TCC152 Restful Nest

Happy Wednesday, everyone!  Time for a new Card Concept challenge where we challenge you to share your stamping style with us!  Here's today's inspiration:

I just loved that little bird's nest and this challenge gave me a chance to use one of my all-time favorite SU sets, Soft as a Feather, along with a bunch of other stamps!!!  So here we go:

I have already sent out my Easter cards, but I needed a sympathy card, so I thought the colors and country items in the photo would make a nice shabby and vintage-style card.  I stamped the nest on a panel of Naturals White cardstock with Soft Suede ink and daubered some ink over it to fill it in.  The eggs were stamped with Crumb Cake and colored with Petal Pink ink and a blender pen, then fussy-cut and sponged along the edges:

The Petal Pink and Crumb Cake panels were stamped with background stamps and sponged for more vintage shabbiness; the main panel was stamped with another background stamp before adding the sympathy sentiment and a little feather beneath it.  I sponged and distressed the edges and added some baker's twine:

All of this went on a Soft Seafoam mat that was also stamped along the edges with Gorgeous Grunge and sponged some more!  On the inside, I added a second sentiment and feather.  

I also used the Inspire.Create sketch:

Be sure to fly on over to the Card Concept blog to see what the other designers created, and share yours with us as well!  Thanks for popping in today!

I wanted to share a little fun tip about using SU's Blends or Copics for your Easter crafting!  When Cassidy and I were dying eggs on the weekend, I decided to try adding a bunny to one of the eggs before dying it.  Please bear with me, as my artistic skills are lacking (that's why I stamp---someone else does the artwork, LOL!), but here is my Highland Heather bunny:

And after dying...the alcohol ink stayed in place!  He does look a little sad, though!  I am sure you could probably dye first, then draw...or stamp!  Anyway, I thought he was kind of cute!  Enjoy your day and be blessed!

"I will sing to the Lord, for he is highly exalted.  The horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.  The Lord is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation.  he is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him." Exodus 15:1-2

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Soft as a Feather (ret), Birch, Burlap (ret), Gorgeous Grunge (ret), Leaves #3 (Cornish Heritage Farms), Sentiments CL342 (Hero Arts)
Card stock & Papers	Naturals White, Petal Pink, Crumb Cake, Soft Seafoam
Ink	Crumb Cake, Petal Pink, Soft Seafoam, Sahara Sand, Early Espresso
Accessories	Baker's Twine (Dollar Tree), Dimensionals
Tools	Sponge Daubers

TGIFC228 Spooky Coffin

Happy Monday, peeps!  This will be a quick post, it's Stamp Club day and I am busy getting ready for my stampers!  I saw this color challenge at TGIF and I thought it would be fun to use on a Halloween project:

I only bought one Halloween set this year (because I already have SO MANY!!!) but I did get these fun little coffin treat boxes....I am not usually into the scary, creepy Halloween stuff, I am more into fun little punkins and cute witches.....but these looked like they would be fun to put together and they were!  So here we go, using the new Wonderfully Wicked stamp set:

I fussy-cut the spider and bat out and adhered them with mini dimensionals on to the sentiment diecut, but before I adhered it to the coffin lid, I stamped the lid (unassembled) with Versamark ink and the Birch background stamp, then heat-embossed it with black embossing powder.  It came out really cool-looking, although it's tough to see here:

 

I finished gluing it together, put the lid on and added some Basic Black Scalloped Edge Ribbon for fun!  Now, my only dilemma is what candy to put inside!  Thanks for popping in today!

Over the weekend, we had a Fish Fry and a church picnic to attend.  I was too busy to take any pictures at the picnic, but I did get a few from the Fish Fry....Cassidy and her little cousin Jameson were quite the pair!  Jameson wrestled her to the ground (he doesn't know his own strength):

Then they both pretended to be asleep:

Isn't he the picture of orneryness?!!  Proud "Pop" (my BIL) looks on from the background:

Enjoy your day and be blessed!

Project Details—All Products SU! Unless Otherwise Specified
Stamps	Wonderfully Wicked, Birch
Card stock & Papers	Very Vanilla, Coffin Treat Boxes
Ink	Memento Black, Merry Merlot, Smoky Slate, Versamark
Accessories	Basic Black Scalloped Edge Ribbon, Black Dimensionals, Mini Dimensionals, Black Embossing Powder
Tools	Big Shot, Nesting Labels Dies, Heat Tool