Counting The Waves of Love

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 593 - Eating Cake and Pointing at the Wild Sky and for dessert "at the beach" which is where I long to be 90% of the time. It is also my Cool Treat place that I treat myself to as much as possible so this is also for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 384 - Cool Treats. I used my Marvy Mega Circle Punch to create my open circle for sponging for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 590 - Everything Old is New Again - Reverse Masking. I sponged soft sky, stamped my dolphin image in black then sponged pacific point for the water. I lined the waves lines with stickles for bling. I used the circle from the mask to cover my focal image and sponged some crumb cake then stamped some itty bitty background image in crumb cake to simulate sand. The palm tree die was cut out in crumb cake and wild wasabi.

On the inside I stamped a sentiment from the ODB set in pacific point ink then inked up just the last part of the sentiment and stamped on the envelope. Hope you like it. I have a 16 days count down to our next family beach trip. Cant wait.  
RECIPE:

Stamps: SU - Itty Bitty Backgrounds, ODB - Count The Waves, Dolphins

Paper: white, crumb cake, wild wasabi

Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Crumb Cake, Pacific Point, Soft Sky

Accessories: Dimensionals, ODB -Palm Tree Die, sponges, stickles

Techniques: 3D, sponging, reverse masking, masking

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

May Flowers for Your Birthday

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 588 - Stencil Monoprint, today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 379 - May Flowers, and last Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 584 - Wondering who Crushed my Pumpkin pie.
I think I may have added too much water. I used my SU coordinating markers to ink up my stencil then huffed and misted before turning upside down on my watercolor paper. To add some depth I used the pen side to accent the lines and flower centers. I cut the HB sentiment out in crushed curry cs. 

On the inside I stamped a sentiment from Sweet and Sassy's Birthday Innies set in watermelon wonder. For the envelope I inked Happy in crushed curry and Birthday in watermelon wonder. Hope you like it.














RECIPE:

Stamps: SU- It's Your Birthday, SNS- Birthday Innies

Paper: white, watercolor, watermelon wonder

Ink: Watermelon Wonder, Crushed Curry, Pumpkin Pie, Old Olive

Accessories: Memory Box Happy Birthday die, Memory Box Flora Stencil

Techniques: Stencil Monoprint, CAS

All Around Borders Because I Care about Mothers

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 585 - All Around Borders and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 376 - For A Special Lady. Well here is # 1 of 5 needed for this time next year. I will NOT get caught without any Mother's Day cards like this year. I don't know how that happened but once is enough for me. So I used the short small flower stamp all around for border, stamped the flower in tuxedo black then colored with copics. stamped the sentiments in melon mambo and matted on melon mambo then the white card base. I used my white jel pen for the flower centers. Hope you like it.

RECIPE: Stamps: Because I Care, All Holidays, All Around Border, Blessings From Heaven Paper: White, Melon Mambo Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Melon Mambo Accessories: white jel pen, Techniques: All Around Border, copic coloring, CAS

Jessie's Birthday Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 579 - I Lost my Honey in a Gray Lagoon, Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 373 - It's About Birthdays and Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 444.
My darling hubby will be celebrating a birthday in August and as I put this together it just screamed for him so I went on and wrote his name on the envelope so I wouldn't change my mind later. LOL.
I used some dp from MME - Home stack for the 3 panels and unusual for me I used the basic gray cs for my card base. I usually use either white or vanilla since they are in more abundance and easier to restock.

I used white on the inside so I could stamp the sentiment and stamped in lost lagoon the Birthday Innies sentiment from sweet-n-sassy stamps.  I love this sentiment and can not believe it is the first time I have used it.  On the envelope I used the balloon stamp from Favorite Teddy Stampin Up set in hello honey ink. 
I lost my SU demonstrator and have to find a new one. I also thought I had lost my mojo since a month had past and I just could NOT get inspired by the challenges. Still not sure I ever had any mojo but gave it a shot today anyway. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Favorite Teddy, Birthday Innies, SNS, 
Paper: White, basic gray, My Minds Eye - Home, hello honey, lost lagoon 
Ink: hello honey, lost lagoon 
Accessories: HB Die - Impression Obsession 
Techniques: CAS, 3D, die cuts

Smackin' Essence of Love

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 584. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 574 - Crisp Sahara Cake. I used Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 577 - Smackin' Acetate for my left sided panel and heat embossed the image after stamping in versa mark. On the envelope and inside of the card I stamped the small butterfly in crisp cantaloupe both front and inside for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 368 - Spring Critters.

I also stamped in sahara sand on the inside a sentiment from Blessings from Heaven.
I am so having trouble with this computer or my internet connection as it took 30min just to edit the front view pic. I will keep working to edit the inside and load it as well. I hate time restrictions but that is what happens when you have to work to earn more money to buy more stuff. LOL
RECIPE:
Stamps: Essence of Love, Blessings from Heaven 
Paper: white, crisp cantaloupe, sahara sand 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Versa mark, Crisp Canelope, Sahara Sand, Crumb Cake 
Accessories: super fine black embossing powder 
Techniques: Smackin' Acetate, heat embossing

Flight of the Spring Butterfly

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 577 - Smackin' Acestate following the tutorial found HERE I used so saffron, marina mist and pistachio pudding markers on my acetate, misted then pressed it onto white cs. And for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 368 - Spring Critters I inked up the solid image with crushed curry, island indigo and wild wasabi markers, huffed and stamped over my smackin' acetate section. I used the stamp-a-ma-jig for placement to stamp the floral section after inking with island indigo. I chose a butterfly as my cute spring critter. I always love to see them and the birds return in the spring.

For the inside and envelope I used so saffron and island indigo inks.
I hope you like it. Now off to work I go.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Flight of the Butterfly 
Paper: white, Island Indigo 
Ink: Crushed Curry, Island Indigo, Wild Wasabi, So Saffron, Marina Mist, Pistachio Pudding 
Accessories: stickles 
Techniques: Smackin' Acetate

Painted Morning Soft Thanks

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 572 - Getting Real Wild in the Mist of the Pacific with dessert of twine, floss or ribbon.
I used my SU Markers to paint on the pacific blue and wild wasabi inks on the image for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 575 - Paint Your Stamps. I used some Ranger Red Glitter embossing powder and heat embossing the sentiment on the front for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 366 - Glittery Sentiments. I tied some red and white twine after matting on pacific point cs. I inked that stamp using the marker and stamped the sentiment again on the front of the envelope.

For the inside I stamped the image again huffing on it and without re-inking then inked up the sentiment using the real red marker and stamped over the image.
Now let's go to work.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Morning Soft, All Year Cheer I 
Paper: white, pacific point 
Ink: Versamark, copics, SU Markers - wild wasabi, real red, pacific point 
Accessories: twine, Ranger Red Glitter EP, copics 
Techniques: heat emboss, CAS, Painted stamps

In My thoughts with Hope

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 570 - Honey and Cherry Meadows, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 573 - Revisiting Emboss Resist, and Monday's MOJO MONDAY'S SKETCH CHALLENGE # 435.
I have been MIA all week last week sick with sinus junk and just not feeling well enough to play and I think it is coming back for round 2 but I wanted to make something today. It started as a sympathy card and turning into encouragement for a co-worker who has worked hard all of her life and just at the peak of her career she goes and has a major stroke leaving her child-like in mentality. Such a sad situation as she was the breadwinner for her family. There is still hope that her faculties might return but not back where they were. The white embossed trees are a sign of winter when the leaves die off and the branches are bare. The mossy meadow tree popped up is the hope of the future that ins the spring the leaves and branches come back to life again. 
Off to work I go.

I stamped the single tree on the inside after stamping off 2 times then the sentiment on top of the tree.  I hope she likes it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: In My Thoughts, Lovely as a Tree, Word on Word 
Paper: White, Hello Honey, Mossy Meadow, Bo Bunny-Forever Fall dp 
Ink: Hello Honey, Cherry Cobbler, Mossy Meadow 
Accessories: dimensionals, Cottage Cutz Tree 
Techniques: 3D, emboss Resist, 2nd generation stamping

Bootiful Occassions Purple Birthday card for Madison

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 571 - Naked Stamping and today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 362 - A Purple Birthday. I have a granddaughter, Madison, who thinks purple is the only acceptable color so this will be her birthday card this year. She also loves her boots. I used one of my fav techniques, ink spray and smash, to make this.

I did the same stamping on the inside and stamped the Happy Bootday on the envelope all in black ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Bootiful Occassions 
Paper: white, glossy white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Perfect Plum 
Accessories: glossy white paper 
Techniques: ink, spray and smash, Naked Stamping, masking

Curvy Verses Valentine Card

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 567 - Strawberry Macaroon Espressos with dessert to make a Valentine card. My layout is from Monday's MOJO MONDAY SKETCH CHALLENGE # 432.
I found my DCWV stash of dp and went with it. I did not even try the TLC again today :(

All sentiments are stamped in strawberry slush. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: All Year Cheer III, Curvy Verses Paper: vanilla, strawberry slush, mint macaroon, DCWV Garden Party dp Ink: strawberry slush Accessories: dimensionals, Memory box LOVE die

Love and Sympathy Simply Soft

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 566 - Doing the mambo wearing Pink and eating Pumpkin Pie. Hold on to your hats ladies as this is a single challenge for me today. GASP!!
I stamped the flower image in momento tuxedo black then colored with copics and added some stickles because. For my white front panel I stamped the sentiment on the front in melon mambo then adhered to the white card base after adding the pink ribbon.

The inside was stamped with the flower 2nd generation stamping in pretty in pink then the sentiment in pumpkin pie both from the SU set Love and Sympathy. The envelope was stamped also in melon mambo.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Love and Sympathy, Simply Soft 
Paper: white 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, pretty in pink melon mambo, pumpkin pie 
Accessories: ribbon, copics, stickles 
Techniques: copic coloring

Sweet Talking Full of Love for You

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 575 where I took a small liberty changing the circle to a heart. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 565 - What's Black and White and Red all over?". How could I resist making a valentine card with these colors in this weeks challenge? Well I couldn't so I did. What I could do is figure out how to include the odd shape for Monday's TLC and white on white for the CAS challenge this week. LOL. So just 2 challenges for me today but I love how it turned out.
I dry embossed the Darice Hearts diagonal embossing folder on white and matted it on the white cs base then cut the heart from some real red cs. I popped up the black ribbon under the LOVE sentiment cut from black cs.

Hope you like it as much as I do. Have a fabulous day my stamping friends.

For the inside I stamped a sentiment from SU's Full of Life set using cherry cobbler ink and the envelope I stamped the solid heart in cherry cobbler then the open heart and sentiment in momento tuxedo black ink on the front left corner of my envelope.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Full of Life, Sweet Talk 
Paper: white, black, real red 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Cherry Cobbler 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, Nestability Heart, Memory Box Love die, Darice Hearts Diagonal 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing

God's Short & Sweet Birthday Blessings

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 574. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 564 - I have a Crush on Pacific Sand. I inked up the negative side of the Happy Birthday embossing folder with pacific point then embossed sahara sand circle and ran it through the cuttlebug for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 567 - Other than a stamp. I choose to make another HAPPY Birthday card for Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 358 - Are You HAPPY?. I stamped the short & sweet sentiment in cucumber crush on sahara sand cs and punched out a balloon from Martha Stewart punch in pacific point and popped both up on dimensionals.

I also stamped this on the front of the envelope. For the inside I used God's Blessings set and stamped in cucumber crush ink. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: God's Blessings, Short & Sweet 
Paper: Vanilla, Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush, Sahara Sand, The Paper Studio - Day at the Beach 
Ink: Pacific Point, Cucumber Crush 
Accessories: dimensionals, HB embossing folder, 
Techniques: 3D, dry embossing, Inking the negative embossing folder

Frosty All Wrapped Up for Christmas

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 565 - Wrapping Up Christmas and for today's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 356 - Some people are worth melting for. Well my husband, daughters and grandkids certainly are worth melting for and Saturday they melted my heart with the joy on their faces as they opened their gifts. I spent less this year than I have in a long time but the faces still glowed with joy and excitement. Anyway, I love this darling snowman and have not had an opportunity to ink him up until today. I am still trying to work on my hills and snowbanks. Maybe one day I will get it rights. These turned out tooo dark to suit me. I added stickles to the base of the snowbanks and around the snowman for bling. I wrapped the ribbon around the pool party panel and tied a bow on the end. I colored the snowman with copics. On the front, inside and envelope I stamped in pool party. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Jolliest Time of the Year, Come to Bethlehem
Paper: white, pool party 
Ink: Pool Party, copics 
Techniques: copic coloring, bow, masking, snowbanks

Happy Birthday Big Boy for James

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 569. My color combo is from Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENG E# 559 - Honey there's a rose in my garden and the popped up HAPPY is from the MFP set I used stamped in garden green, cut and popped up on dimensionals for Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 562 - Pieced and Cut Words the rose red HB are from It's Your Birthday SU Set. 

I used a sentiment from IYB set for the inside and the HHB for the envelope. I needed a masculine birthday card for Jessie's brother so this will go in the mail today.  Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: It's Your Birthday & All Year Cheer II - SU, Big Boy Toys - MFP 
Paper: white, hello honey, garden green, rose red 
Ink: Garden Green, rose red 
Accessories: dimensionals, ribbon, clear glaze 
Techniques: sponging, copics, 3D

Lovely Decorating Snowman

This is for today's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 558 - White Silhouettes where I stamped my tree in versamark then added white embossing powder and heat set it. This is also for today's CAS349 - Time To Hibernate and for this I inked up my Inky Antics "Decorating Snowman" set and stamped the image in momento tuxedo black once on the white card base and once on white paper which I cut out and used as a mask. After my images where the way I wanted I began sponging at the bottom with soft sky, then pool party then coastal cabana at the top. I love these 3 colors together. I colored the snowman image with copics BG10, 11, 13, & 15, R13 & 15, Y02, and YR23.

The inside sentiment and the tree on the envelope were stamped in coastal cabana. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Lovely as a Tree - SU, Decorating Snowman - IA 
Paper: white, Coastal Cabana 
Ink: Momento Tuxedo Black, Soft Sky, Pool Party, Coastal Cabana 
Accessories: white detail embossing powder, copics 
Techniques: sponging, masking, hombre, silhouettes, copic coloring

Snow Globe with Burst of Merry Messages

This is for today's COLOR CHALLENGE # 554 - Eating Cake in the Breezy Meadow with dessert of pattern paper, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 557 - Dangle Art, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 348 - Holiday Ace It. I am so loving this new stack of Christmas dp Shannon and I picked up on opening events at Hobby Lobby in Tifton. Bo Bunny Altitude is the name of it. I started out to make a shaker card and realized I had stars but no snowflakes and all of my punches were too big so I just stamped the globe on acetate, cut it out and glued it to the image. My dangled artwork was colored with copics. The globe was stamped in crumb cake, the trees in mossy meadow and the sentiments on the inside and envelope in mossy meadow.

On the inside I also stamped a snowflake from Snow Burst in Baja Breeze.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Snow Globe, Snow Burst, Many Merry Messages 
Paper: white, Bo Bunny Altitude dp I
nk: black scripto 01 pen, crumb cake, Baja Breeze, Mossy Meadow 
Accessories: dimensionals, copics, scripto 01 pen 
Techniques: frame, dangle art

A Basket Full of Fun Apples

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 560, Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 550 - Soft Marina Daffodils, Monday's TECHNIQUE LOVERS CHALLENGE # 553 - Doodled Dry Embossing, and Monday's CLEAN AND SIMPLE CHALLENGE # 344 - How about them apples?. Now how could I resist combining all of these together. I wanted a larger apple and do not have the Spellbinders Apple dies YET so I hand drew and cut out an apple from daffodil delight cs. My embossing folder is the Paper Studio Intricate Swirl doodled with white jel pen. I added some yellow ribbon on the left panel of soft sky.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment and apples in daffodil delight and the basket in marina mist. On the envelope I stamped the sentiment in marina mist. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Basket Full of Fun 
Paper: white, daffodil delight, soft sky, marina mist 
Ink: Daffodil Delight, Marina Mist 
Accessories: ribbon, white jel pen, dimensionals, Integrate Swirl EF
Techniques: 3D, doodled dry embossing, doodling

Season's Greetings with Snow Burst

This is for today's SKETCH CHALLENGE # 559 and Tuesday's COLOR CHALLENGE # 549 - Whispering in the Silver Lagoon. I have been wanting to try the OMBRE' TECHNIQUE using SCS Tutorial and today I gave it a try. I tried first with my brayer which I have NEVER mastered the use of then with sponges using pool party and lost lagoon ink pads. Liked it much better since I got a more even and smooth look. I stamped the snowflakes the heat embossed across the top then the sentiment with lost lagoon at the bottom where the color was the lightest. This was matted on smokey slate gray cs then white base.

On the inside I stamped the sentiment in lost lagoon then on the envelope I stamped the largest snowflake in pool party then over the sentiment without re-inking. Hope you like it.
RECIPE:
Stamps: Season's Greetings, Snow Burst 
Paper: white, lost lagoon, smokey slate gray 
Ink: Pool Party, Lost Lagoon 
Accessories: detail white, winter wonderland, and silver embossing powders 
Techniques: heat embossing, ombre'