage and if you click to enlarge the photo you will see I also stamped the turquoise papers with Wallflower background from Clear & Simple Stamps.  Where did I go terribly wrong with this card????  After I was all done with it I got the bright idea to spray some Carribean Blue Glimmer Mist on it and did NOT like the outcome but didn't have time to do another one.

Some embellishments I had to use on here-of course the rolled flower tutorial from Joanne B., I used up some swirly designer rhinestones from Basic Grey.

Hope you will join us over at Going Grey with Scrap-creations-we'd love to see your creations using Yellow, Blue, Pink AND your Basic Grey papers.

Card details:

Stamps: Alice from Little Paper Shop, sentiment from Wonderland Collage from Artistic Outpost

Cardstock: Hibiscus Burst, Tempting Turqoise, Basic Black, Stamper's Select, Basic Grey Euphoria

Inks: Copics, Versafine Onyx Black

Accessories: Basic Grey Designer Rhinestones, Carribean Blue Glimmer Mist, Scalloped punch

Sketch Plus 3

Joanne B. is having a big celebration over on her blog for over half a million hits on her blog and she issued a challenge for some goodies.  I've always loved Joanne's style and her challenges so of course I had to sit down and do her challenge.

She issued us to use the sketch above as well as 3 of the following elements to include on your project:

• gingham
• text printed papers**
• ledger paper
• twill
• kraft paper**
• denim
• stitching**
• bling
• paper piecing

I received Wonderland Collage by Artistic Outpost from Gerrie Johnnic and hadn't inked it up yet, so thought tonight was a good time.  I originally was going to combine it with the Oh, Alice challenge this week and then completely forgot to do any swirls on it.  Oh well!

You probably can't tell from the photo (doesn't help that one of my lights burnt out & I can't figure out how to replace it) by the crown has gold stickles on it.  I stamped the crown image all over my text paper, stitched the bottom of the bashful blue cardstock & added the little sentiment right near the bottom of it.

Hope you have a safe Memorial Day and make sure to thank a Veteran not only tomorrow, but every day!