HB2U - For the Boys

Hey friends - how are you? I'm doing good, our company returns to the office June 1; here's hoping we do not have any issues, kinda scary! I would hate for the world to begin opening up and then see a spike in COVID cases.

This month at Love to Scrap, we are showcasing 'for the boys'; I am the first to admit, I am NOT good with masculine cards. Thankfully, Leslie was so sweet to bounce some ideas around with me and this card was born. Believe me, it had its challenges but I found a way to 'make it work' (said in Tim Gunn's voice - HA)!

I cut 4 squares from a piece of cardboard as my 'stencil'; then blended on various oxide distress inks and topped with this circle stencil and blended the same oxide inks in a heavier layer. While the stencil was still in place, I splattered with white ink; once dry, I stamped the images into the windows. This is a REALLY old Cornish Heritage Farm stamp set (sorry, I cannot find the set online anywhere...like I said, it's very old)! I stamped the images with VersaFine and doggoneit, if I didn't smear the one in the lower right hand corner. SO...time to figure out what to do! I die cut the square out and did the same thing on the inside, didn't add any splatters but I thought it turned out well!

The birthday sentiment (Gift Card Sentiments II) is from MFT and is stamped with the same distress oxide inks.

The sentiment on front was also stamped with VersaFine. Thanks for stopping by; hope you will join us this month, we love seeing your creations!

Hugs,

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CHALLENGES:

Acrylic Block Stamping - MIUCB

Hi friends!! Hope you are all doing well; staying safe and healthy!

This month at the Mix It Up Challenge Blog, we have a fun one - ACRYLIC BLOCK STAMPING or as always, Anything Goes.

I wanted to try something different - not sure I LOVE it - but that's all in the learning process, #amiright?

I actually stamped the rainbows with an acrylic block colored with Zig Clean Clear Brushes and spritzed with water. The first one is basically the normal shades of the rainbow; the second one, I turned those colors 90 degrees - just for fun!

Both rainbows are spritzed with sheer sparkle (hard to see in the photos); and both are placed upon an acrylic block stamped using Distress Oxide Ink. This rainbow release from Taylored Expression is the bomb, I haven't even tried half the components, but can't wait! I love the sentiments that are meant to curve along the rainbow, perfect!!

Thanks for stopping by; I really cannot wait to see your acrylic block stamping cards - I hope to glean some ideas from YOU!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  TE Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Black, Distress Oxide: Salty Ocean and Broken China

Papers: Tim Holtz water color, PTI Lemon Tart, Neenah 110 lb. white

Accessories: TE Over the Rainbow dies, TE Cloud Dies, sequins, acrylic blog, MFT Blueprints, fun foam, Zig Clean Color Brushes

CHALLENGES:

Rainbow Mom

I created a couple variations of this card - I absolutely love it! Do you?

I used Karin markers to create the watercolor background. First, I created the green at the bottom, spritzed with water and let it run a bit; then I created the rainbow at the top, spritzed with water and allowed the colors to run much further down into the green area. I stamped the TE Beautiful Blossom flowers with Gina K Obsidian ink. I added some Copic coloring to each flower then added a heavy coat of  Nuvo Shimmer (which actually made the flowers a bit white, which looks rather cool I thought).

Once the inks, watercolor and shimmer were dry, I die cut the word MOM from PTI Smokey Shadow multiple times and one time from the main panel and layered them together. I then stamped and embossed the Happy Mother's Day sentiment in VersaFine ink and clear embossing powder. I layered the panel onto PTI true black and added a scalloped white panel to the inside.

Thanks for stopping by; hope you are having a great week!

Hugs,

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Colour Crazy - Conie Fong Art

Hi friends - hope you are doing well, staying safe and healthy!

This week we are featuring Conie Fong Art, so many cute images!! I am using the Bunnie Hearts Girl; isn't she adorable? I can think of so many uses for this image!

I enjoyed coloring with Copics and adding glossy accents to all the balloons. Seriously peeps - does ANYONE else have issues with their glossy accents bottle clogging? It was brutal covering all the balloons and I ended up with tons of bubbles. :( Bummer!

I shaded the edges with TE Sea Salt and Confetti Cake; layered on top of several pieces of designer paper as well as a couple stitched square frames.  The sentiment is from the TE Valentine Mini Strips; but I thought it worked perfectly!

Thanks for stopping by; hoping you can join us this week with anything you color - we enjoy visiting and commenting on your creations!

Take care,

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  Conie Fong Art Bunnie Hearts Girl, TE Valentine Mini Strips

Inks: TE Sea Salt and Confetti Cake, VersaMark

Papers: X-Press It Copic Paper, PTI Aqua Mist

Accessories: glossy accents, Tim Holtz tiny attacher, white embossing powder, Copics

CHALLENGES:

MIUCB #37 - Anything Goes or Masking

Hi friends - how is April treating you...beyond kinda crazy? I still work in our office 1-2 days per week, the rest are from home and you would think that allows for more down time, but I can promise you, it does not!

There is a small chance I was hoping working from home would allow me some craft time - maybe at lunch; but once I get started working, I just keep moving ahead! I don't have a great work space, so I use a lap desk and love it, but I literally have to force myself to get up and MOVE!!!

This month at Mix It Up, we are focusing on masking...or as always, anything goes!  I hope you will take time to join us, we enjoy seeing what you are creating!

This month, I'm showing two different cards - same 'gist' of a card, just different colors. I have really loved these stamp sets (pretty postmarks and signed and sealed, from The Greetery - and the dies (postal frames and signed and sealed), you'll see the postal die coming up in several more cards I made recently.

I water colored the background - mainly just the edges and then tossed together lots of die cuts I had on my desk. When doing multi-layering stamping, I like to make LOTS of extras, makes it easy to throw together a card last minute. I stamped a different greeting on each and mounted to the base card with fun foam. These cards were 100% inspired by Betsy Veldman, owner of The Greetery.

Thanks for stopping by; be sure to stop by the Mix It Up blog to see all the design team creations, then take the time to join the fun!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  The Greetery Signed and Sealed with a Kiss, Pretty Postmarks

Inks: TE Inks, Variety of Distress Inks

Papers: Tim Holtz water color, PTI Fine Linen and Sweet Blush

Accessories: The Greetery Postal Frames and Signed and Sealed with a Kiss, twine, sequins

CHALLENGES:

LTSCB #133 - Anything Goes

It's everyone's favorite challenge - ANYTHING GOES - at Love to Scrap challenge; hope you will check out all the fun creations from the design team and then join us, we love seeing your creations!

I just love smooshing inks for a background, the background made thiscard so easy to create! The Welcome Little One die and image is from Taylored Expressions. I layered up the die cuts with 4 layers of card stock and adhered them together; you can't see, but I added clear wink of stella to the top later. The image was colored with Copics. Pretty simple, but a great baby boy card.

Thanks for stopping by; hope you have a great day!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  TE Bye Bye Sleep

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Amalgam, Distress Inks: Broken China and Salty Ocean

Papers: PTI Blueberry Sky, Ranger water color paper, Neenah 110 lb. white

Accessories: copics, TE Bye Bye Sleep die, white gel pen, TE Welcome Little One die, clear Wink of Stella

CHALLENGES:

Colour Crazy Team - Fred She Said

Hi friends - I hope this note finds you doing well, staying safe & healthy!

Our weekly challenge is always "Anything Goes" as long as you include some coloring on your project; hope you'll play along, we enjoy seeing your creations!

This week we are featuring digital images from Fred She Said; I used the Poppies image. Sometimes I should study an image a bit more before coloring (more on that momentarily - LOL). It's another simple card colored with Copics and colored pencils. I stamped a sentiment from THIS set two times in the lower left-hand corner and one time in the upper right-hand corner BUT after adding shading, it's definitely difficult to see. Whoops! I also added this postmark stamp along with a leaf image 3 times in the middle of the postmark image.

I added some striped paper to the base card and mounted the panel on fun foam, I finished the card with some PPP marshmallow confetti sequins.

OK, things you should know...poppies come in ALL different colors; hence the variety on my card; BUT that flower in the lower left-hand corner? Yea, that's a bud, not an actual flower - oops! #howtoknowitshandmade :D

Thanks for popping in; hope you'll check out all the other creations at the Colour Crazy Challenge, then join the fun! See you again soon!!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  Fred She Said Poppies, The Greetery Pretty Postmarks

Inks: TE Mocha, Avocado and Toffee, Vintage Photo and Tea Dye

Papers: Neenah 80 lb. white, PTI Fresh Linen, MFT Dots and Stripes Neutral (appears to no longer be made)

Accessories: PPP Marshmallow Confetti sequins, fun foam, Copics, colored pencils

CHALLENGES:

It's a Bunny Parade

These Hop To It products from Taylored Expressions along with the Mini Strips - Easter stamps make it so quick and easy to create Easter or any fun type card...don't box yourself in to Easter only, think outside the box. However, I did make a handful of Easter cards to share with friends and this was a set of 3 - pink, blue, and purple.

 

Thanks for stopping by; hope you are safe and healthy!! Take care.

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  TE Hop to It and Mini Strips - Easter

Inks: TE Oreo, Strawberry Milkshake, Pineapple, Lavendar Glaze, Versamark, VersaFine

Papers: Neenah 80 lb. white, PTI Raspberry Fizz, Plum Pudding, Spring Rain

Accessories: TE Hop to It die, TE sticky strips adhesive, white embossing powder, clear embossing powder, TE mini strip asymmetrical die

CHALLENGES:

MIUCB #36 - Fancy Fold

Hi friends - welcome back; so glad you are here!!

This month at Mix It Up, it's Anything Goes as always, BUT if you want to join in with the Fancy Fold challenge, we'd love to see your creations!

Let's be honest; we're friends, right? I am not good at fancy folds when it comes to cards; I'm not an engineer like Jennifer McGuire - LOL; and truth? I suck at math! So, I set about doing something a bit different for my fancy fold!

I colored up this gorgeous image from Gina K and Hero Arts, Friendship Blooms with some watercolors and finished with colored pencils. I fussy cut the image and added lots of splatters in white and black. I then cut the flowers diaganolly, folded over the ends of the image and hid the message below the flowers. I saw someone else do something similar recently and was definitely inspired! BUT...I needed a way for it to stay closed, so I added a heat embossed vellum belly band, sentiment from Altenew Simply the Best.

New manicure needed; dry cuticles from so much washing! ;) 

I sponged on colors to both white pieces (outside / inside) to tie it all together. It's truly not a fancy fold, but I still thought it was unique and fun!

Thanks for stopping by; hope you join us for Mix It Up where it's Anything Goes or Fancy Fold!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  Gina K and Hero Arts Friendship Blooms, Altenew Simply the Best

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Amalgam, Distress Ink: Abandon Coral, Wild Honey, and Squeezed Lemonade, Versamark

Papers: Neenah 80 lb. white, Neenah 110 lb. white, PTI True Black, misc. Striped Paper

Accessories: colored pencils, white gouache, watercolors, black Folkart pain from Hobby Lobby, white embossing powder, MFT blueprints

CHALLENGES:

LTSCB #132 - For The Girls (monochromatic scheme)

Hi friends!

Isn't it great we have this crafty network community that we can rely on during these really difficult times? Our county is under a stay order and we've had layoffs and furloughs at work, so it's been a very stressful time; but I have to admit, after the work day is done, it sure feels good to escape and do a bit of creating!

I hope you will join us over at Love to Scrap; it's a fun one 'for the girls'!

I recently purchased a couple images from Unity Stamps, this one is Hannah Girl - they have a lot of great images! I had saved on Pinterest a card colored very similarly to this one; I loved the various pinks, you can definitely say I CASEd the card!! I added colors with Copics and finished off with colored pencils. I used a stencil to add some interest to the background and glossy accents on the balloons.

Hope you can carve out some creative time and join us at Love to Scrap; we'd love to see your creations! Take care, stay healthy!

Hugs,

WHAT'S IT TAKE:

Stamps:  United Stamps Angiegirl Hannah Girl

Inks: Gina K Obsidian Amalgam, TE Earl Grey

Papers: Neenah 80 lb. white, Neenah 110 lb. white, PTI Raspberry Fizz

Accessories: copics, colored pencils, stencil, white gel pen, white gouache

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