Let's Cheer for the Fathers

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 596. My colors are from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 586 - Green Pool Mist. This is also for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 380 - Polka Stripes. I dusted off a My Favorite things Stamp Set I have had for eons for this card. My window ended up a bit short and it looks like a headless man sitting in a recliner, Oh well, it is what it is. I fussy cut and paper pieced the chair, the man, the rug and the tv. I used my distressed stripes embossing folder on the recliner, I inked the polka dot background stamp with marina mist and stamped on pool party cs for wallpaper. 
Hope you like it

On the inside and envelope I stamped the sentiments in marina mist.
         














RECIPE:

Stamps: MFT- Let's hear it for the boys, SU- Polka Dot background, All Year Cheer I

Paper: white, marina mist, garden green, pool party

Ink: Marina Mist

Accessories: dimensionals, Sizzix Brick EF, CB Distressed Stripes EF,

Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, window

Jaylen's 6th Birthday Card

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE 480 - Stamp the Senitment over the image, CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE 271- Casing Arizona Maine, and MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE 344.
I have been MIA since mid November and to explain ALL that has gone on would bore you to tears but today I was ready to stamp again. I choose to CASE Arizona's BIRTHDAY CANDLES. I wish I had that die cut now. WOW those candles are fabulous. To make mine I used the hershey kiss drop image from MFT How Sweet It Is set and stamped them in the SU ink colors then colored them in with coordinating copic colors using B14, V25, YG17, Y18, YR14, and R29. I stamped the sentiment over them in black then popped the tag up on dimensionals. I used pacific point ink to stamp the HB sentiment on the banner. I am not thrilled with the outcome but it is for my turning 6 yr old grandson. He will be happy to open it up and find a $20 bill in it then the card will get tossed aside, LOL. Gotta love kids today right.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Birthday Greetings, So Many Sayings, How Sweet It Is, My Favorite Things
Paper: White, Birthday DP
Ink: Pacific Point, Pefect Plum, Gumball Green, Daffodil Delight, Pumpkin Pie, Riding Hood Red, Basic Black
Accessories: Tag Punch, Corner Punch, Copics, Stickles
Techniques: Stamp The Sentiment over the image, Copic Coloring, Tags

Baby Boy Congrats

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 404. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 394 - Navy Pacific Sand.
My night of navy panel was punched using the smaller size of my crop-a-dile, then the dots were glued to the pacific point panel for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 396 - Make your own Polka Dots.
I found the piece of dp from a stash of Martha Stewart paper I have had for eons. The button with the hemp bow is from My Favorite Things Button Quartet die set. My sentiment is from SU Congrats and is stamped in night of navy. I used a corner punch for the focal panel.
RECIPE: Stamps: Congrats - SU Paper: white, night of navy, pacific point, sahara sand, MS dp Ink: night of navy Accessories: crop-a-dile, corner punch, MFT Button die, dimensionals, hemp Techniques: polka dots, 3D

Hello Cupcake

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 370 - Faux Patina. I am soo looking forward to seeing everyone else's samples as mine sorta took a wrong turn somewhere. Not so happy with end result but loading anyway.
I am also including today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 163 - Family Circle Inspiration even though my 1st attempt using the pastel colors failed and I ended up with a much brighter than desired end result, ggrrr.
My layout is from Sunday's CARD POSITIONING SYSTEM SKETCH CHALLENGE # 258.
My colors used are summer sun, kiwi kiss, pixie pink and lovely lavendar in that order.
I stamped the image in momento tuxedo black, then the icing images in the same colors used for the background using SU Markers and huffing.
I cut it out, popped it up and applied some stickles.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Hello Cupcake - MGT
Paper: white, summer sun
Ink: momento tuxedo black, summer sun, kiwi kiss, pixie pink, lovely lavendar
Accessories: markers, copics, cuttlebug, TPS Intricate Swirl EF
Techniques: Faux Patina

Chocolate Therapy, It Works!

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 362 - Try This or Try That since I flopped at the fold attempt I went with the double vision. I stamped in crumb cake on crumb cake then used my stamp-a-ma-jig to stamp off just a bit in choc chip.
My colors come from Friday's FREE 4 ALL CHALLENGE # 101 - Chocolate Cake where we were to use crumb cake and choc chip at least on a creation.
I used a sentiment from Rubbernecker that just tickles my funny bone and the choc drop image is from a set from My Favorite Things.
Hope you like it, now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Chocolate Therapy-RN, Sweet Things - MFT
Paper: Crumb Cake, Choc Chip
Ink: Crumb Cake, Choc Chip
Accessories: ribbon, stamp-a-ma-jig
Techniques: double vision

Girls Day In

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Breezy Ruby Whispers. I bought this set recently while I was attending a class taught by Kim herself from My Favorite Things. We had such blast I wish I lived closer. I remember the shading technique she taught us that day and did on this one. My image is stamped in black and matted in black. I used copics BG000, BG72, C51, C53, R22, R27 & colorless blender to color and shade. The sentiments are stamped in ruby red. I used a sheet of baja breeze dp from Ski Slope. I distressed all of the layers edges. I used a set from MFT called Girls Day In. I really like how this turned out.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Girls Day In - MFT
Paper: white, black, ruby red, baja breeze, ski slope
Ink: black, ruby red
Accessories: ribbon
Techniques: distressing

MFT- Time For Relaxing

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - Buttons. For my layout I used MY FAVORITE THINGS SKETCH CHALLENGE - # 83. For my color combo I used Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - So Bashful Pumpkins. I recently attended a stamp class hosted by none other than Kim herself and had such a blast. We got to play with this new set that day and I ordered both of these label sets as soon as they were released. I love them both but especially this one. I stamped the image in black brilliance, drew my hardwood floor, then colored and shaded with copics. I covered the bubbles with stickles. I used some Washington Apple dp for the 3 back panels and matted them on so saffron. I had some wide baby blue sheer ribbon and thought it would work perfect. I heated the ends of the ribbon with my heat gun to make them twist a bit. The focal image is popped up. I will stamp and color this image again for a label to be placed on some a jar of bath salts to give these as a gift set. I hope whomever gets these will love them as much as I did making them. I had loaded this earlier and kicked myself bc I meant to put a button on this since I am sooo bad about not using them. Then the WT challenge was loaded and I really did want to kick myself so I came home from work and did a do-over.f Now I am happy with it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Time For The Bubbly Label Set, MFT
Paper: white, so saffron, bashful blue, pumpkin pie, Washington Apple
Ink: black brilliance, pumpkin pie
Accessories: stickles, ribbon, dimensionals

MFT - Girls Day In

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Purely Brilliant Orange. I used my new set I bought at a recent stamp class Shannon and I attended in FL. The class demo was Kim herself from My Favorite Things and this was one of the sets we got a chance to play with. I liked it so much I had to buy it. My images were stamped with black brilliance the colored with copics cut out and popped up. I stamped one sentiment in only orange and the other in rose red. I attached 3 blue gems on the card base layer. The dp is from a stack from My Minds Eye. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Girls Day In - MFT
Paper: white, MME, brilliant blue,
Ink: black brilliance, rose red, only orange
Accessories: copics, gems, Fiskars Border Punch
Techniques: 3D

Bathroom Inspiration By The Seashore

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY CHALLENGE - Make Yourself At Home where we were to be inspired to use colors from one room in our house. I picked our upstairs bathroom (you can see the picture of my inspiration HERE. The window curtains were made from material I found at WalMart back when we had a sewing department. ggrrrrr. The walls were already painted that pepto pink color and being the new family member I did not want to change everything so I left it. The room off to the left of this bathroom was painted the same color bc it was my dh's daughters room for her overnights before she married. When she married I toook claim on it and the 1st thing I did was change the wall color to a soft blue. LOL . I used Wednesday's SKETCH CHALLENGE for my layout and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - Basic Rose Pirouettes color combo and added some browns, yellow, blue and cool carribean, sorry if that is cheating a bit. I have not got this set dirty since I bought it. What a shame, it is just adorable. Inked in black brilliance and colored with copics. I sponged the sun with Summer Sun, the clouds with bashful blue using a punched oval scallop as a mask and the ocean with cool carribean using a torn sheet of paper for a mask. I added some lines of stickles to the ocean for a sparkle effect. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: By The Seashore - MFT
Paper: Rose Red, White
Ink: Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Pretty In Pink, Basic Gray
Accessories: copics, stickles, dimensionals, oval scallop
Techniques: masking, 3D

How Sweet It Is

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Paper Pleats. I dusted off this set from My Favorite Things and inked it up, colored w/copics. I used my new pack of My Minds Eye dp. My pleat is a giga scallop oval made into a lamp shade. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: How Sweet It Is - MFT
Paper: White, MME
Ink: Black Brilliance, Realy Rust
Accessories: Ribbon, Score Pal
Techniques: Paper Pleats

Totally Witchin' Sketch

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE. I still need a couple of Halloween cards and have been making tooo many Christmas cards lately so this is what I came up with. Took way too long to make this one.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Halloween Backgrounds, Totally Witchin - MFT
Paper: non su
Ink: black
Accessories: MS bat, spider, and border punch

Totally Torn Witchin'

This is for today's WAYS TO USE IT CHALLENGE - All Torn Up. I decided to use my new MFT set called Totally Witchin' for this one. I also experimented with one of my new Cuttlebug folders. I used the spider web to emboss on black then brushed the raised side with my versamark pad. Sprinked Diamond Dust EP and heat set it. Unfortunately the VM must have also got inbetween some of the raised lines bc I have glittery EP in places I did not want it. :( . Oh well I stamped the spider and cut it out. Whew that is not easy for an old lady like me with contacts in and glasses for magnifying but I got it done. The image was stamped in black stazon on white then colored with prismacolor pencils, blended w/gamsol and cut out around the frame. Matted on red cs stamped with a portion of one of the sentiments. The spider is popped up. Not exactlly to look I was going for but done nevertheless. Gotta go get dh's some supper ready. See ya in the challenges tomorrow.

What's Up Cupcake

This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Shellapoo. I chose her CUPCAKE RESIST card to CASE. I changed the colors, left off the cherries, and changed the layout by using the TAYLORED EXPRESSIONS CUPCAKE CHALLENGE from Taylor's blog. This was a fun layout to play with. I am still trying to use up all of the dp I have acquired over the years so I can focus on SU dp more. I have 3 huge pallets of this dp. :( These are white cupcakes with strawberry icing and pixie pink spinkles. Yummy.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Hey Cupcake - MFT
Paper: non SU
Ink: Pixie pink, only orange, creamy caramel
Accessories: ribbon

Neva

HEY CUPCAKE

I got called in to work today so no stamping this morning. But they did let me go home early so I decided to play some. This is for today's FEATURED STAMPER - Susiestampalot. I picked her CELEBRATE CUPCAKEScard to CASE. I changed the colors to use this weeks COLOR CHALLENGE - Almost Wild Saffron. I decided to not color the cup cakes, that was a mistake that I will correct. I used some amethyst pattern paper and my new scallop border with holes punch. tied some ribbon and popped up the sentiment. The base is stamped with Stampabilities Le London Script background. Sorry Susie I just did not do you original justice. I do my best stamping early in the morning

RECIPE:
Stamps: MFT What's Up Cupcake
Paper: so saffron, wild wasabi, almost amethyst, almost amethysts pattern print
Ink: so saffron, almost amethyst, wild wasabi
Accessories: ribbon
Techniques: sponge distressing

NEVA

Birthday Cupcakes for Kim

Well I have just received inspiration from everywhere today so even though I had to work today, my day off :( I had to stamp. This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE. I got mine for this from the colors. I have had this set for a few weeks now and have not yet inked it up. Well this weekend Kim from My Favorite Things turns 40, Yeh! ((hands clapping)) and to help her celebrate I dirtied up my new set so this is also for My Favorite Things Guest Design Challenge. I pierced around the focal image and used my choc chip marker for faux stitching so this is also for July Ambassador #2 Challenge - Paper Piercing. I used this weeks SKETCH CHALLENGE for a layout. I just love this one. The tray was stamped in choc chip. the cupcakes were stamped with cranberry Crisp then colored with cranberrry crisp pad using blender pen. The icing is very vanilla craft ink and white detail embossing powder bc the vanilla just did not show well enough. The spinkles on top are stamped with versa mark and embossed with copper EP bc I am out of brown. Boy did I need to know that last week while we were shopping at Michaels. LOL. I chose these colors because as my dd e3stamper pointed out on her blog MFT BIRTHDAY red velvet is my fav of all time so the sprinkles are supposed to be pecans on top of cream cheese icing. The sentiment is also embossed with copper EP. I had a hard time with taking a good picture that did not show the glare from the EP, all 6 cupcakes have the specs on them it is just not easy to see.

RECIPE;
Stamps: Warmest Regards, What's Up Cupcake, MFT
Paper: White, Cranberry Crisp, Choc Chip, Everyday Tango (My Minds Eye)
Ink: Cranberry Crisp, Vanilla Craft Ink, Choc Chip,
Accessories: White Detail EP, Copper EP, Versa mark,
Techniques: Heat Emboss, Paper Piercing

Here's The Suprise

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE - Real Regal Saffron combined with Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE - Surprise Pop Up Card. The tutorial for the TLC can be found HERE. I ran my regal rose cs through the CB using distressed lines folder after making my cuts and scores. The sentiment is stamped in red on so saffron. The main image is stamped in Brillance black, colored with prismacolor pencils and blended w/Gamsol then I cut the chair out away from the rest of the background image bc it was too large. I just got this set Monday in the mail and could not wait to get it dirty.

RECIPE:
Stamps: My Favorite Things -Here's The Scoop
Paper: Regal Rose, Real Red, So Saffron, Vanila
Ink: Regal Rose, Real Red, So Saffron
Accessories: Crop-a-dile, eyelet
Techniques: Surprise Pop Up Card, Gamsol Magic

FATHER'S DAY DOUBLE POCKET TRIPLE CHALLENGE

WOW I put my thinking cap on and had a blow out.LOL. This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE - soft celery bayou, and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE. I flipped the sketch to fit the treat bag. The image was stamped on white with black stazon then on dp and the chair cut out and pieced onto the white. I colored the rest with prismacolor pencils then blended with gamsol cut the frame of the image out and matted on night of navy with distressed edges. I decided panel 2 was a perfect place to hold my sentiment stamped in night of navy on certainly celery. I used another sheet of My Minds Eye "Wild Asperagus" dp for the bag. I punch out some whole punches in certainly celery and bashful blue for faux brads. I am giving this to my FIL who loves to fish as much as me and dh does. I am stuffing hooks, sinkers, lures, and fishing line in it. I hope he likes it.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Thoughts of Father, Let's Hear It For The Boys, My Favorite Things
Paper: Certainly Celery, Night of Navy, Wild Asperagus (MME)
Ink: Night of Navy, Black Stazon
Accessories: ribbon, cutter kit
Techniques: distressed edges, double pocket bag

Pretty Punch A Bunch of Sprinkles

This is for today's COLOR and Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS - Flap Fold Card CHALLENGES.I used basic gray for my base then stamped one of the Sprinkles images in black on the top and bottom fronts. I trimmed the edge of my 1/2 cicle with scallop decorative scissors, paper pierced then doodled around the edges of my base, the Bashful blue Scallop Circle layer and the inside of the circles of the images with my white soufle pen. The Flower is stamped 3 times in Bashful Blue and cut out at 3 different levels and popped up with a white brad in the center. The hummingbird was colored with prismacolor pencils then blended w/gamsol. Ranger Frosted Lace Stickles applied to the wings and the white belly. Had a really difficult time with these colors.

RECIPE:
Stamps: Pretty Amazing, Sprinkles, MFT-Punch A Bunch
Paper: Basic Gray, Bashful Blue, White
Ink: Bashful Blue, black
Accessories: White Jel Pen, Mega & Giga Scallop Punch, Scallop Decorative Scissors, Paper Piercer, Ranger Frosted Lace Stickles, Brad
Techniques: Paper Piercing, Faux stitching

MFT Ride'em Cowgirl

There was no stamping for me Thursday so I had some catching up to do plus I had some new stamps. YEH!!

This is for today's LIMITED SUPPLY - No Tools, Thursday's WAYS TO USE IT-PP, Wednesday's SKETCH and a past Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS - ALL MIXED UP CHALLENGES. I just received my new MFT stamp set and needed to get it dirty so I stamped the image in Timber Brown Stazon on vanilla and then on the stripped PP. Cut out the skirt and pieced it on the vanilla. I braided 3 shades of hemp and glued this in circle where the rope image is on the stamp. I colored the boots and ground with watercolor pencils and stamped HOWDY in Timber Brown Stazon on the right upper corner of panel 2-b. The only tools used here were a paper cutter for the base & matts and blender pen for the wc pencils.

Be Mine Sweet Celebrations

This stinks that VSN is going on this weekend, dh is working and I could be stamping my heart out every hour but NO, I could not get that lucky, I have a test next week at work for my job that I have to study for, wahhhhh. I did take time to start my day as usual with at least doing the SCS challenge for the day.
This is for today's INSPIRATION CHALLENGE and Beate's WEEKEND SKETCH CHALLENGE. I was inspired by the brown bag with the square pic of flowers and wanted to do Beate's SC anyway so it fit together. I also had some new stamps that were crying to get dirty.lol. The main image is from My Favorite Things set "Be Mine" and was stamped in Timber Brown Stazon then colored with Prismacolor Pencils and blended w/Gamsol. The roses are from Hanna's new "Sweet Celebrations" Set and are colored the same way cut out and popped up. Both are covered w/crystal effects. The lips were stamped w/regal rose then rose red, cut out and popped up. The sentiment is from "Sweet Celebrations" also. This was a fun card to make.

RECIPE:

Stamps: MFT, Be Mine, Hanna Stamps, Sweet Celebrations
Ink: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Timber Brown Stazon
Accessories: Gamsol, Prismacolor Pencils, diminsionals
Techniques: Gamsol Magic