Fly Guy

Hello friends! I hope everyone has had a good week. Mine went by pretty fast and now I just need to get my lists in order for the chores that need to be done this weekend. My husband has a 3-day weekend so I've got a little honey-do list for him, hehehehe.

Since it's Friday you know what that means.....Friday Fun Day over at the Power Poppy blog! I don't know about you but I love seeing all the projects everyone comes up with, all the ladies just wow me with their creativity

For my card I used one of my favorite digital sets, Fly Guy. My husband loves to fish and in the last few years  has taken up fly fishing. Most of our rivers and lakes are still frozen over but he's already got his fishing gear out and is waiting for something to come open so he can head out. I don't have the patience for fishing but I love to eat the reward :)

Are you ready to go see the amazing projects other Power Poppy team members created? Follow these links to see some awesome creations!

Stacy

Nancy

Allison

Christine

Fathers Day in Green

Happy Sunday! I hope everyone has had a great weekend so far. Mine has been awesome...we've gotten about a foot of new snow since Fri night and it's still falling. This coming week is spring break for the school district I work for so the big snowfall is perfect timing!

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

For my card I switched things up just a tad...I switched the spots for the sentiment and the circle portion of the sketch and since I went for a masculine card I left the ribbon off and instead used a strip of DSP and then added the gears going down across under the sentiment and car. Once again I used my 2 favorite colors, blue and green.

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 how you interpret the sketch!

Happy Father's Day

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this week we have a fun color challenge featuring masculine colors!

I decided to make a Father's Day card featuring a set from SU called Geared Up Garage. I used 5 of the colors from the graphic....the red for the car, the green for the sentiment, the black for the gears,  the darker tan for the card base and then the lighter sand color was used for the background behind the images and sentiment. There was no coloring for this card, just stamp, die cut and place on 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: Geared Up Garage (SU)

Paper: Crumb Cake (SU), Basic Black (SU), Poppy Parade (SU), Whisper White (SU)

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tranquil Tide (SU), Sahara Sand (SU)

Accessories: Garage Gears Thinlets (SU), dimensionals

All Caught Up

All caught up is definitely not me right now LOL I am behind on challenges, my house is a disaster as I get ready to dive into projects and my anxiety is through the roof! I made myself make time to finish this card today though. I've had it colored and ready to put together for a few days, I just needed a little extra push!

The Creative Confetti challenge over at the Power Poppy blog was a sketch last week and I love sketches! I used the digital set Fly Guy for my card and colored it with various copics, then used some patterned paper in my stash to create a Father's Day card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps:Fly Guy (digital set, Power Poppy) Leaping Trout (sentiment,digital set Power Poppy)

Paper: Soft Suede (SU), Neenah Solar White, DCWV The Guy Stack PP

Ink: Old Olive (SU), Soft Suede (SU), Printer Ink

Copics

Accessories: MFT Blueprints 10 and 32, MFT Inside and Out Stitched Circles, dimensionals

One Layer Father's Day

It's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog and this time it's a sketch and I'm the host!

I'm a pretty simple kind of gal when it comes to cards and so with this sketch I was going for a one layer card. I originally planned on doing a big flower in the corner but decided to go with this trout image from Power Poppy instead. This is one of my favorite images to use for masculine cards, especially since my hubby loves to fish and I love to eat the fruits of his labor :)

I lined up the image and sentiment in Word the way I wanted it and then I printed it out and colored it with copics. Nothing fancy, just print and color. I sent the finished card image to my youngest son, who loves to fish just like his dad, and he gave me his approval on the trout!

The DT has some terrific interpretations of the sketch so make sure you head on over to the Sunday Stamps blog to see their creations and then play along with us, I'd love to see how YOU interpret the sketch!!

A Fly Father's Day

 I finally found some time to stamp. I don't know what my problem has been lately, I just have zero creative energy. This weeks Power Poppy Creative Confetti Challenge definitely helped me get motivated though.

This week for Creative Confetti we are asked to create a card using a window pane or grid effect. You can use circles, squares...whatever you want!

I knew exactly what image I wanted to use, the Power Poppy digital stamp Fly Guy. It's probably not an image one would automatically think of for a card like this but hey, that's how I roll LOL

I colored the image and then I used a die I have to cut it into a grid pattern. In her post Julie talked about how scared she was to cut her colored image up and I'm not going to lie, I felt some fear too LOL Thankfully it worked out and I'm really happy with the result!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Fly Guy (Power Poppy digital Stamp), Dad + Me (Lawn Fawn, sentiment), Crackle Paint Background (SU)

Paper: Early Espresso (SU), Old Olive (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Early Espresso (SU), Old Olive (SU), Printer Ink

Copics: YG61, YG63, YG91, YG95

G21, G24, G43, G46

E40, E43, E81

E00, E02

E30, E34

B01

R21

E11, E13, W5

Accessories: MFT Square Grid Cover Up Die, MFT Blueprints 13 and 27

King of the Grill for LMMS

It's Inspiration Week for Little Miss Muffet Stamps and this week I'm highlighting a fun image from the store that would be perfect for Father's Day! It's called Mr. Grill It and is perfect for the man in your life that loves to grill!

My husband loves to cook, and that includes grilling. He has 3 different grills out on our front deck and they all serve a different purpose....just don't ask me what! LOL I am not a fan of cooking so I love the fact that my husband is such a great cook and enjoys it. Even in our cold, dark Alaska winters he is out there grilling and feeding the family. I kept looking at this image in the store and finally said yes, I need to make a card with it! After getting it all colored and put together I've decided I'm going to print a few more out and make some more cards using various color schemes. The image doesn't have to be for Father's Day, it would also work great for a birthday or even a general occasion!

Don't forget, the Anything Goes challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog is still open, so head on over there and play along with us!

Best Dad Ever for Sunday Stamps

Oooops! I didn't realize that I hadn't posted my card for the new Sunday Stamps challenge. I've been pulled in a million directions this last week and my brain is mush!

This week we have a sketch from Heather to play with. As soon as I saw it I thought of the Aprons of Love set from SU. It took a bit to get what I saw in my head onto the paper though, and I don't know if I completely succeeded but it will work.

I created the apron using this fabulous masculine DSP that is in the Occasions catalog, and I also used the same DSP to create the different sections on the sketch. I didn't like that middle panel being completely plain so I used a retired SU folder to bring in some texture.

Make sure to 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 how YOU interpret the sketch!

Fly Guy Fathers Day

There is a new Hues to Use challenge up on the Power Poppy blog and I really love these colors, they are nice and masculine. I sat there for a bit thinking about what set I could use and decided to use the Fly Guy digital set. My husband loves fly fishing and this image always makes me think of him.

The cream color was brought in on the rocks, some of the grass and reflection in the water. The green is the grasses, his clothing and the fish. The brown was used on his waders and hat, rocks and the bottom edges of the grass.

Framed Fathers Day

I played along with the current Power Poppy challenge again, which was to incorporate a frame on your project. For this card I used the Leaping Trout image, it's one of my favorite ones! Hubby was out on the lake about 2 weeks ago as soon as the ice went out but the trout were elusive and he came home empty handed. I'm hoping he has better luck this weekend!

To create the frame I took 2 oval dies, set one inside the other and then ran it through the Cuttlebug. Nice and easy way to get a quick frame! I also used the silver gelly roll pen again to create the iridescent look along the side of the fish.

Stamps: Leaping Trout (Power Poppy), Dad + Me (Sentiment-Lawn Fawn)

Paper: Baja Breeze (SU retired), Old Olive (SU), Neenah Solar White, The Guy Stack from DCWV

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Printer Ink

Copics: G21, G24, YG63

R85

B41

B00, B000

Accessories: Cuttlebug, SU Oval Framelits, MFT Blueprints 15, Spellbinders Ribbon Binders, Silver Gelly Roll Pen

 

Happy Fathers Day

Power Poppy has a monthly challenge and this month there is a choice of 3 sketches to use. I want to use each of them so I am starting with the first sketch and working my way to the other 2.

It was love at first sight with the Leaping Trout digital set. The lake across the street from us has rainbow trout, one of my favorite fish, and hubby and our boys often go out there and try and get me some fish for dinner. The lake is still covered in ice and hubby is counting down the days until it breaks up and he can get out on the lake again to fish.

To get a bit of the iridescent look on the bottom of the fish I used my silver Gelly Roll pen and just made dots along the belly of the fish. Copics were used for the rest of the coloring.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Leaping Trout (Power Poppy)

Paper: Kiwi Kiss (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, DCWV The Man Stack

Ink: Printer Ink

Copics: G21, G24, YG63

R85

B41

B00, B000

C1, C3

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Silver Gelly Roll Pen, SU Banner Framelits

Super Dad

Wow, crafting two days in a row, I better enjoy this while I can LOL

Today's card was made for the current SugarPea Designs Sketch. I used the set My Hero to create my card. This is such a fun set and I know in my house all the boys/men love superhero stuff!

Thanks for stopping by!

You're the Best for Friday Mashup

It's my turn to host the challenge at Friday Mashup and I've got some nature inspired colors....Cajun Craze, Garden Green and Island Indigo (you don't have to use SU colors, use any brand that is close to these shades). I'm also going for a Father's Day theme since Father's Day is next weekend.

I had every intention of doing an outdoor scene with these colors but somehow I gravitated to the set Be the Star instead. I'm not quite sure how that happened but I went with it LOL

I stamped 2 stars from the set, the biggest star in Island Indigo and then the medium size one in Garden Green. I then used the Star Framelits to cut stars out in each of the colors.

The card base is Island Indigo and I embossed a panel of Whisper White with the retired Houndstooth TIEF and adhered my stars to that, popping up the large Island Indigo star over the smaller ones. To finish off the card I took a sentiment from the retired set Best Dad Ever and stamped that in Cajun Craze at the bottom of the card.

Head over to The Friday Mashup blog to see what the rest of the DT came up with and then I hope you'll play along with us!

• Create a project with the colors "Cajun Craze, Island Indigo and Garden Green"
• Create a project with a "Father's Day Theme"
• or Mash it Up! and Create a project with "The challenge colors and a Father's Day theme"

Stamps: Be the Star, Best Dad Ever( sentiment, retired)

Paper: Island Indigo, Cajun Craze, Garden Green, Whisper White

Ink: Island Indigo, Garden Green, Cajun Craze

Accessories: Big Shot, Houndstooth TIEF (retired), Stars Framelits, dimensionals, sponge

Best Dad Ever for Sunday Stamps

This week at Sunday Stamps we have a fun color challenge! The colors might seem intimidating to some but I really think so much can be done with them so let your imaginations fly!

I decided to make a Father's Day card with these colors and grabbed a set I haven't used since getting it when it first came out (bad me!), Wetlands. I love this set and I honestly don't know why I haven't inked it up before.

Using one of the stamps from the Work of Art set I stamped 3 colors to create my beach scene....Lost Lagoon, Coastal Cabana and Basic Gray. The little sandpipers were stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black. The stamped the sentiment in Basic Gray ink on Whisper White and created a banner to place under the little scene. Both panels are popped up with dimensionals. The black background was embossed with the Houndstooth TIEF to get some texture on the card.

I hope you'll stop by the Sunday Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! Remember you can use any colors you have that are similar to the ones in the photo, it doesn't have to be SU.

Stamps: Wetlands, Work of Art, Best Dad Ever(retired)

Paper: Basic Black, Basic Gray, Whisper White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Lost Lagoon, Coastal Cabana, Basic Gray

Accessories: Big Shot, Houndstooth TIEF, dimensionals

Saying Goodbye for Friday Mashup

No, I'm not saying goodbye but our hostess this week at The Friday Mashup is Heidi and she'd like us to show some love to your favorite stamps that are retiring or already retired. 

Is anyone shocked that I'm sad about Walk in the Wild? I love this set and I can't believe SU is retiring it already. It's a good thing that I really only buy sets I love and will use forever on down the line because this moose will still get a lot of use from me!

Heidi also has a great sketch for us this week so I grabbed my card stock and went to work. The base is Coastal Cabana and I very lightly pressed some Versamark on the Hardwoods background stamp and then pressed my card base on the stamp. I didn't want to the Hardwood background to be too dark so just pressed very softly. I then took some paper from the Lullaby DSP, backed it with Baked Brown Sugar and adhered that to my card base. The moose was stamped with Baked Brown Sugar and Pistachio Pudding on Whisper White. The fathers day sentiment is from the retired set Best Dad Ever.

I'm headed to Denali National Park this weekend and I'm hoping to see some moose out and about! Friends have reported caribou along the park road and also a bear so fingers crossed!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup to see what the rest of the team is saying goodbye too and then play along with us!

• Create a project using "the sketch".
• Create a project using "your favorite Retired/Retiring/Forgotten Stamp". 
• or Mash it Up! and create a project using your Favorite Retired Stamp set and the Sketch". 

Stamps: Walk in the Wild, Hardwood, Best Dad Ever(retired)

Paper: Coastal Cabana, Baked Brown Sugar, Whisper White, Lullaby DSP

Ink: Baked Brown Sugar, Pistachio Pudding, Hello Honey, Versamark

Accessories: Misc sequins

Prints for Father's Day

This week at The Friday Mashup Lynda is our hostess and she has a terrific challenge for us! She wants to see projects for Father's Day and while you are doing that, stamp on something other than card stock.

I was stuck on what to stamp on that wasn't card stock and my friend and fellow DT member Holly made some suggestions, one of them being newspaper. I thought, ok, that's something I can handle! We save newspaper throughout the year to use for our grill chimney so I grabbed some and sat down to get to work.

I cut a piece of the newspaper a bit smaller than my card front size and I grabbed the World Map background set and stamped that in Early Espresso on the newspaper. Then I grabbed some Naturals White card stock and stamped the train from the new Travelers set in Early Espresso also. I used a circle die to cut it out and its adhered directly to the newspaper. The Father's Day sentiment from the Teeny Tiny Wishes set. I love that set! The newspaper background is adhered to an Early Espresso card base. I kept the whole thing monochromatic, I really like how it looks.

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out all the great projects from the rest of the design team and then play along with us!

Create a project for "Father's Day or that special guy in your life".

Create a project with "Stamping on anything other than Card Stock".

or Mash it Up! and create a "Father's Day project with Stamping on anything but Card Stock".

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Traveler, World Map, Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Early Espresso, Naturals White, newspaper

Ink: Early Espresso

Accessories: Big Shot, Bitty Banners Framelits, Circle Dies, sponge, dimensionals

Trees and Embossing for Father's Day

This week at The Friday Mashup Sara is our hostess and has a great challenge for us. She wants to see trees on our projects, plus she also wants us to do some embossing, either heat or dry.

I decided to go with dry embossing and used the Woodgrain embossing folder. The image is the stamp from the Look Up to Father set. I hadn't inked it up since I got it a few months ago so this was the perfect time to do that.

My sketch is from Sunday Stamps, and with the strip down the middle I interjected a bit of color, but still tried to keep it masculine looking. The only thing from the sketch I didn't conform too was the placement of the sentiment.

Make sure you head over to both The Friday Mashup and Sunday Stamps to check out both challenges.

1. Create a project with "Trees".
2. Create a project with "Heat or Dry Embossing".
3. Or Mash it up and create a project with "Embossing and Trees".

 

Bear for Father's Day

This card goes with this previous card, for an order I got for Fathers Day. As I stated before the dad receiving these cards grew up here in Alaska and so I wanted to stick with an outdoor theme and the retired SU set "Yukon" was perfect for this use. I grabbed the bear image and used retired DSP called Well Worn. My daughter liked it so much that now she has me making another one, to give to her boyfriends dad!

My layout was actually inspired by the sketch over at the Christmas blog Jingle Belles! I haven't made a Christmas card for the challenge yet but that's next on my list :) Great versatile sketch!

Supplies used(all supplies used SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Yukon, sentiment from Best Dad Ever, Timber Wheel

Paper: River Rock(retired), Confetti Cream (retired), Well Worn DSP (retired)

Ink: Early Espresso, Soft Suede

Accessories: Big Shot, Nestabilities Standard Circles, dimensionals, sponge

Ties for Fathers Day

I received an order for 2 Fathers Day cards and the gal told me to just surprise her, so here is the first one I came up with.

Her significant other grew up here in Alaska so the outdoors has been a big part of his life. I used the retired DSP Woodland Walk for the outdoor colors of green and brown. The ties are perfect for a masculine theme and I stayed with the colors of the paper when coloring in the ties. The brown banner behind the image panel is embossed with a stripes pattern that looks like something you'd find on a tree, I found the strip already in my stash so I just cut it into a banner to fit the card. A simple sentiment finishes the card.

For the card layout I used the sketch from Retro Sketches as inspiration.

Supplies used(all supplies SU unless otherwise noted):

Stamps: Best Dad Ever (retired), Teeny Tiny Wishes

Paper: Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Woodland Walk DSP (retired)

Ink: Garden Green, Wild Wasabi, Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Early Espresso Bakers Twine, Large Oval Punch, non-SU brads, sponge, dimensionals

Pencil Splash for Friday Mashup

Happy Friday! It's the first day of summer vacation here in southcentral Alaska, kids got out of school Thursday! Time to kick back and enjoy the time with my kids...my youngest enters high school this fall and my middle child starts college, time goes by too fast.

I did slow down to get this weeks Friday Mashup done, and this week our challenge comes from Heidi. She wants us to use pencil in our project, and also include a splash of color along with a neutral. I wont lie, the pencil part of the challenge really threw me for a loop and it took me a bit to figure out what I was going to do. I ended up choosing the truck image from the Countryside set(retiring,boo!) and colored it in with pencils, and then used Riding Hood Red to watercolor in other areas of the truck. I sure hope this use of pencil meets what Heidi was looking for!

Make sure you head over to The Friday Mashup blog to check out what the rest of the design team came up with!

1. Create a project using "your choice of a Neutral & a Splash of one Bright Color".
2. Create a project "using a Pencil (regular graphite #2)".
3. Or Mash it Up and create a project "using pencil & your choice of a neutral & a Splash of a Bright Color".