SEIZE THE SKETCH - #22

http://seizethesketch.blogspot.com/2014/06/seize-sketch-22-sketch-from-lori-tecler.html

This card was made for the challenge at Seize the Sketch.  The image was stamped, colored with copics and die cut.  The two pattern papers are from Basic Grey and the solid cardstock is SU!. The sentiment is part of the stamp set.

Stamp set - My Favorite Things "Fred Bear Hits the Beach"

Paper - Basic Grey "Plummeria," SU! Soft Sky, Neenah

Copics and Memento ink

Other - mounting tape, baker's twine

CASology - Week 99 "Anniversary"

Next month son #2 and wife will celebrate their tenth anniversary and the mister and myself our forty-seventh.  Who will get this cutesy card?  Several years ago friends and I did a field trip and visited about ten stamping stores in the San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties.  We had such a fun time and spent one night on the road.  One store had a card similar to this featured and I asked if I could take a photo and they said they could give me a photocopy.  For all these years I have had the photocopy stashed in a notebook and recently I went to the store to ask if they had the heart punch and they did not.  The fortunate thing is the store is still in business The Stampin Post in Temecula, CA.  But I found a very old Cuttlebug die and embossing folder set which I have had for years, actually since I purchased my Cuttlebug (which I love).

For my card I used a Lil Inkers die for the base.  The black heart has a second layer of white which I trimmed.  White heart has been embossed and I added the adorable Lil Inkers bow.  Sentiment was inked and heat embossed.  Both hearts have SU! candy dots.

Die and Embossing set - Cuttlebug Textile Hearts Combo

Die - Lil Inkers Stitched Rectangle, Bow

Paper - Neenah, SU! Black, Pink Passion

Ink - Versafine

Stamp - Inky Antics

Other - SU! Candy Dots, embossing powder

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/06/week-99-anniversary.html

retro sketches #118

This is the first time I have submitted a card to retro sketches.  While viewing Joyce's Cards by the Sea blog I found this challenge.  The image was stamped three times onto a piece of remnant paper I made using distress inks and water and then cut and mounted onto a piece of black cardstock and then apricot appeal cardstock.  This was mounted onto a piece of whisper white and then the sentiment was stamped and heat embossed.  After rounding the corners this was attached to apricot appeal.

Stamps - Michael Strong "Mini Cloissone Shapes", SU! sentiment

Paper - SU! Apricot Appeal, black, Whisper White

Ink - Versafine

ATCAS Challenge #40 - TRANSPORT

This card is for ATCAS challenge with the theme of Transport.  I masked an oval image onto a piece of Neenah and then sponged distress ink.  When the ink was completely dry I stamped the silhouette with Versafine and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  The sentiment was stamped but not embossed.  The top layer of card stock was trimmed to 4 x 5 1/4 and then mounted onto a second piece of Neenah with mounting tape.  

Stamps - Unity Happy To Me Be, and Precious Remembrance New Day

Distress Inks - Frayed Burlap, Mowed Lawn, Tumbled Glass

Ink - Versafine

Other - Neenah paper, embossing powder, mounting tape

NBUS Challenge #1 - CELEBRATION

Well isn't this special.  Miss Darnell has so many members in her fan club (500 and growing) that she has begun her first challenge.  As a loyal follower of Darnell who I refer to sometimes as Irma Iowa it is imperative that I submit a card.  The challenge states to choose a NBUS item and I have chosen this adorable Penny Black stamp which has no name.  Personally this stamp is a good representative of Darnell as she is a friend to all (note bird on Kitty's head), a marvelous photographer and pictures of Darnell always show her with a friendly smile.

The challenge suggests your card be in the style you are most comfortable making and for me that is using Copics.  Many of the cards I now make for challenges have little coloring so I am delighted to make a challenge card with coloring.  Also Darnell asks that you write a comment to fellow cardmakers who are participating in this challenge and I think that is a grand idea.

The image was stamped on Neenah paper and colored with Copics.  The top layer was embossed with a Sizzix embossing folder and then I die cut the center.  The sentiment was stamped and mounted onto a snippet of paper.

Stamps - Penny Black #4319J, Precious Remembrance sentiment New Day 

Ink - Memento and Copics

Paper - Neenah, SU! Soft Sky

Die Cut - My Favorite Things Pierced Circle

Embossing Folder - Sizzix Diamonds

Other - blue crystal bling, At You Spica clear pen

http://www.djkardkreations.com/2014/06/nbus-challenge-1-celebration.html

CASology Week 96 "FLOWER"

This card is for CASology's theme of flower.  The die cut I made previously and it seemed like something I could work with.  First I rubbed SU! purple plum ink on my craft mat and spritzed it with water and then placed a MFT background stamp in the puddle and stamped the image onto SU! whisper white paper.  When the background image was dry I die cut the rectangle with a Lil Inkers die and then stamped the sentiment. The flower was already assembled so I mounted it with mounting tape.  This flower used snippets of paper including plum paper which I had dry embossed with the Swiss Dots embossing folder and a piece of gold and a piece of green.

Paper - SU! Whisper White, Perfect Plum, and unknown snippets

Die Cut - My Favorite Things "Hibiscus," Lil Inkers "Stitched Rectangle"

Ink - SU! Perfect Plum, MFT Black Licorice

Stamp - MFT background (set unknown), Unity sentiment "Let Beauty Surround You"

Cuttlebug Embossing Folder - Swiss Dots

http://casology.blogspot.com/2014/05/week-96-flower.html

Addicted to CAS - "Off the Edge" Week 38

It was important to me to submit a card for this particular challenge because Darnell is the guest designer.  Darnell is a special lady and I want to thank her on my blog for e-mailing me and asking if the mister and I were alright during the recent San Diego fires.  Yes we are fine but the Carlsbad fire was about five miles directly south of us.  San Diego is hilly and full of canyons and Santa Ana winds and a severe drought cause havoc.  Our community backs up to a preserve so we too are vulnerable. Ten years ago we had to evacuate our then mountain home and it was the most stressful of times, fleeing the mountain and not sure if we would find our home when we returned.  Anyone who has been faced with fires can never give enough praise to the firefighters.

This is a CAS one layer card.  I was fortunate enough on our recent vacation to visit My Favorite Things in Florida and one of my purchases was this butterfly die.  This card is special because I will be giving it to my granddaughter who graduates from high school next week.  How did that happen?  I had played with the dies and matching stamp set and I was left with open spaces and thus I used that paper as a mask.  On Neenah paper I sponged the butterflies with Distress Ink and when dry I inked and heat embossed the sentiment.

Stamp - Unity "enjoy, explore, believe"

Paper - Neenah

Die - MFT "Winged Beauties"

Ink - Distress Ink "Tumbled Glass," "Spun Sugar", Versafine

http://addictedtocas.blogspot.com/2014/05/challenge-38-off-edge.html