It's another Happy Birthday

Welcome to November 1,  and also welcome to my blog. 

Since it's November 1, it's time for the next challenge over at Love to Scrap.

I made a fun birthday card using a stamp I've had for a long time. 

Do you ever look at an image and get a sense of what the finished project might look like??  Well with this card I decided to go with a watercolor look. 

I used a few things to get the look I ended up with. I used some Wink of Stella, some Spectrum Noir Sparkle, Color Burst powders, and water for the watercolor effect.

My card is a 5"X7" which is my favorite size.

The stamp is 3 1/4"X 5 1/4" so that gave me room on the card base to add some strips for additional interest. I also added some peel off border stickers to add a little extra to the strips

products used:

• Joy stamp - Art Gone Wild(Cling Stamp)
• Staz-On - Black
• watercolor paper
• water
• water brush
• Wink of Stella
• Spectrum Noir Sparkle
• Color Burst powders

The Wink of Stella, Spectrum Noir Sparkle and the Color Burst powders worked great to give my card a water color look. So if you have those items sitting around collecting dust, get them out and put them to work.

Hope to see your card in the challenge. The challenge runs until Dec. 15, so you have plenty of time to get your card entered.

Well that is it for this card. Hope you were inspired to do a little water coloring.

Thanks for stopping in

See you soon

Happy Fall

 Hello Everyone

Thanks for stopping in today. 

It's November 1 and WOW!! we are halfway thru fall already and winter will soon be here. And after that its Christmas and......LOL Well you know how that goes!!

And since it's November 1, its time for the next Love To Scrap Challenge. We'd love to see your project submitted. Recently I came across a card design that really caught my eye. And I figured it would look great as a fall card. 

I made a leaf stencil. Actually I made 2. One stencil for the left side of the leaf and a stencil for the right side of the leaf. I used an ink blending tool to apply the colors and decided to show 2 leaves.

Of course I used some green and some orange/yellow colors. I still have green leaves on some of the trees here in my area.

After the leaves were stenciled on to my CS top layer, I stamped the image of a tree with no leaves over the stenciled leaves, perfect for that fall look. I have some Outline Stickers that contained some small leaves in a copper color. And that sheet also had a acorn as well..... perfect for under the tree. 

I added Outline Stickers swirls to the top corners and the sentiment and then mounted to a copper CS layer and then mounted to the card base.

This was a fun card to make and I will have to get my other stencils out to see what else I can come up with.

Products used:

Stamp - B-Line Designs Tree Silhouette (Old and B-Line is gone now- sadly)

Outline Stickers - Stamp On It

Inks - Distress Oxides - Mowed Lawn, Crushed Olive, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade

Cardstock- DP's, white CS

Stencil - Leaf Shape

Thanks for stopping by and I will be back soon

With Heartfelt Sympathy

Welcome back to my blog.

And welcome to another month. Hmm, November, I am looking forward to turkey, are you?? It will be here before we know it.

And it's also time to welcome in a new challenge over at Love To Scrap. The challenge starts today (November 1)  and goes til December 15. Love To Scrap is a fun challenge blog and welcomes all types of scrapped projects - cards, scrapbook layouts, ATCs, mixed media, altered items, 3-D projects, etc. - using bits of new or leftover stuff.  And we all have leftover stuff don't we?? LOL

Well let me share my Design Team inspiration project with you. 

I needed to make some sympathy cards and thought I'd share this one with you. I used some older stamps and some scrap CS and DP.   No coloring, so this was quick and easy to put together. I mentioned I used some old stamps, I seem to never get rid of stamps, I just keep adding to my stash.  I have a treasure trove, LOL.  Maybe I need to thin the herd so to speak. (Nah!!)

Products I used:

CS - White CS, Dark Blue CS, DP
Ink - Memento - Tuxedo Black
Stamps - Stampendous - Flowers; MSE Sympathy Innie & Outies

I am submitting my project in the following challenges:

• Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday  - Anything Goes (#5)

Thanks for stopping in today and I will be back soon. Hope to see you then