Gone Fishing with a Basket

The basket Gina has featured in the videos this week over at StampTV.com is so easy and fun to make. I decided to make a masculine basket using the new stamp set Gone Fishing.

I've had the basket weave pattern paper for forever. When I first saw the set I thought about this paper and how it looks like a fishing basket weave. So I made one of Gina's baskets with Pure Luxury Chocolate card stock and used the basket paper to cover it.  The metal piece under the fishing rod reads "Wisdom".  I had a hard time picking it up with the camera. This would perfect to add a gift card to a sporting goods store and a little gift to give to a special man in your life.

Dad's Day Water Colored Trees Card

I used the sketch #37 from Jen del Muro's blog i {heart}2stamp.  I turned it on it's side to make this card.

I used stamps from Gina K Designs NEW set Gone Fishing, illustrated by Theresa Momber.  I experimented with the trees by first applying ink with markers using the thumping technique and then filled in some of the trees with Mellow Moss.  I used a watercolor brush to soften it all up and kind of made a water colored picture out of it. I like how it turned out.  I sponged the sky with Memento Sky Blue and the grass with Memento Pear Tart and Bamboo Leaves.  The paper is from one of the Gina K Designs kits I bought in the past. It was lying on my desk and it looked like a perfect match for the tree scene.  So I went with it. I tried to keep in masculine (no ribbon and minimal bling with the brads). 

Feel free to leave a comment to tell me what you think.  Have a super week!

Fish and Flowers and Lots of Challenges

I've been doing some major therapy and finished several cards for challenges this weekend. I am having a lot of fun with two Gina K Designs stamp sets illustrated by Theresa Momber.  Here is what I have to share so far.

I made this fish sweatshirt card for the Release Party Sketch Challenge hosted by Theresa over at StampTV.com.  I wonder if she realized that the little fisher guy in her set, Gone Fishing, makes the perfect "i" for the word fish from her Eat. Sleep. Fish sentiment. I discovered this by accident and decided to use it on a sweatshirt stamp from Just So Sporty. I stamped the sweatshirt on white and blue sheets from the Basic Grey Granola pad.  I cut the sleeves and hood from the blue shirt and paper pieced it to the white shirt.  I also stamped the "F sh" from the sentiment stamp using a black marker to omit the "i".  Then I used a Stamp-A-Ma-Jig to line up the little fisher guy. The sweatshirt is mounted on a piece from brown paper from the same pad and then mounted on Pure Luxury Black Onyx.  I used a real piece of burlap and stitched the border with black DMC embroidery floss.  Stampin' Up's retired Blue Bayou matched the blue from the paper pad perfectly. I inked up a small piece with the same color ink using the SU background stamp, Sanded.  The striped piece is also from the Granola pad.  Attached some pewter brads and put it all together on a PL Black Onyx card base measuring 5" x 6.5". 

Next is this card I made for Lee's Release Party Color Challenge. She challenged us to use Aqua, Lemon and a neutral.  Most people were using white as the neutral so I decided to pick a different color.  I chose Pure Luxury Chocolate.  The aqua is Cool Caribbean and the Lemon is Pure Luxury Lemon Drop along with some lemon colored paper from Basic Grey Origins paper pad. I love the font used for the Happy Birthday sentiment from the set Sending Sunshine and could not resist using it here.  The daffodils are also from Sending Sunshine.

The paper flower on this one was originally intended for the Color Challenge card but was too big.  So I decided to make another card with the similar color scheme, but adding some Kraft and a piece of green satin ribbon. Sentiment and butterflies are from Sending Sunshine.

My final card is my entry for Tina's color challenge to use Ocean Mist and Tan Leather with a neutral.  I used the spotlight technique on the flowers and kept the card simple.

I hope you enjoyed your weekend. It had been dreary here and sign of sunshine for the next few days. Good stamping weather. :o)  Back to work tomorrow and another crazy week.  If you have time, please leave a comment let me know what you think or if you have any questions about anything I've shared.  Make it a fabulous week!

Transparent Bookmark

Karen has an awesome challenge this week over at StampTV.  She hosts the weekly, Anything But a Card challenge. This week the challenge is to make a bookmark using a folded piece of plastic or transparency sheet and embellishing it with stamps and other fun stuff.

I made a masculine bookmark with the new Gina K Designs stamp set, Gone Fishing. I stamped the Cat O Nine Tails with white Stazon onto the folded transparency. I stamped the fisherman and the sentiment with Night of Navy on Pure Luxury Kraft card stock and cut it out with the Labels One Nestabilities die. I drew a fish line with a white pen and I coated the word FISH with glaze ink from a Sakura glaze pen. I added some brads in the corder for a manly hardware look. The Pure Luxury In The Navy mat layer is also cut from a Labels One die, the next size up. I embossed it with the Argyle embossing folder and adhered it to the transparency sheet. Then I wrapped the striped ribbon around with the ends meeting in the middle front. I also added a small ribbon tab to the top. Finally I adhered the Kraft layer with 3M foam tape.

Gone Fishing Guest Designer

Theresa Momber illustrated a fabulous new set for Gina K Designs called Gone Fishing. I have never been dissapointed with any of the sets that she illustrated. The images are always incredibly detailed and give stampers the ability to create amazing scenes or simple cards so easily. I was smiling from ear to ear when she asked me to be her guest designer. And I said yes without even knowing what the set looked like. That is because I knew it would be awesome, and it is! :o) 

There are so many great images in this set. My favorite is the father and son (or uncle and nephew or grandpa and gandson) sitting on the edge of the dock waiting to catch that big fish.  For the first card I am sharing I used several of the images to create this fun scene and I used a sketch from Card Positioning Systems (CPS #163).  I tried to embellish the card but still keep it manly.  So I cut a strip of burlap and removed some of the threads to create a frayed look. I used some cream colored DMC crochet thread to wrap around some of the corners.  It reminded me of rope from a boat.  And the sign in the bottom corrner is from another set illustrated by Theresa called Happy Camper.  The scene is stamped on Pure Luxury Kraft card stock.  I colored it with Koh-I-Noor colored pencils and blended with paper stumps and baby oil.

Of course after they were finished fishing and caught the big one they had to mount it to the wall.  That is what I did on my next card. And this mounted fish doesn't sing. LOL!  I made the wood piece with the Labels 8 and the FREE digi paper download from StampTV.com.  After cutting it out I sponged the whole piece with Vivid Tuscan Tan and then edged it with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  I colored the fish with Copic markers and mounted it with 3M foam tape. I added some brads for nails to hang it up and tied "rope" (more DMC floss) on the layer behind the wood mount.  The DP is from Cosmo Cricket Nutmeg Mini Deck.  And I used Pure Luxury Kraft and Green Apple.

After leaving a comment to let me know what you think head over to blog of the other Guest Designer for Theresa's new set, Mary Anne.  She has a wonderful story that she shared about her brother and fishing.