Happy Little Stampers February Watercolour Challenge

Hello and welcome!  Today's card is my DT card for the new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge.  It's Anything Goes with an optional twist of hearts!

Hope you find some time to enter this month and be eligible for the awesome $20 prize!  Check it out HERE!

I water colored a large piece of Strathmore watercolor paper and cut it down to A2 card size (4.25" by 5.5") then used the Simon Says Stamp "Heart Breeze" die to cut the heart pattern out.  I saved all those little hearts for another project that I will post in a few days!  I used Joy Clair "Music Maker" stamp set for the sentiments and the piano keyboard border.  I love this stamp set - probably because my career was music!  It has some of the neatest music images and I just love it!  I added a tiny strip of black card stock at the bottom of the piano keyboard to give it a little more definition.  I backed the watercolor paper with black card stock and then filled in the tiny holes with Nuvo glitter drops for some shine.  They actually look like little diamonds when the light hits it.  You can't really see it in the picture.  The sentiment is so perfect for this month:  "Love, You make my Soul Sing."  So pretty and I love the font too!  Lastly I adhered it to a Gina K Designs card base and rounded the right side corners.

Thank you for stopping by!  I hope you can stop by the HLS Watercolor Challenge and look around, and be inspired to enter this month!  Have a great rest of your week and upcoming weekend!

I will enter this in:

Rubbernecker Challenge #26
Stamp Ink and Paper Challenge #135
Shopping Our Stash Challenge #339
City Crafters Challenge #397

  
 

I Love You with Wild Hibiscus

Hello and welcome!  Here's my second card for today - so happy to have craft time today!

I made this card with a few challenges in mind.  I used Altenew's "Wild Hibiscus" stamp set and stamped the leaves and flowers in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored them with colored pencils.  I fussy cut them out and added the to a card base that I had splattered with dark grey paint.  Some are popped up on foam and others are flat  I tucked in the heat embossed sentiment from Hero Arts "Hello Stamp and Cut" set and then added black enamel accents to the center of the flowers.  Once it dried I added white dots with a gel pen.

Here's a closer view:

I will enter this in:

Your Next Stamp Color Challenge #81
I used pink, greens and grays

and in the:

Inspired by All the Little Things Challenge #78
(I was inspired by the flowers and love theme.)


CAS on Friday (Use markers/pencils on your card) Challenge #125

Doggone It!

Hello and welcome!  I was so happy to find time to craft today.  I've been busy the last 4 days with the Texas Private School Music Educators Association's All-State Clinic and Convention.

I love my music, but I really missed my craft room, so boy was I happy to get back to it!

I made this card with Your Next Stamp's  "I Ruff You" stamp set and stamped the images in Memento Tuxedo Black ink, then colored them with colored pencils.  I masked off a rectangle then used an inking tool with Distress inks in blues and greens to add a frame around the image.  This way I followed the sketch over at the YNS Challenge listed below.  Lastly I added googly eyes!

Here's a closer view:

I will enter this in:

Tuesday Throwdown #376 Challenge

Your Next Stamp Challenge #81

Just Us Girls Photo Inspiration Challenge #425

Hello and welcome!  

There's a new challenge starting today at Just Us Girls - it's Photo Inspiration week hosted by Maria!
Challenge #425

Hop on over the the JUGS blog and see what our guest designer Cathy and the rest of the JUGS DT have put together for your inspiration!

I was inspired by the striped carpet, the colors and the time piece for my card.  I used Distress Inks and blended them for my background, then took a Tim Holtz striped stencil and used it along with a baby wipe to remove some of the ink.  I did it both horizontally and vertically - you can see it better in the picture below:

Then I stamped stamps from the Joy Clair's "In God's Time" stamp set.
I added sparkle pen to the watch face and put striped washi tape on the bottom.  I splattered the panel with a mixture of water and gold Perfect Pearls for more shine, then cut the panel out with a stitched rectangle die from MFT.  I added it to a white card base and added some black enamel accents.

A quick and easy card for someone who could really use a pick me up right now!

Hope you will find time to enter the Just Us Girls challenge this week!  Click HERE!

Can't wait to see what you come up with!
Thanks for stopping by!

Joy Clair Praise the Lord Stamp set - Bible Journaling

Hello and welcome!  I'm here today featuring this brand new set from Joy Clair's latest release!

It's called "Praise the Lord" and it's filled with great stamps to use for both Bible journaling and cards.

Here's how I created my page:

1)  First stamp the hands from the stamp set across the bottom of page, then I add music washi tape to the top and bottom.

2)  Next, put thin black strips of black card stock to outline the washi tape. 

3)  Stamp the sentiments from the set in random places on the page.

4)  Color letter with glitter pens in rainbow order.

5)  Add clear Gelly Roll glitter pen to the shadows of the letters.

6) Put rainbow washi tape on page edge and outline with black card stock.  Die cut lots of colors of music heart notes and stacked them off set in 3 places on the page.  (The die is from Casual Fridays.)  Place just the red heart/notes without stems around the page.  Highlight and frame the text.

Here's my finished project:

This is one of my favorite sets ever!  Being a music teacher over the years, I've heard many a "joyful noise" from students - some wonderful and and some not so wonderful - haha!  But always with the intention to help them improve their noises - until they are extremely JOYFUL!   

I love the phrase "Make a Joyful Noise" - it's one of my favs EVER!

This set, Joy Clair's Praise the Lord,  is so uplifting and I'm sure I will be using it a lot!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope you will make joyful noises too!

 

Celebrate your Birthday!

Hello and welcome!

I worked on this card today with several challenges in mind:

MFT Birthday Project January Challenge

and the MFT Color Challenge #85

Shopping Our Stash #338



City Crafter Challenge Week #396



Addicted to CAS #128 Challenge

I took MFT inks and inked a piece of white card stock, then cut the MFT Celebrate die from it and from a piece of black card stock.  I layered those 2 together.  Then I cut some balloons from white and black card stock with dies from my stash and colored the white ones with markers before layering them.  I added the same MFT inks to the top and bottom of the card base and trimmed the balloon panel on the top and bottom.  After adhering the card together, I added sparkle pen, white gel pen and Glossy Accents on the balloons.  I am working hard to build my stash of bday cards and I'm thankful to have challenges to inspire me to try different things!

Here's a closer view:

Thanks so much for stopping by!

2nd Kraft Watercolored Bday card

This is one of the cards from my last post.  I am listing this card in a separate post here, so I can also enter it in the CAS watercolor Challenge - details on how it was made are HERE.

Watercolored Kraft Birthday Cards

Hello and welcome!

I had a little time to create today in the cave and I made more birthday cards for my stash. 

Here's how I made them:

I took a piece of kraft card stock and watercolored it with Distress Inks.  After it dried, I used Memory Box's "Pennington Rose" die to cut some from the kraft and cut from white and black too.

I pieced together the flower dies and came up with color combinations that I liked, then used Memory Box's "Stitched Rectangle Dies" to cut more of the watercolored paper.  I stamped the sentiment "Happy Birthday" from Altenew's "Persian Motifs" stamp set.  I added the larger rectangle to a white card base.  I cut the front of the card on the right side and on the bottom and glued a piece of Gina K Designs striped patterned paper so it would peek out on the bottom and right side.  For my other card pieced the watercolored rose in the white card negative space, added the black outline of the flower and added a thin strip of the watercolored paper to the bottom to anchor the card a little more.

Lastly I added clear Nuvo drops to finish both cards.

Here's a close up of each card:

I hope you like my watercolored kraft card stock creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I will enter this in:

CAS Watercolor January Challenge
Just Add Ink Something New Challenge #392
(my new thing is watercoloring on kraft card stock)
Die Cut Divas Challenge Use Something New
Brown Sugar Challenge #274