fore his 51st

Popping in with a CAS masculine birthday card for our neighbor. He's getting a gift of money from us since he wants to buy a golf bag. Whipped him up this card "fore" his bday.

White card base, a gray sentiment from PTI, a snippet of PP, die cut numbers from MFT and some Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean sponged through a STAMPlorations stencil on top of a circle mask.

BTW, that little golfer is from a set I got at a Marklin train store years ago when I made a canvas for DH. Thank goodness it dawned on me that I had some figures left over. Don't ask how long it took me to find them! Here's the canvas for your enjoyment. Ever sawed a golf ball in half? Tricky business, let me tell you!

And I figured the card was too fun to stuff into an envelope, so I sewed up an old cellophane package and tied it up with some raffia and a teeeee for the whole world to seeeee.

I'm playing at:
Mod Squad - Masculine Birthday
Stempelkueche - #36 Birthday Card
Challenge Up Your Life - #33 Color

Happy Sunday. Any handball fans out there? How about those #badboys eh?!?!?!

STAMPlorations inspiration #58 - mimo

You may have seen this post where I created a card based on a photo from the internet, making it my own ("mimo"). Well, I've decided to challenge myself to do that on my last STAMPlorations inspiration card of the month too.

So today I've taken this image, a surface design by Wendy Kendall and used it to inspire a card where I've paired the blooms from one of Shirley's sets with the butterflies from another. Ready?

Image Source: Wendy Kendall

Used a PP with the subtle pink, blue and yellow (Heidi Swapp) then stamped some blooms from Folk Flowers onto it. Gave their centers a wash of pink watercolor. Heat embossed the butterflies from Winged Things onto scraps of PP that mimicked the figures in the inspiration and fussy cut them.

Added the black lines from Artsy Border Maker to the upper left as a nod to the strings in the inspiration. My sentiment, stamped onto a scrap with a pink watercolor wash, is from Bloom Sketches.

Be sure to have a look at the inspiration cards at the STAMPlorations blog. Leave a comment on the post to be in the running for a GC too. Have a great Sunday.

I'm hooking up at:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Just Add Ink - #296 Just Add Nature

spotlight on CAS

I'm up on the STAMPlorations blog today with a super CAS card in the spotlight. I'll say no more than "Cracker Barrel."

Check it out.

STAMPlorations inspiration #57

More inspiration using STAMPlorations stamps again today. This card was created for this challenge at Rubber Dance.

Pretty easy. Some paint strokes in black and white embossed (from Celebrate Artsy) and then some sentiments from Big Greetings. Doctored the "hello" up with some hand-drawn polka dots and added some enamel dots and a felt heart. Below you can see the card without the felt heart. I think it added the cherry on the top!

Thanks for coming by today. Have a great day! And take a look at the other inspiration projects here.

oldie but goodie

Seems every year around Valentine's Day I pull out this stamp set from Kelly Panacci! Guess you could call it my "go-to". Love the mix of styles in it.

The last challenge (yep, I missed it) at Share Joy had this image which I also remember seeing last year somewhere. I think it's pretty cool. So I went with the LOVE word for Mod Squad - Love is in the Air and colors from ColourQ #325 and my card was born.

Multi-color-heat-embossed, see? After I stamped the large love sentiment tone-on-tone in the corner.

I'm also joining in at House of Cards "Embossing and/or Color". Thanks for stopping by.

hello, beautiful

OK, so no gorgeous guy has ever said (nor will ever say) that to me, but I bet if I sent this card to a friend it would make her feel pretty darn good.

I just love how it all came together.

I wanted to play along at the current challenge saying hello to the new DT over at Little Tangles. And in Mayuri's Crafty class I had just learned about smoooshing with Dylusions (I absolutely love all Dyan's yummy colors. Here I used Postbox, Sunshine and Bubblegum) on an acrylic block. So...

I smooshed a slew of backgrounds. Yes, it's addicting. But less fattening than chocolate. Chose this one and my SSS Summer Garden blooms to pair up. Stamped the pattern as symmetrical as I could and then added the heat embossed sentiment.

The best part? Well, besides those unsmooshed white edges that I now find totally energizing for the design, it's basically one layer!

I'm playing here:
Little Tangles - Hello

Happy Little Stampers - CASE the Designer
SSS Monday - Best Friends
Penny Black and More - One for the Girls

Happy Friday to all!

embossed girly lacy birthday cake

Cray, cray as Tenia would say. I've got a card for nine challenges! I think that's a first. Here she is.

Used my normal creme CS from Folia. Tapped some Frayed Burlap on a block and spritzed it. Smooshed the block onto the CS and got this strange, kinda two-toned blob of browny, pinky color. Don't know if that's a characteristic of Frayed Burlap or what?!? But it was actually perfect cuz it fit my design of creme, pink and kraft perfectly!

I wanted to incorporate the wonky cake from STAMPlorations so decided to heat emboss it onto vellum for a girly feel. Stamped a couple lacy images in pink and brown from an older Viva Decor set. Two-tone heat embossed my sentiment from Party Time and gold heat embossed some splatters I created by first splattering with a glue/water mixture. Added some gold embossing to the bottom edge to match.

Created a funky bow out of lace scrap and gold thread for up top near the stitching and added a PTI heart border snippet too.

I was inspired by all of these challenges:
Addicted to CAS - CAKE

The Challenge #57

House of Cards - Color or Embossing
Happy Little Stampers - Smooshing (although not sure my card fits the bill of clean and simple)

Penny Black and More - One for the Girls
Curtain Call - Girly

Stempelküche - Birthday

Stamp, Ink; Paper - #31 Birthday
Artistic Stamper - Anything Goes

Whew! Thanks for stopping by today.