A Patriotic Pup

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Alcohol Marker, Close To My Heart, Creative With Stamps, CTMH, Die Cuts and More, Tim Holtz

Hi, thanks for joining me today for my July Creative With Stamps Card Challenge, the theme is Flags…this can be interpreted in so many ways, but I have a friend whose birthday is on Independence Day, so I went with a traditional American flag and added a celebrating little pooch.

Patriotic Pup

I started by cutting a piece of red cardstock with my new Die Cuts and More striped background die that I just won from Kat Scrappiness!  I mounted that onto a white card base.  I added a blue square and topped that off with white enamel stars from Close To My Heart.

I colored the Tim Holtz dog and flag with alcohol markers and mounted it onto the flag background with foam squares. I die cut the sentiment “Celebrate” out of blue cardstock and added it above the pup and called it done.

Please follow the linkHere to the Creative With Stamps blog so you can play along with our challenge, remember you can enter anything with a Flag theme and there are prizes!

I also am playing along with the Kat Scrapiness July challenge, which is backgrounds. Since I received this background die from them in a very generous prize package, I thought it only appropriate. ❤ You can reach their Challenge Here

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Eileen 🙂

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Dog-gone Fun Birthday

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Alcohol Marker, Distress Oxide Ink, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Faded Jeans, funky Line Panel Die, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers, Queen & Co, Scrap The Boys, Shimmer Sheetz, StazOn Ink, Tim Holtz, Twisted Citron, Your Next Stamp

Hello, today we needed a card for the month of May’s Scrap The Boys Card Makers Challenge and the challenge was a fab mood board, that I have displayed below so you can play along too!

I love the colors and the stripes in this, so that is what I ran with….and I suppose the dog was a good substitute for the horse.  🙂

 

I used the Tim Holtz Crazy Dogs set along with the “Crazy Accessories” set for the hat stamp and balloon dies.  I colored the images with alcohol markers and used the matching dies to cut them out.  I cut balloons from Shimmer Sheetz by Elizabeth Craft Designs in the emerald and sapphire jewel tones.  I stamped JOEY 4 onto the balloons with StazOn Ink and tied them to the bone with black thread.

The background was made by blending Faded Jeans, Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Inks.  I spritzed it with water and dabbed dry to get the speckles.  I cut it out using my all time favorite background die, the Your Next Stamp Funky Line Panel Die and just adhered the whole kit-n-kaboodle to the medium blue card base.  I popped up the pup to give him a little more dimension.

The inside was stamped with the balloon from the previously mentioned set and I hand drew in the string that ties it to the sentiment from a Queen & Co gift box themed shaker card kit.

Please head on over to the Scrap The Boys blog to see all the inspiration and we would love to see your card entered in the challenge too!  Just click here to get there!

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Get Your Kicks on Route 66 – STB Challenge

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Close To My Heart, CTMH, Diamond Plate, Distress Oxide Ink, Nuvo Pearl Drops, Peacock Feathers, Riveted Metal, Scrap The Boys, Simon Says Stamp!, Stampers Anonymous, Tim Holtz

Howdy Doo!  Today on the Scrap The Boys Card Challenge the challenge was to use Black & White and one more color, I chose turquoise, plus this month’s sketch, which can be found Here, so head on over and link up your creation!

I have always LOVED black and turquoise together, I had this vision of a vintage car, and since turquoise is a very vintage car color, I thought it would work well for this project.  The card is for my dad’s birthday and I know he will love the Route 66 reference as well as the cars.

STB Route 66 Card

The stamp set is Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Road Trip, I stamped the vintage car three times in Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink onto turquoise cardstock.  I die cut a large circle with the turquoise cardstock and embossed it with Tim Holtz Riveted Metal embossing folder.  I die cut a slightly smaller black circle and embossed that one with the Tim Holtz Diamond Plate embossing folder.  I layered them onto the black card base, added the strip with the cars on top.  I stamped the Route 66 road sign and the sentiment “The Journey Is The Destination” in black onto white cardstock, heat embossed them and cut them out.  I popped both of them up using foam tape.  For the final touch on the outside I added Nuvo white enamel drops to a few spots.

The inside of the card was stamped using a combo of Simon Says Stamp and Close To My Heart stamps, I used the Peacock Feathers Distress Oxide ink on white cardstock and layered it onto a mat of turquoise.

Please head on over to the Scrap The Boys blog to see all the inspiration and we would love to see your card entered in the challenge too!  Again, just click here to get there!

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Friends Gather Here

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Alcohol Marker, Authentique, Distress Oxide Ink, Fossilized Amber, Nuvo Pearl Drops, Sunsational Stamps, Tim Holtz

Salutations, today I needed another Thanksgiving card and I wanted one that was centered on people gathering for a feast, so I thought of the Friends Feast Together set from Sunsational Stamps.  It features Native Americans and Pilgrims, all holding a Thanksgiving dish.  Think of it as a pot luck at Plymouth Rock 😉

Friends Feast Together

I used my distressed sun ray stamp from Tim Holtz that I have had for…ever.  I stamped it with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide ink onto a piece of sky blue cardstock.  That was mounted onto patterned paper from my stash along with a strip of flip side of that patterned paper to form the “land” that anchored my people.

I printed out three of the images, colored them with my alcohol markers and cut them out.  I popped the people up with foam tape to give it dimension.  I added the words “Grateful, Memories & Together” from an Authentique sticker sheet and finished it off with some Nuvo Buttercup Yellow dots.  The inside was simply stamped with “Giving Thanks”

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Creativity Takes Courage

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Cosmo Cricket, Cracked Pistachio, Distress Oxide Ink, Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber, Justrite Stamp Co, Tea Dye, Tim Holtz, Vintage Photo

Hello, I decided to get inky today and play with my new Distress Oxide inks.  I needed a masculine thank you card for someone who is an artist…talk about pressure!  I was nervous, but in the end I am happy with the results.

Creativity Takes Courage Card

I rubbed various colors of Distress Oxide ink; Vintage Photo, Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick & Cracked Pistachio onto my craft mat and spritzed with a little water.  I mixed the Fossilized Amber and Fired Brick together to add an orange to my brown and yellow palette.  I took a piece of watercolor paper and dipped it in the various colors, drying with my heat gun in between each layer.  I added a small amount of Cracked Pistachio as the last layer  to give a patina look.  On the sentiment, which is the Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers, I sponged on Vintage Photo and Cracked Pistachio before adding them to the card.

Next up I dug out my newsprint background stamp by Justrite Stamp Co and a couple of small Tim Holtz stamps.  I used Walnut Stain, Black Soot and Tea Dye for my random background print.

I added jewelry cording around the card and attached it in three places with my stapler. I added a vintage button from a Cosmo Cricket embellie set.  The button was shiny, so I sanded it down and sponged on some Tea Dye Distress ink before adding it to the card.  Because of its weight and bulkiness I actually stitched it to the watercolor panel to give it added stability.  I used foam tape to mount all this onto a black mat and a brown card base.

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Sunsational Puppy Birthday Card

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Alcohol Marker, Distress Inks, Elizabeth Craft Designs, Peeled Paint, Sunsational Stamps, Tim Holtz, Tumbled Glass

Howdy-doo!  We have Easter right around the corner, but in my family that means we have several birthdays too!  Today I had to take a break from my Easter projects and concentrate on Birthday cards.  I used my City Critters digi set from Sunsational Stamps and used the adorable pup.  I printed it both the way it is intended and I also flipped the image so I would have two pups facing one another.  When I colored them with my alcohol markers, I used my pup and my “grand” pup as the inspiration.  😉

City Critters Birthday Card

I used my Elizabeth Craft Design‘s balloon and party hat stamps and dies from her Happy Bird-day set to turn these two little cuties into party animals.

I created the background using a stencil I created (that I use ALL the time) one end is a hilly edge and the other is a cloudy edge.  I used Peeled Paint Distress ink and Tumbled Glass Distress ink (they are my landscape Go-To colors) and sponged them over the stencil. It is quick and easy and adds a subtle background.

The Happy Birthday sentiment was die cut using Tim Holtz Thinlits Celebration Words dies.  First I backed a piece of cardstock with a sheet of double-faced tape, then I cut the words out exactly how I wanted them on the card.  In the picture below you will see how I place the letters to keep them perfectly spaced and even.

How to line up letters perfectly.

I held the negative space down with a couple of pieces of Washi tape on the card exactly where I wanted the words.  Then I proceeded to, one by one, remove the backing to expose the sticky side then placed the letter back in its spot.  Press the letters down and remove the negative space.  Voila!  Perfectly placed letters.

Close up of Puppy Card.

I added the party hats and balloons to my pups.  I hand drew the balloon string and bows.  I matted the front of the card onto more of the teal cardstock that I cut the letters out with.  Finally I attached this to the card base and called it done!

Please click Here to get to the City Critters Digi set, and while you are there look around the store, there are so many adorable sets to choose from.  Sunsational carries both digi and clear stamps for all your crafting needs.

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The Birthday Train

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Masculine Birthday Card, Tim Holtz

Welcome back!  Today is my dad’s 85th birthday!  Woo-Hoo!  As he said, “85 and counting!”  The family came by for a big ham dinner (his favorite) and homemade chocolate cake with whipped cream frosting (another one of his favorites)!  So it was only appropriate that I create his birthday card with a vintage locomotive theme…yes, you guessed it, he has loved old trains since he was a tiny tyke.

Vintage Locomotive Birthday Card

Masculine Birthday Card

Tim Holtz ‘On The Railroad’ stamp set

The card was created using Tim Holtz On The Railroad set along with patterned paper from my stash, twine and some tickets for a final touch.

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Happy Easter Wishes

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Ranger, Stampendous, Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, Versamark, Zig Clean Color Real Brush Markers, ZIG Pearlescent Jewel Box Paints

Long time no see!  I am happy to be scrapping again today, I have been on hiatus due to work getting in the way.  Sigh….  But today I was able to make a few projects that you can check out over the next few weeks.

Happy Easter Card

Close-up of Happy Easter Card

I used ZIG Clean Color Watercolor Markers as well as ZIG Pearlescent Watercolor – Jewel Box, Tim Holtz Distress Watercolor Paper and a Stampendous stamp that I have literally had since I started stamping well over 20 years ago.  I just LOVE this stamp, the bunny is so adorable.

Happy Easter Card Ingredients

The first thing I did was stamp the Easter stamp with Versamark and then I used Ranger Silver embossing powder.  I like using this method when I want to contain my watercolor for a CAS card.  I used a combination of markers and the Pearlescent paints, then mounted the watercolor paper on a black mat then onto some Studio Calico patterned paper that I had in my stash.  I actually made several of these, giving a different color background patterned paper for each one.

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Let Me Call You Sweetheart

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Alcohol Marker, Beetle Black, Close To My Heart, CTMH, Distress Inks, Doodlebug Designs, eBosser, Mini 8 Punch, ShinHan, Stamp of the Month, Tim Holtz, We R Memory Keepers, Worn Lipstick

Happy Wednesday to you!  Today is the second in a set of four Old-style Valentines.  I used these adorable images ‘Sherry and Dog with Bone’ from Sunsational Stamps.  I colored them with ShinHan alcohol markers and distressed the background with Worn Lipstick Distress Ink.  I added a few die cut hearts that I cut with my fabulous eBosser.  I cut the background doily with We R Memory Keepers Mini 8 Punch Rose pattern.  I cut it on Beetle Black cardstock from Doodlebug.  I mounted all that on the card base, and stamped the inside sentiment with CTMH Brushstrokes and January’s Stamp Of The Month Beloved Bouquet.

Sherry & Dog With Bone Valentine

Sherry from Sunsational Stamps

Sentiment for Valentine Card

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Thanks Giving

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Close To My Heart, CTMH, Distress Inks, Distress Markers, eBosser, Memento Inks, Splatters Stencil, Tea Dye, Tim Holtz

Gobble, Gobble!  It is that time again when we reflect on our blessings and focus on what we have.  Many also are generous with their blessings and are able to share with others.  Today’s cards are thank you cards to a couple of people who went the extra mile for my family, so it was a perfect time to send them a little Thank You card for their thoughtfulness.

The first card was for a friend who is a retired tradesman, so I used a wood grain embossing folder and tape measure patterned paper, all tied together with CTMH Fern twine.  Then for an added touch, I stenciled a paint splotch to highlight the sentiment using Tim Holtz Splatters stencil 🙂  The sentiments were stamped using Memento Cocoa Brown ink and the CTMH Finding the Words stamp set.

Masculine Thank You Card

Inside of Masculine Thank You Card

The next card was coffee themed, and carrying that over to the inside as well.  I just LOVE the Tim Holtz stencils.  This one has the coffee cup rings (LOVE IT!)

Thanks A Latte Card

Inside of Thanks A Latte Card

The Tim Holtz Sizzix On The Go Texture Fades embossing folder is one of my faves.  After running my kraft card stock through the eBosser I then sponged some Tea Dye Distress ink over the top, just to capture the texture.  I die cute Thanks from my Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts die, I actually did this four times so I could layer it to give it depth.  I mounted it on a banner and popped the banner up over some CTMH Fern Twine.

On the inside I stenciled the coffee cup rings and splashes using my Tim Holtz Splatters stencil.  Oops, I almost forgot…First, I stamped the To-Go coffee cup using my CTMH Treats of Friendship, and I masked it when I stenciled the coffee stains.  I colored the stamp in with Distress Markers.

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