Tree of Gratitude

Hi Everyone,
Thanks for stopping in today. I made a card today that uses a new stamp set I received recently. I also used a die set that (Memory Box) I have had for a while. I just love these dies but I just wasn't sure how to use this set together.

There are 2 dies that make up this tree, one die is the  tree trunk/limbs and the other die is leaves and both work in conjunction with each other. I had looked at both dies for a few months and finally decided to get them when someone said Barb, you know you will have to place all the leaves by hand on the tree trunk/branches. Well I almost changed my mind but then I got a thought about how to use the leaves die in a different manner. So I decided to go for it.
                                        
                         Twiggy Tree
                
                          Leaf Canopy

I cut the leaves, and used the negative space instead of using those itty bitty leaves. Then I glued the trunk/branches on to the leaf canopy, fussy cut around the tree leaves, added  two sided tape to the back of the tree leaves and added glitter to the leaf openings. Well I loved the tree and how it came out, but wasn't sure what I wanted to do with the tree.So it sat for a while on my table,....... waiting.

Unity has a new monthly subscription set that I subscribe to, called Layers of Life (LOL) . The Tree of Gratitude set is one of the LOL stamp sets and it works perfect with my tree. Check it out.

Here is the Layers Of Life stamp set I used. And the images are a great compliment to my die cut tree.

 

To make the background panel:

I used DP as the panel on the card front and stamped the tree image directly on to it. I used the single leaf image with the typed words in the background and stamped it a few times onto the DP and sponged color in the leaf design. Next, using a Tim Holtz  Burlap layering stencil, I sponged more color and design which adds more visual interest. Last, I used a torn scrap of paper from a book page added ink to the edges and layered that on the DP. Now I had the background ready for my tree.

I used the sentiment from the stamp set but wanted it to appear differently than the way it was designed, so, I stamped it out on white CS and used a hand punch to punch the individual letters. I wanted the word to be vertical, instead of horizontal and lastly I glued those letters onto the panel.

Since my tree canopy was made with white CS, I sponged some red, orange and green inks into the canopy to soften it.

I attached the tree with dimensional foam over the DP panel.

Products used:

Burlap Layering Stencil - Tim Holtz (THS007)

Tree of Gratitude - Unity Stamps (Layers of Life)

Memory Box dies - Twiggy Tree 98143, Leaf Canopy 98142

Hand Punch

Glitters

Inks - Distress Ink - Shabby Shutters, Gathered Twig  Fresco Inks Cortez Sun, Bastille Brick, Golden Parchment

Sponge Dauber

CS/paper - Designer Paper (DP), White CS, Terra Cotta CS, Brown CS

Dimensional Foam

Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive

Two Sided Tape

I am submitting my card in the following challenges:

• Hiding in my Craft Room - W, 1E  - #130  Anything but Holiday
• Scrapping4funChallenges - 2W, 1E - No.7 - Anything Goes till Jan 3, 2014
• Sister Act Card Challenge - W, Cards. - No. 38 - Anything Goes - challenge runs till Jan 10, 2014
• Stampin' For The Weekend - 2W, 1E – (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping in today. See you soon,

Courage Strength and the Tiger

Hi Everyone,
Sparkle N Sprinkle just recently introduced a new stamp set. It's set 466 Wild Cats. And I particularly love this set because I have always loved cats, wild or domestic. I have 3 tabbies right now, one looks like Morris the Cat.

Anyway, I have had this set on my work table and have just got to it. (I am digging out) I worked this up last night and thought I'd share this with you.

The designer paper I used has that African tree already on it and it just adds to the African flavor of this card, don't you think??!!?

Here are the elements I used in designing this card:

Tiger 3657-466K

Courage Set of 4 3656-466H

Spellbinders Dies- Classic Circles S4-116

¼” Tear-ific Tape   SAT01

Black Detail EP  EP171

Copic Markers – COPICA1 – G21, R81

VersaMark Ink – 99702

Sponge Daubers - 99450

All of the above products are available at the Sparkle N Sprinkle online store, just click here to go there.

Other products used:

Card stock/Paper: Cream CS, Brown CS, Designer Paper

Fresco Dye Ink – Tuscan Earth

Gold Leaf Pen

Well that is it for today, have a great week

Rain or Shine

Hi there,
Boy I can't believe it's Thursday already. Today is the beginning of the Weekly Challenge over at Art Impressions. This weeks theme, rain or shine.

I saw golfers at the course the other day and it was really early in the morning and I was thinking they will golf at anytime unless it's raining. So, that thought stuck in my mind and here is the card I came up with for this weeks theme.

Aren't these two a hoot!!??!!. Well here they are, on the 18th green, getting ready to putt.

It's raining here as I write this post. Guess these two won't be golfing any today.LOL

Hope you have a great day.

Supplies used:
Art Impressions Stamps - Golfers  T3475
Copic Markers - E33, R29, RV13, RV06, V05, RV21, G94, G99, G82, Y17, BG10, BV000, BV08, BV20, C-1
Silver Gel Pen, Black Spica Pen, White Gel Pen
Card stock - Green CS, Yellow CS, White CS
Ink - India Ink Black, Fresco Leviticus Lime, Giovanni's Garden, Cortez Sun, Golden Parchment
Brayer

That is it for today

See you soon, I'm off to Akron to the Adventures In Stamping Convention this weekend. Have a great weekend.

Barbara

Gift Tags

Hi Everyone,
I have a quick post to share with you. It's a tag I designed for my tag exchange that takes place tonite. I meet with a great group of ladies each month and tonite we are meeting for dinner and we are exchanging tags. We've done this for a few years.

Supplies used:
Trees Stamp - Just for Fun
Pine cone and lighter green sprig - Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Pine cone
Flourish - Tim Holtz Sizzix Elegant Flourishes
Darker green sprigs - Martha Stewart Punch
Poinsettia - Spellbinders Die
Ink - Fresco - Giovanni's Garden
Card Stock - Red CS, Green CS, Brown designer paper, Med. Green CS, Yellow CS
Gold Accents - Inka Gold by Viva, Pearl Pen by Viva
Tag Die - Accucut
Ribbon

This is such an easy tag to make, hope you try to use some or all of the elements I used.

Well have a great day and I will see you soon

Barbara

Christmas and Paper Piercing

Hi Everyone
Today's creation came out  better than yesterdays. (Yea!!) This week's challenge at Art Impressions is...
paper piercing using Christmas stamps.

Supplies used:
Art Impressions Stamps - Roley Penguin  K3053, Mini Poinsettia  G2766
Ink - India Ink - Black, Fresco Chalk Ink - Mona Rouge
Copic Markers - R29, R46, R37, Y35
Silver Ribbon
Card Stock/Paper - Red CS, Green Core'dinations CS, Designer papers(2)
Paper Piercer

Thanks for stopping in and I will see you soon,

Lace

Hi Everyone
Today I have another card for you, using Art Impressions stamps. I used some beautiful lace that I picked up Sunday in my shopping at the last antique show of the season.

I have a few stamps along this theme, kind of country-ish and I just really like the look they give. When I was coloring this image I wanted to add colors that would remind one of dusk. As I was finishing this up, I added a little gold color using a product called Inka Gold. Its at the bottom edge of the rick rack circle. This product has bee's wax in it and it goes on with a sponge and according to the label, its called a gloss paint. It's a nice product and I am going to be looking at other effects I might be able to get with this.

Supplies used:
Country Lamp Post -L1211
Copic Markers - V04, C-5, E40, YG45, Y28, Y11, Y000, C-0
Inka Gold - Gold
Inks: India Ink - Black, Distress Ink -Tea Dye, Fresco Chalk Dye-DaVinci Violet, Fresco Chalk Dye-Sistine Sky, Fresco Chalk Dye- Indigo Velvet
Sponge daubers
Card stock/paper - Dark Blue CS, Blue Speckle CS, White CS, Designer Paper
Old Lace from antique dealer

That is all for now. Hope you get some ideas using lace.

Have a great day,

The Snowman's coming

Well we have just reached the fall season and where I live they are calling for some pretty cold temps at
night within the next few days. You know what that means, ole man winter is coming quicker that we want him to. So here is a card that will remind you of the upcoming winter weather.

Even though winter brings snow, you have to admit, snowmen are so adorable.

Check out this guy. He is one of the sets in the Mouthful collection.

Click here to see the complete snowman set.

Supplies used:

Gray/Blue speckled CS

Holographic Paper

Silver CS

White CS

Designer Paper (Scarf and Hatband)

Glitter

Microbeads

Ink - India Dye ink, Fresco Chalk Ink - Indigo Velvet

Copic Markers: C1, R29, E33, E43, B24

Thanks for stopping in,

Barbara

Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone,
When it comes to card making, birthdays are not like all the different seasons/holidays of the year.If you are like me, I  kind of wait to see what the new stamps that are coming out on the market are going to look like before  I make my Christmas cards or a fall/Halloween or an Easter card. I might want to get that newest stamp or maybe I just use a stamp from my stash. When it comes to birthdays it seems that there is always a birthday coming up for someone in the family or a friend.And I usually just go to my stash and decide who the card is for, what they like and go from there.

This is a card I designed for a friend who's birthday is coming up soon. I used my newest Martha Stewart Punch around the Page set. I must say, this is my favorite so far. Even though we are going into a season of browns and oranges and reds I decided to use a shimmery yellow cs and that is how this card started. I selected a pretty stamp from Art Impressions, mini sunflower F2692. And as I looked for a Happy Birthday sentiment, E597, I found that I had one that was written all the way across, however I needed one where the word "happy" was above the word "birthday". I didn't have one so I decided to take the stamp I have and make it look the way I needed it to.
Here is a trick to change the look of the sentiment:
I just stamped the sentiment, and I then stamped it again underneath the first stamping, lining up the word Birthday underneath the word Happy. Wella, I now have the sentiment in more of a square shape instead of a rectangle and it looks better on this card.

Supplies I used:

Art Impressions Stamps - Mini Sunflower F2692, Sentiment E597

Inks - Distress Ink - Vintage Photo, Fresco Chalk Ink Cortez Sun

Copic Markers - Y11, Y17, YG45

Paper/Card stock - Shimmer Yellow, Shimmer White, Yellow CS

Ribbon

Tomorrow and Friday will be the Sparkle N Sprinkle Blog Hop stop back for that and Saturday I will have with another card design using Art Impressions stamps. See you tomorrow.

It's the Fall Season

Hi Stampers,
I want to share a card that I think shows the colors of fall. I used one of the Flower Fairies Friends sets from Crafters' Companion. I used Lavender. She is beautiful however I wanted to use the beautiful fall colors, so I cut off the sprig of lavender that she usually holds in her hands and replaced it with a beautiful leaf. I used a combination of Copic Markers and Fresco Inks to color the fairy.

This card will be entered in the following:
Crafters' Companion September Challenge
Crazy4Challenges C4C104

Cardstock Used: Rich Brown CS, Orange CS, Sage Green and Sherbert Orange Coordinations CS

Inks used: Distress ink, Fresco Inks India Ink

Spellbinders Die: Assorted Leaves  S4-076, Labels Twenty Two S4-346

Sizzix Tim Holtx Alterations Bigz Die -Elegant Flourishes - 656639

Punch - Martha Stewart -Branch

A Favorite Art Impressions stamp

Hi Stampers,
Today I want to share with you one of my favorite stamps from Art Impressions.Of course it's really hard to pick just one stamp from Art Impressions and call it your favorite, cause if you are like me, you like them all.  But I do really like this one.

Supplies used: 

Art Impressions Stamps - Birdhouses P3377,Small Vine  BB2061, Daisy Bunch AA3017.

Copic Markers 

Fresco Inks: Giovanni's Garden, Venetian Sunrise, Sistine Sky

India Ink Black
Spellbinder Dies: Labels One  S4-161
Cardstock: Blue Shimmer CS 2 shades blue, Coordinations, Cream CS

Make sure to stop over at the Art Impressions blog to check out their new weekly challenge. They are always a lot of fun and you might win a $10.00 gift certificate to the Art Impressions store.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Noel

Hi Stampers,

Whoa, it's September 1. Where has this year gone?? I know I am a little early, but the stores are getting their Christmas stuff out already.So I think I am getting in the Christmas mood because of that.So with that in mind this cute little stamp was just begging to be used. So, I thought I'd pass on some Christmas inspiration to you today. This stamp would look so cute adorning a gift tag as well.

Supplies used:

Stamps: Art Impressions - G1582 Tiny Carolers, E2760 Noel

Ink:India Ink (Dye ink), Fresco Dye Ink-Da Vinci Violet

Copic Markers: E33, E71, Y11,C-1, R000, RV06, RV14, YG45, BV00, BV08, V04

Embossing Folder: Cuttlebug - Dots

Spellbinder Dies used: Oval S4-110, Grand Labels One LF-161, Labels One S4-161

Cardstock: White, Petallics - Juniper, Silver(This really is a white shimmer not a silver color as we are used to)

Thanks for stopping in

Hugs

Glitter Graphics

Another Thank You ......

Hi there stampers,

I am back with another Thank You card using those great Crafter's Companion stamps.

I used the fairy from the Almond Blossom set. If you are a fairy lover, as I am, Crafter's Companion has a wonderful selection of fairy stamps.The "Thank You" sentiment is in the Buttercup Fairy set. 


The Almond Blossom Fairy is delivering the Thank You's with a handful of Almond Blossoms. This card is sure to make someone's day.


Card Recipe:

Stamps used: Almond Blossom Fairy, Thank You (from the Buttercup Fairy set)

Cardstock: Core'dinations, Blue CS, White CS

Glitter/Embossing Powders used:Sparkle N Sprinkle - Glitter Shimmering Sea G1082, Clear Detail Embossing Powder EP 280

Copic Markers:

BG10 Dress

R02 Dress & Flowers

YG67 Flower Stem

Y11 Flower Inside

Inks: VersaMark & Fresco Chalk- Ink Botticelli Blush, India Ink

Spellbinders Die - Lacey Squares S4-295

Embossing Folder - Couture Creations - Royality

Lace

Thanks for stopping by today

Barbara

Anything Goes

This week's Art Impressions Challenge is "Anything Goes".What a theme that is, that means the creative door is wide open. So get your thinking caps on and enter a card in this weeks challenge.

I decided to get my Otis stamp out and let him tell me what he should be doing and where he is going. So here is Otis, waiting at an information booth outside in a local park.

Isn't he cute with his shorts and his knobby knees.He looks like he is ready to bird watch or take pictures or read the paper. And of course he's got his boom box with him so he can listen to some of his favorite tunes Since he has stopped at the information booth, I think he's trying to find the rest of his friends at the park. LOL

Card Recipe:
 J1524 - Otis
P1705 -  Wooden Stand Front
T883 -  Tree
A893 -  Leaves
D3010 - Jumbo Tiny Grass
G3488 - Clouds
A1371 - Grass Line
Copic Marker - C1
Spica Marker - Sand
Adirondack Inks - Lettuce , Latte
Fresco Dye Ink - Sistine Sky

I will be back tomorrow with a card creation using stamps from Sparkle N Sprinkle. See you then.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Barbara

My True Joy

Did you ever make a card and it doesn't quite click!!!???. Well here is one of those cards. I decided to play around with glossy paper and an olive/sage colored dye ink and VersaMark. (click here to read more)










Thanks for stopping by,

Barbara