Thinking of You

I'm jumping in and playing along with the current sketch at Freshly Made Sketches. A friend needed me to make a card for a male friend of hers battling cancer and so I wanted to keep it simple. The sketch by Jen M. was the perfect thing!

I used the SU set Rustic Retreat and stamped the deer and sentiment in Soft Suede, adding a bit of Mossy Meadow to the grass under the deer. The paper is from the Neutrals DSP pack and I used the wood pattern in Soft Suede and Mossy Meadow. For a little extra visual punch I did some paper piercing around all the edges.

The sketch does call for a square but Jen said we could also go rectangle if we preferred so that's what I did.

Happy Birthday Fish

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

I'm still short on time so I went through my colored images sitting on my desk to see if I had anything that would work for this sketch. I got lucky and had this fish from Power Poppy all colored and ready to go!

I went through my paper stash to find paper that I liked with this image and then I popped the image panel up with dimensionals after I got the card base done. To finish it off I stamped Happy Birthday on a banner and popped that up also.

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!

Great Guy

It's Sunday and it's time for a new challenge over at the Sunday Stamps blog. This week we have a fun sketch from Amy to play with!

For my card I used a great masculine set from Stampin Up called A Good Man. I love the images and sentiments in this set, they are all great, but I tend to gravitate towards this image of  guy relaxing in a beach chair. It reminds me of the vacations we used to take with my dad to the Navy resort in Pacific Beach WA. He'd fly in from CO and we would drive down and spend a few days at the resort, with most of the days spent enjoying the solitude of the beach, as we always had a huge stretch to ourselves. What I wouldn't give to be able to take one more trip there with my dad...

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

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

Reely Great Day

My friend Claire is the host this week over at The Paper Players and she has a fun sketch for everyone to play along with.

I've been playing along with The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge on Instagram and colored up this digital stamp from Power Poppy the other day. Since the oval in the sketch can be any shape I decided to use it for my card. I originally just had the white panel but I didn't like how it looked against the patterned paper so I added the chocolate backing, which made my shape go across the 2 strips a bit more than the sketch calls for.

There is still time to go play so make sure you head on over and check it out!

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!

Friday Fun Hops

Happy Friday! I'm so glad the weekend is finally here. Between a disruption in my sleep schedule this week and some medical issues I am exhausted! I can't wait to catch up on sleep and spend most of the weekend in my Olaf onsie jammas....yep, I proudly wear those!

Another great thing about Friday? It's time for Friday Fun at the Power Poppy blog! You will be blown away by the talent on the blog this week, I mean seriously, these gals are A-MA-ZING!

For my card I used an image I colored the other day as part of The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge on Instagram. The image is from the digital set Hops and Barley but you can also buy a clear set with this image, that one is called O Hoppy Day. I'm not a beer drinker but I know a lot of them and this set is perfect for so many occasions.

One thing I really love about this image is that I can use earth tones to color it, my favorite hues to use. It was really relaxing to color all the green shades on this card! I'm a firm believer that one can never have too much green on their project :)

Are you ready to see what the rest of the team created? Trust me, you will not be disappointed!

Gloria

Stacy

Broni

Christine

Allison

Catherine

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

Playing Catch Up

It's time for me to catch up on the Power Poppy challenges I missed when I couldn't get into my craft room! This card covers 2 challenges....the sketch challenge from May 28th and the Do It for Dad Challenge on June 4th.

For this card I used the new digital set Baseball Vignette. I've really been wanting the clear baseball set PP offers so until I get it this digital set is the perfect thing to have! I printed the image out, cut out the panel with a die cut, colored it, added the polka dot DSP on the bottom half and then added the banner and sentiment off to the middle right. This card would have been perfect for Father's Day but I'm going to make it a birthday card instead!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Baseball Vignette (Power Poppy digital stamp)

Paper: Soft Suede (SU), Poppy Parade (SU), Polka Dot Parade DSP (SU retired), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Marina Mist (SU retired)

Copics: B91, B93, B95

E30, E31, E33, E34, E35

E53, E55

TO, T3

R24, R27

Accessories: Pinkfresh Studio Diagonal Stitched Rectangles, SU Banner Framelits (retired), 1 1/4" circle punch

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

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!!

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

Let's Catch Up

 I had so much fun making a grid card for the Power Poppy Creative Confetti challenge that I decided to make another one. I was going to do a feminine card this time around but ended up using the Leaping Trout digital image instead. I guess with spring showing it's head here in southcentral Alaska and my husband talking about fishing my brain is just kind of stuck on the fishing themed cards!

Like last time I colored the image with copics and then used a die to cut the image into squares. To get them evenly spaced and lined up I used the frame that gets cut to get it all right and then I pull the frame up and toss it. After I adhered the squares I used a silver gel pen to add some sparkle to the belly of the fish and then I printed out my sentiment and adhered that to the bottom of the card.

Thanks for stopping by!

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

Paper: Old Olive (SU), Marina Mist (SU retired), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Printer Ink, Marina Mist (SU retired), Silver Gel Pen

Copics: G21, G24, YG63

R85

B41

B000, B00, B01

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

Moose Scene

I've been playing along with The Daily Marker 30 Day Challenge over on Instagram and I colored up this moose image last night. It's called Moose Scene by DoveArt Studios and this is definitely a scene that you can find in my area! I've seen some  enormous bull moose, especially in Denali National Park.

I kept the card simple and it will be great for a masculine birthday or Fathers Day.

Stamps: Moose Scene (DoveArt Studios)

Paper: Soft Suede (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: E53, E55, E57

E41, E42, E43

YG93, YG95, YG97

G21, G24, G46, G29

G07, G14, YGO3

YG11

Accessories: Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die

Hoppy Birthday

For this card I combined 2 challenges, the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and the Power Poppy Creative Confetti challenge...baby New Year or Father Time.

As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I wanted to use the Hops and Barley set from Power Poppy. I was going to use the clear set O Hoppy Day but the sentiment seemed too small against the hops and barley in the corners. With the digital set I was able to enlarge the sentiment to fit properly against the images.

For the Power Poppy challenge I decided to go with Father Time and make a masculine creation. I don't believe in resolutions and just strive to be a better person each day that I'm lucky enough to wake up so Father Time was a much better fit for me! A nice clean and simple card with a Soft Suede card base seems like the perfect masculine card.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Hops and Barley Digital Stamp Set (Power Poppy)

Paper: Soft Suede (SU), Neenah Solar White

Ink: Memento Tuxedo White

Copics: Y21, YR21, YR23

YG25, G24, G28

YG21, YG23, YG25

Accessories: Avery Elle Wonky Stitches Die

Simple Love for LMMS

It's Inspiration Week at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and this week I'm using one of my favorite digital stamps, Polka Dot Pals Peter. He is part of the ASL series of digital stamps and is making the ASL sign for "I love you".

Since it's a masculine image I used darker colors and patterns and of course my favorite colors, blue and green. I always tend to gravitate towards those colors for masculine cards, I don't know why. My house is pretty much the same way, blues and greens everywhere LOL 

For my layout I used the current sketch from Freshly Made Sketches, such a fun layout!

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

Graduation Boy for LMMS

It's time for a new Anything Goes Challenge over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog, plus there are also some new images being released today! I'm excited because all of the images are boy stamps....I love working with boy images, they are my favorite!

For my card today I am using the new Polka Dot Pals Charlie. Little Miss Muffet Stamps already have a fun female graduation image and now we have a male graduation image, wooohooo! I used the colors for the middle school and high school in my town, which is red and black.

Make sure you head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with us! You can also go HERE in the store to see all of the awesome new images!

Hops and Barley

A new Hues to Use challenge was posted over on the Power Poppy blog yesterday and as soon as I saw the colors I knew exactly what stamp I wanted to use, the Hops and Barley digital set. It's a stamp set I haven't used before but with Father's Day approaching I think it's good for some masculine cards and I love the warm hues of the challenge.

I created 2 cards, slightly changing the positioning of the stamp on each one, plus I used a different sentiment on each card. On the Hoppy Birthday card I used a lightly different green combo for the leaves than on the beer sentiment card. For the birthday card I also used my E40 copic to shade around the leaves and hops...it's a very subtle shading, I was too scared to do anything bolder LOL 

I brought in the maroon shade by coloring in portions of the "Hoppy" and "Beer" letters, plus I used some retired SU Bravo Burgundy for my card base.

Thanks for stopping by!