Seize the Birthday: Anything Goes

 The card I am submitting for the current challenge at Seize the Birthday uses Yupo paper and alcohol inks. My card making group recently used these two items for the first time. Usually we have just used the alcohol ink and glossy paper. This image is particularly bold because of the brand of ink I chose and it was a little "wow," but once I trimmed the piece and mounted on white paper I preferred the look. The boldness of the ink required a bold sentiment.

Supplies:

Paper - Yupo, Michaels 110# white

Ink - Pinata alcohol inks, VersaFine

http://seizethebirthday.blogspot.com/2017/04/anything-goes.html

The Flower Challenge Sketch #7

I love the color combination of black and white and this check piece of paper went well with the zig colored flowers. This card is being submitted to The Flower Challenge which is using this sketch. I like this kind of sketch where a stamped image is the focal point and yet the card is still CAS.

Supplies:

MFT pierced circle die

Lawn Fawn Flutter By stamp set

watercolor paper, snippet, Michaels

VerrsaFine ink, Zigs, embossing powder

http://theflowerchallenge.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-flower-challenge-7-reminder.html

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #11

I am going to call this stamp the poor little butterfly. This is a NBUS stamp for me but prior to my acquiring it someone had the audacity to use it with paint and as such I bought it in poor shape. I am ready to participate in my card group's garage sale and plb was in the sell box. Today I looked at the stamp and thought I would give it a try, so I used VersaMark and no luck, so I tried VersaFine and embossing powder. PLB looked okay so I decided to sponge and mask it as I will be teaching such a class next week. I used distress inks and distress markers to color and stamped and embossed the sentiment. Then I added water droplets and wink of stella. After I trimmed the front panel I attached the blue paper mat and then glued to the base card. Chapter two of the PLBS - a card maker friend is challenging our group to submit a card using the tic-tac-toe layout for our garage sale. This card would work except for ribbon so in my I never use stash of ribbon I found white organza and tied the delicate bow. I like the card and decided I would deliver it  next week when I attend a memorial for a friend. The end.

http://www.djkardkreations.com/

Supplies:

Paper - Neenah, Kelly

Ink - Distress, VersaFine

Other - Wink of Stella, embossing powder
Stamp - Paper Smooches sentiment, PLB unknown 

Darnell's NBUS Challenge #11

This NBUS stamp is from Penny Black, and it is one of several adorable critters. This card will go to grandson #1 who is ten and the inside says "to one of my favorite peeps." This was pretty simple stamping and coloring with copics and then die cutting it and the designer paper. The two pieces were attached to the base card. That is it.

Supplies:

Stamp - Penny Black "Garden Friends"

Paper - Gina K, Neenah

Die - Lil Inkers

http://www.djkardkreations.com/

Spring 2017 Coffee Lover's Blog Hop

The coffee cup was stamped, heat embossed and die cut and I stamped the heart again and did the same. This piece was mounted onto a piece of SU crumb cake cs and then I stamped the sentiment. Using VersaMark I randomly stamped hearts from the same set as the sentiment.

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2017/03/2017-spring-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/

Supplies:

Stamps - Stamplorations "Literary Caffeine-ations," and  Sketchy Coffee Cups

Paper - Neenah, SU! Crumb Cake, snippet

Ink - VersaMark, VersaFine, embossing powder

Spring 2017 Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

For this  card I chose this adorable kitty stamp from Penny Black and some colorful paper from Gina K. I stamped, heat emblossed and colored with Copics. I also heat embossed the sentiment. The image was die cut with a Sugar Pea die. I attached all the pieces and placed the green SU cs at an angle.

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2017/03/2017-spring-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/

Supplies:

Stamps - Penny Black "Brimming with Love," Unity sentiment

Paper - Neenah, SU, Gina K

Die - Sugar Pea "Birthday Journal"

Other - Copics, VersaFine, embossing powder

2017 Spring Coffee Lovers Blog Hop

I taught a class on stamping with embossing folders on Friday and this is one of the pieces I made. This is also one of my favorite layouts which works really well with this type of background paper. The stencil I borrowed so name unknown. After trimming this piece I stamped and heat embossed the tea pots. This is a very old SU! stamp from 1996 and I took the liberty of trimming it as it was too long to fit on the paper. I used a touch of marker pen on the flowers which were the same SU! colors used on the stamped decorator piece. I mounted this onto SU! rose red cs. The piece was attached to the base card and this paper is also SU! and it is no longer available but it is cool paper this is an off white and it has specks of color in it. Lastly I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment which is from Inky Antics.

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2017/03/2017-spring-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/