Better Than Ice Cream

It's Inspiration Week over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog but first let me fill you in on some happenings....right now over at the Little Miss Muffet Stamps shop you can find rubber stamps for 20% and 50% off! Until Sept.15 all Little Miss Muffet brand stamps are 50% off and all non- LMMS products are 20% off! All discounts are applied at check out so you don't have to worry about a coupon code. Head on over to the store HERE to take advantage of this great sale! While you are over there grab a digital freebie called School Elf Pencil, perfect for your back to school cards!

My card today also features another fun deal.....the images on my card are only available by visiting the Simply Cards and Papercraft magazine online HERE. While these ice cream images won't be available on the LMMS site for a few more months you can still find lots of great Polka Dot images in the store HERE.

Don't forget, the LMMS Anything Goes challenge is still open so get your creations in!

Grateful

2 weekends ago I stamped a bunch of images, cut them out with my Scan N Cut and then colored them and set them aside. When I saw the new challenge over at The Paper Players I knew my PI images of a girl raking leaves would be perfect for this sketch.

To create my hill I used Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border dies along with some of their retired Sweater Weather paper. The plaid paper is also Lawn Fawn and I used an MFT die to cut that out. I adhered them together and then cut out some leaves from the hillside paper and popped those up around my girl, like the wind was blowing up leaves around her as she raked. It's perfect for my neck of the woods today, as the wind is whipping and blowing leaves all around.

 I kept the sentiment simple, adding the "grateful", which is from another MFT PI autumn set.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: PI Thankful Friend, PI Jumping for Joy (both MFT)

Paper: Rich Razzleberry (SU), Neenah Solar White, Sweater Weather (Lawn Fawn retired), Perfectly Plaid Fall (Lawn Fawn)

Ink: Rich Razzleberry (SU)

Copics: Y08, Y19

B91, B93, B95, B97

G24, YG63

E23

E37

C3, C5

W2, W4, W6

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15 and 29, Lawn Fawn Stitched Hillside Border, Dimensionals

Batty About You

It's time for a new challenge over at Sunday Stamps and this week Leena has a fun sketch for us!

I decided to go with a Halloween theme and pulled out one of my favorite Pure Innocence stamps, Batty About You. I just love this fun girl all dressed up for Halloween!

After coloring in the image with copics I started going through my stash of paper to find something for Halloween. I found this paper I had gotten in a kit from S.E.I. a few years ago and it was perfect to use with my bat girl. I used a die to cut a circle out of the silver paper, thinking along the lines of the moon at night. I then adhered the circle to the orange paper, which has bats on it, which ties into the bat girl image. For the part on the sketch that has the ribbon I used some black mesh that came with this Halloween kit. I then used dimensionals to pop up the image over the mesh, circle and sentiment banner. 

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 want to see how YOU interpret the sketch!

Happy Fall Y'all

Last weekend I used my Scan N Cut to cut out a bunch of stamped images, and 2 of them were a fun image from Power Poppy's set Feeling Fall. I just adore this image of a boot with leaves in and around it! It reminds me of my daughter with her XtraTuff's (a staple of any good Alaskan) on, walking through the woods on a rainy fall day. I was hoping Hues to Use would come out with some colors I could use on this image this week and wooohooo, the colors were perfect. I love when things work out like that :)

As I sat looking at my colored image I  got stuck on my layout and wasn't sure how I wanted to proceed. I tried a few different things and didn't like anything so I just left the image on my craft desk and walked away, as sometimes that helps my brain jump start. I started to think about the current Freshly Made Sketch and if I could make it work with this image. I came back to my craft desk Weds afternoon and started playing around with papers and it all finally came together. 

After chatting with my 18 yr old son we decided the bottom of the card needed a little something so I added this ribbon I've had in my stash forever and then I called it good :)

For the colors I think I ended up with more of an orange-peach color, and I brought that color in with some of the leaves and then the DSP. The yellow is also colored on the leaves and brought in on the circle DSP. The blue violet is the card base, the boot and the ribbon.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Feeling Fall (Power Poppy), Flannel Plaid (SU retired)

Paper: Vintage Violet (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, Sweater Weather DSP (SU retired)

Ink: Elegant Eggplant (SU), Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: BV01, BV02, BV04, BV13

YR04, YR18

YR21, Y35, YR24

G24, G94

T0, T1, T3

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circles, SU Banner Framelits, Vintage Violet Ribbon (SU retired), Dimensionals

Halloween Fun for LMMS

Happy Thursday! It's been raining most of the month in my neck of the woods and fall is creeping into the landscape....leaves are turning yellow, animals are stocking up on food and our nights are dark again, which means the Northern Lights are back! Since I work nights I'm able to see them when they are out and Tues night I got to watch them for the first time this season!

Since my brain is in fall mode I decided to go with a Halloween card this week for Little Miss Muffet Stamps and I used this fun image called Polka Dot Pals Hauntly. I just love her spider web dress and the bat in her hair. I wanted to do something different for my background so I pulled out my Ken Oliver Color Bursts, something I haven't touched in quite some time. I shook some yellow, orange and green powder onto my card stock, sprayed it with water, did some blotting here and there and then put my heat gun to it to finish it off. I really like how the background came out!

Make sure and head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Stamps blog to see what the rest of the DT created and then play along with our Anything Goes Challenge!

Fangs for Everything

I was playing around with my distress oxide inks the other night and since I knew I wanted to make a Halloween card I tried to go for an outdoor spooky type of scene. I started with Black Soot at the top, then brought in Fossilized Amber and finished the bottom off with Peeled Paint. I was happy with the end product so I then stamped the fence across the front and then added the bats. A nice and easy Halloween card!

Stamps: Frightful Friends (MFT)

Paper: Lucky Limeade (SU retired), Basic Black (SU), Neenah Soloar White

Ink: Distress Oxide Inks, Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

Copics: W2, W4, W6

E00, E02

R46

YR24

Accessories: Cuttlebug, MFT Blueprints 15, White Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Dimensonals

Fall Blessings

Autumn is making it's way into southcentral Alaska. The leaves are starting to turn yellow, fireweed is blooming out and it's leaves are turning red and our days are nice and cool. Since I'm in an autumn frame of mind I decided to make a fall themed card with a set from SugarPea Designs. The set is called Lovely Leaves and it has 3 great sentiments that are perfect for highlighting on a card.

For this card I chose to highlight the sentiment "Fall Blessings". I picked the patterned paper for this card out first and then pulled the colors from it to use on the sentiment panel. I die cut the circle and then stamped the sentiment and leaf images around it for a little extra visual punch. I then popped the circle up with dimensionals. There is no coloring on this card at all, which is unusual for me!

Thanks for stopping by!

Stamps: Lovely Leaves (SPD)

Paper: Cranberry Crisp (SU retired), Neenah Solar White, Warm and Cozy Paper Pad by Jen Hadfield

Ink: Chocolate Chip (SU), Pumpkin Pie (SU), Mossy Meadow (SU retired)

Accessories: Cuttlebug, Nestabilities Circles, Dimensionals