Friends with Flair: Spotted Owl Soup

Today I have another Unity card to share for Friends with Flair on the Unity blog. This card uses the Spotted Owl Soup set. I stamped the kraft card base with the cake stamp using versamark ink. Then I cut a large scallop border and added it to an October Afternoon Journaling card from the Detours line. The cake image was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa on PTI Rustic Cream cardstock and colored with Copics. I stamped the cake portion a second time and popped the center of the cake pieces and glued down the ends to give it some nice dimension. Unfortunately I didn't get a good photo to share of the effect. For the finishing details I added some glitter to the cake, twine and a star button. To make the star button I cut a couple of stars using my Sizzix Stars #2 die, layered them together for extra strength then used my crop-o-dile to create the holes.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend planned. We're off to the cabin despite the forecast for rain all weekend. Happy Stamping!

Sweetest Day

As I mentioned yesterday, Unity is having a challenge on Facebook right now to create a card using their Itty Bitty stamps so today I would like to share another card I made for the challenge. I stamped the Sweetest Day Itty Bitty and colored it with Copics. Then added a strip of October Afternoon paper to a PTI Rustic Cream card base, stamped the sentiment and mounted the strawberry with foam dimensionals. A very simple card but I really like the results.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a great day. Happy Stamping!

Q.T. Hooty Christmas Wishes

Today's card features the adorable scarf wearing owl from Pink Cat Studio. The papers are from a huge 12x12 DCWV stack my daughter brought home the other day. She works at TJ Maxx and lately they've been getting some stamps and paper at work so she bought this one for me for a few dollars. It has a lot of nice variety in it so I'll get lots of use from it. The owl was colored with Copics and mounted with foam dimensionals. I also added a scalloped border using the largest scalloped die from A Muse Studios. For the finishing touch, I added a couple of pieces of bakers twine from The Twinery tied in to a bow.

Blue Christmas

I was looking at Chicken Strings from Whipper Snapper Designs the other evening and decided he would make a fun Christmas card. I pulled out some Good Cheer papers from October Afternoon and computer generated the "I'll have a blue Christmas without you" piece. I fussy cut around the chicken and his microphone to mount them on the card and then I added a bit of holly leaves and berries (mini pearls colored with a red Copic) to the microphone. For the finishing touch I made a little embellishment with some tulle, twine, holly spring and a paper rose (using the small rose die from My Favorite Things).

Thanks for stopping by. Hope you've got a fun weekend planned. Happy Stamping!

(as always, you can enlarge the photos by clicking on them)

Mocha Joe

Today I have a couple of cards featuring Mocha Joe from Whipper Snapper Designs.  Who doesn't love a coffee drinking chicken and if you're not a coffee drinker, maybe he's drinking cocoa.

The image was stamped on Papertrey Ink Rustic Cream cardstock and colored with Copics. The cup was paper pieced. These cards are very similar but I thought I would go ahead and share them both with you. It was fun to switch out the twine and scallop border on the one for just some burlap string and a button on the other.

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope your week is going well. Happy Stamping!

Party Animals

Today I have another card featuring the Pink Cat Studio Farm Animal set along with papers from the Girl Friday line by Cosmo Cricket. I used copics to color the images and added some fun lace and twine for the finishing touches.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day!

Silhouette Birthday

Today's card features the Papertrey Ink Botanical Silhouette's set and some Basic Grey papers. After stamping the flowers, I pulled out my Copics and drew in a little detail on the flower centers just to give them a little different look. I also used a white gel pen for a shadow down the stems of the flowers. I gives it just some nice subtle detail.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day!

Basic Grey and AMuse Studio

Today's card features the Cushioned in Comfort stamp set from AMuse Studio and papers from the Basic Grey Perhaps line. The chair was stamped on the white piece and then again on patterned paper, cut out and mounted with pop dots for some added dimension.

I also added some Pearl Cotton and a button for the finishing touch. The table and lamp were colored with copics and a white gel pen was used on the lampshade for some extra detail.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day!

More Cosmo Cricket and Pink Cat Studio

Today I have another card featuring the Pink Cat Studio Farm Animal set along with papers from the Girl Friday line by Cosmo Cricket. I love the little owl in the Farm Animal set so I used three of him on this card.
The sentiment is from the Papertrey Ink Birthday Bash Sentiments set.

I also used copics to color the images and a papertrey ink notebook die for my owls and sentiment.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day!

Cosmo Cricket and Pink Cat Studio

Today's card features the adorable sheep and Happy Birthday stamp from the Pink Cat Studio Farm Animal set along with a Who is Counting? sentiment from Papertrey Ink's Birthday Bash Sentiments set. The papers are from the Girl Friday line by Cosmo Cricket.

I also used copics to color the image, a white gel pen on the cupcake frosting and a papertrey ink notebook die.

Thanks so much for stopping. I hope you're having a great day!

Copic Certification and Scrapfest

Wow, what a great couple of days! I have the joy of working with Clear and Simple Stamps as part of their design team and on Thursday I had the even greater joy of meeting the owners (Reenee and Nicki) in person. They are two of the nicest ladies you will ever have the pleasure of meeting. We attended the Copic Certification class in Minneapolis on Thursday and Friday we chatted for a couple of hours over breakfast and then headed to Scrapfest over at the Mall of America. It was so much fun to be able to meet them in person and I look forward to our next chance to visit.

Reenee and Nicki from Clear and Simple Stamps

Here are a couple of photos from the Copic class. Marianne Walker taught the class and Debbie Olson was there for back up support. What a fun class!

Marianne Walker

Reenee trying her hand at airbrushing

Posing with their certificates

Debbie Olson and Nicki

I'll be back tomorrow with some photos from Scrapfest. Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you're having a wonderful weekend!