From All of Us

It's Sunday and you know what that means, a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog! Deb has a super fun sketch for us this week.

For my card I pulled out the Party Puffins set from SU. This set is retiring but I won't be hiding it away. Puffins are one of my favorite animals and I always spend hours visiting them in the bird display at the Alaska Sealife Center in Seward.  I'll be using this set for many years to come!

I cut out the rectangles with a die and then popped up my stamped images on them. I stamped the sentiment in blue and then finished it all off with some green twine.

Make sure to head over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see how you interpret the sketch!

Happiest of Birthdays

Happy Sunday! It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun sketch from Heather to play along with!

I always need birthday cards so I decided to make a card using the SU set Happiest of Birthdays. It's nice and simple and right now time is at a premium for me so simple is a good thing!

I used one of my favorite color combos, blue and yellow. One day I wondered why I used this combo so much and one of my best friends pointed out that the Alaska flag is blue and yellow, so I must be carrying the love of my state into my creating. I liked that answer :) No matter what the reason though the yellow and blue makes for such a happy combination!

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we would love to see how you interpret this sketch!

Happy Birthday

TGIF! The week is finally over and my husband and I both took all of next week off. We're going to do 2 road trips...one to head north to Denali National Park and one to head south to the Kenai Peninsula for some fishing. I'm just happy to be getting out and enjoy what I love most, nature!

Another way to enjoy nature is through Power Poppy stamps and some Friday Fun! I'm also playing along with the current Creative Confetti challenge, which is to create a card featuring your favorite flower. That was easy for me, I instantly grabbed a digital stamp I had cut out and waiting on my desk, the image from the Pansies digital set. I adore pansies and violas, they are just such beautiful flowers! The purple and yellow ones are the ones I always grow/buy, I adore how they look in my flower beds and containers. It's funny, I can't stand the color purple except for when it's on a flower, and then to combine it with some yellow? Yes please!!

My layout is from a recent sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. I dry embossed the background and then I heat embossed the sentiment in white on a strip on purple to match the card base. I popped up the pansy image for some added dimension. The sentiment is from the Party Time clear set. I am always in need of birthday cards so that's why I chose this sentiment.

If you love this pansy image it's on sale for $2.49! There are still lots of great sets on sale over at the Power Poppy online store so make sure you go check them out and grab all the ones you don't have :)

Moose Be Your Birthday

I've had this stamp from Gerda Steiner Designs for a bit now and I finally got it inked up over the weekend! How sweet is this guy? I also love this stamp set because it has a cow moose in it! So many moose stamp sets just have a bull moose and people try and turn the bull moose into a girl and I'm like nope, that's not how this works, if it has antlers it's a boy. Bit of a pet peeve of mine!

The layout is from the most recent Sunday Stamps sketch. It was the perfect way to highlight the sentiment as well as the image.

This past Friday I was driving down the street I work on and since I work nights I usually get to see all kinds of moose out and about but this winter they really haven't been seen and so I was mulling that over as I drove home. Well, not more than half a mile down the highway I see a large shape come darting out from the woods on the left of the road and I start trying to bring the Mustang to a stop on the icy, snow covered highway. A beautiful cow moose passed no more than a foot from the front of my car while I had a slight heart attack. All I could think of was if hitting the moose doesn't kill me my husband will for wrecking the Mustang LOL Thankfully both the car and the moose are fine and the universe let me know to be careful what to wish for, oy!

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Shreddin' Birthday for FMS

Happy New Year! My Christmas vacation is coming to an end, I go back to work on Jan.6th, so I'm slowly starting to get back into a crafting routine after being focused on family and Christmas the last few weeks.

For today's card I am playing with the current sketch over at the Freshly Made Sketches blog. I had thought I missed this sketch but because of the holiday it's open longer then usual, woohoo!

I'm a huge lover of the Pure Innocence stamps from My Favorite Things and I recently acquired this older stamp set from 2011. I've been searching for it for a while so I am absolutely thrilled to own it and wanted to get it inked up.

I kept the color scheme pretty toned down, only using bright colors for his snowsuit. Of course I had to use my 2 favorite colors, blue and green. I carried the blue color into the sketch by making the back layer panel the same blue as his snowsuit. I always need male birthday cards so I used the birthday sentiment from the set for my card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: PI Snowboard Boy (MFT)

Paper: Balmy Blue (SU), Blueberry Bushel (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxxedo Black, Blueberry Bushel (SU)

Copics: E50, E51, E53

B23, B24, B26

Y11, YG01, YG05

C1, C3, C5

Accessories: Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Borders, MFT Blueprints 20 and 27, Dimensionals

Beary Happy Birthday

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge for everyone to try!

Like most people this time of year I don't seem to have enough time in the day to accomplish everything I need to do so when I was working on this card I wanted something quick and easy that wouldn't take long to put together. I remembered seeing a similar layout on a card on Instagram (I thought I had saved it but I didn't :( ) and I had the polar bear already colored in my stash so I went to work on the rest of the card.

I die cut the white background piece and then embossed it with a SU folder. The 2 strips of paper were cut with a die from MFT and after stamping the sentiment in blue I placed the 2 scalloped pieces below that and then used dimensionals to pop the polar bear up on the left. I got 4 of the 5 colors on my card! The best part? It took me less than 30 mins to put together, wooohooo!

Head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors!

Hoppy Birthday on Kraft

It's time for a new Creative Confetti Challenge and this week Julie wants us to use kraft colored card stock as the base for an image. I think I've colored on kraft with copics once before so this is only my second time trying it.

I was going to use a Christmas image and go for a rustic look but I decided to use the O Hoppy Day clear stamp set instead, as I thought the image would be a good one to pair with kraft card stock.

I colored my image with copics and then cut out a panel with a die from MFT. I liked the green of the patterned paper against the green of the leaves in the image so I used that as the layer behind the image panel, with kraft card stock as the base of the card. I stamped the sentiment in the upper left and used a green copic to color that in. It was a very quick and easy card to put together, my favorite type of card LOL

Stamps: O Hoppy Day (Power Poppy)

Paper: Crumb Cake (SU), Woodland Walk DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: YG21, YG23, YG25

YG25, G24, G28

Y21, YR21, YR23, YR27

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 15 and 20

Aw Shucks

For today's card I played along with the sketch challenge over at The Paper Players, using an image I colored the other night for The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge.

I used some retired DSP from my hoard, I mean stash, keeping the color in line with what I used to color her clothing. The sentiment was stamped in green and then I cut the ends for a banner look. I popped the image up with dimensonals for some added dimension.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Greener Pastures (MFT)

Paper: Marina Mist (SU retired), Garden Green DSP (SU retired), Cutie Pie DSP (SU retired), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green

Copics: G07, G14, YG03

B91, B95, B97

E70, E71, E74

E0000, E000, E01

E95, E97, E99

N2

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 21, Paper Piercer, Dimensionals

Relax Your Way with Sunday Stamps

It's been a while since I stamped, between work and the flooring project I just could not find the time to get creative. Now that I'm on summer break for a month and we're doing the last section of the floor today I need to play catch up with my stamping!

Today we have a brand new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and it's some fun bold colors that are perfect for summer. I decided to use a new set from the new SU catalog, the set is called A Good Man. I enjoy making masculine cards and am always looking for good sets so I could not pass this one up.

My layout is from the sketch that Heidi had for us on the last Sunday Stamps challenge. I couldn't get into my craft room to get a card made so I wanted to use the sketch in conjunction with today's color challenge.

I used my Stamparatus to position the image and sentiment stamps and I stamped them using Memento Tuxedo Black and Night of Navy. I then used my copics to color the image, using the red, dark blue, light blue and sand color from the graphic. I matted the Whisper White image panel on some Night of Navy and then created a card base using Night of Navy, then a layer of Come Sail Away DSP and a layer of Poppy Parade beneath the image panel. I popped the image panel up for extra dimension. This card would be great for Fathers Day but I'm actually going to make it a birthday card.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors!

Stamps: A Good Man (SU)

Paper: Night of Navy (SU), Poppy Parade (SU), Whisper White (SU), Come Sail Away DSP (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo White, Night of Navy

Copics: B91, B93, B95, B97, B99

R24, R27

W0, W1, W2, W3

E50, E51, E53

Accessories: Stamparatus, Dimensionals

Baseball Birthday

After a bit of a hiatus Mo's Digital Pencil is back with a challenge blog and for the first challenge back it's Anything Goes with an optional theme of 'spring'. 

I'm a baseball fan so for me spring means the start of baseball season, and after the season my football team had I was really looking forward to my baseball team bringing some joy back into my life ROFL The image is called Johnny Baseball and I had him sitting on my desk already colored in blue and gray, otherwise I would have colored him in my teams colors of red and white.

I grabbed some striped DSP because with baseball I always think of pin stripes. I then added a strip of Smoky Slate across the middle of the card to divide the top and bottom. The sentiment was stamped in blue to match the theme and the image is popped up over the middle of the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Johnny Baseball (Mo's Digital Pencil), All Occasion Sentiments (MFT retired)

Paper: Neenah Solar White 110#, Smoky Slate (SU), Pacific Point DSP (SU)

Ink: Printer Ink, Pacific Point (SU)

Copics: B91, B93, B95

T0, T1, T3

E31, E33, E35

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 2, dimensionals

Birthday Piled High with Power Poppy

The current Power Poppy Creative Challenge was posted on Nov.20 and because the hostess Julie K and a fellow Bloomie team member Tosha L had birthdays that day the challenge was to create a birthday card. Nov.20 is also my youngest sons birthday, he turned the big 2-0 this year, no more teenager! It was his first birthday away from home as he moved to OR in Sept, so I think he was feeling just as sad as I was that day. I did get to talk though and that made me happy!

For my card I used the Power Poppy digital stamp Layer Cake. My colors for the cakes were pulled from the DSP I used for the background paper. I did use the sentiment from the set but had to stretch it a bit from it's original form in order to fit the sketch I used. On one card I decided to place a colored frame around the sentiment square and the other one I just left the sentiment square plain.

The layout I used is from the current Freshly Made Sketches challenge. Of course I didn't notice until I was editing my photos that I forgot the strip across the top of the square panel (sigh). You win some, you lose some! Other than that my card follows the sketch.

Birthday Word Search

It's time for a new challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog and there are also some new images this week! One of the new items is this fun Word Search Birthday Sentiment background, which can be paired up with just about any image! I decided to use the Celeste Amberglow Celebrate More image with the new background.

I opened up Microsoft Word and used that to merge the 2 images together. I sized it all to the dimensions I wanted and then I went ahead and printed out the merged image. After printing I used my copics to color in the image and to highlight words from the word search background.

I matted the image panel on to some Daffodil Delight card stock and then I matted that to a card base of Marina Mist. 

Make sure and head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Blog to play along with our Anything Goes Challenge and don't forget to check out all the new images in the shop HERE.

Firing On All Cylinders

We're a Mustang family at my house so as soon as I saw this new stamp from Unity Stamp Co I had to get it. It's of a 1966 Mustang Convertible but I colored it in using our former 1965 Mustang Coupe for inspiration. We belonged to the Kitsap Mustang Club in WA state when we had the '65 and it used to drive hubby crazy when people called the car orange, as the official color was called  Poppy Red. The 66 Mustangs did not have the Poppy Red option so I took creative license when coloring this image :) Besides the '65 we've also owned a 2001 Mustang Convertible, we currently have a 2016 Mustang GT and right before we met hubby had a 1968 Mustang Coupe (my favorite year, I LOVE the '68 Stangs!).

The current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches was the perfect way to use this stamp for the first time! I love the big panel in the sketch that lets you highlight any image you want!

And the inspiration for my card, the 1965 Mustang Coupe we owned when we lived in WA state.

Happy Birthday Greenery

It's time for a new color challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a great color challenge featuring some lovely shades of green. Green is one of my favorite colors so I was happy to see this color palette, and not one with any pink LOL

I originally pulled out the SU set No Bones About It and was going to make a dinosaur card but my brain just couldn't get rolling with that theme. I put that set back on the shelf and pulled out Butterfly Basics. I still wasn't sure what direction I was going to go in so I just stuck my stamps on some blocks and just started stamping. I'm very pleased with the results!

For my 3 shades I used the bright green, the dark green and then the medium brownish gray shade.

Make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us, we'd love to see what you do with these colors!

Birthday for the Doctor

My oldest son turned 24 at the beginning of January and since he is a HUGE Doctor Who fan I decided to make him a birthday card with that theme. I used a stamp set from Kindred Stamps called Time Traveler to create my card, it features lots of great images one can use for a Doctor Who theme. The card was a big hit with my son!

Birthday Geraniums

I'm behind on playing along with different challenges so I'm trying to get them done when I can. I needed to make a birthday card for my stepmom so the color challenge from Power Poppy a few weeks ago was just what I needed, as I pulled out the Geraniums Take Two set from Power Poppy to create my card.

The colors are red, green and pink. The red and green were easy for me to do but I wasn't sure how to bring in the pink. I finally decided to outline the flower image with a pink marker, like the sun was setting and the light was bouncing off the flowers, creating a pink glow (anyone who has ever seen alpenglow will know what I'm talking about, similar look!). My picture isn't the best because I was in a hurry and the lighting sucked but hopefully you get the jist :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Geraniums Take Two, Nice Things to Say (both Power Poppy)

Paper: Neenah Solar White, DCWV The Basics Stack

Ink: Garden Green (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: R05, R08, R24

G09, G16, G19

R30

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Stiched Inside and Out Ovals, dimensionals

Wish Big for LMMS

It's time for Inspiration Week over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I'm highlighting this fun little wizard! I was going to make him the focus of a Halloween card but decided to go along with more of a birthday theme.

This image is called Swings N Slides Wizard and he was colored with copics. To get the hazy appearance around him I used the Toner Gray copics to shade around the image. I cut out a piece of black card stock the same size as the image panel and then set it the opposite corner from the image panel. 

Head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge is still open, so play along with us!

Birthday Asters

On Sunday we had all 3 kids home for Fathers Day but I was still able to get some yard work done and create this card while the kids were busy hanging with dad.

This card is for the Power Poppy June Bug challenge. After seeing Julie Koeber highlight this set on a Hues to Use post I realized I didn't have this digi so I promptly went and bought it. Like all of the Power Poppy images the flowers are so pretty and detailed.

I used a blueish violet for my asters, some light pink and gray for the flowering clover and another shade of pink for the flowering thyme. After cutting out the image with a circle die I popped it up on the card base I had created. I thought this would make a great birthday card so I used a sentiment from another Power Poppy set to create the banner across the circle.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Asters Abuzz (Power Poppy), Tulips in Hobnail Pitcher (sentiment, Power Poppy)

Paper: Blackberry Bliss (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, Wildflowers DSP (SU retired), Old Olive DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: BV01, BV11, V25

Y08, Y18

Y00, Y35

N1, RV52

RV21, RV42

YG09, YG93, YG45

G24, YG63

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Zig Zag Stitch Circles, Hello Honey Ribbon (SU retired), MFT Blueprints 23, Dimensionals

Time to Celebrate

It's Thursday and that means it's time for a new challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog! This week I'm using an image that is perfect for a girls birthday, Polka Dot Pals Opel.

I started with my DSP first and pulled my colors for that. I went through my copics and grabbed the markers that matched the colors I wanted and I used those to color in my image. I then started cutting my papers and put the card together. I didn't like how plain the white card stock looked behind my image so I embossed it with the Cuttlebug Swiss Dots folder. The birthday sentiment is inside the card, I decided to leave a sentiment off the front and just let the image speak for itself.

Make sure you head on over to the LMMS Challenge blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us!

Stamps: PDP Opel (LMMS)

Paper: Cucumber Crush, Neenah Solar White, Cherry on Top DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: E42, E43, E44

C1, W3

G07, Y08, R24

E50, E51, E53

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15, Spellbinders Ovals, Dimensionals

Birthday Boy for LMMS

It's Inspiration Week over at LMMS and this week I'm featuring the image Polka Dot Pals Tenn. I love making boy/masculine cards and this image reminds me a lot of the type of wardrobe you'll find on most guys of all ages here in Alaska........t-shirts and Carhartts and boots!

I have a stack of paper I picked up from JoAnn's called The Boyhood Stack from DCWV and when I saw this particular print I knew it would be perfect for this card and the colors on my young fellow. The layout is from last weeks Freshly Made Sketches.

Make sure and head on over to the LMMS blog to see what the rest of the DT created and don't forget to join in at our Anything Goes challenge!

Stamps: Polka Dot Pals Tenn (LMMS), You're My Hero (SU retired)

Paper: Cajun Craze (SU), Neenah Solar White, The Boyhood Stack (DCWV)

Ink: Cajun Craze

Copics: E97, E99, E37

YG63, G94

E50, E51, E53

E23, E27, E29

N3

Accessories:Dimensionals